Auction: 21045 - The Alan Holyoake Grand Prix Collection of British and International Registered Mail
Lot: 283
(x) Australasia
New South Wales
Registered Stamps
1856 (2 Aug.) neat envelope to Pendlebury, Manchester bearing 1854 3d. yellow-green (margins on two sides), 1854-59 6d. olive-grey (close to very large margins) with 1856-59 (6d.) vermilion and Prussian blue registered stamp (almost touching at top, other margins very large) tied by dumb barred ovals and handstruck "d6" in black, with a good strike of "
Carried on the contract clipper 'John Baines', pays 6d. packet rate, 3d. inter-colonial ship letter rate (to Victoria) and 6d. registration
Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.
Sold for
£3,500
Starting price
£700