1954 registered airmail to Australia with Costumes 30g & 1.50s and Airmails Birds 20s Eagle tied Vienna '19.III.54' cds with black on buff 'R' label alongside, Melbourne and 'CAMBERWELL ___ /29MR54/VIC.' (postal district code excised) b/s, couple of very minor blemishes. Nice usage of the top value of the Birds airmail series.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

POST OFFICES IN THE LEVANT: 1907 commercial usage of Austrian Levant '10 CENTIMES 10' on 10h Postal Card with very fine 'CAIFA/OESTERREICHISCHE POST' (Haifa) cancel & fine 'JERUSALEM/OSTERR POST' arrival cds, the message in Hebrew or Yiddish. Superb!

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

POST OFFICES IN THE LEVANT: 1908 cover to Melbourne with Levant 1pi tied by largely very fine strike of the double circle 'ADRIANOPEL/ 26/10/08/OESTERREICHISCHE POST' cds, an unusually fine strike of the Victorian 'ENGLISH MAIL TPO NO301908' b/s. Terrific origin/destination cover. [Adrianopel is in Thrace, the European part of what is now Turkey]

Grade B A1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

1880 usage of 5c Postal Card with illustration for V Gevaert of three keyboard instruments in red, superb 'GAND (STATION)' cancel & 'LIEGE' arrival cds. A very early advertising 'picture postcard'.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1915 German Occupation Deutsche Bank correspondence postcard registered to Lambec with Germania 'Belgien' overprints 5c on 5pf & 25c on 20pf tied Bruxelles cancel, German red & black 'Brussel' R label & oval censor cachet in violet on face.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1933 'Amateur Photographic' illustrated advertising cover showing Box Brownie camera on face and Agfa film boxes on back, airmail to Germany with KGV 30c & 50c tied 'COLOMBO/9SP/33' cds, 'BRAUNSCHWEIG/18.9.33' arrival b/s, couple of minor blemishes. Very attractive.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1937 airmail cover to England with KGV Pictorials 50c pair tied 'COLOMBO/27NO/37' cds, carried on the ill-fated Imperial Airways Flying Boat 'Cygnus' which crashed on take-off at Brindisi (Italy) on 5.12.1937 killing 2 of the 13 passengers & crew, salvaged from the wreck and forwarded with British 'DAMAGED BY SEA-WAT[ER]' violet boxed h/s on face, a few blemishes as to be expected. Scarcer origin for Cygnus crash mail, enhanced by the stamps still being in place.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1942 OAS airmail cover to England with KGVI Pictorials 50c tied British 'FIELD POST OFFICE/40(?)' cds, censored with 'C151' Unit Censor cachet and unusually also with diamond 'PASSED BY 5 IND FD CENSOR UNIT/G' and scarce Indian-pattern 'OPENED BY/FIELD CENSOR' green-on-white resealing label, minor edge faults & aging marks.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1943 formular 'AIR MAIL/LETTER CARD' to Canada from Royal Canadian Air Force serviceman (return address) endorsed "Via Ceylon, Lagos, Brazil/USA Canada" with KGVI Pictorials 25c & 50c tied dumb bars cancel for carriage by BOAC to Nigeria and Pan-Am West African Clipper Flying Boat service to USA, airmail indicia with circular 'CANADA/AND U.S.A./ONLY' h/s in violet added below, censored with British 'R.A.F./CENSOR' cachet on face, very minor opening fault at U/R.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1944 airmail cover to Boston endorsed "Via Ceylon-Lagos-USA" with KGVI Pictorials 50c 1r & 2r tied 'VADDUKODDA/I4JA/44' cds for carriage by BOAC to Nigeria and Pan-Am West African Clipper Flying Boat service to USA, censored with 'L / 33' resealing label (the "L /" added in blue pencil), couple of minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1945 airmail cover to USA with KGVI Pictorials 30c pair & R1 pair tied 'KOLLUPITIYA/6FE/45' cds, censored locally with 'OPENED BY/EXAMINER/L478' label, carried by BOAC to London where red circular 'O.A.T.' cachet applied on face for onwards carriage by Trans-Atlantic Clipper Flying Boat service to USA, couple of minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1944 airmail cover to New Zealand with Airmails 5c 20c & 50c Plane plus ½c Postal Tax tied by Habana duplex cancels, censored locally with '.../No.1/PASADO/...MINISTERIO DE DEFENSA NACIONAL' cachet in red and again with US 'EXAMINED BY/30798' tape aplied at Miami, no transit or arrival markings, a couple of minor blemishes. [The rate paid was substantially higher than that required for airmail to the USA only, indicating the sender was attempting to pay for onwards-air by American Army Transport service at least part-way to New Zealand]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1938 (Jan 21) airmail to Australia addressed only to "North Street, Victoria" with Numeral 5o and Caravel 15o x8 tied by Copenhagen cds, per Lufthansa to Germany with 'BERLIN-ZENTRALFLUGHAFEN/21.1.38' (same day) b/s and by Imperial Airways/Qantas service with Melbourne arrival b/s of 2FEB/1938 where boxed 'NO POST TOWN' cachet applied on face and "Try 30 North Road S.5" pencil annotation alongside (which seems to have worked), minor blemishes and small part back flap missing. ['S.5' was the postal area code for Brighton, where North Road is a prominent thoroughfare]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1941 airmail to USA from British serviceman Capt J Pyke, 2nd Support Group, Light Repair Section, MEF (letter enclosed) endorsed "Via PanAmerican Airways and India" with King Farouk 2m & 10m and Airmails 100m pair tied 'FIELD POST OFFICE/372' cds, military censor cachets x2, carried by BOAC/Qantas to Australia where Sydney civilian censor label & cachets applied, then onwards by TEAL to New Zealand and PanAm FAM-19 service to USA, unfortunately roughly opened at right with some edge faults.

