Stamps, Coins and Postal History (#48MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 501-600 of 1015. Previous|1...4567891011|Next Lot #1502 1905 Tatts cover to Hobart with 2d & Thin 'POSTAGE' 3d tied by 'PORT WAKEFIELD' cds, curved 'REGISTERED/ No...' h/s. Very attractive. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot #1503 POSTMARKS: mid-1930s Howard Johnson registered covers including 'ABBEVILLE' (rated RRRR) with Hamley Bridge label, 'ASHVILLE' (R), 'ATHELSTONE' (R), 'ATHENNA' (R), 'BAGOTS WELL' (R), 'BETHEL' squared-circle (R), 'BIGGS FLAT' (RR), 'CALOOTE' (R), 'HARBEN VALE' (RR), 'HORSNDALE' squared-circle (RRR), 'HUDDLESTONE' squared-circle (RR), mostly with "reds" or "blue & black" labels & several provisional types, many with minor to significant toning but most are good to fine & a few are very fine. (38) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #1504 POSTMARKS: North Extension (Burra) Railway: unframed 'N EX RAILWAY/AP15/72/[S.A]' large-part but untidy strike on 2d orange (closed tear). Rated RRRRR. Tony Presgrave stated at p36 "It is extremely rare and has not been found on cover". [Part-strikes sold at the Prestige auctions of 25/1/2003 & 17/5/2003 for $1176 (the ERD; graded B2) & $896 (the LRD; B1-) respectively] SymbolsGradec c2 View details Estimate$250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #1505 POSTMARKS: Mitchellville (2): 'MITCHELLVILLE/----/11/S.A' fine strike on Shierlaw front with 2d violet. Rated RRRR. RO 5/6/1908; PO -/5/1909; RO 12/3/1918; PO 1/7/1927; closed 14/11/1979. GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea b1 View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot #1506 REGISTRATION LABELS: 'ADELAIDE' to 'WOODVILLE' all-different large red/white types. (49) SymboloGradea/a- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #1507 Quality bundle with Postal Cards 1d brown with superb 'SANDLETON' "cogwheel" cds, 1d brown group with printed notices on the reverse, four different scenic issues, 1d Envelopes on surfaced & unsurfaced stock (the latter is very scarce), Registration Envelope philatelically used (& not registered!) to the UK, 1912 ½d turquoise Wrapper etc, generally fine to very fine & mostly used. (38) Symbolps View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold Lot #1508 POSTAL CARDS: 1896 Postcard Design Competition postcard-size essay hand-painted in purple & China white on thick card, the stamp featuring shipping at Semaphore and Blue Lake at Mount Gambier, the heading featuring public buildings, endorsed on the reverse "Progress", minor reinforced corner bend at lower-right that hardly detracts from this very attractive essay. Ex Martin Walker and Nelson Eustis. [There are numerous South Australian design competition essays in the market. Most of them are so GSTex GSTSymbolEGradea- View details Estimate$1,500StatusUnsold Lot #1509 De La Rue Sideface imperforate colour trial blocks of 4 on Crown/CC gummed paper comprising 2d in green, 9d in bright purple & 10d in slate-violet, large-part o.g., lower units unmounted. (3 blocks) GSTex GSTSymbolPGradea View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #1510 - 9d marginal block of 4 in orange-brown from the lower-left of the sheet, unmounted. SymbolPGradea View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #1511 1853 Courier Plate I (Second State) 4d pale orange SG 9 vertical strip of 4 (being a complete column), remarkably with virtually full margins just touched in a couple of places, ironed-out crease across the second unit, minor thinnings, First Allocation '59' cancels of Launceston, Cat £1800++. A rare multiple. SymbolOGradeA-/B View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #1512 1855-70 Chalons reprinted undenominated die proofs on thin card in blue x2 different with good even margins, in a most unusual shade of grey-blue x2 different with huge margins, & in black with huge margins. (5) GSTex GSTSymbolRGradea View details Estimate$500Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #1513 1855 Large Star 'TASMANIA' 6d dull lilac horizontal strip of 3, margins close to good, characteristic creasing & related faults but of good appearance, Cat £2250+: see note after SG 18. Unissued: all examples recorded emanate from a part proof-sheet that had been poorly stored. SymbolΩGradec/d View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1514 1863-71 Experimental Separations Perf 12 by Walch & Sons under contract to the Post Office 1d with Error of Watermark '2' SG 70a, badly faded with manuscript cancellation removed & fake cancel applied Cat.