Small group of covers with KGV 2d reds & oranges 'solo' frankings, some advertising, a couple of illustrated 'tourist' envelopes, 1964 'NO/to conscription/for overseas service' cards with pre-printed address to 'Prime Minister' x2, Scenic Letter Cards KGV 2d red x2 used (both faulty), then an ETA album plus some loose Australia & worldwide stamps, Picture Postcards including WWI soldiers real photo, 'To a Brave Australian Soldier ...' (flags), a few NSW topographicals, Grampians (Vic) photo wallet, also some ephemera, etc, condition variable. Weighs 2kg. (Qty few 100) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Commercial mail accumulation from 1950s-80s plus a few earlier, includes a range of solo frankings, internal airmails, advertising covers, postal stationery usages, official mail, etc, noted Priority Paid usages a number with 'INCORRECTLY POSTED' markings, registered mail, Messenger Delivery, taxed items, instructional markings, variety of 'Return To Sender' markings, some officially repaired with tape, etc, potential postmark interest throughout, condition generally fine to very fine. Weighs 9kg. (Qty 100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Covers hoard from 1900s-50s mostly to or from Singleton (NSW) including 1914 Reuters Telegram Co advertising 'collar' & NSW Country Press 'Map' plus 1917 Trans-Continental Railway illustrated covers all franked with KGV 1d reds then quantity of KGVI frankings noted offical mail with 'G/NSW' punctures, advertising including Scottish Union 'collar' and a cinema-themed group addressed to MGM Pictures, range of other merchants two with Queensland tourist cinderellas tied to the reverse, a few STO stationery envelopes, postmark interest noted 'CIC BONEGILLA' (Vic) and a few NSW cut-down reliefs, TPO markings, also quantity of New South Wales items including illustrated adverts for Walker & Hall, Sydney Stock & Show Rooms, Scottish Fire Flag 'stamp collar', Ivory Candles, John Sands advertising postcard showing Druitt Street factory, plus Hotels, Singleton Show envelopes, a few Arms 1d Postal Cards with printed adverts, commercial perfins Edwards Dunlop 'ED', Middows Borthers 'MB/S' plus Government Railways with 'GR' puncture, etc, condition variable but most are good to fine. Weighs 4kg. (Qty 400+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Excellent array of Decimal frankings on commercial mail with many rarely seen solo and other frankings to $10 including Dual Currency, plus registered & Security Post (Australia Post's greatest ever rort, and that's saying something!), certified, priority paid, taxed, even a couple of parcel pieces & uprated commemorative PSEs, etc, lots of airmails including to unusual destinations such as Fiji, Colombia, Bali, Philippines, Vietnam etc. Among the scarce to rare solo frankings are 40c Trees used in the 1 month period before the rate changed & 75c Glider (both almost extracted this as single items), 7c Fish on internal airmail, 12c Rehabilitation, 15c Australia-Asia, 40c Pioneers paying Postage Due, 80c Pioneers, Qantas 30c, etc, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. An outstanding basis for serious expansion. (Qty 200 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Covers accumulation with 1840 missionary entire to London with very fine 'PAID SHIP LETTER/SYDNEY', 1850s part-entire with Victoria Half-Lengths 1d (faults) & 3d, 1917 Kangaroos 2d grey solo franking tied Stock Exchange 'LATE FEE' duplex, KGV Heads 2d brown on 'PARCEL POST' label with 1/- Kangaroo, etc, then modern commercial mail including special services, instructional markings & officially repaired items, range of illustrated Tourist envelopes, Living Together frankings, used PPCs including 15c Pioneer on 'Kangaroo Hide' card, Registration Envelopes and group of 1970s-80s illustrated Postal Cards, plus some flight covers, FDCs, commemorative covers, and a small group of Australian Territories including commercial mail noted 1978 picture postcard from Macquarie Island with AAT 20c Bird tied 'ANARE' cds and message from crew member "Finally here at last ...", condition quite variable but many fine to very fine. Weighs 7kg. (Qty 100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

Group to unusual destinations mostly KGV period comprising covers to Burma, Norway (surprisingly scarce), Palestine with 4d blue (tough destination in this period; minor faults) & Poland (4½d Registration Envelope), PPCs to Lebanon (with 1d Roo + Tasmania ½d), Madeira & Russia (taxed), and OHMS postcard to Uruguay with ½d & 1d punctured 'OS', also 1939 to Monaco & 1944 registered to Southern Rhodesia; mostly fine to very fine. (Qty 10)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

