Public Auction #323 - Stamps and Covers

Status International - Sale 323 - May 12th, 2016.

Auction 323 once again is a massive auction with 6,081 lots, catering for all types of collectors & dealers - from bulk accumulations and intact collections to desirable single items.

This auction offers a huge range of material, with special emphasis on lotting stamps to cater for collectors with varying types of interests and budgets. Items range from $30 to $100,000 so there's something for everybody.

This auction offers strong representation of Australia & Colonies, strong British Empire material of all areas & periods, as well as General Foreign including small and large collections. There are almost 200 lots of Australian Collections (Lots 61-254) and well over 250 lots of World collections (Lots 255-520). Following on there is almost 1500 lots of Australia which consist of singles, sets and covers including Australian colonies (Lots 525-1989). The Australian lots cover all periods, from the Kangaroo issues up to Decimal and contains numerous number of mint & used £1 & £2 top values - this includes a First Watermark £2 Black & rose. Superb fresh MLH, unusually W/C. SG 16 cat £6500+. ACSC 55A cat $10,000+, while retail for such w/c would be $15,000+. One of the nicest examples on the market. Rare so nice.(Lot 558).

There is almost 4,100 lots of World stamps, covers and single country collections (Lots 1990-6081) with the British Empire well represented, highlighted by a Mauritius 1848 QV "Post Paid" 2d indigo-blue on greyish/bluish paper, EARLIEST IMPRESSION (position 10). Superb UN, 4 margins from small to very large, amazing deep colour. SG 4 cat £65,000++ & undercatalogued as only tiny number of unused earliest impressions exist. Another example (with 4 even margins) was sold in Europe in September 2015 for €150,000+ = A$230,000+! Very important classic stamp - as no unused examples of the "Post Office" issue remain in private hands, so the "Post Paid" earliest impressions are in effect the 1st stamps for a serious unused collection of Mauritius. Beautiful example of this classic rarity - provenance is the famous Ferrary collection - this was lot 80 of 1st auction of June 1921, 2014 Brandon photo-cert(Lot 4822). Good range of China.

Numerous other European and Asian rarities as well.