1850 (Dec 13) cover with superb Sydney View Plate III (Single-Lined Bale & No Dots in the Stars) 2d ultramarine SG 29 (Cat £250 x2+ on cover) tied by very fine BN '24' of 'CAMPBELL TOWN' (large-part b/s), to "Picton" with faint/poor arrival b/s, repaired opening tear at L/R well clear of the stamp. Very attractive.

Grade (A-) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1859 town entire to the "Victoria Theatre" with Imperf Diadems 1d orange-red SG 109 (good even margins except where just touched at U/L; internal split) tied by superb Sydney duplex. A very attractive town letter.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1867 (Aug 24) unusual 'Riverina' combination franking with NSW DLR 2d strip of 5 on the reverse plus Victoria Laureates 2d (one defective) & 6d all cancelled with Rays '50' of 'ALBURY' (b/s), mourning cover to the Isle of Wight "via Marseilles" with superb Melbourne transit b/s & large-part 'COWES/OC14/67' arrival b/s, insignificant blemishes & repaired tear across the flap. Carried per 'Bombay' ex Melbourne 28.8.1867; 'Mongolia' Galle-Suez; 'Bangalore' Alexandria-Malta-Marseilles arrived 12.10.1867. [Only one other NSW/Victoria combination franking with stamps on the reverse has been recorded]

Grade (A-) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

POSTAL CARDS - SCENIC: Used group comprising 1898 issue Arms 1d 'Greetings from ...' Queen Victoria Market (scarce view), General Post Office used as a formular postcard to France "via San Francisco" with New Zealand Pictorials ½d & 1d, Wentworth Falls used to Melbourne and another to Germany with ½d added, Katoomba Falls and Mosman's Bay, plus 1½d Numeral 'With Christmas Greetings' Town Hall and 'With New Year Greetings' Town Hall, General Post Office and Katoomba Falls, also 1906 issue Arms 1d Iron Cove Bridge used locally by BB Nicol & Co representative, condition fine to very fine and well above-average for used examples of these. (Qty 11)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

POSTMARKS: Covers with scarce datestamps 1918 'ARCADIA', 1949 'BATHURST CAMP', 1917 'BURRINJUCK', 1954 rubber 'MIL PO HOLSWORTHY NSW' with cutdown '___NO___/NSW-AUST' relief alongside, 1941 triple-oval 'NEWSPAPER POSTAGE PAID/LINDFIELD NSW', double-oval 1906 'MILSONS POINT', 1933 'MONTEAGLE' (superb!), 1932 'MT KOSIUSKO', 1951 boxed 'POSTMASTER/NOWRA NSW' & two TPO cds, three with Postage Dues, generally fine to very fine. (Qty 11)

Grade A/B` (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

TRAVELLING POST OFFICES: Unusual group that would enhance most collections comprising scarce oval 'TRAVELLING POST WEST/JU18/ U 83 2 /NSW' d/s on Victorian OHMS lettersheet; 'TRAVELLING PO No2 NORTH B/ D /FE15/88/NSW' (rated 8, of 10) large-part cancel on 1d Postal Card Tamworth-Sydney; machine 'TPO 1 NORTH/SP13 - UP A ' (rated 9) on PPC from Emmaville to Sydney & '.../SP6 - UP B ' (rated 9) on cover from Dalby (Qld) to Sydney; 1905-12 PPCs carried on various lines with all-different 'LATE FEE/ 1D ' x3, 'MORE TO PAY/ 1D ' (a bit light) or double-oval 'TRAIN LETTER/ 1D /LATE FEE'; and 'POSTED ON TRAIN/12JY39/ALBURY NSW' on Business Paid envelope endorsed "Late fee" with Queen 1d green affixed; condition a bit mixed but the strikes are generally fine to very fine. (Qty 10) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1867 (Sep 17) Chinese merchant's cover to Sydney with Small Chalons 6d & 'REGITERED' tied by Rays '201' & with very fine 'REGISTERED/ROCKHAMPTON' h/s in red, central stain from the wax seal that is still present; 1882 cover to Sussex with First Sidefaces 6d & redirected on arrival; plus four very tatty items that remarkably include an 1871 front to London at the rare 1/1d via Brindisi rate. (Qty 6)

