Postal History - Stamp Period pre-UPU 1855-1891 continued...
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 2181 |
 |
 1882 (Jily 4) cover with numerous hand-drawn vignettes including Aborigine hunting emu, Chinese coolie, cricketing kangaroo
clean-bowling the British lion, and on the reverse a man posting a letter, a train & steamship, 'ADVANCE/AUSTRALIA' etc, to "Conway/North Wales/via Brindisi" with Perkins Bacon Perf 11½-12½ 6d deep blue & a second example with the perfs removed
(incorporated into the illustration) both with Diamond Numeral '81' and 'PENWORTHAM/ SA' cds alongside, the reverse with 'RAILWAY P. O./S A' & indistinct 'CONWAY' cds, minor blemishes. Quite delightful. Only one other early cover from Penwortham has
been recorded.
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
(Image3)
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Estimate AU$750
SOLD for AU$600.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2182 |
|
 1882 (Sept 5) double-rate cover to England endorsed "Per John Elder" with Perkins Bacon Perf 10 6d bright blue pair tied by the
unusual widely-spaced 'ROBE/S-A' squared-circle, GPO backstamp of the next day, a single central chisel-cut indicates the cover was subject to disinfection/fumigation, flap removed affecting London arrival cds of OC16/82 in red. [The fifth cholera
pandemic originated in India in 1881 and swept through Asia, Africa, the Middle East and part of Europe until 1896. See also Lot 2180. This fumigation incident was not recorded in the literature. However, Martin Walker has located a relevant
newspaper entry where a correspondent complained that his letter received from the same voyage had a knife-cut that went through the enclosed photograph]
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$500.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2183 |
|
 1883 (Mmourning cover to "Sydney Mines, CB [Cape Breton], Nova Scotia, North America" with Perkins Bacon Perf 10 6d bright blue x2
tied by Ship Mail Room duplex, London (MY1/83) & Halifax NS transit backstamps plus largely very fine 'SYDNEY-MINES/MY17/83/N.S.' arrival cds in blue, minor repair to the flap & minor wrinkles. Nova Scotia, even after Confederation in 1867, is a rare
destination. [Coal was produced at Sydney Mines from at least the mid-1700s]
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2184 |
|
 1883 (May 23) unstamped Victorian OHMS lettersheet with 'MINISTER OF JUSTICE/ [arms]/FRANK STAMP' in blue & Melbourne duplex to a
Victorian Justice of the Peace at Narracoorte (SA) but no postage added, 'PENOLA/MY24/85/S.A' transit & 'NARRACOORTE/ MY[2]5/83/S-A' arrival, turned and sent back to Victoria with 'SPECIAL MAGISTRATE/26MAY85/ NARRACOORTE' cachet with date error at
upper-left, De La Rue 2d orange Thick 'O.S.' Overprint (rounded corner) affixed over a second light strike of the Frank Stamp tied by one of two strikes of the 'NARRACOORTE No 2/MA[2]6/83/S-A' cds, Penola transit of MY27/83 & Melbourne arrival of
MY29/83, one flap with a repaired tear. Note within states "... My being appointed a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Victoria would be advantageous to the [local] legal profession" signed "Henry J Smith". Frank stamps had no postal validity
outside the home Colony. Postage should have been paid and, in its absence, the cover taxed: see Lots 2187 and 2189. [Naracoorte PO - the more usual spelling - replaced Mosquito Plains 1.10.1861. Naracoorte No 2 PO 14.7.1880; closed 18.2.1885. The
situation was complex: see Martin Walker at page 222]
Grade (A-) (Image1)
(Image2)
(Image3)
(Image4)
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2185 |
|
 1883 (May 29) cover to New York endorsed "Via San Francisco" with Perkins Bacon Perf 10x11½-12½ 6d Prussian blue SG 105 tied by light
'PARKSIDE/S.A' 21mm unframed cds (rated R; but the only recorded example on cover) with another very fine strike alongside and overstruck with very fine Diamond Numeral '135' cancel, most irregularly without any transits of the GPO, San Francisco or
London, 'NEW YORK/JUL/16/83 - DUE/ 5 / CENTS' handstamp and US Postage Due 5c brown pre-cancelled with 'N/Y' (?) rubber geometric device in blue affixed, minor blemishes. A very peculiar cover. The absence of a San Francisco marking means it was
almost certainly carried via London, then by trans-Atlantic service. The rate was 6d per ½oz to the point of entry, plus US incoming steamship 5c charge. See also Lot 2200.
The '135' canceller was a bit of a nomad, used first at Gilberton 1860-67, then at Arkaba 1870-83, and then as a killer at the GPO. There is no record of it being used at Parkside. The Handbook records usage at the GPO in the 1890s only. This cover
is strong evidence that it was available at the GPO soon after Arkaba closed, on 1.2.1883, which would make this the ERD at the GPO.
