AUSTRALIA continued...
Postal History continued...
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Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
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 1942-45 World War II Torres Strait Force group including Field Post Office 'No.94' double-ring rubber in violet & in black used at
Jacky Jacky, Cape York, FPO 'No.73' & '075' both used at Horn Island, Unit Postal Station 'AP 2' Swan & Boomerang and 'V 54' both used at Portland Roads, a number from Thursday Island including on transiting Naval Mail, registered from FPO '162' x3
(one with 'AUST FPO 162' cachet on blank R label) and from UPS 'V 52' both used at Higgins Field air base, also Official Mail, Comfort Fund envelopes, civilian censorship, a few inwards items one OHMS registered to "Movement Control, Thursday Island"
with 'SECRET' cachet, another with 'MIL PO INGLEBURN/NSW-AUST' machine cancel, etc, clarity of dates & quality of strikes well above-average, condition a little variable but most are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1943-46 World War II Comfort Funds Envelopes with a range of different ACF, Red Cross & YMCA covers mostly addressed to South
Australia, also lettercards, some censored mail from USA plus underpaid x2, Hong Kong from the South China Morning Post x2, Russia, plus some Flight covers First Adelaide to Darwin Airmail and the return flight identified by Eustis number, condition
variable.
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1962-65 2/3d Commemoratives usages including Empire Games solos airmail to England, to Germany & to USA (overpaid), Royal Visit
solo airmail to England and with 2/- Flower registered airmail to Germany, Cable solo to Germany and with 5d Christmas on domestic second weight-step registered, Airmail solos to England, to France on UNICEF envelope & to Canada (overpaid), ICY solo
& pair both to England, pair to Switzerland plus with QEII 5d red domestic second weight-step registered, also AAT Penguin solos airmail to England, Germany & to Switzerland, the majority on standard-size envelopes, condition generally fine to very
fine.
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1964 complete 'WOOL SAMPLE/NO COMMERCIAL VALUE' parcel label to a Yorkshire mill & endorsed "1st Class Air Mail" with rare franking
of 5/- Cattle & £2 Arms (under-catalogued with other stamps on cover at $1500) tied by light 'ROYAL EXCHANGE/28MR64/NSW-AUST' cds, minor blemishes. An extraordinary usage. The rate was 2/3d per ½oz x11 = 297d = £1/4/9d with a 3d convenience
overpayment. Wool samples would normally have been sent by sea or at the concessional 'Other Articles' airmail rate of 3/- per 2oz, at which tariff this item would have cost only 9/-. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$2,500
Currently Opening at...AU$1,900.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1965-75 Australian Forces in Vietnam collection in two albums with lots of official mail including frankings to Navigators $1
Flinders solo, also postmarks on-piece noted 'PARCEL/ANZUK FPO 5/POST' boxed datestamp on Navigators values to $4, mail from UK forces using British stamps tied by ANZUK post office cancels, plus a batch of philatelic & souvenir envelopes,
unfortunately some have been stuck to album pages or affixed with cellotape but many are fine to very fine. Ex Dr William Wells.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1969 (Aug 30) registered double-rate airmail cover to Czechoslovakia under Russian Occupation, with scarce franking of Captain Cook
75c + 10c Fish (surface scrape) tied by Melbourne GPO cds, blue/white R label & Sydney transit backstamp, Czech small #24 censor (or Customs?) cachet in green & 'BEZ CLA' (= Duty Free) handstamp in violet both on the face, minor wrinkling. The Zone 5
airmail rate was 30c x2 plus 25c registration. Because of moderate reforms introduced by the government of Alexander Dubcek, on 20.8.1968 Soviet forces invaded Czechoslovakia and imposed harsh measures. The purging of reformers lasted until 1971.
Sold at our auction of 21.2.2024 for $870. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1993 beer coaster for Swan Dry flown to Sweden with Koala 50c tied by rubber 'NEW NORCIA/WA 6509' cds. Marvellous! (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
Postal History - Royal Visits
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Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 348 |
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 1901 VISIT OF THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF YORK: 1901 (May 6) intra-camp cover with a faint pencil-address of a member of the South
Australian Contingent at Royal Park Encampment with 1d pink tied by largely very fine strike of the ' 1 /MILITARY/MY6/01/ENCAMPMENT' shield datestamp, oddly with Melbourne transit of the same date & another shield of 'MY7/01', endorsed "Left camp"
again with Melbourne cds of '11.5.01' & Dead Letter Office cds of the same date with 'RETURN TO SENDER' cachet on the face with a third shield datestamp of 'MY13/01', endorsed on the reverse "gone to Sth Australia" & redirected to "Adelaide" with
arrival baclstamp of 'MY16/01', a further strike of 'MY21/01' & redirected to "St Peters" with poor arrival backstamp.