Grade C/D (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

TRAVELLING POST OFFICES: Extensive annotated collection with a good range of early types including capsule cancels on stamps, 'GN RAILWAY' x4, superb 'BUNDABERG RLY [1]', large cds Colonial types on cover, many uses on registered covers including several with 2-line TPO registration handstamps, good range of the large cds Commonwealth types (most of which are very scarce) including a few with inscriptional errors & '___/TPO 5 R' with the upper inscription excised), Barred Numerals allocated to TPOs, strong postal history content including "Toolooa" RO manuscript cancel, etc etc, condition variable. An excellent basis for development and further research. (Qty few 100) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

1862 water-damaged cover to Scotland with the stamp washed-off but complete 'WOODSIDE/OC23/62/S.A' cds at L/L & Adelaide b/s in blue, superb strike on the reverse of the boxed 'Saved from the wreck of/the Colombo' (Type IV, with curved tail on 'd' of 'Saved': the scarcest of the four sub-types), 'PENRITH/FE6/63' arrival b/s & a very fine strike of the 'PENRITH/[crown]' mailbag seal affixed in red wax sealing the flap. A new discovery, not included in Brian Peace's Census of only 10 covers from South Australia.

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1838 entire headed "Great Swan Port 14th Sepr 1838" & signed "Geo Meredith", to Hobart rated "6" with small boxed '19SE19/1838' arrival b/s, "6" scored-through & re-rated "1" because the addressee, Sgt Killion, was a soldier. A significant rarity: believed to be the only recorded inland Soldier's Rate letter from the pre-stamp period. [Offered with a promissory note - rejoined (?) or repaired along central split - also signed by Meredith. Great Swanport on the NE coast, was renamed Swansea c.1863. George Meredith was granted land on Oyster Bay in 1821] (Qty 2 items)

Grade A-/(B) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

TRAVELLING POST OFFICES: Collection with a batch of 19th century Letter Bills with early TPO types & some with mailbag seals impressed in wax, duplicated selection of TML Ry & TPO cancels including 'TML RY - No 3' cancels on advertising cover, two very fine 'QUE TPO' on small pieces, etc, also four Tasmanian Railways pseudo-parcels & a couple of parcel tags. Handy lot. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1849 entire headed "Geelong/3rd Jany 1849" but with a very fine strike of the rare 3-line 'GEELONG/JANY 1/1849' provisional datestamp in red, to Ireland rated "3" in red for prepaid shipletter, British transits & very fine 'ATHL[ONE]/AP2[6 ?]/1849/ A ' arrival b/s, rated "8" in black for internal carriage, minor blemishes. One of the great items of the Port Phillip District. [The Geelong d/s was absent from Max Watson's collection. This example is superior to the only other example in red, on entire dated 31.12.1848, Ex Brian Peace. A third example, in black on entire dated 28.12.1848, Ex Hugh Freeman and Michael Silvasich, sold at our auction of 22.4.2006 for $6990. It's a small sample but all three examples are dated JANY 1/1849, and with this entire being dated after 1.1.1849, we are confident that the date on the handstamp was fixed]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$2,500

1856 (Apr 14) cover endorsed "Via Eenland [sic]" to "Concord NH/US" with Woodblock 6d (3½ margins) tied by BN '9' of 'BEECHWORTH' (oval b/s), British 'AUSTRALIAN/LIVERPOOL/JY16/56/PACKET' arrival b/s & superb strikes of the 'ART - 2' handstamp (recorded by Ben Palmer on only 7 covers from Victoria) & the boxed 'B' h/s in red & 'd5' h/s on the face overstruck with American '31' rate h/s (not recorded by Ben Palmer) & light 'BOSTON/BR PKT' b/s, some mostly peripheral blemishes. Carried per Clipper 'Earl of Sefton' ex Melbourne 26.4.1856; per Cunard Line 'Arabia' ex Liverpool 19.7.1856 & arriving Boston 30.7.1856. Not listed in Ben Palmer's Census. A marvellous array of instructional handstamps, likely to be of interest to the collector of Trans-Atlantic Mails. Ex Dale Forster. The enclosed 3pp letter - totally devoid of punctuation! - headed "Three Mile Creek Beechworth/Ovens diggins March 30 1856" & signed "David L Sanders" to his wife states "...it has now been three years since I left home...my luck has been varied...if I can gratify my pockets I will go home We have now commenced something like California mining we are now sluicing...the population on the ovens is nothing so large as the lower diggins the pay is so small that most are not satisfied with it...". Also a short note similarly headed & dated "April 6 1856" (Qty 3 items)

