Post Cards: 1911 1d Vermilion (H&G 17) with private overprint for use as an Esperanto "chain-letter", some overall soiling on face, scarce
Lot 181
Estimate: $100
Post Cards: 1910 1d Vermilion divided card with black and white view on reverse 'SCENE ON THE UPPER JOHNSTONE RIVER, NORTH QUEENSLAND.' used from Charters Towers to Townsville, DE 14 1910, peripheral wear and horizontal crease, but scarce
Lot 182
Estimate: $200
1911 KEVII 3d registration envelope (H&G C1) uprated 2½d, the whole cancelled by 'REGISTERED/9-NO 11/BRISBANE' cds in blue (two more strikes on reverse and addressed 'Kapt of the Hamburg Americka Line', Germany, Brisbane red and black registration label, Hamburg arrival. Fine and very scarce (cat US$250 in 1984)
Lot 183
Estimate: $120
Realised Price : $230
Ottmar Zieher cards featuring Queensland stamps, a duplicated selection with embossed cards (7, four used, one with Victoria Bridge Brisbane illustration) and flat cards (4), also V.S.M. series showing illustrations of Brisbane (5), and the 1906 Sanatoria Home for Consumptive Women card (3, two used, with one folded and damaged). A few with faults but many are fine (19)
Lot 184
Estimate: $250
Cancellations: 1899 selection of Railway Station concentric-circle cancels on stationery newspaper wrappers, comprising '4' (Bowen Hills), '5' (2, Wayne), '6' (3, Albion), and elusive '7' (Wooloowin), various destinations, generally good strikes (7)
Lot 185
Estimate: $60
Realised Price : $48
Thursday Island: 1903 (26 Sep) picture postcard to Scotland with 1899 ½d (3) tied by '148' numerals, and with despatch cds, two small corner creases otherwise fine
