1914 (July 16) Melbourne-Sydney AAMC #3 Maurice Guillaux Official Souvenir PPC flown on first Australian official airmail with 1d Roo tied 'AUSTRALIAN/MELBOURNE/16-JUL-1914/VIC/AERIAL MAIL' d/s and 'SYDNEY/18JL14/64' arrival alongside. Cat $750. (Image)

Estimate AU$350-400
Min. Bid. AU$260

20-27 February 1917 (AAMC.13) Casterton to Melbourne flown souvenir card, carried by Basil Watson in his home-built bi-plane. With a delightful hand-wrirren message referring to Watson's flying exhibition and the fact that the writer has taken a "snap" of him. Unusually fine condition. Cat.$600. (Image)

Estimate AU$350-400
Min. Bid. AU$300

6-11 Aug.1919 (AAMC.20a) Adelaide - Minlaton special postcard carried by Captain Harry Butler in his "Red Devil" Bristol Tourer; with hand-written message. Exceptional condition.AAMC:$550.Henry John 'Harry' Butler AFC (1889 – 1924) was an early Australian aviator, an air force officer, and a World War I flying ace. When he flew this air mail from Adelaide across St Vincent Gulf to Minlaton on 6 August 1919, it was the first over-water flight in the Southern Hemisphere. (Image)

Estimate AU$300-350
Min. Bid. AU$220

1920-22 (AAMC.48a, 51c & 64a) "Herald" airmail labels in brown and blue and the "Pals" airmail label in red. (3). Unused. Cat.$600. (Image)

Estimate AU$250-300
Min. Bid. AU$180

28 Nov.1921 cover despatch from MT MORGAN for carriage on the 4 Dec.1921 Perth - Derby first flight (AAMC.56a) and addressed to Mardathuna Station via Carnarvon; with special WAA circular cachet. Cat.$1,100. (Image)

Estimate AU$600-800
Min. Bid. AU$460

29 Dec.1921 (AAMC.57b/c) cover flown from MARBLE BAR to NARROGIN, endorsed "Per 1st Aerial Mail", intended for the first southbound non-contract flight by WAA from Derby to Perth, abandoned due to engine trouble south of Broome but then delivered by the S.S."Bambra". Cat.$1250. (Image)

Estimate AU$400-500
Min. Bid. AU$300

17 April 1922 (AAMC.64) Geelong - Melbourne cover, flown by Captain Roy King or Captain A.W. Vigars for The Herald & Weekly Times; with special blue vignette "Herald Air Mail" affixed & postmarked on arrival together with 1d Violet KGV pair. Cat. $1500+ (Image)

Estimate AU$750-1,000
Min. Bid. AU$57

1922 (April 17) Geelong-Melbourne AAMC #64 cover carried on the return flight of the Herald & Weekly Times experimental service with KGV 2d red and blue 'Herald/Air Mail' label (Frommer #5a) affixed alongside; tied by Geelong machine cancel. Cat $1500. (Image)

Estimate AU$800-1,000
Min. Bid. AU$65

2 June 1924 (AAMC.71) Adelaide - Sydney cover, flown and signed by the pilot, Frank L. Roberts in a Sopwith Wallaby. This was the inaugural service over this route for Australian Aerial Services Ltd. Cat.$550. (Image)

Estimate AU$300-350
Min. Bid. AU$220

1924 (June 2) Sydney-Hay [AAMC.72a] cover carried by Australian Aerial Services Ltd on their new airmail service connecting Adelaide and Sydney, Cat $550+. A scarce intermediate. (Image)

Estimate AU$250-300
Min. Bid. AU$200

7-10 Sept.1924 (AAMC.73b) Broome - Whim Creek - Perth flown cover, carried by W.A. Airways, probably on the first flight following the inclusion of Whim Creek as a fueling stop on the Perth-Derby route; with "PER AERIAL MAIL" h/stamp applied at Broome and delivery marking dated 10 Sept. NB: No covers are known originating at Whim Creek. The distance flown by this cover: approx. 2400kms. (Image)

Estimate AU$250-350
Min. Bid. AU$200

1 July 1927 (AAMC.106) Cloncurry - Normanton cover, flown by QANTAS on their inaugural flight over this extension to their route. Hudson Fysh was the pilot. Cat.$175. (Image)

Estimate AU$100-125
Min. Bid. AU$75

AUTOGRAPHED FLIGHT COVERS: signed covers including 1929 original PH Moody signature on AAMC #133a Charleville-Brisbane, 1932 Hans Bertram on back of cover (faults) to him "c/o Aerodrome Parafield" & on Oriental Hotel, Melbourne letter, 1933 AM Chapman on #325 Launceston-Melbourne cover, 1934 C Kingsford Smith on #367a New Zealand flight, L Brain on QANTAS cover & HB Hussey on #429a Perth-Daly Waters intermediate, 1935 CH Scott on #536 Melbourne-Sydney, 1937 Keith A Virtue on #747 Brisbane-Sydney Airlines of Australia cover, 1939 EJ Connellan on #875b Alice Springs-Wyndham cover, also Papua with 1933 O Denny on #296b internal & 1936 Richard Archbold & Russell R Rogers on Second Archbold Expedition #P104 plus more, overall condition fine. (22) Cat.$1500+++ (not including Bertram signed items). (Image)

Estimate AU$750-1,000
Min. Bid. AU$57

19 Feb.1930 (AAMC.151) Camooweal - Daly Waters flown cover with arrival backstamp. Superb example. [Only 50 items flown]. Cat.$300. (Image)

