AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 415		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $90 1898 (Mar) 'POSTMASTER-GENERAL/FRANK STAMP' on OHMS envelope with printed 'FEDERAL CONVENTION./PARLIAMENT HOUSE, MELBOURNE.' at lower left, addressed to Hobart and cancelled in transit by the 'LAUNCESTON' vertical oval obliterator. Sent by Henry Dobson, former Tasmanian Premier and Tasmanian delegate to the Convention. Back flap largely missing, otherwise fine and an interesting precursor for a Commonwealth collection
Lot 416		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 1913-14 covers (8) and postcards (2) franked with 1d Kangaroo, toning on some, the covers all from the same correspondence to Amaroo (NSW)
Lot 417		Estimate: $70 Realised Price : $55 1913 (Mar) cover to San Francisco franked 2½d Kangaroo First Wmk tied by double boxed 'PACKET BOAT' and by Wellington (NZ) cds, 27 MR 13, several pin holes at left otherwise a fine paquebot usage on the NZ Marine PO