1931-34 selection including 1931 Australia-Java AAMC.204, 1934 (Apr.) Australia-NZ-Australia AAMC.371 (4), 1934 (July) Australia-Papua, Papua-Australia (2), Australia-Papua-Australia (3) & Australia-New Guinea-Australia (2), 1934 (Nov.) Melbourne-Portland postcard AAMC.461 (2), 1934 Australia-England AAMC.470 (4); also New Zealand 1934 (Feb.) NZ-Australia NZAMC.81e; some with mild toning, condition generally good to fine. (20 items) (Image)

Estimate AU$200-250
Min. Bid. AU$150

1932-35 flight cover selection comprising 1932 England-Australia Kingsford Smith flown AAMC.245, 1934 Trans-Tasman #389 signed by Ulm, 1934 Australia-Papua/NewGuinea boomerang covers (3) two signed by Ulm, 1934 Melbourne-Portland Autogiro Flight #461 (2, one with newspaper cuttings hinged to reverse), 1934 (Dec.8) Australia-England Imperial/Qantas FF #469 & 1935 (Feb.1), England-Australia both registered, 1935 Jubilee Air Mail signed by Kingsford Smith (not postally used); also 1934 (Nov.8) Australian Philatelic Exhib. commemorative covers (2), one registered, the other with complete Macarthur set tied by the special datestamp, plus book "The Aviators" by William Joy signed by pioneer aviator Nancy Bird; condition variable. (13 items) (Image)

Estimate AU$300-400
Min. Bid. AU$240

June 1914 (AAMC.2) Melbourne - Sydney Official Souvenir postcards for proposed first official airmail flight by AB 'Wizard' Stone which was cancelled following a crash on 1 June which extensively damaged the plane and badly injured Stone, the cards subsequently carried by rail with the Kangaroo 1d red frankings tied 'SYDNEY/AU24/NSW/1914' roller cancels on arrival, the former with 'WIZARD STONE' crossed out and replaced by manuscript 'Guillaux Pilot', the latter with Frommer 'TF' marking on address side, both with minor blemishes, Cat $1,600. Ex Frommer, sold for $1440 in the September 2016 sale of his Grand Prix Pioneer Australian Air Mails Collection. (2 items)  (Image)

Estimate AU$1,000-1,250
Min. Bid. AU$

20-27 February 1917 (AAMC.12) Hamilton to Melbourne flown souvenir card, carried by Basil Watson in his home-built bi-plane. With a delightful hand-written message referring to the much anticipated flight. Unusually fine condition. Cat.$600. (Image)

Estimate AU$400-450
Min. Bid. AU$360

20-27 February 1917 (AAMC.13) Casterton to Melbourne flown souvenir card, carried by Basil Watson in his home-built bi-plane. With a delightful hand-written message referring to Watson's flying exhibition and the fact that the writer has taken a "snap" of him. Unusually fine condition. Cat.$600. (Image)

Estimate AU$350-400
Min. Bid. AU$300

4 Aug.1919 (AAMC.19) Major Norman Brearley in an Avro biplane dropped a batch of advertising postcards for Charles Moore & Co over Perth and suburbs. [This example is one of 6 known.]NB: The Nelson Eustis example sold for $3260 in our March 2008 auction of his gold medal collection. (Image)

Estimate AU$2,500-3,000
Min. Bid. AU$

Estimate AU$8,000-10,000
Min. Bid. AU

Estimate AU$12,000-15,000
Min. Bid. A

Estimate AU$1,800-2,000
Min. Bid. AU$

July 1920 (AAMC.47a) "By HERALD AERIAL DELIVERY" vignette, Unused with full gum. Small gum thin from previous hinge removal. Extremely scarce.Provenance: The Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, Leski Auctions, March 2008. (Image)

Estimate AU$800-1,000
Min. Bid. AU$60

5 Nov.1922 (AAMC.66c) Winton - Longreach QANTAS flown cover, an intermediate carried without the red on white vignette; backflap of envelope printed for "McMaster, Vickery & Field, OBAN" and addressed to Dr. F.A.Hope Michod. Some tone spots and roughly opened at back. Cat.$7500.The pilot was Hudson Fysh. McMaster was one of the founders of QANTAS.A photograph of Dr Michod helping a passenger board at Longreach is held in the E.A.Crome collection at the National Library of Australia. (Image)

Estimate AU$1,500-2,000
Min. Bid. AU$

7 June 1924 (AAMC.72) Sydney - Adelaide flown cover, carried by Australian Aerial Services Ltd on their inaugural service via Mildura, Hay, Narrandera and Cootamundra. Cat. $550. (Image)

Estimate AU$250-350
Min. Bid. AU$200

"BY AIR MAIL" black on green labels (Frommer 7d & 9d): 11 June 1924 Tambo to Longreach flown cover with the dark green label; 16 April 1926 (Melbourne) - Charleville - Longreach flown cover with light green label. (2 covers). (Image)

Estimate AU$150-200
Min. Bid. AU$120

"See Western Queensland BY AIR MAIL" black on red labels (Frommer 18d) used on four covers: 22 May 1925 from Cloncurry to Charleville; 27 May 1927 Camooweal to Cessnock; 10 Dec. 1928 Normanton to Cairns; and 31 March 1930 (AAMC.155) Brisbane to Cairns. (Image)

Estimate AU$200-250
Min. Bid. AU$160

7 Aug.1926 (AAMC.97) Darwin - Sydney - Melbourne registered cover, carried by Alan J. Cobham on the last legs of his epic flight from England in a DH50 seaplane. With appropriate backstamps and original enclosures from J.C. Buscall at the Government Hospital, Darwin. [only 10 flown].