The first Royal Park Military Camp was established for the Opening of Federal Parliament on 9.5.1901. Some 15,000 troops from all States were present and paraded through the streets of Melbourne to Parliament House. The datestamp is recorded used at
Royal Park 'AP30/01' to 'MY13/01' (on the face of this item.) A Letter Card written on 9.5.1901 to WA with a single strike of the shield datestamp sold at our auction of 28.1.2005 for $483. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1901 VISIT OF THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF YORK: 1901 (May 18) Robert Jolley PPC ('Exhibition Building, Melbourne') stampless to Germany
with message dated "11.5.1901" and 'KAIS DEUTSCHE/MARINE- SCHIFFSPOST/ No 46 /18.5/01' cds used aboard SMS 'Hansa'. The 'Hansa' was at Melbourne in connection with the Opening of Federal Parliament. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1901 VISIT OF THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF YORK: 1901 Queensland 1d Postal Card ('Haystacks...') to Major-General de Winton in London with
chatty personal message headed "Brisbane May 23rd 1901" in the hand of the Duke of York and signed by him simply "G", characteristic aging of this low-grade card-stock. The rate should have been 1½d but perhaps no-one had the temerity to point this
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1901 VISIT OF THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF YORK: 1901 Robert Jolley Royal Visit postcard ('German Arch' & 'Eight Hours Trades Procession')
to London 6.10.1901. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1901 VISIT OF THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF YORK: Ephemera with a 'Sailor's New Testament' issued to crew on the Royal Yacht 'Ophir' (well
used), 10.5.1901 Programme for City of Melbourne Reception (superb), Jolley Royal Visit postcard (creased), Victorian Railways programme for Royal Visit to Healesville, Adelaide roneo'd Royal Party accommodation list and Government House admission
ticket & envelope, Queensland Railways platform ticket for 24.5.1901 (superb), and a cutout with superb strike of the Governor-General's Frank handstamp in blue, and a couple of others.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1920 VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES: Three letters concerning the upcoming Visit, 'OHMS/Royal Visit to New South Wales' envelope (not
previously seen by us), 5.6.1920 large internal cover with 'ROYAL VISIT/NEW SOUTH WALES' cachet (faults), 1920 cover from a member of the Royal Party from Hobart to GB with lengthy letter including "...the Prince had a very lucky escape when the two
coaches of his train tumbled over [in WA]..." & copy of letter from the Maharajah of Rajkot (India) re the "miraculous escape", condition variable.
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1920 VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES: Eight postcards including real photo types, two large press photos one of the Prince beside the
overturned train from which he had a "miraculous escape" - see the previous lot - South Australian Railways leather-covered 'FREE PASS FIRST CLASS/ROYAL VISIT 1920', and two others.
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1920 VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES: Three envelopes all addressed by the Prince of Wales & all with his personal 'spider' seal in
black on the reverse, all to "Mrs W Dudley Ward/London", carried by diplomatic bag two with GB adhesives cancelled on arrival, the other with London paid cds & vertical-oval 'SECRETARY OF STATE/[arms]/...' cachet, minor opening faults. Freda Dudley
Ward was one of the Prince's numerous paramours. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1927 VISIT OF THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF YORK: Beautiful map souvenir for the Royal Tour, foolscap Tour itinerary (creasing), a page of
1927 Canberra 1½d stamps and two booklets (one exploded), real photo postcards of Crossing the Equator Frivolities x4, 'WELCOME TO JAMAICA' and Maori Canoe Dance, other PPCs with HMS 'Renown' x2, the Happy Couple and Portraits on Canberra Views x3,
five menus from the Visit to Queensland, Invitation to the Farewell Dance on HMS 'Renown', and a couple of others, generally very fine.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1934 VISIT OF THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER: Souvenir from the Royal Yacht HMS 'Sussex', pre-arrival items x3, Victoria Centenary
commemorative covers including with superb 'ALL AUST EXHBTN MELBNE N3/1NO34' cds, postcard-size photo of the Royal Train in NSW & cover with 'ROYAL TRAIN/29NO34/AUSTRALIA' cds used in NSW, Centenary Celebrations Opening Ceremony programme (a bit
spotty), Victorian Railways 'ROYAL VISIT/1934/PASS/SUBURBAN LINES', Queensland Railways menus x3, SS 'Canonbar'-Shore rocket flight sheetlet of 4 labels & cover with label on the reverse, and a couple of others, generally very fine.
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Estimate AU$600
Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1934 VISIT OF THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER: 1934 philatelic covers with commemorative cds 'ALL AUST EXHBTN MELBNE N3', 'PRINCES PIER,
PORT MELB SC7/VIC' x2 or 'VICTORIA DOCK MELBOURNE/C3', two with commemorative R labels, the others with provisional R labels. Very scarce.
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1934 VISIT OF THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER: 1934 (Dec 10) large irregular airmail parcel piece - folded to 220x17mm for display - with
complete label 'HRH THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER/Australasian Tour/OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS/...' to London with Kookaburra 6d, Hermes 1/6d x13 and Kangaroo 2/- x5, about half the stamps are damaged. There were no airmail parcel rates at this time. The letter
rate was 1/6d per ½oz x20 = £1/10/- so the article weighed between 9½ & 10oz. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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 1934 VISIT OF THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER: 1934 flight covers comprising MacRobertson Air Race per Hewitt & Kay, Roscoe Turner (with
illustrated card) or KLM 'Uiver', Nov per 'Faith in Australia' partly piloted by the Duke postcard & three oversize illustrated covers all signed by the three real pilots (one Numbered '1' without 2d stamp & taxed with Postage Due 4d cancelled with
Sydney cds), and 'City of Grafton' signed by the pilot "KAVirtue".
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Jun-24, 07:30 PM |
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