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image Sale No: 252
Lot No:83
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection

KGVI covers group including scarce 'LITTLE HAMPTON/VIC' cds x6, inbound Censor covers x4, etc, condition variable.  (34)

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100



Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 75

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:84
Symbol:CPS

Useful bits n pieces including 1914 Robe Hotel (South Australia) advertising cover to Kentucky USA, KGVI 1/0½d Registration Envelope with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, some better Decimal frankings, a few 19th century items & PPCs x20, condition variable.  (75) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200



Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 150.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 150

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:85
Symbol:C

Album of mostly ordinary covers but including Victoria Centenary & Macarthur sets on 1934 registered Anpex covers, several lovely advertising covers, entire KGVI parcel label with 3d blue & 6d Kooka x2, 1974 certified with scarce franking of 40c Architecture, some overseas ham radio cards & 1950 TAA passenger ticket, condition variable.  (70 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300



Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 230

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:86
Symbol:C

Mostly advertising covers all with Kangaroo Third Watermark solo frankings comprising 2d to New Zealand with superb 'UTIKU' arrival b/s, 2d punctured 'OS' (fault at the base) on postcard to Sweden, 2½d, 3d Die I x2 & Die IIB to Austria, 6d grey-blue registered to California, 6d brown part-air to GB & another registered internally, and 9d Die IIB on black/white 'INLAND PARCEL/POST' label, condition variable.  (10) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250



Opening AU$ 190.00
Sold...AU$ 210.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 210

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:87
Symbol:C
Cat No:Collection

Commercial covers with all-different KGV Single Wmk mostly solo frankings comprising ½d green pair, ½d orange (corner fault), 1d red Smooth Paper Dies I & II and Rough Paper Die II, 1d violet solo to Belgium, 1d green, 1½d black-brown, 1½d green on illustrated advertising front, 1½d scarlet, 2d orange, 2d scarlet, 2d brown, 3d Die I and Die Ia Types A & B, 4d orange, 4d violet & Cooke 4d blue both to Switzerland, 4d olive punctured 'OS' (corner fault), 4½d Vic-Qld with scarce black/emerald 'BY AIR MAIL' label, 5d Single-Line Perf registered to NZ with huge red/white Perth R label, 5d Comb Perf Vic-Qld with red/white 'Stock Exchange' R label, and 1/4d (+ ½d orange & 4½d) on OHMS Money Boxes postcard (clipped corner as always), several are advertising covers, a few faults but generally fine to very fine, Cat $4600 for usage on cover.  (26)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$800



Opening AU$ 600.00
Sold...AU$ 600.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 600

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:88
Symbol:C/CL

Mostly advertising covers with all-different KGV SMult Wmk Perf 14 mainly solo frankings comprising 1d on unsealed printed matter cover, 1½d on postcard wallet to England, 2d on makeshift wrapper endorsed "Cheque Book Only" (Cat $750), 3d Types A & B, 4d x2 + Perf 13½x12½ 1/4d (Cat $400 for a single plus other stamps) very late usage on Parcels Post label, & 4½d, condition variable.  (7)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300



Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 230

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:89
Symbol:C

Consignment remainders with EAMS first service registered (philatelic), & to New Zealand (no service), another with 'DELIVERY IMPRACTICABLE/...' h/s, 1940 (Nov 7) to AIF Abroad with 'SALVED/FROM SEA' h/s & several Return to Sender items, 1954 underpaid air wrapper held for additional postage, 1941 'RECEIVED TORN/...', 1947 insured food parcel label (faults) & a couple of others, generally fine to very fine.   (11) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500



Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 380.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 380

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:90
Symbol:C/CL

Destination mail mostly airmails including 1938 registered to Czechoslovakia & to Germany at 2/1d 'All-Up' rate; many censored including 1940-41 to India x3 at 1/1d, Clippers to USA at 4/-, to Canada at 3/11d, & to UK at 11/8d double-rate with Robes 10/-, 1942 to Papua with Ram '5½d' Surcharge paying War Tax, 1943 to Swiss Red Cross at 5/9d, 1944 to UK via USA at 8/4d quadruple rate; also 1941-45 surface mail to Chile x3 (one with 'NOT ELIGIBLE FOR/AERIAL MAIL/...' h/s); some with minor blemishes but many are fine to very fine.  (36) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300



Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 230

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:91
Symbol:PS

Registration Envelope usages including KGVI 5d to USA endorsed "Coins only ...", KGVI 5½d airmail to UK with added 5/- Arms, surface mail to Egypt doubly-censored, KGVI 8½d airmail to German US Zone, KGVI 1/0½d airmail to Czechoslovakia taxed with Postage Dues 1k x2 & 3k x2, QEII 1/7d to Perth endorsed "Comp 2/-" with 2d & 5/- Arms added, airmail to Hong Kong with QEII 2d & Trans-Tasman 8d added, also 1954 usage of British formular Registration Envelope airmail to UK with Platypus 9d & Royal Visit 2/- x2, generally fine to very fine.  (36)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200



Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 270.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 270

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:92
Symbol:C

1913 PPC to Germany with combination franking of Kangaroos 1d red & South Australia GPO ½d green tied by Sydney roller cancel, minor transmission marks. The rate was 1½d foreign postcard.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100



Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 75

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:93
Symbol:C

1915 (Oct 6) PPC to "Funchal, Madeira" with lengthy message in Portuguese, KGV ½d green & 1d red affixed on view side tied by Hobart cds, censored with ‘C.H.1/[Crown]/PASSED BY/CENSOR’ cachet in blue, '.../20DEZ15/FUNCHAL’ arrival cds alongside.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100



Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 75

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:94
Symbol:C

1916 (Jan 19) envelope to Holland with 'Per RMS Makura' handstamp & Kangaroos 2½d, censored violet/cream resealing label tied by superb 'PASSED BY/CENSOR, S.D.' double-boxed handstamp in rosine plus a largely very fine strike of the scarce 'PASSED BY CENSOR/31JA16/C.S' supervisor's cds alongside, minor defects.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200



Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 150.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 150

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:95
Symbol:C

1919 (Oct 24) to Sydney endorsed "Urgent" & "Express Delivery" in blue pencil with KGV 1½d brown & Kangaroos Third Wmk 6d blue (Cat $300 on cover) tied by Melbourne 'SHIP MAIL ROOM' cds, partial '[EXPRESS] DELIVERY/[MES]ENGER' black/green flimsy label still affixed to face, a couple of minor blemishes. The rate was 1d letter + ½d war tax + 6d express delivery fee.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150



Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 115.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 115

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:96
Symbol:C

1919 England-Australia Ross & Keith Smith Flight cover AAMC #27a with superb & exceptionally centred example of the 'FIRST/ AERIAL POST/ENGLAND-/AUSTRALIA' flight vignette tied by one of two very fine to superb strikes of the large oval 'FIRST AERIAL MAIL/RECEIVED/26FEB1920/GREAT BRITAIN TO AUSTRALIA' datestamp, light ironed-out horizontal fold at the base of the cover, expertised by Theodore Champion and Enzo Diena, Cat $5750+ (2008). This cover is #8 in Tom Frommer's Census (2011). 

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$4,500



Opening AU$ 3,400.00
Sold...AU$ 5,500.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 5500

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:97
Symbol:C

1920 (Oct 4) registered to Denmark with Kangaroos Third Wmk 6d blue tied by Elizabeth Street Melbourne cds with red/white R label (torn before affixing; last number added in manuscript) alongside, Copenhagen ’17.11.21’ arrival backstamp, minor marks. The rate was 3d foreign letter plus 3d registration fee. (Image1)

Estimate AU$100



Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 75

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:98
Symbol:C

1925 (Aug) combined parcel tag & postcard with KGV Single Wmk ½d 4½d & 1/4d (Cat $1500 on cover) tied by Sydney parcel roller, 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, minor blemishes. 

