1840 entire Edinburgh-Dublin with 1d black (full margins), 1840 usage of Mulready 1d lettersheet Stereo 'A234', 1854 entire to Victoria "pr Great Britain" with 2d pair & large Embossed 1/- (deep shade, damaged by vertical fold), 1850s mourning cover to NSW with Embossed 1/- (margins just touched to close but stained) & very fine '5' h/s for NSW inland postage due, and 1880 cover with 1d Venetian red x2 tied by London duplex. All quite presentable. (5)

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Victorian-era hand-illustrated covers comprising 1873 1d pink Envelopes x2 from Wolverhampton, of Macbeth or Mr Micawber (?), both of fine appearance; 1874 ½d Postal Card from the same correspondent to "Ye Ladye Fayre with Golden Hair" with giddy poem & illustration, two vertical folds hardly affect the 'view' side, a very early 'Picture Postcard'; plus seven other items in various states of decrepitude. Fun lot! (10 items)

Estimate AU$400

1825 (Feb 22) entire to Lt Colonel Henry Hardy in Ceylon with very fine strike of the large double-oval 'POST PAID SHIP LR/[crown]/5MR5/1825/LONDON' d/s in red.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1863 (Aug 15) cover to "The Chief Justice of/Queensland" endorsed "Via Marseilles" with very fine 9d bistre SG 86 (with wing-margin; Cat £1200 on cover) tied by 'MAIDENHEAD - 492' duplex, superb 'INSUFFY STAMPED/VIA MARSEILLES' h/s at L/L, London transit & Brisbane arrival b/s of OC15/1863. [Queensland's first Chief Justice was James Cockle, appointed 21.2.1863]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1876 (Sep 28) cover from Ireland with very fine GB 8d orange tied by largely superb 'DUBLIN - 186' duplex, to "Woodlands PO Cambooya/Darling Downs/...", 'BRISBANE' transit b/s of NO16/76 & poor Cambooya arrival b/s, minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1902 cover to "Axim/West Africa" with beautiful Dickensian pen-&-ink illustration of two urchins and a Romany fortuneteller - boy urchin "And ter think that I squandered me las coin only ter find that she's goin ter marry a blonde millionaire"! - 'AXIM/GOLD COAST' arrival b/s. Marvellous! [Initialled "FGP" = FG Pitts?]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

1931 Bergen (Norway) to the North Pole cover with submarine cachet in purple & combination franking of Norwegian British & American stamps, signed "Hubert Wilkins".

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

FIRST DAY COVERS: Printed types for Jubilee set registered, KGVI 1937 ½d 1d & 2½d, Coronation 1½d, Stamp Centenary x2 sizes (one registered) & Victory x3 different (two registered), and plain covers for 1924 Wembley, KGV Photogravure 4d & 9d, Stamp Centenary & 1948 Wedding (registered), generally very fine, Cat £1800 plus the KGV Photogravures that are unlisted in Gibbons. (12)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

KGV frankings including 4d orange punctured 'OS', 4d olive pair & 4d olive strip of 3 etc, a few registered including 1921 with red/white Hobart R label, covers to Italy (taxed), Finland & Java, 1918 'JACK'S DAY' illustrated cover with matching receipt enclosed, 1922 illustrated advertising cover for Blue Ribbon Biscuits, 1928 Waratah-Ulverstone endorsed "Picked/up/in/street"!, etc, condition variable. A good lot. (31)

Estimate AU$300

Commercial airmails with a few internal including 1942 from 'PINE CREEK/NT', pre-WWII to Germany at 1/6d rate, to Austria at 2/- rate & from Dutch Indies, post-WWII to Fiji x2 (one registered), Philippines x2 & Hong Kong, 1945 covers with boxed 'OAT' h/s in red to France Holland Sweden & Switzerland, Forces Concession x3 including double-rate to GB with 6c QEII & 6c Gemstone, 1945 double rate to Denmark with Platypus 9d block of 4 & very fine boxed 'OAT' h/s of London, etc, generally fine to very fine; also three large reprints of 1925 photos of de Pinedo's seaplane in Australia. [See also Lots 515 to 551] (36 items)

