Stamps and Postal History (#47MG) 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 1-10 of 173. Previous|12345678...18|Next Lot #62 1886 usage of 1d Postal Card to Prussia uprated with DLR 2d orange x3 tied by 'HAWKER/MA12/86/SA' cds, 'RAILWAY/SA' squared-circle transit b/s, German 'T'-in-triangle h/s & mss "80" (pf) in blue, docketing on the face & reinforced corner bends. Pre-UPU, postcards could be sent overseas only at the letter rate, which was 8½d to Germany, so underpaid 1½d. SymbolpsGrade(b) View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #98 1841 (early) part-entire to Scotland signed "David Ogilvy" with an unusually fine strike of the rounded-boxed 'MELBOURNE/PAID' h/s in red & largely fine strike of the rare undated 'MELBOURNE/NSW' h/s on the flap, straight-line 'SHIP LETTER' b/s in red & Edinburgh arrival b/s of 'AUG/10/1841', minor soiling. Only about 15 examples of Melbourne's first handstamp are recorded. The 'MELBOURNE/PAID' h/s is almost as elusive. [The writer speaks of the pattern of land sales near Melbourne & states "The SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot #99 1847 lengthy cross-written entire letter headed "Melbourne 7th April 1847" & signed "Thomas Lowe", to London endorsed "From No 1998 Corporal Thomas Lowe 58th Regt" & countersigned by Captain Murray (?) at lower-left, rated "1" in red for a soldier's or sailor's letter, light 'SHIP LETTER/[crown]/AP 10/1847/MELBOURNE' d/s in red on the flap, London arrival b/s in red across the flap & rated "2" for an incoming soldier's letter, overall soiling. A very significant item, being one of only three Im SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$10,000StatusUnsold Lot #100 1848 lengthy entire letter headed "Waranooke - River Richardson/31 Dec 1848" & signed "Henry Nicoll" to England, prepaid with a light but largely fine strike of the 'GEELONG/JANY 1/1849.' provisional handstamp in red on the reverse (unfortunately overstruck with the London transit b/s also in red), rated "3" in red for a single shipletter & "8" in black payable by the recipient of an inwards shipletter. A great rarity. Ex Tony Rigo de Righi (1982) & Brian Peace. The early datestamps had the ye GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$3,000StatusUnsold Lot #101 1854 envelope to Switzerland "per via de Madras" with Half-Length 3d blue SG 11 block of 4 (trimmed at the top, the lower units are both very fine) with two superb strikes of Barred Oval '1' & 'MELBOURNE/MY29E/ 1854/VICTORIA' d/s unusually on the face, superb strike of the Anglo-French 'COLONIES/&c ART 13' h/s in red overstruck with Calais TPO cds, various rate indicators, 'NEUCHATEL' arrival b/s in blue, minor blemishes. The third-earliest Victorian cover to Switzerland as per Ben Palmer's Cens SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$3,000Price Realized$2,300StatusSold Lot #102 1854 lengthy largely cross-written entire letter headed "St Kilda 6mo13 54" - an unusual configuration! - & signed "Lucy B", to Yorkshire with oval 'PAID/JU30/1854/MELBOURNE' & rated "1/-" in red, London b/s of DE12/1854 & rated "2/-", very fine 'WAKEFIELD' arrival b/s of the same date in blue, minor blemishes. Ex Rod Moreton: on his display page. [The first page of the entire is a printed advertisement for 'HOME EDUCATION/St Kilda/MRS BIRCHALL' (presumably "Lucy B"), being very early postal ad SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #103 1854 small stampless cover to France with mss "1/-" for postage paid & sensational crowned-oval 'CRESWICKS CK/[crown]/SE*25/1854/VICTORIA' b/s (ERD), London transit b/s of '2JA2/1855' & superb boxed 'COLONIES/&c ART 13' accountancy h/s both in red, French '15' (decimes) h/s & 'ECOMMOY' arrival b/s, a couple of very minor blemishes. Ex Trevor Davis. Per "Lady Jocelyn" - the second of only five contract voyages - via South Pacific, Cape Horn & Trans-Atlantic to London. [Creswick's Creek, a goldmin SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$600Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #104 1855 entire stampless letter in French headed "Melbourne 11 Mai 1855" & signed "Ed Chrétien", apparently carried privately to Mauritius "p Reliance", no Victorian postmarks, '[crown]/MAURITIUS/JY9/1855/=GPO=' arrival d/s & very fine 'Late Received' h/s (Proud #I7). Not listed in Ben Palmer's Census: he lists 10 items to Mauritius to June 1856, all of which are stampless. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot #105 1856 (Jan 30) double-rate entire letter to Scotland "Per Hellespont/via Singapore" with Woodblock 6d x2 (3½ or full margins) tied by superb BN '1' of Melbourne (b/s), London transit b/s of 4MY4/1856 where smudged 'MORE/TO/PAY' h/s & mss "8" applied to the face, superb Edinburgh arrival b/s in red. Carried per "Hellespont", departed 18/2/1856, via the Indian Ocean & arrived Singapore 16/3/1856; then per P&O Norna" to Galle; "Bombay" to Suez; & "Pera", arriving Southampton 4/5/1856. During the Cr SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$2,000StatusUnsold Lot #106 1858 quadruple rate outer with very fine 'SANDY CREEK/[crown]/AP*9/1858/VICTORIA' oval b/s & extraordinary franking of Woodblocks Imperf 6d orange block of 6 - faults, but the largest recorded block of this stamp - cancelled in pen "Registered/(62)" but otherwise uncancelled, to Scotland "Per RM Ship Victoria", oval 'REGISTERED/ 21JU58/LONDON' d/s in red & 'd6' h/s - for the British registration fee - on the face, very fine Glasgow arrival b/s. Despite the problems, a dramatic and important cove SymbolclGradec View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...18|Next123456789101112131415161718 Previous 123456789101112131415161718 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718 Next