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$2,000

1859 (Dec 2) cover to Switzerland with rare franking of Shilling Octagonal horizontal strip of 3 [35-37] and Queen-on-Throne 6d tied by poor to fine BN '25' of 'HEPBURN' (poor oval b/s), registration markings including the sender's signature on the flap as required by the Regulations, numerous transit markings including '[crown]/ REGISTERED' & 'PD'-in-circle h/s of London both in red, French 'CHARGE' h/s & 'ANGL/AMB CALAIS B' cds, Swiss 'BASEL' & 'BIASCA' (?) & octagonal postage due calculation h/s all on the reverse, minor blemishes on the face & a bit stained on the reverse. Ex Dr Geoff Kellow RDP & Michael Silvasich: acquired at the Prestige auction of 25.1.2003 for $7280. RPSofV Certificate (2016). [Switzerland No 111 in Ben Palmer's Census] The Shilling strip is a unique and technically important franking. The first unit has the Major Retouch to 'SHILLING' with 'IN' Largely Obliterated, Smaller 'G' & Deformed '+' Ornament at Right, which was apparently an attempt to correct a Severely Creased Transfer. Our vendor, who really knows his stuff, has no record of any other cover bearing the Retouch or the original Creased Transfer.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$3,000

1860 (Aug 21) entire letter to Melbourne (b/s) with almost superb strike of the large & impressive 'VICTORIA EXPRESS/S.COLLOU & Co/STATIONERS/News & Letter Agents/&c/INGLEWOOD' h/s & mss "1" (signifying that the express fee of 1/- had been paid; partly obscured by the flap) in red both on the reverse, placed into the postal system at 'NEW INGLEWOOD' (oval b/s) where Beaded Oval 4d was tied by an indistinct numeral cancel, ironed-out filing creases are less prominent on the reverse. Ex Michael Silvasich: sold at the Prestige auction of 22.4.2006 for $6990. RPSofV Certificate (2008). [The Goldfields Expresses operated without official sanction and were suppressed late in 1860 to protect the postal monopoly. Only one other letter with the Collou & Co handstamp is recorded. Also Ex Michael Silvasich, it sold for $9902. The Goldfields Expresses are an important element of development of postal services in Victoria, akin to the situation in Western Australia with the Goldfields Cycle Expresses of the 1890s]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$4,000

TRAVELLING POST OFFICES: Annotated collection remainders with many scarce to rare items including 22mm Octagon 'DOWN TRAIN/MG5' (rated RRRR), 'DOWN TRAIN/MG14 - TPO/14' duplex (RRRRR), 25mm Octagon 'DOWN TRAIN/MG14' (RRRR), 'TPO/ 17 '-in-Bars, etc, good range of Commonwealth types including 'TPO 15/DOWN...' (RRR), English Mail TPO section including duplex on covers to Canada & GB both paid 2½d + 6d late fee, very fine machine b/s on cover from Austrian Levant (!), 'POSTED MELBOURNE/DOWN EXPRESS', half-strike of 'TPO E' & two part-strikes of the double circle 'GT STHRN UP TRAIN' relief cds; also two strikes of 'RMSS/HOBSONS BAY' datehead only; condition variable. (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

Extracted from John Dibiase's 8-frame exhibit including a few fair prestamp postmarks, 1860 part-entire with an enormous marginal 4d tied by 15-bar '8' of 'FREEMANTLE' (the stamp torn-off and replaced), 1867 to Victoria with defective 6d, 1881 stained local cover with Perf 14 1d yellow-bistre, 1890 to GB with 6d & 1890 to Perth with 2d both tied by 'ALBANY/WA - KGS' duplex, 1892 double-rate to USA with 'ALBANY - A ' duplex, 1893 philatelic with 'ONE PENNY' on 3d x4, 1894 badly stained with 1/- cutout from a telegram form, 1895 quintuple-rate oversize to NSW with 2d 3d & 4d + Postal Fiscal 1d block of 4, 1900 to Guernsey, 1901 to Albany with 'COOKERNUP/W.A - PO' duplex, 1904 registered with superb 'TOWN HALL/FREMANTLE' cds, 1913 with Fremantle Chamber of Commerce crest on the flap locally used with 'ONE PENNY' on 2d yellow, etc, very mixed condition. (Qty 31 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$800

1898 cover to a Trappist Mission in "East Griqualand" with DLR ½d green & 2d grey tied by 'K'-in-Bars cancels of 'KOJONUP' (cds at L/L) both in violet, transit b/s of Albany Cape Town & 'KOKSTAD/CGH' transits & 'SNEEZEWOOD/ NO25/98/CGH' arrival b/s, stained & repaired corner at L/L. The Pope & Reynolds Census has no record of covers with the 'K' cancellation. A recent & significant find. The Griquas were a mixed-race group who were effectively refugees, being forced to move from the Orange Free State, through what became Basutoland, across the Drakenberg Range into what was essentially northern Natal. Between the early-1860s & late-1870s, East Griqualand was one of four short-lived Griqua states. After a further move into what had become known as Nomansland, the Griquas established their capital at Kokstad, named after their leader, Adam Kok III. They issued currency but no stamps. Despite proximity to Natal, in 1874 the area was subsumed into the Cape Province. On 1.11.1913, the area was ceded to Natal.

