Taxed trio with Postage Dues comprising 1904 from GB with Filled Tablet 1d strip of 3 tied by oval 'ROCKHAMPTON/QUEENSLAND' d/s in blue; 1949 airmail from British Guiana paid 40c only & with "T200" in blue, boxed 'T ("4/2")' h/s of Sydney in violet, 1d pair & 1/- block of 4 with Sydney cds; and 1954 illustrated wrapper for 'Northern Argus' (Clare SA) Royal Visit edition unpaid with capsule 'T2½D' h/s in red, returned & with ½d & 1d x2 tied to reverse by 'CLARE' cds.  (3)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

Kangaroo frankings mostly to Switzerland including ½d + 2d on 1914 with Hobart cds & black/white censor label, 1d x3 with 'GNOWANGERUP' (WA) cds, 2½d on 1915 with 'SWISS CONSULATE/SYDNEY' at L/L & beautiful 'CONSULAT DE SUISSE' sealing wafer, 2½d on 1915 with Perth machine & 'C.M.F./Opened by Censor.' label, 6d brown on 1929 registered, 2/- maroon + KGVI 2d Jan 1945 registered with Melbourne & German censor labels on the reverse, 2/- maroon + ½d & 5½d 1947 air to Canada, etc, condition a bit variable.    (19) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

KGV Heads & Commemoratives frankings mostly to Switzerland including airmails at various rates one with 1/4d blue-green + 6d Small Kookaburra and 'AUSTRALIA-ITALY' h/s applied at Adelaide GPO, postmark interest including various Krag machine slogan cancels, etc, condition a bit variable.    (53) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

Pre-WWII batch mostly with Kangaroo frankings plus a few KGV Heads, a few with varieties noted, some 1930s airmails, condition variable.  (34) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

KGVI-period covers mostly to Switzerland including WWII & early post-war airmails at various rates with a variety of frankings, one via London with boxed 'OAT' h/s in red, 1937 to GB with printed address of the 'Australian Farmers Tour of Europe' (!; we've never heard of it & there's nothing on Google), 1952 with Hermes 1/6d black from 'PORT MORESBY', 1949 1½d green Wrapper to India, etc, also Norfolk Island OHMS air to NSW with Ball Bay 5½d, condition variable.    (78) (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

1960s Queensland OHMS Illustrated Publicity Envelopes all-different group of mostly long covers promoting investment, tourism & road safety for a range of government departments, used with domestic letter rate frankings, 'PAID' cancels or meters, some thematic & posrmark interest, a few opened on three sides but generally fine to very fine. Rarely seen in this quantity or variety. Ex Woodchip.  (85)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

QEII-period covers mostly to Switzerland or Germany at various rates with an array of frankings including 2/3d Commemoratives & better decimals, many airmails, a few registered or taxed items, a few tourist envelopes with one to "Castle Vaduz/Liechtenstein", generally fine to very fine.    (140 approx)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

Late Fee Mail covers with various NSW markings including 1904-12 double-oval 'SHIP LETTER/ 1D /LATE FEE' h/s x3 & 1908 with similar 'TRAIN LETTER/ 1D /LATE FEE' h/s, c.1910 'POSTED IN LATE FEE BAG' h/s, 1931 PPC & 1932 cover with 'POSTED ON TRAIN/1OC31/LFO SYDNEY' (= Late Fee Office), 1933 with fantastic 'Posted in Late Fee Box without/fee - Detained until next mail', 1934 two with boxed 'Posted on train/without late fee/To Pay...1d' both with Postage Due 1d, 1943 with 'RLY STN SYDNEY/ LF /...' cds & superb 'TOO LATE/SYDNEY/LATE FEE OFFICE' h/s, 1953 philatelic TPO cover with mss "TPO 2 WEST DN/R 6953" in lieu of R label & 'LATE FEE/ 2D /TO PAY' h/s, 1974 'LATE FEE HAYMARKET' cds & 'LATE FEE/CENTRAL RAILWAY' h/s, etc, also some on stamp or piece. A very good lot. Ex John Booker: sold at our auction of 29.2.2020 for $1220.  (34 covers etc) (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