£300 for fiscal use. A presentable "spacefiller" of this rare stamp. SymbolOGradec View details Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #1515 1870-71 First Sidefaces Perf 11½ by the Post Office 2d blue-green with Pronounced Double Print SG 133ab, GSTex GSTSymbolfGradea View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$2,000StatusSold Lot #1516 1871-91 Perforated by the Post Office Perf 11½ 1/- orange-red SG 141 horizontal pair & strip of 4 (a rare multiple) plus Sideface 8d SG 158 on piece from a packet with Launceston duplex cancels, overall minor aging, Cat £400+. GSTex GSTSymboloGradeb View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot #1518 1906-07 Crown/A Sidefaces 9d blue Perf 12½ gutter block of 4 from the base of the sheet, originally imperf between the left-hand units & gutter corrected with a line of Perf 12 resulting in the left-hand units being Perf 12½x12x12½x12½ BW #TT71 (SG 256c), very well centred, a couple of very minor tonespots, Cat $800+ (£750+). Symbol*Gradea- View details Estimate$120Price Realized$90StatusSold Lot #1519 REVENUES: 1880s-1910s fascinating bundle of mostly cheques x50+ with impressed or adhesive 1d & including illustrated types for Tatlow's Royal Mail Coaches (3 different), IOOF, Circular Head District Agricultural Association, Circular Head Marine Board, Emu Bay Co-Operative Butter Factory x2 & Charles Thomas Smith, also promissory notes including with embossed in red 6d x2, 1/- x3, 1/6d & Victorian 6d with Tasmanian 6d Stamp Duty affixed, plus some other banking & insurance documents, some folds Symbol$/L View details Estimate$500Price Realized$950StatusSold Lot #1520 REVENUES: 1932-35 Wages Book (no cover) with an array of Numerals plus Surcharges, also 'WAGES/TAX' Overprints including a few in red, many multiples including 'WAGES/TAX' 3d block of 12 (10 units unmounted) & 4d block of 8 both uncancelled. (250+) SymbolO View details Estimate$300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1521 REVENUES: Beer Duty reprinted sheets of 10 (2x5) in red with One Keg (1/3d), One Firkin (2/3d), One Kilderkin (4/6d), Half Hogshead (6/9d), One Barrel (9/-) & One Hogshead (13/6d); also damaged reprint Half Hogshead (6/9d) in purple on white paper block of 6 (*), unmounted. (7 items) Symbol**GradeA/c View details Estimate$250Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #1522 1855 front to NSW "pr Black Swan" with cut-to-shape 4d Courier, 1855 cover to England with cut-square 4d Courier (almost full margins), & 1870 mourning cover to Victoria with Perf 12½ 6d & postmaster's manuscript endorsement "Carrick" but cancelled at Launceston; also two stampless inwards fronts from GB & 1857 entire with GB 6d lilac tied by superb Birmingham "spoon" duplex, condition a bit mixed. (6) SymbolC View details Estimate$250Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1523 1832 outer to London with an above-average strike of the small oval 'HOBART TOWN/VDL' undated h/s, boxed 'INDIA LETTER/DEAL' b/s, rated "1/-" = 4d India letter + 8d inland, London arrival b/s of 20AU20/1832 in red. Carried per "Auriga", departed Hobart 15/4/1832 direct for London. GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #1525 1854 OPSO entire to the Surveyor-General with '[crown]/FREE' cds in red & Launceston cds, countersigned "Robt Bain", minor stain on the face. [The letter is a request from William Johnstone to purchase 500 acres at New Plains that he had been occupying under licence] GSTex GSTSymbolCGradeb View details Estimate$250Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #1526 1854 stampless outer from GB per "Private Ship" with 'HULL' cds & London 'PAID' cds in red, superb strike of the rounded-boxed 'SHIP-LETTER-INWARDS-FREE/30AP30/1855' d/s in red & boxed 'CAMP TOWN/1May55' arrival d/s. Superb! [The postscript to the letter within prays for an early end to the Crimean War. During the war many P&O ships were commissioned by the navy & the Colonies had to rely upon infrequent visits of private ships to bring and send mail] GSTex GSTSymbolCGradea+ View details Estimate$400Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #1527 1854 entire letter to Launceston with a superb Courier 4d orange SG 8 (margins close to large) attractively tied by First Allocation BN '64' of Hobart Town with oval 'PAID/23DE23/1853' country letter d/s in red (LRD), Launceston arrival backstamp of the next day. A superb classic cover! GSTex GSTSymbolCGradea+ View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$4,600StatusSold Lot #1528 1857 (May) cover to Scotland "Per Simla/Overland Mail" with Large Star 4d x2 (both with margins just clear to good) paying double the ship letter rate, Liverpool tombstone arrival d/s of AU22/1857 in red, ironed-out horizontal fold affects the upper unit. SymbolCGrade(b) View details Estimate$250Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #1529 1858 (Dec 31) outer with Imperf 2d green (3 large margins) & 4d pale blue untidily cancelled, 'PRE-PAID/31DE31/1858' cds in red of Hobart & similar boxed arrival b/s of Launceston on 1JA1/1859, minor blemishes. The 6d inland letter rate is quite scarce. It ended on 31/12/1858, the date of this cover. GSTex GSTSymbolCGradeb View details