Norfolk Island

Hi to all

This is a cover that I bought today, another $2.00 special.

Regards
Horamakhet

Great cover - thanks for showing!

Question about Covers in General...

This cover was obviously created to showcase the entire set of stamps, used on cover.

Is the value affected by the fact it was "contrived" rather than being the correct amount of postage for a letter?

KirkS

Normally, I would think so,

What is interesting about this cover is the recipients address
Cassilis
Currently a small village of a few hundred people



Cassilis
Small village north of Mudgee
Cassilis is a pleasant little village of a hundred people which is located just off the Golden Highway on the Munmurra River. It is 43 km north-west of Merriwa, 86 km north-east of Mudgee and 358 km north-west of Sydney. The main streets have been declared an urban conservation area.

Cassilis began in the 1830s as a private village called Dalkeith which served the Cassilis and Dalkeith stations. The former property was granted to Alexander Busby in 1835 and the latter to Donald McIntyre, the brother of Peter McIntyre (see entry on Aberdeen) in 1834, although it was later acquired by Busby.

8 km to the south-east of Cassilis, a government village called Borambil was laid out (it is now a hamlet of a half dozen houses on the Golden Highway) but people favoured Dalkeith as it was located on a stock route and near a good water supply.

The settlement later became a stopover for coaches bound west from Muswellbrook until the railway replaced the coach service. It was gazetted as a town and named Cassilis in 1869.

Aboriginal bushranger Jimmy Governor worked as a police tracker at Cassilis just prior to taking up a job at Breelong (see entry on Gilgandra) where he started a three-month rampage which resulted in the murder of ten people. His story served as the basis of Thomas Keneally's novel The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith which was made into a film. Governor lived behind the police station.

Here's the bloke who wrote the book, that made the film





and that bloke was a partner that co-designed these stamps

Interesting question Kirk. It does not appear to be a FDC or anything of that nature so the question is, do all the Stamps on the cover make the registered rate for the time ? Nonetheless it's a great cover.

For whatever it's worth, the Philatelic Database has a reference to another period cover -- and a registered one at that -- originating from a Norman J. Piper, noted to be a stamp dealer in Cassilis, NSW, which pretty much assures that the cover shown previously was created for philatelic purposes:



It's still a nice cover, though!

Hi to all

maybe Mr Piper posted it to himself from Norfolk Island or had a friend post it. Interestingly it does not have a return address on the back of the envelope that would suggest a "contrived envelope"
I wonder if Mr Piper was also the Post Master in Cassilis as in small outback towns in the old days the Post Office would be situated in local store.
Regards
Horamakhet