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200



Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 150.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 150

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:99
Symbol:C

1926 (Oct 16) registered to Sweden with KGV 1d green, 2d brown & 3d blue Die I tied by two largely very fine strikes of ‘DEVONPORT WEST/ * TASMANIA * ’ double-ring cds in violet with red ‘Devonport West’ R label alongside, a couple of minor marks. The foreign letter rate was 3d + 3d registration.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150



Opening AU$ 120.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 190

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:100
Symbol:C

1929 (Sep 18) complete 'PARCEL POST' label (fault at U/L) affixed to complete parcel tag to Melbourne with Third Wmk 2/- maroon (Cat $500 with other stamps on cover) tied by 'UNDERBOOL/VIC' cds, then KGV 3d blue affixed - presumably for registration, the R label being affixed to the package - & tied by a second strike of the cds. Ex 'Tillie Mitchell': sold at our auction of 29.8.2020 for $659. [2/3d does not conform to the prevailing parcel rates. However, the intrastate rate for a parcel weighing between 6 & 7lb was 2/- + 3d registration]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300



Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 230

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:101
Symbol:C

1930 (Feb) covers to England carried on the RMS 'Comorin' 1) from Tasmania resealed with British '.../OFFICIALLY SECURED' tape tied by 'DAMAGED BY FIRE/ON/S.S. COMORIN.' h/s in black (Gwynn & Hoggarth Type 7) on reverse, and 2) from Queensland with the stamp washed off and 'DAMAGED BY IMMERSION/IN SEA WATER I.S.' boxed h/s in black (Type 12) on face, resealed with British '... officially sealed' black/buff tape at edges, characteristic immersion faults.   (2)

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200



Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 150.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 150

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:102
Symbol:C

1932 (Apr 6) use of Samuel Wood sepia/cream 'The Bridge/Letterette/...No.1' with Kookaburra on the face & five fold-out views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge inside plus Measurements of the Bridge on the reverse, to Busselton (WA) with Bridge 2d Letterpress tied by Sydney machine cancel, minor blemishes. 

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100



Opening AU$ 220.00
Sold...AU$ 220.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 220

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:103
Symbol:C

1932 (March 19; Opening Day) usage of Sydney Harbour Bridge illustrated telegram with message "Hurrah the Bridge is open" and largely very fine '...SE PYLON ...' cds, the matching envelope with a large-part strike of the scarce 'SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE/ -1- ' reserve cds used on articles that were otherwise uncancelled, each with a couple of minor blemishes.  (2 items)

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$300



Opening AU$ 230.00
Sold...AU$ 230.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 230

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:104
Symbol:C

1933 (April 30) First Australian Trade Exhibition Ship envelope with multi-coloured KPM Flags logo on back flap, to Melbourne with Dutch Indies 15c tied by a largely very fine strike of the undated 'POSTED ON BOARD FIRST AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION SHIP.../APRIL-MAY 1933/...' cachet with 'SOERABAJA/30.4.33' cds alongside, minor blemishes. Apparently commercial usage and scarce thus.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100



Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 75.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 75

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:105
Symbol:C

1938 (Aug 26) possibly commercial cover endorsed "Per/Seagull/A2.12/to Cairns/from sea", to South Australia with KGV 5d tied by Cairns slogan cancel, Brisbane & Adelaide transit b/s. Not listed in the AAMC. 

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150



Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 160.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 160

image Sale No: 252
Lot No:106
Symbol:C

1941 (Feb 21) to Australian serviceman at Lindfield (NSW) with KGVI 2d red tied by Melbourne machine cancel also tying Red Cross 'Lady Gowrie' 1d charity label, redirected to Canada with 'c/- Royal Canadian Air Force/Ottawa, Ontario' handstamp in red, minor edge faults at top. 

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100



Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 95.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 95
image Sale No: 252
Lot No:107
Symbol:C

1942 (Jan 8) to "The Treasury, Rabaul, New Guinea" with KGVI 2d red + ½d Kangaroo for the war tax tied by 'MURRUNDINDI/NSW-AUST' cds, very fine strike of 'NOT TRANSMISSIBLE/SERVICE SUSPENDED' handstamp in red on the face.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150



Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 115.00


Closed..Jun-27-2023, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 115


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