1931 Qantas white/blue 'NORTH QUEENSLAND/By Air Mail/Australia's/Winter Playground' complete rouletted strip of 8 labels, one unit VLMtd otherwise unmounted, Frommer Cat $100. Superb!

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1931 Qantas white/grey 'See/BY AIR MAIL/Western Queenslnd' complete rouletted block of 8 labels, the L/H units are unmounted, Frommer Cat $100.

Grade A/A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1953 Coronation Flight illustrated covers x13 & formular aerogrammes (including from 'COCOS/ISLANDS' & 'PORT MORESBY'), a few blemishes.

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1934-69 collection on leaves with 1934 KGV Pictorials set then complete fine used/CTO on a simplified basis including 1938-53 KGVI Pictorials set plus Perf 14 1d black & yellow-orange and 2d black & red-orange, 1948 Wedding, 1956 QEII Pictorials set, 1963 Birds set, 1976 Birds set, etc, up to 1981 Flowers set (ex M/Ss), condition generally very fine with just a few showing some very light toning mostly on perf tips, Cat £550+. (Qty 280+)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Small collection of CDS on leaves mostly fine to very fine strikes on stamps & pieces up to early Decimals period, includes Canberra & sub-offices with a range of types, noted 1½d Canberra block of 4 with 'CANBERRA/-8MY27/FCT' FDI cancel plus singles x3, 1935 Wilcox Smith cover with KGV 5d tied by 'CANBERRA CITY/FCT' and blue/black 'Canberra City/NSW' R label, 'CANBERRA EAST/FCT' on KGV 1/4d, 'DUNTROON/AUSTRALIA' x3 and 'DUNTROON/FCT' x3, 'GINNINDERRA/FCT' 1934 on KGV 1d green on piece, 'HARMAN/ACT-AUST' 1944 on QE 1d maroon on piece, 'JERVIS BAY' group, etc, condition generally very fine. (Qty approx 75) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Duntroon (1): 'DUNTROON/6JA19/AUSTRALIA' cds, two complete & almost very fine strikes on KGV 1d red 'Star' envelope sent to England with KGV ½d green added to pay the 1d Empire letter rate plus ½d war tax introduced on 28.10.1918, a little discoloured mostly along the top edge which is not unusual for this war-time stock. PO 1.9.1917; closed 31.12.1930. [The cds is recorded 1918-22 only, and later re-cut to read 'F.C.T.' at base; located at Duntroon Military College]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Small collection on leaves, the larger offices with a range of types including some complete strikes of duplexes, mostly fine to very fine strikes with a little duplication in parts on a variety of different issues including values to 1/- and some on Kangaroos & KGV Heads, noted '597' on 6d Beaded Oval pair, '920' (Type 2; rated RR), 'MCCCC/99' (RR) and lots of S, SS & R rated items, a few coloured strikes, a couple of CDS 'ties', etc, condition generally very fine. (Qty 600+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

Box of covers with Barred Numeral ties & Duplexes with lots of CDS interest also including a number of earlier items noted '21' on 6d Woodblock to England with reasonable 'BROADMEADOWS' crowned oval b/s, fine '97' tied to 'RAGLAN' 1865 oval, faint '116' on 4d Beaded Oval with fine 'SANDY CREEK' crowned oval b/s, very fine '122' (rated R) on 2d x3 with 'CARNGHAM' cds alongside on 1886 over to England, '148' on 6d black to England with 'EMERALD HILL' b/s, very fine '247' (bars removed; R) x5 on 2d Bell x5 to England with 'ROSEDALE' b/s, fair '258' (bars removed) with 1869 'VAUGHAN' cds & 'WHITE HILLS' oval b/s, bold '404' (RR) with 'THOMAS TOWN' (two words) cds alongside, also very fine '2095' with fair 'MT MARTHA' cds alongside on Mount Martha PPC to Germany taxed, plus range of Tatts covers including '571' (R) tied to 'BREAKWATER', '942' tied to 'TAGGERTY', etc, etc, condition is variable but many are fine to very fine. (Qty 90+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$300

36: Butterfly '36/V' of Lake Wallace, reasonably fine & complete strike in blue on Half-Length 2d brown, margins close to touching with small thin at top. Rated RRR. PO 1.3.1849; renamed Apsley 1.1.1854.

Grade B B2 (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

41: First Type Original State '41' with Side Bars of Euroa largely very fine strike (the '1' faint at the top) on very fine 'REGISTERED' 1/- (full margins, Cat £200). Rated RRRR.

