Accumulation mostly used with strength in Envelopes including Stamped-To-Order KGV Stars 1½d red for British Imperial Oil & 2d orange for Australian Drug Coy (aging marks), KGV Oval 1d for Electricity Meter Manufacturing Co illustrated & 2d 'OS'-in-Die used from Sydney, KGVI Oval 1d green for Rosella illustrated, Goodyear, Kennards, Buzacott, etc, 1d brown for Defence Canteens (a few blemishes), 1½d green & 2½d red for House Bros Timber illustrated, 1½d green for Peters Creameries & Vacuum Oil illustrated, 2d violet for Permit Mail PMG PM 840 (minor faults), 2½d red for Commonwealth Steel Co unused x2 (flaps stuck down) and a batch of Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy QEII long-format envelopes airmail to Canada including 4c red with 15c Galah added taxed, 5c orange with QEII 5c & 30c Ibis added, with 25c Wool added taxed & with 20c Expo added x3 & 6c red uprated with meter cancels x2 plus 10c red sent surface mail without added franking, also a group of Registration Envelopes from KGV to QEII, a few Postal Cards, Wrappers, etc, some unused, light duplication in parts, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.  (200+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

AEROGRAMMES: Terrific basis for a new collection with scarcer issues including KGVI 7d on Yellow Paper with Ungummed Flaps for use in TPNG (superb unused), 1956 Olympics with 'MELBOURNF' Error (commercially used) & 10c with Large 'c' (VFU), several First Days of Issue, special flights including KGVI 7d with printed '.../RE-OPENING/AUSTRALIA-ENGLAND/EMPIRE AIR ROUTE/...' in purple signed by both pilots, excellent postal history content with upratings including three different 10d each re-rated 9c with 1c adhesive, 1948 from Phillips Ponds (SA) cancelled at 'WOOMERA WEST', 1952 to Austria with censor cachet within, unusual destinations including New Zealand, Singapore, Yugoslavia, Canada, Thailand & Nepal, commercial usages from the Solomons of three different Territories formular types, etc, a few problems but generally fine to superb.   (80+)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

AEROGRAMMES: Accumulation in three cartons, mainly Australia but other countries included, mixture of mint & CTO. Sink your teeth into this one. Weighs 20kg.  (100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

AEROGRAMMES: 1960 Plane 10d blue with 'Overseas Service' Added, with rubber 'SPECIMEN' Handstamp in Violet as ACSC A13wa but with the Handstamp Upright. [The ACSC lists this item only with the handstamp inverted & states that only two examples have been recorded]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

ENVELOPES - OFFICIAL: Mainly used all-different group with KGV 'Star' 1½d red 'OS'-in-Die, Oval 2d red 'OS'-in-Die, Without 'OS' for various Departments comprising Oval 2d red x2, KGVI Oval 2d red x3, 2½d red x4, Oval 3d red, QEII 5d light blue x2, 4c red & 5c orange, condition a little variable. Ex 'Woodchip'.   (20)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

ENVELOPES - STAMPED TO ORDER: QEII Decimal collection apparently all-different with a wide variety of formats, sizes, users & advertising, lots of 4c red & 5c orange noted Australian Estates Group, Holeproof & Nonporite (umbrella) with illustrations, also 6c red x20+ including for Royal Australian College of Surgeons long-format unused (Cat $100), 7c violet x20+, 10c red used for Shell and for Australasian Institute of Mining (Cat $50 each) and 18c orange for Shell x2 different, plenty of thematic interest, some opened-out or with mostly minor blemishes but generally the condition is fine to very fine. Ex 'Woodchip'.   (150+)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

ENVELOPES: 1980s-90s large accumulation of PSEs with printed advertising added in four plastic tubs, quite a few illustrated with lots of variety & thematic interest, all apparently commercially used, some duplication, condition a little mixed but mostly fine to very fine. Weighs 22kg. Ex 'Woodchip'.   (2000+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

FOOD PARCEL LABELS: MYER EMPORIUM: 1946 Myer 5/10d blue (with Tear Flaw) with 'A GIFT PARCEL FROM AUSTRALIA' at the Base ACSC PL4A with Edition Number 'MO77' at Lower-Right, small repaired tear at the base, unused with the gum removed, Cat $2000.

Grade (A) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

FOOD PARCEL LABELS: 1946 Myer 5/10d blue with 'A GIFT PARCEL FROM AUSTRALIA' at the Base ACSC PL4A with Edition Number '473' at Lower-Right and Address Lines Added, Melbourne parcel roller cancel, ironed-out crease at right with associated repaired damage at U/R & affixed to a piece of thin white paper, Cat $800++. We have recorded only one other example of this rare variant: see also Lot 2352. [The sender Max Oldaker, was a celebrated operatic singer & theatre performer who was born in Tasmania. The addressee, Harry Isaacs was a British classical pianist]

Grade (B) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

FOOD PARCEL LABELS: 1946 Victorian Department of Agriculture 5/10d blue with 'GIFT NO./TO' at Left ACSC PL4BA with No Edition or Edition Number 'MO/76' at Lower-Left, the first with a couple of thins, the other with faults but presentable, Cat $3000.  (2)

Grade B/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

FOOD PARCEL LABELS: 1946 Anthony Hordern & Sons (Sydney) 5/10d blue with 'FOOD POST PARCEL/ FROM/ANTHONY HORDERN & SONS LTD/...' printed in red ACSC PL4C, a little soiled & a couple of ironed-out creases, partial strike of 'SYDNEY 2' parcel roller cancel & rubber datestamp '28NOV1946' applied by Hordern's, Cat $7500. Ex Neil Russell. One of the great rarities of Australian Postal Stationery. The example illustrated in the ACSC - Ex Keith Freebairn - sold at our auction of 9.2.2008 for $10,485. This is believed to be the only other complete label recorded.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$5,000

LETTER CARDS: 1906 'Goodman's Patent' Reply Letter Card essay in violet/buff, missing a small corner piece of selvedge, the perforations sensibly reinforced with archival tape. Probably the finest of the few examples we have seen. An important "forerunner" for the 1911 1d+1d issue but with the reply-half inverted in relation to the message-half.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

POSTAL CARDS: 1911-50s group including 1911 KGV Full-Face 1d Coronation 'Prince of Wales', 1915 KGV Sideface 1d red with Shire of Moorabbin printed message, 1919-22 KGV 1½d brown with & without footnote, 1930 KGV 1d green 'THREE/HALFPENCE' overprint unused (minor aging marks) & used, 1930-37 KGV 1½d brown with short & long admonitions and on Flimsy Cream Stock unused & used, 1943-50 KGVI 2d mauve with 'i' of 'is' Missing unused, quite a number of others with printed messages including Stamped-to-Order KGV Oval 1d & KGVI Oval 1d both for AM Bickford & Sons and KGVI Oval 1½d for H Jones & Co x2 (one with Die Crack) all used, condition a little variable but mostly fine to very fine. Ex 'Woodchip'.   (52)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

WRAPPERS: Post-WWII group including KGVI 1½d green *&U and STO 1½d green used, 1½d violet uprated with ½d to GB in 1951 etc, fine to very fine used or unused.  (22)

Grade A/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$75