AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 87		Estimate: $800 1890 (15 Aug) registered cover (opened three sides) with embossed seal on reverse of Office of Govt of S.A., Agent General for South Australia Frank lower left on front, bearing G.B. 1887-92 2d and 5d tied by oval Registered S.W.D.O. datestamp, addressed to a Miss Tomkinson (a South Australian tourist?) in Italy, various U.K. and Italian transits/arrival front and reverse. Rare Colonial Government abroad item
Lot 88		Estimate: $150T 1898 (14 Sep) OPSO envelope from 'Chief Secretary's Office' used Adelaide to USA, bearing 2½d Violet-Blue optd 'OS', arrival backstamp, slightly reduced
Lot 89		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 1899 (18 Jul) cover to Berlin, Ontario 'via San Francisco' bearing ½d Brown strip of three and pair tied by Semaphore squared-circles, Adelaide and Berlin backstamps
Lot 90		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $125 1906 (6 Sep) inwards use to Glenelg of postcard bearing Turkey 20pa tied by Betrone bilingual datestamp, 'Batroun/Syria' endorsement lower left, Port Said transit. Extraordinary origin/destination item
Lot 91		Estimate: $175 Realised Price : $180 1913 (29 Apr) use of Shearer's Stump Jump Plough advertising envelope from Kilkenny to Black Hill, reverse with all-over illustration of 'Four-Furrow Light Stump-Jump P-Foot Plough', minor spotting
Lot 92		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1922 (Apr) PPC inwards from Austria to Adelaide bearing 2½Kr, 50h, 1½Kr, 10Kr and on picture side, 4Kr, tied by Salzburg datestamps, on arrival fair to good strikes of straight-line 'CALLED TO POSTMEN' and framed 'NOT KNOWN/LETTER CARRIER/ADELAIDE'