Estimate$250Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #1530 1886 cover to Scottsdale with scarce albeit philatelic franking of Didefaces 2d unauthorised bisect tied by BN '115' of 'ELLESMERE' (cds alongside). SymbolCGradea View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot #1531 ENVELOPES: 1898 Sideface 2d "IN DENISON GORGE NEAR LAUNCESTON", very fine unused; also 2d "MOUNT KING WILLIAM FROM THE WEST" & 2½d "MOUNT KING WILLIAM" (& lake) both a trifle aged, unused. Only 312 complete sets were printed by Waterlows. Among the most beautiful postal stationery ever issued. (3) SymbolpsGradea/a- View details Estimate$400Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #1532 POSTMARKS: Star Wmk Chalons 2d x3 (one with a poor Barred Numeral, possibly '66') & 4d x4, various manuscript cancels including "12"-in-bars, Cat £1800. Bargain estimate! (7) SymbolO View details Estimate$200Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #1533 Mint blocks comprising Naish ½d pink SG 296 upper-left corner block of 10 (5x2) & 3d bistre-yellow SG 361 lower-left corner block of 12 (3x4), and Astley 1d green SG 312a block of 20 (4x5) & 6d blue SG 365 marginal block of 8 (4x2), a few minor problems but generally very fine, large-part to full o.g. with many units being unmounted, Cat £930++ (as mounted singles). A rare & very attractive group. (4 blocks) GSTex GSTSymbol**/*Gradea/a- View details Estimate$1,200Price Realized$1,700StatusSold Lot #1535 Commercial perfins collection on stocksheets from 'A/& Co' (unknown) to 'WH/B' (WH Blackham) including many scarce & some unusual patterns, some minor duplication, also 'BS/&Co' on Beath Schiess illustrated advertising front, plus revenues with 'CANCELLED' perfin on 2/6d red, 'JULES RENARD & CO' & 'BEATH SCHIESS' h/s on 3/- drab, & Beath Schiess embossing on 1/6d rosine, condition variable. (110+) GSTex GSTSymboloc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #1536 Heavy stockbook with some useful items including a presentable group of mostly defective Imperfs, a few useful Laureates & other middle period, 1900 mint 5/- x2, 1901-12 used to 5/- x3, Postage Dues Blue & Claret 2/- * and Scarlet & Green 5/- CTO, etc, also an album with a very ordinary postmarks collection, & a bundle of covers with a few advertising types including illustrated for Stott & Hoare (Remington Typewriters), & 1912 to USA with stamps of the six States, condition rather mixed. (many SymbolsΔc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #1537 1850-59 Half-Lengths Ham Second State of the Dies with More Colour above 'VICTORIA' 1d red-brown SG 5, margins good to large, a little soiled & rebacked, unused, Cat £8500. Gary Diffen has advised that only four unused examples are recorded. His fine example sold in November 2007 for £6815. GSTex GSTSymbolΩGrade(b) View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #1538 1850-59 Half-Lengths Ham Second State of the Dies (Fine Border but Coarse Background) 2d grey-lilac SG 6 horizontal strip of 5 [26-30] with virtually full margins (just touching at right & at the top of the second unit), the fourth unit with a tiny natural aeration hole at the top, five largely superb strikes of Butterfly '15' cancel of Geelong, Cat £1000+++. A marvellous item for the connoisseur, and the finer of only two recorded strips of 5 (the largest recorded multiples). Ex Lee, George Bou GSTex GSTSymbolfGradea-/a+ View details Estimate$20,000Price Realized$32,000StatusSold Lot #1539 1850-59 Half-Lengths Ham Third State of the Dies (Framelines Added) 1d dull orange-vermilion SG 8 Abnormal Pair [5-28], margins just touching - at the base of the second unit - to large with a fragment of the adjoining unit at upper-left, minor wrinkling, bold Barred Oval '1' cancels of Melbourne, Cat £1300+. A very rare multiple: Gary Diffen had no such "abnormals". RPSofV Certificate (2014). GSTex GSTSymbolgGradea- View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold Lot #1540 1850-59 Half-Lengths Ham Vertical Drapes 2d brown-lilac SG 16b [15] with small sans serif 'SPECIMEN' handstamp (KTM Type 10), faults but of reasonable appearance, Cat £4250 unused. Rare. Ex Rodney Perry. RPSofV Certificate (2014). [Kellow, Turner & McCredie state that only 3 sets of obsolete stamps were provided with this handstamp. One set is in the Royal Collection, and the Purves set was destroyed in a bushfire, making this stamp the only example in private hands] GSTex GSTSymbolΩGraded View details Estimate$250Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #1541 1850-59 Half-Lengths Campbell & Co 1d orange-red SG 23, margins close to huge, small fault & associated repair at lower-right, unused, Cat £2500. RPSofV Certificate (2014). Despite the repair, this is one of the most attractive unused Half-Lengths we have offered. GSTex GSTSymbolΩGrade(a-) View details Estimate$750Price Realized$575StatusSold Lot #1542 1854-59 Shilling Octagonal 1/- blue SG 25/a with Retouch