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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1451

Victoria Travelling Post Offices Sea Mails The "R.M.S.S. Hobson´s Bay" Service From August 1861 additional time was given to the public for posting their letters up to the time of sailing of vessels anchored in Hobson´s Bay, Port Melbourne. The letters were collected by officers of the Post Office from Sandridge and cancelled on board the vessel concerned by a Victorian postal agent. Up to July 1864 - No late fee was payable July 1864 to September 1865 - A late fee of 2/- was imposed September 1865 to December 1887 (when discontinued) - Late fee reduced to 1/- The R.I.C. Holland collection contains no less than seven covers from this service with three previously unrecorded 1873 (5 Dec.) envelope "Via Brindisi" to England, bearing Laureated 8d. brown on pink and Bell 2d. lilac (6), all slightly overlapping (one 2d. affixed slightly over edge and defective) and cancelled with several fair to fine "r.m.s.s./hobson´s bay/victoria" code "t" duplex (Type 1, letters closely spaced), Twickenham (19.1) and Teddington arrival c.d.s. on reverse; a few small faults though a most unusual franking of the 9d. rate plus 1/- Late Fee. Also three loose values with parts of the duplex cancellation, one on a cut-down Beaded Oval 6d. black dated 26 March 1862, the earliest date so far recorded on an adhesive. Photo Estimate £ 600-800 provenance: Rod Moreton, May 2005

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