Bradfield Scout Jamboree: rubber hexagonal 'AUSTRALIAN SCOUT JAMBOREE/29DEC1938/BRADFIELD NSW AUSTRALIA' largely superb strike in violet, also blue/white Jamboree R label. [Much scarcer than the steel d/s. A similar cover sold at the Prestige auction of 8.5.2013 for $728]
Railway Sidings: Annotated commercial covers with straight-line handstamps 'POSTED AT BONGALONG SIDING' (1933), 'POSTED AT BRINGAGEE' (1919; 1½d block of 6 only), 'Posted at Brogans Creek' (1940; large piece), 'POSTED EGELABRA SIDING/NO POST OFFICE' (1953), 'ILLAWA SIDING' (1909), 'MAIMURU' (1933), 'Posted at Nelungadoo Siding' (1906), 'Posted at NERANGHI Unattended Siding' (1955), 'POSTED AT SANDY CREEK/NO POST OFFICE' (1932), 'POSTED AT UARDRY' (1948) & 'POSTED AT YANGALAKE' (1929), also boxed 'Posted at/CHARLTON SIDING' (1913 front & 1933 piece) & a few manuscript endorsements, many with TPO cds, condition variable. A very scarce lot.
(17 items)
Relief Datestamps: mounted selection with 'POST OFFICE/NSW No 2' x, 'RELIEF STAMP 1' x2 & '2', two covers with 'RELIEF STAMP/NSW' machine, then cut-down types with strength in the KGV period on stamp or piece plus 11 covers to QEII including registered ' P ' 1924 at North Goulburn, ' CK ' 1940 at Warwick Farm Mil PO & ' DG ' 1942 at Hume Mil PO.
(49 items)
Tumbarumba Railway Camp (1): 'TUMBARUMBA RLY CAMP/29-E1-/=NSW=' (incomplete dateline) superb strike on KGV 1d red. PO 1.5.1916; closed 29.9.1917. Rare, and a wonderful item: sold at our auction of 29.6.2016 for $600. [Hopson & Tobin record usage in 1919 only, during the second opening]
Mailbag seals 'POST OFF[ICE]/{crown}/THORGOMI[NDAH]' on 'REGISTERED' (6d) & 'ROCKWOOD' (?) on ½d Wrapper; 'PAID' datestamps including superb 'PAID/JA10/03/...' on 1/- block of 4; Loose Ship Letter cancels including boxed type on Chalon 1d pair; and 'R'-in-Oval cancels on values to 2/- turquoise.
(29 items)
Numerals selection with Rays '83' (rated RRR) & '151' on KGV 1d (RRRR), then Barred Numerals including '37' on KGV 4d orange (RRRR), '182' of Neardie (RRRR), '191' (RRRR), second-type '195' (RRRR), '213' (RRRR), '422' on 1d Kangaroo (RRRR), '622' on KGV 1d red (RRR) & '635' (RRR), and a few others.
(13 items)
Bingera Plantation: fancy oval 'BINGERA PLANTATION/.../QUEENSLAND' (RO period) largely very fine strike in blue on 2d overstruck 'TPO No1 NC RWAY/DOWN/NO22/05/...' RO 1894; PO -.1.1907. [Sugar mill 16km from Bundaberg]
Cunnamulla: Second Type 'CUNNAMULLA/NO17/2/QUEENSLAND' cds (RRRR: large '2' for '82') on 1882 spotty overweight cover to London endorsed "Via Melbourne & Galle" with First Sidefaces 1d & Second Sidefaces 2d block of 4 tied by fine Rays '100', unusual '1/-' tax h/s, Melbourne transit b/s where fine unframed 'Deficient Postage 6D/Fine 6D - 1s' h/s applied, London arrival b/s of JA16/83. [From February, the via Melbourne rate was 9d per ½oz. The fine due was therefore 1/6d, not 1/-]
Moreton: double-oval 'ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH OFFICE/("20.6.04")/MORETON' tying 1d pair to Tatts cover, 'COEN/JY9/04/...' cds alongside. TO 1887; RO 1896; PO 1.7.1927; TO -.9.1961; closed 28.2.1977. [A remote outpost, 108 miles N of Coen near the tip of Cape York]
Sale No: 240
Lot No:511
Symbol:S[
Cat No:Collection
Railway Numerals:Oval '49' x2, '62', '78' & '455'; Rectangle '99', '154' (faint), '208', '237', '266', '351', '436' (poor), '489', '512' (poor), '639' of Goomeri in violet on PPC to "Gatton/TPO South", & '657'; all on postage stamps; and Concentric-Circles '5' '6' & '7' all on ½d Wrappers. A very scarce group.
(19 items)
Sale No: 240
Lot No:512
Symbol:SC
Cat No:Collection
Railway Numerals: selection to '489' (rated RR) used postally including '53' (RRRR), '97' (RRRR) & '99' (RRRR); also '95' (RRRR) & 'TOOLBURRA' cds on 1d claret Postal Card to Austria with superb '10/CTMS/T' h/s, '99' (RRRR) of Muckadilla on PPC with 'TPO No 5 S&W/DOWN.../...' cds, '455' (RRRR) & 'MONKLAND' cds and '568' (RRRRR) & 'PIALBA' cds on Tatts cover, plus two other indecipherable cancels on PPCs; & a further group x29 on Railway Stamps. A very good lot. [The four cards/covers are all illustrated by Bernie Manning at pp242-246]
(44 items)
Toolooa: fancy oval 'TOOLOOA/10OCT1904/GLADSTONE LINE (Queensland)' (RO period) two light to largely fine strikes in violet on 1d x5 overstruck 'TPO No3 NCR/DOWN 10OC04/...' with very fine 'REGISTERED/TPO No 3 NC R'WAY' h/s below. From Skyring's Mill as RO 16.3.1899; PO c.1905. A rare cover. [Timber mill 10km from Gladstone]
Sale No: 240
Lot No:689
Symbol:S[
Cat No:Collection
Untidy collection on pages with 'MARINE PO' unframed to P&R 5/- & framed to 'POSTAGE' 2/6d with 'ES/&Co/LTD' perfin, 'ENG MAIL TPO/S AUSTRALIA', Italian 'Piroscafi posta/Inglesi' on DLR 2d pair, scarce boxed 'LOOSE/LETTER' & 'LOOSE SHIP LETTER' h/s, colourful group to 1/- all with 'TOO LATE' h/s, Late Fee group, 'REGISTE[RED]' on Imperf 2d, '[TR] HEAD CAMP' squared-circle, superb '251' (rated RRRR) on 6d, etc. Ex John Forrest.
(90 items)
245 Mile Siding East-West Railway: boxed 'POSTED AT 245 MILE' handstamp superb strike in violet, the stamp cancelled on arrival with Adelaide cds of 5DE30. [See 'Hand-Held Postmarks' at page 1]