379th Auction
19-24 September 2022 in Wiesbaden
- (-) Remove INTERNATIONAL MAIL VIA TRIESTE - The Rolf Rohlfs Collection (part III) filter INTERNATIONAL MAIL VIA TRIESTE - The Rolf Rohlfs Collection (part III)
- (-) Remove Malta filter Malta
WESTERN AUSTRALIA – MALTA: 1857, entire letter, dated "Australind 5th/10th OCTO. 1857" to Malta, endorsed "per Steamer from King George Sound"and franked with 1854/55, 4 d. blue with large margins and pair 1 d. black, slightly touched at bottom, otherwise clear to good margins, tied by barred oval with adjacent "POST OFFICE AUSTRALIND WESTERN AUSTRALIA"; on reverse clear blue oval "AGENZIA DEL LLOYD AUSTRIACO MALTA". Most likely the letter was transported by the 'European & Australian Steam Navigation Company' to Suez, via 'Overland Mail', from Alexandria to Corfu by the Austrian Lloyd 'Trieste express line' and finaly to Malta by a short lived branch line.
Provenance:
Frank Chadwick, May 1978
Henry Houser, June 1992