VICTORIA: featuring Max Watson’s Franks & Les Molnar’s TPOs (#135MG) 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 141-150 of 492. Previous|1...131415161718...50|Next Lot #141 POSTAL HISTORY - DEAD LETTER OFFICE: Returned Letter Envelopes Codes 'A' 'B' 'W' (with light 'DLB___/REGISTERED' h/s) & 'X', 1865 'Returned Free Letter' with 'Free' Barred-Out, three covers each with semi-circle 'RECEIVED OPEN/DLB/ VICTORIA' h/s in rosine, 1875 & 1883 covers each resealed with 'DEAD LETTER BRANCH/[crown]/ GPO/VICTORIA' seal impressed in red wax, 1869 with double-oval 'OPENED/ DLB /TO ASCERTAIN ADDRESS' b/s (not previously seen by us), 1872 piece from GB wrapper with superb boxed SymbolCPS View details Quantity18Estimate$850Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #142 POSTAL HISTORY - DEAD LETTER OFFICE: Range of Returned Letter Envelopes inscribed 'Returned Free Letter' Code 'W' (1866; 'Free' barred-out), 'RETURNED PAID LETTER' (1853), 'Returned Paid Letter' Code 'X' (1865, 'Paid' barred-out), 'RETURNED LETTER' Code 'A' (1898), Code 'B' (1894 & 1909, different printings), Code 'C' (1893), Code 'E' (1895), Code 'U' (1879), Code 'W' (1876 & 1878, different printings) & Code 'X' (1879), 'RETURNED LETTER/REGISTERED' Code 'T' (1887), 'RETURNED MORE TO PAY LETTER' SymbolPS View details Quantity16Estimate$2,000StatusUnsold Lot #143 POSTAL HISTORY - DEAD LETTER OFFICE: Returned Letter Envelopes Code 'W' (265x113mm, 1872 & 1883 printings with different settings) with light but clear strikes of the scarce boxed 'DLO___PB___/REGISTERED' h/s in green (not previously seen by us & the only other example known to us is in Lot 281065) or purple (with 'PB' excised). A rare pair. (2) SymbolPSGradeA-/B View details Quantity2Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot #144 POSTAL HISTORY - GOLDFIELDS EXPRESS COVERS: 1852 part-entire with Half-Length 2d (almost full margins) tied by superb Barred Oval of Melbourne (b/s of DC*23/1852), to "Store Keeper Fryers Creek/Mt Alexander/Care of Mr Baker/Fryers Creek" with no transit or arrival backstamps indicating carriage by private express service. Rare. [Mostly mercantile content but includes "...[he] spoke to me about your applying for the post office..." Fryer's Creek PO opened 19.4.1854; renamed Fryerstown c.1856] SymbolCGradeB View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #145 POSTAL HISTORY - GOLDFIELDS EXPRESS COVERS: a similar part-entire similarly addressed, defective 2d Half-Length & fine Melbourne b/s of JA*6/1853, light 'FORREST CK/JA*3/1853/VICTORIA' alongside indicates that this is the "reply-half" of a letter that originated at what was later Castlemaine (9km NNW of Fryers Creek). The writer states: "I have this day posted a registered letter contg £100 in notes...On Monday next I shall send you a further sum by private escort and the letter containg the rec SymbolCGradeB View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot #146 POSTAL HISTORY - GOLDFIELDS EXPRESS COVERS: 1858 stampless OHMS cover (267x115mm) with 'Police Department' imprint at lower-left & endorsed "Ballarat/Nov 3 1858" below, rated "8/6" & endorsed "pr Escort" in the same hand at upper-left, to the Chief Commissioner of Police at Melbourne, no postal markings, two vertical folds. Ex Rod Moreton. Nothing to look at but very rare. SymbolCLGradeB View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot #147 POSTAL HISTORY - OFFICIAL MAIL: An excellent selection of envelopes including with imprints of Attorney-General (1857), Treasury (1859) & Public Lands, 1889 for Royal Mint, 1890 for Board of Health headed 'FREE BY ACT No 1011 SEC 9' & another unused (rare thus), 1901 mourning envelope for GPO registered to France, 1908 for Money Order Office with 'MO OFFICE/MELBOURNE VIC' cds in blue, etc; lettersheets including 1867 for GPO to be 'turned", 1872 for Accounts Branch, 1893 'MEMORANDUM FROM PARCEL SymbolCPS View details Estimate$1,250Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #148 POSTAL HISTORY - PROVISIONAL POSTMARKS - MANUSCRIPT CANCELLATIONS USED AT NEWLY OPENED OFFICES: 1) Cross-hatching on Laureates 1d pair & large-part postmaster's manuscript endorsement "(A)voca Forest/Dec 26th/72" on the flap, very fine 'BERLIN' transit & 'WEHLA' arrival b/s, part flap missing. A very rare combination of Goldfields markings & almost certainly the earliest cover from this office. According to Watson Webster & Wood, the Avoca Forest PO opened only on 1.1.1873. This cover is 5 days SymbolCGradeB View details Quantity3Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #149 POSTAL HISTORY - PROVISIONAL POSTMARKS - POSTMASTERS' MANUSCRIPT ENDORSEMENTS DURING ANNUAL DECEMBER/JANUARY "CHANGEOVER" PERIOD: "Broadford PO/Dec 29th 1854" on reverse of cover with Queen-on-Throne 2d pair (full margins, minor stain) tied by First Type BN '20'; "Bunninyong/31 1 54" on reverse of superb stampless OHMS outer, Melbourne b/s of FE1/1854; "Carngham/Jan 1st 1861" on reverse of cover with Beaded Ovals 4d tied by BN '122' (rated R); "Colac/20 1 57" on reverse of outer with Emblems 4d SymbolCGradeA-/B View details Quantity11Estimate$2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #150 POSTAL HISTORY - PROVISIONAL POSTMARKS - OTHER MANUSCRIPT MARKINGS: 1) "X" on Emblems 2d with tiny 'FITZROY/AU2/62/VICTORIA' b/s mof Fitzroy (1), Melbourne transit & part South Yarra arrival b/s, flap damage; 2) "Big Hill/17 10 62" unusually as an arrival on reverse of cover from Melbourne with poor oval 'LOCKWOOD' transit d/s unusually on the face; 3) "PO Maidens Punt/20 2 52" on reverse of part-entire to GB with Half-Lengths 1d & 2d pair (all with clipped corners) cancelled in transit at Melbo SymbolCGradeB View details Quantity4Estimate$750StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...131415161718...50|Next1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Previous 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Next Previous 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 Next
