AUSTRALIAN: c.1930 philatelic cover with 1½d Canberra tied by superb strike of the undated 'BANZ/1930 [penguin] -31/ANTARCTIC RESEARCH EXP' cachet, an almost as fine strike in violet across the flap. Superb!

Grade A+ (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

1924-32 KGV Script 2/6d range of shades between SG 89 & 89j, one with a couple of tiny tonespots, plus the very rare 2/6d black & bright orange-vermilion/blue SG 89k VFU (Cat £3000), all well centred. (Qty 8)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

1924-32 Script KGV Keyplates 2/6d (deep rich shades) & 12/6d SG 89 group & 93, both with well above-average centring, Cat £310 minimum. (2)

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1960 Surcharge '1/6' on 5d Plane Landing at Avarua marginal block of 4 from the top of the sheet on plain FDC.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$40

1915-19 'WAR STAMP' Overprints ½d blue-green & 1d scarlet SG 138-9 with diagonal 'SPECIMEN' Handstamp, lightly mounted, Cat £140. (Qty 2)

Grade A B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$80

REVENUES: 1883 QV 1d to £1 complete, paper-hinge remainders & minor defects, the 3/- & 4/- (these two the scarcest values in our experience) with oval cancels. Possibly the only complete set we have offered. (Qty 10)

Grade A-/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1904-27 postally used PPCs - five with Undivided Backs - with cds including 'PO BA', 'PO LABASA', 'PO LAUTOKA' x2, 'PO NAVUA' and double-boxed 'PACKET BOAT' h/s of Auckland, condition rather mixed. (Qty 8)

Grade A-/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

1905 PPC Undivided Back 'River Scene - Ovalau' to NSW with KEVII 1d tied by very fine strike of straight-line 'LAUTOKA' h/s (ship marking?) in violet, fine 'PEEL/NSW' arrival cds, minor blemishes.

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1908 Morris Hedstrom (Levuka) PPC to NSW with KEVII 1d tied by very fine strike of the scarce undated triple-circle 'POST OFFICE SAVU SAVU' cancel in violet.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

1952 KGVI 3d Air Letter with lenghty personal message from "Coqueloa [Plantation] Post" (return address), to "St Anthony's Orphanage/Mapuca/Bardez, Goa/Portuguese India" with KGVI Pictorials ½d 1d & 2½d added tied 'LABASA' cds, '...C.T.T./MAPUCA' arrival d/s alongside on face, couple of minor blemishes. Very scarce destination. [The 3d rate was for internal airmail only. 7d was the external rate]

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

1856 Kopets 5k blue/bluish Mi 3A (SG 11), very fine unused with no gum, and 10k deep rose/pale rose Mi 4A (SG 14), large-part o.g., Cat €2500 (£2150). (2)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

1856 Kopets 5k blue/bluish, 10k rose/pale rose & 10k deep rose/pale rose SG 11 13 & 14; 1866-67 5p 8p 10p 40p & 1m between SG 17 & 60, a few short perfs but fine to very fine, Cat £2600 minimum. (Qty 8)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$460

1860-71 mostly mounted & annotated range with a few unused, includes the very distinctive 5p red-brown/lilac SG 53 (Cat £5500), condition rather mixed but many are good to fine, Cat £14,000+ minimum (59); the lot also includes forgeries x11 & very fine unused 8p Postal Card. (Qty 71) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

1866-67 New Currency 5p to 1m simplified set between Mi 5A & 10C (SG 17 & 49), large-part o.g., Cat €7000 (£6350) minimum. Very fresh & attractive. (6)

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$2,000

1866-67 New Currency Thick Vertically Laid Paper 10p purple-brown/grey Error of Colour Mi #7 C F (SG 26), the perfs at base slightly trimmed otherwise very fine, Cat €7500 (£9000). Gummesson Certificate (1995).

Grade B (Image1)

Estimate AU$750

'The Tim Rybak Collection of New Guinea, Papua & Papua New Guinea' (26.4.2008) #56 from the hardbound limited edition of 100. [This was a truly ground-breaking auction. The hammer prices of $1,800,000+ set an Australian auction record that has been exceeded only twice since]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

1905 Attractively tinted 'Gruss aus dem Bismarck-Archipel' subjects 'Kindergruppe in Komat (Insel Lihit)' (children), 'Tanzergruppe in Bo...' (dancers), 'Dorfscene in Lambom...' (a family at home) and natives constructing an impressive canoe, slightly bumped corners, unused. (Qty 4)

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$200

REGISTRATION ENVELOPE: 1929 usage of Harp 5d violet size 203x125mm to Sweden with Map 1d added tied 'FAITHCHE ANCHOLAISTE/27AP/29/A CLIATH' cds and blue 'Dublin 101' R label on face, 'REGISTERED LONDON/28AP29/FB' hooded-circle transit d/s in violet on face, a few minor blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$100

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

BRITISH CURRENCY: 1907 KEVII 1/- & 2/6d SG 37 & 38, plus Spanish Currency 1907 KEVII 12pta on 10/- SG 123 all with Horseshoe 'SPECIMEN' Overprint, faint aging, unmounted. (Qty 3)

Grade A- B1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

1919-23 Fifth Setting Overprints on KGV 1d red SG O3, irregular perfs at the base & a toned perf at the base, unmounted, Cat £300.

Grade B B2 (Image1)

Estimate AU$75

1919-23 Fifth Setting Overprints on KGV KGV 1d red SG O3 vertical pair, Rabaul cds, Cat £110.

Grade A D1 (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

1919-23 Fifth Setting Overprints on Kangaroos 2d 3d 6d 9d (unused & aged) 1/- & 2/- SG O6 and O8-12, minor defects, Cat £1100. Very scarce group. (6)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400