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
Get Market Data for [Australia (South Australia) 105] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2186 |
|
 1883 (Aug 29) cover with 'AERATED WATERS & BREWING COMPANY.../...ADELAIDE' banner to "Provins Sachsen/Germany" with Perkins Bacon 9d
red-violet tied by 'SHIP MAIL ROOM/ S4 /ADELAIDE - S AUSTRALIA' duplex cancel, partial arrival backstamp of 8.9/83, three diagonal chisel-cuts for disinfection & indistinct arrival backstamp, part of the flap missing still remarkably fine for
disinfected mail. [During 1883, there was a major cholera outbreak in Egypt that resulted in much of the mail into Europe being fumigated or disinfected. See also Lot 2182]
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2187 |
|
 1884 (April 8) mourning cover with embossed coat-of-arms in black on the flap and signed "Normanby" at lower-left, to "Sir William
Robinson/Government House/Adelaide" with Melbourne duplex across a superb strike of the new rubber 'GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA/[arms]FRANK STAMP' in violet, GPO Adelaide arrival of AP10/84 across the signature. Frank stamps had no postal validity outside
the home Colony. Postage should have been paid and, in its absence, the cover taxed: see Lots 2184 and 2189. [George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby was Governor of Queensland 1871-74, of New Zealand 1874-78 & of Victoria
1879-84, during which time he signed Bushranger Ned Kelly's Death Warrant. Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson was Governor of South Australia 1883-89]
Grade A (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$525.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2188 |
|
 1884 (Aug 28) cover to "28 Reichs Strasse/Dresden/Belgium" [sic] endorsed via "Brindisi" with Perkins Bacon Perf 10x11½-12½ 6d bright
blue only tied by 'GLENELG/S-A' squared-circle, Adelaide transit backstamp, no evidence of having been to Belgium but with two German tax handstamps and rated "80" [Pfennig] in blue-pencil, superb 'DRESDEN-ALTST/6 10/84' backstamp from where
redirected to Surrey, England with very fine 'DORKING' arrival backstamp and rated "5"[d] to pay, some staining but still quite presentable. A good example of the postal authorities preventing mail being sent to an unintended country. The via
Brindisi rate to Germany was 9d per ½oz, and to England 8d per ½oz, so either way the item was underpaid.
Grade C (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2189 |
|
 1884 (Dec 4) envelope with Royal coat-of-arms on the flap to "Sir William Robinson KCMG/Government House/Adelaide" with light strike
of 'GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA/[arms]/ FRANK STAMP' in violet overstruck with Melbourne duplex, GPO arrival of DE6/84 at lower-left, minor blemishes. Frank stamps had no postal validity outside the home Colony. Postage should have been paid and, in its
absence, the cover taxed: see Lots 2184 & 2187. [Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson was a much travelled governor of remote outposts including the Leewards, the Falklands & Western Australia (three times). He was Governor of South Australia
1883-89. Between 1884 & 1889, the Governor of Victoria was Sir Henry Brougham Loch]
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2190 |
|
 1885 (Sept 24) long envelope endorsed "Printed & lithographed/matter only from" above 'HARRY TURNER, THOMAS, & Co' cachet in violet,
to a solicitor in Yorkshire, England with Perkins Bacon Perf 11½-12½ 6d deep blue & 1/- red-brown tied by 'SHIP MAIL ROOM/ADELAIDE - S AUSTRALIA' duplex (Dpx-1), Halifax arrival backstamp of NO3/85, filing folds & a couple of minor aging marks. There
was a Printed Matter rate of 2d per 2oz which would equate to an unlikely 18oz weight. More likely is that the letter rate of 6d per ½oz x3 applied. [Harry Turner Thomas & Co was a trustee company]
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2191 |
PSE |
 1886 (Jan 29) Postal Card 1d violet to London uprated with De La Rue Bantam ½d brown pair, 1d green & 2d orange tied by very fine
'SHIP MAIL ROOM/ S1 /ADELAIDE - S.AUSTRALIA' duplex, superb 'DEFICIENT POSTAGE ("1½")/FINE 6' & separate '7("½")' handstamps, lower rounded corners. A very scarce item. [In this period, the was no postcard rate and postal cards attracted the letter
rate of 6d. The short-payment was only 1d so why was it assessed as short-paid 1½d? Possibly, the postal clerk mistook the printed 1d stamp for the ½d wrapper stamp which was also violet: see Lot 2197]
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
(Image3)
|
Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2192 |
|
 1886 (May 10) double-rate cover to Germany with Perkins Bacon 9d bright purple horizontal pair tied by GPO duplex, 'LEMFOERDE/12 6/86'
arrival backstamp, small part of the flap missing.
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2193 |
|
 1886 (July 8) envelope with pre-printed 'Messrs Robert Harper & Co, Merchants, Adelaide" address, from Victoria with Naish 6d pale
blue tied by 'SHIP MAIL ROOM/GPO/MELBOURNE' cds, but with slightly smudged strike of the 'MISSENT TO/SYDNEY/N.S.W.' rounded-boxed handstamp on face and Sydney backstamp, small-part GPO Adelaide arrival cds at lower-left, minor blemishes.
