VICTORIA continued...
VICTORIA continued...
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 2115 |
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 COURIER STAMPS: circa 1894 Boyd's 'CITY/EXPRESS MESSENGER' undenominated stamp in blue-green on wove paper, well centred, unusually
with clean-cut perfs (a few short at the top), unused. One of the finest examples we have handled. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$120
Currently Opening at...AU$90.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2116 |
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 REVENUES: 10/- brown/pink, £1 violet/yellow x3 (two with corner faults) and £5 black & yellow-green affixed to document piece each
with '31/3/84' manuscript cancels in black ink, all with pinholes, Cat £375+ for the £5 fiscally used. Probably as close as we will get to finding the £5 used on document. [The illustration is above Lot 2109] (Image1)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2117 |
PSE |
 POSTAL STATIONERY: Usages group including Letter Card QV 2d red uprated to Belgium, Postal Cards 1d 'Beer & Baccy', 2d violet 'Long
Sea Route' and 3d red 'For the United Kingdom via Italy' all used in period plus 1d brown uprated to London but taxed or uprated to Switzerland but taxed with Postage Dues and others to Batavia, Hong Kong with 'SINGAPORE-TO-HONG-KONG' maritime sorter
transit, Japan & South Africa, Registration Envelope 3d red 1900 to South Africa with 2½d blue tied by 'R'-in-circle handstamp and 'REGISTERED/BENDIGO' cds alongside, Wrappers ½d green with 'BENDIGO EVENING MAIL' printed advertising and with 'BENDIGO
ADVERTISER' cachet, ½d red for 'Pleasant Creek News and Stawell Chronicle' and for 'ROMSEY EXAMINER', ½d red to London with ½d red added forwarded to Germany with Great Britain ½d orange added, ½d yellow to England with 'T/5c' tax cachet, etc,
condition a little variable but most are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2118 |
PSE |
 POSTAL STATIONERY: ENVELOPES - STAMPED TO ORDER: 1893 usage of 1d orange-brown + 1d yellow-orange Error of Colour for Briscoe & Co
Ironmongers (Melbourne) with advertising on the face for Portland Cement, BBB Kerosene Oil and AB Galvanized [sic] Corrugated Iron, very fine 'BEECHWORTH/JE24/93/VIC - 9 ' duplex & superb Melbourne arrival backstamp of 'JE26/93'. A superb example of
this outstanding issue. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2119 |
PSE |
 POSTAL STATIONERY: REGISTRATION ENVELOPES: 1913 (Jan 16) usage of 3d Registration Envelope with small boxed 'REGISTERED.' & Shield
in rose-pink Stieg #C13, to South Africa with 2d violet tied by 'REGISTERED/BALLARAT VIC', First Type red/white registration label, 'RANDFONTEIN/TRANSVAAL' arrival backstamnp. A lovely example of this rarity. Ex Max Watson: sold at our auction of
8.10.2005 for $2445. Carl Stieg estimated that only some 2000 were issued across three distinct shades. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$600
Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
Postal History
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 2120 |
 PSE |
 Accumulation including 1853 unstamped to Yorkshire redirected to Hampshire, 1879 to England with QV Laureates 4d red x2, 1891 to
Germany at per-UPU 6d rate, a quantity of taxed mail noted 1904 unstamped Infectious Disease Notification form with Victoria Postage Dues ½d pair tied 'MARYBROUGH' cds, Postage Dues 2d singles on picture postcards from NSW & South Australia, also
PPCs to Belgium 1901 with 10c Postage Due, to France 1906 with Melbourne 'T/15c' cachet and Postage Dues 5c & 10c, to Italy with 'T/10c' cachet and Postage Due 10c, to Sweden 1909 with Swedish TPO transit, other destinations include Austria, Canada,
India, Japan, Natal, South Africa, Transvaal, etc, three 1908 postcards to USA written by US sailors with the Great White Fleet, also advertising envelopes noted 'Moore's Timber Yards' envelope with commercial perfin, 'Gaylard, Greenwood
Warehousemen' black/red envelope with ½d Bantam for printed matter, and 1896 'Business House of Fitzroy' envelope with 12 listings covering the reverse, 1912 local cover with 'ONE PENNY' on QV 2d solo, Paquebot markings, registered mail, Postal
Stationery usages, a few items of inwards mail including 1877 damaged envelope from Wales with QV 6d grey tied by 'LLANRWST - 597' duplex cancel repaired with Melbourne 'RECEIVED TORN/AT G.P.O.' handstamp, etc, condition variable but many are fine to
very fine.
