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PSA-1900 commercial usage of Queensland 1½d Postal Card ("Bullock-ploughing...") to Java with cross-written message in Dutch headed "Daru 2 November 1900" but presumably despatched at some distance from the settlement as it bears 'DARU/NO10/ /B.N.G' cds (Lee #41; ERD for no year slug) & 10-bars 'B.N.G' cancel (Lee #42; rated E) both in an unusual and distinctive bright-blue ink, 'THURSDAY ISLAND' transit & 'SOEKABOEM' squared-circle arrival both on the face, a few very minor blemishes that in no way detract from this extraordinary item of postal history. [The earliest recorded entire from Daru, written by a Dutch official pursuing murderous tribesmen. Only two other examples of Queensland Postal Cards used in BNG have been recorded] 7500 T

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