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Lot# 30011 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 30011 New South Wales

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    1848 (Dec 18): Prepaid cover and complete contents from Macquarie Street, Sydney to Port Phillip, struck with superb octagonal framed "PAID  / AT / SYDNEY" in red with manuscript '1/3d.' in red ink alongside; reverse with oval "GENERAL POST OFFICE / SYDNEY" despatch datestamp in black (Dec 18) and "MELBOURNE / ♚ / PORT PHILLIP" arrival (Dec 25). A charming and scarce cover containing (considering it arrived on Christmas Day), the most unpolitically correct letter imaginable: "You worst of good for nothing wives, its out of sight out of mind with you, like the rest of your charming sex...".rnrnProvenance: Collection Dale Forster, DF, Geneva, 28-31 May 2002, lot 10523; Collection Brian Peace, Prestige, Melbourne, 27 July 2009, lot 1076.rnrn 
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 400 CHF