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2121 |
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 Official Mail group including 'Returned More to Pay Letter' envelopes 1892 & 1892 both with Postage Dues 2d blue & claret tied by
'L.C.2' Letter Carrier boxed datestamps, 1902 'Education Department' envelope with 'PAID - MELBOURNE/2D' Flag machine cancel, 1903 GPO envelope unstamped to Fiji with superb ‘SUVA’ arrival, 1904 unstamped Infectious Disease Notification form with
Victoria Postage Dues ½d pair tied 'MARYBROUGH' cds, 1909 apparently private use of QV 1d ‘OS’ on picture postcard to “Government Cottages, Upper Macedon”, 1910 'Prime Minister' envelope with QV 2d 'OS' and 1912 'Commonwealth of Australia Department
of External Affairs' envelope with QV 1d 'OS' both while the Federal Government was based in Melbourne, and 1913 'Lands and Survey' form with 'PAID AT/1D/MELBOURNE/ 8 ' cds, also Frank Stamps noted 'THE SPEAKER' 1894 on envelope with his crest on the
reverse, 'CHIEF SECRETARY' handstamp in red in 1888 'Government Botanist' envelope front to Sweden with QV Naish 3d olive pair added (the Frank not valid for overseas postage) and printed in black on 1905 Electoral forms x2 different both with 'PAID
AT/MITIAMO' handstamps & 'MO & SB/MITIAMO' datestamps, 'SOLICITOR GENERAL' handstamp in blue on form returned with 'PORT ALBERT' cds and Barred Numeral '12', 'DEPARTMENT OF TRADE & CUSTOMS' printed envelope to Serviceton with 'UP TRAIN/MG6' cds, etc,
plus semi-official items 'University of Melbourne' envelope with QV 1d 'OS', 'Metropolitan Gas' envelope with QV 1d 'GAS' commercial perfin, Metropolitan Board of Works with 2d 'MBW' strip of 3 registered, and Postal Stationery Envelope 2d red
Stamped-to-Order for 'Town of Essendon', variable condition but mostly fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2122 |
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 1852 stampless entire letter headed "Mr Craig's Station/three Miles past the Grange/...28th July 1852" and signed "John Meredith"
to his wife at "Oaklands/Mount Gambier" (South Australia), endorsed on the face "Postage 1s 1d" and "4", exceptional strike of the scarce crowned-oval 'GRANGE/JY*31/1852/VICTORIA' datestamp (used 2 years only) across the flap & a similar light but
obvious 'GLENELG' datestamp (the only recorded example), unusually fine. Sold at our auction of 17.2.2012 for $350 (Sale 171 Lot 683). George Napier Craig's property was "Grangeburn No 2". The writer asks for certain items including a pistol - "the
latter is loaded" - to be sent, and advises her she will have to pay 4d postage on this item. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2123 |
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 1855 (Dec 6) flimsy outer to "Sandhurst/Bendigo" with Campbell & Fergusson Half-Lengths 1d orange-brown SG 27 (very fine with
margins good to large) overlapping 3d deep bright blue SG 31c (margins just clear at right to huge except where shaved at the base) tied by light Barred Oval of Melbourne (small oval backstamp), oval 'SANDHURST/[crown]/DC 8/1855/VICTORIA' arrival
backstamp, minor blemishes, pencil endorsements on the reverse "Wise/1HSS/June 43" and signed "BD Forster" (= Bernhard Forster). (Image1)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2124 |
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 1857 (Jan 12) OHMS outer to "Road Board/Kangaroo Ground PO" with very fine Queen-on-Throne 2d grey-brown pair from an early
printing (SG 37 ?) tied by superb BN '1' of Melbourne (small oval backstamp), poor Kangaroo Ground arrival at lower-left, pencil endorsements on the reverse "Emerson/Col" and "Doane [?] May 40/ESS" and signed "BD Forster" (= Bernhard Forster). A
high-quality Classic cover.
The Shire of Eltham was established in 1871, with its offices at Kangaroo Ground, some 15km to the north-east. The building was destoyed by fire on 8.2.1934 & new offices were opened in Eltham in 1941. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2125 |
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 1857 (July 17) envelope to Scotland "p Str Columbian Via Marseilles" with QV Shilling Octagonal imperf pair SG 25 (margins just
touching to good with fragments of two adjoining units at the base) tied by BN '40', the reverse with very fine 'ECHUCA/VICTORIA' crowned-oval, Melbourne & Edinburgh transits & light 'PRESTON PANS/SE21/1857' arrival cds, a postscript written beneath
the flap. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$600
Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2126 |
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 1857 (Oct 14) cover to Birmingham GB "per SSS Simla" with rare franking of Woodblocks 6d dull orange Rouletted 7-9 at the GPO SG
53a (rouletted vertically & cut from the strip just touching the design at top & well clear of the design at the base) tied by BN '1' of Melbourne (small oval backstamp), very fine London 'PAID/1857/9DE9/ DJ ' transit in red & equally fine Birmingham
arrival backstamp of the next day, light bends are of no consequence. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2127 |
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 1858 (Aug 26) envelope to "Mr Edwards/at Mr Fisks/Acland St Pirie St/Adelaide" with scarce franking of Half-Lengths Campbell & Co
(?) 3d blue pair with margins clear to large just tied by BN '1' of Melbourne (backstamp), very fine unframed 'GPO/SP2/1858/=ADELAIDE SA=' arrival cds on the face, unrecognised guarantee (?) signature beside the stamps. The stamps may even be from a
