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STAMPED-TO-ORDER: 1951 (BW:WS30) 3d green KGVI crowned circle, Used and unused examples for the Education Department, Melbourne. (2). Note: Brusden White indicates that NO UNUSED EXAMPLES are recorded.

1981-1982 souvenir covers & FDCs with pictormark cancellations including 1981 Northern Australia Development Seminar (Katherine N.T.), 1982 'Whaleworld', others for 1982 150th Anniversary of Postal Services in Tasmania (15, different postmarks incl. St Paul's Plains), Heads of Government (7) & Yachting (8), plus military & philatelic commemorations, etc; generally fine unaddressed condition.  (160+)

1940s - 2006 collection of FDCs in ten large albums. (many 100s).

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A mainly 1950s - 1965 accumulation of (mainly) unaddressed FDCs including many Post Office Officials; issues noted include 10/- & £1 Navigators; accompanied by a quantity of the stamp to 2/3, mainly in blocks, MUH. (qty).

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"RICHMOND PARK KIOSK 3 / XVI Olympiad, Vic., Aust." temporary registration label used on Dec.1956 postal card to East Germany bearing the East German Olympic adhesives tied by OLYMPIC PARK pictorial cds's; with Melbourne & Sydney backstamps and KARL-MARX STADT arrival cds on front. An extremely unusual use of the registration label.

 25 March1958 "SECOND AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIES FAIR - EXHIBITION BUILDING MELBOURNE" cds's tieing stamps on registered cover to England; provisional R-label 083 with hand-stamped INDUSTRIES FAIR MELBOURNE details.

1970 - 1982 FDC and souvenir covers accumulation in large album; mixed condition and a few earlier items.

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An accumulation of 1980s FDC and PSEs; some heavily duplicated.

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1980s - 2010s collection in four large albums; noted, in particular, a fine range of the Prestige covers and other publications issued during the WW1 Centenary years, some of which incorporate MUH stamps. (100s).

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A collection of mainly 1997 - 2002 Australian FDCs in 4 albums, includes several PNCs, plus a range of oddments in a small album, and loose.

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FDCs SIGNED BY ENTERTAINERS & BROADCASTERS: autographs on 1980s-90s era FDCs or philatelic items comprising comprising sports commentator & broadcaster Mike "Jesaulenko, you beauty" Williamson (36) plus signed dedications to the recipient and to his wife; TV presenter Jamie Redfern (17), rock 'n' roll composer  & TV host Johnny Young (6) plus a signed colour image; singer "Little Pattie" (9) plus monochrome photo (24 x 19cm) with dedication signed "Patricia xx"; "Broadcaster of the Century" John Laws (4), plus autograph in gold ink on monochrome photograph (24 x19cm) and a signature on 'John Laws Morning Show' letterhead; all items neatly presented within display folders. (44 folders)

FDCs SIGNED BY ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY PERSONALITIES: autographs on 1980s-90s FDCs or philatelic covers comprising singer-songwriter Brian Cadd (18) plus signature beneath photo (15 x 10cm); presenter Greg Evans (16) plus a unsigned photo; television host and commedian Tommy Hanlon Jr (11, one also signed by Bruce Ruxton)  plus signed monochrome photograph (24 x 19cm) with autographed dedication to recipient; TV gardening presenter Kevin Heinze (18, four items additionally signed by RAN officer, artist & poet Dacre Smyth); television chef & actor (played Mark Hammond in "Skippy") Ken James (27); rock singer-songwriter Col Joye (40) plus a signed monochrome photograph (24 x 19cm); all items tidily presented within display folders. (62 folders & one binder)

