Sale No: 4
Lot No: 192
Symbol: CPS
Cat No: Collection
Small group of military & censored mail including 1904 with 'HMS CHALLENGER' on the flap, 1940 Consulate of the Netherlands cover inwards from New Zealand with 'SAFE HAND (AIR)' cachet (the only Safe Hand Packet item we have seen from NZ), 1941 pair of covers from Australian serviceman "LJ Golding A/B" in China (?) with either 'PASSED BY CENSOR/[initialled]/ DATE: ("26.6.41")' h/s or 'VICTORIA/19MY/40/HONG KONG' cds on face, and 1945 BCOF with 'HMAS HOBART/2 SEPT/1945/TOKYO JAPAN' woodcut cds, also Great Britain 1943 stampless to a civilian internee in China & 1945 Forces Letter KGVI 1½d to POW in Japan plus KGV 2d x3 tied to 1920s piece by 'ASCENSION' cds, India 1934 airmail to "Hong Kong Mule Corps" and Spain 1938 airmail to Malloca with M/S 'heart' censored.
OAS airmail cover endorsed from "LJ Golding A/B" with fine red boxed 'PASSED BY CENSOR/[initialled]/ DATE: ("26.6.41")' h/s on the face, to NSW with Sydney civil censor label & cachet at left, minor blemishes; plus 1940 cover to same addressee with italicised 'On Active Service' h/s in red and 'VICTORIA/19MY/40/HONG KONG' cds alongside with same 'PASSED ...' cachet on reverse, minor faults.
Military usages of KGVI Registration Envelopes from various Army, Navy & RAAF units during WWII, BCOF in Japan & the Korean War, several uprated, good range of CDS & registration cachets, a couple knocked-about but mostly fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 145.00
Sold...AU$ 170.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 170
Sale No: 4
Lot No: 194
Symbol: PS
1901 social usage of Victorian 1d Federation Postal Card with Melbourne cds of 1.1.01 being the first day of the AUSTRALIA &, as confirmed in the message, the first day of the Twentieth Century.
1913 (Mar 8) dealer's cover to Minnesota with scarce albeit philatelic combination franking of Kangaroo ½d green, 2d grey & 3d olive + NSW 2d ultramarine & Victoria ½d blue-green all tied by Sydney cds, red & black/white R label, US 'REGISTERED' h/s unusually in magenta with Seattle transit b/s in the same colour, Saint Paul arrival b/s in purple. Very attractive Five Colour franking.
1913 (Dec 24) double-rate usage of Kangaroo 4d orange Registered Envelope to London with scarce franking of Engraved 1d tied by 'ANNANDALE/NSW' cds, blank provisional red & black/white R label, London arrival b/s.
1913 (Dec 28) cover to a ship's captain c/- Pacific Steam Navigation Co at Panama endorsed in pencil "SS Guatemala" with scarce combination franking of Tasmania ½d + Kangaroos 1d red vertical pair (one with a small fault) tied by Hobart machine cancel to pay the foreign letter rate, poor arrival b/s. [NB: the Republic of Panama is a much scarcer destination than the Canal Zone]
1914 (July 16) Melbourne-Sydney Maurice Guillaux PPC correctly rated with Kangaroo 1d red tied by a superb strike of the double-oval flight cachet in violet, Sydney arrival cds of 18JL14, unusually clean & fresh but creased at U/L. [The address "Altson's Corner" - usually wrongly given as 'Alston's Corner' - is an 8-storey Edwardian building on the corner of Elizabeth & Collins Streets, built for tobacconist Henry Altson in 1903-04]
1914 (Dec 14) registered cover to Canada with scarce franking of Engraved 6d Kookaburra (exceptional centring, short perfs at top) tied by light 'MONEY ORDER/BENALLA' cds, red/white R label, Canadian 'HOBBY CLUB' label on the flap, 'C&V RPO/BC' transit b/s & Winnipeg arrivals (one of which ties the label), readdressed locally, minor blemishes.
