AUSTRALIA continued...
Aerophilately & Flight Covers continued...
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Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 481 |
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 1932 (March-May) England-Australia per Lady Isobel ("Bee") Chaytor and RT ("Rab") Richards AAMC 252 with typed "Carried by Lady
Chaytor/on her Flight from/England to Australia" and initialled "IC", addressed back to England with Australian KGV 2d red tied by Sydney slogan cancel of '20MAY/1932' and 'WARRINGTON LANCS/27JU/32/ 6 ' arrival backstamp, light even soiling,
under-catalogued at $650. With the pilot's enclosed note stating "Forgotten to be posted at Java/May 3rd 1932". In Bulgaria, a poor landing damaged the propellor. At Calcutta, Chaytor became ill & decided to head for Perth by sea. Richards flew on to
Darwin, then headed south-west for Perth, the first pilot arriving from overseas to do so. The pair reunited in Perth & flew to Sydney. Ex Brian Peace: see his Volume Two at pages 187-190 where both items are illustrated. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
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 1932 (Dec 12) Wakefield & Co Castrol XXL Oil illustrated envelope (226x150mm) with logo of the Bertram Allan Junkers Atlantis
Expedition AMC 242 with Airmail 3d green tied by 'DARWIN NT/12DE32/AUSTRALIA' cds with 'DARWIN, N.T.' cachet alongside, Netherlands Indies Airmails 10c violet x2 tied by Soerabaja cds of '13.12.32' or '10.4.33', and Germany Airmail Eagle 10pf red
tied by 'BERLIN/17.4.33/ZENTRALFLUGHAFEN' cds, unaddressed and the flap unsealed, Cat $1750. Superb. A very fine example sold at our auction of 28.1.2005 for $1495 (Sale 113 Lot 332). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$800
Currently Opening at...AU$600.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
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 1934 MacRobertson Air Race typed cover for K Waller & Cathcart Jones endorsed "per Comet No.19" with Great Britain KGV 1½d brown &
6d violet tied by London rubber cds cancels and 'POST OFFICE/ EXPRESS/DELIVERY' oval handstamp at upper-left, Victoria Centenary 2d vermilion alongside on the face cancelled on arrival at Melbourne with '25OC34' cds, a couple of very minor blemishes,
AAMC 435 (stated to be 24 carried), Cat $1600. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
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 1935 (Oct-Dec) Darwin-England-Darwin per Charles Kingsford Smith & Tommy Pethybridge in 'Lady Southern Cross' with KGV 2d tied by
'DARWIN NT/3OC35/AUSTRALIA' cds & London arrival machine of '18OCT/1935', Great Britain KGV 1½d brown with 'VO/CoL' perfin of Vacuum Oil for the return flight tied by London cds of '18OC/35', flight departed 23.10.1935 but aborted at Brindisi because
of damage caused by a hail storm. The plane returned to England where a second 1½d was added & tied 'HYTHE/9-AM/6NO/35/KENT' backstamp three hours after Kingsford Smith had departed from there, huge explanatory cachet in red on the reverse numbered
'11' of 49 & signed by Smithy's personal assistant "B Sheil" AAMC 545, Cat $650. Superb. See Brian Peace Volume Two at pages 343-345. Brian's stained example sold at our auction of 25.6.2025 for $463 (Sale 260 Lot 2110). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 485 |
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 1935 Last Flight of the 'Southern Cross' (July 18) perforated silver vignette (just a tiny trace of the usual toning on edges)
affixed alongside KGV Silver Jubilee 2d cancelled on arrival at 'RICHMOND/NSW' and signed "C KingsfordSmith" and the other crew & passengers his wife "Mary KingsfordSmith", "B Shiel", "John Ulm", "PG Taylor", "John SW Stannage" & "CG Scrimgeour",
AAMC 515, Cat $1000. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 486 |
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 1937 (Apr 26) Darwin-Melbourne per Junkers 86 'Lawrance Hargrave' with KGV ½d & 1½d cancelled on arrival with Victorian
'RELIEF/1MY37/No 4' cds in use at Melbourne GPO AAMC 730, under-catalogued at $250. Only 15 flown, and only the first we have offered. Having left Germany 20.2.1937, the Junkers was the first diesel aircraft to arrive in Australia. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 487 |
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 1938 (April 18) Australia-England per Harry 'Jim' Broadbent AAMC 804 with typed endorsement "5 days, 4 hrs, 21 mins Record Solo
Flight", Australia KGVI 2d red tied by 'DARWIN N.T./AUSTRALIA' cds cancel, 'H.M. CUSTOMS/22APR1938/LYMPNE AIRPORT, HYTHE' KENT' triple-ring rubber oval datestamp in violet and Great Britain KGVI 1½d brown tied by London 'EMPIRE/EXHIBITION/GLASGOW'
pictorial slogan machine cancel, Cat "from $400", plus sepia photograph postcard showing the pilot in his cockpit. (2) (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
Postal History
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Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 488 |
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 Consignment remainders with many useful items including 1918 POW lettersheet from Holdsworthy Camp to Germany, 1950s Customs parcel
label to NZ with 1d 9d & 10/- Arms, 1962 & 1963 AR cards each with 9d brown Kangaroos, various OHMS envelopes, etc, one of 1920 with KGV Star 2d violet cutout, other cutouts on 17 commercial or philatelic covers, taxed covers including with Postage
Dues, batch of flights x31 with a few better frankings, Decimal period x60+ including better stamps, unusual rates, instructional handstamps, 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-23, 05:30 PM |
| 489 |
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 Commercial covers with Kangaroo frankings including ½d solo x2, 1d for redirection fee on envelope from GB, 2d punctured Small 'OS'
pair, 3d to USA x6 (one punctured 'OS/NSW'), 9d + Large Kookaburra 6d pair registered air to Germany, etc, good to fine.
