SAMOA
SAMOA
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 1301 |
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 Accumulation including a range of 1877-80 Express issues mostly reprints, 1886-1900 Palm Trees & King range including a quantity of
used, blocks of 4 x11 */CTO and 1/- rose bisected on piece x2, a similar range of 1893-1900 Surcharges & Overprints including 'FIVE/PENCE' on 4d blue *, then Overprints on New Zealand 1914-28 QV Postal Fiscals */** 2/- x4, 2/6d x2, 3/- x3, 5/- x2,
10/- x3 & £1 x3, 1926-27 KGV Admirals duo, 1932 Arms 'SAMOA' 2/6d & 5/-, and 1935-53 Arms 'WESTERN/SAMOA' 2/6d x2, 5/- x2, 10/- x2, £1 x2, 30/-, £2 x3 & £3 plus used 5/- & 10/- x2 (one with Watermark Inverted), also a range of complete booklets (23)
to early-1970s including 1960 set of 3 plus 1920 Victory set on cover, condition a little variable but most are fine to very fine, Cat £3000+. Excellent research lot. Ex Jerry Blair.
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Estimate AU$800
Currently Opening at...AU$600.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1302 |
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 1914-23 KGV Keyplates 'POSTAGE-POSTAGE' Multiple Crown CA Watermark 2/6d deep purple on Toned Paper SG 64 marginal block of 8 (2x4)
from the lower-right corner of the sheet, the central four units (two vertical pairs) Imperforate Horizontally Between Stamps SG 64ba, characteristic variable centring, lightly mounted or with small hinge remainders, Cat £900+ for two pairs. A rare &
striking multiple. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$800
Currently Opening at...AU$600.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1303 |
 TO |
 1914-24 'SAMOA' Overprint on New Zealand QV Postal Fiscals De La Rue Paper Rough Perf 14 10/- maroon & £1 rose-carmine SG 125 &
126, both CTO with two-bar diagonal corner cancel applied in New Zealand for presentation purposes, Cat £90+ for postally used. Scarce. (2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
SOLOMON ISLANDS
SOLOMON ISLANDS
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 1304 |
O/TO |
 Selection of mostly better items including 1907 Large Canoes set * & used, 1908-11 Small Canoes set * plus 2/- & 5/- used, 1939-51
KGVI Pictorials set used, 1965 QEII Pictorials set **, 1966-67 New Currency overprints set used, 1976 Birds set used, etc, also Postage Dues 1940 set used & CTO, condition generally fine to very fine, Cat £1700+. Ex Jerry Blair.
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1305 |
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 Mint collection from 1907-08 Large Canoes set plus ½d and 2d blocks of 4, 1908-11 Small Canoes set, 1935 Silver Jubilee set,
1939-51 KGVI Pictorials & 1966-67 QEII Pictorials (**) sets, condition generally fine to very fine, Cat £900+.
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1306 |
/#O |
 Collection from 1907 Large Canoes set * & used plus blocks of 4 ½d (marginal; re-joined) to 5d unused and 1908-11 Small Canoes set
*, used & 'SPECIMEN' overprints, 1913 KGV Keyplates 'POSTAGE-POSTAGE' set * & 'SPECIMEN' overprints, 1914-23 'POSTAGE-REVENUE' Multiple Crown CA Wmk set * & used with extra 5/-, 10/- & £1 x2 used and plus shades & papers including 5/- on orange-buff
* & used, 1922-31 Multiple Script CA Wmk set * & used plus extra 10/- used, 1939-51 KGVI Pictorials set */**, used & 'SPECIMEN' punctures plus blocks of 4 mostly **, 1948 Wedding 10/- Bradbury Wilkinson Imprint & Plate Number '1a' block of 12 (6x2)
** and separate blocks of 4 **, 1956-63 QEII Pictorials set **, used and Waterlow & Sons Imprint blocks of 4 **, extra £1 block & Plate Number '1' block and a range of booklet panes, covers and complete 4/- booklet, plus 1963-64 Block Wmk set &
blocks of 4 **, 1965 QEII Pictorials Plate Number blocks of 4 sets ** x2 (the first all '1A', the second including '1B') and blocks of 4 CTO, 1966-67 New Currency Surcharges Wmk Upright set blocks of 4 ** & CTO and Wmk Sideways set blocks of 4 CTO,
1968-71 QEII Pictorials Plate Number blocks of 4 CTO, and later issues to 1975, etc, also Postage Dues 1940 set blocks of 4 ** & CTO singles, condition generally fine to very fine, Cat £9000+. Ex Jerry Blair.
