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Postal History continued...

LotNo.

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Lot Description

Estimate and Min. Bid in AU$'s

4563

1935 (Nov 30) unusual usage of 3d Jubilee, ½d orange KGV & NSW 7½d on 6d to pay correct 11d postcard airmail rate to Germany, stamp tied by 'AIR MAIL/BRISBANE QLD' datestamps. (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4564

1941 (Nov 7) Liddle & Epstein (Sydney) quadruple-rate censored Clipper cover to Philadelphia with Robes 5/- & 10/-, plus 9d Platypus tied by GPO Sydney datestamps; opening faults at right damaging 5/-. The clipper rate was 4/- for the first ½oz, then 3/11d for each successive ½oz x3 = 15/9d. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4565

1941 (?) use of pink/black parcels post label for Home Fund Warburton to send 'Xmas Hamper' weighing 10lbs/12oz to England, with 1/- Lyrebird & 9d Platypus tied by Warburton datestamps, paying the 1/9d Defence Forces concessional rate for a parcel not exceeding 11lbs in weight. Unusual. (Image1)

Estimate AU$120

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4566

1942 (July 9) inwards cover from Canada with partial 'BEDFORD/P.Q.' duplex cancel with stamp lost in transit, 'RECEIVED DAMAGED/BY WATER AT/G.P.O. SYDNEY 3' boxed handstamp in violet on face, resealed with black/pink 'It is very much regretted that the cover/of the enclosed article was inadvertently/damaged while in transit through the/post' label with Sydney '28AU42' cds, minor blemishes. (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4567

1956 (June 6) Morris Hedstrom Ltd airmail envelope (275x125mm) to Samoa with Sydney machine cancel and stamps washed off, obvious damage from immersion in water, very fine strike of the straight-line 'SOILED MAIL EX VASU' in violet handstamped at Apia on face. [The mail was flown to Fiji, then per wooden motorship 'Vasu' which foundered in rough seas about 300km north of Tonga, and was abandoned. Brian Peace states, at page 322, that '29 pieces of mail were recovered'.] (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4568

1964 (Apr 7) registered long cover endorsed 'LODGE RETURNS ONLY' with 2/5d Wren tied by Bendigo cds, superb strike of 'REFUGEE TENT No.14/V.D.S.U. 82/*EAGLEHAWK*' pictorial oval handstamp in violet, Melbourne arrival backstamps; cover with 3 vertical filing folds. Handstamp not seen by us before. (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4569

1966 Decimal/Pre-Decimal Mixed Franking (May 23) airmail cover to Switzerland with pre-decimal 1/2d Tassie Tiger, 8d Tiger Cat (x3), plus decimal QEII 4c red (x5), paying the equivalent of 50c (25c airmail rate double rate, for item weighing between ½oz-1oz; decimal rates introduced 14/2/66); cover with some edge blemishes. (c5) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

First Flight Covers

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4570

1936 Australia-England AAMC #612 (Jun 26) oversized cover endorsed & signed (on reverse) Certified flown throughout Francis Chichester pilot with 3d Airmail tied by Sydney datestamp on departure, then stamps for Netherlands Indies postmarked 'DENPASAR/13.7.36', followed by stamps and appropriate datesamps for Straits Settlements, Thailand, Indochina, Hong Kong, China (datestamped at Shanghai & Peiping), India, Persia, Iraq, Egypt and finally Great Britain (London '14OC/36' cds applied on arrival); central fold clear of adhesives, Cat $1,200. (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$1,000

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4571

1938 All-Up Airmail AAMC #820 illustrated cover with 5d KGV (Left frame thin, though not broken) tied by Sydney '1 AUG/1938' slogan cancel for the 2nd August First Flight from Australia at the new 5d per ½oz airmail all-up rate aboard the VH-ABA 'Carpentaria' piloted by Orme Denny. Fine condition. (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$80

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4572

1935 (Oct 28) Silver Jubilee rocket mail flimsy in red on yellowish-green, postmarked in violet, for delayed firing, postponed until 24 Feb 1936. (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

Military & Censor Mail

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4573

1900 BOER WAR: (May 29) cover to Scone (NSW) with '1ST AUSTRALIAN HORSE' imprint on flap, franked with ORC ½d & 1d pair tied by Field Post Office/British Army S.Africa datestamps, Sydney transit & Scone arrival backstamps. [The 1st Australian Horse formed part of the 2nd New South Wales Contingent.] (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$240

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

Military - World War I Period

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4574

1918 (July 25) stampless inwards cover to POW internee held at Liverpool Camp with boxed 'LONDON/JUL 25/1918/MOD' handstamp in black, double-oval 'MONEY ORDER OFFICE/31MAR1909/SYDNEY' in violet at upper-right, addressed to Civil P.O.W. Edwards E.G.C.C; small opening faults. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

Military - World War II Period

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4575

P,L

POWs in Australia 1944 (July 3) Internment Camp 5 (Myrtleford, Victoria) rare use by Italian POW of trilingual 'SERVICE OF PRISONERS OF WAR' lettersheet with 'APROVED FOR TRANSMISSION BY CAMP COMMANDANT/No.5 POW Camp Myrtleford' handstamp at left, addressed to recipient c/o Upper Plenty PO (Wallan, Vic) (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4576

POWs in Australia (Feb 27) stampless POW Notelope from 3 Internment Camp, Tatura, Vic to Italy, from Hans Riepl to his namesake in USA. This is the only Notelope with text lines on the face. [Hans Riepl was an internee from the Dunera] (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4577

POWs in Australia (Mar 17) 'Dunera Boy' correspondence postcard with 'PRISONER OF WAR SERVICE' handstamp in violet at top from Ernst Reiss, Hut 20, Camp 8 East Command (Hay, NSW) sent airmail to England endorsed By Air/CLIPPER, New Zealand/Pacific-North Atlantic with 5d Ram, 6d Kookaburra & Kangaroos 2/- maroon tied by Sydney cds paying the 2/11d Clipper rate for postcards (half of the 5/10d letter rate for same service), 'PASSED BY CENSOR/S.110' handstamp at base; apart from minor peripheral aging in very good condition. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4578

POWs in Australia (Aug 31) POW Address Postcard with small Coat of Arms & no imprint, from 13 POW Group Murchison Camp to Germany. Seldom seen. (Image1)

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Estimate AU$200

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4579

POWs in Australia (Dec 7) Christmas POW Postcard, with koalas, to Germany, German Internee from Iran (R number) at Barmera/Loveday Camp SA, blue diamond '4/PASSED/BY/CENSOR' on face. Rare. (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4580

POWs in Australia (Jan 1) inwards cover to Italian POW at Myrtleford Camp, Vic, sent airmail via Lisbon & New York, with both Italian & Australian Censor reseals & handstamps. (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4581

P,S

POWs in Australia (Feb 18) 6d Airmail Fee Postcard (BW #POW1) from German Officers Camp Dhurringile to Germany. Rare, most cards were used to Italy. (Image1)

Estimate AU$135

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM

4582

POWs in Australia (Apr 16) with 1/- Lyrebird on airmailed POW Notelope (contract #9/43 15436 Y10) from 14A Camp Barmera/Loveday, SA to Germany, violet diamond '4/PASSED/BY/CENSOR/35' on face, Berlin censor and reseal on back. (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

CLOSED
Closing..Mar-03, 05:00 PM