1895 Cowasjee Dinshaw & Bros quintuple-rate cover (2½a x5) to UK with India QV 2a blue, 2a6p green pair and 8a violet tied 'ADEN/MY29/95' squared-circle, 'NORTHWICK/JU10/95' arrival b/s, couple of minor edge marks.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1939 usage of KGVI 3a blue Registration Envelope size 203x125mm to Denmark with KGVI Pictorials ½a & 3a added tied 'ADEN/REG/12JUL39' cds and blue R label on face, 'KOBENHAVN/24.7.39' arrival b/s, a few minor blemishes. Nice usage to an unusual destination.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION: 1965 Globe Trading Agencies cover endorsed "Per Second Class Airmail - Registered Sample of No Commercial Value", to Austria with 75f Arms solo franking, 'CRATER/B/15SP/65/ADEN' d/s and blue/white R label, flap unsealed for inspection, green Customs Declaration form on face stating "1 plastic bag" and 'Zollfrei' [Duty Free] cachet applied on arrival, Vienna b/s of 21.9.65.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1932 Clarke Steamship Co Ltd 'Canadian Trade Exhibition Cruise' envelope airmail to Canada with KGV 1/- pair tied 'ST. JOHNS/JA21/1932/ANTIGUA' cds, carried by PanAm FAM-5/6 'Lindbergh Circle' service to Miami (Florida) and onwards by domestic airmail, a couple of minor blemishes. This cruise was undertaken in the midst of the Great Depression in the hope that the West Indies would replace existing American imports with products from Canada under an appeal to their common associations with Britain. It attracted exhibits from sixty-five Canadian manufacturers plus banks, universities and trade associations, and took place on board the "New Northland" which visited fourteen Caribbean ports between Jan 11 and Feb 28, overnighting in Antigua on Jan 20.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1940 'On Salvation Army Service, Territorial Headquarters, Kingston, Jamaica' envelope airmail from Colonel Hodgson in Antigua to his wife in Jamaica, KGVI Pictorials 1d & 1/- tied 'ST JOHNS/MY30/40/ANTIGUA' cds, re-directed with 'KINGSTON' transit and 'MANDEVILLE/JU5/40/JAMAICA' arrival b/s, not censored, a couple of repaired edge faults at top. Unusual war-time inter-island airmail.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1920 AE Morlan, Jeweler, Belize PPC ('Mahogany Logs On Truck' showing workers with logs tied to wagon on railway track), to USA with 'WAR' overprint 1c only tied by 'BELIZE/FE20/20/BRITISH HONDURAS' cds on view side, message & address on back, couple of minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1931 Arturo Burgos General Merchant & Commission Agent envelope airmail to England with KGV 4c 5c & 10c tied by 'BELIZE/10SP/31/BRITISH HONDURAS' cds, carried by PanAm FAM-5/6 'Lindbergh Circle' service to Miami and onwards by domestic airmail to New York where violet double-bars jusqu'a marking applied on face and onwards by ship, couple of very minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1912 'Zeyat, Mandalay' postcard to England with India KEVII 1a tied 'SHWEBO-CANT/21AP12' cds, returned with British 'Insufficiently addressed' cachet, Indian 'UNCLAIMED/RETURNED/LETTER/From the Dead Letter Office at ...' label affixed with 'D.L.O./BOMBAY' & 'D.L.O./RANGOON' boxed d/s and 'SHWEBO CANTONMENT/DELY/11JE13' cds, couple of very minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1941 cover airmail to USA with ettiquette endorsed "via Hong Kong", return address "MP Spear, Methodist Mission, Pegu" and India KGV 12a 'BURMA' overprint tied 'R-33/9APR41/SET 1' TPO cds, taxed with 'T / ["14c"]' cachet, censored locally with violet 'X PASSED/CENSOR/7' triangular cachet and Hong Kong 'NOT OPENED/BY/CENSOR' alongside, 'VICTORIA/19AP/41/HONG KONG' transit b/s, US Postage Due pre-cancelled 3c affixed to face, couple of very minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1903-04 pieces from two covers & a Straits Registration Envelope (weep!) with discernible part-strikes of the 'CHRISTMAS ISLAND' cds. (3 items)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

