1931-34 complete sheets of 30 (10x3) comprising Dated Airs ½d & 2d (small-part margin at lower-left detached), Undated Birds 2/- and Undated Officials 2½d, plus Huts Airs ½d orange complete sheet of 30 (6x5), minor perf separation & some mostly very minor tropicalisation otherwise generally fine to very fine, Cat £980+; also German New Guinea 1905 5pf Postal Card to UK uprated with 5pf Yacht; Papua Queensland 1d orange pair with largely vert fine 'BNG' cancel Litho 6d with 'STAMP DUTY' overprint * (sun-tanned gum); PNG 1/7d Registration Envelope unused and 'DARU' & 'GOILALA' R label strips of 5, etc.
(5 sheets + 8 other items) (Image1)
Estimate AU$500
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 500.00
Closed..May-22-2024, 20:00:00 EST
Sold For 500
Sale No: 256
Lot No: 2396
Symbol: P
1937 Coronation 2d 3d 5d & 1/- complete sheets of 30 (5x6) with John Ash imprint at lower-right, the 2d & 5d with One Plate Dot below the imprint and the 3d with Two Plate Dots, mounted in blue presentation folder with 'Special Issue of New Guinea Postage Stamps ... Commemorating the Coronation ...' title page, each sheet apparently stuck-down at the corners in the margins only (the 3d with perf separation at the lower-left corner) and presumably otherwise unmounted, a few areas of very light tropicalisation visible otherwise very fine.
JAPANESE OCCUPATION: 1943 (Aug & Sep) Japanese Army 'Dove & Helmet' Postal Cards in slightly different shades of vermilion, both to Japan from an army surgeon at Rabaul or a soldier in Eastern New Guinea, different censor chops in red. [With brief notations by a Japanese-speaker]
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