AUSTRALIA continued...
Postal History continued...
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Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 1335 |
PSE |
 1917-18 KGV 1d red Military Envelopes with 'AIF ABROAD' used from Fremantle WA endorsed "wounded" & a very fine unused example, or
'AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE/ABROAD' used from NSW with manuscript "K" (= killed) in green & 'DECEASED' cachet in violet, DLO Sydney resealing label on the reverse, ACSC Cat $1100.
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Estimate AU$400
Currently Opening at...AU$300.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
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 1921 (Sept 11) 'Department of Mines' OHMS long-format envelope registered with Kangaroos Third Wmk 6d blue Die II Punctured
'OS/NSW' (minor surface/perf faults) tied by Sydney Exchange, NSW cds and red/white R label alongside affixed over 'Commercial Papers' cachets, some light folds & bends from bulky contents clear of the adhesive, Cat $450+ for an unpunctured solo
franking. The rate was double 1½d per 2oz commercial papers plus 3d registration fee. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1337 |
PSE |
 1924 (June 2) usage of 1½d red on grey Letter Card ('ZOO, ADELAIDE) to Adelaide endorsed "Per first aerial mail Adelaide to Sydney"
AAMC 71 with KGV 3d blue tied by Adelaide cds of 'JU 2/24' and roller machine backstamp of '4JE - 1924', some light aging marks, Cat $250+ (AAMC Cat $550). The rate was 1½d domestic letter plus 3d airmail surcharge. Rare airmail usage of a Scenic
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
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 1925 (Sept 16) 'G&R Wills & Co' envelope to Derby, WA with 'BY AIR MAIL' boxed cachet in violet on the face & reverse, KGV 1½d red
Die I an 3d blue Die I both with 'GR/W' commercial perfins tied by Perth machine cancel, Australian Aerial Services 'Angel' blue/white 'By AERIAL MAIL' label affixed at lower-left, light central fold clear of the adhesives, minor faults on the back
flap. The rate was 1½d per ½oz domestic letter plus 3d per ½oz airmail surcharge. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
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 1928 (Aug 7) envelope to Perth with private 'PER AERIAL MAIL' cachet in violet at upper-left and KGV 4½d violet solo tied by both
'FORWARDED/BY AIR MAIL' boxed cachet in violet and Onslow, WA cds cancel, opened on three sides otherwise very fine. The boxed Air Mail cachet is recorded used at Onslow between 2.06.1926 to 22.10.1928 only. The rate was 1½d per ½oz domestic letter
plus 3d per ½oz airmail surcharge. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
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 1929 (Dec 12) to England with Australian National Airways 'White Arrow' vignette endorsed "Adelaide-Perth" and private 'PER AERIAL
MAIL/KERACHI-LONDON' black/red label [note spelling error], Kangaroos 6d chestnut, 3d Airmail and KGV Heads 1½d red & 3d blue tied by Liechardt NSW cds cancels also tying the airmail labels and the red/white 'R' label, minor faults. The rate was 1½d
per 1oz Empire letter + 3d per ½oz domestic airmail surcharge + 6d Karachi-London airmail surcharge + 3d registration fee = 1/1½d. Carried on the first acceptance for airmail acceleration via the Imperial Airways Karachi-London service. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
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 1930 (April 29) slightly oversized manilla envelope (178x125mm) registered airmail to Denbighshire Wales endorsed "By
Karachi-London Air Mail" with Kangaroos 6d chestnut & 1/- green x2 and KGV Heads 3d x2 tied by Elizabeth Street Melbourne cds, blue & black/white 'R' label (torn at base), Wrexham Registered '27MY30' oval arrival backstamp, a few bends & closed edge
tears from bulky contents. The rate was Empire letter 1½d per 1oz x2 + domestic airmail surcharge 3d per ½oz x4 + Karachi-London airmail surcharge 6d per ½oz x4 + 3d registration fee = 3/6d so underpaid 6d but not taxed. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1342 |
PSE |
 1930 social usage of KGV 1½d red Letter Card to "C.H. Customs, Harbin, China" (Manchuria) with 'TWO/PENCE' on 1½d tied by very fine
'ROCKHAMPTON/19AU30/QUEENSLAND' cds, partial Shanghai transit on the face and Harbin arrival backstamp, opened in the European manner with the margins intact & with with lengthy personal message, minor blemishes. The rate was 3d up to 1oz foreign
letter with a ½d convenience over-payment. Note that the domestic letter rate had increased from 1½d to 2d on 4.8.1930, which necessitated the overprint on the adhesive. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1343 |
PSE |
 1931 social usage of 'TWO/PENCE' on 1½d red Letter Card to "C.H. Customs, Harbin, China" (Manchuria) with KGV 1d green tied by
Melbourne slogan of '24JAN/1931', Hong Kong transit backstamp of '13FE31', Shanghai machine transit on the face, redirected with '.../MANCHOULI' arrival backstamp, opened in the European manner with the margins intact & full social message, some
minor blemishes. From 4.8.1930, the domestic letter rate had increased from 1½d to 2d, but there was no associated change in the foreign letter rate, which remained at 3d up to 1oz. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$150
Currently Opening at...AU$115.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1344 |
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 1933 (May 19) PMG's Dept Brisbane OHMS envelope with KGV 3d blue 'OS' Overprint pair plus another similar with a few tonespots,
also KGV 5d brown pair on registered OHMS envelope, minor aging.