Thomas Ham printing. They appear to be lightly stained from having languished in a drawer for some years. "Mr Fisk" was probably William Fiske, a skilled tradesman who arrived from England in 1854. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2128 |
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 1858 (Dec 23) entire letter to a solicitor at Belfast with Emblems Rouletted 4d tied by light BN '8' & fine oval
'PORTLAND/[crown]/DC*23/VICTORIA' across the flap, superb backstamp of the rare 'SHIP LETTER/ FREE / 23*DC/1858/BELFAST-VICTORIA' of the same day in red, vertical filing fold clear of the stamp & postmarks. A good job by the coastal ship, covering
the 30 nautical miles in time to deliver the letter on the same day it was posted. Port Fairy (1) was renamed Belfast on 1.1.1854; and was renamed Port Fairy (2) on 20.7.1887. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2129 |
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 1862 (early) mourning envelope signed "FerdVMueller FRS" at lower-left, to France "pr Great Britain" with QV Emblems 2d x3 but no
Victorian markings, at London cancelled with diamond numeral '50' & superb 'INSUFFICIENTLY/PREPAID' handstamp applied but overstruck with another example of '50' but in red & superb 'PD'-in-circle (= Paid to Destination) handstamp added, French
'ANGL/AMB CALAIS B' TPO cds, minor blemishes. Ex Hugh Freeman: sold at our auction of 23.9.2011 for $1045 Sale 168 Lot 840). A very unusual cover, that was apparently carried to London in a closed bag. The German botanist Baron Ferdinand von Mueller
was appointed Victorian Government Botanist in 1853. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$800
Currently Opening at...AU$600.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2130 |
PSE |
 1884 use of 4d lilac Registration Envelope size G to Germany "per SS Iberia/via Naples" with Three Issue Franking of QV Naish 2d
violet, Laureates 3d orange and Bell 1/- blue/blue tied by double-oval 'REGISTERED/OC17/84/MELBOURNE' datestamp, Naples transit of '21/11-84' and 'HANNOVER' arrival backstamp of '24 11/84', German 'R'-in-octagon handstamp, minor blemishes. Most
attractive. Ex Les Molnar: sold for $874. Absent from Ben Palmer's Census. Beautiful commercial usage of Victoria's first Registration Envelope, issued 29.6.1881. The rate was 8½d x2 - via Brindisi - plus 4d Registration. 'Iberia' was an Orient Line
ship: most 1884 mails went via Naples. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$600
Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2131 |
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 1887 envelope to France with QV Astley 6d blue tied by one of two largely fine strikes of the French octagonal 'POSS
ANG/20/AVRIL/87/PAQ FR T No6' datestamp in red, 'NIMES/25/MAI/87/GARD' arrival backstamp, the flap removed otherwise superb. Carried per Messageries Maritimes 'Salazie' ex Melbourne 20.4.1887. The enclosed social letter is written in French states at
the end "...sauvage revenant du pays des Kangaroos et des opossums..." (= the wild man returning from the land of kangaroos & possums).
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2132 |
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 1891 (Nov 5) unsealed cover to Melbourne with Postal Fiscal 1d bistre paying the printed matter rate but perversely sealed with
stamp selvedge tied by a very fine strike of the boxed 'RECEIVED OPEN AT/BALLARAT' handstamp. One of the great instructional handstamp rarities & the only recorded example from any provincial office. Ex Hugh Freeman: sold at our auction of 23.9.2011
for $1580 (Sale 168 Lot 790). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$800
Currently Opening at...AU$600.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2133 |
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 1901 (May 6) intra-camp cover with a faint pencil-address of a member of the South Australian Contingent at Royal Park Encampment
with 1d tied by largely very fine strike of the ' 1/MILITARY/MY6/01/ ENCAMPMENT' shield datestamp, oddly with Melbourne transit of the same date & another shield of 'MY7/01', endorsed "Left camp" again with Melbourne cds of '11.5.01' & Dead Letter
Office cds of the same date with 'RETURN TO SENDER' cachet on the face with a third shield datestamp of 'MY13/01', endorsed on the reverse "gone to Sth Australia" & redirected to "Adelaide" with arrival backstamp of 'MY16/01', a further strike of
'MY21/01' & redirected to "St Peters" with poor arrival backstamp. Opened to house 15,000 troops that paraded through the streets of Melbourne to make the opening of Federal Parliament House; recorded used at Royal Park 'AP30/01' to 'MY13/01' (on the
face of this item). A Letter Card written on 9.5.1901 to WA with a single strike of the shield datestamp sold at our auction of 28.1.2005 for $483.
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
| 2134 |
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 1902 (March 8) OHMS Penalty Notice envelope with 'CHIEF SECRETARY' Frank Stamp and 'ABORIGINES' imprint at lower-left endorsed
"Lake Condah", to Hamilton with the 'The Secretary, Board of Protection of Aborigines, Melbourne' pre-printed address crossed-out, light but just legible 'MILLTOWN/VICTORIA' unframed cds at lower-left and similarly light but illegible Barred Numeral
'MCCCC/2' on the Frank Stamp, minor edge faults. The Church of England Lake Condah Mission Station was established in 1867. This is only the second item we have seen from the Mission Station, neither of which are recorded in Stieg & Watson. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Nov-18, 07:30 PM |
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