Aden 1939-48 GVI set of 13 (½a-10r), gum tone on perfs of 1½a, light hinged. SG 16-27. Cat £130. Mint. (Image)

Aden 1953-62 25c QEII & Mosque set of 3 listed shade variants: 1953 carmine-red, 1956 deep rose-red & 1962 rose-red. SG 54, 55, 55a. Cat £28. MUH. (Image)

Aden-Seiyun 1949 Silver Wedding set. Cat £21. Mint. (Image)

1931 5d green. Jury cat $70. MUH. (Image)

1936 tidy printed cover (18.5 x 9cm), "NZ's First Regular Official Air Mail March 16th 1936" bearing 2 x 1d 1935 Airs. Four cdss indicate the cover ex Hastings dep 14.3.36, overland to Palmerston North (16.3.36) & flown to Dunedin, arriving 16.3.36. Good cond.

1940 NZ-USA "Inaugural Flight Trans-Pacific Air mail" (purple cachet) cover bearing 1940 3d, 9d, 1/- Centennial & 1935 2/- Pict all canc "Hastings 18.7.40", addressed to Ottawa b/s "San Francisco 24.7.1940." Also a "Passed by Censor NZ" cachet on "Opened by Censor ..." reseal paper. Light toning on 1/- Kauri, otherwise good cond.

Antigua 1935 reg'd cover to NZ bearing VFU pairs of Silver Jubilee sets of both Antigua & Leeward Isl, canc St Johns / NO 21 / 35 / Antigua. Cover bears Plymouth, Devon & 9 Dec arrival b/s & untidy opened at RHS. (Image)

Ascension c1940-80 seln of 96v on 5 stock cards, some dupn. Attractive. Mint/MUH/used.

Ascension 1938 5/- GVI & Long Beach black & yellow-brown, p13½. SG 46. Cat £95. MUH. (Image)

Ascension 1944 2/6d GVI & The Pier, p13. SG 45a. Cat £35. MUH.

Australia 1913-89 colln of 1500+v & 6 m/s on 104 pages. A general colln with Roos to 5/- used, Victoria Centenary set used & 1909 5/- Postage Due (faults). Noted also AAT, 89v on 8 pages m&u.

Australia 1966-86 near used colln incl m/ss on Seven Seas album pages. Incl 1966 decimals set to $4 Navigator, 1970 Cook Bicentenary & ANPEX m/s used.

Australia 1934 to South Africa via Cairo. Official Qantas pictorial airmail cover for the first regular air services to England. Cover bears 1d GV and 1/6d (1934) air stamp canc "9 DE 34" Sydney. Addressed to Cape Town, b/s "Cairo 22 De 34" & South Afric (?) "21 Jan 35". Tidy cond. Eustis 470n. Cat A$50.

Australia 1934 FFCs to NZ (x 5) all different, 4 are blue 'Faith in' Australia & 1 is plain but with an official purple cachet. 7d is made up variously with 1d GV, 2d GV, 1929 3d Air & 1931 6d Air stamp. Two covers are annotated "via NZ" & bears 1d Field Marshal NZ Stamps for return from NZ. Cond varies.

Australia 1940 to NZ Inaugural Trans-Tasman Flying Boat Service official cover bearing a 5d Merino stamp (indistinct cancel) & clear "Napier 3 MY 40" cds on reverse. Cover has been re-sealed & passed by censor. Good cond. Eustis 900ab. Cat A$100.

1923 6d Roo chestnut, Die IIB, solo use on reg'd cover to NZ, ex Sydney, 19 Jan. 1925 Registered indistinct cds. BW cat from A$150.

1913 ½d Roo green & 1d red, both die I, 1st crown over A wmk (horiz mesh paper). Slightly o/c. SG 1, 2. MUH (scarce thus). (Image)

1913 2½d Roo indigo, die 2, 1st crown over A wmk (horiz mesh paper), very w/c. SG 4. Very scarce as MUH. (Image)

1913 5d Roo chestnut, die 2, 1st crown over A wmk (horiz mesh paper). Perfectly centered & good perfs. An outstanding example. SG 8. Very scarce as MUH. (Image)

1916 WWI censored Egyptian 3m on 2m p/c, canc fine complete strike of "AUST & NZ ARMY CORPS/HEADQUARTERS/FIELD PO" cds 16 MR 16. 9.10pm & with triangular censor h/s no 3478 (red). No message. Addressed in pencil to "Capt Gatt, 11 DAC, EEF" (& signed by him as censor), so probably CTO use! Fine. Used at Ismailia, shortly before 1st ANZAC corps sailed for France.

1916 £1 Roo chestnut & bright blue, crown over A wmk, telegraph puncture & damaged lower left corner. A good space filler. SG 44a. Cat £1800. FU. (Image)

1937 3d GVI Die Ia & II on both chalky & unsurfaced papers. SG 168b, c, ca. Cat £19+. FU.

1940 AIF set of 4 on aged official pict cover ("Men, Munitions, Material" on red map of Australia). Stamps tied by crisp cds 17 JY 40 cancel. SG 196-9. Cat £40. FU.

1946-7 ½d-5/- "B.C.O.F. JAPAN 1946" ovpts set of 7, on regd O.A.S. cover addressed to NZ soldier in NZ (but no receipt b/s), Unusually canc "R.N.Z.A.F. 333 N.Z.A.P.O." cds 11 FEB 48 (2 strikes). NZ regn label with "NZAPO 333" h/s. At this time, NZ APO 333 was at Bofu airfield, having moved from Iwakuni 2 days previously (both locations near Hiroshima). RAAF APO 30 was also at Iwakuni. So this cover may have been cancelled by favour & handed back over the counter. Exceptional (philatelic) use of NZ Forces cancel on Australian stamps. SG J1-7. Cat £275 (for the stamps alone). Minor toning incl stamps. (Image)

2000 Victoria Cross Centenary philatelic numismatic ($1 coin) cover. Renniks cat A$225.