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Estimate AU$2,500
Currently Opening at...AU$1,900.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1307 |
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 1908-11 Small Canoes ½d to 5/- set SG 8-17 blocks of 4, generally well-centred, one unit on the 4d block with a pulled perf, most
with a little light gum tropicalisation, the lower values with the upper units lightly mounted or with small hinge remainders and the lower units unmounted, the 2/-, 2/6d & 5/- blocks each with one unit lightly mounted & three units unmounted, Cat
£900+ for mounted singles. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1308 |
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 1908-11 Small Canoes 2/- 2/6d & 5/- with 'SPECIMEN' Overprint SG 15s-17s each additionally with Portuguese 'ULTRAMAR' [= Overseas]
handstamp in violet, small hinge remainders. (3) (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1309 |
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 1914-23 KGV Keyplates 'POSTAGE-POSTAGE' Multiple Crown CA Watermark £1 purple & black/red SG 38 block of 4 from the lower-right
corner of the sheet with Plate Number '3' in the lower margin, well-centred, the two left-hand units a couple of natural gum bends mentioned for accuracy only otherwise superb unmounted, Cat £1000+ for mounted singles. Gorgeous. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,500
Currently Opening at...AU$1,150.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
Postal History
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Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 1310 |
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 Batch of mostly long KGVI to QEII official covers with various departmental cachets, boxed 'POSTAGE/[crown]/PAID' handstamps for
Auki, Honiara & Munda (one with Gizo cds), 1938 stampless to Canada with Postage Due 4c, 1943 stampless NZ Forces usage "per Courier" with rare 'ARMY/RIGA 6.X.43/SIGNALS' cds, 1949 US War Dept cover with 'LUNGA' steel cds, 1962 telegram envelope with
huge oval 'POSTS & TELEGRAPHS DEPT/HONIARA' datestamp, 1976 formular aerogramme with 'Office of the Chief Minister' cachet, also stampless internal mail, airmails some registered with frankings including KGVI to 6d & QEII to 2/6d or 25c, postmark
interest, generally fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1311 |
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 1908 (late) Harding & Billings (Sydney) photo-mechanical PPC ('AOLA...', of native with rifle & a friend holding the day's catch
of exotic birds), to Sydney with Large Canoe 1d (corner fault) tied by fine strike of the seriffed straight-line 'S.S.UPOLU' handstamp (34x4mm) in violet, minor blemishes. Unrecorded by Don Franks. We have dated this card from the reference to
"...Hope you had a gay old time when the American Fleet was in [Sydney]...", which was early-September 1908. Don Franks records a similar strike also on the 1d - *FKS 210* - purporting to be from 1910, but by this time the sans-serif handstamp was in
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Estimate AU$800
Currently Opening at...AU$600.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1312 |
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 1908 Harding & Billings (Sydney) photo-mechanical PPC ('AOLA...', of three natives, two with rifles), posted aboard S.S. 'Moresby'
to NSW with Small Canoe 1d cancelled on arrival at Sydney on 21DE08 with very fine double-oval 'LOOSE SHIP/LETTER' handstamp alongside, Christmas greetings headed "Banika 5-12-08" & the sender asks "...What do you think of the new stamps" (issued
five weeks earlier). Not recorded by Don Franks, who listed only five Loose Ship Letter usages on Small Canoe covers. Banika (or Mbanika) is a sizeable island northwest of Guadalcanal. The largest town is Yandina, which had no post office until
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1313 |
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 1910-13 commercial/social covers with Small Canoe frankings 1910 with Arms in black on the flap to Brisbane with 2d tied by
'TULAGI' cds; 1911 to Ireland with 2d tied by 'TULAGI' cds; 1912 with Arms in blue on the flap to GB with 1d pair tied by 'TULAGI' cds; 1913 to GB with 1d tied by light but discernible '.../GAVUTU' cds (2-digit year & with the month slug 'DE'
inverted); some minor soiling; also 1912 stampless official cover signed at lower-left by the Chief Postmaster "FJ Barnett" to Austria with Tulagi cds & damaged R label, light aging.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1314 |
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 1912 (May 10) OHBMS cover signed by the Postmaster "FJ Barnett" at lower-left, to Essex with Small Canoe 4d red/yellow (Cat £13
x25+ on cover) tied by a light but legible strike of 'TULAGI/MY10/--12/...' cds ('19' omitted), 'EARLS COLNE/JY1/12/ESSEX' arrival cds & redirected to "Ramsgate", four different oval 'REGISTERED' datestamps, very minor blemishes. A beautiful cover.
