b'59335 336335P POSTAL CARDS - 1896 POST CARD DESIGN COMPETITION: Design for 1d Postal Card in violet (190x130mm) on thin card, submitted by No.8 Neptune. Ex Eustis Gold Medal collection.A 5 prize was offered for the best design of a Postal Card to be received by the Postmaster-Generalby April 13th 1896. .$300500336PS POSTAL CARDS: 1899-1905 1d dark brown postal card, local Die (with spur at lower R corner), overprinted with an ornate square design in four different shades of brown. Annotations incl. manuscript (c) and try Black, believed to be a UNIQUE printers essay to colour match a new printing. Includes a mint unused example as issued, for comparison. With a vertical crease and kiss printing on the reverse. (2 items).Ex Martin Walker and Nelson Eustis. .$500750337PS POSTAL CARDS: 1910 QV 1d Brown Surfaced Postal Cards, two unused and two used, one with very fine 1910 MONTACUTE squared-circle datestamp and pen & ink drawing of cat on reverse. (4) $200300Australian Colonial PeriodTasmania338O 1856-57 (SG.20) No Watermark 2d dull emerald-green, unusually large example with good to very large margins and fragment of adjoining stamp at top, lightly struck barred numeral cancels and trace of LONDON transit cancel in red at right. Rare stamp, Cat 950. $300400339340339** * 1864-68 (SG.89) Perf.12 by R. Harris (Launceston): 6d reddish mauve Chalon, block of (4),very lightly hinged, one unit MUH. Fresh and attractive multiple, Cat 3600. $1,2001,500340** ESSAYS: 1886 Proposed High Values De La Rue essay of keyplate design in violet overprintedTASMANIA/POSTAGE & REVENUE/TWO SHILLINGS/AND SIXPENCE in black, or in grey-green similarly overprinted ./10 SHILLINGS, both in upper-right corner blocks of 4, full unmounted gum. Superb!Ex Australia Post Archival Sale. (2 blocks)Supplied by De La Rue as emergency surcharges on a request from the Tasmanian Government,they were considered unacceptable on arrival and were never issued. .$7,50010,000'