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Page: 102 Prestige Philately - The Sixth International Rarities Auction May 24, 2008 Lot Type Grading Description Est $A WESTERN AUSTRALIA - Postal History 321 C A- Lot 321 1842 entire duplicate letter to "JS Roe/Surveyor General/Western Australia" endorsed "pHooghly" with postscript "Calcutta/24th Sepr 1842" and signed "Wallace Bickley", carried privately as noted on the face "favd by/Mr Little", neatly endorsed on arrival by the postmaster at Bunbury "PO Bunbury Feby 23th [sic] 1843" & rated "d4" for internal postage, docketed "Recd at Swan R 14 April 1843", a few minor blemishes don't detract from what is overall a very fine item. A remarkable item that took an inordinate period of time to reach the addressee. [Bunbury PO opened in 1841 but PMI records postal handstamps only from 1843] The writer enquires about the proposed subdivision of land claimed by him on the Canning River. John Septimus Roe was appointed Surveyor-General for the proposed Swan River Settlement. He arrived there in June 1829 and held the position until his retirement in 1870. His coastal surveys and 30 inland excursions earned him fame and acknowledgement by some as "the father of Australian explorers".{Page 102.1} 3,750 T 322 C A Lot 322 1843 entire letter to Ireland headed "Perth Jun 19th 1843" with an almost very fine strike of the '[crown]/ GENERAL/POST OFFICE/PERTH' handstamp & a faint strike of the ovoid Perth Shipletter h/s in red, rated "8" in black for the inward shipletter fee payable by the addressee, straight-line 'SHIP LETTER' h/s & two British d/s in red on the flap, good 'LEIGHLIN BRIDGE' arrival b/s. Remarkably fine. {Page 102.2} 2,000 T
May 24, 2008 Prestige Philately - The Sixth International Rarities Auction Page: 103 WESTERN AUSTRALIA - Postal History (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A 323 C A- Lot 323 1856 cover to "Norwood/near Adelaide/SA" with 1854 Recess "Penny Black" SG 1 x2 singles (formerly a horizontal pair, the second unit a little cut-into at top) & 1854-55 Litho 4d blue SG 3a (margins good to huge, with a fragment of the adjoining unit at left) tied by three unusually bold strikes of the Grid-Numeral '14' in dull red, largely very fine strike of the undated oval 'POST OFFICE/[crown]/ ALBANY/WESTERN AUSTRALIA' h/s in the same ink alongside, 'GPO/FE15/1856/SOUTH AUSTRALIA' transit cds on the face, remarkable provisional usage of South Australian Diamond Numeral '8' of Norwood on the reverse with manuscript "15/2/56" arrival endorsement. An unusually fine Mixed Issue cover. The vast majority of surviving Imperforate issue covers are to the United Kingdom. Inter-Colonial usages are as rare as fine strikes of the Albany postmarks!{Page 103.1} 10,000 324 C C 325 C B Lot 324 Lot 325 1897 (Feb 10) Great Britain 2½d grey Envelope to Coolgardie with largely very fine strike of the rare 'Damaged through/stranding of "Oratava" handstamp (spelling error for "Orotava")in violet, some faults from having been saturated, Perth transit b/s of MR27/97 in blue & 'COOLGARDIE' arrival b/s of MR28/97. Full of character. The "Orotava" was on its first voyage since capsizing at Tilbury Docks in 1896. She ran aground on Scilla Shoal off Perim (Aden) on 23/2/1897. Passengers and mail were trans-shipped to Aden. The "Orotava" was refloated and continued to Australia, arriving only three days after the mails. Peace records only six items from this wreck, of which this example is #3, and illustrated by him at page 100. {Page 103.2} 1909 Rae Brothers photographic illustrated envelope "PEPPERMINT GROVE" to England with 1d tied by 'MIDLAND JUNCTION' cds, minor blemishes but unusually fine for such items. [Ray Kelly recorded only 21 such used envelopes with Western Australian views, but only two of this scene]{Page 103.3} 1,600 T 300 T
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