1914-17 civil censorship inwards mail comprising Brisbane 'PASSED CENSOR/-9AP16/BRISBANE' cds in red on cover from Trinidad; Hobart 'PASSED BY CENSOR' on 1914 PPC from Austria written in Esperanto; Melbourne small 'Passed' cachet on 1914 PPC sent unfranked from Egypt & larger h/s on 1914 PPC from Austria; Perth 'PASSED BY/CENSOR 2' double-lined box cachet on 1917 PPC from USA; Sydney glassine tape handstamped 'OPENED BY CENSOR' on 1914 cover from Germany with Germania 20pf 'HE' perfin tied 'HANNOVER/14.7.14' cds (in transit at outbreak of WWI), also on Italy 1914 taxed cover and 1915 from same correspondent with red 'Opened by Censor' labels used to seal edges & 'INSUFFICIENTLY/ADDRESSED' cachet; then purple 'OPENED BY CENSOR' label on 1915 cover from France (text in one line); and 1916 cover from USA (text in two opposing lines); plus YMCA postcard of returned WWI soldiers at Mansfield (Vic); condition variable.
(Qty 11) (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 210.00
Closed..Feb-18-2021, 17:00:00 EST
Sold For 210
Sale No: 4
Lot No: 204
Symbol: PS
1915 (Feb 25) usage of KGV Sideface 1d Letter Card 'PINEAPPLES/QUEENSLAND' (pile of fruit) to Wisconsin with Kangaroo ½d green & KGV 1d red tied by 'LIVERPOOL/NSW' cds, resealed on three sides with purple/white 'OPENED BY CENSOR' labels of Sydney. [Although not endorsed as such, this is likely to be from a German internee at Liverpool POW Camp]
1915 (Feb 22) Rutty & Co (Merchants) double-rate cover to Switzerland with scarce franking of 5d chestnut (Cat $1000 on cover) tied by Sydney machine cancel, violet/white 'OPENED BY CENSOR' label, Geneva arrival b/s, light vertical fold.
1915 (Mar 24) very late but social usage of South Australian 1d Postal Card (Adelaide Savings Bank) in mauve to Connecticut with KGV ½d emerald tied by Adelaide machine cancel, 'PASSED' h/s in violet. Very pretty.
1915 (June 3) usage of a complete issue of 'Woman's World' addressed to "Booboorowie/via Kooringa" with Kangaroo ½d green tied by 'TEROWIE/STH AUSTRALIA' cds. An excellent newspaper rate usage.
1915 (Sep 20) usage of a complete issue of 'Woman's World' (a few faults) addressed to "Booboorowie/via Kooringa" with KGV ½d green tied by 'TEROWIE/STH AUSTRALIA' cds. An excellent newspaper rate usage.
1915 (Dec 31) usage of black/red 'VICTORIA/INTERSTATE/PARCEL POST' label with scarce franking of Kangaroos Second Wmk 2d grey & 1/- blue-green (corner faults; Cat $2000 on cover) tied by 'SURREY HILLS/VIC' cds, light creasing & minor blemishes. [The Second Wmk 1/- was issued -.8.1915; the Third Wmk 1/- was issued -.6.1916]
1921 (Jan 15) commercial double-rate cover to Pennsylvania with scarce franking of Kangaroos Third Wmk 6d grey-blue ACSC 19E (Cat $500 on cover) tied by Melbourne cds, stained.
