Auction 321 - 332 Australian States & Commonwealth of Australia, New South Wales, St. Helena, Basutoland The ‘BESANÇON’ Collection - Day 2

1940 (Feb 25): Provisional 5 m. on 10 m. carmine & black, the collection on leaves with unused and used multiples, many showing unrecorded by SG varieties, but also showing all listed varieties: two multiples with "Two Dots Omitted" variety, "Short mim" varieties (3 unused), "5" inserted variety in blocks of four and nine, "broken lam" variety in a block of six etc. and two covers (23 items).rnrnProvenance: Collection William Frazer,...

1948 (Jan-June): Change in Inscriptions, Camel Postman set of 16 values to 50 pi. carmine & ultramarine, wmk. SG, all in unused corner Control blocks of six (3 x 2), fresh and fine, large part or unmounted og., together with a corner Control block of four of the 20 pi. perforated 13 (Gi 110a), equally fine. A scarce assembly (17 items) Gi = £ 750+.

1948: De La Rue Colour Trials, the album page with Imperforate examples on SG watermarked paper for the 10 pi. value with ten different bicoloured combinations, nine with gum and one without; together with a single example of the 20 pi. value in emerald & black without gum. A scarce and charming group (11 items).rnrnProvenance: Collection Freschi, Harmers, 11 March 1993.

Official 1900/01: 1 m. brown & pink, wmk. Quatrefoil, an unused blcok of eighteen (6 x 3), marginal from right of sheet, all punctured "SG" (Sudan Government) upright on first and third horizontal rows, inverted in second horizontal row: the method for puncturing was to fold sheets or stamps together to manually punctures as many as possible at once ('S' has 14 holes, 'G' has 12). A fine unused multiple, large part og. mostly unmounted og...

Official 1902: 1 m. brown & pink, overprinted in Khartoum, an unused block of four from upper part of the forme, variety "Overprint Inverted", fresh and fine, large part og. Rare. Signed Todd AIEP Gi = £ 1'400+.

Official 1902: 1 m. brown & pink, overprinted in Khartoum, an unused irregular block of ten (positions 7-9/13-15/19-20/25-26 on the forme of 30 subjects) and the adjoining vertical pair (pos. 21/27), all with variety "Overprint Inverted", position 19 showing oval "O" (Gi = £ 4'250), pos. 25-27 with "Round Stops" (Gi = £ 2'850), fresh and fine colour, three stamps affected by mild diagonal crease and one by minor corner perf. bend, large...

Official 1902: 1 m. brown & pink, overprinted in Khartoum, an unused vertical pair, upper stamp showing variety "Round Stops, Overprint Double", lower stamp with horizontal crease nor greatly apparent, showing varieties "Oval "O", Overprint Double", large part og. An extremely rare multiple: believed unique. Signed Herbert Bloch. Cert. Friedl (1977) Gi = £ 6'500+.rnrnProvenance: Collection Col. J.R. Danson, Robson Lowe, Geneva, 29 April...

Official 1903/12: 3 m. mauve & green, overprinted by De La Rue,  used example, variety "Overprint Double" - almost exactly on top of the original application, lightly cancelled in black. Cert. BPA (1979) Gi = £ 850.

Official 1951/62: 2 pi. deep blue & pale blue, an unused example, marginal from right of sheet, variety "Overprint Inverted", large part og. An extremely rare stamp. Signed William Frazer in margin. Cert. BPA (1961) Gi = £ 1'200.

Army Official 1905 (Jan 1): ARMY reading up, 1 m. brown & carmine, an unused block of ten (2 x 5), the upper two horizontal pairs showing both overprint types (Gi A1c), with lower six stamps all with Type 1 overprint, fresh and fine, unmounted og. Gi = £ 320+.

Army Official 1905 (Jan 1): ARMY OFFICIAL horizontal, 1 m. brown & carmine, an unused horizontal pair with overprint misplaced as normal, ARMY upright, fresh and fine, large part og. Rare. Signed Todd AIEP Gi = £ 1'200+.rnrnProvenance: Collection Col. E.H. Hebbert, Robson Lowe, 11 Nov 1977, lot 2247.