Range from Junks, quantity of Sun Yat-sen with overprints & a few imperfs, also Cultural Revolution issues apparently commercially used noted Poems x4 singles, Capture of Nanking, Anti-American Declaration & Third Five-Year Plan pair, also some very modern including 2010 Asian Games book with M/S. (100s)

Estimate AU$400

1950 Inauguration of Chairman Mao Perf 14 $800 to $3000 complete plus Northeast Provinces $5000 $10,000 & $20,000, all without gum as issued, a couple of minor blemishes, Cat US$1600+. (7)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

1950 to Australia franked on reverse with Southwest China $100 Liberation Army and PRC $800 Tien An Men First Printing x3 tied by 'KUNMING' cds, '50.10.28/CANTON' transit alongside, couple of minor blemishes. Scarce combination franking; stamps of Southwest China were valid only until 30.6.1951.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1950-55 covers to Australia including 1950 by air franked on reverse with $1000 Train surcharge, $2000 Mao Inauguration and $10,000 Tien An Men, 1950 surface mail with Flying Geese surcharges $100 & $200 x2 and $2000 World Peace, another with Train & Plane surcharges plus two 1955 airmails with Tien An Men issues, some edge faults or blemishes. (5)

Grade B/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1970s sets including Fourth Five-Year Plan x2, Horses x2, Qi Baishi x2, Journey West, Opera Masks, Guilin Landscapes, Lotus, Scientists & Suzhou Garden plus many others, some duplicates, singles & part-sets, also a few packs & covers, unmounted, Cat US$2500+.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

TAIWAN: Group comprising 1953 Anti-TB x3 sets & Definitives, 1954 Silo Bridge & Youth Day ($5 pulled corner), all without gum as issued, Cat £2200+. (33)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$800

Miniature Sheets comprising 1948 Red Cross (no gum, as issued), National Parks 1954 Jo-Shin-Etsu (*), 1955 Rikuchu Kaigan (**), 1955 Chichibu-Tana (**) & 1956 Saikai (**), also 1950s-1960s unmounted sheetlets including some Ryukyus, high thematic content, STC £1100+.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

ROYAL PALACE PRIVATE 'LOCALS': 1890 (circa) Queen Saowabha F&O #L39, unused, very fine. Ex Len Colgan: sold at the Prestige auction of 24.6.2011 for $1725. Philatelic Association of Thailand Certificate (2011). [These undenominated stamps, each with a notional value of 1 att, were printed by a photographic process onto thick ungummed paper of generally poor quality. Most surviving examples have significant faults. Fine to very fine examples are extremely rare]

Grade A C1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

ROYAL PALACE PRIVATE 'LOCALS': 1890 (circa) Crown Prince Vajirunhis F&O #L43, well centred, unused, very fine. Ex Len Colgan: sold at the Prestige auction of 24.6.2011 for $1725. Philatelic Association of Thailand Certificate (2011).

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

POSTAL HISTORY: 1907 'No Stamps' Provisional Markings at Bangkok 2 local cover with Siamese-language address, largely very fine strike of the straight-line 'One att stamps run short Postage paid' h/s & signed "Fack" in red, overstruck with superb bilingual Bangkok 2 cds of 16.12.07 (the latest recorded date for the provisionals). Ex Len Colgan: sold at the Prestige auction of 24.6.2011 for $862. Philatelic Association of Thailand Certificate (2011). [Addressed to Nai Kwi Yiew at Krungthep, possibly by Fack himself]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500