Box of advertising covers with KGV Head frankings, most with imprint on face or flap including lots of Hotels, several with all-over advertising on the back & a few illustrated types, rather mixed condition at a bargain estimate. The stamps may not have been checked for varieties. (Qty 150+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Shoebox of KGV-period covers selected for cds cancels with many fine to superb strikes, a few scarce ones noted including 'BOONOONAR/VIC', 'RYTHDALE/VIC', 'WIRRABARRA/SA' squared-circle late usage, etc, condition variable, possibly unchecked for varieties. (Qty 150 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

Carton of commercial mail with many internal oversize airmail covers with an array of frankings, then a quantity into Australia from many different countries including a few from Aden & we also noted 1947 Holland to Brunei!, the best item is a complete 1930 registered mailing tube with 'UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE' address label and KGV 2d & 3d tied by scarce 'MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY' cds; then a batch of schoolboy collections in albums, a quantity of stamps in packets, & a bag of complete matchboxes. Ferrets wanted. (Qty Qty)

Estimate AU$200

Box of commercial covers with strong military content including WWI Forces in Egypt & on the Western Front, some BCOF Korea & Vietnam, also WWII civil censor covers, post-war civilian mails with some useful frankings & many by air to overseas destinations, 150+ with machine cancels including scarce slogans, suburban offices & 'PAID' types, condition variable. (Qty 500 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

Mostly KGV Heads frankings plus a few Kangaroos to 5/- on a wide-ranging selection of commercial mail including registered, airmail, taxed, advertising etc, plenty of postmark interest & destinations including American Samoa, Western Samoa, Fiji, Malta, Austria, Czechoslovakia & India, includes a good range of early Registration Envelopes including Kangaroo 4d long envelope uprated with KGV 4d yellow-orange, a few quality issues but generally fine to very fine. An excellent basis for serious expansion for routes & rates or usage. (Qty 100 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

1940s-60s mostly commercial covers with an array of cds cancels including some small towns & other scarce types, many fine to superb strikes, a few registered & some with instructional handstamps, condition variable. (Qty 150 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Large box of covers with KGV frankings & a few with Kangaroos, pickings throughout but the condition rather mixed. May not have been checked for varieties. (Qty many 100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Meter Cancels on cover massive accumulation from 1930s-90s in a dozen archive boxes, a few earlier noted 1929 Malloch Bros, Perth on illustrated advertising envelope showing products including 'Spinifex' Barbed Wire, huge variety of different types including some specimen & proof strikes, second-class mail rates & some overseas usages including airmails, official mail, registered, a few postcards noted one for Radio 2CH, lots of major brands including Austin cars, Band-Aid, Cadburys, Castrol, Channel 7, Columbia, Dewars Whisky, Dunlop, Elders, Holden, McWilliams Sherry, Mobil, Rainbow bicycles (illustrated), Shell, TAA, Texta, The Age, Victa, Yellow Express, also events noted Geelong & District Festival 1963, etc, etc with plenty of thematic interest, a few fronts but mostly complete covers, condition a little variable but generally fine to very fine. A wonderful opportunity. Weighs 120+kg. (Qty many 1000s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$2,000

Extensive array of machine cancels on KGV-period covers with many 1919 to mid-1920s Krag types, many scarce slogans & a good number from provincial offices, minor duplication, condition variable, worth checking for varieties. Good basis for expansion. (Qty 200 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

Large accumulation in archive box with emphasis on material relating to Newcastle (NSW), noted 1857 with Laureates 2d blue tied BN '55' & Newcastle crowned oval b/s, 1897 1d Centennial & 1899 1d Arms envelopes STO for Robert Wallace to Norway & Germany respectively, 1901 Tatts cover officially registered endorsed "OR/6d to pay", 1907 Arms 1d Postal Card with all-over illustrated advertising on reverse for David Jones Limited, 1916 KGV 1d Letter Card with 'AIF March' view, 1920s Caltex parcel label with 'POSTAGE PAID/AT/NEWCASTLE, NSW' cds in red, 1925 KGV 'Star' 1d green STO Envelope for HC Sleigh with 'UNCLAIMED/NEWCASTLE' h/s, 1934 Charles Ulm Duke of Gloucester flight cover, taxed covers including 1966 Fish 10c & 1970 PMs 5c booklet pair used in lieu of Postage Dues, a range of PPCs including GB Hull Footballer used 1907 in Newcastle, etc, condition quite variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bernie Doherty. Weighs 8kg. (Qty many 100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Box of long covers with good KGV Heads content including official mail & advertising covers, post-war mail including commercial airmails to overseas destinations, some interest in the frankings & potential for stamp varieties, condition very mixed. (Qty 200+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Box of Decimal-period covers with a wide array of frankings & some better rates, many with instructional handstamps, registered & express services, commercial airmails & a bundle with Framas, condition variable. (Qty 100s)

Estimate AU$150

Large box of pre-decimal covers with strength i n KGVI & QEII periods with many on Martin Frischauff's stock-pages, lots of commercial airmails both domestic & to overseas with a few better destinations noted, WWI POW cover-front with rare printed 'POST/FREE', a few WWII items, many Registration Envelopes with some better frankings to 10/- Arms & postmark interest including 'GLENFERRIE E2/VIC-AUST' (the later of only two recorded examples), 'RELIEF/No 10' tied to Seddon (Vic), 'BRIGHTON CAMP/TAS-AUST' & 'CIC BONEGILLA/VIC-AUST', also some instructional handstamps, condition variable. Heaps of potential in the right hands. (Qty 100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

