ABYSSINIA: 1935 surface-rate cover with Vic Centenary 3d tied by 'HAWTHORN WEST/VIC' cds, bilingual '.../ADDIS-ABEBA' arrival b/s.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

ALBANIA: 1931 surface-rate cover with KGV 3d tied by 'EDGEROI/NSW' cds, Athens slogan transit b/s & discernible 'DURAZZO' arrival b/s, small flap fault. [Durazzo, now Durres, is the second-largest city in Albania, and the country's principal port]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

ALGERIA: 1920 (Sep 28) Jenolan Caves PPC with KGV 1½d brown tied by 'SANS SOUCI/NSW' cds, French 'SOUSCRIVEZ/a l'E...nt National' h/s in violet, the message in Esperanto, corner creases. [Philippeville, modern-day Skikda, is on the north-central coast of Algeria & is the port for the city of Constantine. In 1955, Algerian nationalists attacked Philippeville & killed about 120 mainly French. The reprisals resulted in thousands of deaths]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

BAHAMAS: 1961 double-rate airmail cover to the Bahamas with Coat of Arms 5/- tied by 'BEVERLEY HILLS/NSW-AUST' cds.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

BERMUDA: 1916 (Mar) Empire rate with KGV 1d red tied by Brisbane machine, 'PASSED CENSOR/BRISBANE' cds in red, to the newspaper 'Weekly Colonist' at St George (b/s) forwarded to "Ham" with 'HAMILTON' machine b/s, central fold & grubby on the reverse. [The 'Bermuda Colonist' operated between 1866 & 1920]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

BRITISH GUIANA: 1915 (Mar 5) double-Empire rate with KGV 1d red pair (the upper unit with Dot before '1' in R/H Value Tablet) tied by 'KEW/VICTORIA' cds & 'PASSED' h/s in violet applied at Melbourne, 'GEORGETOWN' arrival b/s of 22APR/1915.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

BURMA: 1915 (Jan 20) Empire rate with KGV 1d red tied by 'GOOMALLING/WA' cds, to "Mandalay/Burmha" [sic] with 'TUTICORIN' transit & 'MANDALAY' arrival b/s, repaired opening-tear at the top.

Grade (B) (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

CHINA: 1918 (July 4) triple-rate usage of Star 1d red Envelope uprated with KGV ½d green x3 & 5d brown + Kangaroos 3d olive all tied by 'SOUTHERN CROSS/VIC' cds & red/white R label on the reverse, to "Tsing Chow Fu/Shantung/North China", transit b/s of Koroit (duplex), Melbourne, Hong Kong & Shanghai and another indistinct probably an arrival, minor blemishes & some light spotting. [Shantung, now Shandong, is on the Yellow Sea]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

COLOMBIA: 1942 (March 3) Brisbane censor cover to Bogota, re-censored by the Americans with plain brown-paper label & circular Censor h/s, Bogota machine b/s; also 1946 to the "Tropical Oil Coy/Barranca-Bermeja", which is known as Colombia's "Oil Capital". (Qty 2)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

CUBA: 1915 (July 15) foreign rate with Kangaroos ½d & 2d tied by 'INNISFAIL/QUEENSLAND' cds, 'PASSED CENSOR/20JL15/BRISBANE' cds in red, 'HABANA, CUBA' machine arrival b/s, minor blemishes.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

CYPRUS: 1941 Empire rate to an Armenian doctor with KGVI 2d largely obscured by '[arms]/OPENED BY CENSOR' label with 'PASSED CENSOR/ 30 /CYPRUS' h/s in rosine below, 'NICOSIA' transit & 'KYRENIA' arrival b/s.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: 1927 postcard rate PPC with KGV 1½d scarlet on the view side & 'PRAHA/...' arrival cds, redirected internally.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: 1937 (Oct 26) airmail cover to Czechoslovakia with Victoria Centenary 3d & 1/- plus Small Lyrebird 1/- tied by Sydney cds, blue/white R label, Athens transit & Prague arrival b/s. [The all-up air rate was 2/- + 3d registration]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

DENMARK: 1913 (Nov) usage of NSW 1d Arms Letter Card (blank base) uprated with NSW ½d & Kangaroo 1d, 'HALKJAER' arrival cds & redirected internally. Scarce combination franking.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

ESTONIA: 1928 Jenolan Caves PPC to "Tallinn (Reval)" with KGV 1½d scarlet & unnecessary 1d green tied by 'ORANGE/NSW' machine cancel & superb large-part 'TALLINN' arrival cds, two strikes of an unusual Estonian h/s in red at the base, the message apparently in Estonian (?).

