1929-39 covers with rubber registration cachets comprising 1929 Rabaul to USA with 6d Huts, 1933 Chinese merchant's cover from Madang to Rabaul, 1934 Eekhoff & Son advertising cover Lae airmail to Salamaua, 1935 Rabaul to USA, 1938 Wewak to USA, 1939 Kavieng airmail to England with 2d & 6d Bululo Air, 1939 Rabaul to England; also official covers Madang to Talasea with 1/- Huts optd 'OS' and 1932 Marienberg to England with 9d Dated Bird optd 'OS'; generally fine. (9 items) (Image)

Estimate AU$300-400
Min. Bid. AU$240

1930s-1940 cover selection with 1940 newswrapper from Lae to Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Ltd in Sydney with 5d Bulolo (2, both overlapping wrapper edge); also 1933 Salamaua airmail to USA with 1d Undated Birds Airs strip of 4, 1934 1d printed matter rate to USA, 1938 (?) Madang 11d rate printed cover to Holland, 1939 Bulolo to USA taxed, Burns Philp Madang office 1938 to USA & Salamaua office 1935 (?) to Sydney, other commercial mail from Carpenter & Co and Greenwood & Laws in Rabaul, etc. Good lot, majority commercial mail. (18 items) (Image)

Estimate AU$300-400
Min. Bid. AU$250

1930s era better postmarks on cover comprising AMBUNTI Powell Type 104 double-ring used as receiving cancel 1931 cover from Manus, FINSCHHAFEN Type 3 tying 3d Huts to 1930 cover to USA,  GASMATA Type 100 on 1933 Chinese merchant's cover to Rabaul, KAVIENG Type 42 double-ring to Namatanai, KIETA Type 69 (Rated 'E') to NZ & Type 71 (Rated 'E') to Bahamas, WEWAK Type 114 (Rated 'E') in violet to USA; mostly good to fine strikes. Scarce group. (7 covers) (Image)

Estimate AU$250-300
Min. Bid. AU$180

1939 (Dec.30) censored to New Zealand with 1/- Bulolo Air pair tied by KAVIENG datestamp, rubber registration handstamp, fine strike of boxed 'Passed by censor/T.N.G. No. 8' handstamp, KAVIENG, RABAUL & SYDNEY transit backstamps, fine condition overall.  (Image)

Estimate AU$100-150
Min. Bid. AU$75