Great Britain and British Commonwealth Postal History
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 391
Symbol: C/CX
Fascinating array of material on exhibit pages with strength in the decimal period, mostly Special Services including Registration, Late Fee, Express, Business Reply Post, Cash on Delivery, Redirection, Damaged Articles, SAL/Economy Air plus such "exotics" as Live Bees, Articles for the Blind, Boxlink, Talking Letter, Room Key Return, Infectious Substances & Pooh Sample envelope, numerous Post Office forms (mostly unused) & advice letters etc, many are rather large, condition variable. Ex Bernie Doherty.
(Qty 150+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 1,350.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 1350
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 392
Symbol: CPS
Large box with a completely unsorted array of covers & postal stationery with lots of postmark content including 1930s registered covers, commercial airmails, illustrated advertising & tourist envelopes, lots of instructional handstamps, Postage Dues, Official & Municipal mail, 'maximum' cards & unaddressed 1940s FDCs, Military from WWI WWII & Vietnam, etc etc, many Kangaroo & KGV frankings through to modern including a few commercially used commemorative PSEs, generally fine to very fine. Heaps of potential.
(Qty many 100s) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 625.00
Sold...AU$ 900.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 900
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 393
Symbol: CPS
Box with pre-WWII Postal Stationery including nice range of Stamped-To-Order Envelopes including Star 1d violet unusual size for 'BERLEI REVIEW' & 1½d green x2 with different all-over advertising for AW Sandford & Co, 1½d green Postal Card with illustrated advert for WF Roberts & Co, plain postcard for Broken Hill YMCA Stamp Club, miscellaneous covers including registereds from Menindee & Milperran both with red/white R labels, etc, condition variable.
(Qty 100 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 575.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 575
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 394
Symbol: CPS
Bundle of covers mostly 1940s including WWII from a serviceman with a variety of Army & Air Force Post Office markings in Australia and overseas, noted a registered from FPO 172, a few Air Mail Letter Cards, 1943 envelope addressed to POW in "Malaya or Singapore" apparently not sent & Australian POW Relatives' Association envelope; plus a KGVI 1½d STO Envelope for City of Broadmeadows, & modern commercial mail, condition quite mixed. Weighs 1kg.
(Qty 150+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 115.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 115
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 395
Symbol: CPS
Cat No: Collection
Covers etc including a group of modern PSEs commercially used, 1911 Hawkesbury Agricultural College OHMS cover with 1d 'OS/NSW' puncture, 1961 ship's PPC with AAT 5d Mawson tied Fremantle 'PAQUEBOT' machine, 1965 'BATHURST SESQUICENTENARY' cds on commercial cover, also some inwards items to Australia noted 1948 airmail from Cyprus with Egypt censorship, 1965 Malaya Forces Mail with 'JUNGLE WARFARE/SCHOOL' cachet & 1982 air from China with Lijiang River 70f, etc, condition a little mixed. Weighs 2½kg.
(Qty 100+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 125.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 125
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 396
Symbol: CPS
Cat No: Collection
Covers accumulation mostly commercial with lots of better items noted 1920s Great Britain KGV envelope inwards with 1d Customs Duty label, 1937 Flying Boat 'Cygnus' crash with GB 'Found open ...' label, 1938 James Black Shoes folded illustrated advertising brochure with QE 1d solo, 1938 OHMS postcard with KGVI 1½d brown Punctured 'VG', 1938 Goldsborough, Mort & Co envelope with KGVI 2d & 3d 'G' perfins, 1940 Loyal Prince Alfred Lodge, Bombala Easter Monday Sports programme folded and sent with 6d Kookaburra solo, 1941 Red Cross censored airmail to Switzerland with 1d, 9d, 1/- and Robes 5/- & 10/- (small faults), 1941 1/- Lyre solo on Parcels Post label, 1942 registered with '5½d' on 5d Ram solo, 1950 airmail PPC to Denmark with 9d Platypus solo, 1954 long cover with 'SALVAGED MAIL/AIRCRAFT CRASH/SINGAPORE 13.3.1954' cachet (suitably distressed), 1959 5d Christmas used from Cocos Islands, some military mail, also postal stationery including 1936 KGV 1d green Stamped-To-Order postal card, 1942 KGVI 7d Aerogramme from Italian POW with Camp cachet and a few uprated STO envelopes, etc, also a few pieces with higher values to £1 Arms, condition variable but mostly fine to very fine. Weighs 3½kg.
