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.GENERAL SECTION - BRITISH AUSTRALASIA INCLUDING AUSTRALIAN STATES. 1850's TO 1920's SPECTACULAR & IMPORTANT MINT COLLECTION. The "British Possessions in Australasia" section of the Stanley Gibbons "Imperial" album for all issues to 1922 (the back album cover still attached) with a collection of only mint stamps from Australia to Victoria State (missing Western Australia pages at the end). This would be considered well-filled for even a used collection! A brief inspection reveals Australia from 1913 with nice 'Roos & Postage Dues amongst others (a few later stamps added incl 1932 5s blue-green Sydney Bridge); Cook Is; Fiji much 19th Century from 1871 6d rose SG12 onwards; Nauru includes late added 1924 Freighter set; New South Wales substantial collection from 1882 includes 1890 5s & 20s, 1897 2s6d Hospital opt'd "Specimen"; New Zealand with range of mint (few no gum) Chalons incl 1857 1d dull orange & 2d pale blue imperf no wmk (SG 8/9), 1862-64 2d blue perf 13 SG72, 1864 2d pale blue & 6d red-brown wmk NZ perf 12½ SG107/8, 1864-71 perf 12½ 1d (2, shades), 2d blue, 3d lilac, 3d deep mauve, 4d deep rose, 6d red-brown, 6d brown SG110-122, 1871-73 new colours range of 7 different, Sideface values to 2s deep rose & 5s grey, 1898 Pictorials complete set, 1899-03 Pictorials perf 11 complete set, much else incl to perf 14 issue to 5s, 1906 Christchurch Exhibition set, much else incl Officials & Life Insurance issues; New Guinea N.W. Pacific Islands overprints; Papua with strong Lakatoi with sets; Queensland with Chalons to 6d "Registered" values, many scarce stamps from the 1870s/80s incl vals to the £1 greens, 1880 ½d on 1d reddish brown SG 151, 1900 1d claret Fund; Samoa substantial; South Australia beautiful collection from 1856 2d red imperf; Tasmania beautiful collection; Tonga; Victoria with many better stamps such as 1856 1d yellow-green imperf SG 40, 1858 2d brown-lilac & 2d dull violet laid paper rouletted SG 69a & 70a, much else through to 1897 Jubilee & 1900 Patriotic Fund sets. A rarely encountered opportunity to obtain an attrative mint collection of early British Colonial issues, naturally the occasional no gum or small fault but a truley eye-stopping collection (approx 980 stamps)