1923 (July 23) use of KGV 5d Sideface Registration Envelope with Flap Folded to the Face & Address Lines at L/L ACSC RE13, to Massachusetts with scarce franking of KGV 4d ultramarine, Brisbane cds & red/white R label, four different Boston backstamps, redirected twice finally to across the street from the original address!! [The rate was 4d for the first ounce + 2d for the second ounce + 3d registration = 9d]
1926 (July 20) large parcel piece (folded to 226x207mm) with complete Farmer's of Sydney address label & post office 'PARCEL POST SYDNEY NSW/Farmer's' numbered label, Third Wmk 6d brown pair (both damaged before being affixed) & 9d violet - all with elaborate 'F' perfins - tied by undated 'CHIEF/PARCELS OFFICE/SYDNEY' roller cancels. Ex Kevin Nelson. [The rate was 1/9d for an intrastate parcel weighing between 5 & 6lb. The Post Office supplied Parcel Post labels bearing the user's name to large volume users: very few have survived. Farmer's, a department store founded in 1840, also operated radio station 2FC]
1930 registered parcel piece (164x145mm) to Victoria with Kangaroos SMult Wmk 9d & 1/- tied to complete parcel label by double-ring 'POST OFFICE/DEC/10/1930/EDGECLIFF NSW', blue & black/white R label, vertical fold clear of the stamps & label. A very scarce item.
1932 (Sept 2) to "Monaco Ville, France Sud" endorsed "Air Mail via Adelaide Perth" with KGV 1d green & Airmail 6d tied 'LATE FEE RIALTO/VIC.' cds paying 3d foreign surface rate, 3d domestic airmail surcharge plus 1d late fee, 'MONACO-CONDAMINE/1-10/32/PRINTE DE MONACO' arrival b/s, a couple of minor blemishes. Attractive internal airmail acceleration on cover to unusual destination.
1932 (Oct 7) to Czechoslovakia endorsed "Per RMS Baradine via Fremantle/Adelaide-Perth and Karachi-London Airmail" and with 'LATE FEE' cachet in violet alongside West Australian Airways 'TRANS-AUSTRALIAN AIR-MAIL' label, franked with KGV 1d green (torn before affixing) and Airmail 6d x2 tied 'LATE FEE/SPENCER ST VIC' cds paying 3d foreign letter rate, 3d internal airmail surcharge and 6d Karachi-London airmail fee plus 1d late fee, Athens transit and Gablonz '-2 XI 32' bi-lingual arrival b/s. Scarce destination with a wonderful array of supplementary charges.
1933 to Germany with Airmail 3d x3 tied Sydney '12FE33' cds paying 3d foreign surface rate for carriage by ship to India plus 6d surcharge for Imperial Airways Karachi-London airmail service, also carried by German airmail with red 'MIT LUFTPOST BEFORDERT/ZWEIGLUFTPOSTAMT/BERLIN-/ZENTRALFLUGHAFEN' cachet on face applied at Berlin airport, 'BERLIN-25.3.33/a/ZENTRALFLUGHAFEN' arrival b/s, a couple of minor edge faults.
1933 (June 15) usage of KGV Oval 5d Registration Envelope endorsed "Airmail/Aust Karachi London" amended by the sender to "Aust Air Mail" and uprated with KGV 3d blue x3 & 4d olive tied by 'OUT OF COURSE/ 2... /SYDNEY' cds, blue & black R label with Rat's Tail (fault), Perth transit b/s of 19.6.1933. Presumably posted in a letter slip at the GPO. [The rate was Empire letter 2d per ounce x2 + 3d per half-ounce domestic airmail supplement x3 + 3d registration + 2d late fee for a registered article + 1/6d]
1933-55 small 'PARCELS POST' labels from various printings with all-different frankings of 1/3d (including Bridge 3d Plate Number '4' pair), 2/- (Two Bob Roo), 3/9d & 5/9d (with Aborigine 2/6d pair), a few minor faults.
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1934 to USA endorsed "USA Airmail" with Victoria Centenary 3d & KGV 4d olive SM Wmk Perf 13½x12½ tied Melbourne '17JY34' cds paying 3d foreign surface rate plus 4d per ½oz surcharge for carriage by US internal airmail from California to Pennsylvania, a couple of minor blemishes. [The US internal airmail surcharge was increased to 7d per ½oz later in 1934]
1935 to England endorsed "By Australia/Singapore/London Air Mail" with Victoria Centenary 3d & KGV 1/4d CofA Wmk tied 'LATE FEE/*/19MR35/MELBOURNE VIC' cds paying 1/6d airmail rate plus 1d late fee, minor blemishes.