below 'IL' of 'SHILLING', three margins with fragments of two adjoining units; and 1859 Perf 12 by Robinson 1/- blue SG 81/a with the same retouch, a few short perfs. Ex Geoff Kellow & Michael Silvasich. RPSofV Certificate (2008) for the Perf 12 stamp. SymboloGradeb/a- View details Estimate$300Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1543 1854-59 Shilling Octagonal 1859 Perf 12 by Robinson 1/- blue with Defective 'SH---LING' SG 81var, well centred, a couple of tiny natural aeration holes, Melbourne duplex. A quite dramatic transfer flaw. GSTex GSTSymbolfGradea View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot #1544 1854-73 Woodblocks Experimental Separations 6d orange with Serpentine Roulettes at the top & lower-left otherwise cut from the sheet to preserve the design, tied to late-1857 cover to Rutland by BN '1' of Melbourne (b/s), very fine Leicester transit of JA13/1857 (error for 1858) & 'ROCKINGHAM/JA14/58' arrival cds on the face, light allover soiling. A very rare franking of SG 58. SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot #1545 1850-59 Half-Lengths 1859 Perf 12 by Robinson 3d blue SG 78 [14], characteristic wayward centring, a couple of short perfs but otherwise very fine, unused, Cat £1800. RPSofV Certificate (2014). [Most unused examples have significant faults] GSTex GSTSymbolΩGradea- View details Estimate$3,000StatusUnsold Lot #1546 1850-59 Half-Lengths 1859 Perf 12 by Robinson 3d greenish blue SG 79, '1'-in-bars "killer" cancel, Cat £425. GSTex GSTSymbolfGradea View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot #1547 1860-66 Beaded Ovals Laid Paper 3d light blue SG 88a, large-part o.g., unpriced unused or used. Rare. BPA Certificate (1975) states "the original gum has been redistributed". Geoff Kellow at page 130 states "The majority of the issue was in a deep blue shade...A small portion of one delivery was in a distinctive light blue shade. This is a very rare stamp of which only two unused copies are known". GSTex GSTSymbol*Gradea View details Estimate$4,000Price Realized$3,400StatusSold Lot #1548 1860-66 Beaded Ovals Watermark Value in Words 3d pale blue SG 90 with Void Corner at Upper-Left, remarkably well centred, lightly stained from the original "blackboy" gum, unused, Cat £225++. A rare variety in unused condition: an example is illustrated by Geoff Kellow at page 132. GSTex GSTSymbolΩGradeb View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #1549 1867 Laureates V/Crown Perf 13 8d lilac brown/pink as SG 137 but in a very deep shade, Melbourne duplex cancel. Rare. With three normal shades for comparison. [Geoff Kellow at page 173 states that about 8 used examples in a very deep shade are recorded. Les Molnar was renowned for finding many unlisted or under-appreciated Victorian stamps. We consider it is very telling that he had no example of this stamp] (4) GSTex GSTSymbolfGradea View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot #1550 1867 Laureates 1867-70 Emergency Printings on Tasmanian Paper with Double-Lined Numerals 6d blue with Watermark '4' SG 159 [9, with Double Strike of 'VICTORIA'], irregular perfs, unused, Cat £275++. A scarce variety, especially in the Emergency Printings, and moreso unused. GSTex GSTSymbolΩGradea- View details Estimate$500Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #1551 1867 Laureates 1867-70 Emergency Printings with Watermark Value in Words 6d blue with Watermark 'THREE/PENCE' SG 165, tiny blemishes, unused, Cat £400. Under-rated. Geoff Kellow at page 169 states "This is a rare stamp unused". GSTex GSTSymbolΩGradeb View details Estimate$500Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #1552 1873-87 Designs by William Bell 2/- unfinished die proof with blank value tablet at lower-left in purple-black on thin paper reduced to stamp-size & affixed to a somewhat larger piece of thin card (53x54mm) that is endorsed below "appd by PMG/21.10.74/M", a couple of trifling blemishes & two pinholes at the top where the proof was previously affixed to an official file. One of the most important items in the Bell series. [Illustrated by Geoff Kellow at the lower-left of page 199, accompanied by GSTex GSTSymbolPGradea- View details Estimate$9,000Price Realized$9,000StatusSold Lot #1553 1880-96 Two Pence study of the Naish & Astley designs on anotated pages, the Astley material on JRW Purves' pages, some mint blocks & a few singles with the Watermark Sideways. Potential for further development. (100s) GSTex GSTSymbol*o View details Estimate$360Price Realized$270StatusSold Lot #1554 1882-84 Naish Wmk 33 2d chocolate Perf 12 SG 210ab, an unusually large example with an official repair at the base, indistinct numeral cancel, Cat £425. GSTex GSTSymbolfGradea View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot #1555 1884-1900 Large Stamp Duty Typo Perf 12½ 2/6d orange-yellow, 3/- drab, 4/- orange, 6/- pea green & 10/- grey-green plus Perf 13 