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 490 |
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 Commonwealth of Australia/State combination frankings comprising PPCs from NSW x2 (one with Esperanto message), Postal Card
commercial usage from South Australia, Letter Card from Tasmania, 1912 with stamps of all States, 1919 Melbourne dealer's cover with Kangaroo ½d green coil stamp + WA 'ONE PENNY' on 2d, and 1924 with Kangaroo ½d & 3d + stamps of NSW Queensland
Tasmania & Victoria. Scarce albeit mostly philatelic material.
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 491 |
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 Official covers with KGV punctured 'OS' frankings including ½d green x2 on Victorian 1d 'OS'-in-the Die Envelope, 1½d green on
lettersheet, WA Titles Office with 4d orange, 4d yellow-orange or 5d x2, 5d punctured 'VG' (very scarce on cover), others including 9d airmail rate postcard to GB with ½d orange & AIF 6d, etc, 1915 1d scenic Letter Card to USA with ½d green & 1d red
resealed on three sides with censor labels, etc, good to very fine.
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 492 |
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 Commercial mail including 1913 Fullface 1d Postal Card to Hungary uprated with Kangaroo ½d, 1916 endorsed "Letter for Germany
Enclosed" to Red Cross in Switzerland, 1922-32 long internal covers with Kangaroo frankings 1922 with 6d blue + KGV 2d scarlet, 1923 with 3d solo, 1930 with Third Wmk 6d brown and 1932 with SMult Wmk 6d brown, then 1920s to Sweden with 6d blue
(rounded corner), and 1955 oversize airmail to USA at 18/- (2/- x9) including Arms 5/- & 10/-, also Kangaroo 4d long Registration Envelope (a few minor spots still unuusally fine unused), and a couple of others,
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 493 |
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 Jusqu'a group comprising 1934 to Denmark at 1/9d rate with London 2-bar marking in red, 1937 to Switzerland at 2/1d 'all-the-way
airmail' rate x2 both with Paris 2-bar marking in black plus similar at 1/9d rate endorsed "via Italy" but with Paris transit, 1938 to Germany with 1/6d Hermes & 4d Koala tied by Sydney 'LATE FEE' machine cancel endorsed "Via Italy" with 'X' marking
and similar with KGV 3d blue & 1/6d Hermes, 1945 (July) to Switzerland with Cairo 6-bar jusqu'a marking in red where diverted to surface transportation (civilian airmail services to Europe were yet to be reinstated), and late 1945 (Sept-Dec) to
France x3, Netherlands & Switzerland each with 1/6d Hermes solo frankings and various London small boxed 'O A T' cachets in red, condition generally fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 494 |
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 Pre-1950s commercial covers with some lovely illustrated advertising covers for Sydney firms including for Sheaffer's Pens,
Prescott Ltd (Groceries), Wm Adams & Co (Motors), Grimley Ltd (Sadddlers, with perfins) and Centrifugal Discharge Bucket Elevator also Eschatology (Perth), others with Kangaroo or KGV frankings, 1935 to GB with Large Kookaburra 6d & ANZAC 1/-, 1928
usage of KGV 1d Die III Postal Card with 'OS/NSW' puncture, 1944 Forces 'POSTAGE/ 1d /PAID' lettersheet from HMAS 'Melville' at Darwin to NSW, several with "tied" perfins, better destinations include Ecuador, Fiji, Malaya, Papua and American Samoa,
condition variable but generally fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 495 |
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 Interesting little group including 1913 to Sweden with Kangaroo ½d x3 & South Australia 1d, 1919 2½d + ½d War Tax to Holland & USA,
1919 to GB with Kangaroo 6d blue & KGV 1d red, 1931 registered to French India, 1938 airmail to China at 1/- + 3d registration, 1939 airmail postcard to Germany at 11d, 1940 OHMS triple 3d rate to USA with AIF set punctured 'G/NSW' + 3d registration,
1955 septuple 3/- rate large airmail envelope (210x150mm) to Argentina + 9d registration with Arms 10/- x2, 1964 double 1/3d rate to Hong Kong + 2/- registration, etc, most with minor faults.
