1923 Visit to New Guinea of HMAS 'Adelaide' (identified from a sailor's hatband) real photo PPCs of 'RABAUL 1923' (sailors & natives with bullock cart), "NATIVE RABAUL" (group of 12 men & a woman) & others with inscriptions on the reverse "Liberty men at Rabaul" (three boats of sailors leaving the ship), "...Wireless Station at Madang" and "Native Quarrymen Humbolt Bay Dutch New Guinea", some minor soiling. [Humboldt Bay is on the north coast, 50km W of the Indonesia/PNG border] (Qty 5)

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1932 1932 real photo cards with captions on the reverse "...our little township (Bulolo)...the store on the drome is the one that caught fire", "...the dredge which is very nearly completed" (the first of eight), a Junkers J31 "...the shaft that is getting hauled out...weighs 3½ tons", seven native boys outside a grass hut "...they do not go to school" and "...the Hydo Electric Power house...getting constructed. The tunnel on top of the house runs 900ft through the mountain", some unfortunate sticky-tape residue still a marvellous group of great social interest. [New Guinea's goldfields were at a great elevation &, at the time, the only way to bring in supplies was by air. During the 1930s, the weight of all air cargo carried within New Guinea was greater than for any other country in the world! When the Japanese invaded in 1942, the dredges and hydro system were disabled. A modern hydro system was commissioned in 2013] (Qty 5)

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

1937 German edition card of a Junkers aircraft of Guinea Airways being loaded with a huge cargo, light bend, used in Germany. [During the 1930s more cargo was transported by air in New Guinea than in any other country]

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$50