AUSTRALIA continued...
Postal History - World War I continued...
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| 121 |
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 GALLIPOLI: Sergeant Alf Richards' War family archive on display pages including a photograph of him endorsed with sympathy to his
sister-in-law Ethel, 1904 real photo of Alf in an Army Band at Gibraltar, letters from Alf to his brother Harry headed "1st Battn Lan Fus/Aden/6 Oct 1914" en route from India and "Reigate Heath/Surrey/19.1.15" after arrival in England and of
15.2.1915 to Ethel, OAS cover to Harry bearing the autograph "from Sgt A Richards" with very fine strike of the unusual 'Passed by CENSOR/BEFM APO F-MR15' cachet in violet en route to Egypt, 2.3.1915 Egyptian telegram to Harry "I am coming to see you
tomorrow Richards", social letter to Ethel stating "...I am so excited...splendid news of Alf being awarded the VC...", undated letter to Ethel regarding Harry's death signed "Your loving brother/Alf". A personal & very desirable archive of a
Victoria Cross winner.
Alfred Richards was awarded the VC for gallantry during the 25.4.1915 landing at W Beach west of Cape Helles, an incident renowned as "Six VCs before Breakfast". Unsurprisingly, these were the first VCs won at Gallipoli. During the incident, Richards
was severely wounded, resulting in a leg having to be amputated. His brother Harry, who migrated to Australia after service in the Boer War, was killed on Gallipoli: see the previous lot.
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 GALLIPOLI: Picture Postcards array of mostly photomechanical & collotype cards of varying quality plus some real photo types &
artist cards, mostly ANZAC-related plus some of British naval forces, wide range of Gallipoli subjects including beach landings, camp life, tent towns, trench warfare, captured armaments, the rugged terrain, generals, cemeteries, multi-views, etc,
condition variable but generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. The most extensive Gallipoli group we have offered.
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY
AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY
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Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 123 |
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 Stamp issues to 2009 including setenant issues & M/Ss plus an album of duplicates, Post Office packs, First Day Covers including
the earlier issues with Base cancels (a few registered), later issues with printed 'postmarks' and some 'silks', Cinderellas including 1954 ANARE labels in blocks & a few complete sheets, etc, mostly on display pages. Thematics galore.
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Estimate AU$250
Currently Opening at...AU$190.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 Commemorative covers to 2009 mostly on display pages with Expeditions including Dog Teams, ship covers & Antarctic Flights, 1947-48
two registered covers signed "Stuart Campbell", FAT/AAT combination frankings, Mawson Hut fundraiser items, etc, some with multiple signatures, 1995 social usage of 'RSV Aurora Australia/Antarctic' cover with genuine Davis pictorial cds & enclosed
Christmas card; also some American Antarctic covers; plus various ephemera with modern photographs including some reproductions & original 1954 beautiful shot of Leon Fox & husky at Mawson, 1952 Expedition Christmas card & 1994 usage of an earlier
type, etc, generally very fine & colourful.
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Estimate AU$600
Currently Opening at...AU$460.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 Non-philatelic literature 'Mawson's Antarctic Diaries' edited by Jacka & Jacka (1988) 464pp s/b; 'A Life Given to the Antarctic' by
Suzyumov translated into English by Tupikina-Glaessner (1968) 80pp h/b with two fold-out maps; 'Illustrated Glossary of Snow & Ice' (1973) 60pp h/b with d/j; 'Report on Australia's Antarctic Science programme' (1988) 150pp s/b; 'Shores of Macquarie
Island' by Bennett (1971) 80pp h/b with d/j; and 'ANARE News' (Dec 1985 to Summer 1996). Weighs 10kg.
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Estimate AU$100
Currently Opening at...AU$75.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 'The Peter Keage Collection' of mostly 1970s-80s commemorative covers many festooned with signatures of multiple expeditioners,
several with huge boxed 'RADIO OFFICE/[date]/MAWSON' cachet, a few signed by stamp designer "Ray Honisett", also ephemera including expedition photographs a few signed "Peter Keage", cloth badges including two Russian types, 1976 cloth snowpole
marker retrieved after 12 months, etc, mainly on display pages. A fascinating & personalised archive. Peter Keage was an Australian glaciologist, leader of the 1976 Casey Party, member of the 1987 Heard Island Party, a motorbike enthusiast (not on
ice) & pizza-maker of repute.