1958 airmail envelope to England with QEII Ships 6d Discovery pair and 2/- Pourquoi-Pas x2 tied by two largely fine strikes of 'ARGENTINE ISLANDS/JA2/58/GRAHAMLAND' cds, very minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1930 (circa) cover-front to "Ronorono/Beru" with KGV 1d violet tied by very fine but light '.../NONOUTI/ISLAND/*' cancel in violet.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1955 airmail cover to Central Pacific Union Mission in Fiji with KGVI Pictorials 1d x2 & 1/- x2 tied 'TARAWA/13JN55/...' cds, carried via Samoa with 'APIA/-7JL55/WESTERN SAMOA' transit b/s, minor blemishes & small part of the flap missing. [Although ANA carried airmail between Canton Island and Fiji, this item appears to have been sent by seamail to Samoa as a more expeditious route than waiting for a ship to take it to Canton Island]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1957 internal cover to an islander at Abaokoro Hospital but with Nauru arrival cds & superb strike of the rare boxed 'MISSENT TO/NAURU' handstamp in violet, roughly opened at left. Ex Thomas Osdene.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1960 cover registered airmail to Australia with QEII Pictorials 2/- 'solo' tied light 'CHRISTMAS ISLAND/25JAN60' cds and boxed 'G.& E.I.C./CHRISTMAS IS./R. No ["11"]' cachet in violet alongside, American-type 'REGISTERED' h/s in purple on face, Sydney '-2FE60' arrivalb/s, minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1965 islander's cover from Tabiteuea to "PBC Nauru/Ocean Is" with Ocean Island arrival b/s but forwarded to Nauru where cds struck on the face & endorsed "MISSEND TO NAURU" and "Unclaimed/Return to Sender", a bit grubby.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

FANNING ISLAND: A Mills (Suva) six different sepia/yellow PPCs of Fanning Island, superb unused; plus the original envelope with peripheral faults. (7 items)

Grade A+/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$350

FANNING ISLAND: 1945 cover from "Sun Cheng/Cable Station/Fanning Island" (return address on the flap) to the USA endorsed "By Air Mail/Via Honululu" with KGVI 6d Coconut Palms tied by fine 'POST OFFICE/ 9APR45/FANNING ISLAND' cds, slightly smudged strike of the boxed 'GILBERT AND ELLICE/ISLANDS COLONY/ PASSED BY CENSOR/No.1' cachet on face, couple of minor blemishes. [Proud states at p52 that the Pacific air route was re-opened for civilian airmail in 1943, with service from Hawaii to the continental USA presumably provided by American Army Transport flights on a 'space available' basis]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1840 Mulready Lettersheet 1d black SG ME1 Stereo 'A47', a bit grubby & minor rubbing; Envelopes 1d black SG ME2 Stereo 'A131', light ironed-out vertical fold; & 2d blue SG ME4 Stereo 'a196', very fine facial appearance but minor problems on the reverse; Cat £1150. (3)

Estimate AU$400

1840 (Aug 31) OHMS entire from Inverness to Dingwall (Ireland) with Penny Black Plate 3 (three margins with a chunk of the stamp below) tied by Scottish Maltese Cross cancel in red, Inverness cds b/s, centrefold with toning on left side.

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1842 (Jan 4) entire London-Wolverhampton with 1840 2d blue Plate 2 (full margins, light pre-affixing crease) tied by untidy Maltese Cross in black, light vertical filing fold, Cat £2750 in black.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1855 (June & July) covers with sender's endorsement "Crimea/[date]/initials" at L/L & both with part-'POST-OFFICE/ =BRITISH-ARMY=' b/s, to Gosport or Southampton each with Stars 1d strip of 3 cancelled on arrival with '49' or '48' cancels of the London Foreign Branch, the first with peripheral faults & the flap missing, the second is very fine. (2)

Grade C/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1856 Irish cover to New South Wales with Embossed 6d violet (cut-square, margins clear to just touching, Cat £1900 on cover) tied 'LIMERICK - 303' Spoon duplex cancel, '1d' accountancy h/s in red on face, 'SHIP LETTER/SYDNEY' arrival b/s, a few blemishes; also two 1841 usages of Mulready lettersheets in variable condition; 1853 1d red cover; & 1917 censored cover from FPO 'W.11'. (5)

Grade B/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

1863 mourning envelope to Canada with 6d lilac tied '3W/GLASGOW/AP8/63 - 59' duplex cancel, Hamilton and Chatham (Upper Canada) 'AP24/1863' transits and 'CHARING CROSS/["25 April/63"]/C.W.' (Canada West; manuscript date) arrival b/s, couple of minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1869 mourning cover to NSW with very fine 1867-80 10d red-brown SG 112 Plate '1' with wing-margin tied by very fine 'ST ANDREWS/JU15/69 - 300' Scottish duplex, London transit b/s of the next day, a couple of minor defects clear of the stamp, Cat £850. Terrific item for the Golf enthusiast.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200