Odds 'n' sods with some early GPO cds, 1887 registration receipt, rare 1898 Avis de Reception Envelope registered to England, 1940 (Mar) uncensored registered cover from Spain with 'FOUND OPEN' label possibly affixed by the Adelaide censor (??), etc, also 1957 & 1970 Returned Registered Letter envelopes from DLOs at Sydney or Melbourne. (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00
Closed..Aug-02-2022, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 230
Sale No: 248
Lot No: 614
Symbol: C
1842 & 1847 Leake entires to Tasmania, the first "per Emma" with an unusually fine & virtually complete b/s of the huge GPO d/s of 17DE17/1843 & Tasmanian rounded-boxed 'SHIPLETTER/9JA9/1843' b/s, the other of 5.8.1847 with postmaster's manuscript "PO/Mt Gambier" at U/L, GPO transit cds of AU+28/1847 & Launceston arrival b/s of 17SP17/1847. [Carriage of the later item would have been a month shorter if sent first to Portland]
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1855 envelope to Kent "Per Norman" with London Printing 2d rose-carmine SG 2 strip of 3 (margins close to large - except at left where a little cut-into - & a fragment of the adjoining unit at left) tied by circle-in-bars cancels of the GPO, light but obvious 'PAID/MY12/1855/=ADELAIDE SA=' cds in red, London transit cds of 1OC1/1855 in red on the face & very fine 'ROCHESTER' arrival b/s of the same day, minor blemishes. A very attractive First Issue cover.
1859 large-part entire to Scotland with Adelaide Printing 6d slate-blue SG 10 (margins just shaved - at right - to huge with fragments of adjoining units below & at left, affected by a very light ironed-out filing fold) tied by superb dumb small circle-in-bars cancel, 'PAID/JA14/1859/=ADELAIDE-S.A.=' cds in blue & very fine 'P M/ EDINBURGH/AP1/59' arrival b/s. A very scarce franking. Ex Michael Blake. [The letter headed "Govt Free School/Adelaide" & signed "John Forsyth" who requests a loan, stating that interest "is at a high rate in this Province 12½[%] on £1000, 15 on £300, & 20 to 25 upon smaller sums. To borrow at such a rate is useless..." John & Elizabeth Forsyth arrived at Adelaide on 23.1.1849 per "Derwent". He taught first at Nairne, then in Adelaide. He was declared insolvent in 1860]
1889 cover to a typographer in "Helsingborg/Sweden" with DLR Perf 10 2d orange strip of 3 tied by very fine 'SEMAPHORE/JA7/89/S.A' squared-circle, Italian 'NAPPOLI-EUCCLE [ ? ] FERROVIA' transit b/s, minor blemishes. Scarce destination. [Helsingborg is a coastal town 9km across a waterway from Helsingor Denmark & nothing to do with Helsinki Finland]
