Postal History continued...
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 221 |
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 1852 mercantile entire headed "Sydney May 19 1852" and signed "FW Clarke", addressed to "San Francisco/California" & endorsed "pr
Corsair" with a defective Sydney Views 3d yellow-green tied by untidy bars cancels of Sydney ('SHIP LETTER' backstamp of MY*19/1852), several folds including across the stamp, a bit soiled. Ben Palmer records only four Sydney Views covers to America,
this being additional. All are defective.
Grade C (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 222 |
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 1852 (May 7) long outer (205x91mm) with 'COOPER/BROTHERS' wax seal in red on the flap, to the Midlands with remarkable franking of
Sydney Views 3d yellow-green singles x4 (three with full margins; the right-hand stamp cut-into & with corner fault) plus Laureates 6d brown (margins good to large except at left) tied by bars cancels of Sydney, the reverse with 'SHIP
LETTER/[crown]/SYDNEY' cds in black, London transit of 18SP18/1852 in red where rated "2/8"[d] inland delivery charge and 'BIRMINGHAM' arrival of the same day in blue, vertical fold & repaired edge faults clear of the stamps, minor aging marks.
RPSofV Certificate (2024). Absent from Ben Palmer's Census.
The rate was ship letter 3d per ½oz x4 + 6d late fee, confirmed by the quadruple 8d per ½oz inland delivery charges (8d x4 = 32d = 2/8d). Stated to be the only late fee cover known from the 3d ship letter period. Sold by Plumridge's (London) in
-.11.1915 for £8/10/-. which, at the time, was a huge sum.
Grade C (Image1)
(Image2)
(Image3)
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Estimate AU$4,000
SOLD for AU$3,000.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 223 |
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 1852 (Nov 8) cover to London "Per Formosa Steamer" with a very fine Sydney Views 3d yellow green/bluish SG 42 (margins close to
large; Cat £350 x2+ on cover) tied by large-part bars cancel of Sydney (cds on reverse), London arrival backstamp of 17JA17/1853 in red & rated "2/2", light overall soiling.
The first P&O contract sailing from England was on 4.3.1853. P&O conducted a series of non-contract voyages before then, this being the only homeward bound voyage by 'Formosa', ex Sydney via Galle, then Singapore (yes!) and India. Ex Dale Forster.
Ben Palmer's Census #1852/140.
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
Get Market Data for [Australia (New South Wales) 42] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$2,900.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 224 |
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 1852 (Dec 17) outer to the Philippines "p Mohawk" with fine Sydney View 3d SG 43 (margins close to large; Cat £350 x2+ on cover))
tied by bars cancel of Sydney (backstamp), light strike of the boxed 'TOO LATE' h/s, '1' h/s for local delivery applied at Manila (arrival backstamp of 8/MAY/1853), minor blemishes. Ex Dr Ed Druce & 'Manwood': acquired at our auction of 24.10.2009
for $660. Peter Holcombe Certificate (1995). Ben Palmer's Census #1852/161.
The outwards shipletter fee was 3d, regardless of the destination. Why did this item take nearly five months to reach its destination?
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
(Image3)
Get Market Data for [Australia (New South Wales) 43] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$2,200.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 225 |
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 1852 town letter to "John Smith/Gamboola/Molong" with Laureate 1d scarlet/blue SG 46 (margins just touched - at top - to large with
fragments of the adjoining units at right & base) tied by poor BN '15' of 'MOLONG' (fair oval backstamp, minor blemishes. Provincial town letters are very scarce. [This John Smith was a sheep-breeder who contributed to the development of the merino
in Australia. His property, 'Gamboola', just SE of Molong still boasts the original homestead, erected in 1847, & shearing shed]
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
Get Market Data for [Australia (New South Wales) 46] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 226 |
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 1853 (Jan 21) double-rate outer to Albury with superb Sydney Views 3d deep yellow-green SG 39 (Cat £350 x2+ on cover) [Pos 17] &
Laureates 1d brick-red SG 48 (very fine, margins just touching to close) tied by two very fine strikes of the BN '48' of 'TARCUTTA' (very fine 30mm backstamp), similar arrival backstamp of the next day, light water-stain well clear of the stamps. Ben
Palmer Census 1853 No 6.
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$3,000.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 227 |
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 1853 (Sep 14) cover to "Garden Hill/Mount Brown/Dublin" endorsed "first opportunity" and "Per Victoria" with Laureates Plate I 2d
Prussian blue/blue (margins close to good) and 3d dull yellow-green (no margins but the design complete) tied by bars cancels of Sydney (backstamp), London (13DE13/1853) & Dublin (DE14/1853) backstamps both in red. Carried via the Cape of Good Hope.
