NEW SOUTH WALES continued...
Postal History continued...
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Estimate in AU$'s |
| 121 |
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 Small box of covers & cards including 1856 outer with Diadem 2d blue tied by fine Barred Numeral '28' (Rated RR) and very fine
'ULLADULLA' & fair 'SHOALHAVEN' arrival backstamps, 1874 to England at 7d rate with very fine Numeral-in-Rays '400' cancels (rated RR) & 'KANGALOON' cds, 1882 with 'GNRP/NSW' TPO cancel & double-circle backstamp, 1884 uprated 1d Envelope with very
fine Numeral-in-Rays '371' and Yass cds, 1893 two with 1d bisects (one taxed with 1d Postage Due), 1895 with 'GOVERNOR' Frank Stamp, 1901 usage of 2d bisect taxed, 1905 Jubilee PPC unused and another with the 'ST JAMES HALL/5D/JUBILEE' cds, lots of
other PPC interest including some with datestamp & numeral 'ties', taxed & postage dues, 1907 registered to South Africa and another five with 'OFFICIALLY/REGISTERED' handstamps, etc, condition variable but many are fine and/or attractive.
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
| 122 |
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 Official Mail group comprising 1860 Treasury entire with QV Diadem 2d blue, 1883 1d pink 'OS' overprint tied Numeral-in-Rays '15'
with Molong cds & '[crown]/COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS/MOLONG' handstamp, 1885 1d red-orange 'OS' overprints pair tied Parramatta duplex on cover to "Gumawang Station near Mudgee", 1891 long-format envelope (faults) endorsed "Mines" at lower-left to
Germany with Captain Cook 4d overprinted 'OS', 1894 Centennial Wrapper 1d violet with Centennial 1d violet 'OS' overprint added to New Zealand, 1897 usage at Wagga of Centennial 1d Waratah Postal Card overprinted 'OS' with 'Postmaster' message
printed on reverse, 1908 District Head Quarters envelope to New Zealand with 1d Arms punctured 'OS' pair tied Paddington cds (home of the Victoria Barracks), 1909 Department of Agriculture postcard with 1d Arms punctured 'OS/NSW', 1911 Government
Botanist postcard to Sweden with ½d & 1d punctured 'OS/NSW', 1912 Government Savings Bank 'PASS BOOK ONLY' packet with 1d Arms punctured 'GSB' tied Bowral cds, and 1913 Australian Museum envelope to Germany with ½d & 2d punctured 'OS/NSW', condition
a little variable.
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1828 (Feb 16) Wesleyan Missionary Society entire letter to London signed "WMHorton" & with his postscript of "March 5th 1828", the
date on which the letter was posted, with a very fine 'SYDNEY/N-S-W/M 5/1828' cds (#S1: typically with single-character month) in red being the First Day of Use of the implement, British stepped 'SHIP LETTER/FOLKESTONE' handstamp across the flap &
London arrival backstamp of 24JY24/1828, minor soiling that doesn't affect the superb facial appearance. Ex Dr Ed Druce, Dale Forster and Brian Peace: sold for $17,475 (Sale 148 Lot 1014).
The original postmaster, Isaac Nicholls, died in 1819 and usage of his personal undated Sydney handstamp was discontinued. The period 1819-1828 is referred to as "the no handstamps period". It was only in 1827, that Samuel Clayton was engaged to
engrave undated handstamps for Sydney and the country post offices. This item, being struck with the Sydney marking on the day it became available is, undoubtedly, one of the most important pre-stamp letters from Australia. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$10,000
SOLD for AU$7,500.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1832 (Oct 18; docketed on the reverse) outer to Sydney with a largely fine strike of the rare two-line 'BATHURST/NSW' handstamp and
unusually without a town datestamp, '[crown]/GENERAL POST OFFICE/ 20OC20/1832/SYDNEY' arrival in blue-black unusually on the face, two light vertical filing folds. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$600
SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1833 outer headed "on the Service of the Australian Agricl Company" with a fine impression of the company's "crown & sheep" seal in
wax on the flap, carried out of the mails from London to the company's commissioner at Port Stephens endorsed at lower-left "pr [ship] Richd Reynolds/18 March 1833", '[crown]/GENERAL POST OFFICE/14AU14/1833/SYDNEY' transit datestamp, endorsed "4oz" &
rated "5/10" being 4d local single shipletter rate x16 (5/4d) + 6d inwards shipletter rate, minor flap repairs otherwise remarkably fine. A remarkably high rate. Ex Brian Peace: sold for $2210 (Sale 148 Lot 1028).
