Lot 204
| | | Estimate: $200T | Realised Price : $210 |
1855 (9 Jul) entire letter Geelong to Scotland endorsed \'P \'Blanche Moore\' @ Galle/ thence overland via Marseilles\' bearing QonT 2d pair and 1/- Octagonal, filing creases, soiling. Rare 1/4d per ½oz rate
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Lot 205
| | | Estimate: $200 | Realised Price : $280 |
1857 (12 Nov) cover Melbourne to London bearing Serrated roulette 18-19 6d Orange-Yellow, SG 60, endorsed 'Per Overland Mail/per 'City of Sydney’ ‘ at left, minor blemishes. Ex Perry
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Lot 206
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1871 (2 Jan) entire letter to London endorsed 'Via Brindisi' bearing 1d and 6d pair tied by Melbourne duplex, London arrival, minor faults, although perhaps the most attractive example of the short-lived 1/1d rate via this route. A new discovery. Only six examples of this rate recorded
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Lot 207
| | | Estimate: $125 | Realised Price : $95 |
1880 (4 Oct) cover 'per the Orient Line Steamer', Melbourne to Italy, bearing 6d and 1d, minor faults, soiling, scarce example of 7d rate
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Lot 208
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1881 (22 Feb) cover to Cambridge, New Brunswick, 'Dominion of Canada' bearing 8d brown on purple (corner fault) tied by Richmond '71' duplex
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Lot 209
| | | Estimate: $300 | Realised Price : $290 |
1881 (21 Nov) cover to London bearing 2d Brown tied by 'M72' (type 10A) of Buchan - rated RRRR, handstamped 'Deficient Postage (mss.)4d/Fine/(mss.) with 6/10d alongside, backstamped at Melbourne. Rare
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Lot 210
| | | Estimate: $100 | Realised Price : $110 |
1884 (7 Aug) cover Hamilton to Warrnambool bearing Stamp Duty 1d Brown pair cancelled by '476' duplex, transit (Kerang) and arrival backstamp, minor faults. Scarce
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Lot 211
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1885 (20 May) cover (little soiled) to U.K. bearing rare franking of Postal Fiscal 1/- blue on yellow for double rate tied by Melbourne duplex, backstamped on arrival
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Lot 212
| | | Estimate: $100 | Realised Price : $75 |
1888 (13 Aug) cover to Switzerland bearing 6d Blue tied by '314' duplex of Lilydale, backstamps of Melbourne, Napoli, Locarno, Devio and straight-line arrival of Linescio, minor blemishes. Scarce village destination
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Lot 213
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1888 (17 Aug) cover to Cambridge (New Brunswick) bearing 1d Green pair and 6d Blue tied by BN '71' duplexes of Richmond endorsed 'Per Cuzco De/Via Southampton, Melbourne and London backstamps. Attractive bicolour franking to an interesting destination
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Lot 214
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1893 (10 Dec) incoming use of Mexico 2c Postal Card (central vertical crease) uprated 1c from Veracruz to Melbourne via San Francisco. Extraordinary origin/destination
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Lot 215
| | | Estimate: $200 | Realised Price : $150 |
c.1896 illustrated advertising Wrapper printed 'all-over' for Phillips-Ormonde & Co. used to Austria with G.B. ½d affixed and tied by 'F.B.' in black. Interesting and ornate
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Lot 216
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1897 (20 Mar) incoming use of Lagos 1d Postal Card to Melbourne, backstamped on arrival. Extraordinary origin/destination
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Lot 217
| | | Estimate: $100 | Realised Price : $140 |
1898 (27 Jul) cover (reduced a little at base) with 2½d (4) + 6d tied by English Mail TPO '+' duplexes, paying quadruple rate + 6d late fee to UK, James Hardie & Co handstamp on reverse
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Lot 218
| | | Estimate: $80 | Realised Price : $60 |
1899 (13 Mar) use to California of Envelope 1d Yellow-Brown uprated with 1½d Green tied by BN '538' strikes of Carlton endorsed 'Via Sydney/Per S.S. 'Mariposa’ ‘, backstamps of San Francisco and Berkeley. Attractive bicolour
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Lot 219
| | | Estimate: $250 | Realised Price : $190 |
1950-60s registered standard-sized covers/stationery with different registration labels (from mostly different Post Offices), Abbotsford-Yarraville, many scarcer postmarks, appear mostly average commercial quality (235). Good basis for expansion
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Lot 220
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Literature: 'The Numeral Cancellations of Victoria' (2001) by Freeman and White, 420 pages, hardbound with dust jacket. An outstanding book superseding Purves previous works. New
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