1927 Canberra empty booklet cover with HMS 'Renown' on the reverse autographed by the Parliament House postmaster & 28 of his staff, reinforced with archival tape along the fold.
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 357
Symbol: B
Cat No: Collection
1927 Canberra "jumbo" booklet of 3½ of the eight marginal panes of 8 (2x4) stapled in the upper margins with backing paper of the same stock as the issued Canberra booklets, minor rust around the staple otherwise remarkably fine. Rare. [Geoff Kellow at page 63 states "Several are recorded, most with some panes of stamps removed". In fact, this is only the second complete example we have recorded. Long considered a 'mystery' issue, perhaps of private manufacture, Kellow goes on to state that these booklets were prepared by the Post Office: a Post Office memorandum states "...these will be in strips of 8 fastened into lots of 80 to represent the number in the whole sheet". If the Post Office could call a Registration Envelope a 'Registered Letter', it could call a block a 'strip']
1935-37 CofA Watermark 2/- (2d red with the Watermark Inverted) with 'WHEREVER THERE IS A MONEY ORDER/POST OFFICE' on the Face ACSC B47Aa, a few minor tonespots but of very fine facial appearance with no rust around the staple, Cat $600.
1998 Wetland Birds $9 'pochette' with 45c x20. A rather scarce little item, unusually with the covering letter/questionnaire that was sent to consumers with the 'booklet' and the Business Reply Paid envelope. We have not previously seen the whole package.
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