Airmails to Australia with high-value frankings, mostly 1940s registered oversized covers comprising KGVI 10/- light blue pair plus 6d x3 endorsed 'North Atlantic', 10/- dark blue pair plus 5/- & 1/- x2 on censored cover, four others with 5/- & lower values and one with 2/6d green, then 2/6d brown on 1941 Two-Ocean small cover and on 1940 Active Service honour envelope endorsed "Yankee Clipper" to UK tied FPO/123 cds, also large-part cover with KGVI 10/- x9, plus two Seahorses items one 1934 to Australia with 2/6d the other 1929 to Ecuador with 10/- (stamp missing), condition variable. (Qty 12) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1840 Mulready Lettersheets 1d black SG ME1 Stereo 'A6' & 2d blue SG ME3 Stereo 'a95', both unusually fine unused, Cat £775. (Qty 2)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1840 Mulready Envelopes 1d black SG ME2 Stereo 'A172' & 2d blue SG ME4 Stereo 'a201', both and especially the Penny unusually fine unused, Cat £775. (Qty 2)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1843 (April 21) entire to Liverpool with Imperf 1d red on blued paper SG 8 (4 margins), tied by very fine Number '6'-in-Maltese Cross in black & London 'LS/21AP21/1843' Maltese Cross b/s, lozenge 'L/AP22/A' arrival b/s, reinforced at folds with archival tape.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1875 (c.) hand-painted cover of a happy sailor on shore leave waving a banner into which a 1d Plate '86' has been incorporated, addressed to Hertfordshire but apparently not posted as the stamp is uncancelled & there are no backstamps, repaired opening tear across the flap suggests the cover was privately carried & delivered by hand. Ex Gerald Ellott - the frontispiece for his Grand Prix Royal Navy exhibit - sold at the Prestige auction of 16.12.2011 for $1346. [The addressee was Francis William Sullivan who joined the Royal Navy in 1848 as a cadet, & rose to the top of the tree, being knighted & on 5/8/1900 appointed Admiral of the Fleet. See also Lot 2059]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

1901 (Apr 25) hand-painted cover of a row of tents & a uniformed soldier pointing to the address "HMS Magnificent/ Channel Fleet/Beerhaven" with 1d lilac tied by London cds, a further illustration of crossed rifles on the reverse & 'BANTRY' arrival cds, minor blemishes. With the original enclosure bearing watercolour illustration of a sailor on the first page and pen & ink of a criminal on the 4th page. A very handsome duo. Ex Gerald Ellott: sold at the Prestige auction of 16.12.2011 for $1734. [Beerhaven, more correctly Berehaven is on the coast of County Cork, Ireland. It was an Admiralty shore-station until 1938, well after Ireland gained its independence] (Qty 2 items)

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,250

1904 (Dec) Dainty Series Welsh PPC ('Penmaenmawr from Sands') to Eccles, Greater Manchester with Chrsitmas greetings and KEVII ½d tied by largely-fine strike of the experimental 'POSTED IN ADVANCE/ M.R. / 1904 /FOR DELIVERY ON XMAS DAY' oval h/s, couple of very minor blemishes. [In 1902, Manchester-area post offices began a trial to allow items for local delivery on Christmas day to be handed-in the week before, so as to give postal staff time to sort and prepare these. Special cancellations were introduced to advise recipients that the delay was intentional. Lack of public interest saw the scheme abandoned in 1910]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

PICTURE POSTCARDS: 1912 London Life real photo of a Suffragette selling the broadsheet of the same name; then an anti-Suffrage group x13 including Cynicus 'Emancipated' & 'This is the House that Man Built' complete set of 6 (very fine & scarce); mostly unused & generally very fine. (Qty 14)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

PICTURE POSTCARDS: c.1908-10 Lancashire Fabric Mills real photo group with Howard & Bullough factory scenes x4 (one creased); an amazing photo of snow covering machinery at Thornbers; and RE Buckley (Mossley) of male & female 'knocker-uppers' - whose job was to awaken the sleeping mill-hands - with captions in Lancashire dialect; unused. A very scarce group. (Qty 7)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

PICTURE POSTCARDS: Anti-Suffragette cards by various publishers ridiculing women wearing harem pants & other masculine attire, National Series postcards 'The Ideal Wife', 'The Ideal Husband' & 'The Bachelor' complete sets of 6, Corona Publishing Co (artist W Stocker Shaw) depicting women doing traditional men's jobs and their Achilles Heel (a baby in a cradle), Valentines Series of a Suffragette in the Dock, etc, plus a few European types including particularly offensive French & German cards, generally fine to very fine but three are badly stained (and not included in the estimate). (Qty 74) (Image1)

Estimate AU$450