[Mount Brown has had an interesting history, on the wronmg side of the tracks. In 1705, a workhouse opened there. By 1750 it had become a foundling hospital, later morphing into St Kevin's Hospital and, from the 1970s as Ireland's largest hospital,
renamed St James's. From 1917, the area became the site of a progressive public housing estate] [The illustration is above Lot 230]
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$360.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 228 |
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 1853 (Sep 8) linen-lined envelope to New Bedford (Mass) "per Berkshire" with extremely rare franking of Laureates 3d yellow-green
SG 67 horizontal strip of 4 (almost full margins with fragments of three adjoining units above & one at right, Cat £480++, for singles x2+ on cover), untidy bars cancels of Sydney (backstamp), small 'SHIP' handstamp applied on arrival & rated "6",
minor blemishes, pencil initials "AD' (= Alberto Diena") and another unrecognised. Per whaler 'Berkshire' trans-Pacific & via Cape Horn, arrived New Bedford 2.3.1854. The rate was shipletter 3d x4 but the 6c due was regardless of weight. Had it been
sent via England, the amount due would have been 37c x4 = $1.48.
Remarkably with the enclosed lengthy letter - referencing other enclosures - & flimsy duplicate of a previous mailing of 20.8.1853. The writer states "...The Berkshire from the scarcity of seamen has been longer detained than we expected..." He
refers to excessive leakage & 2264 gallons of whale oil being recovered from between decks, blaming the condition of the casks. A most unusual "disaster" item.
(3 items)Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
Get Market Data for [Australia (New South Wales) 67] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$2,000
SOLD for AU$1,500.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 229 |
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 1853 (Oct) wrapper (?) with printed 'Price Current only' at the top & 'HUSSEY BOND & HALE/SYDNEY NSW October 1853' at lower-left,
to Massachusetts carried per favor & placed into the mails at New York where very fine 'NEW YORK/ 2 ' postage due handstamp applied. With the partial-enclosure shipping 'Arrivals and Departures/From Sept 1st to Oct 10th'. During the 1850s, many
private ships carried mail across the Pacific, but examples are rare. Carried per the German ship 'Olbers' ex Sydney 3.10.1853 for Callao Peru, which is included in the printed list. Hussey Bond & Hale was an American firm of commission agents with
offices in Melbourne & Sydney. Ex Edward Spring Knapp (1941-42), H Stolmitz (1984) and Dale Forster.
(2 items)Grade A- (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 230 |
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 1854 cover with postmaster's endorsement "Tamworth/6 1 54" on the reverse & Diadem 2d (margins close to just touching) tied by poor
BN '71', to "Honeysuckle/via Violet Town/Port Philip Land" (!) with fine 'FORWARD/JA 10/1854/N S W' 30mm cds of Sydney at left then overland with backstamps of 'ALBURY', 'WANGARATTA' and 'BENALLA', minor blemishes. John White et al at page 208
indicate the Forward marking was used on letters mis-sorted to the wrong "line-of-road" (mail route). However, in this case, it appears to have simply been a transit marking, indicating Sydney was not the final destination. Violet Town is situated on
the Honeysuckle Creek.
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 231 |
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 1854 (late March) part-entire signed "W Collie" to "Tenterfield/New England" with Laureates 2d Plate II (Stars at the Corners: an
unusual greenish blue shade) tied by fine BN '90' of 'GRAFTON' (oval backstamp) with similar oval transit of 'TABULAM' (LRD) and 'TENTERFIELD' arrival on the face, blemishes. A marvellous domestic letter. Grafton is an inland town on the Clarence
River, some 600km NNE of Sydney. Tabulam is a small settlement about 120km NNW of Grafton, also on the Clarence: Hopson & Tobin record the oval datestamp only in 1850. Tenterfield is a bit over 60km SW of Tabulam. The addressee, Dr Rowland John
Traill, arrived in NSW in 1838, and became a sheep breeder & wool grower.
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$250.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 232 |
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 1854 (Sep 11) cover to Ayrshire with Diadems 1d vermilion (cut close) & 2d horizontal pair (margins just clear to good) tied by
very fine BN '48', the reverse with largely very fine 30mm 'TARCUTTA' cds, faint but legible oval 'GUNDAGAI' datestamp, 28mm Sydney cds, faint London cds of DE5/1854, very fine Edinburgh transit & 'AYR' arrival both of 6DE/1854, minor soiling. The
rate was inland letter 2d + shipletter 3d. From 1.10.1854, the uniform 6d rate to the UK was implemented.
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$525.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 233 |
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 1855 (Mar 21) entire signed "Wilkinson Brothers Co" to Victoria "per Governor General" with Laureates 3d yellow-green (almost full
margins) tied by light bars cancel of Sydney (backstamp), light 'SHIP LETTER/FREE/ MR24/1855/GPO VICTORIA' arrival backstamp in red, horizontal fold. Ex Dale Forster. The addressee, Hussey Bond & Hale, was an American firm of commission agents with
offices in Melbourne & Sydney.