(Qty 100s)
Estimate AU$600
Opening AU$ 950.00
Sold...AU$ 1,000.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 1000
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 397
Symbol: CPS
Cat No: Collection
Decimal covers accumulation predominantly commercial mail including lots of better items from QEII 1c combination franking used to uprate a 10d Aerogramme, 1966 Vietnam War forces mail with 5c Bird x2, Certified Mail with QEII 2c & 15c Galah and 'AR' cachet and a philatelic cover with QEII 4c booklet pane, Birds & Navigators used as Postage Dues on Business Reply Mail postcards, 1968 Special Despatch with QEII '5c' on 4c booklets stamps x3, two 1969 British Forces in Australia concessional airmails to UK with 6c Bird solos and another with 6c Flower solo, other solos including 15c Timber, 60c Education, 70c Marine Life & 70c Living Together, registered mail & Security Post, Priority Paid mail including two with 'TEST ARTCILE' cachets, instructional markings, a batch of meter mail, also stationery noted 1980 'Big Banana' 20c postal card airmail to Canada and bundle of unused Aerogrammes, etc, etc, condition variable but mostly fine to very fine. Weighs 5½kg.
(Qty 100s)
Estimate AU$400
Opening AU$ 300.00
Sold...AU$ 525.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 525
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 398
Symbol: C/CL
The very last of 'The Tillie Mitchell' covers with Kangaroos First Wmk 2½d pair or Third Wmk 2½d punctured 'OS', STO Envelopes for Shire of Seymour and James Moore & Sons, and 1981 with 24c tied by 'VILA [ ______ ]/ PAQUEBOT' cds with 'NEW HEBRIDES' excised.
(Qty 5)
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 399
Symbol: CPS
Cat No: Collection
1913-30s group with KGV frankings including 1918 (Dec 3) cover with 1d red+1d red bisect to pay the ½d war tax required from 28.10.1918 plus three further unaddressed covers with bisects cancelled per favor, a range of 1d 1½d & 2d solo frankings plus a few with 1d Kangaroos, official mail including 1932 KGV 3d blue punctured 'OS' solo and 'National Art Gallery of NSW' envelope with 1d & 2d 'OS' overprints both to USA, KGV 1d Postal Cards with 'Alfred Masonic Hall' printed message unused x4 and with 'Commonwealth Club of Adelaide' message uprated with KGV ½d green on first day of the war tax, etc, etc; a few pre-1901 including 1842 from GB with 'GEELONG/NEW SOUTH WALES' arrival, 1896 Tasmania & 1897 Victoria registration envelopes used; condition mixed but many fine. Weighs 2½kg.
(Qty 150+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 320.00
Sold...AU$ 675.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 675
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 400
Symbol: C=
1960s array of complete & part-parcel tags with various frankings & rates and mostly South Australian postmark interest including scarce parcel rollers.
(Qty many 100s)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 160.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 401
Symbol: C/CL
1967-73 covers all with Navigator frankings mostly 40c 50c & $1 including 75c Cook & $2 Bass, mainly to an insurance company in England, the majority registered & some postmark interest including 'BORONIA WEST' (Vic; rated RR), condition variable.
(Qty 60)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 260.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 260
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 402
Symbol:
POSTMARKS: Archive box of 1970s-2000s commercial mail selected for CDS cancels from all States plus some ACT & Northern Territory, also postal history interest noted 1971 domestic cover with Christmas 7c solo, 1972 airmail to New Zealand with 12c Rehabilitation solo, a few registered, quantity of 1990s official mail, etc, some used and uprated postal stationery as well, plus another archive box full of Decimal stamps on piece with CDS cancels, condition generally fine to very fine. Weighs 15kg.
(Qty 1000s)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 150.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 403
Symbol: C
POSTMARKS: Unsorted array of mostly small 1980s to early-1990s covers - many opened three sides - with Australia-wide 'PAID' datestamps & machine types, some changeover from steel to rubber & a small percentage from red to black ink, some struck in error on stamps, many unusual &/or rare types, variable strikes but countless are fine to superb. Weighs 10kg. Outstanding opportunity!
(Qty 1000+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 240.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 240
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 404
Symbol: CPS
Cat No: Collection
PRIORITY PAID: 1970s-80s group of commercial covers & uprated postal stationery with a variety of frankings & rates including solos, a few meter cancels & Postage Paid labels, range of intructional markings including 1970 'TEST ARTICLE' x2, 1979 'RECEIVED LATE/DUE TO/AIRLINE DIFFICULTIES' and 1988 'Destination Outside/ Guaranteed Network' sticker, etc, generally fine to very fine. Potential for an inexpensive One-Frame Exhibit!
