PACIFIC ISLANDS DISASTER MAIL continued...
PACIFIC ISLANDS DISASTER MAIL continued...
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Estimate in AU$'s |
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 PAPUA: 1944 (Nov 28) per RAAF flying boat Port Moresby-Townsville that collided with a bollard in Townsville Harbour, causing major
damge to the plane, which sank, large-part back-panel only with large-part 'AIR FORCE PO No 71/29NO44/QLD-AUST' cds in use at Townsville and '.../OFFICIALLY SEALED' label tied by straight-line 'DAMAGED BY WATER - AIRCRAFT ACCID[ENT]' cachet in
violet. See Volume Four at pages 115-120, illustrated at page 119. Only seven items recorded. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 1948 (May 11) registered cover to NSW State Lotteries with 5½d Emu tied by 'BUKA PASSAGE/PAPUA NEW GUINEA' cds,
damage at upper-right to the Emu & another stamp lost and endorsed at lower-left "Damage by Rats/while awaiting transit/Reg Clerk (signature)" in rosine, red & black/white 'SOHANA' R label (error for 'SOHANO') the reverse with 'RELIEF No
5/15MY41/PAPUA NG' probably used at Port Moresby & Sydney arrival cds of '23MY48'. Oozing verminous character.
Buka Passage Post Office, on Sohano Island, reopened 27.8.1946; R labels wrongly inscribed 'SOHANA' issued -.10.1946; PO renamed Sohano 28.3.1949; corrected 'SOHANO' R labels issued -.5.1949. Philatelic covers with the Buka Passage/Sohana or
Sohano/Sohana combinations are common but commercial items are very scarce, and this is a cracker. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 1968 (Jan) Nigeria-Kenya-Lebanon per Ethiopian Airlines which made an awkward landing at Beirut causing the plane
to catch fire, destroying most of the mail, but there were no fatalities, charred fragment of a cover from Kenya to "Department of Public Health/Madang,New Guinea" [sic], missent to New Zealand & forwarded to PNG in 'NEW ZEALAND POST OFFICE'
ambulance cover, with typed PNG Post Office incident advice letter mentioning it had been received from New Zealand. Very strange. See Volume Five at pages 158-160, where all three items are illustrated. Unlisted by Henri Nierinck and apparently the
only item recorded from this incident.
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Estimate AU$750
SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 1990 (Nov 9) commercial cover from Sydney to "Arawa, Nth Solomons Province" with superb strikes of the boxed 'DUE
TO POLITICAL/UNREST NO SERVICE/TO THIS DESTINATION' cachet in magenta (not previously seen by us) applied at Sydney & boxed 'RTS/POSTAL SERVICES TO BOUGAINVILLE ISLANDS/SUSPENDED DUE TO CIVIL UNREST' in purple applied at Boroko, surprisingly with
'MAIL EXCHANGE/BOROKO/21NO90/...' backstamp; and 1991 (May 10) New Zealand cover to "Panguna/Bougainville" with a poor strike of the RTS cachet (a fine strike on the reverse). Virtually all covers with the RTS cachet are philatelically contrived;
commercial items are very scarce.
The so-called Bougainville Conflict (it was a civil war in all but name) failed to achieve independence for Bougainville, and resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, making it the bloodiest conflict in Oceania since WWII.
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 SAMOA: 1934 (May) cover to Victoria with Huts 1d solo tied by slightly indistinct 'APIA/28MY34' cds, very fine strike of large
'DELAYED MISSED CONNECTION/PAGO PAGO' cachet in violet alongside, light toning at left. Mail from Apia missed the sailing from Pago Pago of the regular American Matson Line sailing, being forwarded by the next ship, arriving Sydney 16.7.1934. Brian
Peace records only two items from this incident, both to Victoria. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
| 2283 |
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 SAMOA: 1934 (May) cover to Victoria with Huts 1d solo tied by slightly indistinct 'APIA/22MY34' cds, very fine strike of large
'DELAYED MISSED CONNECTION/PAGO PAGO' cachet in violet alongside, re-directed on arrival with 'BENDIGO/19JL34/VIC' cds and 'Try ... Shepparton" endorsement all on the front, minor wrinkling & the flap removed. Mail from Apia missed the sailing from
Pago Pago of the regular American Matson Line sailing, being forwarded by the next ship, arriving Sydney 16.7.1934. Brian Peace records only two items from this incident, both to Victoria. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$575.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 SAMOA: 1954 (Sep) Netherlands-Ireland-United States per KLM Super Constellation 'Triton' that crashed into the Shannon River
estuary mudflats soon after take-off from Dublin's Shannon Airport, killing 25 of the 56 occupants, large-part cover from the Netherlands to "Bank of New Zealand/Apia/Western Samoa" with the stamps washed-off, secured with a piece of plain brown tape
& straight-line 'SALVAGED FROM KLM CRASH AT SHANNON' cachet in violet, light but obvious 'PORT-AU-PRINCE/HAITI - H ' backstamp where superb 'TROUVE EN/CET ETAT' cachet (= found in this state) applied in green, opened-out & truncated for display.
The routing is a mystery. It may have been missorted to Haiti (presumably at New York), or it may have been deliberately sent to Haiti-Panama-Samoa by ship. An enigma. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
| 2285 |
O/D |
 SAMOA: 1974 (Jan) New Zealand-American Samoa-Hawaii-Los Angeles per PanAm Boeing 707 that crashed on the final approach at Pago
Pago, killing 103 of the 107 occupants, large Philips Printed Matter envelope (with the contents) from the Netherlands to "Apia/Western Samoa", fire-damage, forwarded from Honolulu in 'US POSTAL SERVICE' ambulance envelope (spotty) with the roneo'd
incident advice slip. Only one other item recorded, but not sighted by Brian Peace in the past 50 years.
