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
Printed October 1872.		 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.

Prestige Philately September 2011 Lot 806.
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 Albury (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