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1315 |
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 1913 (circa) commercial cover with printed 'N WHEATLEY/ROVIANA' on the flap but scored-through, to Great Britain with Small Canoe
1d tied by light but obvious strike of the small sans-serif straight-line 'S.S. KULAMBANGARA.' handstamp (45x3mm) in violet, minor blemishes, part of the flap missing & minor repair at upper-left. *FKS 419*, dated to 1911-1916. The ship was acquired
by Levers in 1910 as a replacement for the 'Upolu'. Norman Michael Jackson Ernest Wheatley arrived in the Solomons in 1895, before declaration of the Protectorate, and while cannibalism was still rife. Playing-off the different tribes & mission
stations, he became a wealthy trader & plantation-owner, based at Lambeti on Roviana Lagoon. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1316 |
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 1939-45 World War II commercial & military mails with 29.12.1939 airmail to GB (only three wartime airmail covers to GB recorded
from the Solomons); 1942 & 1943 OHMS covers to Sydney with 'TULAGI/...' cds (the first of 23NO42, being the ERD at Auki); 1943 stampless coastwatcher covers to Australia from Guadalcanal or Choiseul with US or NZ Forces markings; 1943 endorsed "BSIP
Defence Force" to NSW with oval 'LUNGA' datestamp; 1943 civilian usages of American 6c Envelope x2 or cover with US 6c Transport two from the Anglican Bishop of Melanesia at Taroaniara (one signed on the flap "Walter H Baddely") all with 'U. S./NAVY'
cancels; 1944 two American V-Mails from New Georgia or Guadalcanal; and 1945 from the Catholic "Rev Bishop JM Aubin" to "Vicar Apostolic of Samoa" with 2d tied by Australian-pattern 'LUNGA' cds and superb straight-line 'PASSED BY CENSOR 2' handstamp;
fine to very fine. Very scarce group.
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1317 |
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 1940 (circa) cover with 'From: + Walter H Baddeley/Bp of Melanesia, Toroaniara BSIP' printed in blue on the flap, to Sydney with 2d
House & Canoe tied by indistinct Tulagi cds, scarce blue/white 'OPENED BY CENSOR' handstamp tied to the face by very fine boxed 'PASSED BY CENSOR' in violet. Early use of this censor cachet at Tulagi, which is not recorded by Little (but does match
that used on the cover illustrated by him at page 151). The Bishop was not a 6.2.1942 evacuee, moving instead to Malaita. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1318 |
PSE |
 1940s-70s mostly commercial group including New Zealand Forces on Guadalcanal x20 including RNZAF cancels and numbered censor
cachets, 1942 probably from Vanikoro with 2d tied by 'NEW HEBRIDES/VILA' cds, 1943 to BSIP Government-in-Exile in Sydney with 'VANIKORO' cds, four 'PAQUEBOT' items - one a large piece only - to Sydney, eight missionary covers from Barakoma Airfield,
two 8c Spear Fishing Aerogrammes to Sydney both offering John Gibson serviced covers and requesting comics & newspapers in exchange, etc, generally fine to very fine. Ex John Gibson.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1319 |
PSE |
 1943 Japanese soldier's Postal Card with printed characters & box for censorship all in orange & with idyllic rural scene on the
reverse, from a member of OK1 1300 Corps based on New Georgia to Japan with faint small oval 'han' in scarlet, unusually fine for such items with only very minor blemishes. After their defeat on Guadalcanal in -.2.1943, the Japanese withdrew to the
north to New Georgia, the largest island in the western archipelago. The island was attacked by American forces on 30.6.1943, and victory was achieved by late-August. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
| 1320 |
PSE |
 1943 or 1945 usage of green/blue 'RNZAF/ACTIVE SERVICE' Envelope to New Plymouth NZ with light strike of the 'RNZAF/ C /NZAPO' cds,
plain brown censor label tied by boxed 'CENSORED/RNZAF/...' cachet in violet, partial Wellington machine backstamp, minor blamishes. A very rare item. Ex John Gibson, with a circa 1980s magazine extract showing he paid £1265. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Mar-24, 05:30 PM |
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