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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1444

Victoria Travelling Post Offices The Bruthen-Bendoc Horseback and Foot Travelling Post, 1884-1889 Piece bearing Naish 2d. mauve cancelled with a superb strike of the double-ring "travelling post/bruthen, bendoc." handstamp in violet. Very rare, being one of only two recorded examples. Photo Estimate £ 200-250 Note: A mail bag and cancellers was carried once a week on horseback and foot between Bruthen and Bendoc near the New South Wales border. It was a unique, Government sponsored, service operating in a remote mountainous are north east of Sale on the North Gippsland line provenance: J.R.W. Purves

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