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Lot 1017 - south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period - Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia entire headed "Aberdeen Burra April 20 1852" & signed "John Davey", to Sydney & endorsed "overland", Mordan-type 'KOORINGA/=SOUTH-AUSTRALIA=' cds, rated "8" but corrected to "4" with GPO b/s of AP28/1852 & late usage of the '[crown]/FREE/ 184 ' cds (dateslugs removed, as always in this period) d/s in red, 'MELBOURNE/ [crown]/MY22/1852/VICTORIA' transit & 'Sydney arrival b/s of JU8/1852, minor blemishes. Scarce inter-Colonial mail. [The writer enquires if his contract is to be renewed & states "...I am somewhat inclined for the Gold Diggings...I might manage to earn a tolerable livelihood...Burra Mine much as usual. I find the shares are quoted at £100 per share, whether there have been any bona fide* sales or not is doubtful..." The Burra was the largest copper mining district in Australia] Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 1012 - south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period - Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia (April 3) entire headed "Sea Queen Jany 31st 50/Somewhere about 200 miles/south of Trinidad & Martin vas Rocks" & signed "James F Knipe", to his sisters at "Hanley Castle/Worcestershire" endorsed "via Marseiles" [sic]with a much above average strike of the undated 'POST OFFICE/[crown]/PORT ADELAIDE' handstamp, endorsed "6" in red for the South Australian shipletter rate & with '[crown]/PAID' h/s - dateslugs removed; struck over the edge of the cover as usual - in red, London transit b/s of 31JY31/1850 in red & rated "2/2" in black for the single rate from Australia via India & Marseilles, very fine 'WORCESTER' transit & 'UPTON-ON-SEVERN' arrival b/s both in blue, some mostly internal minor foxing. Stated to have been carried per "Condor" to Bombay; then per India Packet. A truly remarkable round-the-world cover. The writer was surgeon aboard a migrant ship. He writes: "...I have had a great deal of sickness in the ship...the Cabin passengers...are all snobbs shopkeepers & their servants...[they] can hardly be called vulgar but [are] not ladylike...The Trafalgar & ourselves left Plymouth at the same time both for Adelaide so it is a race...201 souls on board..." There is a lengthy postscript headed "April 2nd 1850": "...I have arrived once more in Adelaide...this is the first mail home via India...I had only one death & two births...The Trafalgar [noted as arriving 9 days later] has had 19 deaths out of 280 souls...I will write again...when I am settled...in the Wakefield or at the Strathalbin Mine..." The South Australian Register (3/1/1871) recorded the marriage of James Frederick Knipe FRCS to Miss Elizabeth Nacarrow [sic], both of Aldinga. NB: the letter was written, not off Trinidad in the BWI, but off the Brazilian island of Trinidade (the largest of the Ilhas de Martim Vaz) some 1200km E of Vitoria, in the Atlantic Ocean, & about as remote an origin as Tristan da Cunha! Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 1018 - south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period - Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia mercantile entire headed "Adelaide 16th August 1852" & signed "AL Elder", to Sydney "per Henrietta", Mordan-type 'ADELAIDE/=SOUTH-AUSTRALIA=' cds in red, rated "6" in red, 'SHIP LETTER/[crown]/SE2/1852/SYDNEY' arrival b/s & rated "6" in black. [Alexander Lang Elder* was the first member of his family to emigrate to Adelaide, arriving in 1839. He became a wealthy merchant & landowner, and in 1851 was elected to the Legislative Council. As a result of a series of mergers, the family business became one of the foremost stock & station agency businesses in Australia] Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 1013 - south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period - Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia (April 18) cover to "Altona by Hamburg" endorsed "Pr John Bartlett via London" with superb strike of the unframed 'GPO/[crown]/AP+18/1850/SOUTH AUSTRALIA' cds & rated "6" in red, London transit b/s of 3JY3/1850 in red & rated "8" for inwards shipletter, double-circle 'P.A./8 7 50/ALTONA' arrival cds on the face, rated "1/2" in black & "19" in blue, minor soiling. South Australia boasts a large Lutheran community descended from Germans who emigrated to escape religious persecution in their homeland. The first group arrived in 1838. Despite the influx of German immigrants, mail to Germany is rare, probably because whole families made the journey, leaving behind few people with whom they wished to remain in contact. The rarity of mail to Germany is highlighted by the paucity of such items in major collections: Jack Beresford (1958) had only one, an 1858 entire newspaper (!); Rev James Mursell (1964) had none; Henry Frenkle (1979) had only one, of 1879; John Griffiths (1992) had only one, of 1880; and Harry Lower (2007) had two, of 1858 and 1863. This may well be the earliest recorded cover from South Australia to any part of Germany, being more than 5 years earlier than a July 1855 cover to Hannover that is otherwise the earliest recorded by us. Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 1019 - south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period - Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia entire written in German headed "Adelaide 15 Marz 1853" to Tanunda with GPO cds, rated "4" for an inland letter & very fine '[crown]/PAID' h/s - with all date elements now removed - in red, rather soiled but presentable. Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 1014 - south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period - Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia lengthy cross-written entire headed "Angas River December 26th 1850" & signed "John Guy", to Oxfordshire endorsed "PO/Strathalbyn" at upper-left & "Paid 6d" both in red, 'GPO/[crown]/31+DE/1850/SOUTH AUSTRALIA' cds in blue, London arrival b/s of 1MY1/1851 in red & rated "8" for an inwards shipletter, fair 'CHIPPING-NORTON' arrival b/s in blue, mostly peripheral soiling. [Pursuant to the 1846 Regulations, country postmasters were required to endorse the PO name on the face of all mail. Query: is this the same John Guy who was resident at Bellarine (Victoria) in the mid-1850s, & later moved to Boort] Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 1015 - south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period - Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia large-part outer endorsed "on public Service" & "Free" in red with manuscript "PO/Tanunda", GPO arrival cds in blue & large-part '[crown]/FREE/184_' h/s (date removed) in red, ironed-out filing folds. Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 1010 - south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period - Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia outer to "Limerick/Ireland" endorsed "per Duke of Sussex" with a generally fine strike of the undated 'POST OFFICE/[lion/crown]/ADELAIDE' handstamp & endorsed "Paid 1/3", British 'SHIP-LETTER' b/s in black, London cds of 19MY19/1842 in red & rated "2/8" for a quadruple-rate - 8d x4 - inwards shipletter, Dublin diamond '3M/MY20/42' b/s in red & unframed 'LIMERICK/MY21/1842' arrival b/s, minor blemishes. Ex John Griffiths. [Harry Lower's very fine strike on 1838 entire sold for $5060] Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 1016 - south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period - Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia outer to London "Per Adelaide via Calcutta via Marseilles" with very fine Mordan-type 'ADELAIDE/=SOUTH- AUSTRALIA=' cds in red, rated "6" in red, unusually with no British arrival marking but rated "2/2" in black being the double-rate via India Packet, internal reinforcing with archival tape. Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period	In order to view Prices please Login or Join
Lot 1011 - south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period - Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia stampless Customs entire from London with 'GPO/[crown]/2*JA/1848/SOUTH AUSTRALIA' arrival cds on the face. Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #188 - South Australia south australia 1836-1854 the pre-stamp period	In order to view Prices please Login or Join