CLA Auction 207

KANGAROOS

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KANGAROOS - FIRST WMK

Lot Symbols Description Estimate
40 C Mar.1914 usage of ½d Green & 1d Red (pair) on cover from Redfern to USA. Also three 1913 covers with 1d Reds paying local rate. Nice group. (4) $80 - $100
41 C Oct.1917 usage of ½d Green (+2 x 1d Red KGV) on cover from GOODNA to USA.  $100 - $125
42 C 1d Red used on Queenscliff to Sydney cover dated 25 Feb 1913, only one month after issue. Fine condition .  $60 - $80
43 * ** 1d Red coil strip of 5 with CA Monogram coil join. An intriguing example.  $200 - $250
44 ** 2d Grey, marginal single; superbly centred.  $60 - $80
45 C 1914 (Jan.21) cover from the German Consulate in Sydney to Leipzig bearing 2d Grey and 3d Olive Roos paying the double rate. Scarce combination.  $150 - $200
46 C 2d Grey and block of six 6d Blues on 1914 large cover from German Consulate General in Sydney to Leipzig, Germany; stamps and cover with defects, but very scarce in multiples. Attractive.  $200 - $300
47 C 2½d Indigo on Mar.1914 cover to Hungary paying the pre war rate; arrival ds on reverse; scarce destination. Fine.  $100 - $125
48 C July 1914 cover Townsville to USA bearing 2½d Indigo paying the pre war rate; attractive Townsville machine cancel. Fine.  $80 - $100
49 C 2½d Indigo on 1913 cover to Denmark; redirected from Svendborg to Stenstrup, with both cds's on reverse; also 2½d Indigo and 3d Olive on 1932 advertising cover Sydney to New York; some faults. (2) $100 - $120
50 O 5/- Grey & Yellow, showing variety "Break in bottom frame below E S". ACSC.42m.  $120 - $150


KANGAROOS - SECOND WMK

Lot Symbols Description Estimate
51 * 9d Violet, variety ACSC.25e "Break in left frame opposite A and white flaw below AU".  $200 - $250
52 ** 1/- BRIGHT BLUE-GREEN, JBC MONOGRAM SINGLE; stamp **, evidence of light hinge in margin. Superb and extremely rare.   $2000 - $2500


KANGAROOS - THIRD WMK

Lot Symbols Description Estimate
53 C June 1920 usage of 2½d Indigo on short paid cover from Brisbane to Chicago; presumably overweight as accountancy markings "10/CTMS/T" and US circular cachet "Due/2/cents" appear to indicate.   $60 - $80
54 C 3d Greens on 1921 pair of covers to New York (from the same correspondence) one stamp defective. (2) $80 - $100
55 O 6d Blue, showing variety "Bite out of kangaroos left leg". ACSC.19f. [first state showing line of colour at right].  $150 - $200
56 S * £1 Grey SPECIMEN Type D overprint [only 600 distributed], additionally with ACSC.53g variety "Colour flaw over last A of AUSTRALIA". Possibly unique.  $150 - $200


KANGAROOS - SMALL MULTIPLE WMK

Lot Symbols Description Estimate
57 * 6d Chestnut Ash imprint blk.4 ("N' over "A").  $150 - $175


KANGAROOS - C of A WATERMARK

Lot Symbols Description Estimate
58 C 2/- Maroon on Mar.1938 registered airmail cover to Czechoslovakia; despatch and arrival cds's on reverse.  $100 - $125
59 O 10/- Dark Grey & Aniline Pink; well centred, with unobtrusive cds at right.  $125 - $150