KGV Heads frankings including 1920 with ½d orange & 2d brown pair tied 'ENGADINE/NSW' cds and manuscript registration marking, 1921 City Mutual large cover with 2d orange strip of 3, 1930 airmail to Sydney with 2d brown + 3d Airmail tied 'WOODFORD/QUEENSLAND' cds, 1930 1½d brown Die II 'OS' puncture on Mitchell Library advice postcard (ACSC $200 on cover), 1934 Licensing Court OHMS cover with 2d red 'T' puncture, 1935 1½d brown Die II with 'VOC' commercial perfin on square 'PMG PM 41' Permit Mail cover, some advertising covers including illustrated types for FE Holmes Lighting (Darwin), 1930 registered airmail to Brisbane with 2d brown and Diabolo Separators (Sydney) 1932 registered to Tasmania, etc, a few with minor varieties annotated, plus a couple with Kangaroo frankings, rather mixed condition but most are quite presentable. (Qty 25) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Mostly commercial mail from 1920s-60s including KGV frankings, advertising, airimals, taxed mail, 1947 registered compulsorily endorsed "Suspected of Containing Coin", 1940 to Finland from 'MELDRUM/NSW' censored, also a few earlier including Queensland 1880 to Scotland with 6d green, couple of registered Tatts covers, 1911 usage of 2d Letter Card to NSW, etc, a few from other Colonies/States and some Decimals including 'solo' frankings, postmark interest including slogans, etc,some postal stationery mostly used including Stamped To Order envelopes, a few flight covers, FDCs, etc, condition a little variable but most are fine to very fine. Weighs 1½kg. (Qty 300+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Late Fee mail from NSW to overseas destinations with a good range of markings & a batch of 1930s airmails with stamps to 5/- Kangaroo, Posted Out of Course mostly pre-WWII group with a few pre-1901 items, good range of markings including 'IRREGULARLY/POSTED', superb 'REGISTERED IN/ACCORDANCE/RULE 220 (1)/SYD NO 3' & a similar type also with 'GPO SYDNEY/ OOC /...' cds, several Officially Registered including 1903 at Perth & 1958 at Adelaide with manuscript "Found in drop/box...", etc, also 1913 with 'POSTE RESTANTE/DELIVERY EXPIRED' h/s of Melbourne (not previously seen by us), condition variable but a very worthwhile lot that would be difficult to duplicate. (Qty 54 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Trans-Australian Railway group with first E-W Trip 18.10.1917 OHMS from Melbourne & from Sydney with 'Subscribe/to the/LIBERTY/LOAN' label, illustrated cover for first W-E trip but used 2.11.1917, superb '[376] MILE EW RLY/SA' cds on KGV 1d red, TAR town postmarks for 'BARTON' (1955), 'LOONGANA' (1927 cover & 1947), 'RAWLINNA/WESTN AUSTRALIA' (1954 on cover), '.../WEST-AUST' (1961 registered cover) & '.../WA-6434', 'REID' (1966), 'WANDERING' (1951 OHMS cover) & 'ZANTHUS' (1948), also double-oval 'DISTRICT POSTAL INSPECTOR/KALGOORLIE' (1952 OHMS cover), 'TRANS AUST RAILWAY/ 1 /PAY TRAIN' (1955 on SA 1/6d Postal Note), 'TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAIL' 1964 & 1967 registered philatelic covers, etc, plus 1928 TAR 'AUSTRALIA/CALLS YOU/...' tourism brochure. A very good lot for this popular subject. (Qty 45 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1913 commercial usage of Victorian 1912 3d Registration Envelope with small boxed 'REGISTERED' Stieg #C13 to South Melbourne uprated with Kangaroo 1d tied by manuscript "Wattle/Vale/RO", superb 'NAGAMBIE - 712' duplex on the embossed stamp, minor soiling on the face. An extraordinary usage & an exceptional State/Commonwealth combination franking. Only a few used examples of this envelope have been recorded. [Wattle Vale is 8km WSW of Nagambie. Opened as a Receiving Office 1.3.1907; PO 1.7.1927; closed 14.10.1964. This is the only RO-period marking recorded for Wattle Vale & the only such Victorian RO manuscript cancel we have seen]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

1914 (Sep 26) apparently commercial cover to Pennsylvania with scarce franking of Engraved 6d Kookaburra (Cat $2500 on cover) tied by 'REGISTERED/SYDNEY NSW' cds, red & black/white R label overstruck with US boxed 'REGISTERED/NO...' h/s in purple, plain censor label with 'OPENED BY CENSOR' h/s in violet affixed at Sydney & slightly over the stamp, Chicago transit & Philadelphia arrival backstamp, professionally cleaned on the face. [The rate was 2½d + 3d registration: convenience overpayment of ½d] This is stated to be the earliest recorded usage on commercial cover. The ACSC states the First Day of Issue was 26.8.1914, at Brisbane only & that there is a cover dated 1SE14 - the FDI at Sydney - in the Royal Collection.

