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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Stamps & Postal History
• Sale Date:
  05 Mar 2015 ~ Session 1 (Lots 1 - 176) - 1pm
  05 Mar 2015 ~ Session 2 (Lots 501 - 647) - 3pm
• Lot #:
  2
• Lot Description:
  1840 (Oct 9) large-part entire signed 'ACooper', to London
  with British 'SHIP-LETTER' h/s & London arrival b/s of 18FE18/1841 in red, rather aged.
  Symbol: C Grade: C
• Provenance:
  Ex Rod Moreton: on his exhibit page.
• Notes:
  [The writer, a lawyer, states 'The place is glutted with any thing at the moment that is unsaleable...Money & labour is very much wanted & the Government as if purposely to retard the development of the Colony have stopped the assignment of Convicts & withdrawn their Specie from the Banks & consequently from the public at the very time it was most needed...'] Convicts represented a chief source of labour for the free settlers. However, on 8/10/1839, the government announced that the assignment of convicts was to end & '...the Settlers must be prepared for the immediate diminution of Assignment, and the speedy discontinuance of it altogether'
• Estimate:
  A$400 - 400
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Numismatics

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