b'71481* 1904-11 (SG.288a) Wmk Crown/SA Thick POSTAGE perf.12 1/- brown vertical pair, error IMPERFORATE BETWEEN, slight bend at top otherwise superb and fresh mint; Cat. 2750. Rare with only eight pairs recorded. $2,0002,500482D REVENUES - POSTAL NOTE: 1912-34 KGV 10/- Issue for South Australia, T.S. Harrison. Australian Note and Stamp Printer imprint at base, 1926 ADELAIDE (issuing office) oval datestamp in red, tape repairs/reinforcing on reverse, rounded corner. A rare survivor, Elsmore does not list a 10/- value$150250SA Officials483O BOTANIC GARDEN: B.G. overprint in black on 1/- chestnut, perf.11 x rouletted, FU with ADELAIDE 1871 cds. Fine. $250300SA Postal Stationery484PS POSTAL CARDS: 1d range including 1897 uprated with Bantam d to Germany, others with printed advices for Royal Society of SA or British & Foreign Bible Society and circa 1904 for the Public Service Superannuation Fund, 1893 opts O.S. with superb MOONTA arrival squared-circle, plus optd SPECIMEN and scenic issue WOOL CARTING issue cards unused, etc; also d Wrappers (3) unused; condition mostly fine to very fine. (20).$250300SA Postmarks485PC CUSTON: very fine strike of CUSTON/DE22/15 (15 inverted) datestamp tying 1d Roo to PPC addressed locally to Bordertown, Rated 4R. . $100140Tasmania486O 1857-1900 small group with used imperf 1857-67 Chalons Numeral Wmk 2d slate-green (uneven close margins) & 6d grey-violet, 1871-78 5/- Sideface with light fiscal cancel; also 1899-1900 5d Pictorial fresh MUH. (4) $100200487* (*) O 1870-1909 Sideface Selection on stockcards with useful mint/unused content including 1870-71 Wmk 10 (reversed) 1d rose-red (slight tone), 1871-91 P.11 Wmk TAS with or without Bars 1d shades (3), 3d red-brown & 3d purple-brown, 4d ochre & 4d buff; plenty more useful mint/unused issues; few used incl. 1870-71 Wmk 10 1d rose-red; also two 4d Couriers cut-to-shape; condition variable. (34) .$250350488O 1853-54 (SG.3) 1d pale blue on thin hard white paper, outer framelines slightly cut-into/shaved in places, neatly struck BN 59 cancel of Launceston; Cat. 1300. .$500750489O 1853-54 (SG.11) 4d Courier Plate II forgery on thin paper, with fake First Allocation BN 65 cancel of Three Hut Point.$80120490D 1886 PROPOSED HIGH VALUES: Foolscap-sized Copy letters from De La Rue to the Crown Agents for the Colonies dated 1] 8/12/1885 stating That the pink colour proposed for the 2/6d rate would conflict with the colour of the 1d Postage Stamp and we ourselves do not like the present series of Tasmanian Postage Stamps in so far that they all resemble one another in design; 2] 22/12/85 stating we enclose designs which we have prepared for the 2/6d & 5/- & drawn in a purple and in a green and with the suggestion that the 10/- be printed on Crown/CC watermarked paper; 3] 6/1/86 stating that the new stamps should be of the size of the existing Postage Stamps and that the 2/6d should be printed in pink and the 10/- in a light slate with the suggestion they should transmit to the Colony a pamphlet describing the benefits our Doubly-Fugitive inks, only a available in a purple and a green (in use, at the time, for the British 1883-84 Lilacs & Greens series), which would incur no additional expense and would take about 5 months to complete the dies and plates to print. Ex De La Rue Archives. (3 letters, 9 pages) $350450491O 1892-99 (SG.225) 1 green & yellow Tablet, fine used with 1900 BURNIE datestamp; Cat. 500. .$250300Ex 492492S* 1899-1900 (SG.229s-236s) Wmk TAS d to 6d Pictorials overprinted Specimen, generally fine mint with large-part o.g., Cat 550$400500'