AUSTRALIA continued...
Aerophilately & Flight Covers continued...
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Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
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 1932-37 Mrs Lores Bonney Flights 1933 (Aug) Australia-England intermediate Brisbane to Darwin with typed endorsement ("Melbourne"
corrected to "Brisbane") signed "Mrs Harry Bonney", KGV 2d & KSmith 2d cancelled on arrival with 'DARWIN NT/15AP33/AUSTRALIA' cds, minor imperfections and overall aging, AAMC 302a, only 4 carried, Cat $1000. [Note that the printed catalogue
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1932-37 Mrs Lores Bonney Flights 1937 (Apr to Aug) Australia to South Africa all-different mostly intermediates each with the huge
flight cachet in violet (some on the reverse) and signed "Mrs HB Bonney", all with combination frankings of Australian stamps & those of the intermediate stops, includes the emergency landings at 'LABOEANHADJI' (Lombok NEI) & 'MUNTOK' (NEI), the
crash landing at 'MALAKAL' (Sudan) & landing problem at 'BROKEN HILL' (Northern Rhodesia), also Delhi with 'CORONATION DAY' cachet in rosine, generally fine to very fine AAMC between 713 & 716, Cat $6450. Mrs Bonney was the first person to fly from
Australia to South Africa.
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Estimate AU$1,500
Currently Opening at...AU$1,150.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
| 63 |
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 1933-34 Charles Ulm Flights 1934 (Feb to May) Trans-Tasman flights per 'Faith in Australia' including illustrated cover from the
trial printing in green with 7d Faith, Castrol advertising cover NZ-Aust, combination frankings including 11.5.1934 Sydney-Wellington-Sydney printed Goodwill Flight cover, two registered items, several signed by "CTP Ulm"; also 4.12.1933 New Plymouth
Aero Club menu for dinner for Charles Ulm; generally fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1934 (Dec 10) Butler Air Transport illustrated covers for Opening of Cootamundra-Service all-different intermediate covers AAMC
472a all signed by the pilot "CA Butler", each with Airmail 3d & all but one with Macarthur 2d Dark Hills, Cat $420 plus a premium for the 2d Dark Hills (Cat $75 each on cover).
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
| 65 |
/D |
 1934 (Oct-Nov) MacRobertson Air Race covers including per Scott & Campbell-Black signed by both on the reverse & registered at
Melbourne for return flight plus Tuck PPC of them & the plane; Cathcart-Jones & Waller with Australia 2d added for return; Jimmy Melrose Indian intermediate with 'My Hildergarde' label & similar McGregor & Walker with 'Gipsy III' label; Davies & Hill
signed "CG Davies"; Wright & Polando with massive 'Miss Utica' cachet & signed "Jack Wright"; plain covers with huge race cachets & signed by "HL Brook", "CNHill" & "CG Davies", "MHansen" or "MC McGregor" & "HC Walker"; three per KLM 'Uiver' and ABC
Radio postcard; etc, generally fine to very fine. Plus Royal Aero Club Official Programme with race notations within & some staining/soiling. An excellent basis for expansion.
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1934 (Oct-Nov) MacRobertson Air Race typed cover for Waller & Cathcart Jones endorsed "per DH Comet" with Great Britain KGV 1½d
brown tied by Cambridge machine, Victoria Centenary 2d alongside cancelled on arrival at Melbourne with cds of '25OC34', signed "KH Waller" and "Owen Cathcart Jones", flown back to GB with light 'DUTY OFFICE/2NOV1934/LYMPNE AIR PORT' cachet, minor
blemishes, AAMC 435 (stated to be 24 carried), Cat $1600. A similar express cover but without the pilots' signatures sold at our auction of 24.3.2026 for $552 (Sale 263 Lot 483). With a real photo PPC of their plane postally used in GB.
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1936 (Dec 16) Brisbane-Adelaide Air Race all-different mostly illustrated or handstamped Race covers signed by the competitors
including Reg Ansett, Nancy Bird, Jim Bennett, Harry Broadbent and Lores Bonney, etc, AAMC between 664 & 696 missing only DG Cameron and PG Taylor, plus two extras, a few with notations such as "Force landed Barjarg" (P Moore-McMahon) and "Landed in
mud Rainbow" (JJ Connolly), generally fine to very fine, Cat $9500+. A very difficult group to assemble & the most complete 'set' we have offered.
