1939-44 Civil Censorship selection of more unusual items comprising Queensland Brisbane '1' check cachet on 'HMA SHIPS' cover, Thursday Island 1941 'NAVAL SERVICE' cover with rare ' 1 / 1 / PASSED/BY/CENSOR / 1' diamond cachet & Townsville ' 1 / 2 OPENED BY CENSOR' labels on covers from servicemen x2; NSW Sydney early 'OPENED BY CENSOR' one-line labels on 1939 covers from Germany (in transit at outbreak of WWII; faults), USA & Great Britain (two labels one affixed over the other), 1941 airmail to AIF serviceman with ' 2 /NOTOPENED ...' cachet, and 1944 KGVI 7d Air Letter with regular label cut in half to prevent covering text; Newcastle ' 2 / 1 ' cachet on RAN Honour Envelope tying 9-dot label & on 1943 US cover; Victoria Melbourne ' 3 /RETURN/TO/SENDER ' cachet on battered 1941 front addressed to Italy with 'CALIFORNIA/CLIPPER' h/s: South Australia Adelaide 1940 airmails to UK x2 with 4-dot labels plus 1941 with early-type boxed cachet; WA Perth labels on covers from Navy servicemen x2; Tasmania Hobart 'PASSED BY CENSOR' early red boxed cachet on 1939 cover from London, Launceston 8-dots label (small dots) on 1940 Municipality of Campbell Town cover to AIF Field Ambulance, Seymour (Vic) and ' 6 / 1 ' labels on airmail covers to Malayan Forces x3; Northern Territory Darwin 1940 7-dot labels on airmail covers to UK x2 one with Dots Enhanced in Red Ink (the other sadly with stamp removed, but unenhanced label text on back) plus two Military Mail items 1941 with scarce ' 7 / OPENED BY CENSOR' label and 1942 with ' 7 / Opened by Censor.' label; also 1943 'Opened by U.S. Censor' label (produced in Australia) on US serviceman's envelope and 1944 'PASPRESS' label tied 'AUSTRALIAN PUBLICITY CENSORSHIP' cachet on US cover to "Consolidated Press", condition quite mixed. Trés interesant. (28)

Estimate AU$400

1939-45 inwards censored mail comprising Barbados 1941 large cover registered with Badge 1d & 6d and 'IMPORT, EXPORT AND CURRENCY CONTROL BOARD/BARBADOS' h/s; Canada 1941 long cover by PanAm Clipper with Pictorials 10c x6, 50c & $1 and 1945 Armed Forces Air Letter with 10c single & 'OAT' cachet; Ceylon 1944 registered with local '("L")/154' label (the 'L' added in red crayon); Egypt 1941 airmails x2; Fiji 1942 surface rate with 'TAVUA' cds; Great Britain 1941 Clipper airmails one at 4/6d the other with KGVI 5/- solo franking; Ireland 1943 airmail double-censored with 'OAT' cachet; Japan 1939-40 surface rate covers x3; Malaya 1940-41 airmails x5 all double-censored one registered & one with 'MALAYA PATRIOTIC FUND' label on face; Netherlands Indies 1940 with 'By air to Australia and/onwards airtransmission' h/s; Sweden 1943 airmail with 'ASEA' perfins and 'OAT' cachet; and USA at 70c Clipper rate x3 one 1945 with 'NAVAL CENSOR' cachet plus 1943 V-Mail envelope at 6c rate; condition quite mixed. (23)

Estimate AU$300

1941 air cover to a serviceman in Palestine with 1d & Koala 4d x2 tied 'FIELD PO 7MD/25OC41/017' cds used at Larrakeyah Barracks (Darwin), censored locally with civilian ' 7 / OPENED BY CENSOR' label (Little type L7-3) tied by ' 7 /PASSED/BY/CENSOR / 3 ' diamond cachet in rosine, minor blemishes. [After the Japanese attacked Darwin in February 1942, most civilians were relocated from the Northern Territory and the censor station was moved inland to Alice Springs where it handled almost exclusively military mail]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1941 Cairns (Qld) 'OPENED BY CENSOR' resealing label (rouletted top & bottom) plus ' 1/3 /PASSED/BY/CENSOR/ [ ] ' diamond cachet (without number at base) in violet applied in transit on face of cover to USA with Papua Pictorials 3d Dandy tied 'PORT MORESBY/30DE38/PAPUA' cds. The Cairns civilian censor station operated from late-1940 to late-1941/early-1942 only; by April 1942 many of the civilian population had been evacuated (as Cairns was in range of Japanese bombers) and Australian & US troops had begun moving into the area, bringing military censorship stations with them (as also happened at Darwin).

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1941 (Sep 28) social cover to Scotland with KGVI 2d red tied by 'THURSDAY ISLAND/ 2 /...' cds, rare ' 1/1 PASSED BY CENSOR' label tied by the equally elusive ' 1/1 /PASSED/BY/CENSOR/ 2 ' h/s in violet, a couple of minor blemishes. An important civil censorship cover.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

1942 registered airmail to Brisbane from naval serviceman with boxed 'NAVAL SERVICE' cachet, 1d 2d & 4d tied 'THURSDAY ISLAND/9FE42/QUEENSLAND' cds with blue R label alongside, fine strike of scarce civilian censor cachet ' 1/1 /PASSED/CENSOR/ 1 ' ('1' at base Inverted; Little type H1/1-1b, ERD) on face & back, Cairns & Brisbane transits and 'FORTITUDE VALLEY' arrival b/s, a few aging marks & U/L & corner clipped. [Scarce registered mail offloaded & censored at Thursday Island]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1943 airmail Hobart to Queensland Construction Camp censored with red/white label (Little #L6-6b) tied by small circular 'CHECKED/BY/ 6/2 ' cachet in violet - unrecorded by Little - on the face, forwarded to "1 Aust Corps/Recp Camp" then to Papua with 'FIELD POST OFFICE/20JE43/019.' b/s, finally 'RETURN TO SENDER/ON/MILITARY BOARD INSTRUCTIONS' cachet in violet on face, some water-staining & other blemishes. Crash mail?

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$75