Leski Auctions Sale: 445
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Sale No: 445
Lot No:399 Symbol:C 1 July 1927 (AAMC.106) Cloncurry - Normanton cover, flown by QANTAS on their inaugural flight over this extension to their route. Hudson Fysh was the pilot. Cat.$175. (Image) Estimate AU$100-125
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Sale No: 445
Lot No:400 Symbol:C 22 May 1931 (AAMC.206) Australia-Netherland Indies registered flown cover addressed to England with attractive franking comprising Roos Third Wmk 3d Die I block of 4 & single, KGV Single Wmk 4d violet block of 6 & 1½d red (4) one with "PQSTAGE" flaw, plus 3d Kingsford Smith, flight cachet in violet, Carnarvon & Wyndham (WA) backstamps. Lovely item. (Image) Estimate AU$150-250
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Sale No: 445
Lot No:402 Symbol:C MAY - JUNE 1938: THE W.R.CARPENTER FLIGHTS TO PAPUA & NEW GUINEA 30 May - 5 June 1938 (AAMC.808-812a) Sydney - Rabaul; Rabaul - Sydney (signed); Wewak - Salamaua - Sydney; Cooktown - Port Moresby; Cooktown - Salamaua and Port Moresby - Cooktown. Flown covers (6) carried on the first contract airmail flights by W.R.Carpenter Airlines. Sir Walter Randolph Carpenter [1877–1954] was an Australian-Canadian pearl hunter, trader, merchant, ship-owner, airline industry leader and philanthropist of American ancestry active in the western Pacific from the 1890s through the 1940s. In 1914 he formed the firm of W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. in Sydney, and began establishing plantations, stores, trading stations, shipping services in the Southwest Pacific. When World War I erupted, his company expanded into New Guinea when the Australian government expropriated German property. The company branched out as major storekeepers, traders, and property owners in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. In New Guinea, Carpenter took advantage of the development of the Morobe gold fields to acquire hotels in Wau and Bulolo, set up electrical power plants and cold storage facilities, and operated a fleet of inter-island steamers. In 1933 he established the first air service between Salamaua and Wau with two De Havilland Fox Moth aircraft, followed in 1934 by a direct shipping line between Australia, the Western Pacific, and European ports. In 1936 he expanded his airline through a government-subsidized route between Rabaul and Australia. (Image)
Estimate AU$200-250
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Sale No: 445
Lot No:403 Symbol:C 1929s-70s range including 1929 Perth-Adelaide (AAMC.137) Vacuum Oil Co envelope, 1934 Australia-NZ (2, AAMC.369), one registered, the other signed by Ulm, 1934 Australia-Papua (AAMC.390); plus lots of 1950-60s covers including Qantas 1952 Australia-South Africa (10, three with Cocos Is backstamps), 1953 Coronation flights (13), etc; also 1933 Port Moresby-Salamua registered (AAMC.P56) plus British BOAC 1950s-60s flights (30) all signed "Peter Newton"; condition variable, mostly fine, (70+) (Image) Estimate AU$200-300
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