AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, NEW SOUTH WALES, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 41		Estimate: $4,000T Realised Price : $5,250 1851 registered Goldfield's stampless entire letter to England, mss. 'Registered' and handstamped in red 'Registered/Sydney' together with 'SYDNEY PAID', mss. '3/2' and deleted '1/-', transit and arrival backstamps. Interesting contents relating to the diggings and a specimen of gold being sent with letter privately carried to Sydney for registered despatch. Important historical letter
Lot 42		Estimate: $3,000 1859 (31st Jan) cover to London bearing amazing four-colour franking of Diadems 1d, 2d, 6d and 1/- with margins in places, latter two adhesives slightly faded, tied by concentric-ring cancels, endorsed at top 'Oneida Marseilles', backstamped at Sydney with London arrival cds in red at front left, minor cover blemishes. Possibly the only four colour franked cover of N.S.W. 1993 Richter Certificate
Lot 43		Estimate: $750 1894 (20th Oct) envelope with monogram of Grand Central Coffee Palace on flap Sydney to Hawkes Bay (N.Z.) showing very fine strike of 'Saved from wreck of the/"WAIRARAPA."' in lilac, backstamped Danevirke. Accompanied by earlier write-up stating 'The wreck of the steamer was sold at auction on the 6th of November for £70, slightly less than a single cover now brings at auction'!
Lot 44		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $525 1906 (2nd Jan) registered cover with black printed advertisement for 'THE SINGLETON BUDGET. The People's Newspaper' on face, similar design advertising etiquette in black on red tied to reverse, registered to U.S. bearing 9d (scarce on cover), 1d and ½d paying triple letter rate. Most attractive
Lot 45		Estimate: $250 1912 (4th Apr) cover to USA bearing ½d value from each of the six Colonies tied by Sydney datestamps, minor ageing. Attractive
Lot 46		Estimate: $200 Cancellations: 1890s-1900s range of circular datestamps on hagners A-Y, some no doubt useful or scarce (few 100)