Postal History - Federal Period 1901-1913
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 2242 |
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 1901 (April 18) stampless OPSO envelope with Post Office & Telegraph Department imprint at lower-left, to Tasmania with 'REGISTERED
ADELAIDE/S.A' squared-circle & 'R' in-oval handstamp, Launceston backstamp & chamfered-box 'REGISTERED/2173/LAUNCESTON' cachet on the face, indistinct Longford arrival backstamp, repaired flap-tear.
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2243 |
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 1901 (July 31) stampless cover with beautiful embossed 'GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA/[Coat of Arms]' in blue on the flap, to England
with a largely very fine strike of the scarce triple-circle 'GOVERNOR-GENERAL/[arms]/FRANK STAMP/AUSTRALIA' cachet in blue, Adelaide cds alongside, 'HENLEY- ON-THAMES' & faint 'REHENHAM PLACE' arrival backstamps both of SP1/02, on the same day
forwarded to "Market-Weston/Thretford" with 'HENLEY-ON-THAMES - 355' duplex, minor opening tears. A very important cover, being the only recorded usage of the Governor-General's Frank in South Australia: see 'Shilling Violet' (August 2018).
The 7th Earl of Hopetoun, formerly Governor of Victoria (1889-95), was appointed as Australia's first Governor-General. He arrived at Sydney in December 1900, where he took possession of the Frank. At that point, he was merely Governor-General-elect
& 'Australia' had yet to be created. Despite these 'technicalities', both Hopetoun & his wife abused the franking privilege while in Sydney. Expending huge sums of his own money to impress the Duke & Duchess of York during their Royal Visit for the
opening of the first federal parliament (on 9.5.1901), he was offended when his request for reimbursement was rejected, which was the direct cause of his resignation and return to England. Mark Diserio has confirmed this is the only usage of the
Frank in South Australia, and has advised that this is one of only three usages outside NSW or Victoria, the others being in Queensland & Tasmania, both from Hopetoun's tour in Aug-Sep 1901.
'Shilling Violet' states that Hopetoun's successor, the South Australian Governor Lord Hallam Tennyson (son of the great poet), "evidently had a supply" of pre-franked envelopes, one of which came to be used in Adelaide, two weeks after Hopetoun's
departure. The suggestion is that the sender was the tutor of Tennyson's three sons, who was later to marry the addressee, Mary Everard. However, this is not the tutor's handwriting: being quite child-like, it suggests that at least the addressing
of the envelope was by one of the Tennyson progeny. Whatever the case, it was almost certainly an unauthorised usage of the franking privilege. NB: all Australian Franks were withdrawn on 30.10.1902.
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
(Image3)
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Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$1,450.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2244 |
PSE |
 1902 (March 13) usage of Tonga Registration Envelope 4d red with light strike of a local merchant's cachet across the flap, to
Adelaide with George II 2½d black & blue x3 tied by 'HAAPAI/TONGA' cds, faint Melbourne transit & light 'REGISTERED ADELAIDE/AP12/02/S-A' arrival backstamps.
Grade A (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2245 |
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 1902 (May 28) OPSO cover with 'Post Office and Telegraph Department/...' imprint at lower-left, to "Sanatorium/Cap Saint Jacques/Indo
Chine" with four-colour franking of Thin 'O.S.' Narrow Setting Overprint Perkins Bacon on 1/- brown & De La Rue 6d blue plus Thin 'O.S.' Wide Setting Overprint on De La Rue 1d green & 2d red tied by 'REGISTERED ADELAIDE/S.A' squared-circles, Hong
Kong & Saigon transits & 'CAP ST JACQUES/4/JUIL/02/COCHINCHINE' arrival backstamps, slightly trimmed at left on opening. A remarkable 7-times rate (½d convenience overpayment), to a very scarce destination. Sold at our auction of 26.9.2003 for $1295.
