COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Flight Covers - Pioneer Flights etc
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1255
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Annotated collection of mostly 1929 Adelaide-Perth flights including two signed by the pilot "NBrearley", several registered covers & a good range of intermediates, also other WA flights, and groups of East Coast & Outback NSW flights, generally very fine; plus some unrelated taxed covers in variable condition & a few others.
(Qty 90 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 550.00
Sold...AU$ 1,400.00
Closed..Aug-29-2020, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 1400
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1256
Symbol: CPS
Cat No: Collection
Qantas collection in five large albums, the first 1½ albums are largely photocopies of covers up until WWII but includes modern copies of early photos, Ticket No 1 facsimile, 1945 Ceylon-Aust 1st Liberator flight, Mornington Island Parchute Mails x5, re-opening flights including to & from PNG, Hong Kong & Dutch Indies, 1949 1st Second Class Airmail to GB at 2/6d with the original contents (rare thus), some pilot-signed; then an array of Coronation covers & aerogrammes, international route extensions to 1987, etc, plus a selection of non-Qantas items including 1934 Royal Visit flight pilot-signed & 1935 'Southern Cross' with silver label & seven autographs; STC $6000 approximately. Weighs 13kg.
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Estimate AU$1,000
Opening AU$ 750.00
Sold...AU$ 1,300.00
Closed..Aug-29-2020, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 1300
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1257
Symbol: */**O
Cat No: Collection
Balance of collection focussing on the airmail labels with a wide variety of types with some scarce ones including on a range of commercial and philatelic covers, noted registered to USA with 1934 Centenary Air Race Imperf label, an empty Qantas booklet, Wing Commander Goble in magenta, Narromine 'Wasp' sheetlet (**), 1948 Mornington Island parachute mail, etc, also 1914 Guillaux PPC with 1d Kangaroo tied by oval d/s in violet & Sydney arrival cds (faults), etc. Ex Art Groten.
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Estimate AU$750
Opening AU$ 575.00
Sold...AU$ 850.00
Closed..Aug-29-2020, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 850
Sale No: 242
Lot No: 1258
Symbol: C
Cat No: 47c
1920 Velvet Soap advertising card dropped by Graham Carey during his promotional flight on 3rd August 1920 over Melbourne in his Maurice Farman Shorthorn biplane AAMC #47c, illustrations on front and back include two views of the aeroplane as well as the J Kitchen & Sons (Port Melbourne) soap factory, unusually fine with just a couple of very minor blemishes, Cat $3000. Possibly the finest known of the few examples recorded; sold at a Melbourne auction in 2003 for $3220. Ex 'Tillie Mitchell'.
1929 Adelaide-Perth scarce ephemera comprising two Plume Motor Oil/Mobiloil advertising cards, 1.6.1929 menu for the commemorative dinner in Adelaide, 'USE/THE AIR MAIL/...' brochure printed in Perth, and lovely 'Today - ADELAIDE/Tonight/FORREST/Tomorrow/PERTH' brochure.
(Qty 5)
