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;) | WESTERN AUSTRALIA illustrated covers period FE 26 1854 - DE 14 1900. Price £180 (WIP-228) Buy with confidence as I have been trading full time since 1978. This too is a \"work-in-progress\" file (meaning that I add more covers as and when I see them). You can now order and pay for your own DIGITAL pdf copy (no refunds, but you are entitled to TWO free updates as and when requested). Suitable for carrying around in your tablet or laptop. 442 covers illustrated in part or full in mainly colour with text descriptions arranged in chronological sequence spanning period 1854-1900 mostly addressed to females (Mrs or Miss) as perhaps expected. This file will be most helpful for planning a display, giving a comprehensive coverage of what to expect, destinations prove difficult but imperf. swan covers are found to Cape of Good Hope, Malta, Singapore, New Brunswick and for the later period 1876 OHMS stampless to Heligoland, Provenance is given when known. Price £180 payable by PayPal or WISE transfer (Ignore Barclays mention at check out as account now closed, and I cannot change that page, this web shop 22 years old!). Knowing what to buy is your key to buying .... order your copy today. Provenance included: “Austin”, Baetgen, Basterfield, Besancon, Boker, Mike Brachi, Buleid, Burrus, Caspary, Frank Chadwick, Chartwell, Clayton, E.H. Collins, WS Davy, ”Gary Diffen, Dubois”, “Emerald”, John Forrest, Dale Forster, Gallagher, John Gartner, Col. Green, Margaret Hamilton, Mogens Juhl, Kaye, Michael Lewin, Dale Lichtenstein, “Midas”, Odenweller, Brian Peace, Patrick Pearson, Derick Roy, Sheffield, Ron Lloyd-Smith, “Tamiami”, von Uexkull, Vestey, Dr Cecil Walkley, Wheeler, Geoff Whitehead £180 |
;) | WESTERN AUSTRALIA postal history (1854-1900). Price £180 You can now order and pay for your own DIGITAL copy (no refunds). Suitable for carrying around in your tablet or laptop. 367 covers illustrated in part or full in mainly colour with text descriptions spanning period 1854-1900 mostly addressed to females (Mrs or Miss) as perhaps expected. This file will be most helpful for planning an display, giving a comprehensive coverage of what to expect, with destinations etc. Provenance given when known. 145 pages (A4 size) Price £180 payable by PayPal or WISE transfer. Knowing what to buy is your key to buying .... order your copy today. £180 |
;) | WESTERN AUSTRALIA postal history (1854-1900). Price £180 You can now order and pay for your own DIGITAL copy (no refunds). Suitable for carrying around in your tablet or laptop. 367 covers illustrated in part or full in mainly colour with text descriptions spanning period 1854-1900 mostly addressed to females (Mrs or Miss) as perhaps expected. This file will be most helpful for planning an display, giving a comprehensive coverage of what to expect, with destinations etc. Provenance given when known. 145 pages (A4 size) Price £180 payable by PayPal or WISE transfer. Knowing what to buy is your key to buying .... order your copy today. £180 |
;) | WESTERN AUSTRALIA stamps Spiro Brothers forgery of the 6d Swan in deep violet in a 'used' block of ten. £48 |
;) | ADELAIDE £18 |
;) | ENGLISH MAIL T.P.O. OUT VICTORIA, Australia postmark/cancel (D/R) 28 JA 14 on pair 1d (SG.2), corner defect. £14 |
;) | SOUTH AUSTRALIA postal history 1867 cover to the wife of the South Australian banker and politician Samuel Tomkinson at their home on Mount Lofty with QV 2d bright vermilion roulette (SG.26) pmk'd Adelaide 4/JA 23 67 with light same day Crafers backstamp. £95 |
;) ;) | Kyoto, Japan via Broome, Western Australia and Singapore to Egypt, Germany, Switzerland 1913 use of Japan 4 sen deep brown/buff UPU Post Card to The School of Medicine, Cairo written Kyoto 26 April 1913 with BROOME 5 JU 13, Singapore JU 18 13 (reverse), Cairo 8 VII 13 with re-addressing in red ink to Leipzig, Germany and the Hotel Kronenberg, Pontresina, Switzerland. £125 |
;) ;) ;) | Wolverhampton to Kellerberrin, Western Australia re-directed Bulawayo, Salisbury, Rhodesia 1924 cover with GB KGV 1½d pmk'd Wolverhampton to Kellerberrin, Western Australia forwarded Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia with boxed "UNCLAIMED/ADVERTISED" and Returned Letter Branch, G.P.O. Salisbury d/ring. Wolverhampton DE 5 1924, Kellerberrin JA 8 1925, Bulawayo JA 2 and JA 7, Salisbury MY 6 1925. £85 |
;) | DOMINICA to AUSTRALIA postal history 1948 printed A.C. Shillingford & Co, Roseau cover to South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia with corner fault KG6 2/6d pmk'd Roseau */17 AP 48 d/ring. Interesting social history about the Shillingford family enclosed. £20 |
;) ;) | UPU MALTA to non-UPU Melbourne, VICTORIA, Australia postal history 1890 opened to display cover showing HUDDART, PARKER & Cos.. LINE printed sender's flap to Huddart-Parker & Co, Melbourne, Australia with QV 4d brown pmk'd Malta "A25" duplex dated H/SP 11 90, b/stamped Brindisi (13-9) and Melbourne (OC 16). Malta joined the UPU on JY 1 1875 but Australia did not become a member until OC 1 1891. £180 |