[The sanatorium was a coastal health spa, about 125km SW of Saigon]
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$1,450.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2246 |
/L |
 1903 (Feb 23) entire small book 'The Knight of the Southern Cross and Other Poems' by Lyell Dunne (1901) 60pp hard-bound with a
dust-jacket fashioned from brown-paper endorsed "Booklet only", sent unsecured to Melbourne with De La Rue 2d violet tied by a faint Diamond Numeral & 'CRAFERS/SA' squared-circle alongside, the book is 15mm thick with minor separation within & the
wrapper has some damage at the top. One of the most unusual lots in the collection. The inter-State book post rate was 1d per 2oz x2. [The sender inscribed the fly-leaf "To dear Mrs Ross from her own old friend Eliza Milne". Her husband, Sir William
Milne, was a member of both South Australian Houses of Parliament. They had 11 children. The Victoria Coffee Palace was next door to the Melbourne Town Hall. If the lack of online entries is anything to go by, the book is very scarce: there is a copy
in the National Library in Canberra]
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
(Image3)
Get Market Data for [Australia (South Australia) Collection] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2247 |
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 1903 (May 22) cover to Ohio with pre-printed address of the famous philatelist Charles Lathrop Pack and scarce franking of De La Rue
Tall Stamps Thin 'POSTAGE' 8d ultramarine (Cat $750 on cover) tied by 'REGISTERED ADELAIDE/S.A' squared-circle, 'R' in-oval handstamp, San Francisco transit of JUN/15/1903 & 'CLEVELAND, OHIO/JUN19/1903/REG' arrival backstamp. The rate was 2½d per ½oz
overseas letter x2 plus 3d registration. [Pack, a third-generation timberman, was an early environmentalist, passionate about the wilderness & conservation]
Grade A (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$340.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2248 |
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 1903 (Oct 23) cover to New Jersey with De La Rue 2d violet & Tall Stamps Thin 'POSTAGE' 3d olive x2 tied by 27mm 'RUNDLE STREET/S.A'
squared-circle, sans-serif curved 'REGISTERED/ No ("287")' handstamp on face, the reverse with London & New York transits & rubber 'LAKEWOOD NJ/DEC/11/1903/ REGISTERED' arrival cds, minor blemishes. The rate was 2½d per ½oz overseas letter x2 plus 3d
registration. [The addressee, George Lathrop Pack, may have been buying a philatelic Christmas present for his father, Charles Lathrop Pack]
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2249 |
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 1904 three covers to Tattersalls agents in Hobart endorsed 1) "Officially Registered/Suspected containing Bank Notes" and taxed 6d; 2)
".../Supposed to contain coin" and taxed 10d; and, most unusually, 3) front only, ".../Supposed to contain postal note" and taxed 6d, but with the endorsement & tax markings crossed-out; the first with 'PT PIRIE WEST' squared-circle, the others from
Port Pirie. Stated to be the only three known pre-1913 Officially Registered items from South Australia (and confirmed by Martin Walker). The regulations required that 'valuables' (including coins & banknotes) must to be sent by registered mail, but
specifically excluded Money Orders & Postal Notes from these provisions (presumably because these were made out to a named party, similat to a cheque). Accordingly, the last item was improperly endorsed & taxed, and subsequently corrected. (3)
Grade A-/B (Image1)
(Image2)
(Image3)
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Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$290.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2250 |
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 1904 (April 7) usage of 'Botanical Gardens, Adelaide' Undivided Back postcard to "Constantinople/ .../Poste restante Francaise" with
De La Rue ½d Post Office & 1d red tied by Adelaide cds, superb 'SUEZ' transit, very fine 'BRITISH-POST-OFFICE/CONSTANTINOPLE' & 'CONSTANTINOPLE-GALATA/POSTE FRANCse' cds both of MY9/04, minor corner bend.
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2251 |
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 1904 (Sept 30) usage of 'Breaking Camp' artist postcard to "Supdt Land Records/Pegu/Lower Burma/India" with De La Rue ½d Post Office &
1d red tied by 'PORT PIRIE/S.A' squared-circle with the corners removed, 'TUTICORIN' (India) & 'PEGU/OC29/04' arrival cds, endorsed "on leave" & forwarded to Exeter, England where further re-directed to Chiswick, minor bends. [The 'REEXPEDIT'
(re-shipped) handstamp was probably applied at Pegu but Ted Proud has no such marking listed for either Pegu or Rangoon. Pegu (now Bago) is about 80km NNE of Rangoon (now Yangon)]
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$150
SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2252 |
= |
 1904 (Dec) usage of 'PARCEL [coat-of-arms] POST'/....South Australia' black/white label with the printer's imprint '100000-11-8-04' at
lower-left (a little truncated at right) with 'RUNDLE ST' handstamp in purple and rare franking of De la Rue Tall Stamps Thin 'POSTAGE' 10d orange (ACSC unpriced on cover) tied by 'RUNDLE STREET/DE--/04/S-A' squared-circle. There was no 10d parcel
rate at the time. The intrastate rate between 1 & 2lb (pounds) was 9d, so this is probably a 1d convenience overpayment. The ACSC (2023) lists Tall Stamps on cover only to 8d - priced at $750 - and the higher values on cover are much scarcer.
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$420.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2253 |
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 1904 (Dec 14) usage of 'PARCEL [coat-of-arms] POST'/....South Australia' black/white label with printer's imprint '30000-11-3-04' at
lower-left with 'RUNDLE ST' handstamp in purple & rare franking of De la Rue Tall Stamps Thick 'POSTAGE' 1/- brown (ACSC unpriced on cover) tied by 'RUNDLE STREET/S-A' squared-circle. 1/- paid the intrastate rate between 2 & 3lb (pounds). The ACSC
(2023) lists Tall Stamps on cover only to 8d - priced at $750 - and the higher values on cover are much scarcer.