Grade (B) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1914 (Sep 19) usage of complete black/white 'VICTORIA/INLAND PARCEL/POST' label still with large-part o.g.! with rare franking of Kangaroos First Wmk 3d olive Die I (Cat $600 on cover) & Engraved Kookaburra 6d (Cat $2500 on cover & the only such usage we have seen) tied by 'ARMADALE/VICTORI'A cds, insignificant imperfections. Eye candy! [9d was the intrastate rate for a parcel weighing between 1 & 2 pounds]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

1915 (Mar 15) cover to the Agency for Prisoners of War in Switzerland endorsed on the flap "C Baur/Ing/Hobart/ Bruny Island/Tasmania" with Kangaroo ½d green + KGV 1d red pair tied by Hobart cds, scarce black/white 'OPENED BY CENSOR' label & 'CH1/[crown]/PASSED BY/CENSOR' h/s of Hobart, Geneva arrival b/s of 18IV15. A POW rarity. [This camp was so insignificant that Emery didn't mention it in either of his books & neither does the Bruny Island Historical Society website! At it's 'peak' only 58 internees were held on Bruny Island. By mid-1915 they had been transferred to Holsworthy Camp in NSW. A similar unstamped & taxed cover was sold in our auction on 27.7.2009 for $2563]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

1915 (Apr) stampless cover endorsed on the flap "...Langwarrin/Prisoners of War Depot" & with a faint but legible strike of the rare 'PRISONERS OF WAR DEPOT/LANGWARRIN' h/s in green at left, to the Red Cross in Geneva with Melbourne cds & the scarce 'CENSORS OFFICE/GPO/MELBOURNE' h/s surmounted by 'PASSED' h/s & with unrecognised '3' h/s all in violet.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1915 (July 20) double-rate cover to Switzerland "Per RMS Mongolia" with rare franking of Second Wmk 2d grey & 6d deep ultramarine ACSC 18B (Cat $3000 on cover) tied by 'THE EXCHANGE/NSW' cds, scarce red & black/white R label & 'PASSED BY CENSOR/=CS=' cds of Sydney both partly obscured by violet/white 'OPENED BY CENSOR' label, 'BERN 1/BRIEFAUSGABE' machine b/s.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$850

1917 (Jun 12) cover to Missouri with Third Wmk 2½d deep blue tied by 'ELIZABETH ST/MELBOURNE' machine cancel & 'PASSED' h/s in violet, a little aged. [Believed to be the earliest recorded usage of this stamp, by a remarkable three months. Discovered in 2009 despite which the 2013 & 2017 ACSC editions state (in error) "the earliest recorded date of use is September 1917". The date is actually confirmed by two full dateheads being present]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1917 (Aug 10) OHMS cover to Geelong with rare franking of 5d chestnut punctured Small 'OS' (ACSC 16bb; undercatalogued at $1500 on cover) tied by 'REGISTERED ELIZABETH ST/MELBOURNE' cds red/white R label, Geelong arrival b/s. [The Melbourne GPO was relocated from Elizabeth Street to Spencer Street on 4.6.1917. In 1964, the GPO reverted to the Elizabeth Street building]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

1920 (Mar 11) Empire rate use of KGV 1d Letter Card with view of 'WALHALLA/VICTORIA' to "Tel Aviv/Jaffa" uprated with KGV ½d green for the war tax & tied by 'MOUNT MAGNET/WESTN AUST' cds, superb 'T' h/s overstruck but hardly obliterated with bars cancel of Perth, 'PORT TAUFIQ' & 'PORT SAID' transit b/s, a second superb 'T' h/s presumably applied on arrival at Tel Aviv, minor blemishes. [The message is entirely in Hebrew with a brief note at the end in English. Palestine was an Empire detination but the mail clerk must have thought it was 'foreign' & sought to tax it accordingly. This was corrected at Perth but perhaps the Palestinian post office wan't sure either!]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1924 usage of Kangaroo 4d orange long format Registration Envelope ACSC RE2 to "Baghdad/Iraq/Mesopotamia" uprated with KGV 1d green & 2d brown tied by Brisbane cds of 19DE24, red/white R label (torn before being affixed), Danushkodi (India) transit & 'BAGHDAD/REG/26JAN1925' arrival b/s, minor soiling, opened-out for display. An excellent destination. [These Registration Envelopes were issued in 1913 but saw little use and were apparently withdrawn. They seem to have been re-released in the early-1920s]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