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1929-31 BANZARE original photo album (270x215mm) with about 150 photos of various sizes affixed showing expeditioners including the
leader Douglas Mawson, wildlife, geography, whaling, the tiny seaplane piloted by Stuart Campbell including one of the abandoned fabric-stripped fuselage, all in fine to very fine condition but the album is dilapidated. An important historical record
of this major Antarctic expedition. Ex Arthur Max Stanton, captain of the SY 'Discovery' & Mawson's second-in-command. Modest estimate to encourage purchase and restoration. (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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 1929-31 BANZARE two superb strikes of the Expedition 'penguin' cachet on philatelic usages of KGV 2d Letter Card addressed to "S.Y.
Discovery", minor blemishes. [The illustration is above Lot 123] (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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 1929-31 BANZARE social cover to NSW with KGV 2d tied by a largely superb strike of the Expedition 'penguin' cachet, opened a bit
aggressively with part of the flap missing, minor blemishes on the face. With the enclosed letter on BANZARE SY 'Discovery' notepaper apparently to his girlfriend (who did not become his wife). Although undated, the letter indicates it was written
from Hobart before departure of the second expedition on 22.11.1930. He states "...This is going to be a very good trip. I think everything is much more cut and dried and everyone knows exactly what wants doing in his own line so we ought to get even
better results than last year. I met the manager of the local brewery here...and the next day we got a present of 12 gallons of beer..."
Philatelic BANZ covers are relatively common but mail from the expeditioners is very elusive. Stuart Alexander Caird Campbell was a RAAF officer who was senior pilot with BANZARE. In 1935, he undertook the famous 'Fly River Flights' in eastern Papua:
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
CHRISTMAS ISLAND
CHRISTMAS ISLAND
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Lot Description |
Estimate in AU$'s |
| 130 |
P |
 1963 Pictorials 4c Moonflower imperforate die proof on ungummed wove paper in the issued colour as SG 12, large even margins, very
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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P |
 1963 Pictorials 5c Robber Crab imperforate die proof on ungummed wove paper in the issued colour as SG 13, large even margins, very
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1983 Christmas Candles 24c 30c & 85c original artwork including preliminary colour photographs x4 (90x140mm) noted two different
versions of the holly at the base of the issued 24c value, photographic transparancies x3, prints x3 (90x140mm) each with the inscriptions and values (10c, 35c & 50c values) added by hand in Chinese white, stamp-size black & white photographic
reductions one set with the inscriptions in white as issued, the other with the inscriptions in black on a white background unissued, also original hand-drawn artwork for the Post Office pack on three over-laid transparencies and for the FDC with
raised candles in oil paint plus three renderings of the First Day of Issue canceller in various sizes, many mounted in 'Studio John Waddington' (Leeds UK) folders, a few with flaps separated and/or minor blemishes but generally fine to very fine.
Plus an issued FDC for comparison.
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1985 Christmas Carols original hand-painted artwork for an unissued horizontal strip of 5 at double stamp-size with "00c"
denominations featuring three of the issued carols and "I Saw Three Ships ..." & "O Christmas Tree ..." (replaced on the issused stamps with 'We Three Kings of Orient ...' & 'Away in a Manger ...'), the "O Christmas Tree ..." with a tip-in of an
alternate design, the flap endorsed "rejected rough", also original hand-painted artwork for the Post Office pack plus two photocopies of its positioning, and a bromide proof in black & white of the issued stamps, the strip with light creasing & the
tip-in with some aging otherwise 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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 1987 Ships 36c HMS 'Flying Fish' & Map progressive proof with design in pink & without inscriptions plus master proof of the
completed design as issued SG 227 both printed on transparencies (140x140mm approx), very fine, also imperforate proofs of this value and 90c HMS 'Egeria' & Map affixed to 'Format International Security Printers' card (170x230mm), plus a proof of the
FDC with issued stamps affixed tied by the pictorial FDI postmark endorsed "Square flap as on this cover is required ..." hole-punched at upper-left and a proof impression of the FDI postmark on plain paper & photocopy of larger artwork. Chris
Ceremuga Certificates (2000) for the proofs on transparencies each described as "probably unique".
