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Auction: 14015 - The Collector's series sale
Lot: 2345

Queensland
Second and Third Sideface Issue Covers
Registered Mail
1883 (11 Oct.) parcel label from Mackay to England bearing 1d. vertical pairs (2) and 6d. (2), and 1884 (7 Nov.) envelope from Mackay to London bearing 2d. (2) and 6d., both with all stamps cancelled by "registered/mackay" handstamp and with despatch c.d.s. and London Registered oval datestamp; 1885 (7 May) envelope (opened-out) from Greenmount to Toowoomba, bearing 2d. blue (3) cancelled "291" in bars and showing despatch and "registered/greenmount" handstamp alongside, the reverse with superb "t.p.o. s&wr/1/down" c.d.s. without gang number (Campbell Type 1 No. 2a(a)) and Toowoomba c.d.s.; small imperfections though an unusual pair. Also 1898 (10 Oct.) envelope (209x93mm.) to Brisbane, bearing 1d. and 2d. (2) cancelled "33" and by the newly introduced "R" in oval handstamp

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£190