Collection remainders with Tatts covers from 'BONNIEVALE' (1907), 'BROAD ARROW' registered (1904), 'BULONG' (1901), 'REGISTRATION BRANCH/COOLGARDIE' (1897), 'EUCLA' (1905), 'FIMISTON' (1904), 'KANOWNA - PO' duplex (1903), 'KELLERBERRIN' (1908; to GB), 'LENNONVILLE' (1904), 'ROEBOURNE' (1905), 'WYNYARD' (193, in green) & 'YALGOO' registered (1904), a few other covers, condition rather mixed; also some Postal Stationery including 1d Postal Cards used with 'BUNBURY - B' duplex (1900, to Greenbushes) or 'KANOWNA' cds (1908, to Germany) and 'ONE PENNY' on 2d yellow Envelope (very fine unused). (Qty 33) (Image1)

Estimate AU$800

1899 usage of ½d Postal Card to Germany with a very fine strike of a most unusual segmented-bars cancel apparently of Kununalling (part-cds of MY4/99 below), Coolgardie & Perth transits & Berlin arrival of 5.6.99, lengthy message in German headed "Sugarloaf Mine". The first example of the killer we can recall having seen & it's certainly not listed in PMI for either Kununalling or Coolgardie.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1905 (c.) linen parcel tag to "KNPM/P Berandam/EC Sumatra" with rare franking of 1d 3d x2 1/- & 2/6d tied by generic bars cancels, minor creasing & soiling. A very rare parcels usage with the only example we have seen of the 2/6d on a postal article. [Parcels rates to non-British destinations are complex & were not included in Richard Breckon's work on Australian postal rates. Pulau Berendam (= Bath Island), Sumatra, is an inland town north of Palembang]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

1905 (Jan 19) mourning cover from England with KEVII 2½d to "Post Office/Fremantle" with Fremantle arrival b/s of FE17/05, endorsed on the face "This letter came by the Orient/SS Orizaba, stranded at Garden Island/W Aus at 10.30am Thursday 16th Feby 1905", some discolouration/staining mostly on the reverse. A rare shipwreck item: the only cover recorded by Brian Peace and illustrated by him at page 216. Ex John Woolfe - sold in 2006 for £977 - and Robin Gwynn. [Approaching Fremantle, visibility was affected by coastal bushfires & the 'Orizaba' ran into Coventry Reef, off Garden Island. The ship was completely wrecked but there was no loss of life. Mail was undamaged & forwarded without a cachet or advice letter]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

1906 (June 13) OHMS postcard under the Mining Act with printed 'NOTICE OF INTENTION TO FORFEIT LEASES...' & very fine triple-oval 'MINING REGISTRAR'S OFFICE/1JUN1905/CUE MURCHISON G.F.W.A.' cachet at L/L in violet, local usage with 1d punctured 'OS' tied by poor 'CUE/WA' cds, unboxed 'UNCLAIMED' h/s & DLO b/s in black, filled spikehole at U/L & minor soiling. [A similar item sold at our Online Auction of 23.2.2022 for $599]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1910 (Dec 29) cover from Victoria to East Perth with Perth Krag machine b/s of 3JAN11, apparently redirected with endorsement on the reverse "Railway Survey Camp/Dwellingup/via Pinjarra", minor faults. [The timber-town of Dwellingup was surveyed only in 1909, after it was named as the terminus for the Pinjarra-Marrinup Railway. RO opened 16.9.1910; PO 1.4.1911. This cover dates from the RO period. PMI records a cds from one week later. Philip Gavan Duffy was the son John Gavan Duffy, several times Postmaster-General of Victoria, & grandson of Victoria's one-time Premier Sir Charles Gavan Duffy]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200