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Likely philatelic cover Launceston to Hobart 6 January, 1903

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 6:54 am
by Postagedues
This cover, addressed to Mrs K Stockton at 129 Selton Tce, Hobart raises a couple of questions:

Overpayment of the 1d rate suggests that it is philatelic
I can't find Selton (or Sefton) Tce is my google maps search, does anyone know its location?
Does anyone have similarly adressed covers?

Thanks,


John

Re: Likely philatelic cover Launceston to Hobart 6 January, 1903

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 9:48 am
by admin
Cant offer anything specific . I have never heard of Selton Terrace in Hobart and a newspaper search of Trove did not produce anything.
Somewhere online there is a listing of Hobart residents and addresses. Its a database taken from old Rates notices. I cannot find it at the moment but its there somewhere. If you can locate that online it might shed some light on the address.

Re: Likely philatelic cover Launceston to Hobart 6 January, 1903

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:15 am
by Ross Ewington
As the stamp is not tied to the cover there is no reason to assume that it actually went through the post. I have checked a list of Hobart ratepayers published in The Gazette in the 1890s and "Selton Street" doesn't get a mention.

Conclusion: this is a 'contrived cover' (to a bogus address).

Re: Likely philatelic cover Launceston to Hobart 6 January, 1903

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:17 am
by Postagedues
Thanks for that, far more contrived than I thought.

Re: Likely philatelic cover Launceston to Hobart 6 January, 1903

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 11:01 am
by admin
There are a number of forged Aust Sates covers around at the moment. Not that this cover is necessarily in that category but it would be interesting to know the provenance .

Re: Likely philatelic cover Launceston to Hobart 6 January, 1903

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 11:04 am
by Postagedues
It was an ebay pick up some years ago, cost me $10 from memory.

Re: Likely philatelic cover Launceston to Hobart 6 January, 1903

Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:14 pm
by admin
Thanks Postagedues. I'm not sure if the cover is genuine or not.Its not in the came category as the more recent forgeries which were generally very expensive if they were real. I dont recall seeing many, if any local underpaid letter rate covers during this period. Extremely uncommon I would think.
Pete