Postal Auction No. 64 World Stamps, Postal History & Postal Stationery Plus Specialised Australian Postmarks Closing 10:00Am Saturday 2Nd September 2006
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P O S T A L A U C T I O N S Lot 285 Lot 3325 Printed on Gum 2½d Black & Dull Blue Lot 3325 Lot 3759 2d pale dull brown SG 17b 1861-66 10c blue-green Postal Auction No. 64 World Stamps, Postal History & Postal Stationery Plus Specialised Australian Postmarks closing 10:00am Saturday 2nd September 2006 www.premierpostal.com email: [email protected] Phone: 03 5968 3499 Int: +613 5968 3499 Fax: 03 5968 6981 Int: +613 5968 6981 Page 2 Auction 64 - 10:00am Saturday 2nd September 2006 PPA Preamble Welcome to Auction 64. This auction has come a little quicker than normal as we will be attending Adelaide Stampex this weekend. We have stand 1 so come and David & Debbie if you are attending. We will also have most of the lots for this auction there for viewing. Adelaide Stampex is being held at the Ridley Centre, Wayville Showgrounds in Goodwood Road. This is a full National Exhibition with 700 frames of competative exhibits so there will be plenty to see for everyone. The opening times are: Friday 18th August 10am to 6pm Saturday 19th August 10am to 5pm Sunday 20th August 10am to 4pm This auction has just under 3,900 lots from nearly 280 different countries or states with our usual excellent array of stamps, postal history, postmarks, postal stationery etc from Australia and the world. Australia and its States/Colonies are well represented and of course there are 100s of lots of Australian postmarks, both numerals and datestamps. We are also pleased to continue to another selection of Victorian registration labels, from one of the finest collections we have ever seen. We also have a range of East European material, including some more unusual items, and our range of World postal History contains a number of rare and interesting items, with quite a range of military and civilian censored material. Our Papuan collectors will also be pleased to see a larger than normal range of stamps including many plated Lakatois and postal history. As usual there is always too much on offer to enable us to do more than just highlight a few areas. Hopefully you will find many items of interests in this catalogue. We always try to improve the way we do business and we have implemented a number of changes. 1) A new bid will only be considered a top bid if it is at least 3% higher than the previous top bid. This will ensure that the top bidder has always won the lot by a fair amount over the underbidder. As always in the case of equal top bids it is the earliest bid which is succesful bid. 2) A number of bidders like to bid after the auction has started to enable them to get in the last bid. While we do not have a problem with this we have introduced a small delay in to our selling process to ensure that everyone has a chance to review their bids at "the last minute". From now on we will always check to ensure that there has been no activity on a lot for at least 1 minute before we sell it. We believe that this will be fairer for everyone. 3) You can now also watch the lots selling with our Auction Progress pop-up window. It is almost as much fun as being in an auction room. 4) We have now provided an Image Gallery which displays all the illustrated lots in a similar fashion to the photoplates of a traditional catalogue. This new function allows you to browse all the images to see if there is any thing of interest. The best way of bidding is to use our website www.premierpostal.com. However if you don’t have access to the internet or you are not comfortable placing bids on our website then, of course, you can still use the printed bidsheet that comes with the catalogue and fax or mail it to us, or you can phone your bids through if you prefer. We will take bids any way they come. Everyone has worked worked hard to get this catalogue ready in time and their hard work and enthusiam is very much appreciated David, Debbie, Lida & Freedom Auction 64 - 10:00am Saturday 2nd September 2006 Page 3 HOW TO GET THE MOST FROM OUR CATALOGUE [These notes are offered as a guide to understanding the information given as symbols.] 1. Firstly, we have the lot number. If it is in bold and underlined, the item is illustrated: e.g. 1234. (The actual location of the illustration is given at the end of the description: e.g. {Page 41.37} is position 37 on page 41.) 