5/- claret/yellow, each with 'Specimen.' handstamp, minor imperfections, large-part o.g. (6) Symbol*Gradea/b View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #1556 1884-1900 Ultra-High Values Recess Wmk '33' £25 deep green SG 283b, £50 black-violet SG 284a & £100 aniline crimson with the Watermark Upright SG 285c (minor perf stains caused by the regumming) GSTex GSTSymbolΩGradea/a- View details Estimate$50,000StatusUnsold Lot #1557 1905-13 Crown/A ½d, 1d (2, one marginal), 2d reddish violet, 2½d, 3d (3, two are marginal) & 6d blocks of 4, large-part o.g. with many units being unmounted. (10 blocks) Symbol*/**Gradea View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot #1558 1905-13 Crown/A Perf 11 1d rose-red as SG 434a but each unit overprinted with heavy parallel bars BW #V45c lower-left corner block of 30 (6x5), full unmounted o.g., Cat $750++. [Prepared for coil machine trials] GSTex GSTSymbol**Gradea View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot #1559 POSTAGE DUES: 1890-94 Blue & Claret ½d to 5/- set SG D1-10, large-part o.g., Cat £475. (10) Symbol*Gradea b1 View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot #1560 REVENUES: A rather scrappy group with a few better values including Stamp Statute £1 & £5 (pen cancellation largely removed), Stamp Duty 1/- ultramarine mint, £1/5/- pen cancelled, etc, selection of low denominations on receipts, condition variable. (62 + receipts) Symbol*o View details Estimate$200Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #1561 1841 entire letter headed "Craigie Burn Port Phillip/10th June 1841" & signed "Daniel MacKenzie" to Scotland with a legible strike of the scarce octagonal 'MELBOURNE/PAID' h/s in red & fine ovoid 'MELBOURNE/[crown]/ JU*24/184-/NEW.S.WALES' (reversed day '4' & year '1' absent as always during 1841), British 'SHIP-LETTER' h/s on the flap & superb Edinburgh arrival b/s of DEC/21/1841 in red, some soiling & internal reinforcing with archival tape. [Daniel Mackenzie was a prominent early settler whos GSTex GSTSymbolcGrade(b) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1562 1851 entire letter to Geelong with a very fine example of Ham's Second State (More Colour above 'VICTORIA') 1d pale red-brown SG 5 tied - unusual for Half-Length covers - by very fine Butterfly '1' of Melbourne GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea View details Estimate$6,000StatusUnsold Lot #1563 1854 large-part stampless entire headed "Bendigo June the 15 1854" & signed "James R Davis", to "Newbedford/ Massechusetts", very fine oval 'SANDHURST/[crown]/JU*17/1854/VICTORIA' d/s on the face & Melbourne b/s, Liverpool transit b/s & part-'BOSTON/OCT/13/BR.PKT' b/s, rated "8" at Liverpool but that crossed through & endorsed "32 Cents" also with American '37' h/s all on the face, rather soiled on the face & internal reinforcing. Sandhurst renamed from Bendigo Creek 1/1/1854; renamed Bendigo 18 GSTex GSTSymbolcGradec View details Estimate$250Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #1564 1855 stampless OHMS part-entire to the Postmaster General with postmaster's endorsement "Lockwood PO/May 22 55" at lower-left, Melbourne arrival b/s & Butterfly '14' in red as a receiving mark, minor blemishes. Lockwood (2) PO opened c.-/2/1855 but some 3 months later, apparently had still not received a datestamp or numeral. The letter states "I...request that two small mail bags be forwarded to this office for the use of Sandhurst & Lockwood Mails...A Inglis/PS The horse which carried the miss SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$450StatusUnsold Lot #1565 1868 (Aug 15) complete edition of the folio-size "The Illustrated Australian News" sub-titled "For Home Readers/ Published Expressly for Transmission by RMS Geelong", addressed to Wiltshire and with a 1d Laureate tied by Melbourne "killer" cancel, minor peripheral defects but quite fine for such an item. A rare survivor that would make a handsome framed exhibit. SymbolcxGradeb View details Estimate$150Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #1566 1883 'MONEY ORDER' blue/blue form with very fine 23mm 'MO & SB/GEELONG' cds & largely fine 'MO & SB/FITZROY' cds in blue, pinholes at upper-left & two minor repaired spikeholes. A very rare item of Post Office stationery: see Dave Elsmore's article on similar Queensland MOs in "The Informer" (April 2013). [The Geelong cds is the later of only two recorded strikes; the Fitzroy cds is the earliest of only three] SymbolcGrade(a-) View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #1567 REGISTRATION LABELS: Two volume collection of mostly blue on white types but including a good number of "reds" & many blue/black types, some provisionals & Rat's Tail varieties, noted 'YARRAWEYAH' (for 'YARROWEYAH') spelling error. A good basis for expansion. (100s) Symbolo View details Estimate$300Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #1568 Bundle of