Victoria - Colonial period: 1854-1900.
Delivery envelopes: VC-EO-4.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: Form number T. - 800,000.
Message area: Notes in red at left.
Reverse side: Blank. Small embossed seal beneath flap.
Colours (text & envelope): Red on cream.
Size of envelope: 71 × 121 mm.
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 
VC-EO-4
500,000 printed in October 1872.

Provenance: Prestige Philately September 2011 Lot 806.
Johnstone Collection.

VC-EO-4.

Melbourne to Urana, NSW
16 February 1875
With blue Postmaster-General Frank Stamp.

A second example of this cover is known. It is unused and has ms "Mixed Stamps" on the front.

Registered delivery envelope to NSW. A rare and remarkable usage on two counts:

  1. it is a registered cover;
  2. it does not bear the postage required for delivery to an inter-Colonial address.
    See vertical note at left.

 
VC-EO-4_rev
Reverse side.		 Reverse side of the above envelope (upside down to show the datestamps). Date stamps of Albury (16th), Tarcutta (17th) and Wagga Wagga (18th).

Small embossed Crown (originally pink - as shown on the unused cover) on the flap and red sealing wax.

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
EO-4 None T. - 500,000/ 10|72 RRRR