Untidy accumulation from Treaty Ports to PRC with many useful pickings. Hours of fun here. (Qty many 100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

POSTAL HISTORY: 1930s-40s to Western Australia comprising airmails x4 including 1939 endorsed "Via Hong Kong per S/S Conte Verde thence by IAL [Imperial Air Lines]", 1947 (circa) with Sun Yat Sen overprints and 'HONG KONG' transit b/s, and 1948 with Sun Yat Sen $10,000 pair & $50,000 strip of 3, plus 1938 surface rate to Perth, condition mixed. (Qty 5)

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

POSTAL HISTORY: 1934 (June) pre-printed 'PAR AVION' airmail envelope to Guangzhou (Canton) endorsed via airmail to Wuhan and onwards by train, franked on back with Szechwan overprints Junk 1c orange & Sun Yat Sen 5c green x5 plus un-overprinted Airmail 45c plane tied 'PAHSIEN/(CHUNGKING)' bi-lingual d/s, 'CANTON' arrival d/s alongside, a few minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

POSTAL HISTORY: 1949 (Jan) airmail to Walliston, Western Australia with Sun Yat Sen Gold Yuan overprints '$10.00' on $2 pale brown (torn before affixing) on face and '$1.00' on 30c brown block of 4 and '$2.00' on $20 carmine pair on back all tied by characters d/s from a village in Guandong Province, red letter agent chop on back, a few blemishes & slightly shortened at right not affecting stamps or markings.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

POSTAL HISTORY: 1950 (July) airmail to Walliston, Western Australia with Train Unit Stamp orange '500' overprint x5 (including two pairs) and Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tien An Men) First Printing $1000 lilac pair & $5000 pink pair all on face tied by characters d/s from a village in Guandong Province, '50.7.22/CANTON' transit b/s, minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

POSTAL HISTORY: 1952 (July) airmail to Walliston, Western Australia with Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tien An Men) First Printing $5000 pink pair, Second Printing $1000 lilac and Third Printing $2000 olive all on face tied by characters d/s from a village in Guandong Province, '52.12.13/CANTON' transit b/s, a few blemishes and slightly shortened at right not affecting stamps or markings.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

PICTURE POSTCARDS: Universal Postcard & Picture Co (Shanghai) coloured cards mostly of village scenes including a procession, group of beggars, a sawmill (terrific photo), graves, planting rice, local monastery etc, plus a few of Chinese buildings in larger towns, very fine to superb unused. A lovely lot! (Qty 14)

Grade A/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

PICTURE POSTCARDS: 1930s real photograph group comprising 'Troops landing at Nankin', 'Nankin on Yangtze', family in a tiny boat (a coracle), team of buffalo walking through a town & another ploughing a paddy field, village temple, a massive junk, and three junks, unused. (Qty 8)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

PICTURE POSTCARDS: 1930s Japanese Occupation group comprising bearers with an enclosed chair, three of families riding in large wheelbarrows, and an impressive private (?) house; plus two earlier unrelated cards; unused. (Qty 7)

Grade A/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

PICTURE POSTCARDS: Shanghai POC Co - and a couple of others - coloured views of 'Astor House hotel', 'Bubbling Well Road', 'Chinese Funeral', 'Chinese pagoda', 'Chinese Tea house', 'Chinese Temple', 'Entrance to Native city', 'Nanking Road', 'Old City wall', 'Public garden', 'Race Club', 'Shanghai Club on the Bund' and 'Sinza Road', also 'Chinese Eating Rice', 'Chinese Prisoners' and 'CHINESE JUGGLER', unused. A very fine & attractive group. (Qty 16)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$120

1876-2016 collection predominantly used on home-made pages with range of early commmoratives including 1905 Korea, 1915 Enthronement set, 1919 Peace set, 1921 Battleships set, 1925 Wedding set, 1927 UPU set, National Parks sets from 1936 onwards, also Definitives 1923 imperfs set, Mount Fuji 1929 4s orange & 8s olive and 1937 20s blue, etc, post-WWII largely complete including 1950 Airmails set, 1951-52 Airmails set, National Lottery M/Ss **, 1964 Olympics M/Ss **, etc, modern with sheetlets & M/Ss **/CTO including Prefecture issues, lots of thematic interest, condition generally fine to very fine. Weighs 12kg. (Qty 100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

POSTAL HISTORY: 1939 Hemmi Seisaku-Sho Co Ltd unsealed airmail cover to Australia with 'COMMERCIAL SAMPLE' h/s, 4s 5s 20s x2 50s & 1y x4 with Tokyo cds & blue/black 'R' label, per Dai Nippon to Hong Kong then Imperial Airways feeder to Bangkok and then Empire Route service, Melbourne arrival b/s, a few blemishes and vertical fold not affecting stamps.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

POSTAL HISTORY - WWII OCCUPATION OF BURMA: 1943 (circa) Helmet & Dove Postal Card sent by serviceman to Niigata, censor's chop in vermilion, return address translates as "c/- Sasebo Post Office i11 i32 Watanabe Unit Nakahara Party". [i11 was the designation for the Andaman Islands, which Japan occupied in late March 1942 after much of the British garrison was withdrawn following the fall of Burma]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

POSTAL HISTORY: 1951 (Oct 30) commercial usage of Hong Kong-printed formular aerogramme to a member of the House of Commons in London with 50s 2y 5y & 20y tied by Japanese-language cds, London arrival b/s of 5NO/51, abrasion on the address panel. The message partly in French & partly in Englaish finishes "...France & Japan have a good eye on the British politics & so many hopes".

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$50