1939 (Feb 3) Fuhrmann & Co registered sextuple-rate cover front by air to Germany with scarce franking of Kangaroos 10/- grey & 'aniline' pink ACSC 50D (Cat $750+ for a used stamp; unrecorded on cover) + 1/- Lyrebird & 1/4d KGVI tied by 'RIALTO/ 2 /MELBOURNE VIC' cds, blue/white R label 'No 10000' (!) [The all-up air rate was 2/1d for the first ounce + 2/- for each successive ounce x5 + 3d registration. 'Tillie Mitchell's' similar quintuple-rate item sold at our auction of 29.8.2020 for $1318]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

1940 (June 27) long cover to London "via Australia/Hong Kong/Canada/England" with 9d Platypus, 2/- Roo and Robes 5/- 10/- & £1 pair tied by Sydney cds, plain brown paper censor label & Passed cachet in violet, quite spotty & wrinkled but rare. [The Mediterranean Route was cut on 10th June 1940 when Italy entered the War. The trans-Pacific 'Clipper' route via New Zealand commenced 19.7.1940 so the sender selected the rather expensive via Hong Kong route for which the All Up Air rate was 6/5d per ½oz x9. Even single-rate covers posted in this 5-week window are rare]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

1940-45 World War II correspondence addressed to Joan Richardson (Dowson) MBE OAM who served as a nursing orderley in Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Australia & New Guinea and on board the HMS 'Formidable', from a wide variety of units & locations including 1941 airmail with 9d Platypus tied 'H.M.TRANSPORT' cds and others with single-line cachets, 1941 to WA with India KGVI 8a tied 'FPO/No14' re-posted to "AIF Abroad" with 9d Platypus added, 1941 with QE 1d tied 'R.A.A.F.P.O.CUNDERDIN/WEST-AUST' and 'No.9 Elementary Flying Training School/Cunderdin WA' h/s, 1942 with 'RETURN TO SENDER ON AIR/MINISTRY'S INSTRUCTIONS' label, 1943 Imperial Telegram envelope with 'MIL.P.O. PUCKAPUNYAL' (Vic) arrival b/s, 1943 New Zealand 'National Patriotic Fund Board' envelope with 'M.P.O./K.W.2' cds, 1944 Air Mail Letter Card with QE 1d tied 'AUST UNIT POSTAL STN/338' at Forest Park Camp (WA), 1944 with USA Prexies 7c pair, 'More to Pay' label and Ausrtalian Postage Dues, 1944 unfranked from RAAF serviceman with 'R.A.F.BASE P.O./CEYLON' h/s and civilian censor label, 1945 (circa) to WA endorsed from "HMS Formidable - At War" with 'PASSED FREE/OF POSTAGE' h/s, 1945 with KGVI 3d tied 'AIR FORCE POST OFFICE/No254' used in the Philippines, etc, unfortunately condition very mixed and a number with stamps removed, however, most appear to be presentable and/or salvagable; plus a bundle of 40+ Airgraphs including a few illustrated, mostly fine to very fine. Weighs 2kg. Opportunity for further research into an original lot. (Qty 300+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1945 (July 21) usage of blue/white POW postcard with code 'I' at L/L, to "No 3 POW Camp/Thailand" with 4d Koala tied by 'BEVERLY HILLS/NSW-AUST' cds, large 'UNDELIVERABLE' h/s & partial "fickle finger" Return to Sender h/s in red, bumped corner at L/L. Very scarce.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1966 (Feb 26) commercial usage of QEII 1/7d Registration Envelope uprated with Decimal 1c QEII & 10c Fish, to California with 'ORMOND SE14/VIC-AUST' cds & blue/white R label, San Francisco arrival backstamp. An exceptional & beautiful pre-decimal/decimal Two Currency franking. Ex Elsa Todd.

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$400