AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 79		Estimate: $400 1872 (2 Dec) large cardboard parcel front sent from Adelaide to Wimborne, Dorset, and redirected to Basingstoke, endorsed 'Parcel only Without Letter'. Franked with 4d and 1/- Perkins, Bacon cancelled 'G.P.O. ADELAIDE' cds, toned due to the acidic nature of the cardboard. A remarkable early survivor of non-letter rate mail
Lot 80		Estimate: $200 1898-1904 selection with OPSO envelope [slightly reduced] from 'Chief Secretary's Office' Adelaide to USA, bearing 2½d Violet-blue optd 'OS', 1899 to Canada via San Francisco bearing ½d strip of five tied by Semaphore squared-circle datestamps and 1904 to Hobart bearing 2d tied by two Petersburg squared circle datestamps, arrival backstamps (3 covers)
Lot 81		Estimate: $750 1900 (14 Aug) Governor's envelope with insignia in red on flap, used Adelaide to Sydney bearing ½d and 1d optd 'OS' pairs, violet cachet 'AIDE DE CAMP'S/OFFICE/ GOVERNMENT HOUSE' at left, Sydney backstamp. A rare franking
Lot 82		Estimate: $900 1905 (9 Mar) reg’d cover to U.S.A. bearing thin 'POSTAGE' 4d Orange-red pair (SG 281) tied by squared-circle 'JAMESTOWN' datestamp, another alongside, U.S. receiving markings and backstamps of Adelaide, London, New York and Wilmington, minor blemishes. An attractive and scarce example of ½-1oz rate (5d) + 3d registration