South Australia - Colonial period: 1855-1900.
Ordinary rate delivery envelopes: SC-EO-3.

  
General characteristics:

Heading and notes: TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH spans the Crest.
Reverse side: Blank but has an 21 × 25 mm oval embossed seal in red on the flap.
Colours (text & envelope): Red on cream.
Size of envelope overall: 88 × 145 mm (with some variation).
Distinctive characteristics of this form:
 

Provenance: Prestige, Melbourne, 2 Sept 2006, lot 483.
Corinphila Dubois Coll'n part 3 November 2023, Lot 30194.
Johnstone Collection.		 SC-EO-3.

G.P.O. Adelaide to London.
20 April 1876.

Has a scarce oval
ALL CHARGES/
THIS MESSAGE/
ARE PAID handstamp.

Characteristics:

  • clearly no number in the top right corner;
  • mss via Brindisi at left;
  • square brackets around IMMEDIATE.

Contained a SA Telegraph form SC-DO-4 for a message transmitted from Wagga Wagga, NSW to Adelaide.

 

Embossed Crest on flap on reverse side.		 The Crest on the flap is
21 mm high and 25 mm wide.
EO-3a
Prestige Philately, June 2005, Lot 704.		 SC-EO-3.

G.P.O. Adelaide to London.
26 July 1980.

Has 2d and 6d O.S. overprints.

Has a scarce oval
ALL CHARGES/
THIS MESSAGE/
ARE PAID handstamp.

Characteristics:

  • IMMEDIATE is bracketed in the lower left corner;
  • the Crown on the top of the shield is horizontal;

 

Details of use and rarity.

Form
sub-number		 Schedule number Earliest recorded date Rarity rating
EO-3 None 20 April 1876 at G.P.O. Adelaide. RR