Late Fee Mail trio comprising 1903 1d Postal Card by train cancelled on arrival at Launceston with partial '("1")D/MORE TO PAY' h/s & a superb strike of the rare straight-line 'LATE LETTER' h/s; 1904 Tatts cover to Hobart with Pictorial 2d + 1d for the late fee cancelled with Burnie cds, 'Late Fee' h/s of Burnie (only one other cover & a piece recorded) alongside, Ex JRW Purves, Randall Askeland and Patrick Reid; and 1906 (circa) Beattie (Hobart) PPC 'Springs & Organ Pipe...' to Bendigo with Pictorial 1d tied by boxed 'LOOSE SHIP LETTER' h/s of Melbourne & boxed 'LATE FEE' h/s alongside, superb 'T 1D' h/s & Postage Due ½d x2 manuscript-cancelled. (3)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

Odds n sods including three complete parcel labels one with Third Wmk 1/- strip of 3, 1932 Latrobe- Launceston express cover at 6d rate, 1927 registered with Boulder WA cds & provisional R label, 1916 usage of Kangaroo 1d Postal Card with hand-written notice for the Cygnet Rifle Club (Tasmania), etc, rather mixed condition.  (10) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1914 commercial doub;e-rate cover to Graz University in Austria with very fine Kangaroo 5d chestnut (Cat $1200 on cover) tied by very fine strike of the scarce 'BURRINJUCK/NSW' cds. Renamed from Barren Jack 15.2.1911; closed 30.4.1979.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1916 (May) Tasmania Police Gazette OHMS wrapper to "The Constable, Police Station, Kempton" (Tas) with KGV ½d green punctured 'T' solo tied by Hobart cds, a few minor folds not affecting the stamp otherwise very fine. The printed matter rate was ½d per 2oz.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1917 (July 4) cover to Sydney with rare franking of KGV 4d pale yellow-orange ACSC 110E (Cat $700 for a single on cover) horizontal pair, Sydney cds & R label, violet/white censor label, to Switzerland with 'ZURICH /7IX17/BRF DIST' arrival b/s, minor corner dings. [#110E is the shade of the third printing, produced in -.11.1916, with an ERD of -.1.1917]  

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1925 (June) Commonwealth Bank of Australia combined parcel tag & postcard, the parcel tag side addressed to 'The Saving Bank Officer/"Nabiac" Post Office' with KGV Single Wmk ½d orange, 4½d violet & 1/4d greenish-blue (Cat $1500 on cover) tied by Sydney 'CHIEF PARCEL OFFICE' roller cancels, the recipient - having signed the 'RECEIVED 20 Money Boxes' receipt on the face and clipped off the string eyelet at L/R - returned the 'POST CARD' reverse unstamped to Sydney with 'NABIAC/11 JE 25/N.S.W' cds, a few minor blemishes. The 1/9d franking paid the intra-state parcel rate for a shipment weighing up to 5lbs (at 9d for the first 2lbs and a further 3d per additional pound); the 1d postcard rate for the return was not paid, presumably because the Post Office Savings Bank was entitled to free postage on official correspondence.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1933 (Feb 27) Star of the Border Lodge, Tweed Heads hotel illustrated advertising envelope with vignette view of 'Tweed Heads from Razorback', to Brisbane from 'across the border' with KGV Heads 2d red tied by 'COOTAMUNDRA/QUEENSLAND' cds.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1934-36 mostly commercial covers all with Victoria Centenary frankings including advertising covers for Eldon Guesthouse at Katoomba & Hotel Kosciusko with superb 'MT KOSCIUSKO/NSW' cds, 3d + Large Lyrebird 1/- on parcel label, registered to Ethiopia with 2d x3, airmails including accelerated Karachi-London service to GB (with 1/- + Macarthur 2d) Austria & Germany, all-up service to GB x2 each with 1/- + Large Kookaburra 6d, & to Germany x2 each with 3d + 1/6d, etc, philatelic items including scarce 'ROYAL TRAIN/30NO34/ AUSTRALIA' on 3d, 'PRINCES PIER PORT MELB SC7/26OC34/VIC' on 2d x2 with special R label & superb 'ALL AUST EXHBTN MELBNE N3' on 2d, a few blemishes but generally fine to very fine.  (31) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1940 (June 24) social cover from Portugal via USA with Washington DC backstamps of 1.7.1940 & 'LINTON/16AU40/VIC' arrival b/s, redirection label added & forwarded to Toorak, apparently censored only on that last leg, light central fold clear of the stamps. Unusual cover that appears to have been carried in a closed (diplomatic?) bag across the Atlantic, then probably by sea from California.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1941 (April 25; ANZAC Day) Vice-Regal envelope (small crown in blue on back flap) to England with KGVI 2d red solo and a superb strike of the boxed 'PRIVILEGED MAIL/GOVERNOR OF QUEENSLAND/per ["signature"]' cachet in black at L/L (Little H1-5a), a couple of very minor blemishes. The marking indicated 'exempt from censorship'; nevertheless a standard 'PASSED/BY/CENSOR' h/s has been applied, although the envelope was not opened. John Little's cover - long-format with creases; the only example recorded by him - sold at our auction of 10.10.2020 for $330; another example of 17.11.1941 sold at our auction of 10.11.2022 for $630; this item is now the earliest known date of use.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1942-44 standard V-Mail forms x8 from American Forces to various of the United States plus delivery envelopes x6, one unusually from a Royal Navy officer to England, also an unusued form, generally fine.  (15) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1943 (Sept 28) cover with simple Crown embossed on the flap and superb strike of the boxed 'PRIVILEGED MAIL/GOVERNOR OF TASMANIA/per [secretary's signature]' cachet at lower left plus 'V/FOR VICTORY' red & blue patriotic label affixed at upper left, to the Marquess of Londonderry in London with KGVI 2½d red solo tied by Hobart machine cancel.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1945 (May-July) usage of two screen-printed illustrated envelopes in brown depicting an Anti-Aircraft gun emplacement shooting down a plane and Native Huts & Beach Palms respectively, to Port Pirie (SA) with Australia KGVI 3d brown solos tied by 'AUST F.P.O./170' cds used at Morotai, Netherlands East Indies, plus another version of the Native Huts & Beach Palms envelope in blue with Australia KGVI 3d brown (a little oxidised) solo tied by 'AUST ARMY P.O./241' also used at Morotai, minor blemishes. The first two look 'home-made' with parts of the illustrations appearing on the reverse after the envelopes were folded; the latter is much more professionally produced. (3)