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

FINLAND: 1930 foreign rate with KGV 1d & 2d tied by 'NETHERBY/VICTORIA' c ds, to 'RANTASALMI' with superb large-part b/s, redirected to Helsinki then to 'LAPUA' (b/s) with very fine 'RIIHIMAKI' transit cds on the face, a little shortened at left. [Rantasalmi is a lightly-populated rural area in south-central Finland. Riihimaki is a railway junction & home to a famous glassworks. Lapua is in the north-central zone close to the border with Sweden. Quite a journey!]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

JAPAN: 1912 (Dec 8) usage of WA 1½d blue/green Postal Card (rather faded) to Osaka with 'BROOME/WESTN AUSTRALIA' cds & 'KOBE/4.1.13/JAPAN' arrival cds on the face, the message in Japanese also on the face. A rare postal card: fine examples have sold for more than $1000. [Broome was famous for its pearl industry and the card is probably from a Japanese pearl-diver]

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

JAPAN: 1919 (May 13) foreign rate + ½d war tax with Kangaroo 3d olive tied by Sydney machine cancel, addressed in English & Japanese with 'TOKIO/28.6.19/JAPAN' arrival b/s in blue. With the enclosed 2pp letter in Japanese on Mitsui Bussan Kaisha Ltd (Sydney) stationery. [In 1959, there was an amalgamation of several companies including MBK to form the great trading company Mitsui & Co Ltd] (Qty 2 items)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

LEBANON: 1914 (Jan 12) foreign rate PPC to "Beyrouth/Turchia Syria" with combination franking of Tasmania ½d + Kangaroo 1d tied by Hobart cds, 'BEYROUT/FE10/14/BRITISH POST OFFICE' arrival cds, corner faults.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

LEBANON: 1920 (Nov 22) cover to "Beyrouth/Syria" with Third Wmk 6d ultramarine tied by 'RUNDLE STREET/STH AUST' cds, red/white R label, Colombo, Port Taufiq & Port Said transits & bilingual '.../BEYROUTH' arrival, redirected to Damascus with bilingual '.../DAMAS' arrival b/s, minor defects. A rare destination. [From 1.10.1920, the war tax was absorbed into the foreign letter rate of 3d]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

MADEIRA: 1917 (Sep 14) PPC with KGV ½d & 1d tied by 'STANMORE/NSW' cds, fine 'FUNCHAL/MADEIRA' arrival cds. The message is in Esperanto.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

MAURETANIA: 1919 (June 30) underpaid PPC with KGV 1d red only on the viewside & 'SUBIACO/WESTERN AUSTRALIA' cds, taxed "10c", on arrival in Mauretania corrected to "Senegal" & from Podor forwarded to "Louga", nasty diagonal crease. A very rare destination from Australia. [Podor is the northernmost town in Senegal on an island in the river dividing Senegal & Mauretania. Louga is a cattle-market centre close to the coast in the NW of the country. The card was taxed only for the postage deficiency of ½d but it should also have been taxed the same amount for the war tax not having been paid]

Grade (C) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

MONACO: 1939 (Mar 1) foreign surface rate with Queen 1d green horizontal strip of 3 tied by 'FOOTSCRAY/VIC-AUST' cds, on arrival forwarded to Nice with simple 'T' h/s, French Postage Due 30c carmine pair tied to the reverse by cds. With the enclosed letter proving penpal correspondence between two 17 year olds. [3d was the rate to both destinations so no forwarding fee would usually be required. However, to take advantage of that regulation, the letter needed to be reposted within two days] (Qty 2)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

NIGERIA: 1956 (Dec 3) Empire surface rate to "Onitsha/British West Africa" with Olympics 4d tied by Hobart slogan cancel, manuscript notations, small & huge 'UNCLAIMED' h/s & superb strike of a large boxed 'RETOUR' h/s in violet. [Onitsha is in Nigeria and boasts a major trading port in the lower reaches of the Niger River. Onitsha was devastated in the 1960s Biafran conflict but recovered after the discovery of oil]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

NORWAY: 1915 foreign rate cover from the Norwegian Consulate at Sydney (endorsed on the flap) with Kangaroo 2½d (corner fault) tied by very fine 'THE EXCHANGE' machine cancel, minor blemishes. [Mail to Norway is much scarcer than to any of the other Scandinavian countries. Mandal is the southernmost part of the country]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$50