FDCs SIGNED BY PERSONALITIES & EMINENT CITIZENS: eclectic selection of autographs on 1980-90s era FDCs or philatelic covers including businessman and Linfox owner Lindsay Fox (62 items) plus signed colour photo (16 x14cm); entrepreneur and philanthropist Dick Smith signed photograph holding reptile (12 x 18cm) and signed Reptile & Amphibians first day cover; designer and illustrator Richard Beck (2) plus hand-drawn greeting card; former Red Cross Chief Commissioner Leon Stubbings (4); also Olympians Dawn Fraser, Ron Clarke & Loraine Crapp; former Chief Scout Sir John Young plus signed colour photo (24 x19cm); rock 'n' roll singer Johnny O'Keefe (2), few other items signed by prominent religious figures; all items neatly presented within display folders (100+ signed items in 37 folders)

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HARRY HAWKER FLIES AT ELSTERNWICK, FEBRUARY 1914
Three real photo postcards (unknown photographer) depicting "Hawker's Aeroplane" (on the ground at Elsternwick golf course); "Hawker descending over Elsternwick Hotel"; and, "Hawker and aeroplane at Elsternwick Golf Links, February 1914"; all annotated verso. (3 items).

On February 7, 1914, a Saturday, Hawker had signed himself up to a promoter, Albert Soulthorpe, of Swanston Street, Melbourne, to give ‘a public display of aviation at Caulfield Racecourse or other suitable grounds’. Proceeds were to be equally divided between the promoter and the aviator. Moorabbin people turned out in full force, but only to become insignificant in their numbers against the thousands who arrived from other parts of the metropolitan area and beyond.

4 Aug.1919 (AAMC.19) Major Norman Brearley in an Avro biplane dropped a batch of advertising postcards for Charles Moore & Co over Perth and suburbs. This example is one of 6 known survivors.

6 Aug.1919 (AAMC.21e) Adelaide - Minlaton Flights, Harry Butler souvenir postcard with printed message re. Unley Aviation Day at the Unley Oval;  unused. Cat.$650.

4 Sept. 1919 (AAMC.23) Hobart - Launceston cover with Peace Loan advertising and KGV 1½d brown carried by ED Cummings in a Sopwith Pup on the first aerial mail flight in Tasmania, violet two-line 'FIRST TAS. AERO MAIL/DPMG' handstamp and 'LAUNCESTON/-5SE19/TASMANIA' arrival backstamp, very fine with only 6 examples believed to have survived, Cat $4000. Accompanied by photo of the Sopwith Pup circling Hobart GPO.

Ex Frommer Grand Prix Pioneer Australian Air Mails Collection.

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Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) a "Ross Smith" vignette attractively tied by one of 3 strikes of the oval "FIRST AERIAL MAIL" cachet on a cover picked up in INDIA, one of the refuelling stops on the flight from England to Australia where Indian adhesives were affixed and tied by the oval cachet. With the three-line violet h/stamp at left beneath a third strike of the cachet. One of only 14 covers originating in India and one of only eight with the exceptional combination of the Ross Smith vignette together with Indian stamps. The cover is #95 in the Frommer listing, described and illustrated at page 40.

Provenance: The Tom Frommer International Large Gold Collection.

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Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) a "Ross Smith" vignette attractively tied by one of 2 strikes of the oval "FIRST AERIAL MAIL" cachet on a cover picked up at RAMADI, MESOPOTAMIA, one of the refuelling stops on the flight from England to Australia. With the three-line violet h/stamp on the back flap together with the sender's name and address. The lot also includes the original handwritten enclosure "...an aeroplane came hovering around the camp and landed and out came 5 Aussies....one of them has promised to carry this through the air and post it for me in Aussie." A marvellous example of an intermediate from this important flight. The sender, Corporal James Thomson was located at Ramadi as part of the 6th Light Armoured Motor Battery. The cover is #318 in the Frommer listing, illustrated at page 85.

Aug.1920 (AAMC.47c) "Velvet Soap" advertising postcard dropped over Melbourne by R. Graham Carey in his Maurice Farman Shorthorn biplane, as depicted on the card. The reverse of the card shows Carey in the cockpit and an aerial view of the soapworks of J. Kitchen & Sons, the manufacturers of Velvet soap. [Eustis says "Only four cards known on his exhibit page.].