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1945 (Nov 7) usage of screen-printed illustrated red/buff envelope 'It won't be long now ...' showing Australian solidier under palm trees, to Victoria with Australia KGVI 3d brown (L/L corner torn before affixing) tied by 'AIR FORCE POST OFFICE/254' cds used at Balikpapan, Borneo, Netherlands East Indies, minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1945 (Dec 13) cover to Richmond (Qld) with KGVI 2½d red solo tied by 'PROSERPINE/QLD.AUST' cds and colourful 'DAY DREAM ISLAND/GREAT BARRIER REEF' cinderella advertising label affixed alongside unusually & irregularly also tied by the cds, the cover slightly trimmed at left & a few minor water stains. Daydream Island is part of the Whitsunday Islands group lying immediately to the NW of South Molle Island, about 30km NE of Proserpine on the mainland.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1951 (circa) Millars' Timber & Trading Co Ltd parcel tag to the firm's branch in Harvey (WA) with Arms 5/- maroon & £1 blue (ACSC $350 on cover) plus QE 2d green & 2/- Crocodile tied by slightly indistinct Perth Registered cds, a couple of bends not affecting the top values. [In 1902, seven major WA sawmilling companies merged with the Millar organisation to form Millars' Karri and Jarrah Company. In 1912 the name was changed to Millars' Timber and Trading Company Ltd, and in 1983 the company was taken over by Bunning Brothers Ltd]  

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1952 (Sept 16) usage of Postal Card KGVI 2d mauve to "Colonel Oliver B Brown, Office of the Chief of Engineers, US Army, Washington DC", USA with KGVI 2½d brown (corner fault) added tied by very fine 'ISLAND BEND/NSW-AUST' cds, brief message "The TVA of Australia" on reverse from "Lincoln B Grayson, Regional Engineer, Kosciusko Region, Snowy Mountains Authority, Island Bend via COOMA", NSW, light corner bend. Island Bent PO 11.1.1951; closed 30.4.1968. The reference to the 'TVA' is to the Tennessee Valley Authority, the federal authority created by President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in 1933 to develop & run - among many other things - some 29 hydro-electric dams & power stations across the southern United States.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100