AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 1318		Estimate: $300 Postal History: 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', toned due to the acidic nature of the cardboard. A remarkable early survivor of non-letter rate mail
Lot 1319		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 1894 (17 Dec) cover Port Adelaide to Noumea bearing 2½d Tannenburg design and tied by squared circle cds. A few tone spots however an uncommon destination