2. The second column contains a symbol, which represents the item(s) in the lot: ** Mint, unmounted o.g. * Mint, mounted o.g. W Unused, no gum D Piece (“Postmarks” lots) C Cover or card (“Postmarks” lots) A Albums and accessories L Literature P Proof S Stamp (“Postmarks” lots) or, in the case of used stamps, covers & Postal Stationery a grading of the cancellation: V Neat postmark, leaving most of the stamp design clear F Neat postmark, across at least half of the stamp design GUntidy or indistinct postmark H Heavy or poorly struck postmark 3. The third column gives an overall quality assessment for the lot, from ‘A’ to ‘D’. The same standard applies to mint and used stamps, to covers, postal stationery, literature etc. An item graded ‘A’ is very fine; it has no faults. ‘B’ items are fine and may have minor imperfections. A ‘C’ item will exhibit obvious faults. Items in poor condition are rated ‘D’. Occasionally, an item in truly superb condition will be rated ‘A+’. This grading is used sparingly and is not applied to modern material, which one would normally expect to be in very fine to superb condition. An otherwise very fine item which has a subsidiary problem may be allocated an ‘A-’. This may be a stamp with writing or a hinge remainder on the reverse. A cover may have a receiver’s endorsement on the face. The halves of a letter card may be stuck together. A book may have a previous owner’s notations. Whether this factor makes the item an ‘A-’ or ‘B’ is a matter of degree. 4. The fourth column is relevant to perforated stamps, and also to lots listed under the sub-heading ‘Postmarks’. For perforated stamps, this column gives a grading for both centring and perforations. The letter ‘A’ to ‘D’ relates to centring. ‘A’ stamps are very well centred; ‘B’ stamps are slightly off-centre; ‘C’ stamps are significantly off-centre, and may have the perforations slightly into the design; ‘D’ stamps are badly off-centre, with the perforations well into the design. [NB: These gradings are the same for all perforated issues, whether Australian Decimals, De La Rue Colonial keyplates or 19th Century American issues. However, it should be understood that for many issues poor centring is the norm. Thus ‘C’, and even ‘D’, gradings should be expected and accepted. For such issues a ‘B’ stamp will be above-average and an ‘A’ stamp will be considered an exceptional copy.] Following the letter ‘A’ to ‘D’ is a number ‘1’ to ‘4’. A stamp with all perforations intact is ‘1’. One or two short perfs, or normal rough perforations, will drop the grading to ‘2’. More notable perforation problems such as the perfs down one side being trimmed will result in a ‘3’ grading. A stamp with major perforation faults will be a ‘4’. [NB: A stamp graded ‘A1’ is well-centred with all perforations intact. In many cases, particularly with modern issues, this is the norm. However, for many issues, ‘B2’ or even ‘C3’ may be normal and quite acceptable.] For lots listed under the sub-headings “Postmarks” and “Ship/Paquebot Markings”, this column gives a grading for quality of the strike, and completeness. Quality is graded from ‘A’ (very fine) to ‘D’ (poor). Completeness is graded from ‘1’ (complete) to ‘5’ (identifiable only). ‘+’ is used for superb strikes; ‘-’ is used for postmarks which are lightly struck, a little doubled, or otherwise a bit short of the mark. 5. The 5th column contains the general description of the of the lot and should be self-evident, however the following notes apply specifically to postmark description. Whenever possible postmarks will be described in full, except that the top portion of a postmark is only spelt out when it differs from the post office name or requires some clarification. bracketed shaded text within a description indicates that these characters cannot be read, while greyed characters are hard to read or are only partly present, as is the case when part of the postmark is on the edge of a stamp. Very large or small letters are represented by large and small fonts respectively; small fonts are particularly used to indicate the presence of small nylon wheels in the datestamp. The following example illustrates these points: '[POST] OFFICE/21DE86/GARAH'. For postmark lots the condition of the postmark is the most important aspect of our descriptions. Minor defects in the stamp or cover are mentioned only when the value of the item is significant. Naturally, major defects will always be described. 6. The symbols in the second, third and fourth columns, and the illustrations of lots, form part of the lot description. 7. Figures in the right-hand column are our estimate of value. You may bid at, above or below estimate.