Great Britain and British Commonwealth TASMANIA Postal History
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 751
Symbol: C
1881 (Apr 14) cover with oval 'J & D MACKEY/Ship Builders/HOBART TOWN' cachet on the flap, to Massachusetts "via San Francisco" with 'TASMANIA' 6d tied by Hobart duplex, 'SAN FRANCISCO CAL/MAY/18/ST SHIP' arrival b/s, superb '5/CENTS' h/s for postage due on inwards ship letters, Postage Due 1c x2 & 3c Scott #J1 & 3 with superb target cancels, roughly opened at right & some soiling on the reverse. [With lengthy social letter] See also Lot 858.
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 745
Symbol: PS
Cat No: R4a (HG C5)
REGISTRATION ENVELOPES: 1903 Melbourne Printings 4d ultramarine size 100x64mm #R4a (HG C5), CTO. Superb! A remarkable item, being the smallest official envelope issue of the entire British Empire. [Absent from David McNamee's collection]
REGISTRATION ENVELOPES: 1903 Melbourne Printings 4d ultramarine size 230x100mm with V-cut below the flap #R4d (HG C4a) commercial usage to Bohemia underpaid with Pictorials 1d x2 only but not taxed tied by Hobart cds of 12MAY12, 'NAPOLI PORTO' transit b/s, on arrival redirected internally, minor flap repair. Rare: only two other commercially used examples have been recorded, along with several philatelic usages. [David McNamee's example had a mutilated flap. The other example - a small piece of the flap missing - sold at our auction of 24.11.2018 for $1198]
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 747
Symbol: PS
Cat No: R5 (HG C6)
REGISTRATION ENVELOPES: 1912 Boxed 'REGISTERED' 4d ultramarine size 230x100mm with larger stamp box & all the text reset in different fonts #R5 (HG C6), CTO with 'MELBOURNE/DE9/13' cds. Superb! A few mint examples have been recorded, but none postally used. In our opinion, this is the rarest item of Tasmanian Postal Stationery. Ex Australia Post Archival Sale No 1 (Feb 1987). [David McNamee's similar example sold at the Prestige auction of 2.5.2014 for $1747]
Annotated album with strong representation of CDS on Pictorials including rated RR 'DANIEL'S BAY', 'DARWIN', 'GLEN HUON', 'GOLDEN VALLEY', 'HENRIETTA', 'LADY'S BAY', 'LIENNA', 'MT HICKS ROAD', 'PALOONA', 'ROSE-VALE', 'SELBOURNE', 'STIRLING', Type 2 'SURGES BAY', 'TEMMA', 'UPPER HUON', 'WATTLE HILL' & 'WHITEMORE' (all these are very fine to superb), RRR 'CENTRAL CASTRA', 'CHRISTMAS HILL', Type 3 'CLAREMONT', 'HILLEND', 'KING RIVER', 'LEGANA', 'LEMANA JION' & 'ROYENRINE', and RRRR 'ALONNAH', 'PIEMAN BRIDGE' & 'WESTWOOD' (these are all light strikes), values to 6d noted, also a small range of earlier CDS including 'QUE TPO'. A very good basis for expansion. Ex 'Tamiami'.
(few 100)
Album with Hobart including 1843 cover with small boxed '11JA11/1843' h/s, 1852 cover to Melbourne with huge GPO cds, 1856 outer with 'PRE-PAID' d/s of Hobart & Launceston, Launceston including reasonable double-oval on 1833 entire, 1847 entire with very fine '10.O.CLOCK' cds, 1862 inwards entire from GB with diamond 'SHIP-LETTER-INWARDS-FREE' d/s in red, then various cds, duplex & some other types from Hobart, Launceston & Zeehan. Ex 'Tamiami'.
BARRED NUMERALS- First Allocation: Annotated pages including fine to very fine strikes of '13', '15', '16', '25', '29', '30' (rated RRRR), '32', '42', '45' & '46', also a possible '17' of Breadalbane (NNR), mostly on imperf Chalons but a few 4d Couriers included, condition of both the stamps & the strikes is rather variable; also boxed 'CAMP TOWN' d/s superb strike on 1851 front & light strike on 1853 entire. Ex 'Tamiami'.
