CORINPHILA AUCTIONS 297 - 308 Day 3

Northern Territory 1882: 2 d. orange-red, a single example used on 1882 cover to Stapleton tied by "YAM CREEK / N.T." circular datestamp (Aug 21) with repeated strike alongside. The cover is endorsed "Telegrams" in manuscript at left. Yam Creek is a gold mining town some 45 kms. from Pine Creek in the Katherine region of Northern Territory, Stapleton was a stopping place on the Darwin - Pine Creek Railway. It was named after a Telegraph lineman killed by aborigines at Barrow Creek in 1874. The "Telegrams" annotation indicates that Stapleton acted primarily as a Telegraph office. A splendid and extremely rare cover.rnProvenance: Collection Michael Blake, Prestige, Melbourne, 7 Feb 2014, lot 424.