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  • Lot# : 6383 New Hebrides

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    The Australian New Hebrides Company 1892: Printed four page document produced by the General Post Office, Sydney being the Time Table for Steamers from "Sydney to Noumea, Vila (Sandwich Island) or Aneityum, and Fiji also for the New Hebrides Group of Islands" with Main Line dates between these Islands and third page showing "Places of Call in the New Hebrides" - Tanna, Eromanga, Sandwich, Tongoa, Api, Mallicolo, Malo, Espiritu Santo Islands etc. The document split and minor imperfections but rare - the services would not have greatly changed five years later when the stamps were issued.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 180 CHF

    Lot# : 6384 New Hebrides

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    The Australian New Hebrides Company 1897 (March 17): Lithographed by John Sands & Co. of Sydney, paper by Wiggins Teape of London, gummed by hand in Sydney, the complete sheets of 120 (10 x 12) of the 1 d. magenta-pink & black and the 2 d. chestnut & blue, rouletted 8½, with full sheet margins and imprints reading "Australasian New Hebrides Company Limited. Inter-Island Postage." and prices per label, per row of 12 and per sheet. The 1 d. with some negligible splitting and slight stains in lower margin only, the 2 d. with similar marginal stains at base, otherwise fine and extremely rare, just 2'000 sheets of the 1 d. value and 1'000 of the 2 d. are believed to have been printed - these being the sole set of complete sheets recorded.rnProvenance: Collection Stan Jersey.rn 
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 6385 New Hebrides

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    The Australian New Hebrides Company 1897 (March 17): The album pages with 1 d. magenta-pink & black in an imprint block of six unused, and 1 d. position 11 unused showing white flaw under 'E' of POSTAGE, 2 d. chestnut & black values unused (2) together with used examples (9) of the 1 d. and 2 d.- these showing the two datestamps found "Port Vila Post / A.N.H. Co. Ltd." and, possibly used on the Steamer: "Travelling Post / A.N.H. Co. Ltd." on 1 d. and 2 d. values - one 2 d. cancelled "6 March 1897" some eleven days prior to the previously reported earliest known date. A scarce group.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 6386 New Hebrides

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    The Australian New Hebrides Company 1897 (March 17): 1 d. magenta-pink & black used on small combination piece with New South Wales 2½ d. deep blue, each tied by "NEW HEBRIDES / VILA" datestamps (4 Sept 1897) in black. Slight bend but scarce thus. Opinion Holcombe (1992).
    Starting bid : 100 CHF
    Hammer price : 220 CHF

    Lot# : 6387 New Hebrides

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    The Australian New Hebrides Company 1897 (March 17): 1 d. magenta-pink & black and 2 d. chestnut & blue used on 1897 cover to D. Calder Agent of the Company in Suva, Fiji tied by "PORT VILA POST / A.N.H. Co. Ltd" cds (June 22) in black.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 750 CHF

    Lot# : 6388 New Hebrides

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    The Australian New Hebrides Company 1897 (March 17): 1 d. magenta-pink & black in a horizontal pair and New South Wales ½ d. greenish slate and 2 d. blue used on 1897 cover to Sydney (care of the Sydney Cycle Agency) tied by "PORT VILA POST / A.N.H. Co. Ltd / NEW / HEBRIDES" cds's (June 22) in black. Some typical aging but scarce.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 6389 New Hebrides

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    The Australian New Hebrides Company 1897 (March 17): 1 d. magenta-pink & black in a vertical pair and New South Wales ½ d. greenish slate and 2 d. blue used on 1897 cover to Sydney (care of the Sydney Cycle Agency) tied by "NEW HEBRIDES / VILA" cds's (Dec 30) in black. Sydney cds (11 Jan 1898) on reverse. Some typical aging and crease at base but scarce.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,100 CHF

    Lot# : 6390 New Hebrides

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    New Hebrides Syndicat Français 1903: Cover addressed to the Director of Posts at Noumea franked by the complete set of four values, all tied by PORT-VILA / NELLES HEBRIDES datestamps (15 September) in black. Central file fold but used within the correct three week period (Aug 31-Sept 20). A rare issue on letter.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 6391 New Hebrides

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    New Hebrides Syndicat Français 1903: The collection on leaves (22 stamps & 5 cards) with circa 1893 'Military Essays', four imperforate Essays designed by Lt. Col. Delawney, three bicoloured and one in black & white, three with 2½P = 25c. as value tablet at lower right (rare); thereafter with a study of genuine usages of the issue in the first three weeks after issue and 'cto' examples bearing dates from 1905 onwards, including 5 usages on five different postcards.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF
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