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Postal History - Federal Period 1901-1913 continued...

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

2261

1908 (Dec) usage of tinselled greetings postcard to Wayville with De La Rue 1d pink tied by indistinct Port Lincoln squared-circle, magnificent 'DELIVERY PROHIBITED' handstamp in red and 'DEAD LETTER OFFICE/DE 22/08/ADELAIDE' cds in red alongside. The tinsel had a tendency to 'shed' and clog-up machine cancellers, so the mailing of such postcards was banned. [The message is from a son to his mother: "...buy yourself Christmas present from me like last year..."]

Grade A (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$120.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2262

1909 (Feb 2) cover to Somerset with De La Rue 1d rosine x3 (½d convenience overpayment) tied by indistinct Glenelg squared-circles, GPO & Bristol transit backstamps & 'PETERSHEAD/ MR6/09/BRISTOL' arrival cds on the face, redirected to "the British Consulate/Kieff/Russia" with Cyrillic machine backstamp of 25.2.09, minor blemishes. Illustrated in 'Shilling Violet' (June 1994). [Until the Soviets adopted the Gregorian/European Calendar in -.02.1918, Russia used the Julian Calendar, which was 13 days behind. "Kieff" is Kyiv, capital of modern Ukraine, which finally achieved independence from Russia on 24.8.1991]

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$145.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2263

1909 (Feb 24) correspondence club usage of 'S Peters Cathedral, North Adelaide' postcard to Cuba with De La Rue ½d Post Office & 1d red tied by an early but well-worn Adelaide machine cancel, very fine 'MATANZAS,CUBA/ABR 12/1909/REC'DO' arrival cds, a little aged. A very scarce destination. [Matanzas is on Cuba's north coast, about 100km E of Havana]

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2264

1909 (April 19) vice-regal cover with embossed coat-of-arms in blue on the flap & very fine 'AIDE DE CAMP'S/ OFFICE/GOVERNMENT HOUSE' cachet in violet at lower-left, De La Rue 2d violet with 'SA' Puncture tied by very worn Adelaide machine cancel, 'PARKSIDE/S.A' squared-circle arrival backstamp of the same day, minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2265

1909 (June 24) OHMS long-format envelope with printed 'Registered' cachet & lines and Education Department imprint at lower-left, scarce franking of De La Rue 5d (damaged) & Tall Stamps Thick 'POSTAGE' 4d both with 'SA' Puncture tied by 'REGD ADELAIDE/STH AUSTRALIA' cds, 'THEBARTON' squared-circle arrival backstamp of the next day, minor blemishes & small repair at upper-left corner.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2266

1909 illustrated postcards for 'Sheep Shearing Machines' (electric shears) or 'Try Our/Melotte' (butter churn) both to Freeling with De La Rue 1d pink punctured 'AI/Co' of Australasian Implement Co, minor overall aging. Attractive & scarce commercial perfin 'ties'. [The Australasian Implement Co later became a subsidiary of Adelaide merchants & retailers Harris Scarfe] (2)

Grade A-/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

Estimate AU$180

SOLD for AU$135.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2267

PSE

1910 (Dec 21) usage of highly-surfaced Postal Card 1d brown to "Rio Tinto Mines/Haelva/Spain" without the required additional ½d franking, Adelaide cds & superb 'T/10CTS'-in-circle, 'LISTA/25ENE11/(HUELVA)' arrival cds & '10 CTMOS' handstamp both on the face. In most periods, Spain is a much scarcer destination than its significantly smaller neighbour Portugal. Minas de Riotinto has been since Phoenician times (!) a copper-mining centre in Andalucia in SW Spain. In 1873 British investors purchased a mine complex at Rio Tinto. From these modest beginnings grew today's massive Rio Tinto Group. The message is a personal note from former South Australian Premier & Supreme Court judge, Sir James Penn Boucaut, but penned & signed by his secretary. The addressee, William Giles Nash, wrote a history of the Rio Tinto mines, published in 1904, and Boucaut had visited Spain in 1905.

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2268

1911 (Jan 3) cover endorsed at upper-left "Express/Delivery", to "The Commissioner of police/Adelaide" with De La Rue 1d pink & 2d violet vertical pairs tied by 'KAPUNDA/S.A' squared-circles, flap removed presumably with the GPO arrival backstamp, minor repaired tear at the top. Believed to be the earliest express cover from South Australia. The rate was 6d, & the service indicated by two vertical lines that in later times were applied in blue-pencil.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2269

1912 (July 1) cover to Argentina with De La Rue 2½d indigo & Tall Stamps Thick 'POSTAGE' 3d olive tied by Adelaide cds, red/white R label 'No 1' (damaged before being affixed), two Buenos Aires arrival backstamps of 31JUL1912 & AGO2/1912 and a largely indistinct boxed handstamp in Spanish, creased at lower-right. The rate was 2½d UPU letter plus 3d registration fee. [If the cover was sent via America or London, it is hard to believe it arrived in 30 days. Perhaps it was carried by a ship going directly to Argentina, which would explain the absence of transit markings]

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$340.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2270

1912 (Oct 24) Wilcox Smith cover to New Zealand with De La Rue 2d violet & Tall Stamps Crown/A Thick 'POSTAGE' Perf 12½ 3d olive tied by 'REGD ADELAIDE/STH AUSTRALIA' cds, red/white R label, rubber octagonal 'NZ/DUNEDIN/ 31OCT1912/REGISTERED' arrival backstamp in violet. Superb. The rate was 2d British Empire letter plus 3d registration fee. [We are confident that the 3d is the Thin Pre-Gummed Paper issue ACSC S38 - Cat $40 used - which is unpriced on cover]

