1931-34 small collection with 1931 Australia-Java (AAMC.204) franked with 1/- Roo &  WA Centenary 1½d x8, 1934 Australia-Papua or Australia-New Guinea (AAMC.390-392) flights (6) with a variety of frankings; also unrelated Australia 1941 concessional rate cover from Ocean Grove to Port Melbourne and a Tonga 1936 inwards Tin Can Mail cover from USA. (9 covers) 

Estimate AU$200-300
Min. Bid. AU$140

1933 TASMANIA First Flight selection comprising Hart Aircraft Service (Aug.22-23) AAMC.319&322 Melbourne-Launceston and Launceston-Melbourne; Matthews Aviation Co (Oct.13-14) AAMC.339-341 Currie-Launceston, Launceston-Currie & Currie-Melbourne; mostly fine, Cat. $510 (2008). (5)     (Image)

Estimate AU$220-280
Min. Bid. AU$160

1933-40 group including 1934 MacRobertson Air Race cover (AAMC.438) signed by Kay (Cat. $150); 1934 Melbourne-Portland Autogiro Flight postcard (AAMC.461); 1936 (Oct.2) Adelaide-Renmark group (4) each cover with a 3d Airmail Pl. 4 single (plus 2d Cable Pl.2 single); 1940 TEAL Australia-NZ Regular Service FF (3, one registered, AAMC.899, Cat.$100 each); also 1931 Australia-England & 1934 Australia-New Guinea flights plus 1934 Adelaide to USA incorporating Australia-London "First Contract Flight" franked with 1/6d Hermes & 9d Macarthur. (20) (Image)

Estimate AU$350-450
Min. Bid. AU$280

1934-37 oversized multi-franked registered FF covers comprising 1934 (Feb.17) Australia-New Zealand (AAMC.360) with 23 stamps incl. NZ 7d Trans-Tasman pair; 1934 (Jul.24) Australia-New Guinea (18 stamps) and Australia-Papua (16 stamps), AAMC.390-91; 1937 (Apr.19) Australia-USA (AAMC.727) with Hong Kong-San Francisco cachet in blue, franked with 13 stamps; all covers with peripheral blemishes as is usual. (4) (Image)

Estimate AU$160-200
Min. Bid. AU$120

1935 SOUTH AUSTRALIA First Flight selection comprising Australian Transcontinental Airways (Aug.19) AAMC.522-523  Adelaide-Farina, Adelaide-Oodnadatta, Adelaide-Alice Springs & Adelaide-Darwin; (Oct.7) #536 Holyman Airways Melbourne-Canberra-Melbourne addressed to Adelaide; (Oct.29) #551 Adelaide Airways Adelaide-Mt.Gambier-Adelaide; (Nov.25) #558-59 Adelaide-Port Lincoln & Port Lincoln-Adelaide; (Nov.26) #562-63 Adelaide-Broken Hill (registered) & Broken Hill-Adelaide; mostly fine Cat. $630+ (2008). (10)  (Image)

Estimate AU$260-320
Min. Bid. AU$220

20 February 1917 (AAMC.13) Casterton - Melbourne flown "Basil Watson" card; with fine CASTERTON departure cds; 1d Red KGV tied by fine strike of the oval AUSTRALIAN AERIAL MAIL cachet. (Image)

Estimate AU$400-500
Min. Bid. AU$320

30 July 1920 (AAMC.47) Melbourne - Traralgon cover, flown by Captain E.W. Leggett for "The Herald & Weekly Times"; with special purple on yellow "By HERALD AERIAL DELIVERY" vignette attractively tied on the front of the envelope which also bears KGV ½d and 1d adhesives tied on arrival at Traralgon. [Of 266 items reported to have been flown, very few appear to have survived]. (Image)

Estimate AU$1,600-1,800
Min. Bid. AU$

Aug.1920 (AAMC.47c) "Velvet Soap" advertising postcard dropped over Melbourne by R. Graham Carey in his Maurice Farman Shorthorn biplane, as depicted on the card. The reverse of the card shows Carey in the cockpit and an aerial view of the soapworks of J. Kitchen & Sons, the manufacturers of Velvet Soap and is signed by the pilot. Excellent condition. [Eustis says "Only four cards known". His example, unsigned by Carey, sold for $4000 + commission in our auction of March 2008.] Provenance: John Cress (Image)

Estimate AU$3,000-3,500
Min. Bid. AU$

17 April 1929 (AAMC.132a) Brisbane - Charleville -Longreach - Barcaldine flown cover with "INAUGURAL FLIGHT" vignette, backstamps and signed front and back by the pilot, P.H. Moody, and quite rare thus.  (Image)

Estimate AU$150-200
Min. Bid. AU$120

2 June1929 (AAMC.136-137a) WA Philatelic Syndicate group of covers carried on the first flight of WA Airways Ltd Adelaide - Perth & Perth - Adelaide route; comprising one each way, plus nine intermediates to or from Kalgoorlie, Forrest & Ceduna; ALL SIGNED by pilot Major Norman Brearley; also a cover carried on the first through flight a week later addressed to "Master Nelson Eustis" and all mounted on his exhibit pages, fine condition. Hard to assemble. [AAMC states "some covers were signed by the pilot ...quantities to the intermediates were light"]. (12)