1935 airmail to England with Victorian Centenary 3d, Airmail 3d and ANZAC 1/- black ACSC #165 (Cat $400 on cover) tied Melbourne '23MY35' cds paying 1/6d rate, minor blemishes.
1937 (Mar 25) complete 'PARCEL POST/Form of Custome Declaration' for "1 pair of salt sellars [sic] & Paper Knife", to Chicago with Large Lyrebird 1/- tied by 'LONSDALE ST MELB/C1' cds, minor faults.
1937 to Victoria with KGVI 2d red tied 'POSTED ON TRAIN/23AU37/2' cds, taxed with 'LATE FEE/1D/TO PAY' cachet for mailing directly onto train, 'MELBOURNE/24AU37/L.C.ROOM' [Letter Carrrier Room] arrival b/s and Postage Dues 1d affixed on face tied by pencil cancel, minor blemishes.
1938 Netherlands Indies KPM cover airmail to Victoria with Queen Wilhelmina 25c only tied 'SOERABAJA/23.3.38' cds, carried by Qantas from Singapore with Melbourne '29MCH' arrival b/s, taxed "T 33 1/3" in red crayon & converted to "3½d" in pencil, Postage Dues ½d 1d & 2d affixed on face tied 'PO ELIZABETH ST/P.B.R.' {= Private Box Room} cds, minor edge faults.
1938 (Apr 28) double-rate British & Foreign Bible Society cover to London with rare franking of 1937 Perf 13½x14 1/- Lyrebird John Ash 42mm Imprint strip of 3 tied by Melbourne cds, a couple of very minor blemishes.
1938 airmail to Perth with Great Britain 1½d meter x2 paying double Empire Airmail Scheme rate, recovered from the crash of the Imperial Airways Flying Boat 'Calpurnia' with both the Sydney 'DAMAGED BY WATER/THROUGH ACCIDENT/TO FLYING BOAT' boxed cachet in red on face and the Perth roneo'd explanatory label (Sandford 381127qq) on back, plus another large envelope with Christmas Charity Appeal contents carried on the same flight with the Perth label only on back. 'Calpurnia' left London on 23.11.1938 and crashed upon landing at Lake Ramadi, Iraq on 27.11.1938, killing four of the seven crew on board. Attractively distressed pair & ideal for display.
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1939 usage of KGVI 2d Letter Card to Sydney with KGVI 3d blue affixed for airmail surcharge tied Brisbane 'AIR MAIL/27AP39' cds, forwarded with KGVI 2d red added tied Sydney parcel roller cancel and 'TOOWOOMBA/-6MY39' transit, still undeliverable and The Canberra, Margaret Street, Toowoomba address label endorsed "Left Hotel Canberra, Address Unknown" tied by 'UNCLAIMED/TOOWOOMBA' h/s, finally to the Dead Letter Office where opened & resealed with 'REPAIRED BY ____/G.P.O. BRISBANE' tape, '.../EXAMINER 2/BRISBANE Q'LAND' cachet on face & '.../8JE39/BRISBANE' cds in red applied to DLO label on back, light fold & minor blemishes.
1939 (Nov 3) to Hungary with 5d Ram and 1/6d Hermes tied Sydney 'AIR MAIL/SECTION/G.P.O.' machine cancel paying 1/11d rate for 'all-the-way' airmail service via Greece, censored with early Sydney label 'OPENED BY CENSOR' in one line only and cachet on face, 'BUDAPEST/ - XI.19.10' arrival b/s where black 'X' (35mm) jusqu'a marking applied - unnecessarily - on face, couple of minor blemishes. [Hungary did not formally join the Axis powers until November 1940]
1940 (Mar 3) commercial airmail cover to "Beograd" (Belgrade), Yugoslavia with KGVI 3d Die II & Hermes 1/6d, with enclosed letter written in German (?). A very scarce WWII destination because service was suspended on 10.6.1940 when Italy ended the war.