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
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 1935 innocuous-looking Colonial Sugar Refinery cover from Melbourne to Tasmania with large and impressive 'Approval is given for
the return of this/postal article under Section 54 ...' handstamp & 'DEPUTY POSTMASTER GENERAL/MELBOURNE' handstamp both in violet-red. The only example we have seen. Sold at our auction of 14.8.2004 for $385 (Sale 111 Lot 545). Section 54 related to
prohibited mail. An extremely rare and desirable instructional handstamp. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$200
Currently Opening at...AU$150.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1346 |
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 1936 (Aug 29) commercial airmail cover to "British Vice-Consulate/Amiens/France" with Three Issue Franking of Kangaroos 5/- plus SA
Centenary 2d & KGV 2d scarlet all tied by 'REGISTERED PERTH/WESTN AUSTRALIA' cds, light 'AMIENS/17-9/36/SOMME' arrival backstamp, light vertical fold well-clear of the stamps and minor blemishes. The rate was 1/9d for the first ½oz + 1/8d per
additional ½oz x2 + 3d registration = 5/4d. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1347 |
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 1936 (Nov 30) small parcel tag (97x45mm) airmail to London addressed on the reverse with Kangaroos CofA Wmk 2/- maroon and 10/-
pink & grey tied by very fine Sydney Air Mail cds on the face, a couple of minor bends not affecting the adhesives, Cat $1750 for the 10/- on cover. There were no airmail parcel rates at the time, so the item was paid at eight-times the 1/6d per ½oz
airmail letter rate. (Image1)
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1348 |
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 1937 (Feb 12) JC Williamson Comedy Theatre airmail cover to Germany with Kangaroos 9d & 5/- plus Hermes 1/6x2 & KGV 1d green all
tied by 'SHIP MAIL/MELBOURNE' cds, endorsed "Via Italy" but overflown to England with jusqu'a bars cancelling the airmail label and forwarded by surface mail, minor bends. The rate via Italy was 1/9d + 1/8d x4 + 1d late fee = 102d = 8/7d so 3d
overpaid (perhaps for intended registration). (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1349 |
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 1939 (Apr 28) commercial cover from Turkey with multicoloured franking including Crescent Tax 5k x5 on the reverse,
'Istanbul/...Taahhutlu' R label & red/green 'Ucak ile/Par avion' label, Athens Air Mail transit backstamp & Currency Control cachet on the face, Sydney transit of '9MY39' & Melbourne arrival of the next day and boxed 'CARDED/10MAY1939/Spencer
Street/GPO C1' datestamp in violet on the face. A really beautiful cover to the woolbrokers Henry B Smith Ltd. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1350 |
PSE |
 1939-45 World War II Military Mail huge accumulation filling an archive box from Field Post Offices & Unit Postal Stations around
Australia and overseas noted two 1943 items from Merauke Netherlands New Guinea, five items from Ceylon including one with KGVI 3d brown pair tied by 'R.A.F. BASE P.O./CEYLON' undated cancel in violet, 1945 items from Labuan x5 and two 1945 items
from Balikpapan Borneo plus many other scarcer usages from the Middle East & Pacific, registered mail noted Registration Envelope KGVI 5½d with 'RNF Censor' (Dutch Forces) cachet and 'RAAF DARWIN' R label, Comfort Funds & Honour envelopes including
Navy types, 'H.M. TRANSPORT' markings including '.../No.2' & '.../No.5' cachets and '.../No.26' cds, a wide variety of censor markings including civilian cachets & labels, emergency coloured airmail labels, etc, condition very mixed but with many
fine to very fine items throughout. Ex Woodchip-Free Zone (Rod Perry) with retail prices in the tens of thousands of dollars. Weighs 7kg.
