Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1417
Victoria Travelling Post Offices The Bendigo Line Using Numbers 3, 4 and 14 T.P.O. No. 3 1879 (13 June) 1d. violet card (light crease) from Castlemaine to Carlton cancelled with superb first period "up train/mg3/t.p.o/3" duplex, Melbourne c.d.s. (14.6) also on face, arrival c.d.s. (14.6) on reverse, 1895 (25 Nov.) Havelock/Foster´s 1d. blue card from Echuca to Melbourne and 1898 (1 Oct.) 1d. pink card (soiled) to Melbourne, both showing fine/superb strikes of the second period "up train/mg3/t.p.o/3" duplex, the Havelock card being a very late date of use which had been officially withdrawn from sale on 19 November. Also 1919 card from Castlemaine to Sorrento Post Office with "t.p.o.3" Commonwealth type Estimate £ 120-150
Sold for
£90