AUSTRALIAN COLONIES, TASMANIA, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 409		Estimate: $100T Realised Price : $75 1844 (5 Mar) and 1847 (27 Apr) entires to Campbelltown rated '6' and '8' respectively, with Hobart despatch cds on reverse, and 1851 (10 Feb) entire to Launceston with manuscript 'C town/10/2/51', rated 4 (filing hole), small faults (3)
Lot 410		Estimate: $250T Realised Price : $190 1845 (10 Mar) outer used locally in Launceston, with circular '1.O.CLOCK/10MR10/1845' and rated '2'. Very fine and believed to be the earliest recorded date for the Launceston marking
Lot 411		Estimate: $300T 1846 (10 Apr) small envelope (106 x 62mm) addressed to Campbell Town with fine circular 'FREE ds in red, and with franking signature 'J Eardley-Wilmot (Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Lieutenant-Governor), very fine
Lot 412		Estimate: $120T Realised Price : $90 1847 (9 Feb) 'Johnstone' entire with manuscript post office endorsement 'Cambelton/9/2/47' further endorsed 'Money letter' and with 10 FEB 1847 Launceston arrival. Few tone spots on face, otherwise fine
Lot 413		Estimate: $150 1847 (21 Aug) 'Johnstone' entire to Launceston with 'P. Sorell/21/8/47' manuscript post office endorsement, rated '4' and with superb Launceston arrival backstamp, 23 AU 1847
Lot 414		Estimate: $150T 1847 (26 Feb) 'Johnstone' entire with manuscript post office endorsement 'Campbelton/26/2/47' further endorsed 'Money letter', addressed to Launceston and with 27 FEB 1847 backstamp. Repaired filing hole, otherwise fine
Lot 415		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $230 1858 (5 Apr) outer from Hobart to Launceston with 1858 6d Dull Lilac Imperf tied by '61' numeral, with boxed 'PRE-PAID' arrival ds in red 6 AP 1858. Fine, and an unusually rated internal letter
Lot 416		Estimate: $250 1862 (22 Nov) cover from Hobart to Wimbourne, Dorset with 1860-67 6d Grey Imperf tied by barred obliterator, very fine with JA 19 63 arrival backstamp
Lot 417		Estimate: $4,000 Realised Price : $3,000 1901 (21 Jan) cover with G.B. 1881 1d pair cancelled London squared circle ds, addressed to Hobart and underpaid (rated as double weight foreign letter), with handstruck hexagonal 'T/L', and receiving on arrival the oval (6)D/MORE TO PAY'. Postage due collected by affixing 1899 6d Pictorial tied by Hobart cds, FE 27 01. A very rare use of postage stamps used for the collection of postage due, before the introduction of Commonwealth postage dues on 1 July 1902, also a rare commercial use of the 6d Pictorial. A major postage due rarity