Grade B) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1902 (July 22) issue of ½d Postal Card with 1d tied by 'KOJONUP' cds, to a Catholic Mission in "East Griqualand" with transits of Perth, 'DURBAN/NATAL' & 'KOKSTAD/CGH' and arrival b/s of 'NEW AMALFI//6SP/02', rather soiled/aged but a terrific usage item for a Postal Stationery collector. [The Maria Telgte Catholic Mission at New Amalfi was established by Trappist monks in 1895]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY: '634 MILE TAR/3AP37/WA' three very fine strikes on philatelic but correctly rated cover to California, with plain provisional registration label tied by one of the strikes. PO 1.4.1935; TO 2.6.1937; closed ? [This is the only registered cover recorded by us]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

TRAVELLING POST OFFICES: Useful group of mostly part-strikes but including fine to very fine 'TPO -EG' x4 (one on the face of a PPC from Victoria), 'GOLDFIELDS/TPO', 'EG TPO' etc, condition variable. Inspection recommended. (Qty 14 + 8 covers) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

TRAVELLING POST OFFICES: 'PERTH-ALBANY/WA/ 1 /OC18/90/TRAVELLING POST OFFICE' (all slugs inverted) largely fine transit b/s of the Great Southern Railway on cover from Adealide to Perth. [Far superior to the part-strike - with the slugs upright - on John Booker's 1892 cover that sold at our auction of 1.12.2019 for $407]

Grade A A1- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Hand-painted covers comprising 1) c.1875 of a happy sailor on shore leave waving a banner into which a 1d Plate '86' has been incorporated, addressed to Hertfordshire but apparently not posted as the stamp is uncancelled & there are no backstamps, repaired opening tear across the flap suggests the cover was privately carried & delivered by hand; and 2) 1901 of a row of tents & a uniformed soldier pointing to the address "HMS Magnificent/Channel Fleet/Beerhaven" (in Ireland) with 1d lilac tied by London cds, a further illustration of crossed rifles on the reverse & 'BANTRY' arrival cds, minor blemishes, with the original enclosure bearing watercolour illustration of a sailor on the first page and pen & ink of a criminal on the 4th page. A charming trio. Ex Gerald Ellott, the first being the frontispiece for his Grand Prix Royal Navy exhibit. (3 items)

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

Bundle of covers with a group of pre-WWII commercial airmails including 1932 envelope 'front' used as a postcard with KGV 6d endorsed "via Karachi", 1932 to British Cameroons at 11d rate with 'VICTORIA' arrival b/s, 1934 to Adelaide with 2/6d Seahorse, 1935 to Singapore with KGV 6d single, 1935 to Thailand x2 both endorsed "via Holland" at single & double 1/- rates with 'BANGKOK' arrivals, 1936 PPC to NSW at 6d rate, also 1931 First & Second Experimental airmails x3, Registration Envelopes x3, 1954 Guinness advertising folder with Australia 'CUSTOMS DUTY' ½d, etc, 1935 Silver Jubilee 1½d on two illustrated FDCs, and a bundle of picture postcards (60+) mostly topographicals used including to Australia with KEVII 1½d solo x8 (printed matter; SG £50 each 'on cover') and 2½d single x4 (letter rate), one with Fremantle (WA) with 'PAQUEBOT' cachet, plus a few 'nudes', condition quite mixed but many fine. Weighs 1¼kg. (Qty 200 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

Bakewell (Derby) collection with several pre-stamp items including 1766 with 'BAKE/WELL' h/s & London Bishop Mark arrival, 1815 with 'BAKEWELL/ 132 ' h/s in red & 1838 with undated circular h/s, early datestamps, 'thimble' on 1920 KGV 3½d blue Registration Envelope, 1922 'skeleton' cds, etc, several going abroad including 1864 entire to Canada, also a good range of PPCs of the town & local villages of Baslow, Calver Sough, Edensor & Monsal Dale with some better subjects, generally fine to very fine. (Qty 150+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500