b'100889889P POSTAL CARDS: Perkins Bacon Die Proof of Chalon Head vignette used in the 1880 Postal Card design, on thick ungummed, unwatermarked wove paper.Ex Perkins Bacon Archives. .$400600890PS POSTAL CARDS: (H&G #1) 1882 (Jun.19) use of 1d Postal Card from BOGANTUNGAN to South Australia, taxed as deemed invalid for interstate use, taxed at 2d double deficiency with boxed INSUFFICIENTLY/PRE-PAID handstamp applied.The 1d Postal Card rate was not introduced to the Australian Colonies until January 1887 so 1d Postal Cards sent interstate prior to this date were treated as short paid & taxed accordingly. .$80120891PS POSTAL CARDS: (H&G #4) 1888 (Oct.16) use of 1d Postal Card (horizontal fold) to London, not uprated so taxed for deficiency with manuscript Def Postage 1d/Fine 2d} 3d marking and bold strike of 3D/620 handstamp, Rays 128 cancel with HEMMANT Type 3a datestamp beneath (rated 4R), WOOLLOONGABBA & BRISBANE transits & LONDON S.W. arrival datestamp. .$80120Ex 892892PS S CTO POSTAL CARDS: (H&G #7) Range of 1891 Types A to G 1d Reply Postal Cards including postally used (15) including 1897 (May 11) to Sydney with weak strike of Type 3c DOWNFALL CREEK departure datestamp (rated 4R), 1903 uprated from Rockhampton to Presteigne, Radnorshire, England, 1911 (Apr.25) use of Reply Half to remote Tola in Southern Nigeria with GARUA (Cameroons) transit datestamp and a Type 5a HATTON VALE departure datestamp (rated 4R); other destinations include Austria, Germany and USA plus a taxed 1893 Reply Half to Switzerland with Swiss 10c added; also unused cards (10), and a specimen example with weak strike of BRISBANE cto cancel, this being the only recorded example. Impossible to replicate. (26 items) .$400500'