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
Postal History
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Estimate in AU$'s |
| 135 |
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 Balance of the collection with 1907 Darling Correspondence PPC from GB, 1952 & 1953 philatelic covers with Singapore KGVI
frankings, 1967 OHMS registered to Papua New Guinea, 1970 social covers to Singapore with 3c Fish tied by #2 3 or 4 cds, 1970 philatelic cover to GB with blank R label with 'Christmas Island Post Office' handstamp, 1974 Singapore OGS cover registered
to Christmas Island, 1980 Chinese greetings cover to Ascension (!), 1994 local cover with rubber 'CHRISTMAS ISLAND 6798/PAID/ 18MAY1994/AUSTRALIA' cds, various 1980s to 2003 Christmas Island frankings with a range of postmarks, 2010 to the
Netherlands with Australian International Post $1.50, nine QSL cards, and 1970 Fish set of 10 publicity photos, 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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 1904 (Apr 28) commercial cover from Wales to a forwarding agent in Calcutta with his cachet on the reverse, sent on to Japan - a
"foreign" destination - so taxed & with 'SINGAPORE TO HONG KONG/29MY/ 1904' transit backstamp, Japanese 'DUE/SEN/...' handstamp applied in rosine but the fee not paid & forwarded "co Agents/Christmas Island" with 'VICTORIA/30JU/04/HONG-KONG' &
'TUTICORIN/15JL/04' transit backstamps and 'CALCUTTA/20JL04/' arrival backstamp from where the agent BK Roy forwarded it to Christmas Island but it was apparently missent to Aden with 'SEA POST OFFICE/JL23/04' backstamp, then apparently returned to
Calcutta under cover then sent on with 'PENANG TO SINGAPORE/SE3/1904' transit backstamp & largely very fine 'CHRISTMAS ISLAND/SE--/1904' arrival cds on the face, further endorsed "[ship] gone to S'pore or Batavia/for repairs", 'SINGAPORE/NO22/1904'
arrival backstamp, from there returned to the sender with boxed 'REEXPEDIE' handstamp, minor soiling as one would expect. Ex Colin Riddell: sold at our auction of 24.11.2018 for $4245 (Sale 231 Lot 973).
A truly remarkable cover that demonstrates the extraordinary lengths to which the Post Offices of this time went to attempt delivery, all for a 1d paid. Colin Riddell stated that this is the earliest recorded Christmas Island transit cover, and
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Estimate AU$3,000
Currently Opening at...AU$2,300.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1905 (mid) social cover to Canada with Straits Settlements KEVII 4c tied by largely fine strike of the first double-ring 'CHRISTMAS
ISLAND/ + ' cds, the reverse with 'SINGAPORE/JU26/1905' & 'TORONTO CANADA/ JUL28/1905' machine transit & largely fine 'OWEN SOUND/JUL29/05/ONT' arrival cds, endorsed in pencil "Try co Mrs JM Kilburn", minor creasing. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$1,000
Currently Opening at...AU$750.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1906 usage of Japanese PPC to Scotland with Straits Settlements KEVII 3c tied by unusually fine strike of the first double-ring
'CHRISTMAS ISLAND/NO24/1906/ + ' cds, brief greetings on the view-side. (Image1) (Image2)
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Estimate AU$500
Currently Opening at...AU$380.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1906-11 fine to very fine strikes of the first double-ring 'CHRISTMAS ISLAND' cds on Straits 3c purple x2, 3c scarlet on piece &
two strikes on 21c & bisected 8c on large-part Barker cover (lower-left corner with a third stamp excised) also with a fine strike of the rare 'CHRISTMAS ISLAND/9 OC 1911 - R ' cachet.
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Estimate AU$750
Currently Opening at...AU$575.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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 1907 (July 18) Scottish PPC with KEVII ½d x2 tied by superb 'STONEHAVEN' (Scotland) cds, largely very fine 'PENANG TO
SINGAPORE/AU10/1907/ + ' marine sorter cds & fair strike of the first double-ring 'CHRISTMAS ISLAND' cds (illegible date), creased at upper-right.
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Estimate AU$300
Currently Opening at...AU$230.00
Closing..Nov-16, 07:30 PM |
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