registered WWII Military Post Office covers including from Darby No 1, Dhurringile, Foster No 1, Geelong No 1 (2, different cds), Gherang, Ivanhoe, Mangalore, Rowville, six different Seymours, Torquay & Wangaratta etc, plus a few unregistered including from Lysterfield Hills & Mornington (PPC with 'RELIEF/No 8' cds), some mostly minor toning. A very difficult group to assemble. (27) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #1569 1968-76 philatelic covers unaddressed or self-addressed by John Bell including from 'BULLA' SDL (rated RRRR), 'BYADUK/VIC-3285', "FRASER" with quotation marks!, 'INVERGORDON NORTH' with 'INVERGORDON' label, 'LONE PINE', 'MERRIJIG' SDL, 1951 'CIC MILDURA', 'MIRRIMBAH' SDL, 'MORWELL UPPER', 'PEECHELBA EAST', 'SEAHOLME __' (area code removed, SDL), 'SPECIMEN HILL' & also fitted with SDL including from 'COOMA', 'JEERALANG JUNCTION' & 'PINE LODGE', 'YARROWEYAH' SDL etc, several record dates, some fr SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$500Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #1570 1935-47 philatelic covers from 'INDENTED HEAD', 'LORNE NORTH' & 'OAKLEIGH SOUTH' each with provisional labels (the first two both with 'No 001'), and non-registered from 'ASCOT VALE WEST W2' & 'TOTTENHAM EAST W12', all cancelled on the Opening Day of the offices. (5) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot #1571 1967 covers to a radio station competition mostly from central Victoria & southern NSW POs including CDS fitted with SDL 'COOMA' (Vic), 'DUNBULBALANE', 'GOBUR', 'GOULBURN WEIR', 'LOCKSLEY', 'MOGLONEMBY' & 'YABBA NORTH' etc, also noted 'MOLYULLAH/VIC-AUST', lots of duplication including of scarce types. (500 approx) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$200Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #1572 Collection mostly on KGV values on piece with many scarce to rare items including double-oval 'POST OFFICE/ASCOT VALE' (rated RRRR), 27mm 'BOLTON' (RR), 'FAWCETT' (RR), 'GUY'S FOREST' (RRRR), 27mm 'HATTAH' (the ERD of only 2 strikes recorded), 'HOTHAM HEIGHTS', 'JEERALANG', 'PELLA', 'ST BERNARD HOSPICE' (ERD; RO period), 'YEODENE' etc. (100s) SymbolsΔ View details Estimate$500Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #1573 Untidy collection in two albums but lots of better KGV-KGVI period material noted including 'BARWIDGEE SETTLEMENT' (rated RR), 'BETHANGA BRIDGE' (previously unrecorded; open 10 months only), superb 'BLACK LEAD' (RRR), 'BOOMAHNOOMOONAH' (RR), double-oval 'MONEY ORDER/CASTLEMAINE' (RRR), oval 'POST OFFICE/CHELTENHAM S22' (RRR), 'CHIRRUP' (RRR), 'C'WEALTH OFFICES', 'ECHUCA VILLAGE' (RR), 'EVELYN' (LRD; RRRR), 'GEELONG (FORD'S WORKS)' (RR), 'PO GOULD' (RR), boxed 'MOO/KYNETON', 'RYNABY', boxed 'MONE SymbolsΔ View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,800StatusSold Lot #1574 Single volume collection of Barred Numerals including duplexes & pre-1913 cds, no rarities noted but there are numerous fine to superb strikes, many are on piece. (many 100s) SymbolsΔ View details Estimate$250Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #1575 Small box of stampless late-1959 OHMS pieces with a duplicated array of mostly Victorian cds including 'MO ARMADALE' LDL (rated RRRRR), 'ASHBURTON SE11' WWW #50B (RRRR), 'MONEY ORDER/BENALLA' SDL (RRRR), 'BOWSER/VIC-AUST' (RRRR), 'COBURG NORTH N14' (RRRR), 'EVERTON' SDL (RRR), 'McKAY CREEK', 'MO MARKET SQ GEELONG' LRD (later of only two recorded), 'PEECHELBA EAST/VIC' SDL (LRD) & 'PEECHELBA EAST/VIC-AUST' (ERD; narrowing the changeover from 5 years to 16 days!), etc, strikes are generally fine t SymbolΔ View details Estimate$200Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #1576 Shoebox of mostly 1938-40 covers to the "Bendigo Advertiser" including about a dozen Press Parcel envelopes, cds include 'AXEDALE', 'BAGSHOT', 'BROOMFIELD', 'EMU CREEK', 'FOSTERVILLE', 'HARCOURT NORTH', 'JANIEMBER EAST', 'KNOWSLEY', 'LEICHARDT', 'McINTYRES', 'OMBERSLEY', 'PINEGROVE', 'SEDGWICK', 'SUTTON GRANGE', 'WILD DUCK CREEK/VIC' & '.../VIC.-AUST.', 'WOODSTOCK-ON-LODDON' etc, condition a bit mixed. (250+) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #1577 Butterfly '1' of Melbourne, and Barred Ovals '3' (rated R) of Williamstown on horizontal pair, '5' of Bendigo Creek, '18' of Portland, '34' (R) of Horsham & '37' of Castlemaine, all on 6d orange Woodblocks with full margins, the last of which is an enormous marginal stamp from the top of the sheet, Cat £133++. A desirable group. (6 items) SymbolsGradea/b View details Estimate$150Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #1578 Range all on the 1927 1½d Canberra with many scarce/rare markings including 'ARNOLD RS' (rated RR), 'BARING' (RR; ERD), 'BRIT BRIT' (RR; ERD), 'BUCKLAND LOWER' (RR), 'FOSTER NOR[TH]' (RRR), 'GOWANFORD' (RR; ERD & in violet), 'KAMAROOKA EAST', superb 'LE ROY', 'McINTYRES', 'MT BUTE' with arcs (ERD), 'NINE MILE', 'STRATH-ALLAN', 