Grade A A2- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

247: First Type Original State '247' (non-duplex) light but obvious strike on Laureates 4d. Rated RRR. [Plus recut with Bars Removed - rated R - for comparison] (Qty 2)

Grade B B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$60

1072: 'M72' (first type; reated RRRR), reasonably fine & complete strike on Beaded Oval 6d blue solo franking on 1882 cover to London with light but complete strike of 'BUCHAN/VICTORIA' alongside, Melbourne transit & London arrival b/s, couple of minor blemishes. PO -.10.1878; started using a duplex canceller deom 1887 or earlier.

Grade A- B2 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1738: First Type '1738' (rounded top on '3') of Scoresby almost complete obvious strike on Naish 2d violet. Rated RRR.

Grade B B2 (Image1)

Estimate AU$40

1927 Canberra so-called 'jumbo' booklet with 7½ of 10 marginal panes of 8 (2x4) stapled in the upper margins with no cover - as always - & backing paper of the same stock as the issued Canberra booklets, minor rust around the staple otherwise remarkably fine. Rare. 'Tillie Mitchell's complete booklet - only the second we had seen - sold at our auction of 29.8.2020 for $1015. [Geoff Kellow at page 63 states "Several are recorded, most with some panes of stamps removed". Long considered a 'mystery' issue, perhaps of private manufacture, Kellow goes on to state that these booklets were prepared by the Post Office: a Post Office memorandum states "...these will be in strips of 8 fastened into lots of 80 to represent the number in the whole sheet". If the Post Office could call a Registration Envelope a 'Registered Letter', it could call a block a 'strip']

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

Little group comprising 1952-53 3/6d (KGVI 3½d purple-brown) ACSC B56 x3, 1957-59 4d claret QEII with 'British Commonwealth' B60B, 1962-64 5d blue QEII with 'Edition V1 on inside of cover - previously unrecorded - and advert sequence 20,18a,44,57,29b,53,54. (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1928 Airmail 3/- (3d Airmail x12) with Black/Blue Cover ACSC B40 (SG SB24) reconstructed booklet with the second pane lightly mounted!, faint toning on the cover & minor rust marks around the staple, Cat $1500 (£850).

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

2005 Wildflowers $10 booklet with 50c setenant pane of 20 + one label, vertical rouletting to fold the booklet but otherwise Imperforate with the Diecut 'Perforations' Omitted Pfeffer B280aAv, small reinforced split on the front cover, Cat $800. The first example we have seen. [Sel Pfeffer's 4th Edition of 2009 states "one known"]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

2008 Christmas Baubles (50c) peel 'n' stick booklet with the top row of four Completely Imperforate, and the second row Imperforate at Top and Partially Imperforate at Sides. Unlisted in Gibbons.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1946-48 Overprints duplicated selection comprising ½d x5, 1d x7, 3d x8, 6d x4 including imprint pair, 1/- x6 (one with 'B' in Wrong Font), 2/- x4, 5/- Thick Paper mint x2 & used and 5/- Thin Paper unmounted, quite a few have Forces cancels. (Qty 41)

Grade A/A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

1946-48 Overprints 6d Kookaburra with Wrong Font '6' ACSC J4b (SG J4a), well centred, very lightly mounted, Cat $400 (£300 for unmounted).

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1946-48 Overprints 6d Kookaburra with Stop after 'N.' of 'JAPAN' ACSC J4L (SG J4b) being the L/H unit in a horizontal pair, no gum, Cat $675 (£425) for unmounted.

Grade A- C1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1946-48 Overprints 1/- Lyrebird with Wrong Font '6' ACSC J5h (SG J5a), well centred, very lightly mounted, Cat $325 (£350 for unmounted).

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1946-48 Overprints 1/- Lyrebird with Wrong Font '6' ACSC J5h (SG J5a) being the U/R unit in a marginal block of 4 from the base of the sheet, no gum, Cat $550+ (£410+) for unmounted.

Grade A- B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1947 locally addressed plain FDC with ½d to 5/- Thick Paper (unusually well centred) tied by 'AUST UNIT POSTAL STN/8MY47/453' cds used at Eta Jima, the 2/- with Defective 'B' & 'F' in 'BCOF'.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$120

1928 International Philatelic Exhibition M/S with central strike of the Exhibition cds of 29OC28 (First Day of Issue) in green ACSC 133MSwb, minor faults, undercatalogued at $625. Underrated: the ACSC states "The green is quite rare". [For decades, the ACSC listed red & green inks only. However, that was an historic error for red & blue, that has been corrected in later editions. Only a small number of examples with the true green ink have been recorded: we have sold several examples for between $800 and $1000. NB: suggestions that the blue ink is an admixture of the red & green inks are nonsense]

Grade B A1- (Image1)

Estimate AU$300