Collection on leaves with India Used in Burma to QV 5r, Overprints on KGV mint to 10r & used to 15r, 1938-40 KGVI set mint, 1946 New Colours set used, 'SERVICE' Overprints on KGV mint 1r to 10r (tonespots) & used to 10r, 1939 on KGVI set mint, 1947 Interim Government set mint, etc, Independent Issues to 1961 virtually complete mint &/or used; generally very fine, Cat £2750+, plus the mint 10r SG O14 (Cat £750); also a packet of Revenues with a range of Hundis (mercantile negotiable instruments), condition mixed.  (few 100) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

POSTAL HISTORY: Military group comprising 1885 & 1886 covers from Bangalore to "Signalling Dept Hd Quarters/Expeditionary Field Force/Burmah" (one with no flap, the other with repaired tears), 1891 & 1896 usages of 9p & 'One [crown] Anna' on 9p Soldiers' & Seamen's Envelopes both from Rangoon to England, Boer War 1900 usage of 'ONE/ANNA' on 4½a Envelope Rangoon to "Natal Field Force" redirected to Britain & 1901 British Forces cover from FPO 54 to "Band/Pt Batt Royal Fusiliers/Mandalay"; World War II 1942 (Jan 26) very late OHMS cover with 'FPO/No 38' cds, 1945 (Feb 28) airgraph-front from 'FPO/No605',1945 British propaganda leaflet in Burmese (folds), 1945 & 1947 OAS covers, 1945 US Forces at Myitkyina to India x2, 1945 (Aug 30) cover from GB to "Upper Burma" with 'NO SERVICE/...' handstamp & various redirections, 1946 stampless internal OAS with scarce 'ARMY/IKO/SIGNALS' (might be 'TKO') cds . Scarce material.  (16) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

POSTAL HISTORY: A completely unsorted array of covers & postal stationery with perhaps 20 or so QV items from as early as 1871, some on pages with limited annotation, loads of postmark interest including Railway TPOs, commercial airmails, registered including a couple of Avis de Reception cards, some 1950s material including overprints & two Book Post items, many are Chettiar covers but the condition of these is generally above-average and the balance of the material is generally fine to very fine; also about 50 philatelic covers mostly illustrated 1930s-1950s FDCs many with multicoloured cachets, also First Flights & a few unusual inwards items. Inspection will be rewarded.  (300 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

POSTAL HISTORY: World War I censorship group with 'OPENED BY CENSOR/RANGOON' labels Black/Pink, Black/Buff x2 (different), Green/Pinkish (from Cambodia), Blue/Pale Blue or smaller Blue/Pink x2, handstamps straight-line 'PASSED BY CENSOR, RANGOON' x2 and circular types with seriffed x5 or sans-serif inscriptions, 1916 POW postcard from Germany to China redirected to Burma, POW covers to or from an Ottoman POW at Thayetmo Camp (both defective; the first redirected to Shwebo Camp), and very fine POW cover to Switzerland with Manuscript "Passed by Censor/[signature]/DC Shwebo/13.3.18", condition variable. A very scarce & fascinating group.  (17) (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

POSTAL HISTORY: Commercial airmails with 1929-34 Imperial Airways group including Indian values to 2r x3 (one at 1r6½a, to Southern Rhodesia), one at 8½a to Jamaica with 'Not in Air Mails' handstamp, one with Railway TPO cancels & superb boxed 'TOO LATE FOR AIR MAIL/16APR1934/RANGOON' datestamp (filing holes), two underpaid with British Postage Dues added, 1931 to Germany at 12a with 1a booklet stamps x11, a marvellous 1934 oversize cover with KGV 2a6p, 8a, 1r single & block of 4 and 2r pair (= 9r10½a), 1937 long OHMS with 'BURMA/SERVICE' Overprints ½a 2a 4a & 8a, also 1937 KGV Indian Registration Envelope to Queensland uprated with KGV 3p 4a pair & 1r, 1938 & 1939 EAMS covers at 2½a to Ireland or Scotland, 1947 to Australia with New Colours 1r solo; then crash mail to GB per 'Scipio' (1936), 'Cygnus' x2 (1937), 'Comet' (1953) and 'Comet' (1954); condition variable but a very desirable lot.  (30) (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

POSTAL HISTORY: World War II 1939-41 airmail covers mostly with multicolour frankings including 'BURMA' Overprints/KGVI mixed frankings (one to NSW with 'EAC' perfins of East Asiatic Co), 'BURMA' Overprints to 2r & KGVI values to 5r (SG 32, Cat £75 x4+ on cover), good variety of rates including 6r & 7r8½a and 4r11a registered to New Zealand, various routes including 'Over the Hump' via China x6 (one paid 4r1a with superb 'T/C/50'-in-hexagon tax handstamp, and one by air to Hong Kong only then by sea) & trans-Pacific 'Clipper' covers x2, addressed to Britain x10 (one registered with Opts 1r & KGVI 1a with 'NBI' perfins), USA x3, Australia x3, Switzerland or India, generally fine to very fine. A very desirable lot. [Airmail services were suspended 23.12.1941. The 'reserve routes' of the Horseshoe service continued until 19.2.1942]  (27)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

POSTAL HISTORY: 1941 (Sep 29) social cover from Rangoon to Western Australia with KGVI 2a 4a & 8a River Boat, red/white censor label & triangular 'PASSED CENSOR/ 49 ' h/s in violet. 

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

POSTAL HISTORY: 1943 (July 21) OHMS airmail cover endorsed "Government of Burma/Reconstruction Dept" at lower-left, to "US Office of War Information/San Francisco", the reverse with India 'SERVICE' Stamps 1½a 2a 4a & Overprinted 1r plus a further 2a x10 in the shape of a 'V' for Victory tied by 'SIMLA' cds, 'crown/PASSED/DHB 29' censor handstamp, American dater '1943 SEP 20 AM 8.54' on the face. The rate was 43½a = 2r11½a. Rare: Brian Pope recorded only one other item of mail from the Burmese Government in Exile. 'Burma 1901-1947' by James Song at pp387-391 recorded only eight items  Six of them are postcards, and there is nothing remotely like this cover.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

POSTAL HISTORY: 1945 (Jan) OHMS cover with 'Government of Burma/Legal and Legislative Department/.../Simla S. W' imprint at lower-left, to Calcutta with Indian KGVI 'SERVICE' 1½a tied by indistinct Simla cds, boxed Calcutta arrival backstamp of 22JAN45, redirected locally on an affixed flap. Another rare cover from the Burmese Government in Exile. In the face of aggressive Japanese advances in Burma, in May 1942 the civil administration was forced to flee to India, where the government-in-exile was established at Simla in the Himalayn foothills, about 1900km West of Burma.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

POSTAL HISTORY: 1947 (March 1) oversized blue envelope (271x115mm) with Messrs Irrawaddy Flotilla Co Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland pre-printed address sent airmail with KGVI 2r brown & orange strip of 3 tied by 'RANGOON' cds, wax seals on reverse, minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

POSTAL STATIONERY: Batch of mostly used pre-WWII issues including several QV items, the strength in the QV to KGV Registration Envelopes of various sizes uprated with a range of frankings, R labels & postmark interest, at least five endorsed for insurance (including a very scarce KGVI issue inscribed 'BURMA'), also a good range of mostly used Aerogrammes including with Provisional Handstamps, condition variable but most are presentable to fine, and some are very fine.   (80+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

PICTURE POSTCARDS: Bundle of early Undivided Backs by local publishers Ahuja x13, Klier x12, Watts & Skeen x5 and a few others plus anonymous x30, eight are multi-views, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. Very scarce early cards.  (68) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

PICTURE POSTCARDS: Small box of Divided Backs mostly by local publishers Klier x16, Watts & Skeen x8, Baptist Mission Press x9, Rowe x7, Vamara x19, various others or anonymous x20, some inscriptional mangling including our favourite 'Grate Immage Budder', also Raphael Tuck x10, artist cards x20 including 1924 Wembley Exhibition set of 12, eight real photo types including British Troops marching inscribed on reverse "Devons leaving", wide range of subjects including numerous pagodas & monuments, village scenes & native studies, colonial buildings etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine.  (120) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

PICTURE POSTCARDS: Divided Backs by local publisher DA Ahuja (Rangoon) mostly coloured topographicals featuring cities, streetscapes, pagodas palaces & monuments, colonial schools & churches, indigenoue portraits, occupations, ethnic minorities, culture, cigar-making, working elephants, oilfields etc, also about 20 Indian views mostly of Benares, condition variable with lots of mostly minor bumped corners but generally fine.  (140 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$350