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Estimate AU$2,500
Currently Opening at...AU$1,900.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
The Qantas Story
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Symbol |
Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 68 |
PSE/D |
 The mostly modern remainders including 1970s and 1980s expansion flights, various Qantas commemorations, a couple of Antarctic
charter flights, 2020 Centenary issues including a PNC & sheet of twelve $1.10 self-adhesives, etc, many signed by pilots and/or dignitaries; also a batch of covers & fronts with an array of meters with advertising & thematic content; etc, generally
very fine.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1922 (Nov 2) usage of Hotel Charleville ilustrated advertising cover to "Hudson Fysh/Air Mail Service/ Longreach" with KGV 5d tied
by one of two strikes of the 'CHARLEVILLE/1NO22/QUEENSLAND' cds and a very fine example of the red/white 'FOR AERIAL TRANSMISSION/FIRST TRIP AUSTRALIA'S/SECOND AERIAL MAIL' label alongside, endorsed on the reverse "I certify that this cover was
carried...on the opening Air Mail flight 2.10.22" [error for 2.11.22] with a largely superb strike of the rarely seen Manager's handstamp in violet signed "Hudson Fysh" (who was also one of the pilots) AAMC 66a, Cat $12,000. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$4,000
Currently Opening at...AU$3,000.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1922 (Nov 5) social cover to Toowoomba flown on the return flight with KGV 5d tied by one of two strikes of the
'CLONCURRY/5NO22/QUEENSLAND' cds and a very fine example of the red/white 'FOR AERIAL TRANSMISSION/FIRST TRIP AUSTRALIA'S/SECOND AERIAL MAIL' label alongside, roughly opened with most of the flap missing & a repaired vertical tear close to but not
affecting the label AAMC 66, Cat $12,000.
From Dr Frederick Archibald Hope Michod to his daughter Agnes at "Presbtyn Girls School/Fair holme/Toowoomba". Michod was the second chairman of Qantas (1923-26) and is generally acknowledged as the first "flying doctor", bringing patients from
remote areas by plane for medical treatment in Longreach, well before the Flying Doctor service was inaugurated in -.5.1928. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$2,000
Currently Opening at...AU$1,500.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1922-30 covers with mostly KGV frankings including 11.6.1923 commercial from Charleville to Sydney with black/pale green label,
'LATE FEE' handstamp & 2d scarlet x6, the address crossed-through; 9.9.1923 commercial from Winton to Sydney with 1d violet & 2d scarlet pair; 1.7.1927 Qantas illustrated cover to "Dr Michod" Normanton to Brisbane with 4½d; 16.4.1929 registered
Ipswich to Charleville with ½d 1d 1½d & 4½d and red/white R label, very fine strike of the scarce 30mm 'TPO No3 S&WR/QUEENSLAND' transit backstamp & non-contemporary autograph in ballpoint pen of "PHMoody (Capt); 20.2.1930 Qantas illustrated cover
with 'DALY WATERS/NT' cds and red & black/white R label, 4½d & Airmail 3d; etc, condition variable but most are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1923 commercial cover to a Brisbane department store with blue/dark green 'BY AIR MAIL' label (unlisted by Tom Frommer & not
previously seen by us), KGV 1d violet & 2d scarlet pair tied by 'CLONCURRY' cds, minor blemishes. [The illustration is above Lot 74]
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1924-36 commercial covers with KGV frankings comprising two from Cloncurry both with black/pale green 'BY AIR MAIL' label (one with
Grossly Misplaced Perforations); 1924 to Sydney with black/dark green 'BY AIR MAIL' label and very scarce domestic franking of 4d ultramarine & ½d orange tied by 'LONGREACH' cds; 1924 to USA with red/green 'See/By Air Mail/Western Queensland' label,
1½d green x4 with 'CLONCURRY' cds; 1925 front only to Sydney with black & red/white 'See/By Air Mail/Western Queensland' label, 1½d scarlet x3 & 'LATE FEE' handstamp, superb 'T'-in-hexagon & Postage Due 1d tied by Sydney cds; 1926 to Brisbane with