'TATONG' with 3mm arcs (recorded 1924-1929 only), 'TOWAN', 'VASEY', 'WAGANT', 'WOODSTOCK WEST', etc, mostly good to very fine strikes. (120) Symbols View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot #1579 Fake Cancels group comprising 'VICTORIA'-in-Bars x3, forged English Mail TPO duplex, & various Melbourne duplexes on Stamp Statute values to 5/- & a few Stamp Duty including £8 red/yellow on linen-backed piece. (16) Symbolo View details Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot #1580 Collection in 64pp Leuchtturm stockbook with strength in the KGV Period, no howling rarities noted but lots of scarce strikes & numerous closed offices represented including 'AERODROME ESSENDON W6' (Opening Day of Post Office), 'BUNDALONG', 'CARINA', 1953 'ESSENDON AIRPORT W6' (rated RRRR), 'LOCKSLEY', first type 'MERRINEE', 'MOOLORT', etc (600+); also an array of mostly rubber modern types again including many scarce items (450+); the strikes are generally fine to superb. (1000+) SymbolsΔ View details Estimate$300Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #1581 Border Post: very fine unframed oval 'BORDER POST/[crown]/MA*12/1853/VICTORIA' across the flap on entire from Melbourne to "Border Inn" with Queen-on-Throne 2d (surface fault). Renamed from Munro's Inn c.-/12/1849; renamed Lindsay (1) on 1/1/1854. SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$100Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #1582 Bromley: 'BROMLEY/-AU27/[V]IC' almost fine strike on 1½d Canberra. Rated RRRR. Renamed from Burnt Creek 1/2/1885; closed 30/6/1942. [Goldfields; 4km SE of Dunolly] SymbolsGradea b2 View details Estimate$100Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1583 Carboor: 'CARBOOR/12DE59/VIC' very fine strike in violet. Rated RRRRR: the first non-archival example recorded. TO only c.1913; closed 11/9/1967. The other details in WWW are wrong: a very rare error indeed in this work. [19km SW of Myrtleford] SymbolΔGradea a1 View details Estimate$150Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #1584 Deep Lead Railway Camp: 'DEEP LEAD RLY CAMP/9JE34/VIC' virtually full strike on KGV 2d red. An exciting new discovery & by far the superior of the two recorded examples. Rated RRRRR. PO c.1933; closed 3/8/1934. [Central Highlands, 15km NW of Stawell] SymbolsGradea a2 View details Estimate$400Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot #1585 Dondangadale: 'DONDANGADALE/5JL27/VIC' (ERD) very fine strike on 1½d Canberra. Rated RRR. RO 24/6/1922; PO 1/7/1927; renamed Dandongadale (seriously!) on 28/6/1943. [28km SSW of Myrtleford] SymbolsGradea a2 View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot #1586 Dutson: 'DUTSON/20MY27/[VIC]' (LRD) largely very fine strike on 1½d Canberra. Unrecorded by Watson Webster & Wood: the later of only 2 recorded examples - & the only one in the Post Office period - so rated RRRRR. PO 5/11/1889; RO 20/8/1919; PO 1/7/1927; TO 31/12/1927; closed 11/4/1961. [Gippsland: 13km ESE of Sale] SymbolsGradea a2- View details Estimate$250Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #1587 Goon Nure North: 'GOON NURE NORTH/27SE37/VIC.' very fine strike on Boxsell cover with red 'GOON NURE' registration label amended by hand. Rated RRRR. PO 19/2/1929 when Goon Nure was downgraded to a TO; closed 31/12/1939, & from 1/1/1940 Goon Nure was again upgraded to a PO. [Gippsland; 13km WSW of Bairnsdale] SymbolcGradea a1 View details Estimate$150Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #1588 Hotham Heights: 'HOTHAM HEIGHTS/23MY25/VIC.' (ERD by 5 years) superb strike on KGV 1½d red perf 'OS'. Telegraph Office only 1/9/1926; closed c.1970. Apparently it was open at least 16 months earlier, perhaps as a Receiving Office. [Australian Alps 11km SE of Harrietville] SymbolΔGradea a1+ View details Estimate$150Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #1589 Kalimna: 'KALIMNA/2OC67/VIC-AUST' (SDL) fine strike on Tatts cover with typed provisional registration label. Rated RRRR; recorded 1962 to 1969 only. RO c.1902; PO 1/7/1927; closed 30/4/1970. [Gippsland: 2km W of Lakes Entrance] SymbolcGradea a1- View details Estimate$150Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #1590 Koorooman: 'KOOROOMAN/JA6/88/VICTORIA' legible strike on defective cover, 2d with partial 'MD/92' cancel (unrated, but rare before the name change). The earlier of only two recorded examples. PO 1/10/1887; renamed Leongatha 1/6/1891. [Gippsland] SymbolcGradec c1 View details Estimate$100Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #1591 Lyons: 'LYONS/17JE58/[VIC]' (TO period) largely very fine strike on QE 4d claret. The first example recorded: rated RRRRR. PO 5/10/1889; TO 15/7/1918; closed 5/7/1971. Prior to this recent discovery, the cds was known only from archival strikes with SDL. [20km NW of Heywood] SymbolΔGradeb a2- View details Estimate$200Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1592 