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 496 |
PSE |
 Returned Mail 1920s-60s collection with emphasis on the Sydney Dead Letter Office including a range of Examiner numbers,
instructional handstamps & inspector marks, OHMS Returned Registered Letters x2, a couple inwards from Great Britain, plus a bundle of items returned to Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart & Melbourne DLOs with markings including 'RECEIVED AFTER SHIP'S
DEPARTURE', 'DELIVERY IMPRACTICABLE', 'NO SUCH POST TOWN', etc, condition a little variable but mostly fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 497 |
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 Airmail postcards to overseas destinations including QSL cards '5FH' (Glen Osmond, SA), 'VK2AMB' (Cremorne, NSW) & 'VK3YL'
(Murrumbeena, Vic) all to England with 9d Platypus or 1/- Lyrebird solos, 1952 to Czechoslovakia with 9d Platypus solo, other 1/- Lyrebird solos to USA (business reply postcard), Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holland, Hungary & Sweden, 1961
Orient Line SS Orontes to New Zealand with QEI 2d green x2, 1965 'Cairns' postcard wallet airmail to England with Flowers 2/3d Wattle green/white solo, 1966 to South Africa with 1/2d Tasmanian Tiger Helecon Printing solo, also to USA with 1/-
Platypus, 1/- Olympics & 1/- Colombo Plan solo frankings and to Italy with 1/- Olympics solo, plus surface-rate items noted 1939 Royal Australian College of Surgeons receipt card to Japan with QE 1d pair, 1940 to USA with 2d AIF solo, 1941 Perth
'Photographic Booklet' to New Zealand with QE 1d solo (while entitled to reduced rates), 1951 Melbourne postcard wallet to USA with KGVI 7½d solo for foreign letter rate (no longer entitled to reduced rates), 1963 to South Africa with 8d Tiger Cat
solo, etc, condition generally very fine.
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 498 |
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 Taxed Mail group including 1921 to England with KGV 4d orange solo and Great Britain Postage Dues 2d pair (envelope with some
faults), 1929 to Scotland endorsed "Air Mail" with KGV 1½d red pair and GB 3d Dues plus similar 1931 cover with 3d Airmail (faults) and GB 1d & 3d Dues, 1932 to Germany endorsed "Karachi-London" airmail but taxed & endorsement crossed-out still with
German 'MIT LUFTPOST BEFORDERT' [Forwarded by Airmail] cachet, 1943 to USA the airmail indicia endorsed "within USA" with KGVI 2½d red x3 taxed, 1944 to USA censored with 'RETURNED FOR/ADDITIONAL POSTAGE' cachet, 1958 airmail to England with War
Memorial 5½d se-tenant block of 4 & QEII 1d violet pair underpaying 2/3d rate, 1959 unstamped cover from Castlemaine to Tatts with Postage Dues 5d pair (SG D136a; £75 each used) tied Melbourne cds, 1961 "Printed Matter" airmail to USA with 1/-
Mitchell solo the endorsement crossed out and taxed, then a good range of 1966-75 Decimals frankings on underpaid airmails to England eight with British Postage Dues, etc, condition a little variable but most are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
| 499 |
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 Registered Mail group including 1921 Registration Envelope KGV 5d brown to Italy with KGV 1d red added and Hurlstone Park, NSW
red/white R label, 1926 Registration Envelope KGV 4½d violet with Launceston oversized red/white R label, 1936 Thursday Island to England with black & blue/white R label, 1944 Military 'Aust F.P.O. No.0102' and 'R.A.A.F. 7400 AUS.' R labels with
matching cds, 1951 BCOF/Korean War airmails to Tatts with 'A.F.P.O. 30/IWAKUNI, JAPAN' labels and 'A.F.P.O. No.30/JAPAN' cds x2, 1968 registered airmail to USA with 10c Fish & 30c Birds, etc, condition generally fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
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 Destination Mail 1940s-60s group with 1941 newspaper wrapper to Netherlands Indies censored on arrival then mostly airmails
including 1958 to Aden registered, 1946 to Argentina with 5/- Robes, to Bechuanaland, the Falkland Islands, Fiji, Hungary, 1964 to Ireland with 2/3d Cable solo, to Jamaica, Kenya, 1966 to the Netherlands with dual currency franking of Birds 25c Robin
& QEII 5d red pair (unnecessarily overpaying the 25c rate), also to Russia, Southern Rhodesia, Zanzibar, etc, plus a batch to the United Kingdom including with 2/3d ICY solo, with 4/- Navigator, registered with 5/- Arms, and an oversized envelope
with 10/- Arms, some with minor blemishes but most are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-23, 05:30 PM |
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