white/red 'See/By Air Mail/Western Queensland' label; 1927 to Cairns with black/red 'First Flight/the Gulf Air Service/.../Visit Normanton/for Big Game Fishing' label, ½d x3 1d & 2d brown tied by 'LONGREACH' cds; and 1936 Queensland Railways cover to
Brisbane with white/blue 'North Queensland/ .../Australia's/Winter Playground' label, 2d + Cable 3d tied by 'NORMANTON' cds
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1927 (Sep 6) HM Ware Stock Agents (Bourke) envelope with typed "Queensland Railway Strike/Special Aerial Mail" to Qantas at
Longreach with KGV 1½d & 3d tied by 'BOURKE/NSW' cds, 'CHARLEVILLE/ 7SE27/QUEENSLAND' cds below AAMC 109, Cat $850. Very scarce. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1931 (Dec 3) to Perth with scarce 'BIRDUM/NTH AUST' cds & 'MOUNT LAWLEY/14DE31/WESTN AUST' arrival cds on the face, signed by the
pilot "JN Wilson" AAMC 228, Cat $850. Only 20 covers carried. During the annual monsoon season, most land between Daly Waters & Birdum was under-water. The mail was carried to Camooweal then per Qantas to Brisbane & on to Melbourne where it connected
with the regular East-West service, taking 11 days to arrive. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1931-38 internal covers with KGV & other frankings including 1.12.1931 Darwin to Wyndham and Darwin to Melbourne both with 'DARWIN
NT/AUSTRALIA' cds, blue & black/white 'Darwin/South Australia' R labels & 'TOO LATE' cachets; 1.11.1932 Qantas illustrated cover Charleville to Cloncurry; and international covers including 22.4.1931 Australia-England Opening Service at 1/11d rate;
23.3.1936 commercial from Hong Kong to Brisbane via Imperial Penang-Singapore then via Qantas; 20.4.1937 Melbourne to San Francisco with huge 'HONG KONG TO SAN FRANCISCO' flight cachet in blue; a few philatelic EAMS covers; etc, condition variable
but most are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1934 (Oct 11) delivery flight in de Haviland 86 extension from Darwin with Victoria Centenary 2d tied by
'LONGRE[ACH]/13OC34/QUEENSLAND' arrival cds, signed on the reverse "LJ Brain" AAMC 411, 12 carried, Cat $450. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1934 (Dec 10) inauguration of the First Official Air Mail Service to Britain per QEA & Imperial with programme for the Qantas
Dinner in Brisbane (some staining) with numerous signatures, superb press photo of dignitaries at Archerfield Aerodrome, then an array of commemorative covers including to Singapore, Iraq, Greece, Northern & Southern Rhodesia, SWA, etc, and from
Italy, Palestine (with 'GAZA' cds), Iraq, Thailand, Singapore, KUT, Sudan, British PO at Tangier, Zanzibar, etc, and a few domestic connections, the odd instructional handstamp, condition variable but most are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1936 Imperial Airways Survey Flight social cover from the Aboriginal mission on Mornington Island to a minister in Brisbane
endorsed "Hudson Fysh/Member of the/Short Singapore III/survey party" at lower-left, Cable 2d cancelled on arrival with Brisbane slogan of '20MAY/1936' AAMC 602d, Cat $1400. Only two covers carried. Ex Tom Frommer: sold at a 2017 auction for $960. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1939-49 Qantas Christmas mails by parachute to the Aboriginal mission on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria comprising
1939 with cachets & signatures, then with large Qantas parachute labels for 1941 from Sydney (only 28 carried; Cat $950) & Brisbane, 1942 from Sydney & Brisbane, 1943 from Sydney & Brisbane, 1946 1947 & 1948 each from Sydney, and 1949 per TAA from
Sydney (with TAA enclosure regarding the service), all with the appropriate cachets, signatures & labels, very fine to superb, AAMC Cat $2500. Rarely available as a complete 'set'. The service didn't operate in 1940 1944 & 1945. 1949 was the final &
only service per Trans Australian Airways, who delivered the mail in a land plane.
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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