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Auction: 21077 - Important Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 128

(x) Australian Colonies
Victoria
1878 Bell Design, emergency printing on coloured paper, ½d. rose-red on pink vertical strips of six (2) and vertical pairs (2), all grossly mis-perforated and cut apart with scissors from the same sheet) on 1878 (30 Mar.) envelope registered from Geelong to Doyle's Creek, all cancelled by Barred Numeral "2", showing superb 22mm. "registered/geelong" c.d.s. (earliest recorded date), oval-framed "registered", Melbourne c.d.s. (1.4), manuscript "Try West Maitland" (deleted) and "Try Sydney", on reverse, West Maitland (5.4) and Sydney (4.4 and 8.5). Undeliverable and forwarded back to Melbourne where 11 May datestamp applied. A lovely cover. Photo

provenance:
J.R.W. Purves
Rod Perry

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£600 to £800

Starting price
£480