383rd Auction

1850, soft yellowish paper, 1 d. carmine, horizontal pair with large margins, neatly cancelled, very fine

2 d., plate III, late printing, used with central clear butterfly cancel "37" MELBOURNE, very fine

"SAVED FROM THE WRECK OF THE COLOMBO", perfect strike of the emergency handstamp on envelope from New South Wales to Merthyr Tydvil, franked with 2 d. blue, two singles, adjacent cds. "SYDNEY OC 22 1862", red transit "LONDON JA 2 63 PAID" and reverse arrival. Cover salvaged from the ship´s wreck while on its way to Suez on 19 November 1862, both the envelope and the adhesives faulty as to be be expected, very scarce and most unusual mail from New South Wales