Estimate AU$200-250
Min. Bid. AU$150

19 Feb.1930 (AAMC.153) Darwin - Daly Waters flown cover with 'CAMOOWEAL' transit b/stamp, carried by Captain Murray Jones as part of a very small mail despatch which was technically not permitted by the Post Office. Cat $600. [One of only 14 covers flown]. (Image)

Estimate AU$300-350
Min. Bid. AU$220

Interesting range of commercial airmail covers (11) with 1930 domestic airmail to England with 'DAMAGED BY FIRE/ON/S.S COMORIN' cachet on resealing label & another to USA with Sydney 'INSUFFICIENTLY PREPAID/FOR AIR MAIL SERVICE' cachet, 1934 KGV 1½d postal card airmail to Russia uprated to 1/2d carried on first Aust-UK regular service with Moscow arrival b/s, 1936 'City of Khartoum' crash cover with 'DELAYED AT GPO MELBOURNE/DAMAGED BY WATER' cachet, 1937 KGV 2d envelope registered airmail to Hong Kong with 'ADVERTISED/UNCLAIMED' cachet, 1938 Flying Boat 'Calpurnia" crash cover with Melbourne DLO 'ambulance envelope', 1939 to USA via PanAm FAM-14 at 4/8d rate with 'VICTORIA/HONG KONG' transit b/s. Mixed condition. (Image)

Estimate AU$400-500
Min. Bid. AU$300

July 1931 (AAMC.212) Manila - Katsuura, Japan cover, flown and signed by Francis Chichester on this catastrophic last leg of his attempt to fly solo around the world. Cat.$325. (Image)

Estimate AU$150-200
Min. Bid. AU$120

1932-60's group of QANTAS vignettes on annotated exhibit pages incl. Nov.1922-1932 10th Anniv. strip of 6 (AAMC.294b), 1950 publicity labels sheetlet of 12, 30th Anniv. pane of 5 (AAMC.1332b) plus a single on a flown cover, 1954 Xmas strip of 12, 1955 'art deco' publicity labels sheetlet of 15 and a group from the 1960's. Majority very fine. Cat. $1,000+. Ex John Love. (Frommer.39b,88b,98e2,100b,102,105a & AAMC1331). (15 items) (Image)

Estimate AU$350-450
Min. Bid. AU$260

17 Feb.1934 (AAMC.361) New Zealand - Australia first official mail carried in the "Faith in Australia", on retained postal cards from the 3rd & 4th Dec.1933 flight, signed by C.T.P. Ulm & G.U. Allen. 2 examples on an exhibit page displaying the front and back of the cards. [100 flown]. Cat.$600. An attractive pair. (Image)

Estimate AU$400-450
Min. Bid. AU$300

THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS"
18 July 1935 (AAMC.515) cover #17 bearing the special vignette and signed by all 7 aboard this historic short flight from Mascot to Richmond; the pilots, Charles Kingsford Smith and P.G.Taylor were accompanied by Mary Kingsford Smith, John Stannage, Beau Shiel, John Ulm & C.G.Scrimgeour (radio broadcaster). Superb and rare. [The previous example sold brought $1600+BP, Lot 353 Dec.11, 2017]. (Image)

Estimate AU$1,000-1,250
Min. Bid. AU$

July 1935 (AAMC.517, 517a) Mackay Aerial Survey Expedition covers flown from OODNADATTA, CEDUNA and FARINA; each with the 4-line cachet in blue "MACKAY AERIAL/RECONNAISSANCE EXPEDITION/WESTERN AUSTRALIA/1935" and numerous handstamps. (3). Cat.$850. (Image)

Estimate AU$600-750
Min. Bid. AU$460

MAY - JUNE 1938: THE W.R.CARPENTER FLIGHTS TO PAPUA & NEW GUINEA
30 May - 5 June 1938 (AAMC.808-812a) Sydney - Rabaul; Rabaul - Sydney (signed); Wewak - Salamaua - Sydney; Cooktown - Port Moresby; Cooktown - Salamaua and Port Moresby - Cooktown. Flown covers (6)  carried on the first contract airmail flights by W.R.Carpenter Airlines. Sir Walter Randolph Carpenter [1877–1954] was an Australian-Canadian pearl hunter, trader, merchant, ship-owner, airline industry leader and philanthropist of American ancestry active in the western Pacific from the 1890s through the 1940s. In 1914 he formed the firm of W. R. Carpenter & Co. Ltd. in Sydney, and began establishing plantations, stores, trading stations, shipping services in the Southwest Pacific. When World War I erupted, his company expanded into New Guinea when the Australian government expropriated German property. The company branched out as major storekeepers, traders, and property owners in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Estimate AU$200-250
Min. Bid. AU$150

18 Jan.1939 (AAMC.843) "Koranga" crash cover with label affixed from F.W.Arnold, Deputy Director, Perth, advising the sender of the fate of the aeroplane, a Lockheed 14 Electra, which had crashed at Katherine killing all aboard. (Image)

Estimate AU$250-300
Min. Bid. AU$190

24 March 1939 (AAMC 845) Noumea (New Caledonia) - France flown cover, carried by French aviator Henri Martinet in his Caudron "Le Aiglon"; all 4 adhesives with the semi-official handstamp "1er Courier 100%aerien/Nelle-Caledonie-France/via Australia". Most attractive. Cat.$450. (Image)

Estimate AU$250-300
Min. Bid. AU$200

21 October 1939 (AAMC.879b) Fiji - Tonga flown cover, carried by Tasman Empire Airways Ltd "Aotearoa" Short Empire Flying Boat on a survey flight in the Pacific while en route from England to Australia. Only 25 covers flown on this leg! Cat.$350. (Image)

Estimate AU$200-250
Min. Bid. AU$180