Carried to Newcastle per 'Sarah Jane' ex Sydney 16.8.1833. The Port Stephens post office at Carrington had opened 9.11.1831. See also Lot 128. The addressee Captain (later Rear-Admiral Sir) William Edward Parry was Company Commissioner at Tahlee on
the north shore of Port Stephens between 1829 and 1834. His fame was derived from two highly successful Arctic Expeditions in 1819-1820 and 1827.
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Estimate AU$1,500
SOLD for AU$1,150.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1833 (Dec 4) entire letter headed "Camp at Yass" signed "Granville C Stapylton", to "Joseph Hyde Potts Esq, Bank of NSW, Sydney"
endorsed "Post Paid" and "Paid 10d" with slightly watery but still largely very fine strike of the rare undated 'GOULBURN/[crown]/ * ' handstamp partly overstruck with Sydney arrival of '7 DEC 7', minor blemishes. Goulburn PO 1.2.1828. A Post Office
at Yass did not open until 1.4.1835.
Joseph Hyde Potts was the first employee to be engaged by the Bank of New South Wales (now Westpac). In 1830 he acquired land on what was previously known as Paddys Point & Woolloomooloo Hill and renamed the area 'Potts Point'. Granville William
Chetwynd Stapylton was appointed an assistant surveyor in New South Wales in 1828. In 1831 his party traced the Abercrombie River from Bathurst towards Lake George near Canberra, and at the time of writing this letter - requesting a cheque for
supplies to be left with the Postmaster at Goulburn - he was working in the same area. In 1836 he served as second-in-command on Major Thomas Mitchell's 'Australia Felix' overland expedition. On 31.5.1840, while surveying the coast south from
Brisbane, his camp was attacked by Aborigines, and Stapylton was killed. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$2,000
SOLD for AU$1,600.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1835 (Aug 26) complete edition of the "New South Wales Government Gazette" with the address band lost, a marvellous almost complete
strike of the rare undated 'BRISBANEWATER/[crown]/N-S-W' handstamp (#C29: note, one word; ERD) on the reverse alongside a largely very fine strike of the even rarer hexagonal 'MISSENT/TO/BRISBANEWATER' handstamp (#V5; note, one word), minor blemishes
that are almost inconsequential. PO 1.7.1835; renamed Gosford 1.9.1841. One of the most outstanding of all the New South Wales undated handstamp covers. Ex Brian Peace: sold for $6700 (Sale 148 Lot 1046). (Image1)
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Estimate AU$5,000
SOLD for AU$3,800.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1835 entire letter headed "Port Stephens Nov 18th 1835" and signed "Charles Price" to London with very fine strikes of the rare
rounded-boxed 'CARRINGTON/POST PAID' handstamp and the extraordinary undated double-circle 'CARRINGTON/POST/NSW/OFFICE/PORT-STEPHENS' handstamp both in red ink (faded), '[crown]/GENERAL POST OFFICE/2 DE 3/1835/SYDNEY' datestamp (two different day
slugs!), the reverse with boxed 'INDIA LETTER/PLYMOUTH' handstamp and London arrival cds of '16MY16/1836' in red. One of the great pre-stamp postal history items from Australia. Ex Dr Edric (Ed) Druce (1993) and Dale Forster (2002). Absent from Brian
Peace's exceptional collection: only one other cover is recorded.
The writer, a non-conformist minister of religion, states "...there is now an opening at Launceston [VDL]...these colonies appear the most [spiritually] barren field in the world...One soul saved from amongst such a drunken, debauched, hardened
population is indeed a trophy of grace...The Catholics are very much favored by the present Governor [Sir Richard Bourke]. The quakers have opened a chapel in Sydney..." (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$10,000
SOLD for AU$7,500.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1838 OHMS outer with 'Colonial Secretary's Office' imprint at lower-left & signed at upper-left "ECHarrington" with very fine
strike of the rare '[crown]/FREE/FE*21/1838' d/s (Type #3; recorded for 10 months only) of Sydney in red, to "Donald Macintyre/Elizabeth St Race Course/Dart Brook" but "Dart Brook" scored-through & redirected to "Sydney", largely very fine strike of
the extremely rare boxed 'VIA/MUSCLEBROOK' handstamp (Type #V12; this pattern recorded only from Musclebrook and Lake George), very fine '[crown]/GENERAL POST OFFICE/FE*28/1838/SYDNEY' backstamp (Type #S5), professionally cleaned with only minor
blemishes remaining. A truly fantastic pre-stamp cover. Sold at our auction of 2.5.2014 for $5590 (Sale 190 Lot 1354).