Pre-decimal mail to unusual destinations including Bahamas, Jamaica, Philippines, Peru, Palestine, Lebanon, Venezuela, Uruguay, New Guinea, etc, including WWII, many are commercial including some airmails (Qty 21)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1930s-80s Paid & Meter cancels on covers in large box with advertising envelopes including a few illustrated, OHMS covers, official & municipal mail with a range of imprints, postmark interest in the 'PAID' cds mostly from NSW & Victoria, noted a half-dozen Telephone Account envelopes with scarce 'WIDGELLI/NSW-AUST' cds, the 'PAID' machine cancels including many slogans with thematic interest, the meters including some early and a few pictorial types, also quantity of 1990s PSEs commercially used some with additionally-printed business names & logos, condition mixed. (Qty many 100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1914 Brown & Dureau Mercantile Brokers (Perth) cover to Japan with Kangaroos First Wmk 1d pair & 3d tied by 'COLOMBO PAQUEBOT/ A /MR5/14' cds, 'HONG-KONG/18MAR/14/ 11 ' transit & poor 'KOBE/28.3.13/ JAPAN' arrival b/s, light spotting. The rate was Foreign Letter 2½d + 2½d late fee.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1922 covers with KGV 4d violet to Brisbane (scarce domestic franking; a bit stained) with 'SPECIAL/SYDNEY' machine cancel & a window envelope probably to Germany with South Melbourne cds, and 4d ultramarine to Czechoslovakia with Adelaide machine cancel & to Germany with 'EDGECLIFF/NSW' cds. (Qty 4)

Grade A/B

Estimate AU$150

1940 (June 1) airmail cover to Forces in Palestine with 5d Ram only tied by 'DARWIN NT/AUSTRALIA' cds, rare 'T'-in-circle h/s of Darwin & taxed "2/2", intact handstamped 'OPENED BY CENSOR/. . . . . . . ' label & boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR/( D 1 )' cachet, minor faults. A rare Darwin censor cover.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1948 address label to "USA Zone/Bayern/Germany" endorsed "Gift Parcel" & affixed to a larger piece with rare franking of Robes 5/- on Thin Tinted Paper (undercatalogued at $750 on cover), 5d Ram & 1/3d Bull strip of 3 tied by light 'ST KILDA S2/VIC-AUST' cds, minor blemishes. Virtually all 1940s parcel usages are to Britain. [The Thin Paper 5/- is very rarely seen on any sort of commercial article. This is only the second or third example with Tinted Paper we have seen. It should be worth a lot more than $750 on cover. See also Lot 2355]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

1948 Anthony & Hordern & Sons (Sydney) red/white parcel address label registered to Hobart with 1d 2½d 3d x5 & 1/- Lyrebird x2 all with 'AH/&S' perfins & superb 'AIR MAIL' h/s in violet, minor faults. A remarkable item, being an internal registered air parcel, greatly enhanced by the 4-colour franking with commercial perfins. [If you work out the rate, please let us know!]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1949 (c.) illustrated packet tag with printed 'QUEEN BEE Deliver Quickly', to Griffith NSW with 1½d x2 tied by 'SCONE' cds, staple holes where affixed to the tiny 'hive'. One of the most unusual postal articles we have ever seen, all the more so for the unintentionally humorous 'DIRECTIONS FOR INTRODUCING' printed on the reverse. We know of only three other such items: Kevin Nelson's 1938 tag by air sold at our auction of 20.11.2010 for $930. See also Lot 2324. [Between 1.7.1949 & 30.11.1950, the samples rate was 1½d per 2oz x2]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1956 commercial airmail cover to Samoa with Melbourne 6d meter for an unidentified user, obvious damage from immersion & corner piece missing at L/L, very fine strike of the straight-line 'SOILED MAIL EX VASU' h/s in violet applied at Apia. The correct rate was 1/- but the underpayment was not detected. [The mail was flown to Fiji, then per wooden motorship 'Vasu' which foundered in rough seas about 300km N of Tonga, and was abandoned. Brian Peace at page 322 states that "29 pieces of mail were recovered". A similarly shortpaid cover sold at our auction of 14.8.2004 for $470]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1960s-2000s huge accumulation of commercial mail with a wide variety of frankings including solos, some International Post, a few Framas & meters, values to $10 on domestic mail as well as lots of overseas airmails including to Lebanon, New Zealand, PNG, Singapore, South Africa, etc, includes picture postcards, greeting card rates, some advertising & a few illustrated tourist envelopes, Registered & Security Post, Certified Mail, Priority Paid, etc, some uprated postal stationery, official mail, plenty of postmark interest, condition generally very fine. Great opportunity to develop into a number of collections or even exhibits. (Qty 1000s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1965 (Dec 5) standard-size envelope-front apparently used as an address label on a larger article registered to Germany with rare solo franking of Navigators £1 Bass tied by Brisbane cds, 'BRISBANE BULK' R label alongside plus red 'EXPRESS' label & blue/white 'LETTER' label indicating full airmail postage was paid so for it not to be treated as Second Class Mail, addressee's arrival docketing of "8/12". A lovely item. The rate was 2/3d per ½oz x8 + 2/- registration = 20/- (£1).

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

1966 (c.) packet tag with printed 'QUEEN BEE! Please Deliver Quickly!' by air to England with Navigators 40c (defective) & 50c tied by poor 'BEUADESERT' (Qld) cds, some staining from where affixed to the tiny 'hive' with 'sellotape'. One of the most unusual postal articles we have ever seen, all the more so for the unintentionally humorous 'DIRECTIONS FOR INTRODUCING' printed on the reverse that commences "Kill your old queen..." (regicide!). We know of only three other such items, all from KGVI's reign: Kevin Nelson's 1938 tag by air sold at our auction of 20.11.2010 for $930. See also Lot 2320. [The rate eludes us]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$750