Postal History continued...
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Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 721 |
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 1940 (Oct 11) Clipper inter-bank airmail cover to New York with 4d Koala, 1/6d Hermes & a superb 10/- Robes tied by Sydney cds, two
strikes of the 'SUPPOSED TO CONTAIN MATTER/SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF/EXECUTIVE ORDER 8389 AS AMENDED' handstamp and 'RELEASED BY CENSOR' cachet, light staining below the stamps. The rate was 4/- for the first ½oz + 3/11d for each successive ½oz x2
= 11/10d. The 3-line cachet regards a prohibition against civilians sending banknotes into the United States; once its legality was confirmed, the item was released. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 722 |
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 1940 (Nov 21) airmail to Newcastle GB via USA with Kookaburra 6d + Kangaroo 2/- + Robes Thick Paper 5/- & 10/- (small blemish at
the top) tied by Sydney cds, very fine 'CALIFORNIA/CLIPPER' handstamp in violet, no transit or arrival markings, minor blemishes. The rate was 5/10d per ½oz x3 = 17/6d. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 723 |
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 1940-43 all-different airmail rates to Switzerland comprising 7.2.1940 at 5/1d; 14.1.1941 at 5/11d + 3d registration, corner fault;
then trans-Pacific 14.10.1941 at 5/8d to the Red Cross POW Agency; 25.3.1941 at 5/9d + 3d registration; 1941 (unclear date) at 5/10d; ARCS Message Service of 7.9.1942 at 7/5d, and of 11.1.1943 at 5/9d; a few imperfections. A curious group: all are
definitely commercial/social but they don't all conform to the recorded rates. Research opportunity.
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 724 |
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 1940-48 group all with Robes Thick Paper 5/- mostly WWII airmails to GB at 5/10d x4 or Switzerland at 5/8d or 6/- (+ 3d
registration), plus 1947 to Czechoslovakia, and scarce solo frankings to Denmark (registered) & United States, also on two different food parcel labels at 5/10d, generally fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 725 |
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 1940s censored overseas commercial airmails with destinations including Egypt, India, Netherlands Indies at 9d rate (censored
again on arrival) & New Guinea (with Newcastle censor label) but most to the UK noted various at 2/1d airmail via the USA (one a double-rate) and one at 5/10d Pacific & Atlantic Clipper rate (plus 3d for registration), and to the USA a number with
'CALIFORNIA/CLIPPER' handstamps one at 8/- double-rate, etc, good variety of censor markings, condition a little variable but generally fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 726 |
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 1941 cover with KGVI 2d scarlet coil single badly damaged in the dispensing machine tied to cover by 'FITZROY/VIC' cds. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 727 |
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 1941 (Mar 5) cover to Switzerland with late usage of Kingsford Smith 6d tied by Sydney cds & blue/white R label at upper-left
partly obscured by Sydney censor label tied by boxed 'PASCHOR' cachet, both sides also with 'THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN HELD BY/POST & TELEGRAPH CENSORSHIP' cachet in violet, held for the duration of the war & finally returned with Melbourne backstamp of
11JA46 & 'BERN 1/6.III.46/ BRIEFAUSGABE' arrival backstamp, minor wrinkles. We haven't seen either of the cachets before. The cover is illustrated by John Little at page 34 & he records only one other similar usage. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 728 |
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 1941 (March 24) usage of Pineapple Bacon Hams illustrated advertising envelope to Medan Belawan, Sumatra endorsed "Per SS Marella"
with KGVI 3d blue solo tied by Brisbane 'DON'T TALK/ABOUT SHIPS' machine cancel, censored locally with Brisbane resealing label and also in the Netherlands Indies with 'NDE.INDISCH DEVIEZEN INSTITUUT' [currency control] handstamp in magenta, a few
minor blemishes. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 729 |
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 1941 (Apr 25) trans-Pacific Clipper cover to "Rio Negro/Argentina" with 9d Platypus, 1/6d Hermes & 2/- Kangaroo tied by 'CUE/WA'
cds, Perth censor label tied by boxed 'PASSED BY/CENSOR 1' cachet in violet, 'GENERAL CONESA RN/27JUN41/ARGENTINA' arrival backstamp, faint stains & overall aging. Martin Walker states the part-air rate to USA only was reduced from 4/3d to 4/- by
-.2.1941. The sender was probably working on the goldfields & was unaware of the change. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 730 |
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 1941 (Apr 15) registered airmail to Wisconsin via 'Clipper' service with 1d green Die II + Kangaroo 2/- + Robes Thick Paper 10/-
(creased corner perf) tied by Brisbane cds, scarce ' 1 /NOT/OPENED BY/CENSOR/ 4 ' cachet in violet of Brisbane, the reverse with transits of Sydney & Honolulu and 'MADISON, WIS/APR/24/1941/REGISTERED' arrival backstamp in purple, minor imperfections.
The rate was 4/- for the 1st ½oz + 3/11d for each subsequent ½oz x2 + 3d registration = 12/1d. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 731 |
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 1941 (May 24) airmail to Java with 1/- Lyrebird tied by Melbourne cds cancel, censored locally and also on arrival with resealing
label tied '.../DEVIEZEN CENSUUR SOERABAJA' [currency control] handstamp in magenta affixed over the Melbourne label, a couple of very minor blemishes. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 732 |
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 1941 (July) Parbury Henty & Co envelope airmail to Medan Sumatra with 9d Platypus solo tied by Melbourne cds cancel, Dutch 'Geopend
Militaire Censuur - Medan' censor label affixed over the Melbourne label & tied by 'MEDAN/24.7.40' cds, a couple of very minor blemishes.
