1840 entire Edinburgh-Dublin with 1d black (full margins), 1840 usage of Mulready 1d lettersheet Stereo 'A234', 1854 entire to Victoria "pr Great Britain" with 2d pair & large Embossed 1/- (deep shade, damaged by vertical fold), 1850s mourning cover to NSW with Embossed 1/- (margins just touched to close but stained) & very fine '5' h/s for NSW inland postage due, and 1880 cover with 1d Venetian red x2 tied by London duplex. All quite presentable. (5)

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

Victorian-era hand-illustrated covers comprising 1873 1d pink Envelopes x2 from Wolverhampton, of Macbeth or Mr Micawber (?), both of fine appearance; 1874 ½d Postal Card from the same correspondent to "Ye Ladye Fayre with Golden Hair" with giddy poem & illustration, two vertical folds hardly affect the 'view' side, a very early 'Picture Postcard'; plus seven other items in various states of decrepitude. Fun lot! (10 items)

Estimate AU$400

1825 (Feb 22) entire to Lt Colonel Henry Hardy in Ceylon with very fine strike of the large double-oval 'POST PAID SHIP LR/[crown]/5MR5/1825/LONDON' d/s in red.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1863 (Aug 15) cover to "The Chief Justice of/Queensland" endorsed "Via Marseilles" with very fine 9d bistre SG 86 (with wing-margin; Cat £1200 on cover) tied by 'MAIDENHEAD - 492' duplex, superb 'INSUFFY STAMPED/VIA MARSEILLES' h/s at L/L, London transit & Brisbane arrival b/s of OC15/1863. [Queensland's first Chief Justice was James Cockle, appointed 21.2.1863]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1876 (Sep 28) cover from Ireland with very fine GB 8d orange tied by largely superb 'DUBLIN - 186' duplex, to "Woodlands PO Cambooya/Darling Downs/...", 'BRISBANE' transit b/s of NO16/76 & poor Cambooya arrival b/s, minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1902 cover to "Axim/West Africa" with beautiful Dickensian pen-&-ink illustration of two urchins and a Romany fortuneteller - boy urchin "And ter think that I squandered me las coin only ter find that she's goin ter marry a blonde millionaire"! - 'AXIM/GOLD COAST' arrival b/s. Marvellous! [Initialled "FGP" = FG Pitts?]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

1931 Bergen (Norway) to the North Pole cover with submarine cachet in purple & combination franking of Norwegian British & American stamps, signed "Hubert Wilkins".

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

FIRST DAY COVERS: Printed types for Jubilee set registered, KGVI 1937 ½d 1d & 2½d, Coronation 1½d, Stamp Centenary x2 sizes (one registered) & Victory x3 different (two registered), and plain covers for 1924 Wembley, KGV Photogravure 4d & 9d, Stamp Centenary & 1948 Wedding (registered), generally very fine, Cat £1800 plus the KGV Photogravures that are unlisted in Gibbons. (12)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

Shoebox of mostly lesser covers but a few better noted including 1934 'DALY WATERS/NA' to Halls Creek & to 'WAVE HILL/NT' and 'WAVE HILL/NT' to Wyndham, 1935 Fraser Island-SS Maheno Wreck Rocket Mail, pilot-signed items including 1935 'GOLDFIELDS' AIR MAIL' postcard with 'TENNANT CREEK/NT' cds, 1943 Mornington Island parachute mail, 1946 Re-Opening England-Australia 6d Aerogramme, 1949 Re-Opening Australia-HK & HK- Australia, 1953 Hollandia to Lae & to Sydney, and New Guinea 1937 Wambara-Wewak x2 both with 'DISTRICT OFFICE/WEWAK' b/s, etc, generally fine to very fine. (100 approx)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

1919 (Aug) Adelaide-Minlaton per Harry Butler PPC, corner creases but presentable, unused & very scarce thus: see also Lot 561. [The illustration is above Lot 394]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1932 New England Airways Ltd illustrated passenger ticket #1906 dated "28 4 32" & signed "CM Gorman", Queensland KGV 2d revenue pen-cancelled on the same date, a bit worn from having been folded in the passenger's wallet. Nice item.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1935 (May 15) Silver Jubilee Relief Flight cover with Jubilee 2d tied by superb 'NEWTOWN/NSW' cds, 11 autographs including of prominent aviators "PG Taylor", "J Percival", "John SW Stannage" & "RN Boulton", Cat $750. Only 25 carried.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1940 (May 8) Ulm PPC carried on TEAL first flight Auckland-Sydney per 'Awarua' #900ac with Kangaroo 3d punctured 'OS/NSW' cancelled on arrival, five signatures including the pilot "O Garden", Cat $400.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

