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Auction: 15024 - Western Australia from the Vestey Collection
Lot: 485

Western Australia
Printed by De La Rue and Co. Ltd.
1885-93 Watermark Crown CA, Perf. 14
Covers
1896 (5 Feb.) double rate envelope registered to Southern Cross, bearing 1d. (2) and 5d. tied by two strikes of the "post & telegraph office/coolgardie railway" oval d.s. in violet with the 5d. additionally tied by "R" in circle of bars also in violet and showing arrival c.d.s on reverse. Most attractive. Photo

Note: This T.P.O. was attached to the railway construction camp when the line was under construction between Southern Cross and Coolgardie. Coolgardie itself was not reached until after 23 March 1896, confirmed by "The Coolgardie Miner" for 23 March 1896 which recorded that "at 8 o'clock last night the railway was completed to within a quarter of a mile of the position marked out for the railway station", proving that the datestamp could not have been situated at Coolgardie Railway Station on 5 February 1896, and was a T.P.O. on the railway"

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