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The cover was addressed to Josiah Wigglesworth Esq., Woolstapler, Near Railway Station, Halifax Yorkshire, England, and there were two other manuscripts: Via Australasian and ‘Paid’. The imperforate orange-yellow 6d ‘wood block’ Victoria stamp had an indistinct barred numeral ‘1′ of Melbourne (Figure 1). The reverse had two back-stamps, MELBOURNE/ JU 15/ 58 and a reception B/ HALIFAX/ AU 13/ (- – ) (Figure 2). The Australasian was one of the European & Australian Royal

An inwards piece of mail was addressed to John Drummond Esq, Naval Officer, Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land. There was a red PAID SHIP LETTER/ [Crown]/ 7 MR 7/ 1818/ LONDON postmark, as well as a manuscript ‘1/9′ in red paying the single rate to N.S.W. The entire’s letter was headed ‘Enfield Highway 5th 1818′. The vendor stated that it was the second earliest inwards mail to Tasmania, and an estimate

An Uncommon Use of a Strip of Five KGV Redheads: The registered cover from Brisbane to the USA had the uncommon use of a strip of 5 KGV 1d redheads and a single ½d green KGV head (A.S.C. 56) to make up the 5½d rate. Although some of the stamps are partially obscured, it would appear that none have varieties and thus they could be plated from Plate 6 (56-60),

I always associated the name Carnegie with a very rich man who donated a lot of money to fund the Carnegie Hall in New York, where my wife and I sat in the top tier listening to wonderful classical music. There were times whilst climbing a mountain of steps to our seat, I felt that an oxygen cylinder would have been handy. The cover with the printed red oval 2½d

This cover was sent from Victoria by air mail with a the 65 cents yellow faced whip snake (issued in 1982) to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand, The Grand Palace, Na Phia Lan Road, Bangkok 10200, Thailand, and the reverse was not seen (Figure 1). Bhumibol was born in Cambridge, Mass. on December 3, 1927, the only Thai monarch to be born overseas. After a short time