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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1422

Victoria Travelling Post Offices The Bendigo Line Using Numbers 3, 4 and 14 T.P.O. No. 14 1883 (6 Dec.) envelope (reformed for exhibition purposes) from Melbourne to Inglewood, bearing 1d. green cancelled with superb duplex and showing, on reverse, a very fine, nearly complete, strike of the "down train/m.g14/t.p.o./14" duplex (7.12), Borung c.d.s. (8.12) and arrival "269" duplex (8.12); spike hole clear of the markings, otherwise very fine. Unrecorded by Purves and one of only three covers recorded with this marking. Photo Estimate £ 300-400 Note: Very little is known of this TPO. The date of introduction is uncertain. No Up Train markings prior to 1913 have been recorded provenance: Christie´s Robson Lowe, Australia, May 1991

Sold for
£250