NEWFOUNDLAND: 1938 Beer Tax 10/12c blue Barefoot #1 (Van Dam #NFB1), no gum as issued, Cat £750 (C$1600) with faults. [Barefoot states "The few known examples all have creases". Not this example]
'ELLIOTT/6AP70/NT-AUST' largely very fine strike. Rated RRR. PO 29.11.1965. [Elliott was originally allocated postcode 5777, which did not appear on any cds. By 1978 it had been changed to 5760 & on 1.7.1988 to 0862]
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 713
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
'WAVE HILL/7OC34/N. T.' very fine arrival b/s on registered airmail cover from Derby WA, vertical fold. PO 13.10.1925; closed 7.12.1954. [Wave Hill is a pastoral station of some 13,500 square kilometers. In 1966, it was the site of the Wave Hill Walk-Off, a strike by 200 Aboriginal stockmen seeking better pay & conditions but also the return of the land to the Gurindji People. The strike lasted for 9 years & ended only when Lord Vestey of meatworks fame agreed to a small parcel of land being ceded to the local people. This was a key moment in the battle for Aboriginal Land Rights]
1901-23 Canadian Pacific Railway Stamped to Order Postal Cards QV 1c pink x2, KEVII 1c pink x5 - beautiful chromolithos - and KGV 1c green x2 with all-different illustrations of the railway company's hotels including at Glacier BC, Field BC, Banff BC & Lake Louise BC, all with printed advices on the reverse, usages within Canada to the USA England & France, fine to very fine.
(Qty 9)
1902 QV 1c pink Stamped to Order Postal Card for Dominion Express Co featuring a money transfer, rates (poundage) on orders and printed advice re goods held, local usage at Vancouver with the note "Last notice - will be sold" but 'NOT CALLED FOR' h/s & cds with no town name, very fine.
Sale No: 2
Lot No: 707
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
1942-45 Military Mail group comprising registered airmail with 'Aust APO No ["0128"]' R label and ½d Roo & 5d Ram x2 tied 'ARMY PO/0128' cds used at Katherine, 'Aust APO No.0127' label on cover with 4d Koala and 'UNIT POSTAL STATION/LofC-X8' oval b/s used at Larrimah, two KGVI 5½d Registration Envelopes with 'R.A.A.F. DARWIN' red R labels and another with 'Aust PO No.065' label, three airmail covers with either Adelaide or Melbourne civilian censor tape and 5½d Emu 'solos' tied Army POs 066 (Winnelie), 0127 (Adelaide River) & 230 (Darwin), plus 'UNIT POSTAL STATION/D. 13' boxed d/s on 4d Koala in black (1942; at Adelaide River) and on QM 1d in violet (1943; used at Banka Banka), a couple with minor blemishes but generally fine.
(Qty 10)