Grade A+ (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$120.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2271

PSE

1913 usage of 1d Envelope to "Provinz Hannover/Germany" uprated with De La Rue ½d GPO & 1d rose-pink tied by two largely fine strikes of the scarce 'KOONIBBA/2--13/STH AUSTRALIA' cds (rated RR), no backstamps, minor blemishes. PO -.11.1910; RO 15.10.1917; PO 1.2.1923; closed 11.11.1971.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2272

1913 (April 4) usage of black/pink 'SOUTH AUSTRALIA/INTER-STATE PARCEL POST' label with scarce franking of De La Rue Tall Stamps Thick 'POSTAGE' 8d pale ultramarine (priced $750 on cover) tied by worn 'PARCEL PO ADELAIDE/S.A' cds, the label with minor faults at the base but still with large-part original gum. The rate was 8d for an interstate parcel weighing up to 1lb.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

Diamond Numerals

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

2273

5 of North Adelaide (1): '5' (rated C, but only three recorded on cover) light but fine & obvious strike tying Perkins Bacon Rouletted 6d violet-blue to cover to England, very fine large-part Mordan-type 'NORTH ADELAIDE/AP25/1860/=S[OUTH AUSTRA]LIA=' (rated RR; LRD), GPO backstamp in blue & London arrival cds of JU16/60 in red on the face, a couple of light bends. PO 3.1.1850; RO 1860; closed 1.1.1861. [The numeral is rated 'C' but that is for usage at Wallaroo, to which it was transferred in 1860. We expect that 'ties' to North Adelaide are very elusive]

Grade A- A1- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$440.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2274

12 of Campbelltown: '12' (rated R, but the only recorded usage on cover) bold strike on De La Rue 2d orange & large-part unframed 21mm '[CA]MPBELLTON/AP7/76/S.A' (RR) on outer to the Commissioner of Public Works. PO 1.1.1855.

Grade A A1- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$340.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2275

14 of Unley: Almost very fine '14' (rated RR; only two recorded on cover) tying Perkins Bacon Rouletted 6d dull blue to mourning cover to England, 21mm 'UNLEY/SP12/70/S.A' cds (R; ERD), GPO transit & London arrival backstamp of NO7/70. Very attractive. Unley (2) PO -.-.1853.

Grade A A1- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$250.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2276

16 of Edwardstown: '16' (rated RR) superb strike on De La Rue 2d orange x2 on double-rated cover to "MU Hall" [Manchester Unity Hall], Adelaide with largely very fine unframed 21mm 'EDWARD'S-TOWN/JY22/76/S.A' cds (two words; RRR) & GPO arrival backstamp of the same day. Only five strikes of '16' are recorded on cover, one of which is implied because the cancelled stamp was lost in the 'Colombo' wreck: see Lot 2079. PO 3.1.1850; renamed Clarence Gardens 19.6.1967.

Grade A A2+ (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$440.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2277

17 of Sturt: '17' (rated RR, but the only recorded usage on cover) fine inverted strike on Perkins Bacon Rouletted 6d violet-blue & very fine unframed 21mm 'STURT/AU23/62/S.A' cds (RRR) on cover to Lincolnshire with part '[KI]RTON-LIND[SEY]/OC21/62' arrival backstamp, a bit soiled. PO 1.11.1849; replaced by Oaklands Park 8.2.1969.

Grade B A1 (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$175

SOLD for AU$500.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2278

18 of Brighton: '18' (rated C, but only four examples recorded on cover) fine strike tying rare solo franking of Perkins Bacon Perf 11½-12½ '3-PENCE' in Black on 4d ultramarine to cover to "HMS Blanche/Melbourne", very fine 21mm 'BRIGHTON/SP5/71/S.A' cds (RR), Adelaide & Melbourne transits & 'WILLIAMSTOWN/SE8/71/VICTORIA' arrival backstamp, repaired opening tears & the stamp a bit soiled. From 1.7.1870, the inter-colonial ship letter rate was reduced from 6d to 3d per ½oz. PO 25.10.1849.

Grade B A1- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2279

20 of Glen Osmond: '20' (rated RR; only two recorded on cover) three fine to very fine strikes on Perkins Bacon London Printing 2d rose-carmine SG 2 strip of 3 (margins just touching at upper-left to large) & Mordan-type 'GLEN OSMOND/JY27/1855/=SOUTH AUSTRALIA=' cds (RRR) on cover to the Victorian Goldfields, 'SHIP LETTER/FREE/GPO VICTORIA' transit in red and oval 'CASTELMAINE/[crown]/AU8/1855/VICTORIA' arrival backstamp, overall soiling still a presentable First Issue cover. NSW raised its inter-colonial rate by all routes to 6d per ½oz on 1.1.1855; presumably this rate applied from South Australia also. PO 1.1.1850. [The other '20' cover is to the Cape of Good Hope]

Grade C (Image1) (Image2)

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Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$650.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM

2280

22 of Port MacDonnell: fine '22' (rated R) on Perkins Bacon Rouletted 2d pale red with postmaster's manuscript "PO/Pt MacDonnell/16 6 62" at upper-left, Mordan-type 'MOUNT- GAMBIER/=SOUTH-AUSTRALIA=' backstamp (RR) of the same date & very fine GPO arrival of JU23/1862. '22' was first used at Little Para, closed 1858; then at Avenue Range (1) PO 1858, closed -.2.1860; then at Port MacDonnell PO 1860.

Grade A A2 (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$160.00
Closing..Dec-05, 06:00 PM