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
| 2286 |
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 SOLOMON ISLANDS: 1949 (Nov-Dec) New York-Mexico City per American Airlines DC6 that crashed at Dallas following a botched flight
manouevre, killing 28 of the 46 occupants, fire-damaged cover from New Norfolk, Virginia to "Dr Pollock/Senior Medical Officer/Honiara Guadalcanal/..." with the stamps washed-off, largely very fine 'DAMAGE DUE TO AIR MAIL/ INTERRUPTION NEAR/DALLAS
TEX/NOV 29 1949' cachet in purple, plus the Post Office Department ambulance envelope with another largely very fine strike of the cachet. Almost certainly the only recorded item to the South Pacific.
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$230.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
REST OF THE WORLD
GENERAL and MISCELLANEOUS LOTS
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Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 3001 |
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 Jimbo's Auctions stock of Australian and Worldwide stamps plus some covers and postcards prepared by Jim Betson for his mail- and
post-bid sales in twenty-seven archive boxes full of thousands of stock cards, stocksheets, collections, part-collections etc, some better items noted but generally at the cheaper end of the market; also two Stanley Gibbons 'New Imperial' albums with
a quantity of used stamps. A great opportunity as most of the sorting & identification work has been done. Weighs 205kg.
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Estimate AU$6,000
SOLD for AU$4,600.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3002 |
/OPSE |
 Carton of collection remainders with lots of Papua New Guinea including some */** to K5, Post Office packs, unaddresed FDCs to K5,
a bundle of unused postal stationery including Registration Envelopes 1/0½d x9 & 1/7d x2; also some Norfolk Island FDCs; China including '24 Seasonal Periods' boxed set of albums; New Zealand unused 2d blue Chalon; South Australia Thick 'O.S.' on DLR
2d group including a pair with Double Perfs; Kangaroos 1d with Double Perfs; etc.
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$525.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3003 |
#O |
 Old 'Imperial' album almost denuded but with a completely unsorted array of loose stamps to be added, hundreds of Classic stamps
including an attractive NSW Sydney Views 1d & Victoria Half-Lengths, Overprints, Cinderellas, Revenues, etc, noted several South Australian Departmentals, GRI Overprints, High Denominations, etc, some mint & some postmark interest. Caveat emptor!
This lot is full of forgeries, fakes, damaged & repaired stamps, so careful inspection is required.
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$1,500.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3004 |
/O |
 Sydney Stamp Centre eBay stock in 459 plastic tubs containing a massive accumulation of Australian & worldwide stamps, sets, gutter
strips, blocks, M/Ss, FDCs, commemorative covers & cancels, commercial mail, postcards, postal stationery, cinderellas, revenues, matchbook labels, etc, lots of thematic interest throughout, condition variable. Weighs 1440kg (almost 1½ tonnes!).
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Estimate AU$5,000
SOLD for AU$8,500.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3005 |
/O |
 Consignment remainders with small collections of Great Britain, Canada, Denmark & Egypt, GB FDCs, thematics including miniature
sheets, Papua Bi-Colours range including Officials & postmarks, etc. Weighs 12kg. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$525.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3006 |
/O |
 Large worldwide accumulation in six archive boxes with strength in British Commonwealth KGVI & QEII periods especially Pacific
Islands noted lots of Papua New Guinea and other Australian Territories, also British Asia with lots of Malaya, British Africa, Great Britain from Penny Black used and other QV issues, Europe with plenty of Denmark & Sweden, then lots more in albums,
envelopes & loose, also thematic collections on pages including Birds, Maps & Scouts, plus commercial mail, FDCs & commemorative covers, etc, condition a little mixed but generally fine to very fine. Weighs 64kg.
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Estimate AU$500
SOLD for AU$2,700.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3007 |
/O |
 Nine albums of Canada with lots of pre-WWII issues, then mint BAT, Falklands and Tristan with full sets & high thematic content.
Weighs 14kg.
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Estimate AU$350
SOLD for AU$460.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3008 |
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 European countries bits & pieces of album pages that might look like a nightmare but there are better stamps and sets that are
worth the searching. Weighs 2kg. (many 100s) (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
SOLD for AU$1,400.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3009 |
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 Consignment remainders with some Australian Colonies covers, a very fine batch of German States pre-stamp entires with lovely
postmarks, a large bundle of postcards including a very fine range of French military humour cards, etc, condition variable but much is fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$250
SOLD for AU$260.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3010 |
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 A real miscellany including an old album with most pages full of mostly common World stamps, 'silk' FDCs from Jersey, folio of
Australian postmarks on Kangaroos & KGV Heads including numerals & TPOs, Fiji with two pages of early issues including 1872 Surcharges, China Airmails, New Zealand sheet of 8 Queenstown tourism labels, Tonga 1963 Gold Coinage x13 to 15/- on large
OHMS cover, about 200 non-Australian postcards with some better ones from Britain & WWII Japanese Occupation, etc, also ephemera including circa 1940s Missions to Seamen 'A Memento of Your Visit to Fremantle', '3UZ Top 40' two issues, WD&HO Wills
book 'British Commanders in the Transvaal War', etc. Weighs 7kg.
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Estimate AU$400
SOLD for AU$650.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
| 3011 |
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 Oddments with Straits Settlements 1908 PPC of a Military Parade to GB with 4c tied by fine 'TANGLIN' cds & 1925 real photo PPC of
businesses in Raffles Place, unused; a few humorous PPCs; 1942 Australia-South Africa censor cover with the enclosed letter; etc.
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Estimate AU$80
SOLD for AU$60.00
Closing..Jun-25, 07:30 PM |
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