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WESTERN AUSTRALIA continued...

Postal History

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

201

PSE

1903 (June 15) social usage of 2d Letter Card to Wales with ½d added & tied by Fremantle duplex, Carmarthen b/s, redirected to Yorkshire with 'ILKLEY' arrival b/s, a few faint blemishes.

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

202

PSE

POSTAL STATIONERY: Selection of QV Postal Cards mostly unused x14; Letter Cards x4 including one with concentric circles specimen cancel, Envelopes x5; and 3d Registration Envelope with specimen circles cancel; condition variable. (26) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

Australian Antarctic Territory

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

203

1998 postal usage of AAT airmail NVI 'maximum' card to Victoria with Macquarie Island 'penguin' cds & social message from an expeditioner, mail centre sorting marks at the base prove it went through the mail; and late usage of 1986 Antarctic Treaty FDC later with steel 'ANARE MACQUARIE IS AUST/24JA1987' cds & photocopy of the enclosed original social letter. Scarce duo. (2)

Grade A (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

Christmas Island

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

204

1958 to 2014 ex-dealer's stock in two stockbooks with duplicated MUH/Mint and used/CTO for most of the issues to mid-1990s then lesser quantities. Issues from 1993 are valid as postage in Australia including various Chinese New Year M/Ss and sheetlets with some show overprints. Ideal ebay stock. (1000s) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

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Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

Cocos Islands

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

205

POSTAL HISTORY: 1955 (Nov 23) first flight cover to Australia with rare albeit philatelic franking of Arms £2 green (several toned perfs), to London (b/s) with partial 'Posted out/of course DD' handstamp & London R label

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$420.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

Nauru

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

206

1916-23 Overprints on Great Britain Seahorses 'SPECIMEN' Overprints comprising Waterlow 10/- indigo (unusually well centred), and De La Rue 2/6d & 5/- (a couple of short perfs), no gum, Cat £1675. (3)

Grade A/A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

207

PICTURE POSTCARDS: 1913 Jubilee of German Flag-Raising on Nauru PPC (Church & Congregants) with Marshall Islands 5pf Yacht tied by very fine strike of 'NAURU/MARSHALL-/INSELN/2.10/13' cds and another alongside. Superb.

Grade A+ (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

Norfolk Island

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

208

1947-1995 Issues apparently complete with the Ball Bay White Papers, setenant strips & M/Ss. (100s)

Grade A (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

209

LOCAL POST: Attractive display of the island's 'Penny Post'-&-beyond with commercial covers with 1d Flower, 1c Bird or 1c Architecture plus six different 5c issues, then a study of the various locally produced 5c booklets x26 & 10c booklets x7 with a range of commercial & philatelic covers with the locally printed stamps, generally very fine. With print runs of no more than 6000 per booklet, and most of them in the hands of collectors, commercial covers are quite scarce & generally underrated. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$440.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

210

PSE

POSTAL HISTORY: 1947 (Dec 9) usage of Australian Territories formular ‘AIRLETTER’ to England with short Christmas greetings message and Ball Bay 3d & 4d tied by ‘NORFOLK ISLAND/AUST’ cds, the right-hand panels removed otherwise very fine. Very scarce early usage.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$180.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

211

POSTAL HISTORY: 1956 illustrated tourism envelope to “Mr Parkins [sic] Christian/Pitcairn Islands, via New Zealand” with Ball Bay 4d maroon x2 tied by ‘NORFOLK ISLAND’ cds, untidy ‘PITCAIRN ISLAND’ arrival backstamp, a few small aging marks. [Charles Richard Parkin Christian was a direct descendant of Pitcairn Mutiny leader Fletcher Christian. He died in 1971 & in 2011 featured on the first Prominent Pitcairners set of stamps]

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$210.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