(Qty 180+)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 150.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 405
Symbol: C
TAX MARKINGS: Archive box of 1980s-90s domestic commercial covers, many unfranked & a variety of mostly solo frankings with a wide variety of cachets & markings, lots of postmark interest from from all States plus a few ACT & Northern Territory, condition generally fine to very fine. Weighs 6kg.
(Qty 100s)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 75
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 492
Symbol: C
'Servicing the Post at Newcastle' five-frame exhibit (69 of 80 pages) with a few pre-1880 items including 1850 soiled outer to Jersey with poor but discernible strike of the rounded-boxed 'NEW CASTLE/POST PAID' h/s in black & poor 'NEWCASTLE/[crown]/JA*1/NEW.S.WALES' d/s (first day of issue of the Sydney Views), 1854 front with 28mm 'NEWCASTLE/N.S.W' cds & very fine strike of the 28mm 'FORWARD/N.S.W' cds, original 1858 PO Notice re use of pairs of the 'REGISTERED' stamp, 1858 long cover with 'REGISTERED' - cut-to-shape - + Imperf Diadems 1d pair, 1899 'Licence for a Stage Carriage', PPC with 1st-type machine cancel (recorded Oct 1909 only), instructional handstamps including 'NK NEWCASTLE' (= Not Known) x2 on 1893 Postal Card from Germany & on1907 cover from China, etc, Special Services including registration & AR, Parcel Post, Express, Newspaper Post, etc, finally Philatelic Exhibitions including 1934 pilot-signed airmail cover (20 carried), etc, condition variable. Ex Bernie Doherty.
(Qty 120 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$600
Opening AU$ 460.00
Sold...AU$ 1,700.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 1700
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 493
Symbol: CPS
POSTMARKS: Archive box of 1980s-90s commercial covers with CDS cancels including a few rubbers noted some 'MONEY ORDER OFFICE' types, some tax markings, plus a couple of bags of CDS cancels on stamps on piece including some earlier back into the Pre Decimal period, includes some ACT markings also, strikes generally clear & above-average. Weighs 10kg.
(Qty 100s)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 75
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 494
Symbol: PS
Cat No: Collection
POSTAL CARDS - SCENIC: Used group comprising 1898 issue Arms 1d 'Greetings from ...' Queen Victoria Market (scarce view), General Post Office used as a formular postcard to France "via San Francisco" with New Zealand Pictorials ½d & 1d, Wentworth Falls used to Melbourne and another to Germany with ½d added, Katoomba Falls and Mosman's Bay, plus 1½d Numeral 'With Christmas Greetings' Town Hall and 'With New Year Greetings' Town Hall, General Post Office and Katoomba Falls, also 1906 issue Arms 1d Iron Cove Bridge used locally by BB Nicol & Co representative, condition fine to very fine and well above-average for used examples of these.
(Qty 11)
'O.S.' frankings Narrow Setting 2d x2 on Railways cover to Broken Hill & Wide Setting 2½d SG O83 pair (Cat £39 x50+ on cover) on OHMS registered toi Hoyleton, both very fine; a superb unused 1908 1d Postal Card for Visit of the American Fleet; and a batch of mostly ordinary covers & PPCs.
(Qty 48)
Estimate AU$350
Opening AU$ 270.00
Sold...AU$ 270.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 270
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 589
Symbol: C
1907 (March) linen parcel tag with rare (possibly unique?) franking of punctured 'OS' 2d violet, Thin 'POSTAGE' 2/6d violet and Thick 'POSTAGE' 6d blue-green & 1/- brown all tied by indistinct datestamps, a bit grubby & the tag with minor faults. An outstanding item for the collector of parcel mail or Long Toms: none of these are priced by the ACSC on cover & this is the only item we have seen with three different denominations & the only one with the 2/6d. [The rate was 4/2d for an interstate parcel weighing between 7 & 8 pounds]
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 590
Symbol: PS
Cat No: Collection
POSTAL STATIONERY - WRAPPERS: Selection identified by H&G numbers with variety in the shades & stocks including scarce ½d pale emerald x2 plus a large piece with 'O.H.M.S.' Overprint (rare), good range of 'O.S.' Overprints & a few 'SPECIMEN' types, some uprated to overseas countries, also STO Wrappers unused & with printed banner for 'The Advertiser', condition variable. Good basis for expansion.
