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Auction: 11033 - Autumn Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1460

Western Australia Travelling Post Offices Southern Cross-Coolgardie Railway 1896 (5 Feb.) double rate envelope registered to Southern Cross, bearing 1d. rose (2) and 5d. ochre (marginal) cancelled by two strikes of the "post & telegraph office/coolgardie railway" oval d.s. and circular cogwheel "r" handstamp, all in bright violet, the reverse with arrival c.d.s (6.2) and another unidentified c.d.s.; traces of foxing around the adhesives though an exceptionally attractive franking and the sole example of this Railway datestamp recorded. Photo Estimate £ 1,200-1,500 Note: This remarkable unrecorded T.P.O. was attached to the railway construction camp when the line was under construction between Southern Cross and Coolgardie. Coolgardie itself was not reached until after 23 March 1896, confirmed by "The Coolgardie Miner" for 23 March 1896 which recorded that "at 8 o´clock last night the railway was completed to within a quarter of a mail of he position marked out for the railway station", proving that the above handstamp could not have been situated at Coolgardie Railway Station on 5 February 1896 and was a T.P.O. on the railway provenance: Robson Lowe, 4 March 1977 Mogens Juhl

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