Estimate AU$1,250-1,500
Min. Bid. AU$

30 June 1926 (AAMC.100) England - Australia - England cover endorsed "from Australia to London By Aeroplane" carried by Sir Alan Cobham and Sgt AH Ward on their return flight, franked with Great Britain KGV 1½d brown tied 'THE HYDE SO NW2/2OC/26' datestamp on arrival, signed 'Alan J Cobham' on face, couple of minor blemishes, Cat. $3500. This is the first airmail from Australia to England; Newall states in British External Airmails (1996; pp.264-66) that only 28 covers were carried from Australia.Ex Frommer, sold for $2640 in the September 2016 sale of his Grand Prix Pioneer Australian Air Mails Collection.  (Image)

Estimate AU$2,000-2,500
Min. Bid. AU$

THE FIRST CROSSING OF THE PACIFIC BY AIR
31 May 1928 (AAMC.122) USA - Australia cover flown by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, J Warner & H Lyon in the Fokker FV11B-3M 'Southern Cross' on the first crossing of the Pacific by air, franked with USA Airmail 10c Map (5) and 5c Roosevelt uncancelled but endorsed "carried across the Pacific Ocean from California to Australia" signed "JW Warner, Radio Opr" on face and further endorsed and signed by the whole crew including "C Kingsford Smith" on back. Cat $25,000 (four flown),also, a photograph of the crew with benefactor Captain Hancock in the USA and 1941 Statutory Declaration by his nephew J Kingsford Smith authenticating the cover and confirming the signatures were 'made in my presence'. This flight was the first leg of Kingsford Smith's eventual circumnavigation of the world in the 'Southern Cross' completed in 1930.Provenance: Tom Frommer's Large Gold International collection. (Image)

Estimate AU$15,000-17,500
Min. Bid. A

Estimate AU$9,000-10,000
Min. Bid. AU

13-14 October 1928 (AAMC.126) New Zealand (Blenheim) - Australia (Sydney) flown cover carried by Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, HA Litchfield & T McWilliams endorsed 'Per Aeroplane "Southern Cross" By Air from New Zealand to Australia' and signed "C Kingsford-Smith" and "CTP Ulm" on face; addressed to his mother 'Mrs W.C. Kingsford-Smith' and franked NZ Admiral 1d red tied by 'BLENHEIM/13OC28/NZ' datestamp with 'RICHMOND/14OC28/NSW' arrival alongside, Cat $4,250. [16 flown]. A superb example. Provenace: Tom Frommer Grand Prix Pioneer Australian Air Mails. (Image)

Estimate AU$3,000-3,500
Min. Bid. AU$

Oct.1929 (AAMC.145b) Eyre Peninsula Airways Ltd vignette (black on pink), block.(4). Extremely rare in blocks. Cat.$750.

Estimate AU$400-500
Min. Bid. AU$340

1 Jan.1930 (AAMC.149) Brisbane - Sydney registered first flight cover carried by Australian National Airways; the "Southern Sky" crashed at Ballina and was collected the next day in another ANA plane. Backstamped registered covers are scarce. Cat.$225+. [ANA Ltd was a partnership formed by Charles Kingsford Smith & Charles Ulm]. (Image)

Estimate AU$150-175
Min. Bid. AU$140

Mar.1930 (AAMC.156ad; Frommer 34b) Queensland Air Navigation Co., black & white "chequerboard" (12 squares) 'BY AIR MAIL ONLY' vignette, in a vertical strip of 7, as issued, with roulettes for separating the units.Provenance: Tom Frommer (Image)

Estimate AU$400-500
Min. Bid. AU$340

1930 (AAMC.163c) 3d Green airmail stamp, complete booklet of 12 stamps + 12 airmail labels; covers black on bright violet-blue with "AIR MAIL SAVES TIME" on front. Unusually fresh.The Australian 3d green airmail stamp issued on 20 May 1929 was later made available in booklets of 12 stamps. The first cover design and wording used for 50,000 booklets although a very small percentage of those survive intact today. [See also SG. SB24].Provenance: The Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, Leski Auctions, March 2008. (Image)

Estimate AU$1,000-1,250
Min. Bid. AU$

1930 (AAMC.163e) 3d Green Airmail stamp, complete booklet of 12 stamps + 12 airmail labels; covers black on pale green with "USE THE AIR MAIL" on front. Unusually fresh.

Estimate AU$1,500-1,750
Min. Bid. AU$

1 Aug.1930 Amsterdam to Hamburg flown cover headed "Southern Cross Herdenking" [Commemoration], signed by Charles Kingsford Smith and carried by him on a commercial flight following his trans-Atlantic flight in June 1930. Kingsford Smith had been staying with Anthony Fokker while recuperating from an illness before returning to Australia. [35 covers thus carried.]The "Southern Cross", a Fokker F.VIIb/3m trimotor monoplane, was the aeroplane most closely associated with Kingsford Smith's career. (Image)

Estimate AU$500-750
Min. Bid. AU$400