ROCKET MAILS: Queensland group comprising 1934 SS 'Canonbar'-Brisbane, 1935 SS 'Maheno'-Fraser Island & Fraser Island-SS 'Maheno', 1935 Jubilee flight per 'Zodiac' with black/blue flimsy plus a PPC of Alan Youn & the 'Zodiac' signed "AH Young", 1936 Brisbane River per 'Orion' with 'MAIL DAMAGED/BY WATER' cachet & red/yellow flimsy - plus comical newspaper article with photos of the failed launch & recovery - 1936 Brisbane River per 'RT6', Enoggera Rifle Range per 'RT7', 1937 Mount Nebo per 'RO3' & Enoggera Rifle Range per 'RZ2', Coronation Firing & 1959 25th Anniversary cover, all the covers with appropriate cachets &/or launch labels. Ex Neil Russell. (14 items)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1930-43 covers to foreign destinations including Austria 1933 at 9d rate & 1935 at 2/- with SMult Wmk 2/-; Czechoslovakia 1930 at 8½d; Denmark 1934 at 1/9d + 3d registration; France Jan 1940 at 5/1d; Germany 1932 at 1/9d + registration, 1937 double-rate 1/9d + 1/8d + 1d late fee, 1938 at 2/1d, and 1941 front only at 5/11d with boxed 'PERMISSION/GRANTED' h/s; Greece 1931 at 8d + 3d registration, 1931 at 2/5d + 3d registration and 1934 at 8d with Greek instructional label affixed; Italy 1943 at 1/- POW rate; Lebanon 1936 at 1/8d; Holland 1934 at 8d with Dutch 10c Postage Due; Dutch Indies 1935 at 9d & 9d + 8d double rate; Switzerland 1934 at 2/1d and 1941 at 5/8d x2 to POWs; and a few others, condition variable. (28)

Estimate AU$400

ARGENTINA: 1931 (June 15) registered cover from Sydney to Buenos Aires endorsed "Per Pan American Airways/ Miami-Cuba-Porto Rico/Argentine/Air Mail" with 2d 3d x2 & Kingsford Smith 6d, New York (11th July) & Miami (9th July) transit b/s & indistinct Buenos Aires arrival, superb 'CERTIFICADOS/258/CENTRAL' h/s on the face. [There was no gazetted rate from Australia until 1934. The rate paid appears to have been 3d foreign letter rate via London (?) to Miami + 8d airmail Miami-Argentina + 3d registration]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

BARBADOS: 1937 (Oct 12) all-up air endorsed "Australia-London-British West Indies via USA" with KGV 1d & 4d + Hermes No Wmk 1/6d pair tied by Melbourne cds, 'BARBADOS/8NOV/1937/GPO' machine arrival b/s. [Neither Walker nor Breckon list pre-1942 rates to Barbados. However, to Trinidad, the rate for all-up air was 3/5d. Ted Proud states that airmails were off-loaded at Trinidad, then sent by sea to Barbados]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

BRAZIL: 1940 (Feb 27) bank cover endorsed 'Per China Clipper' with 1d 6d & Kangaroo 2/- x2 tied by 'PERTH/WA' cds, Rio de Janeiro b/s of 20/MAR/40, minor creasing & soiling. The rate of 4/7d (or 4/6d + 1d late fee) doesn't conform to any of the several rates recorded by Breckon and Walker.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

BRITISH GUIANA: 1931 (Apr 13) registered cover from Sydney to Georgetown endorsed "Per SMS Ventura" & "Per USA/Air Mail" with rare franking of KGV SMult Watermark Perf 14 1/4d (Cat $1500 on cover) + 3d Airmail, San Francisco Atlanta & Miami transit b/s & 'AIR MAIL GPO/13MY31/BRITISH GUIANA' cds which suggests it was also flown Miami-Georgetown, some creasing that just impinges on the 1/4d. [There was no gazetted rate from Australia until 1934. The rate paid appears to have been 2d Empire letter rate + US airmail surcharge 7d x2 + 3d registration = 1/7d]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

CHINA: 1937 (Dec 17) to Shanghai endorsed by air "Aust-Singapore" with KGV 4d olive + Small Kookaburra 6d tied by Brisbane cds, Shanghai machine with Chinese slogan on the face, light wrinkling. [A 3-tier rate applied: 10d air to Singapore; 1/- air to Hong Kong; or 2/- all-up air]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: 1938 (Oct 17) 'Australia-Greece-Czechoslovakia' at 2/1d all-up rate with Kangaroo 2/- + Koala 4d tied by 'REGISTERED/SYDNEY NSW' cds, superb Athens transit b/s & Greek currency control h/s on the face, two different Prague arrival b/s.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

FIJI: 1941 (Dec 15) with Hermes 1/6d tied by Sydney slogan, Clipper h/s in black, superb 'P.O./24DEC41/LAUTOKA- FIJI' arrival b/s. [An anomaly. The Clipper service was suspended immediately after Pearl Harbor was attacked on 7.12.1941. Mail intended for the USA or beyond was held at or returned to Sydney and forwarded via the 'Horseshoe' Route. However, the suspension was publicly announced only on 18th December. It is possible that this cover was forwarded by sea from Auckland instead of being first returned to Sydney]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

FINLAND: 1937 via London at 1/9d rate with jusqu'a h/s in black, & 1936 via Greece - b/s - to Finland at 2/3d all-up rate, both with 'KUOPIO' arrival b/s. Nice duo. (2)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

GERMANY: 1935 all-up cover to Germany with Large Kookaburra 6d x3 + KGV 1d tied by 'LATE FEE/MELBOURNE VIC' cds, very fine 'T/33.3c'-in-Octagon h/s of Melbourne converted on arrival to "34"pf with boxed 'Nachgebuhr' h/s (= Postage Due) in red. [An additional 3d stamp affixed to the reverse was overlooked at both ends of the journey]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

GERMANY: GERMANY: 1935 PPC with Kangaroos 9d + Jubilee 2d tied by Sydney 'AIR MAIL/SAVES TIME' slogan & a rather redundant cds, light stains. [The rate was 11d for air to Italy then by train, or 1/1d for all-up air via Greece]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200