This Austen’s Seeds advertising cover was sent registered with five NSW stamps totaling 5½d (made up of 2½d overseas postage plus a 3d registration fee) with four different examples of the process of registration (red label, four large ‘R’s in an oval, the postmark REGISTERED/ A/ JU 8/ 09/ SYDNEY NSW as well as the blue crayon cross marking. It was sent to Messrs Comstock Ferre & Co., Seed Growers,
The cover front gives no hint of the reverse, it is postmarked with two strikes of LAUNCESTON/ A/ NO 1/ 95/ P-R Tasmania duplex on a pair of the pink 1d and a single ½d orange side-face stamps. It was addressed to The Buffalo Spring & Gear Co., Buffalo N.Y., US America. There is a purple marking RECEIVED/ DEC 19 1895/ B.S. & C. Co., placed at the left (Figure
This used printed to private order postal card is said by the vendor to be “very rare, perhaps two exist” and it was sold at auction AUD 1,100. It was listed as a 1928-36 KGV Oval 1½d brown HG K8 on a bluish advice card. It was addressed to ‘Mr V. Hay, Storekeeper Chelsea (Victoria) and was postmarked MORWELL/ 11 FE 31/ VIC. The item was sold AUD100 above the
This paper has been held in abeyance the past year for even the State Library of Victoria has been unable to find any details on this long-standing quality printing company. The postcard has a printed lilac ‘ONE PENNY’ stamp of Victoria which is canceled with the duplex SANDHURST/ E/ SE 14/ 80/ VICTORIA with the barred numeral ‘4′ as obliterator. It is addressed to Messrs. Arnall & Jackson, Mercantile Stationers
The faint yellow advertising cover for Allan & Co., Importers of Pianofortes, American Organs, Band Instruments and Music has a lilac ‘TWO PENCE’ and an orange ‘THREE PENCE’ QV stamps of Victoria cancelled by a MELBOURNE/ 5/ PM/ 22-3-05/ 5 cancel on both stamps and it is addressed to Messrs Mermod Freres, Ste Croix, Switzerland. The reverse was not seen (Figure 1). Not the earliest form of mechanical or automatic
Two fine advertising covers of different design have come on the market, a year apart, both concerning the same business. This Western Australia firm, Malloch Bros. was situated at 50-54 William Street, Perth and the front of the first cover showed graphics of two of their farm machinery items, the “Lister” 2-Stand Shearing and Crutching Outfit as well as the Alston Windmills. The cover was postmarked with a faint 1931
The cover for M.B. Wragg & Co. Pty Ltd., Gardenvale. S.4, Victoria advertised “Alpha” Fishing Tackle and was sent to W. & L. Gordon Pty Ltd., Napier St. Essenden. It had a blue ‘Alpha’ cogwheel shield trade mark, as well as a large fish chasing a fly. The green 1d KGV head stamp was postmarked GARDENVALE/ ( ) OC 34/ VICTORIA (Figure 1). A variation on the “Alpha” Fishing Tackle
This postcard with the bluish green Half Penny stamp of New South Wales was postmarked with the duplex WILLIAM STREET/ FE 20/ 12- ( )PM/ 06/ N.S.W and the numeral ‘697′, and also had a MORE TO PAY/ 1D / [maltese cross] handstamp. It was addressed to Andrew Smart Esq, “Weekly Mail”, Wellington, New Zealand. The printed advertising matter reads: Opera House, Wellington, commencing Saturday, Sept 22 1906 Prices: 3/-,
With the many thousands of Tattersall covers still available on the market, it is somewhat refreshing to find one that is a little different. The cover bears a block of the ‘Four Corners’ 1d orange Queensland stamp, cancelled with 3 complete and 2 incomplete TOWNSVILLE/ 6–A-1 FE O5/ QUEENSLAND postmarks. The cover is addressed to one of the myriad addresses that were used to send mail (in semi-subterfuge) to the
The cover is illustrated with two hovering angels with the stylistic address on a ‘ribbon’ placed underneath of Louis Sullivan & Co. LTD , Manufacturers’ Consignees, Wine, Spirits and General Merchants, “The Pantheon”, Sylvester St., Coolgardie, W. A. The cover is franked with a pair of grey ‘POSTAGE TWO PENCE’ Swan stamps of Western Australia cancelled with a duplex SHIP MAIL ROOM / 10/ JY 1/ 01/ PERTH W.A. It was