4 AUSTRALIA COVERS 1861-1897, all better items including an 1861 NSW ship letter with a #40 franking, an 1864 South Australia #12 paying the 6d rate to Sandhurst-VIC, an 1894 NSW overpaid drop letter using a 6d telegram stationery cut-out, an 1879 NSW drop letter with the 1d rate paid by a revenue stamp, retails over $350, F-VF est ($50+ US)

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43 AUSTRALIA PRIVATE PERFINS 1913-1914, a total of 6 different perfins on letter size covers, includes D.& W. Murray Express (Launceston), Beath, Schiess & Feldspar newspapers (Melbourne), Robert Reid Clothing (Melbourne), Richard Allen warehousing (Melbourne) ++, retails over $300, F-VF est ($35+ US)

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205 AUSTRALIA MINT STATIONERY COVERS 1978-1994, all are different 20¢-45¢ illustrated envelopes with over A$80 face value, great topicals for ships, trains, flowers, animals, mining, sports, military, stamps on stamps ++, retails over $300, VF est ($50+ US)

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118 AUSTRALIA FRAMA LABELS 1986-1990, all different with first day cancels, about half with cachets including 50 covers in 1986, 16 covers in 1987, 42 covers 1988, 8 covers 1989, and 2 covers 1990, retails over $400, F-VF est ($50+ US)

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205 AUSTRALIA FIRST DAY STATIONERY COVERS 1978-1994, all different covers identical to previous lot but with first day pictorial cancels retails over $540, great topical value, VF est ($75+ US)

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5 FRANCE RATES to THAILAND 1979-1980, all addressed to the French Ambassador in Bangkok, includes a 3.20f airmail rate plus 4 better registered airmail rates of 9.80f, 10.50f, 11.10f, and 11.90f, retails over $150, F-VF est ($50+ US)

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375 GREAT BRITAIN DOMESTIC COVERS & CARDS 1820-1970's, includes an unpaid 1820 Kendal stampless folded letter to Settle with COLLECT-7d, also an AUG14,1840 stampless PAID 1d from London to Cambridge, the majority are QEII noting lots of registered, a wide variety of postal receipts, 52 mostly different Official Paid envelopes, 58 permit and meter covers, a 1968 cover posted at the Balmoral-Castle post office, a 1961 parcel front with £8-30sh franking, 38 unchecked 1955-1960's Forces-Airmail covers from various FPO's, 62 covers have good Wilding Regional frankings, a few Jethou-Island and Gugh-Island covers ++, lot includes 81 folded letters 1840-1852 with stamps removed, these are still a great source of cancels and have interesting letter contents, retails over $600, F-VF est ($75+ US)

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200 GREAT BRITAIN USED STATIONERY COVERS & CARDS 1841-1990's, includes 28 unchecked Victorian Penny Pink envelopes H&G #B3-B9 (5 with silk threads), lots of ½d envelopes H&G #B12-B13 with various flap sizes, a wide range of unchecked Victorian postal cards, many Victorian registered envelopes noting a few to foreign destinations, only a few KEVII-KGV-KGVI stationery items, then good QEII noting 66 registered envelopes with a wide range of Machin varieties + envelope sizes + uprates, also good letter sheets, postal strike delay endorsements ++, a nice specialist lot retailing over $600, F-VF est ($75+ US)

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225 GREAT BRITAIN RATES to AUSTRALIA 1894-1980's, note 7 better Victorian covers and one card including 1894, 1898, and 1900 registered rates, 8 are quite scarce KEVIII 1936-1937 rates, the remaining 210 covers are QEII with a fabulous range of 49 registered covers noting lots of unchecked registration stationery, also better airmails, Empire surface rates, printed matter ++, 113 are legal size and larger with good multiple rates, retails over $700, F-VF est (75$+ US)

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106 GREAT BRITAIN SLOGAN CANCELS 1917-1990's, includes 7 better KGV early slogans, 3 KEVIII slogans including a London PAQUEBOT, 48 KGVI slogans, 47 QEII slogans noting a few Channel Island slogans, also slogans on many nice overseas rate covers to Australia, Canada, and USA, retails over $400, F-VF est ($50+ US)

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430 GREAT BRITAIN SLOGAN CANCELS 1925-1980's, a fabulous range of slogans noting better early KGV period slogans, a few slogans on KEVIII covers, lots of WWII censored KGVI slogans covers, also QEII regional slogans from Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, note slogans on lots of good rate covers to Australia, Canada, and USA, retails over $900, F-VF est ($75+ US)

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118 GREAT BRITAIN KING GEORGE-VI COVERS 1939-1952, includes a better 4sh6d rate to Canada, many good airmail letter rates to USA and Canada, 14 Aerograms 1945-1952 to Canada and USA, 1939 airmail to Newfoundland, 3 registered rates to Canada, a 1947 registered postcard to Australia that was damaged in a fire, WWII censored noting 2 addressed to the Fascist influenced Ireland, unchecked Kragg machine cancels, a few meter frankings and KEVIII covers, 6 are legal size covers, retails over $480, F-VF est ($50+ US)

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130 GREAT BRITAIN MINT STATIONERY ITEMS 1959-1990's, mostly all different QEII items noting 38 envelopes, 35 letter sheets, and 48 registered envelopes split between Wilding Issues and Machins Heads, also 43 Isle of Man items comprising 30 different Aerogrammes and 13 registered envelopes, retails over $400, VF est ($35+ US)

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65 GREAT BRITAIN ELIZABETHAN COVERS & CARDS 1961-1990's, includes a fabulous group of 50 mostly different rates to Australia (39 covers and 11 postcards), also 5 cachet event covers noting stamp shows, plus anniversaries for the Dover Packet Service and the Falmouth Packet Service, also rates to Canada and USA noting a cover delayed by a Canadian postal strike, a Harwich PAQUEBOT cover, a few Channel Island rate covers ++, retails over $410, F-VF est ($50+ US)

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76 GREAT BRITAIN FIRST DAY COVERS 1953-1990's, all are cachet covers mostly with set frankings, the majority are addressed overseas to Chile, Italy, Australia, Canada, and USA, also a 1999 Scottish Parliament FDC with a £1 coin inset and a 1995 WWII 50th anniversary cover with a £2 coin inset, note all the high value Machin FDC's are present, retails over $380, VF est ($50+ US)

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173 GREAT BRITAIN REGIONAL ISSUE FDC's 1958-1989, all are cachet covers for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, note 46 are Wilding issues 1958-1969 and the remaining 127 covers are Machin issues 1974-1989, most are addressed to Australia, retails over $710, VF est ($50+ US)

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53 GREAT BRITAIN ISLAND FDC 1971-1986, all are cachet covers and a few cards from Guernsey, Jersey, and Isle of Man, great topical value for birds, ships, trains, animals ++, retails over $300, VF est ($50+ US)

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168 HONG-KONG FDC's & CARDS 2002-2005, note 110 cachet FDC's all with souvenir sheet frankings plus 40 postal cards in sets between series 14-30, also 3 postcard packs with a total of 18 self adhesive letter sheets, a few duplicates (very minor), retails over $1000, VF est ($75+ US)

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