Dartbrook is a small rural community in the Upper Hunter Valley, about 3km W of Aberdeen & some 15km NNW of Muswellbrook. There has never been a post office of that name. Musclebrook PO opened 27.9.1837; renamed Muswellbrook circa 1.1.1840. Aberdeen
PO opened 1.8.1856, so in 1838 Musclebrook was the nearest post office to Dartbrook. The 'Handbook' discusses 'Via' markings at pages 202-204 and states that there was some confusion about the distinction between the 'Via' and 'Missent' markings,
probably because both were to be entered under the "Missent" column on a letter bill. This item was not missent but the 'Via' marking was also NOT applied because the cover was redirected. It was used because Musclebrook was the nearest office to the
destination.
The 'Handbook' records 'Via' markings from 16 towns, to which we can add Cawdor. However, most examples are on items in the NSW Archives. Brian Peace stated that fewer than ten such covers are recorded in private hands. In terms of quality, this is
one of the finest of them, and the handstamp is vastly superior to Brian's two examples, from Bathurst and Maitland. Interestingly, this strike clearly shows a circumflex (' ^ ') above the 'A' of 'VIA'. In both illustrations at p203 of the
'Handbook', this is rendered as a backwards slanting grave accent, although the circumflex is obvious on the Hinton example at page 206.
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Estimate AU$4,000
SOLD for AU$3,000.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1838 entire letter headed "Maitland NS Wales/October 27th 1838" and signed "John Gregor", to Scotland with fine strikes of the oval
'MAITLAND/[crown]/OC*31/1838/POST OFFICE' datestamp (#C61; the only pattern that didn't include 'NSW') & the rounded-boxed 'PAID AT/MAITLAND' (#P11), rated "7d" in red for 4d shipletter to Sydney (poor backstamp) + 3d external shipletter fee,
unframed 'INDIALETTER/FALMOUTH' handstamp & superb London transit backstamp both in red, rated "1/8" being 4d for an inwards India letter + mileage. Ex Brian Peace: sold for $873 (Sale 148 Lot 1049).
Presbyterian minister John Gregor arrived at Sydney in 1837, where he had a falling-out with John Dunmore Lang. He headed a congregation at Maitland despite one of Lang's men already being in place there. Suspended by the Synod, he became an Anglican
priest, the first to be based in the Moreton Bay District, where he arrived 17.1.1843. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1838 OHMS entire letter headed "Wingello 7th Nov 1838" and signed "RMCampbell" to the Police Magistrate at Goulburn but amended to
"Berrima" with a largely fine strike of the 'BERRIMA/ NSW/NO8/18__' cds at upper-right, docketing on the face. Robert Mackay Campbell, formerly Police Magistrate at Liverpool, moved to Wingello in 1830. The self-serving letter alludes to a convict
named Hawkins: "...if I signed any pass of the kind it must have been through a false statement..." Berrima PO renamed from Bong Bong (1) 1.8.1837. Wingello, 34km SW of Berrima, had no postal facility until a Receiving Office opened 16.3.1883; PO
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Estimate AU$800
SOLD for AU$600.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1839 OHMS entire letter headed "River Murray Feby 1st 1839", to the Postmaster General at Sydney with fine strikes of the rare 36mm
undated 'YASS/NSW/* POST OFFICE *' handstamp & the boxed 'FREE' handstamp unusually in black, some soiling mostly on the reverse & some internal reinforcing. A very desirable & historical pre-stamp item. Yass PO opened 1.4.1835. Yass is situated on
the Murrumbidgee River; the letter was written a considerable distance away on the Murray. Sold at our auction of 20.4.2015 for $7120 (Sale 203 Lot 305).