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1351 |
PSE |
 1939-45 World War II Australian Home Forces Military Mail accumulation with registered items many with provisional R labels &
cachets including from Cowra "P of W Camp", Glenfield, Greta, Hay, Ingleburn, Tamworth & Wallgrove (NSW), Caloundra, Cowan Cowan, & Enoggera (Qld), Warradale & Woodside (SA), Balcombe, Bendigo, Bonegilla, Brighton, Broadmeadows, Caulfield & Darley
(Vic), etc, a few with cut-down Relief postmarks and at least as many again from a good range of units, also Security Number datestamps, Unit Postal Station cancels including rubber types, also Comfort Funds & Honour envelopes, Official Mail, a few
Postal Stationery usages, some overseas airmails noted one with 'O.A.T.' cachet from Darwin to France, civilian censor markings, two Despatch Rider items, etc, many very fine postmark strikes some superb, condition a little variable but most are fine
to very fine. A very good lot.
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Estimate AU$600
Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1352 |
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 1939-45 World War II Australian Overseas Forces Military Mail accumulation predominantly inwards to Australia many by airmail
including from Egypt & Libya (29) noted two from Tobruk, from Palestine (26), from Syria & Lebanon (11), from Malaya (7) comprising Starits Settlements (3; two with stamps), Johore (3; one with stamps and another with '25 CENTS' meter cachet) and
Perak with 25c stamp, also from Ceylon (2), India (2), Air Training in Rhodesia (2), Netherlands Indies (6) including an illustrated envelope, Air Force PO 254 at Balikpapan Borneo, Unit Postal Station 373 on Mono Island Solomons, plus a quantity
from New Guinea Forces (200+) including a number of registered items, good range of military censorship markings and a few civilian censors, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$600
Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
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 1939-45 World War II Civil Censorship group including scarcer labels noted Townsville '1/2' label & cachet from 'UNIT
POSTAL]/STATION ELC16', Newcastle, NSW 9-dot labels x7 three tied by altered Sydney cachets '7', '8' & '9', others to Cyprus and inwards from Great Britain with 'BUSINESS PAPERS/PRESS MATERIAL' cachet, Perth 5-dot label 1940 to USA, Hobart '6' label
& cachet airmail to "RAAF Headquarters" London and on surface letters to Ireland x3 one with Dublin 'RELEASED BY/CENSOR' cachet, Launceston '6/1' labels & cachets on five 1942-43 covers to the USA one registered another with Lady Gowrie label, Darwin
'7' label & cachet airmail to Queensland with 5d Ram solo and '7' cachet only with QE 1d x4 tied by RAAF cds, also small number cachets indicating checked but not opened '1' on RAAF cover to Queensland, '3' of Melbourne on Honour Envelope and '5' on
various envelopes from Perth to the "Philadelphia National Bank", 'NOT OPENED BY CENSOR/ 2 ' roller machine markings on inwards mail from servicemen x3, other items to Canada, Chile, China & India and inwards from Argentina, Brazil & india, plus US
Forces Melbourne '3' red/grey label and 'Opened by US Censor' red/white label on separate envelopes with KGVI frankings to the USA and ' 3 /Passed by Censor / 2 ' oval cachet with USA 1c Defense x6 tied US APO cancels, etc, condition a little
variable but most are fine to very fine.
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Estimate AU$800
Currently Opening at...AU$600.00
Closing..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
| 1354 |
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 1942-45 World War II US Forces in Australia group predominantly to the USA including 1942 (April 6 ) with KGVI '3½d' Surcharge on
3d blue tied by Melbourne machine cancel and 'U.S. ARMY/ 1 /CENSORED' large cachet in blue (before USAPO postmarks were issued), 1942 (May) YMCA envelope unstamped with 'A.P.O. 32' duplex and 'U.S.A.F.I.A./ 83 /PASSED BY CENSOR' cachet, various
later with Australian frankings or unstamped including Official Mail, also six US Postal Stationery Envelopes 6c orange used from various APOs in Australia & New Guinea, etc, 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..Nov-17, 07:30 PM |
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