b'73622622P POSTAL CARDS: Perkins Bacon Die Proof of Chalon Head vignette used in the 1880 Postal Card design,on thick ungummed, unwatermarked wove paper.Ex Perkins Bacon Archives. .$600800623PS POSTAL CARDS: (H&G #1),1881 (Mar.25) use of 1d Postal Card (vertical fold) from Brisbane with multipleredirections within Australia, thence to South Africa, a non-UPU member country, with POST CARDS TO THIS ADDRESS/CANNOT BE FORWARDED handstamp applied in London, subsequently returned to Australia; also 1895 (Mar.15) use of 1d Card from Warwick to Portugal uprated d for the 1d rate for delivery to UPU member countries, Queensland having joined the UPU on Oct. 1 1891. (2 items) .$250300624PSPOSTAL CARDS: (H&G #4) 1898 (July 30) use of 1d Postal Card to Hong Kong, uprated with 1d to pay foreign postcard rate, tied by BRISBANE duplex, HONG KONG AU30 arrival datestamp, printed notice on reverse for Union Bank of Australia. The only known commercially used example to this destination. . $120150625PS S POSTAL CARDS: (H&G #5) 1888 2d Postal Cards comprising UPU example with diagonal SPECIMENhandstamp in blue, unused, and used (2) with 1890 (Jan 12) Toowoomba to England and 1891 (May 22) to England with Type 3a THURSDAY ISLAND departure datestamp (rated 3R). Used examples are rare in the correct period of usage. (4)Of 49,440 cards printed only 11,001 were sold. Less than 6 cards are recorded used prior to 1 October 1891. .$200300626PS POSTAL CARDS: (H&G #6) postally used examples of the 3d Postal Card, correctly used within theperiod of usage to UK destinations, comprising 1889 (Oct.21) Brisbane to London, 1890 (Mar.23) Mackay to Hereford, & 1890 (Aug.2) Brisbane to Scotland endorsed Via San Francisco. (3)Only 10 cards are known correctly used within the period of usage to May 1891, when the rate was cut to 2d.$250350ex 627 ex 628 627PS S CTO POSTAL CARDS: (H&G #7) Range of 1891 Types A to G 1d Reply Postal Cards including postally used (15) including 1897 (May 11) to Sydney with weak strike of Type 3c DOWNFALL CREEK departure datestamp (rated 4R), 1903 uprated from Rockhampton to Presteigne, Radnorshire, England, 1911 (Apr.25) use of Reply Half to remote Tola in Southern Nigeria with GARUA (Cameroons) transit datestamp and a Type 5a HATTON VALE departure datestamp (rated 4R); other destinations include Austria, Germany and USA plus a taxed 1893 Reply Half to Switzerland with Swiss 10c added; also unused cards (10), and a specimen example with weak strike of BRISBANE cto cancel, this being the only recorded example. Impossible to replicate. (26 items) .$600800628PS POSTAL CARDS: (H&G #7) 1d Reply Postal Cards rare uprated usages comprising 1900 (Nov.29)Thursday Island to Holland with card and the added d tied by fine Rays 148 cancels; also 1907 (Aug.24) with card and added d adhesive tied by BUNDABERG 148 duplex. Rare duo. (2)$250300'