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 733 |
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 1941 (July 17) plain postcard from internee "Paul Frank E39485, Hut 12, IC Orange, NSW" [Internment Camp] airmail to his mother in
England endorsed "by Clipper Air Service via NZ-USA" with 'APPROVED FOR TRANSMISSION BY CAMP COMMANDANT O/NO.7' boxed handstamp at lower-left and with 1/6d Hermes pair tied by Sydney cds, a few bumped corners & minor blemishes. The postcard rate was
2/11d, half the 5/10d letter rate for the same service, + 1d convenience overpayment. POWs and internees were granted free surface postage, but airmail fees had to be paid in full. The writer was a Jewish-German 'Dunera Boy' transported from
internment in England in July 1940. In mid-1943, the Dunera Boys were released into Army service in Australia or repatriated to England.
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Estimate AU$450
Currently Opening at...AU$340.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 734 |
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 1941 (Aug 13) long cover (slightly reduced at the ends to 270x127mm) airmail to New York with Koala 4d + Robes Thick Paper 5/- 10/-
& £1 tied by Sydney cds, American 'SUPPOSED TO CONTAIN MATTER/ SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF/EXECUTIVE ORDER 8389 AS AMENDED' handstamp relating to currency control regulations, minor defects & a bit aged. The 'Clipper' rate was 4/- for the 1st ½oz +
3/11d for each successive ½oz x8 = 35/4d = £1/15/4d. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 735 |
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 1941 (Nov 7) homemade envelope (217x150mm) secured with staples, airmail to Adelaide with KGVI 3d blue Die III x5 + Robes Thick
Paper 5/- tied by Forces 'RAILHEAD PO/RW1' cds and boxed R cachet with manuscript "FPO2" both used at Deir Suneid (Palestine), Adelaide arrival backstamp of 17NO41, unfolded & only minor blemishes. Usage in the Middle East of values above 9d is very
unusual & we can't recall having seen another such usage of any of the Robes. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 736 |
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 1941 (Nov 20) censored airmail to "CSR Quarters/Lautoka/Fiji" with 1/6d Hermes tied by Sydney cds, 'CALIFORNIA/CLIPPER' cachet,
Suva transit of 25NOV41 & Lautoka arrival of two days later, minor blemishes. Carried on the last through PanAm Trans-Pacific service, the second of only two that called at Fiji, per 'Auckland' ex Auckland 25.11.1941. Because of the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor, the service was suspended 7.12.1941, the day before the next service was to leave New Zealand. Commercial clipper covers to Fiji are very scarce and desirable. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 737 |
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 1941 (Dec) large-part distressed airmail cover-front to England with KGVI 3d x2 - singed, a third missing - tied by 'AIF FIELD
PO/NO 24' cds in use at Hama in Lebanon (Proud "Not Seen"), endorsed "Accidentally Burned/in Transit/28.12.41 [initials]", remnants of four British PO repair labels. On 27.12.1941, a bag of mail was damaged in transit between FPO 24 & FPO 21 at Rayak
in Syria. This part-cover is believed to be the only recorded mail from this incident. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 738 |
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 1941 (circa) airmail cover to the Philippines with Small Lyrebird 1/- & Kangaroo 2/- x3 tied by Adelaide cds (illegible date),
split open in transit presumably because of bulky contents, Philippines blue/white 'OFFICIALLY SEALED/BUREAU/OF/POSTS' labels x6 & 'RECEIVED IN BAD CONDITION' handstamp. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 739 |
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 1941-56 Definitives with all values to 5/- Arms including several War Tax surcharge frankings, 8½d & 1/0½d on Express covers, 1½d
on British-Israel World Federation wrapper, 31.1.1946 GB OHMS cover received in diplomatic pouch & forwarded with 5½d & red/white 'RAAF MELBOURNE' R label, post-WWII Forces concession rates including 3d green with 'UK SERVICE LIAISON/.../STAFF IN
AUSTRALIA' cachet, 6½d brown underpaid airmail with NZ 1d & 1½d in lieu of Postage Dues, 1961 Television Licence card with 2/6d Aborigine x40 affixed within, 5/- Arms & black/pink 'INSURED PARCEL' label on pair of parcel tags (no address), overseas
destinations by surface including Pitcairn Islands, Bermuda, Thailand, Hong Kong, Canal Zone, Argentina (registered), Chile, St Lucia, Belgium (PPC with KGVI 4½d scarlet), Portugal etc, or airmail to TPNG, Perak, Hong Kong (registered), China, Japan
x2 (one with 'RETURN TO SENDER' handstamp), French India, Israel (1950), South Africa (OHMS registered but underpaid), Austria x2 (both with post-WWII censorship, one registered), Hungary (registered, 'large 'B' handstamp in red), Sweden
(double-rate), etc, condition variable but most are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 740 |
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 1942 (March 23) usage of KGVI Oval Envelope 1d brown Stamped-to-Order for Australian Defence Canteens with Map illustration at
upper-left and largely very fine 'FIELD POST OFFICE/032' cds cancel used at Narellan (NSW), to Ireland with both an Australian Military Forces censor handstamp and Sydney resealing tape & cachet, on arrival a very fine strike of the Irish bi-lingual
'.../RELEASED BY/CENSOR' handstamp struck in green on the face, minor transmission marks & slightly trimmed at right on opening. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$8.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
