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Auction: 17022 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The Ronnie Winchester Collection and fine sections of Belgium, Cape of Good Hope Rectangular Issues and Griqualand West
Lot: 1554

(x) Tasmania
1864 (23 Nov.) envelope from Hobart to England with, on reverse, superb all-over advertisement for William Wood & Sons in blue and white, bearing 1860-63 6d. with close to good margins tied by dumb obliterator and showing red "general-post-office/hobart-town" c.d.s. in red in opposite corner. Very rare, one of only two known all-over advertising covers from the Australian Colonies bearing imperforate issues, both being for William Wood & Sons. Photo

Note: This envelope is almost certainly printed by Augustus Schulkraft of Melbourne who produced a number of similar envelopes in Victoria from 1862, before going into liquidation in 1867.

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Sold for
£1,900