Estimate AU$300

Wide-ranging lot with PPC to Bulgaria, WWI unused patriotic envelope, 1923 to USA with KGV 4d blue, 1939 to China, 1928 double-rate registered to Germany with Kooka 3d x3 damaged in transit & resealed at Berlin, 1940 to USA with scarce 'SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE' cds, 1942 with 1d Lady Gowrie label only & taxed, etc, a few attractive advertising covers & various instructional handstamps, a few inwards items including two WWII covers from Auschwitz, etc, condition variable. (100 approx)

Estimate AU$400

Extensive group of covers etc mostly with Melbourne cancels including States & KGV frankings, official mail, advertising covers, some postal stationery & PPCs including 'Gooseberry Farm, Gippsland' and lovely Jolley with vignette views of Mandarin Rock (Bright) & Albion Woollen Mills (Geelong), plus postmarks on stamps & pieces interspersed throughout, also album with similar from Tasmania, condition generally fine. (100s)

Estimate AU$200

Pre-WWII covers to overseas destinations including 1927 PPC to Czechoslovakia at 1½d, Denmark x3, 1922 to France at 4d + 3d registration, Holland x2 including 1916 with German censor label, Mexico, South Africa registered at Adelaide, 'CHIEF PARCELS OFFICE/NSW' & Traralgon Vic with red/white R label, Sweden x4 including endorsed "Letter for enemy country enclosed" & 1920 at 3d rate, Switzerland 1915 with combination franking of Kangaroos 2d & Queensland ½d, USA x3 including 1915 triple-rate with Kangaroos 2½d & 5d & 1922 4d rate with 2d orange pair, mostly fine. A good rates lot. [The illustration is above Lot 403] (22)

Estimate AU$600

Pre-WWII miscellaneous rates with Printed Matter x9 including KGV 1d green Postal Card overprinted 'SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER'; Commercial Papers x4 including with punctured 'OS' 1d violet & 1d green, and overprinted 'OS' 1d; Samples x2, one for Robur Tea Co, the other registered (very scarce); COD 1962 intrastate photographs packet at 11/8d rate; and Parcels x4 pieces with complete parcel labels, one of 1919 with Kangaroos 2½d x2 & 9d (Cat $350 on cover), one of 1920 with printed 'DECEASED OTHER RANKS KIT' with red/white 'NOTICE/This article, which has been accepted at packet-rate of postage...' (faults); condition variable. A very scarce & interesting group. (20 items)

Estimate AU$600

Express Delivery covers to GB (1937 & 1951), Greece (1953), New Zealand (1937), Switzerland (1947) & USA (1933), various labels &/or instructional handstamps, a few problems. A very scarce group. (6)

Estimate AU$300

Balance of collection including 1902 inwards from GB with Melbourne 'REFUSED/ON ACCOUNT/OF TAX' h/s and Victoria 1d & 2d Postage Dues (front only), 1912 NSW Railway Refreshment Rooms & Jenolan Caves Hotel advertising envelope with 'JENOLAN CAVES' cds, PPC used with NSW 1d & Queensland ½d combination franking, KGV frankings including 2d red with 'OS' puncture on SA Education Dept cover & 4½d violet on 1930 flight cover, 1953 with red 'EXPRESS' label, 1963 1/2d Thylacine on Philip Island (Vic) tourist cover, KGV 1d red postal cards noted two with 'PASSED' censor cachets, condition quite variable; then quantity of 1938-66 Kangaroo ½d orange ** in larger blocks noted Double Perf In Left Margin strips of 10 x2, a few Framas, etc, plus SAFE Signoscope and some literature including Rosenblum 'Stamps of the Commonwealth of Australia' (1966). Weighs 4kg. (100s)

