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LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

3618

1989-2003 Selection of Errors including two prominent Missing Colours and 2003 Imperforate sheetlets of 25 of the Decorative Knot, Tien An Men Gate, and Lilies 60f & 80f, unmounted. (112)

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

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3619

REVENUES: Small accumulation lightly duplicated including a range of overprints, a few on piece, noted General Tax Buildings $1 block of 4 mint and $4 $5 $40 & $400 singles used plus Ship & Train to $100,000 unused, condition a bit variable but many are fine to very fine. Plus 'National Revenue Stamps of China' by AW Bendig (1957). (200 approx) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10)

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Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$320.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

Postal History

LotNo.

Symbol

Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

3620

PSE

Selection of covers etc including a few 1930s red band covers; 1940s internal airmails; Korean War anti-American propaganda handstamp in blue on 1952 cover & six revenue documents; later military covers - some illustrated - x18 with triangular cachets in red; Cultural Revolution x15 with Mao portraits, slogans & other propaganda including 8f Envelope addressed to Mao's wife Jiang Qing and receipted on the face by her office & 1967 PPC with "felt" portrait of Mao's Brother from Guizhou Army HQ to Shanghai; a few taxed items; 1980s-90s internal covers including a range of Post Office Express covers & others from Provinces including Inner Mongolia & Xin Jiang; etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Fascinating material. (85) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26) (Image27) (Image28) (Image29) (Image30) (Image31) (Image32) (Image33) (Image34)

Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$2,400.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3621

PSE

1902 (April 15) usage of Postal Card 1c red with lengthy message in German headed "Puoly" and signed "R Pieper/Missionaer", to Germany with oval 'PEKING/APR. 22 1902' bilingual datestamp, Kiautschou Yacht 5pf affixed and tied by 'TSINGTAU/2 5/02' cds, 'CAMEN' arrival cds. A very similar item (also with 1c Coiling Dragon cancelled at Peking) carried in the same mail sold at our our auction of 2.3.2023 for $1500. Prior to China joining the UPU in 1914, mail was often sent overseas via one of the Treaty Ports. The card was apparently carried privately to Beijing, by Chinese Post to Kiautschou from where 5pf paid the German domestic/colonial postcard rate. The village of Pouly in southern Shandong Province was the seat of the Styl Society of the Divine Word Catholic Mission. The murder in late-1897 of two of the missionaries was the trigger for German forces to occupy Kiautschou. The area was "leased" to Germany from 1898.

Grade A (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3622

1904 'Tientsin Railway Station' postcard to a ship's passenger at Aden with Coiling Dragons 2c pair tied by bilingual Tientsin cds, Chinese & British Shanghai transits & light but discernible Aden arrival cds on the face. A remarkable destination.

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3623

1905 (Dec 3) usage of 'Gruss aus China' PPC (illustrations on both sides) with message in German headed "Puoly via Tsingtau" and signed "R Pieper" (a German missionary), to Bavaria with 1c Coiling Dragon (just trimmed at top) tied by superb Chinese-characters cds & large 'chop' in red below, largely superb 'CHINAN' bilingual cds, Kiautschou 5pf affixed and tied by 'TSINGTAU/12 2/05' cds, very fine double-circle 'UNTERJOCH/16/JAN/06' arrival cds, light stain at the base & minor imperfections. Very attractive [See Lot 3621 above for an explanation of the need for combination frankings]

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3624

PSE

1916 (Oct 28) WWI usage of Russian 3k Postal Card with 35mm Cyrillic POW cachet in violet, to a German engineer in Peking with 1k added, Cyrillic Peking cds of 3.11.16 and German 'PEKING/16.11/16/DEUTSCHE POST' cds, two filing holes at the base otherwise very fine. The message written in German from a POW who requests tobacco & old newspapers in German English or French & states papers from neutral territories (as was China) are permitted. Rare usage to China, enhanced by the Russian PO in Peking datestamp.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3625

1959 (Oct 16) cover airmail to England with Tenth Anniversary issues 10f Industrial Plant, 20f Mao Proclaiming Republic & 22f Gate of Heavenly Peace tied by character cds, re-directed to New Zealand carried via Australia with Sydney 'INSUFFICIENTLY PREPAID/FOR TRANSMISSION BY AIR' boxed handstamp & bars jusq'ua marking both in magenta applied at upper-left, back flap missing otherwise very fine.

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$240.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3626

PICTURE POSTCARDS: 1904 card of an educated Mandarin chortling at a naughty French magazine (stamps removed), then unused French Mission artist cards x3, and circa 1930s marvellous real photo cards of life in Shanghai x5, plus a couple of others. (12)

Grade A/B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

FOREIGN POST OFFICES

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Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

