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Auction: 1021 - The "Alvarado" Collection of NSW, the Perkins Bacon & Co., Plates in Association with Millennium Philatelic Auctions
Lot: 548

x New South Wales used in the Moreton Bay District The Provisional Period (26.1.1860 - 31.10.1860) Gladstone (131) incoming mail: 1860 (12 Dec.) envelope from Sydney to Gladstone, bearing 2d. blue Pl. II strip of three (touched at top and at right) neatly tied by duplex and showing, on reverse, Brisbane (16.12) and arrival (22.12) datestamps. An extremely rare and most unusual franking. Photo Estimate £ 8,000-10,000 Note: The stamps were probably carried by a traveller who may, or may not have been aware that they were no longer valid in Queensland, having been withdrawn on 1 November. provenance: Geo. Ginger, December 1945 H. Gordon Kaye, February 1989 V.P. Manwood, November 1995 Richard Stevenson, May 2003

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