Australian Picture Postcards

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

383

Cards removed from an original family album with excellent content from NSW x24 including von Koenneritz with trilingual captions x4; Queensland x20 including McWhirter & Son x7 & 1910 real photo card of Sunday School on Thursday Island; South Australia x25; Tasmania x22 including Walch & Sons x5, Spurling x3 & TE Barker Furrier x4; Victoria x64 with selections from Ballarat x11, Mornington Peninsula x11 including NJ Caire real photo types x6, Healesville x8 & the South-West Coast x8, etc, 1908 Great White Fleet 1d Postal Card superb used; & Western Australia x4 including a marvellous Revivalist card with message "...Many hundreds have taken a stand for Christ and the city has been stirred to its foundations..."; also Australiana x11; many Undivided Backs & real photo types, some postmark interest, generally fine to very fine. (170) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14)

Estimate AU$600

SOLD for AU$1,200.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

384

Small box of mostly 1950s Australian & British cards with some excellent real photo types including set (?) of six pre-WWI Fremantle News Agents Association including a cracker of 'Market Street, Fremantle' & 'Palm Lake, Rottnest Island', a few better Rose, Valentine & similar, also a batch of fold-out wallets & May Gibbs 'Flannel/Flower/Babies' (used under cover). (100 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

385

PSE

Small box with NSW x33 including one to Hanoi & a scarce 1907 1d Postal Card with 3-Line Heading 'HAWKESBURY RIVER BRIDGE', Queensland x6 including one court-card size & 1d Postal Card 'Canefield...' underpaid to Germany & taxed, SAust x5, Tasmania x3, Victoria x11 & WAust x2, some Australiana, a dozen New Zealand, then mostly "ladies subjects", condition variable. (140 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$240.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

386

Box with wide-ranging content including 100 or so Melbourne & Sydney streetscapes & suburbans, country towns, ships & ferries, etc; a bundle of mostly amateur real photo types including towns, industries, rural scenes, military subjects and Renmark (SA) almost postcard-size photographs x13; Aborigines x19 plus moderns x6; other moderns including groups of splendid reproductions by Queensland Main Roads Board x9 & GPO x20 with emphasis on moving the mails; and Australiana x50+ including artist cards with a lovely Mabel Lucie Attwell, advertising & animals etc; condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (350 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17)

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Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$800.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

387

Early-1950s family album of mostly Rose & similar real photo postcards x58 and 250+ smaller professional & amateur photographs with an overall very high quality of the prints, mostly Victoria, NSW & South Australia plus a few Tasmania & ACT, very fine to superb. (300+)

Grade A/A+ (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

388

Small box strongest in Victoria with many common cards but in very fine condition & inscriptional error 'At Kilda Road', small numbers from Queensland South Australia & Tasmania with some better views, quite a number of Undivided Backs, also Australiana including by Bush Artists and two rare real photo cards of 'Australian Imperial Camel Corps...Western Frontier Egypt' with French backs & inscriptions on paper labels affixed at the base, condition variable but many are very fine, plus four fold-out correspondence cards with illustrations by Douglas Pratt (some aging). (73) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$210.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

389

NEW SOUTH WALES: Sydney Central Railway Station group of all-different 1900s-30s views of the 'new' station (completed in 1906) including real photos x8 one showing a steam locomotive & passenger carriages passing under the main signals, others of the interior, Central (Railway) Square on George Street with bustling tram terminus, etc, also a couple of the 'old' station and Pyrmont Bridge x2, a few postally used, condition a little mixed but most are fine to very fine. (28)

Grade A/A- (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

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Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

390

NEW SOUTH WALES: Sydney Harbour Bridge display from late-1920s to 1950s, the majority being photographs showing early construction with derricks on the span, plus real photo postcards comprising late-1930 with roadway half-completed, 1931 (March) 'SS City of Dehli' passing under the completed bridge with cranes on pylons and 1950s x3 with various ships & ferries, generally fine to very fine. (30)

Grade A/A- (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$360.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

391

QUEENSLAND: Small box with many better cards including provincial towns & streetscapes some by local producers, bridges, railways, prominent buildings, islands etc, also a few Aboriginal subjects & many mostly professional real photo types including a marvellous multi-view with no fewer than 26 tiny vignettes!, condition variable. (93)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11)

Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$260.00
Closing..Jun-27, 08:00 PM

WESTERN AUSTRALIA continued...

AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

CHRISTMAS ISLAND

COCOS ISLANDS

NAURU

NORFOLK ISLAND

AUSTRALIAN PICTURE POSTCARDS