Lot# 20273 - Auction 298-307
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Lot# : 20273 Tasmania
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Recess by H. and C. Best 1856 (Nov 24): Chalon 1 d. deep red-brown, imperforate, no wmk., on thin pelure paper, a used example with touched to fine margins all round, tied to 1857 entire letter to "His Excellency Sir H.C.F. Young, Governor General, Tasmania" by "68" numeral obliterator of Hobart. Framed "PREPAID / 10--O'CLOCK" datestamp (March 28) in red. A fine and interesting entire of fascinating content. Rare.rnNote: The convict John Bisset writes "Petitioner received and underwent such sentence in chains and amidst misery privation and much physical and mental suffering". The petition is annotated "Referred to the Acting Comptroller General" and one the reverse "I recommend that the unexpired portion of the extension be commuted and he be discharged". Two days after the letter was sent "Approved 30 March". Sir Henry Edward Fox Young (1803-1870) was Governor of South Australia from 1848 until 1854. He was appointed Governor of Van Diemen's Land in 1854 and arrived in Hobart in January 1855, serving until he returned to London in 1861. Cert. BPA (1981).rnProvenance: Collection Bob Odenweller RDP., Harmers, London, 14 April 1981, lot 389; Collection P.W. Robinson, SG, London, 17 May 1984, lot 68; Collection Prof. Enrico Bombieri, Spink, Melbourne, 27-28 March 1999, lot 1077; Prestige, Melbourne, 5 Sept 2009, lot 342.Starting bid : 1,500 CHFHammer price : 5,500 CHF -
