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Lot 577       Stamps

Estimate $1,500
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SOLD $1,300

VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, Important collection of Original Official Victorian Government Parliamentary Papers and Reports relating to the Post Office and Telegraph Department, Postage, Mails and related items in Victoria 1853-1901. The first twenty years comprises Ship Mails, November 1853 pp13; Steam Postal Communication with the U.K. Dec. 1855 pp.8; Steam Postal Communications with Great Britain, Feb. 1856 pp.5 Steam Postal Communications with Great Britain, Feb 1856 pp.7; Post Office Ballarat (1855-56), Feb 1856pp.14; Australian Mails - Copy of Articles of Agreement 1856-57 pp.11; Steam Postal Communications with Great Britain (1858-59) Feb. 1859 pp.3; Mail Service Between Great Britain and Australia (1858-59) pp.3; Conveyance of Mails Between Suez and Sydney (1859-60) pp.6; Mail Service Between U.K and Australia 1861 pp4; Report of the Post Office Department Victoria for 1862 pp.68; Postage of letters from England 1864-65 pp.4; Overland Mail 1864-65 pp.1' Report of the Post Office Department Victoria for 1866 pp.31 and 1867 pp.31; Reference the Establish of Telegraphic Communication Between Europe and Australia 1869 pp.4; Mail Service - Correspondence with the Government of New Zealand on the Proposed Mail Service via San Francisco 1872 pp.16; Report of the Post Office and Telegraph Department for the Year 1871 (1872) pp.45; Mail Service - Further Correspondence re proposed Mail Service via San Francisco 1872 pp.7; Postal Service with Great Britain 1872 pp.2, Mail Service - Correspondence 1872 pp7; Mail Service - Correspondence 1873 pp.4; Mail Contract Point de Galle to Melbourne, June 1873 pp.4; Report of the Post Office and Telegraph Department for the year 1872 (1873) pp.45. 1874-1879 comprises fiften more papers including annual reports; 1880-1889 fourteen papers and reports; 1890-1901 sixteen papers and annual reports. Contains seventy-two foolscap size papers and reports, a nice clean lot and very rare as a group. (72)