1940 (Dec 19) Clipper cover to Massachusetts with Lyrebird 1/- block of 4 tied by 'HORNSBY/NSW' cds, 'BOSTON, MASS/BACK BAY ANNEX' arrival b/s, redirected to a ship soon to depart from San Francisco with Air Mail 6c Eagle tied by a different '.../BACK BAY ANNEX' cds.
1940 (Dec 18) triple-rate cover to Kent with scarce franking of CofA Wmk 2/- + 6d Kookaburra and Robes Thick Paper 5/- & 10/- (small defects) tied by 'AIR MAIL SECTION/MELB VIC' cds, minor blemishes. [An unusually high franking on a small cover, paying 5/10d per ½oz x3 = 210d = 17/6d]
1941 (Apr 15) airmail cover to England with 1/6d tied by 'MANLY/QUEENSLAND' cds, no censor label or cachet but with a superb strike of the very scarce 'RELEASE' h/s, readdressed to Northants, part of the flap is missing.
1941 Cairns (Qld) 'OPENED BY CENSOR' resealing label (rouletted at top & base), ' 1/3 /PASSED/BY/CENSOR/ [ ] ' diamond cachet (without number at base) in violet applied in transit on face of cover to USA with Papua Pictorials 3d Dandy tied 'PORT MORESBY/30DE38/PAPUA' cds. [The Cairns civilian censor station operated from late-1940 to late-1941/early-1942 only; by April 1942 many of the civilian population had been evacuated (as Cairns was in range of Japanese bombers) and Australian & US troops had begun moving into the area, bringing military censorship stations with them (as also happened at Darwin)]
1941 (Aug 2) double-rate Clipper cover from a Brisbane Car Dealership to Chrysler in Michigan with KGVI 3d Die III & 1/4d magenta pair + 5/- Robes, red/white censor label tied by superb censor cachet in violet. [The rate was 4/- for the first ½oz plus 3/11d for each successive ½oz]
1941 usage by Australian serviceman "S/Sgt PM Pederson, 12th Rec Sect, AIF" (return address) of airmail covers with printed 'POSTAGE PAID/25 CENTS/MALAYA' in red from Singapore to Australia, one with the indicium at U/R as usual and 'FIELD POST OFFICE/2 OC/1941/SP 501' cds, the other unusually with the indicium applied at top-centre and 'AIF FIELD PO/11SE41/No 19' cds alongside, minor blemishes. [Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15.2.1942]
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1942 stampless cover to Perth with superb 'Services Prisoners/of war. Camp No 11' at Harvey with large boxed 'RISPONDTE A/...(SCRIVETE CHIARO)/...' cachet on the reverse & Censor #1 h/s all in violet.
1942 (May 16) cover endorsed for airmail in Australia only with KGVI 3d blue Die III pair tied by 'AIF FIELD PO/No 23' cds used in Ceylon, Indian-pattern triangula censor h/s in violet, Strathfield arrival machine b/s. Rare. [Australian forces returning from the Middle East were diverted to Ceylon, where they remained for only 6 weeks]
1944 (May 5) to Eskilstuna, Sweden with KGVI 2d violet and 2½d red pair tied Sydney cancel paying the 7d rate for carriage by ship to Great Britain and onwards by airmail, censored with Sydney label & cachet at left and British label at right partly covering oval 'O.A.T.' cachet in violet applied at London to signify "Onwards Air Transmission", a couple of minor blemishes. [This special rate was introduced as mail could not be carried by surface to neutral Sweden due to the German presence in the North Sea; the mail was carried by RAF planes transporting war supplies between Sweden and the UK]
1945 (June 18) usage of POW airmail envelope to Malaya with 5d Ram tied by 'ARAMAC/QLD' cds, censored at Melbourne as usual, received after the war ended in September & endorsed "RTA" (= Returned to Australia"), small piece of the flap missing.
1946 (May 24) commercial airmail cover to "RAF/British Forces in Greece/MEF" with ½d Kangaroo, 1d QM, 6d Kookaburra & Peace 5½d pair (rarely seen multiple on cover) tied by Sydney cds, minor creasing due to the thick letter, which is enclosed.