Estimate AU$500-750
Min. Bid. AU$420

31 March 1930 (re. AAMC.155-6 & 201) A pair of registered covers, one from Melbourne and the other from Townsville; both addressed to Cairns and both franked at 7½d, with airmail vignettes and endorsements. Both covers with boxed "UNCLAIMED-13FE31-TOWNSVILLE" handstamps and further endorsed in red "Air Service to Townsville discontinued. Service to Cairns not started." Numerous backstamps. (2 items). Queensland Air Navigation Co., was short-lived. In May 1931 QANTAS opened the route to Townsville. (Image)

Estimate AU$100-150
Min. Bid. AU$80

16 July 1930 (AAMC.165) Wyndham - Derby flown registered cover, carried by W.A.A. on their extended route from Perth. (Image)

Estimate AU$80-100
Min. Bid. AU$60

14-20 July 1930 (AAMC.165a) Hall's Creek - Derby, registered cover flown by Western Australia Airways on the extension to Wyndham, of their Perth - Derby route. The pilot was Norman Brearley. Cat.$100+. (Image)

Estimate AU$60-80
Min. Bid. AU$50

14-20 July 1930 (AAMC.165a) Wyndham - Onslow, registered cover flown by Western Australia Airways on the extension to Wyndham, of their Perth - Derby route. The pilot was Norman Brearley. Cat.$100+. (Image)

Estimate AU$60-80
Min. Bid. AU$50

July 1931 (AAMC.210) Thursday Island - Manila - Japan flown cover, signed and annotated (verso) by Francis Chichester on his attempted seaplane solo flight which ended in disaster in Japan. No.62 of 145. Cat.$525. (Image)

Estimate AU$250-300
Min. Bid. AU$200

7 June 1932 (AAMC.268) Whitemark (Flinders Island) - Launceston, registered flown cover from the much smaller mail carried on the return flight by L. Johnson in his Desoutter "Miss Flinders". [73 flown]. (Image)

Estimate AU$80-100
Min. Bid. AU$60

Oct.-Nov.1933 (AAMC.335) Sydney - Melbourne - Sydney flown cover, carried by Lord Apsley and his party in a Spartan Cruiser, "Faithful City", piloted and signed and endorsed (verso) by P.W.Lynch-Blosse, following their flight from England. Cat.$375+. (Image)

Estimate AU$200-250
Min. Bid. AU$160

13-14 October 1934 (AAMC.338-341) A group of four covers carried on the inaugural flights between King Island and Launceston and King Island and Melbourne by Matthews Aviation Co. Two are signed by the pilot, G. Jenkins and the Currie - Melbourne cover (AAMC.341) is registered. A very nice group. Cat.$550+. (4). (Image)

Estimate AU$300-400
Min. Bid. AU$260

Estimate AU$15,000-20,000
Min. Bid. A

20 October 1934 (AAMC.441) MacRobertson Air Race cover carried by Hansen & Jensen in their Desoutter NK11; signed by Hansen. (Only 110 flown]. Cat.$400 (Image)

Estimate AU$280-320
Min. Bid. AU$240

1 Nov. 1934 (AAMC.455a) Hawaii - Los Angeles flown cover, carried per "Lady South Cross" with USA 3c tied by Honolulu cancel & 'LOS ANGELES/NOV5/CALIF - 1934' arrival b/stamp; signed by the pilots "C Kingsford Smith" & P.G. Taylot", Cat $3000. [1 of 10 flown on this leg.] Provenance: Estate of John Williams of the "Honolulu Star-Bulletin" newspaper, who was a key player in promoting this flight. (Image)

Estimate AU$1,500-2,000
Min. Bid. AU$

"THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE 'SOUTHERN CROSS'": 18 July 1935 (AAMC.514 & 515) comprising covers numbered '23', '33', and consecutively numbered '36' & '37' each cover bearing a perforated special vignette, all are signed by the seven personnel aboard this historic short Mascot-Richmond flight, namely pilots Charles Kingsford Smith and P.G. Taylor, plus Mary Kingsford Smith, John Stannage, Beau Shiel, John Ulm & C.G.Scrimgeour (radio broadcaster), in addition cover #23 has a rare signed greeting from Ernie Crome on reverse; also an unnumbered cover, with perforated vignette, signed solely by Kingsford Smith. A challenging assembly, Cat $4,650++ (5)   (Image)

Estimate AU$3,000-4,000
Min. Bid. AU$

22 August 1935 (AAMC.523a) Daly Waters - Adelaide flown cover, carried by Australian Transcontinental Airways and signed by the pilots, J. Chapman and B. Cowan. A scarce intermediate. (Image)

Estimate AU$80-100
Min. Bid. AU$60

7 October 1935 (AAMC.537a) Canberra - Sydney - Darwin flown cover, carried by Holymans Airways, (New England Airways & Qantas) on the inaugural service from Melbourne via Canberra. A scarce example signed by the pilots, C.H. Scott and P.L. Taylor. (Image)

Estimate AU$80-100
Min. Bid. AU$60

9 April 1937 (AAMC.713) A Brisbane - Darwin flown cover, cancelled on arrival and signed and dated on the back by the pilot, Mrs Delores Bonney. This was the first leg of her epic flight in "My Little Ship II" which eventually took her to Capetown. A very scarce example of the covers carried on these flights which was not created by Bonney's support team. This example, self-addressed to Ernie Crome is believed to be one of only 6 carried for him by Mrs. Bonney. (Image)

Estimate AU$200-250
Min. Bid. AU$160