(Qty 85 approx) (Image1)
Estimate AU$250
Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 250.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 250
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 611
Symbol: C
1838 entire headed "Great Swan Port 14th Sepr 1838" & signed "Geo Meredith", to Hobart rated "6" with small boxed '19SE19/1838' arrival b/s, "6" scored-through & re-rated "1" because the addressee, Sgt Killion, was a soldier. A significant rarity: believed to be the only recorded inland Soldier's Rate letter from the pre-stamp period. [Offered with a promissory note - rejoined (?) or repaired along central split - also signed by Meredith. Great Swanport on the NE coast, was renamed Swansea c.1863. George Meredith was granted land on Oyster Bay in 1821]
(Qty 2 items)
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 612
Symbol: CO
Cat No: Collection
1858 printed Proccedings of the House of Assembly (6pp extract only) with 'TASMANIA' London Printing 1/- vermilion SG 41 (good even margins, small fault at L/L) with BN '61' of Hobart, to Launceston with outgoing 'PRE-PAID/27SP27/1855' cds & inwards 'PRE-PAID 28SP28/1858' boxed b/s both in red, minor blemishes, the stamp & address attractively orientated for vertical display. Ex Koicho Sato. An early usage in the year of issue, paying the very scarce 4oz inland packet rate that applied only between April & November 1858. [Although van Diemen's Land was renamed Tasmania in 1856, the 1858 6d & 1/- were the first stamps to bear the new name]
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 613
Symbol: S
Cat No: Collection
DATESTAMPS: Collection on leaves of mostly 1900-20s strikes on Pictorials, Kangaroos and KGV Heads with lots of closed POs rated up to RR including '___ BALFOUR' ['MT' excised] x2, 'DROMEDARY', 'EAGLEHAWK NECK' 1925 rubber, 'FALMOUTH', 'GLENDEVIE', 'HENRIETTA', 'HOLLOW TREE' x2, 'LADY BAY', 'LOWER BARRINGTON', 'LOWER BEULAH', 'MERSEYLEA', 'MELROSE', 'NORTH MOTTON', 'NUGENT', 'REKUNA', etc, plus RRR-rated 'NIETTA/OCT 20 1921/TASMANIA' rubber cds in blue on KGV 2d orange on piece, condition generally fine to very fine.
(Qty few 100s) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 420.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 420
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 614
Symbol: CPS
Cat No: Collection
DATESTAMPS: Archive box of 1970s-90s commercial covers with CDS cancels including some rubber types, a quantity of 1990s official mail & a small group with meter cancels, a couple of bags of CDS cancels with some Pre-Decimal period and two stockbooks including a few Colonial-period numeral cancels and postmarks on KGV Heads, strikes generally clear & above-average, condition mostly very fine. Weighs 20kg.
(Qty 100s)
Estimate AU$300
Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 280.00
Closed..Aug-04-2021, 19:00:00 EST
Sold For 280
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 661
Symbol: CL
Cat No: 14
1854 (May 25) OHMS entire with 'Supreme Court Registry' imprint at L/L, to Nottinghamshire "p Madras" with rare franking of Ham Half-Lengths 3d blue with White Veils SG 14 horizontal strip of 4 [3-6: margins in places, Cat £380+++] tied by Barred Oval '1' cancels of Melbourne (d/s alongside), London transit b/s of 1854/7AU7 in red & unframed 'NEWARK' arrival b/s of the next day in blue, heavy vertical fold clear of the stamps. Despite the problems, this is an attractive & desirable cover.
1901-02 Boer War covers apparently from two brothers to family at Mansfield, four with CofGH 1d tied by 'BRUSSELS/CGH' cds & double-circle 'PASSED PRESS CENSOR/W ELTON/CENSOR/KIMBERLEY' cachet, not counter-signed; the other two being GB 1d Envelopes - one with Transvaal 1d - with 'FIELD PO/ 6 /BRITISH ARMY S AFRICA' or 'ARMY POST OFFICE/ A /STANDERTON' cds, correctly countersigned at L/L; condition variable.
(Qty 6)
Sale No: 245
Lot No: 663
Symbol: S=C
Cat No: Collection
TRAVELLING POST OFFICES: Annotated collection remainders with many scarce to rare items including 22mm Octagon 'DOWN TRAIN/MG5' (rated RRRR), 'DOWN TRAIN/MG14 - TPO/14' duplex (RRRRR), 25mm Octagon 'DOWN TRAIN/MG14' (RRRR), 'TPO/ 17 '-in-Bars, etc, good range of Commonwealth types including 'TPO 15/DOWN...' (RRR), English Mail TPO section including duplex on covers to Canada & GB both paid 2½d + 6d late fee, very fine machine b/s on cover from Austrian Levant (!), 'POSTED MELBOURNE/DOWN EXPRESS', half-strike of 'TPO E' & two part-strikes of the double circle 'GT STHRN UP TRAIN' relief cds; also two strikes of 'RMSS/HOBSONS BAY' datehead only; condition variable. (Image1)
