1952 KGVI set ½d to 10/- in matching corner pairs, fresh MUH. SG 1-12, cat £280 (24)
Lot 1136
Estimate: $300
Postage Dues: 1957 Watermark Multiple Script CA 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d and 5d sheets of 60, superb MUH. SG D1-5, cat £600 (300)
Lot 1137
Estimate: $100
Postage Dues: 1986 1p - 25p set in plate number blocks of 4 (x 2) and in sheets of 50, first day cover, and examples of philatelic usage on 1988 cover from Australia, 1994 cover from GB, 1995 covers from Pitcairn Island (2), 1996 cover from Italy, and on three picture postcards (348 M + 9 covers)
Lot 1138
Estimate: $70
1938 (Jan) two covers carried by SS 'Anatolia' bearing Type VI cachet in black, one with 1937 Coronation cachet to South Africa, 1d postage due affixed on arrival, the other to England with 1½d charge mark and G.B. ½d and 1d postage dues affixed (few cover stains) (2)
Lot 1139
Estimate: $75
1938 (2 Feb) cover from Johannesburg to Tristan da Cunha with South Africa 1½d, endorsed on reverse 'Flown to England and forwarded by HMS Milford to Tristan', with 'REPOSTED/JOHANNESBURG' backstamp (27 JUN 38), Type VI cachet in purple applied at Tristan on arrival
Lot 1140
Estimate: $40
1950 (Feb) cover to London with cachet Type IX (boxed 'TRISTAN DA CUNHA/SETTLEMENT OF/EDINBURGH/SOUTH ATLANTIC', carried on RMS 'Caronia', bearing South Africa 1949 Voortrekker 1½d tied by 'CAPE TOWN/KAPSTAD/PAQUEBOT' cds, very fine and with accompanying 'Caronia' picture postcard
Lot 1141
Estimate: $200
1990s-2000s accumulation of oversized commercial mail (mostly envelopes, with some parcel fronts and used for sending philatelic material), virtually all addressed to Australia and largely registered, large variety of frankings including many high values. Due to their large size there are inevitably some with cover faults, however a very unusual lot (59 covers)
Lot 1142
Estimate: $150
Official Mail: 1959-2003 OHMS mail sent by the Administrator, nearly all with various types of 'ADMINISTRATOR/TRISTAN DA CUNHA' cachets and including a number of clearly commercial covers, the others mostly to well-known collectors, also 1953 and 1960 inwards covers to the Administrator from South Africa and Rhodesia & Nyasaland respectively (17)
Lot 1143
Estimate: $150
Taxed Mail: 1952-1974 small group of covers, with 1952 to England with boxed 'T' marking obliterated and with South Africa ½d and 1d pairs affixed (uncancelled), 1953 Coronation FDC to New York with boxed 'T ______ (10)c', 1956 to England with ½d, 1d and 3d and boxed 'INSUFFICIENT POSTAGE' and 'T _____ (6d)c', 1960 cover to England with pair, and boxed 'INSUFFICIENT POSTAGE', and 1963, 1974 (2) and 1975 covers to South Africa with the boxed 'T' markings. Couple of small cover faults, however a useful and scarce group (8)
Lot 1144
Estimate: $200
1956-1968 underpaid incoming mail from Great Britain (9), four with boxed 'T ______ d' handstamp, one with boxed 'POSTAGE/DUE', one with manuscript 'Due' inserted in Tristan da Cunha cds, and all but two showing Tristan adhesives affixed to indicate amount of postage due. A fine and scarce group (7)
Lot 1145
Estimate: $120
Taxed Mail: 1955-75 covers from South Africa (5) or Nyasaland addressed to Tristan, underpaid and showing a variety of tax markings, both at despatch and receipt end, the 1955 Nyasaland cover showing use of 2d Tristan for collection of postage due. A scarce group (6 covers)