3627

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: Marvellous display of mostly locally-produced Picture Postcards in three sections: Part One German Colony 1898-1914 x59 at least half are early Undivided Backs with a few Gruss aus artist cards including a cringingly racist scene of a German soldier standing on the long pigtails of three locals, erection of the first homes & development, naval & military subjects including fortifications, two Japanese Geisha cards used from Tsingtau, 'Tsingtau Orchestra.../Now Playing at Riverview...' (a hotel in Tsingtau) etc, several multi-views and real photo types, Chinese occupations including fantastic 'Door & Window Market', a group of Chinese Officers, a dwarf selling "birds of good fortune", story-teller etc, about half are used from Tsingtau to Germany; Part Two 1914 Siege by Japan & Britain x20 including damage from naval bombardment & from the Germans destroying their cannons, three British cards of the South Wales Borderers & the gorgeous Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito card gifted to each of the Welsh troops; and Part Three group of scarce to rare German anti-Japanese propaganda & commemoration cards x19 including four racist artist cards depicting the Japanese as monkeys, six of the noble Governor Meyer-Waldeck, portrait of Pilot-Officer Pluschow who flew the last despatches from Tsingtau, multicoloured card inscribed '...7 Nov 1914' the day the Germans surrendered, etc; and a few strays. A wonderful social history collection that could be expanded, especially by adding cards from German POWs in Japan. [Kiautschou was an area of 550 square kilometers in northern China, "leased" to Germany after a German attack in 1897 in response to the murder of two German Catholic priests] (103) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26) (Image27) (Image28) (Image29) (Image30) (Image31) (Image32) (Image33) (Image34) (Image35) (Image36) (Image37) (Image38) (Image39) (Image40) (Image41) (Image42) (Image43) (Image44) (Image45) (Image46) (Image47) (Image48) (Image49) (Image50) (Image51) (Image52)

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Estimate AU$4,000

SOLD for AU$3,000.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3628

PSE

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: 1898 usage of German 10pf Postal Card with 'Nur fur Marine-Schiffsposten' Overprint * faint roneo'd 'Gruss aus China' illustration on the reverse, to Germany with very fine 'TSINANFORT/5 3/98/MARINE-FELDPOST' cancel & 'LAER' arrival cds. An important forerunner. Negotiations with China commenced 6.3.1898, the day after this was posted. A lease was rapidly agreed & ratified by the Reichstag 8.4.1898.

Grade A (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3629

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: 1900 (Apr 30) Gruss aus Berlin PPC ('Kaiser-Friedrich...Kirche') to "Tsintau/Deutsch China" with 2pf 3pf & 10pf x2 tied by Berlin cds & with 'Berlin 22' R label, full social message. Registered postcards are very scarce.

Grade A (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3630

PSE

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: 1900 'DEUTSHE REICHSPOST/Feld-Postkarte' endorsed at the top "...3/III Seebataillon", the brief message headed "Kaumi 15 11 1900", to Germany with 'WILHELMSHAVEN' arrival cds, a trifle aged, the cds Cat €750 on cover. Scarce Boxer Rebellion usage. [The cds recorded 26.9/00 to 1.1.01 only]

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$400

SOLD for AU$300.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3631

PSE

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: 1901-14 group with local PPCx x3 (two with Undivided Backs: Railway Station and Kaumi Mandarin with his Sedan Chair), two Japanese PPCs (one to Turkey) & 2c Postal Card x2 (one written entirely in Chinese), fine to very fine datestamps of 'TSINGTAU' ("bridge" type), 'SCHATSYKOU', 'TAITUNGTSCHEN', 'TSINGTAU-TAPAUTAU' and oval TPO types 'TSINGTAU- KIAUTSCHOU/.../ZUG 2' & 'TSINGTAU-TSINANFU/...ZUG 2', very fine group. (6)

Grade A/A- (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3632

GERMAN COLONY OF KIAUTSCHOU: 1911 cover to Germany with scarce albeit philatelic franking of Yachts $½ red superb lower-right corner block of 4 (Cat €400+, for used singles) tied by 'TSINGTAU-Gr HAFEN' cds, 'Tsingtau-Gr. Hafen' R label, 'WILMERSDORF' arrival backstamp.

Grade A (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$300

SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3633

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: Untidy selection with Vorlaufer on pieces with Shanghai cds including packet piece with 2mk pair tied by the earlier Postal Agency cds & another with 2mk interpanneau strip of 7, 'China' Overprints on Arms to 50pf x4 & on Germania to $1 plus mint $2, Deutsches Reich $2½ on 5mk, a few mint Kiautschou to 3mk; also a few picture postcards including four-panel panorama of Tsingtau used to Germany (reinforced) & Boxer Rebellion usage with boxed '... /TRAIN-KOMPAGNIE' cachet. (90+ & PPCs) (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$440.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3634

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1901 Forces cover with faint regimental cachet at lower-left, to Germany with 'China' Overprints 10pf x2 tied by 'KD FELDPOSTEXPED/DES/ OSTASIATISCHE/ EXPEDITIONSCORPS/28 5 b ' cds, superb 'WESTERLAND' arrival backstamp, the flap opened a bit roughly. Boxer Rebellion period.

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3635

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1901 gorgeous 'Gruss aus Kastel' chromolitho PPC stampless Fledpost use to "9 Comp 4 Ostasiatische Infanterie regiment/China" with very fine undated 'SHANHAIKUAN/DEUTSCHE POST' transit and superb 'KD FELDPOSTATION/5 4/No 8' cds, minor corner imperfections. Boxer Rebellion period.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3636

PSE

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1901 Boxer Rebellion usages of China 1c Postal Card with very fine 'KD FELDPOSTATION/No 2' cds & oval Peking bilingual datestamp (to Tongking) or similar '.../No 7' used at Paoting (to "Schatykau [sic] Kiautschou", and unstamped Tientsin PPC with sender's endorsement at the top also with the No 7 cds & large-part 'PAOTING' "dollar" chop, very fine trio. (3)

Grade A A1 (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$360.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM

3637

PSE

GERMAN POST OFFICES IN CHINA: 1901 Boxer Rebellion usage from Germany of 'Feldpostkarte' with pre-printed part-address including 'Ostasiat' at lower-left slightly obscured by 'PEKING/16 3/01/DEUTSCHE POST' arrival cds, minor corner bend.

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Dec-06, 06:00 PM