The enclosed petition states "We the undersigned deeply interested in the communication by mail from Sydney & Melbourne with this part of the Interior [request] a Bag to be made up at the afsd [= aforesaid] places to this River. We would suggest that
Mr Brown the present sub-contractor for the mail between this and the River Golbourne residing at the crossing place on this River on the main road should be appointed Postmaster...the officer in charge of the Mounted Police here is unable to receive
instructions...unless by a special Messenger..." The petition is signed by "CF Ebden" and nine others including "Joseph Hawdon" who subsequently was awarded the contract for the first overland mail from Yass to Melbourne. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$4,000
SOLD for AU$3,000.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1839 Wesleyan missionary entire letter headed "Bathurst 21st June 1839" and signed "Fredk Lewis", to London with fine strike of the
rounded-boxed 'BATHURST/POST PAID' handstamp in red but unusually without a Bathurst town marking, GPO backstamp & very fine oval 'PAID SHIP LETTER/[crown]/JE*27/1839/SYDNEY' in red, British boxed 'INDIA LETTER/BRIGHTON' handstamp & London arrival
cds of '18NO18/1839' both in red, ironed-out horizontal filing fold at the base otherwise superb. Per 'Andromache' ex Sydney 30.6.1839; trans-Pacific arrived Rio de Janeiro 21.9.1839; arrived England 17.11.1839. He speaks of the death of his first
wife after only 15 months of marriage, and "...termination of a long and calamitous drought in almost every part of the Colony...incredible number of deaths...among the working cattle...In Bathurst a Mission House is absolutely necessary..." Sold at
our auction of 8.11.2013 for $785 (Sale 185 Lot 285). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$600
SOLD for AU$525.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1840 entire letter headed "Bungonia/Argyle.../24 August 1840" and signed "John Sceales", to Scotland with very fine strike of the
rare rounded-boxed 'BUNGONIA/POST PAID' handstamp in red, rated "Pd 11" in red & "8" in black for the inwards shipletter fee, crowned-oval GPO backstamp in black & oval 'PAID SHIP LETTER/[crown]/SE*3/1840/SYDNEY' datestamp in red on the face, the
reverse with British straight-line 'SHIP LETTER' handstamp, London transit of '13MR13/1841' and Edinburgh arrival of 'MAR/15/1841'. Ex 'Daneswood': sold at our auction of 29.3.2008 for $1865 (Sale 134 Lot 343). Absent from Brian Peace's exceptional
collection.
Inverary (I) was renamed Bungonia 1.1.1836. Located only 200km from Sydney, it seems inconceivable that the transit time to Sydney was 10 days so it must have been posted about a week after it was written. The unusual, & inconvenient, absence of the
datestamp on the reverse suggests it may have been temporarily out-of-service. The writer tells his father "...I am no longer a Storekeeper...[but] proprietor of the Ship's Inn here...I am to receive one third of the profits..." (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$750.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1840 entire being copies of two letters headed "Cornwallis 5th May 1840" and "Clarendon October 5th 1840" over the names of
"William Smith" and "Charles Hughes" respectively, and a third headed "Windsor October 6th 1840)" and signed "...Deddeck" [?], to "Clarendon/Launceston/van Diemens Land" with largely fine bevelled-boxed 'WINDSOR/POST PAID' in red and very fine
two-line 'WINDSOR/N S W' on the reverse, rated "7" for inland carriage between 30 & 50 miles, GPO Sydney backstamp and 'PAID SHIP LETTER/ [crown]/OC*7/1840/SYDNEY' in red on the face, light soiling. A remarkable inter-Colonial item. The three letters
pertain to negotiations to lease a parcel of land with or without buildings. The second is mis-dated: it could not have been written a day before the last of them. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$600
SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1841 (Feb 20) entire letter from England "pr Abberton" with 'SHIP LETTER/[crown]/JY*22/1841/SYDNEY' arrival backstamp (#SL5),
endorsed on the flap "Opened by me/James Graham" who was not the intended party & with a largely fine strike of the rare rounded-boxed 'NOT TO BE/FOUND' handstamp (#H1) applied in black, very fine 'RETURNED FROM' handstamp in red on the face applied
at London & docketed within "Recd back 1st Aprl 1843", light soiling. Ex Ric Slade-Slade (1979) and Brian Peace: sold for $2445 (Sale 148 Lot 1136).