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 234 |
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 1857 (June 13) linen-lined envelope to "Providence/Rhode Island" with rare franking of Diadems Imperf 2d & 6d (both damaged) plus
1/- pale red SG 100 x4 (two to four margins, one with a Pre-Printing Paper Fold, Cat £320 x2+ on cover), untidy bars cancels of Sydney (backstamp), London transit cds of 5SP5/1857 in red, 'NEW YORK/SEP/24/1857/AM PKT' cds & superb '20' postage due
handstamp, endorsed "64" in red for the credit due to the USA, wrinkling & soiling. Ex Dale Forster, who states this is the highest franking recorded on a European & Australian Royal Mail (E&ARM) contract sailing from NSW. The rate was 1/2d x4 = 4/8d
+ US internal postage 5c x4. Carried per 'European' ex Sydney 19.6.1857 to Suez, overland to Alexandira, then 'Ripon' 21.8.1857; arrived Southampton 4.9.1857; then by trans-atlantic steamer to New York.
Grade C (Image1)
(Image2)
Get Market Data for [Australia (New South Wales) 100] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$750
SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 235 |
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 1859 (Apr 24) Riverina cover most unusually to South Australia with Small Diadems Imperf 1d strip of 6 (a few faults but the
margins largely complete) with four strikes of BN '137' (Type 1A; rated RRR) of 'MOAMA' (backstamp) and Victoria Queen-on-Throne 6d uncancelled despite transiting Melbourne AP26/59, very fine Adelaide GPO transit of MY2/1859 on the face & part 'NORTH
ADELAIDE' arrival backstamp of the same day, frustratingly with apparently unrelated genealogical notations on the reverse. An extremely rare double-cross-border cover: our vendor states only one other like it has been recorded. On 1.1.1857, the
Maiden's Punt PO - transferred from Victoria 1.1.1855 - was renamed Moama. Hugh Freeman records Type 1A tied to Maiden's Punt only; tied to Moama it should be rated RRRRR. Not recorded in Geoff Kellow's Census ("Sydney Views" of August 2004 at pages
4-14).
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$2,500
SOLD for AU$1,900.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 236 |
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 1859 & 1863 outers to the Philippines "p Esperance" or "p Leander" with Diadem 6d grey or 6d purple both cut-to-shape tied by
Sydney cancels, each with largely fine 'MANILA' arrival backstamp & '1' handstamp for local delivery fee, spotty but presentable.
(2)Grade C (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 237 |
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 1863 (Feb 24) mercantile entire to South Australia "p Balclutha" with Diadem Perf 13 6d purple SG 165 tied by very fine Sydney
vertical-duplex of 63/FE24, GPO Adelaide arrival cds of MR12/63 on the face. Gibbons state SG 165 is known from 1864: this is almost a year earlier.
Grade A (Image1)
(Image2)
Get Market Data for [Australia (New South Wales) 165] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$200
SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 238 |
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 1864 outer to "Georgefield/Langholme/Dumfries" by the Long Sea Route with very fine Perf 13 6d purple SG 165 pair tied by very fine
Sydney vertical-duplex of 64/OC22, very fine unframed 'LANGHOLM/DE22/1864' arrival backstamp. Superb. Between 1.7.1864 & 14.11.1864 (4½ months only), the rate was doubled, from 6d to 1/-. Only four P&O voyages occurred in that time, this carried per
'Bombay' on the last of them.
Grade A+ (Image1)
(Image2)
Get Market Data for [Australia (New South Wales) 165] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$320.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 239 |
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 1866 (Nov 23) envelope to England with Diadems 6d violet tied by very fine strike of Rays '114' (type 3), the reverse with largely
fine 'BOWENFELLS/=NSW=' cds (recorded 1866-67 only), Hartley & Sydney transits & Manchester arrival backstamp of 19JA67, minor blemishes. Bowenfells (1) PO 1.7.1852; renamed South Bowenfells 1.1.1879, on which day Lithgow (1) was renamed Bowenfells
(2). Hugh Freeman lists '114' in use at Tambaroora at this time and '111' at Bowenfels [sic] - the two apparently 'swapped' some time after 1879 - and does not record any tie of '114' to Bowenfells. This item suggests the exchange of numerals took
place quite a bit earlier - well before the re-naming in 1879 - and is thus a previously unrecorded 'tie'.
Grade A- (Image1)
(Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
| 240 |
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 1868 (July 16) to "Queen's ollege/Belfast/Ireland" with Diadem Perf 13 6d purple SG 165 single & pair tied by fine Sydney duplex,
'DUBLIN & BELFAST/SE12/68/RPO' transit backstamp, minor blemishes & the flap opened roughly clear of the cds. The rate could have been 9d via Marseilles x2. However, there doesn't appear to be a superscription, & the placement of the single stamp
away from the pair strongly suggests that it was paid Long Sea Route 6d x2 + 6d late fee.
Grade B (Image1)
(Image2)
Get Market Data for [Australia (New South Wales) 165] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
Estimate AU$300
SOLD for AU$320.00
Closing..May-20, 08:00 PM |
