COMPANIES: Envelopes & a private letter card all featuring a Map of the businesses comprising France for Hotel Richmond and L'Hotel et le Retaurant du Pavilion, Algeria for MEREG, Indochina for Pharmacie Centrale used in Cambodia, Denmark for Hotel Landsoldaten, Belgium for Matindus and Holland for Romantic Grills, all but the last with an all-over map on the back panel. (7)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS - AUSTRALIAN COLONIES - VICTORIA: 1894 J Bear's Patent Envelope Booklet 1d STO Envelope with the enclosed 32pp booklet with adverts for many firms plus flimsy interleaving including one promoting the scheme, sent unsealed to Germany at the Printed Matter rate of 1d per 2oz & endorsed "per French Packet", the envelope with minor faults as usual, the booklet very fine. Used Envelopes are rare: this is an extraordinary concessional rate usage to a foreign destination.

A crescent-shape was cut from the face of the envelope & the booklet was inserted with the pages folded so that when the embossing was impressed across the hole, parts of the embossing fell on each of the folded pages. Advertisers were attracted to the scheme because after paying for their adverts, they paid only half-price for the Envelopes. However, the "defacement" of the stamp that occurred if a booklet was removed, caused the post office to suppress the scheme.

Grade B/A (Image1)

Estimate AU$2,000

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS DENMARK: 1905 5o Letter Card with advertising on the reverse & within and on both sides of all margins plus a small plain notelet stapled within, 5o added & tied by one of two superb strikes of the 'FRA RONNE' shipmail h/s, Copenhagen transit b/s & 'SKIVE' arrival cds on the face, carefully opened to preserve the margins. A very fine intact example. [Ronne is the largest town on the Danish island of Bornholm]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS FRANCE: 1870s Formular Postal Card with 10c brown/pink affixed with three adverts on the reverse (inverted relative to the face), unused. Superb!

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS - FRANCE: 1895 usage of 15c Letter Card overprinted in blue 'Vendue 5 Centimes' (= Sold for 5c) on the face & 'Arrete ministeriel du 12 mai 1887/...' on the reverse, advertisments on both inside panels & on four pages of a 6pp booklet stapled within. Superb!

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS FRANCE: 1917 'ASSURANCES MUTUELLES/D BOBE/...' envelope promoting the Medieval town of Provins & on the reverse box adverts x19 for Provins traders.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS GERMANY: 1910 flimsy 5pf 'Kartenbrief' with perforations around the stamp to permit its removal & use as a coupon, with box adverts x14 for various local merchants & instructions for redeeming the coupon ('Gutschein') inverted on the reverse in black & red, 5pf added & tied by very fine 'ELBING' cds, tiny 'HOCHSTADTER' guarantee h/s on the reverse. An extraordinary item. [Elbing & Stettin are today Elblag & Szczecin in northern Poland]

NB: the correspondence portion of the letter card has been removed, perhaps for the coupon portion to be returned to the sender so he/she could redeem it.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS GERMANY: Germania 10pf STO Envelope on Granite Paper with adverts on the face & reverse, the flap sealed otherwise very fine unused.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS GERMANY: c.1921 Post Rider 30pf green STO Postal Card with attached rouletted 'Wertscheinen' (= vouchers) for the 10 firms advertising on the reverse of the Wertschein, and a second example with values on the voucher increased with small rubber handstamps, both folded between the card & the voucher otherwise superb unused. (2)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS - GERMANY: Berlin Local Post flimsy 3pf Letter Card 'HANSA-ZETTEL' with box adverts x5 on face & reverse plus blank spaces for a further 17 adverts, text at L/L invites potential advertisers to contact Reinhold Kuhn, some minor reinforcing & a small piece of corner selvedge missing, unused.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS MEXICO: 1892 10c advertising lettersheet with numerous box adverts printed in black & red &, on the reverse, instructions in Spanish French & English for use of the form which "...circulate in all countries of the Postal Union..." and "...are sold in all the Post Offices throughout the Mexican Republic...", a statement that borders on the ridiculous; plus the plain envelope with a die-cut oval window at U/R through which the stamp would be cancelled & 'Se vende en/CINCO CENTAVOS/...' (= Sold for 5c) in red on the reverse, unused. Marvellous! [It has often been said that this contrivance was the inspiration for Jonathan Bear's Advertising Envelopes issued in Victoria. Research by Mark Diserio has now shown that not to be the case, though the connection remains irresistible] (2 items)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS MEXICO: 1892 10c advertising lettersheet with numerous box adverts printed in black & red &, on the reverse, instructions in Spanish French & English for use of the form which "...circulate in all countries of the Postal Union..." and "...are sold in all the Post Offices throughout the Mexican Republic..."; plus the plain envelope with a die-cut oval window at U/R through which the stamp was cancelled with 'C VICTORIA/FEB 13 93/TAM' cds & 'Se vende en/CINCO CENTAVOS/...' (= Sold for 5c) in red on the reverse, 'MONTEREY/NL' arrival cds on the face, roughly opened at left & repaired tears around the window. (2 items)

Grade A/(B) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS NORWAY: 'POSTFRIM 5 ORE' Postal Card with six box adverts printed around the periphery on the reverse leaving space for correspondence, unused.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS MULTIPLE ADVERTISERS - RUMANIA: 1925 Orendt & Feiri envelope with box adverts x12 printed on the reverse, to Germany with the ads partly obscured by 2L x5 affixed to the reverse as was often the practice, small repaired peripheral tears.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

MISCELLANEOUS: AUSTRIA: 1932 12h Traunsee Postal Card being the face item of a rouletted pack of 12 unstamped postcards with Reklame (Magazines) wrapper & a small pencil attached through a ring, unused. Superb! [Now, that's an unusual item]

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

MISCELLANEOUS: FRANCE: Postal Rate calculator comprising a cardboard sleeve with diecut windows through which the rates are exposed when the internal slide is moved left or right. Superb!

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$100