Estimate AU$300

Hand-illustrated covers comprising 1913 Warrnambool (with misarranged dateline 'DE2313') to an officer at Maryborough; WWII Pitcher types x6, two from 'MIL PO MORGAN PARK' (Qld); and 1949-50 Goodhew airmail covers to NZ x13, six are fronts only; condition variable. (20)

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1920s-60s accumulation including 1932 Forests Commission OHMS cover with Centenary Celebrations/State of Victoria and City of Melbourne inscription and KGV 1d green 'OS' overprint, 1934 Flinders Island Municipality airmail to Melbourne with KGV 2d & 3d Airmail tied 'WHITEMARK/TAS' cds, WWII military & censored mail noted 1941 'ACTION FRONT' newspaper wrapper piece with Johore 5c tied 'AIF FIELD PO/No.18', 1944 Honour Envelope with Townsville (Qld) '1/2' censor label & cachet and 1945 OHMS unfranked cover registered from RAAF PO 'No.251' in Dutch Indies, also flight covers noted 1931 to England with KGV 1/4d and 1948 RAAF Catalina Flying Boat to AAT with 'ANARE MACQUARIE IS' arrival cds on face, commemoratives including 1940 Story Bridge cover with 'STORY BRIDGE' R label, cinderella and 'STORY BRIDGE BRISBANE' cds, etc, condition mixed but mostly fine. (75+)

Estimate AU$400

1930s-60s meter cancels on covers including some illustrated envelopes and/or cancels noted 'IXL Jam' tin, 'Waste Not ... Save Water' tap, 'Dial ...' telephone, etc, quite a few early types from the 1930s including Melbourne 'Centenary Celebrations', also batch of 1950s Perth proof impressions, wide variety of merchants, condition generally fine. Lots of thematic interest & excellent basis for expansion. (120+)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Interesting group with lots of KGV frankings including a few with commpercial perfins, strength in illustrated advertising with many KGV period (some are fronts only) through to very scarce 1950s & 1960s types, also some used Postal Stationery & attractive hand-illustrated covers from NSW (1901) & Tasmania (1906), condition variable. (100 approx)

Estimate AU$400

Mixed bag with 1911 Fullface Letter Card '...any' ('LAUNCESTON') VFU, 1911 Fullface Coronation Postal Cards FU (KGV), VFU (Prince) and unused (Queen), 1928 cover with extraordinary address (see above), 1965 philatelic registered with 'LONGLEY/TAS-AUST.' SDL (rated RRR), 1960s registered covers with cash register 'stamps' from Hobart x2 or Launceston, etc, etc, condition variable. (32 + some stamps)

Estimate AU$250

World War II annotated collection of civilian & Forces covers with good ranges of censor tapes & cachets including ' 1/2 /PASSED/BY/CENSOR/ 1 ' of Townsville & provisional use of Brisbane label, 'RELEASE' h/s of Brisbane, printed 'Privilege Letter/...' from HMAS Westralia, other Forces mail with various concession h/s, 'POSTAGE PAID/25 CENTS/JOHORE' h/s & several Navy items, etc, a group of illustrated advertising covers & a couple with printed patriotic slogans, some Postal Stationery including Defence Canteens 1d green x2 & 1d brown x3, two Parcel Post forms paid at 5/10d rate for Food Parcels, etc, condition variable. (84)

Estimate AU$350

Mystery box of covers & postal stationery.

Estimate AU$100

1913 (Mar 1) Tasmanian 1d red STO Envelope for Renison Bell Mining Co to Launceston with combination franking of Kangaroo 1d strip of 3 tied by Hobart cds, scarce grey-blue & black 'Hobart' R label (damaged).

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1913 (Apr 2) commercial cover to Michigan with scarce combination franking of Kangaroo 1d x2 + Queensland ½d tied by superb BN '712' of 'YUNGABURRA' (very fine cds alongside), curious US 'Please return this/envelope to Post/office.' h/s in rosine. [Illustrated by Bernie Manning in 'Numerals']

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150