1891 Tasmania

Ref: G2769
  • £550.00

1891 triple weight cover to Germany bearing a strip of three 2d green and a strip of three 6d dull claret (S.G. 143) tied by HOBART SE 21 91 duplex cancellers. The rate then was 8d per ½ oz, but if it had been posted ten days later it would only have cost 7½d to send as the rate was reduced to 2½d per ½ oz on 1 October 1891. A fine and late pre UPU usage.