;) ;) | HRH Prince Alfred round-world-voyage ended by Fenian assassination bullet, Gibraltar postal history 1867 cover from Tinahely to W.H. Symes, HMS 'Galatea', Gibralter (sic) with pair GB QV 1d red Plate 84 and strip of three, single Plate 85 pmk'd Rathdrum "388" diamond numerals when Ireland was a part of Great Britain, Tinahely and Rathdrum backstamps for MR 16 67 with London MR 18 67 transit. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria's second son (1844-1900) was never expected to be King and joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman aged 12. In 1867 he commissioned and commanded the 'Galatea' for a voyage around the world which would include the first royal visit to Australia. On FE 26 1867 the 'Galatea' left Plymouth Sound for the Mediterranean with stops at Lisbon, Gibraltar (MR 14 to 26), Malta, a stay at Marseilles prior a crossing to Rio de Janeiro, returning via Tristan Da Cunha, staying at Cape of Good Hope prior onwards to Adelaide, South Australia with subsequent stays at Melbourne, Victoria and Tasmania. The tour was abruptly curtailed in Sydney NSW on MR 12 1868 when Henry James O'Farrell, a Fenian sympathiser, attempted to assassinate the Prince - the Duke fell forwards on his hands and knees exclaiming "Good God! I am shot; my back is broken". On board was surgeon James Young, M.D. and Assistant Surgeons William L. Powell and William H. Symes (1851-1933 of Tinahely), the two former names being mentioned as giving immediate assistance to His Royal Highness who was tended back to health by six recently arrived nurses trained by Florence Nightingale. Full details of the voyage can be found in the 487 page book entitled "The Cruise of H.M.S. Galatea" by John Milner and Oswald Walters Brierly. Prince Alfred was the first serious stamp collector in the royal family. He sold his collection to King Edward VII who shared his enthusiasm, who in turn gave it to his son King George V. Keenly expanded by the latter the two collections became the basis of what is now the Royal Philatelic Collection. £1250 |
;) | MARINE P.O., South Australia postmark JY 22 80 on QV 1/-. £6 |
;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) | THE SEARCH FOR EXPLORERS BURKE and WILLS, South Australia postal and social history 1862 cover to Mr. Edward Palmer, McKinlays Exploring Expedition, Adelaide G.P. Office with pair QV 1d (one defective corner) pmk'd PORT-AUGUSTA OC 6 62 with handstruck "UNCLAIMED", reverse GPO OC 8 1862/7 datestamp. Filing crease crosses adhesives as the unclaimed letter was placed in the accompanying "Returned Paid Letter" back to Mr. H. Mildred, Port Augusta making an exceptionally rare "round trip" pair. In 1859 the South Australian Government offered £2,000 for the first successful south-north crossing of the continent west of the 143rd line of longitude. In 1860-61 Robert O'Hara Burke and Willian John Wills led an ill-fated expedition of 19 men with the ingroup back to report only to find that another expedition under Howitt, which had left June 1861, had already found the graves of both Burke and Willstention of crossing from Melbourne (south) to the Gulf of Carpentaria (north), approx. 2,000 miles. At that time most of the continent had not been explored by non-indigenous people. The south-north crossing was successful but both of the expedition leaders died on the return journey. Only one man, John King, made the eventual return to Melbourne. Six expeditions were sent to search for Burke and Wills. One left August 1861, under McKinlay, and found the remains of Charles Gray, one of the expedition, and a partially empty grave in the Cooper Creek area. McKinley sent part of his in that same area. In December McKinley visited the site of the graves and then went on to explore the lakes region around Lake Moolionburinna. In February he left the Cooper region following Burke and Wills track to the Eyre Creek and the Gulf before turning east to a station on the Bowen River near Port Denison in Queensland, and the party returned by sea to Adelaide. Edward Palmer was the bullock driver with the McKinley led "South Australian Burke Relief Expedition". Accompanied by previously owned Sarah Murgatroyd's book THE DIG TREE, the extraordinary story of the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition (372 pages) and 150th anniversary commemorative stamps. £1425 |
;) ;) | SOUTH AUSTRALIA postal history: 1855 QV 2d (deep) rose-carmine (SG.2) horiz. strip of three wrapper to Barnet, Herts pmk'd indistinct "28" numerals and showing Kooringa MR 27 1855 despatch. £350 |
;) | South Australia QV 1/- HAND-DRAWN Facsimile – one of 250 plus individually unique items discovered in a cream-coloured vellum stockbook belonging to a Walter D. Young in an old desk by a Cabinet making in Woking, Surrey about July 1951. The artist evidently spent a great deal of time on his work. £24 |