Lot 50768 – 1855-1912, TASMANIA: collection of several hundred

1855-1912, TASMANIA: collection of several hundred stamps from Chalon heads to 1s onwards, organised numerically by the bar cancels from 1 to 362, written-up with the corresponding place names and dates of first use. There are many scarce small villages here, for example 7 Breadalbane, 40 Hadspen, 45 Jericho, 56 Macquarie Plains, 105 Green’s Creek, 117 Old Beach, 124 Little Oyster Cove, 125 River Plenty, 230 Upper Cascade River, 235 Dee Bridge, etc, also seen rare manually engraved/altered cancel with ‘8’ inserted to make ‘25’ into ‘28’ with two strikes on 1d rose vertical pair. Other studies include the Hobart ‘dumb’ cancels types, ‘loose ship letter’ types, etc, etc. (Est. € 1’500/2’000)