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Estimate AU$1,500
SOLD for AU$1,700.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1841 entire letter headed "19th July 1841" and signed "Arthur Bush/Evandale/Goulburn" to his son & daughter ".../at the Castle Inn
Tap Room/Downham/Norfolk" (GB) with light but obvious bevelled-boxed 'GOULBURN/POST PAID' handstamp in red & framed-oval 'GOULBURN/[crown]/JL*22/1841/NEW.S.WALES' backstamp, GB unframed 'BRISTOL/SHIPLETTER' unusually on the face and light London
backstamp of '7DE7/1841', light overall soiling. Ex Michael Lewin: sold at our auction of 9.2.2008 for $420 (Sale 133 Lot 369).
A marvellous letter about crime, problems with Aborigines, and the wool industry. The writer states "...somebody stole some of my letters, my Watch & 4£ in money...On their journey [to South Australia] they were attacked by...[a] Number of Blacks
they supposed to be 500, & only 13 or 14 White Men. They took all the Sheep from them & though they sent a body of Mounted Police...they could not find any of them...the Blacks are all civil for above 100 miles beyond me...Jere [a convict] expect his
liberty next December in the District". (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
SOLD for AU$650.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1842 outer to England with a unusually fine strikes of the undated 'PORT MACQUARIE/NSW/ * ' handstamp (#C17) & the bevelled-boxed
'PORT/MACQUARIE/PAID' handstamp (#P16a; a pattern used only at this office) in red, rated "7d" in red = 4d for intracolonial shipletter + 3d for overseas shipletter, Sydney GPO backstamp & oval 'PAID SHIP LETTER' datestamp on the face both of
'JA*11/1842', stepped 'SHIP- LETTER/PLYMOUTH' & London backstamp of '2JU2/1842' in red, ironed-out horizontal filing fold. PO 1.8.1832. Brian Peace's similar 1838 entire letter sold for $4425 (Sale 148 Lot 1052). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$950.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1842 (Nov 22) entire letter headed "Windsor" and signed "Joseph Davies", to his daughter "Martha Davies, to the care of Francis
Morgan, Ysgwyilgwyn [?], Gellygare [Gelligaer] near Merthyr Tidvil, Glamorganshire, South Wales" with fine 'WINDSOR/POST PAID.' boxed handstamp in red and largely very fine crowned-oval 'WINDSOR/NEW.S.WALES' backstamp, rated "10"[d] for 7d inland
letter (between 30 to 50 miles) to Sydney plus 3d ship letter, fine 'PAID SHIP LETTER/NO*25/1842/SYDNEY' Crowned-Oval transit in red on the face, London '9 MY 9/1843' transit & largely very fine 'MERTHYR TIDVIL/MY 10/1843' arrival backstamps, rated
"8"[d] for a single-rate incoming shipletter, some soiling mostly on the face.
Joseph Davies was a convict who arrived in New South Wales on the 'Duke of Portland' on 27.7.1807. At the age of 16, he had enlisted in various military regiments including the 1st Kings Dragoon Guards, but deserted from each of them in turn.
Sentenced to death, he pleaded for clemency on account of his youth, and was instead transported for a period of 14 years. In 1812 he married Mary Ann Rogers, herself a convict who had arrived in 1808, and by 1828 they had both received their
Conditional Pardons. In the census of that year, he is listed as a farmer at North Richmond with 40 acres. The letter concerns arrangements he has made for £20 to be sent to his daughter via the Wesleyan Missionary Society. He signs off asking for
the return correpondence to be addressed to him "in the care of Mr Thomas Tebbutt, Windsor". Thomas Tebbutt was a founding councillor of the Windsor District Council (established 1843) and uncle of the famous Australian astronomer John Tebbutt. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$1,500.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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 1843 large-part outer endorsed "On Service/W Newcastle" (the formal autograph of the Bishop of Newcastle ?) to "Muswell Brook" with
largely fine strike of the rare 'MORPETH/FREE' bevelled-boxed handstamp in red, light 'MAITLAND' transit and 'MUSWELL BROOK' arrival backstamps. Absent from Brian Peace's exceptional collection. Sold at our auction 2.5.2014 for $700 (Sale 190 Lot
1360). Morpeth was an inland port on the Hunter River. The whole town is classified by the National Trust. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Sep-22, 07:30 PM |
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