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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1430

Victoria Travelling Post Offices The Stawell Line Using Numbers 7 and 11 T.P.O. No. 11 1885 (18 Dec.) envelope to Caulfield, Melbourne, bearing 2d. lilac cancelled with fine "up train/m.g.11" small c.d.s. (the earliest recorded date of use), Caulfield and Melbourne c.d.s. on reverse, 1896 (7 Apr.) 1d. orange card (repaired spike hole) from Ararat to Melbourne with a request for "three barrels of beer first train, completely out", cancelled with largely fine "up train/m.g.11" c.d.s with arrival c.d.s. (8.4) on reverse, and 1908 (1 Jan.) card to England bearing 1d. red cancelled with "t.p.o. 11/up" Commonwealth type c.d.s. Estimate £ 100-120 Note: This TPO came into operation in 1875 and in 1895 took over the Stawell service TPO 7

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