(45 + covers)
BARRED NUMERALSSecond Allocation: Annotated pages including fine to very fine strikes of rated RRR '14', '57', '75', '88', '102', '104', '130', '134', '174', '176', '186', '202', '210', '217', '229', '230', '234', '248', '252', '264', '272', '275', '278', '280', '291', '294', '306', '308', '316', '327', '331', '332', '333', '347', '353' & '365', RRRR '5', '90', '116', '118', '128', '227', '236', '237' '238' '258', '273', '274', '296' & '340', and RRRRR '356'. A good number of them are on Chalons. Another very good basis for expansion. Ex 'Tamiami'. [NB: many of the numerals have been rated lower in articles in 'The Courier' by John Hardinge & Randall Askeland]
(few 100)
BARRED NUMERALSSecond Allocation on Pictorials: Annotated pages including fine to very fine strikes of rated RRR '256', '269', 275', '331', '332', '370' & '379' and RRRR '376', also a few highly rated 'possibles'. Ex 'Tamiami'. [Numerals were phased out from 1901 so examples on Pictorials are, as a class, very scarce, and many would be rated much higher on these stamps than in general]
(150 approx)
Sale No: 236
Lot No: 712
Symbol: *O
Cat No: Collection
Collection on Scott leaves including Large Star very fine 2d, 'TASMANIA' Imperf 6d x2 & 1/-, Tablets mint to 10/-, 1899-1900 Pictorials mint, later Pictorials mint to 6d x2, etc, generally fine to very fine.
(67)
1853 CouriersThin Hard White Paper 1d pale blue SG 3 an intermediate impression, margins good to large with complete outer framelines, BN '68' of Hobart, Cat £1300.
1853 CouriersPlate I Second State of the Plate 4d red-orange as SG 7 but on unlisted Pelure Paper, lightly cancelled clear of the Queen's Head, Cat £475++. Superb!
1853 CouriersPlate I Second State of the Plate 4d pale orange as SG 9 but on unlisted Pelure Paper vertical strip of 3, margins just clear to good, a trifle oxidised, light BN '64' cancels, Cat £1425+. A rare multiple.
1871-91 Perforated by the Post Office Perf 11½ 1/- vermilion horizontal strip of 4 Imperf Between the Second & Third Units SG 140a, light fiscal cancels, unpriced by Gibbons. Rare: only two other examples recorded.
1880-91 Wmk '16' Perf 12 1d rosine Imperf Pair SG 164a from the base of the sheet, margins close - at left - to humungous, Hobart duplex cancels, Cat £425.
1905-12 Litho Crown/A Perf 12½ 3d brown ACSC #T46 (SG 246) block of 24 (6x4) with margins at left & right, reinforced with hinges still large-part o.g., Cat $480++ (£336++). Ex JRW Purves, with his note "The largest known mint block".
1905-11 Electrotype Crown/A 3d brown Mixed Perf 12½x12½x12½x11 ACSC #T50 (SG 253c) being the first unit in a horizontal pair from the left of the sheet with misplaced perfs at left corrected with Perf 11, large-part o.g., Cat $600+ (SG £450+).
POSTAL FISCALS: 1900 'REVENUE' Overprint on Stamp Duty 3d Platypus with the Overprint Double One Sideways SG F34a lower-left corner block of 30 - a quarter-sheet - with Current Number '8' at L/L, a few insignificant blemishes that barely detract from this impressive showpiece, most units are unmounted, Cat £6750+++. Surely the largest surviving multiple of this spectacular error, which is much scarcer than the similar error on the £1 SG F39. [A mounted single sold at our auction of 2.3.2019 for $319 (x30 = $9570)]
REVENUES: 1902-55 Numeral Issues on leaves with V/Crown mint 10/- & £1 and two used sets - one set with the Watermark Inverted - to £1, Small Crown/A mint to 5/- & used to 5/- x2 (one with the Watermark Inverted), 1919 Underprint used to 10/- & 3d mint pair, 1928 No Wmk or Underprint to 10/- x3, 1931 Rouletted to 10/- (fault), generally fine to very fine. Ex Francis Kiddle.
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