Melbourne: Large stockbook with an extensive collection from early duplexes to 1912 with a high percentage on piece & numerous excellent strikes throughout; also a group of covers with early machine cancels. Lots of "bang for your buck". (many 100s) SymbolsΔc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #1593 Melbourne: oval 'L.C.9/MY21/1885' superb strike on face of locally addressed Postal Card also with boxed 'UNCLAIMED AT/MELBOURNE' h/s. Rare Letter Carrier usage: see Philately from Australia of March 2014 at pp7-12. SymbolpsGradea a1+ View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold Lot #1594 Perry Bridge: 26mm 'PERRY BRIDGE/20MY20/VIC' almost fine strike on KGV 1½d brown on Shierlaw front to Adelaide. A new discovery & the only recorded example. PO 10/12/1879; closed 30/4/1956. [Gippsland: 16km E of Stratford] SymbolcGradea b1- View details Estimate$125Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #1595 Prooinga: 'PROOINGA/2JY27/VIC' largely very fine strike on 1½d Canberra. Only four strikes recorded. RO 15/12/1922; PO 1/7/1927; TO 1/1/1941; closed 28/2/1958. [Mallee: 14km ENE of Manangatang] SymbolsGradea a2- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1596 Willah: 'WILLAH/6JY27/VIC' almost very fine strike on 1½d Canberra. The first example recorded. RO 8/9/1926; PO 1/7/1927; closed 5/10/1934. [Mallee: near Red Cliffs] SymbolsGradea- a2- View details Estimate$150Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #1597 Wonyip: 'R.O. WONYIP/3AU32/VIC' (LRD before the 'RO' was removed) almost very fine strike on KGV 2d red. RO 5/11/1905; PO 1/7/1927; TO 16/2/1968; closed 30/6/1970. As a class 'R.O.' datestamps are rare; particular examples moreso. [Gippsland: 25km E of Yarram] SymbolΔGradea b1- View details Estimate$150Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #1598 Yarroweyah: mss "Yarroweyah/13 9 05" on 1d pink. SymbolsGradea- a1 View details Estimate$50Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1599 Extensive collection from 'A.1 MINE SETTLEMENT' to 'YARRA JUNCTION' with numerous closed offices including 'ANCONA/VICTORIA', 'ASCOT VALE CENTRAL W.2' (rated RRRR), 'BAMBILL' (RRR), 'CHARLEROI' (RRR), '__ DROUIN SOUTH' ('TO' Removed; RR), 'GOULBURN WEIR' (RR), 'HANSONVILLE', 'HARCOURT NORTH', 'KNOTT'S SIDING', 'LYONVILLE RAIL', 'PUCKAPUNYAL TOWN', 'ROCKLANDS DAM', 'WALLACEDALE' etc & some rare suburban types, many record dates, many blue/black labels,some minor duplication. (500 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$2,500Price Realized$2,600StatusSold Lot #1600 Extensive collection the companion lot all with scarce to rare red/white labels including from 'BALD ROCK' (rated RR), 'COONGULMERANG' (RR), 'HIGH CAMP PLAIN', 'LEONGATHA SOUTH', 'LOWER CAPE BRIDGEWATER' (philatelic), 'MUCKLEFORD RLY STN', 'UPPER SANDY CREEK' & 'WESTERN CAMP' etc. A very desirable lot. (48) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot #1601 Extensive collection the companion lot all from suburban offices including 'AERODROME ESSENDON W6' (rated RR), 'ASCOT VALE CENTRAL W2' (RRRR), 'BONBEACH/VIC' (RRR), 'BRUNSWICK NORTH N10' LDL (RRR) & SDL (RR), 'CAMP PELL N2' (RR), 'COATESVILLE SE15' (RRRR), 'CROSS KEYS' (RR), 'DOUTTA GALLA' (RR), 'ELGAR PARK' (RR), 'ELIZABETH ST MELBOURNE/RS/ 4 /VIC-AUST' (previously unrecorded), 'ELSTERNWICK EAST' (RRRR), 'GLENHUNTLY SE9' #20B (RRRR), 'HAMPTON EAST S7', 'HAWKSBURN SE2' #20A & 30A, 'HEIDELBERG HE SymbolC View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #1602 Extensive collection the companion lot of all-different "special purpose" cds or rubber datestamps with Money Orders & Telegraph Office types etc, includes previously unrecorded unframed 'MONEY ORDER/BALWYN. E.8.' & double-oval 'POST OFFICE/ULTIMA, VIC.'. Very scarce mostly irregular usages. (20) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1603 Provisional registration labels mostly with manuscript endorsements, plus some handstamped or typewritten, cds include 'ANDERSON RS' (rated RR), 'AYRFORD___' (RR), 'BARINGHUP WEST' (RR), superb 'BENLOCH' (RR), 'BOGONG' (RR), 'DEEP LEAD' (RR), 'DOCTORS FLAT' (R), 'DOUTTA GALLA' (RR), 'EZARDS MILLS' (RR), 'GRASSDALE' (RR), 'HESKET STATE SCHOOL with Inverted Dateline (RRR), 'HOMEBUSH', 'HOTHAM HILL', 'HUNTERSTON', 'INGLISTON', 'KEELY RAIL', 'KELVIN VIEW', 'KNOTTS SIDING', 'KULWIN', 'LABERTOUCHE', ' Symbolc View details Estimate$800Price Realized$3,100StatusSold Lot #1604 Provisional registration labels companion lot of philatelic covers mostly self-addressed by John Bell including from 'BARONGAROOK WEST' (rated RRR), 'LIMA' SDL, 1941 'MARRAWEENEY' with label 'No 1', 'MOOROOPNA NORTH' SDL, 'MYWEE' SDL, 'PEECHELBA TOWN', 'YUNDOOL' SDL, etc (24) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$150Price Realized$460StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...4567891011|Next1234567891011 Previous 1234567891011 Next Previous 1234567891011 Next
