Barred Oval "11" of BURN BANK tieing 2d Half Length on large part OHMS printed circular sent to"Rosebrook by Horsham"; "BURN BANK FE*7 185... PT. PHILLIP" oval backstamp.  (Image)

Estimate AU$200-300
Min. Bid. AU$160

1853 (May 3) usage of 2d Queen-on-Throne on neat cover the Town Clerk, Melbourne. (Image)

Estimate AU$100-150
Min. Bid. AU$80

March 1853 usage of 2d Queen-on-Throne on small entire from Colac to Melbourne; Oct.1854 usage of 2d Queen-on-Throne on locally addressed front from Melbourne; Nov. 1874 usage of 2d mauve on small cover from Ballarat to Melbourne; and a 1d Shire of Colac Postal Stationery Envelope used in 1902 to Warrion. (4 items). (Image)

Estimate AU$200-250
Min. Bid. AU$160

5 Oct.1855 usage of 2d grey-purple Queen-on-Throne horizontal pair tied by BO1 and sent from Melbourne to "Kildare By Geelong", with departure and arrival backstamps. (Image)

Estimate AU$200-300
Min. Bid. AU$160

1858 (15 July) usage of Imperf. 6d Dull Orange on entire from George Shovelbottom, Curator of Intestate Estates, to a Mrs Margaret Parry at Aberayron, Cardiganshire in Wales, informing her of the steps she needs to take "in order to obtain any monies due....."; with backstamps. (Image)

Estimate AU$100-150
Min. Bid. AU$80

1860 (May 17) usage of rouletted 6d bright blue on cover to Edinburgh, with London transit cds on front; Melbourne and Edinburgh backstamps. (Image)

Estimate AU$100-150
Min. Bid. AU$80

THE MELBOURNE ROSE. Printed by C. Adler, Hamburg, [circa 1860]. Diecut card souvenir in the shape of a pink rose with green leaves, folding out to display 28 steel-engraved views (front and back), most after S.T. Gill; 13 x 7cms folded, opening to 26 x 26cms. Contained in the original envelope decorated with an Australian coat-of-arms and allegorical figures, and with the additional imprint of the Melbourne co-publishers, Mollenbaeck, Ullhorn & Co., Melbourne. A fine example, rare with the original envelope.The envelope and rose are neatly endorsed to "Mary Ellen Brocklehurst" at Macclesfield (England) from her brother John Brocklehurst, who died in New Zealand around 1918. (Image)

Estimate AU$1,500-2,000
Min. Bid. AU$

1870 (Sept.10) cover to Scotland endorsed "Via Marseilles", but sent via Brindisi due to the ongoing Franco-Prussian War, with 10d brown/pink Laureate tied by Melbourne duplex; superb strike of 'INSUFFICIENTLY PAID/FOR BRINDISI ROUTE/DEFICIENT POSTAGE - 3d" handstamp, very fine EDINBURGH 'OC31/70' arrival backstamp.Carried per "Avoca", departed Melbourne 11/9/1870;  per "Candia" from Galle; per "Cairo" from Alexandra, arriving at Brindisi 26/10/1870. (Image)

Estimate AU$1,200-1,500
Min. Bid. AU$

1884 (May 21) cover to Cambridge, Brunswick (B.N.A.) with 1/- Bell, tied by RICHMOND (Vic) duplex, paying 6d per ½oz double-rate via San Francisco, on reverse MELBOURNE, NORTON STATION & NARROW transit datestamps, very fine condition.British North America '80' in Ben Palmer's census. (Image)

Estimate AU$200-250
Min. Bid. AU$160

An 1899 - 1913 (approx.) accumulation of commercial mail envelopes with adhesives and postmarks intact (qty); accompanied by a quantity of used Victoria, mostly on piece. Also noted a small percentage of non-Victorian material. (qty). Well worth viewing. (Image)

Estimate AU$200-300
Min. Bid. AU$160