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$100
SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2194 |
|
 1887 (May 30) cover to "Ontario/Canada" endorsed "Via San Francisco" with scarce franking of De La Rue Perf 10 1d blue-green x2 & 2d
orange x11 (two uncancelled on the reverse) tied by multiple strikes of the 'SHIP MAIL ROOM/ S2 ADELAIDE - S.AUSTRALIA' duplex, despite the endorsement sent via London (backstamp of JY4/87) with faint 'AILSA CRAIG/ONT' arrival backstamp, rated
manuscript "6" in red on face, minor blemishes. The via San Francisco rate was 6d per ½oz. The rate via England was not reduced from 8d per ½oz to 6d until -.1.1889. [Ailsa Craig was not a person, but a small town north of London Ontario]
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2195 |
|
 1887 (June) entire broadsheet newspaper 'South-Eastern Star' of 21.6.1887 printed entirely in bright blue, addressed above the banner
to "Post Office/Bordertown" with the unique albeit unauthorised bisect of De La Rue Perf 10 1d blue-green to pay the ½d domestic newspaper rate tied by 'MOUNT GAMBIER/JU23/87/SA' cds, the stamp is very fine but the newspaper is somewhat knocked-about
still attractive. [The South-Eastern Star (1877-1930) was published in Mount Gambier first by James Fletcher Jones, then from 11.11.1878, by James Toulmin Morris, after whom Morris Street at the Mount is named. Only one other complete pre-1901
newspaper usage is recorded, franked with a Perkins Bacon Imperf 1d, in the Joseph Hackmey collection]
Grade C (Image1) (Image2)
Get Market Data for [Australia (South Australia) Collection] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$750.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2196 |
|
 1887 (Aug 22) double-rate mourning cover with embossed '[coronet]/NIL DESPERANDUM' on the flap, to England with scarce franking of
Perkins Bacon Perf 10x11½-12½ 4d dull purple & '8 PENCE' on 9d grey-olive tied by light 'PT ADELAIDE/S.A' squared-circles, London arrival backstamp of SP27/87, roughly opened at the back & repaired. A note below the flap states it was acquired from
"Sefi Pem[berton]/20.5.31". [The addressee, Edward Hamilton Anson, was one of 19 children. An uncle was Sir John William Hamilton Anson, 2nd Baronet Anson. The family motto was Nil Desperandum = Do Not Despair]
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2197 |
PSE |
 1887 (Oct 3) usage of Newspaper Wrapper ½d violet to Lower Saxony, Germany uprated with De La Rue Perf 10 Bantam ½d brown & 1d green
tied by 'SHIP MAIL ROOM/ S1 /S-A - S AUSTRALIA' duplex, German 'KB BAHNPOST/ 4/NOV/Kufst-Mchen/ 1 ' (= Kufstein to Munich) TPO backstamp. A rare item. The very scarce 2d newspaper rate to Germany was introduced from -.4.1884. Four years later, the
rate was halved, to 1d. [Hamelin, on the Weser River, was the home of Robert Browning's famous Pied Piper]
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2198 |
|
 1887 (Nov 28) cover to Sicily, Italy with De La Rue Perf 10 1d blue-green & 6d blue tied by very fine 'SHIP MAIL ROOM/ S2 /ADELAIDE -
S AUSTRALIA' duplex, slightly indistinct Italian backstamps of Napoli 29/12-87 & Palermo of the next day, very minor blemishes. The rate to Italy via either Brindisi or Naples was 7d per ½oz, reduced to 6d from -.4.1888.
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$350
SOLD for AU$270.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2199 |
|
 1888 (May 7) cover with triple-oval 'INSTRUMENTS, STRINGS, MUSIC/OTTO TREICHEL/ ADELAIDE/TEACHER OF ZITHER' cachet in violet on the
flap, to Germany "via Brindisi or Neaples [sic]" with Perkins Bacon '8 PENCE' on 9d olive-grey & De La Rue Bantam Perf 10 ½d light brown pair tied by 'SHIP MAIL ROOM/ S1 /ADELAIDE - S.AUSTRALIA' duplex, German 'KB BAHNPOST/6/JUN/88' transit &
'AUSGABE' arrival backstamp of the next day. The rate to Germany via Italy was 9d per ½oz , reduced to 6d from -.4.1888. [In addition to his musical pursuits, Otto Treichel was a prominent early philatelist in South Australia]
Grade A (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$220.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2200 |
|
 1888 (June 8) cover to California with De La Rue Perf 10 6d blue tied by GPO duplex, San Francisco arrival cds of JUL/8, endorsed
"Collect 5c" and slightly double-struck 'U.S.CHARGE/TO COLLECT - 5 CENTS' handstamp with Postage Due 5c purple-brown tied to the reverse by a geometric cancel. The rate was 6d per ½oz to the point of entry, plus US incoming steamship 5c charge. See
also Lot 2185.
Grade A (Image1) (Image2)
|
Estimate AU$350
SOLD for AU$270.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