A very unusual 'wrong way round' cover to avoid the delays experienced on the 'Horseshoe Route' service by air to Durban then by sea to GB. The enclosed letter gives detailed instructions on how to send mail including "Don't for heaven's sake write via the Clipper and Transatlantic [ie per the Horseshoe Route] as those mails are frightful and will take at least two months". The letter also states "... the PanAmerican people take the mail TransPacific to Singapore & thence it comes across India by Dutch Air Lines I think". However, the FAM-14 extension to Singapore did not commence until May 1941 so this item had to be carried via Australia and NZ to connect with FAM-19.

Grade C (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1938 Orient Line envelope registered airmail to Victoria endorsed "By Air Mail from Sydney" with KGVI Pictorials 1d x3, 1½d pair & 2d tied 'SUVA-FIJI/REGISTERED' cds and boxed 'R' cachet alongside, 'G.P.O. SYDNEY/AIR' transit & 'BENALLA/VIC' arrival b/s, couple of minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1939 registered to New Zealand with solo franking of KGVI Pictorials 5d 'Blue Canes' tied 'NAUSORI/11OC39/FIJI' cds and boxed 'R' cachet alongside, 'SUVA-FIJI/REGISTERED' transit b/s, not censored.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1942 Bank of New South Wales envelope airmail to USA endorsed "Honululu - Philadelphia" for carriage by US Military Transport flight from Hawaii, franked with KGVI Pictorials 1d 3d & 1/- tied by 'SUVA' cds, not censored but on arrival 'SUPPOSED TO CONTAIN MATTER/SUBJECT TO...EXECUTIVE ORDER 8389...' cachet applied on face, minor blemishes. [US Military Transport air services used ex-PanAm Flying Boats to continue providing limited trans-Pacific airmail services. Executive Order 8389 related to international money transfers]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1951 KGVI 3d Air Letter with lengthy personal message from "Coqueloa [Plantation] Post via Labasa PO" (return address), to "St Anthony's Orphanage/Mapuca/Bardez, Goa/Portuguese India" with KGVI Pictorials 1d pair & 2d added tied 'LABASA' cds, '...ESTADO/DO/INDIA/MARGAU' arrival b/s, couple of very minor blemishes. Very scarce destination. [The 3d rate was for internal airmail only. 7d was the external rate]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1961 PPC (Tavua Bay') airmail to Germany with QEII Pictorials 1/6d Train tied 'NADI AIRPORT' cds, oval 'OAT/FS' h/s (Heifetz type XVIII) in black applied alongside at London to indicate onwards air transmission to Europe.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1963 PPC (map of Vanua Levu) airmail to Germany with QEII Pictorials 1/6d Meridian solo franking, boxed 'OAT/FS' h/s (Heifetz type XIX) in violet applied alongside at London to indicate onwards air transmission to Europe.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1932 (Sep 5) cover (227x151mm) to the Finnish Consulate in Sydney with scarce franking of 3m 5m & 10m and black/pale blue airmail label, transit b/s of 'STOCKHOLM/AVG UTR A', German 'BERLIN-SASSNITZ' TPO & 'DHANUSHKODI' (India), minor folds/creasing & red ink blot on the face. Very early airmail from Scandinavia.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1935 airmail to Australia with Red Cross 2M+20p & 2½M+25p and Lake Saima 10M tied Helsinki '3.XII.35' cds, carried by ABA to Sweden and train to Germany with Stockholm '4.12.15', Swedish 'P.K.X.P. No.62C/5/12/1935' & German oval 'BERLIN-SASSNITZ HAFEN/BAHNPOST/Zug14---5.12.35' Travelling Post Office transit b/s, then probably per Lufthansa to Athens to connect with the Imperial Airways/Qantas service, 'LINDFIELD/21DE35/NSW' arrival b/s.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1945 airmail to Australia franked on back with 5d Chariot 'New Drachmas' overprint x3 and 25d Glory x3 tied Athens '-5.V.45' cds, 'PAR AVION/AU DELA DU CAIRE' ["onwards from Cairo"] cachet in violet on face for carriage by BOAC to India and QANTAS 'Liberator' service via Ceylon, censored locally with scarce post-liberation Greek censor label and again on arrival with Sydney label (neatly part-removed on opening) tied diamond cachet, minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1787 folded entire headed "Kingston, Jamaica" in response to "your favour of the 3d April last, I received by private ship, only about a month ago", to England with Kingston 'IAMAICA' undated h/s (Proud PS8) on back and indistinct London arrival b/s, minor edge faults.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1814 folded entire headed "Duplicate, Original per HMS Snake" to London endorsed "p HMPB Duke of Montrose" with faint Kingston 'JAMAICA/3 JY/1814' b/s (Proud PS16), variously rated "2/2" and "8", London 'G/9 AU 9/1814' arrival b/s where re-directed to Ramsgate, minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100