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2254 |
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 1905 (circa) parcel piece (195x120mm) with Royal Society of South Australia imprint and printed 'BOOK POST ONLY' endorsement, to
Societe Royal Malacologique de Belgique with rare solo franking of De La Rue Tall Stamps Thin 'POSTAGE' 10d pale orange (ACSC unpriced on cover) tied by badly worn Adelaide cds, repaired 20mm tear at top-centre. The Book Post rate to British Empire
or Foreign Countries was 1d per 2oz, so the article weighed up to 20oz. Such an item sent at the foreign letter rate of 2½d per ½oz would have cost 18/4d. The ACSC (2023) lists Tall Stamps on cover only to 8d - priced at $750 - and the higher values
on cover are much scarcer. [Malacology is the study of moluscs. In 1880, the Philosophical Society of Adelaide received a Royal charter & was renamed the Royal Society of South Australia. It's journal 'Transactions...' is still being published] (Image1)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$700.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2255 |
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 1905 (Sept 8) cover to "Ancon/Isthmian Canal Zone/Panama" with scarce franking of De La Rue Tall Stamps Thin 'POSTAGE' 4d orange-red
pair tied by 'JAMESTOWN/S.A' squared-circle, Adelaide London & New York transit backstamps plus New York exchange office registration label on face, American-pattern 'ANCON CANAL ZONE/ NOV/5/1905/ REGISTERED' cds (date misplaced) on the face & 'ANCON
STA A/RECEIVED' arrival backstamp. The rate was double 2½d per ½oz UPU letter plus 3d registration fee.
Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$725.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2256 |
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 1905 (Nov 8) cover sealed with red/white 'IH WHITE/Storekeeper/CRAFERS SA' label advertising Chamberlain's Tablets stated to cure such
ailments as 'Sick Headache & Sour Stomach', to New York with rare franking of De La Rue ½d Post Office & Tall Stamps Thin 'POSTAGE' 10d pale orange (ACSC unpriced on cover) tied by badly worn 'CRAFERS/S-A' squared-circle, very fine curved sans-serif
'REGISTERED/No ("104")' handstamp, the reverse with transits 'STIRLING WEST' squared-circle, worn 'REGISTERED ADELAIDE' cds (FM-2b) that ties the label, San Francisco of DEC/5/1905 & two New York datestamps, minor bends caused by bulky contents. The
rate was triple 2½d per ½oz UPU letter plus 3d registration fee. The ACSC (2023) lists Tall Stamps on cover only to 8d - priced at $750 - and the higher values on cover are much scarcer.
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$600
SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2257 |
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 1905 (Dec 20) complete parcel tag to "Kirknewton/Edinburg" [sic] Scotland with very scarce franking of De La Rue 1d pink & Tall Stamps
Thick 'POSTAGE' 1/- brown (ACSC unpriced on cover) tied by 'PT DARWIN/19/S-A' squared-circles & superb 'R' in-circle handstamp also of Darwin, London & Edinburgh registration backstamps both of 21.2.06, reinforced central fold & 20mm repaired tear at
lower-left. An excellent item also for a Northern Territory collection. The ACSC (2023) lists Tall Stamps on cover only to 8d - priced at $750 - and the higher values are much scarcer.
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
Get Market Data for [Australia (South Australia) Collection] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$950.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2258 |
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 1906 (Feb 1) triple-rate cover to Japan with very late usage of De La Rue Bantam ½d brown & 2½d indigo x4 (two pairs) tied by
'REGISTERED ADELAIDE/FE1/06/SA' squared-circles, indistinct Hong Kong transit of MR14/06 & very fine 'YOKOHAMA/24 3 06/JAPAN' arrival backstamp in blue, minor peripheral defects caused by the bulky contents. Illustrated in 'Shilling Violet' (June
1994). [The addressee company were manufacturers' agents]
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2259 |
O |
 1906 (Dec 3) large linen-lined cover (410x156mm) with De La Rue 1d red (corner fault) & 2d violet x6 (three pairs, one with corner
fault) all with 'ES/&Co/LTD' perfins of Elder Smith & Co (Matthews Type 1; one pair with Normal-Reversed Perfins & one pair with Double Perfins) all tied by 'EXPRESS RAILWAY/S.A' cds, indistinct Ulooloo arrival backstamp, central fold to permit
display on one page.
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
(Image3)
(Image4)
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Estimate AU$100
SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
| 2260 |
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 1907 (June 25) Tatts cover to Tasmania with De La Rue 1d red & Tall Stamps Thick 'POSTAGE' 6d blue-green (Cat $400 on cover) tied by
'MELROSE/S.A' squared-circle, another strike at lower-left with registration endorsement "No 181", filled spikeholes clear of the stamps & markings. [The watermark is misplaced, making it difficult to discern. If it is Crown/A, the ACSC states that
25.6.1907 is the ERD]
Grade B (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM |
