ADEN: One Frame exhibit of postal stationery with four Indian QV Postal Cards (one to NSW), 'SPECIMEN' overprint on Postal Cards 9p Dhow & KGVI ¾a and 1a Envelope, QEII Registration Envelope uprated for air to Portuguese India, nice group of Aerogrammes with commercial usages to Australia x2, GB x2 & Austria, formular aerogrammes commercially used to GB x3 (one registered, rare thus) or India, etc, generally very fine; also a few Paquebot items, a couple of Aden PPCs & a modest group of postmarks, condition variable. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

ADEN: 1937-51 Issues complete SG 1-46 plus Seiyun SG 1-27 & Hadhramut SG 1-27, mostly lightly mounted & generally very fine, Cat £1680.

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

ADEN: 1937 Dhows ½a to 10r SG 1-12, well centred, unmounted, Cat £1200. One of the scarcest KGVI sets, especially of this quality.

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

EGYPT: Remainders starting with some 1867 issues through to mid-1990s, mixture of mint and used with many duplicates and extras included plus small group of covers, First Day Covers and Air Letter from the late 1930s-1950s period, condition is very mixed but some pickings. (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

KUWAIT: 1984-90 bundle of green/white 'Bulletin d'Expedition' forms with a good variety of Definitives & Commemoratives tied by steel or rubber cds or rubber parcel cancels from many post offices, black/white 'Parcel' labels affixed including one with Part of the Office Name 'JELEEB' Inverted, some with faults but generally fine to very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

LEVANT: Mail to Australia comprising British 1920 registered with Great Britain KGV 2d & 2½d and blank R label tied by 'BRITISH A.P.O./CONSTANTINOPLE' cds, French 1913 '1 PIASTRE 1' on 25c overprint tied by 'CONSTANTINOPLE-PERA/POSTE-FRANS' cds with 'ENG.MAIL.T.P.O./VIC' transit b/s, German Postal Card '20 20/Para' with 'BEIRUT/2 8/09' cds to Queensland and Turkey 'Jerusalem Tombs of the Kings' PPC & 1910 cover with 'PERA' cds and 'NIRRANDA/VICTORIA' arrival b/s, condition.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

MESOPOTAMIA: 1919 usage of Times Press (Bombay) PPC 'Turkish prisoners taken in February 1917' from a British sergeant, to GB with part Indian FPO cds, minor blemishes. Pencil message states "...I arrived...at camp called Baiji...about 140 miles north of Bagdad...Mails are very scarce". [British & Indian forces remained after the Ottoman surrender on 14.11.1918 to oversee the expulsion of the Turks & the establishment of Iraq as a British vassal state]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

QATAR: 1966 New Currency Surcharges on Scouts SG 54-61, ITU SG 62-69 x2 sets, and 1966 ICY SG 113-6 plus perf & imperf M/Ss, plus the latter with 'UN 20th/ANNIVERSARY' Overprint, unmounted. Unlisted in Gibbons: the unoverprinted stamps Cat £330 approximately.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

SAUDI ARABIA: 1981-88 Imperf M/Ss selection comprising 1981 300h Hegria, Telecoms set (3) & 10r King & Map, 1982 New Postal Building set (4), 1985 King Abdulaziz Conference, 1987 Prophet's Mosque Medina & 1988 Holy Mosques Custodian, very fine unmounted, stated Cat £865.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200