1863-1977 Collection in two peg albums including QV ½d yellows x14, 5/- rose x4 (one with the Watermark Inverted), 1899-1901 Pictorials to 2/6d x8 & 10/- x2, 'One/Pnney' in pair with normal x2 (*), KEVII duplicated range to 5/-, 1914-21 MCA 2/- x7 & 2/6d, 1921-22 Script 2/- with fake cancel & 10/- with non-contemporary cds, 1922 'SELF-GOVERNMENT' to 10/-, 1926 'POSTAGE' Overprints set, 1926 Pictorials set (no 3/-), 1935-onwards largely complete, loose extras with better values including 1948 Wedding £1 x2, some fugitive ink problems but otherwise generally very fine, Cat £5000+; also two stockbooks of duplicates. (Qty many 100s) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,500

Box of mostly philatelic covers with some KGVI & early-QEII locally produced FDCs, commemorative & flight covers etc, some toning but much is fine to very fine. (Qty 200+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

POSTAL HISTORY: Interesting array of mostly commercial & largely pre-WWII mail with plenty of farthing frankings, registereds, airmails, 1956 Cable & Wireless 'TELEGRAM' envelope, etc; destinations including Australia, Canada, Finland, French Morocco, Occupied Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, South Yemen (!), Trieste & Tunisia; inwards from Algeria, Australia (with '.../Postage Stamp lost/in transit' h/s), Gibraltar Forces Air Letter with lengthy social message, Japan, East Africa, & Tunisia; a few returned items & two with repair labels; advertising covers including for stamp dealers; a few Paquebot covers; a few attractive PPCs; plus WWII group including with scarce censor labels & two with ½d 'V' labels, etc, condition variable but mostly fine to very fine. (Qty 170 approx) (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

POSTAL HISTORY: World War I Forces mail including OAS items unpaid but not taxed, various censor markings including rare manuscript "Censored/RMorrison/Lt/Gozo" (?) on PPC with letter headed "Malta Harbour", 1915 Malta PPC to Australia with message headed "Penbroke Camp" from a digger injured at Gallipoli,1920 Malta PPC with message headed "HMS Resolution/Dardenelles", civilian mails including 1914 Malta PPC to Turkey with message in French headed "La Valette (Malta)", several with 'Opened under martial law' labels (various types), a couple registered including with sender's address ".../Imtarfa Hospital, Malta" on the reverse and 'NOTABILE' cds & previously unrecorded mss registration 'cachet', finally the beautiful 'HELP THE WOUNDED/St John Ambulance Association/MALTA CENTRE' chromolitho PPC (used in 1930), condition variable. (Qty 42 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

POSTAL HISTORY: 1939-45 bundle of mostly civilian covers with virtually all-different censor labels comprising Little Torrance & Morenweiser (LTM) Types 4A - rated 8 - x4 with Boy Scout numbers 2 5 10 & 12; 5A - rated 8 - with numbers 7 & 8; 5Bb - rated 8 - x2; 6B - rated 10 - numbers 2 7 17 & 18; 6C - rated 8 - with numbers 1 2 10 12 16 & 27; 7B - rated 7 - tied by DH handstamps numbers 1020 1023 1033 & 1043; 7D - rated 6 - with part-'DD/25'-in-octagon; 8A2 - rated 6 - with DD/38; 8B - rated 5 - with DD28 32 & 35; 9C - rated 10 - with DD/46, on military 'privilege' envelope; and two different unlisted types with numbers 872 & 1768; condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A very desirable lot. [The WWII Handbook states that members of the Malta Boy Scouts assisted the censors, applying their numeral h/s - in a circle or unframed - to mail that was passed for transmission. We have used LTM types because they give rarity ratings. The two unlisted types are also unrecorded in the Handbook. They are both on stampless OHMS covers] (Qty 30) (Image1)

Estimate AU$1,000

POSTAL HISTORY: 1939-40 registered civilian covers to Australia x2 (one with the stamp removed from the reverse) & Canada and a beautiful cover from Yugoslavia with '.../NOVI SAD' R label, the earliest of AU29/39 with large 'Passed by/Censor.' label tied by the rare vertical oval 'POST OFFICE/[arms]/MALTA' device impressed in red wax LTM #WS2 (rated 10; the cover a bit spotty), the others with fine to superb impressions of the 'POSTAL/CENSOR' device in red wax LTM #WS1 (rated 9). [The WWII Handbook at pp85 & 91 illustrates covers with the oval device. The latter is dated AU29/39, the same as here, which may be the earliest date for censored mail from Malta] (Qty 4) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

POSTAL HISTORY: 1941 (Apr 29) letter to Wales endorsed "By Special Air Mail" with KGVI 2½d blue & '[flags] - MALTA IS GRATEFUL/TO THE ROYAL NAVY/...' label both tied by Valletta cds, black/white 'OPENED BY/EXAMINER 22/MALTA' label (LTM #6B; rated 10) tied by light strike of the unframed '5' Boy Scouts h/s. A lovely cover. [The airmail rate was 1/3d per 1/2oz. We can't find a reference in the Malta Srudy Group's WWII Postal History to any 'special air mail' or similar. It is stated at page 8 that the airmail rate to GB was 1/3d per ½oz "and there was no concessionary rate for service personnel". The collection includes many covers from this correspondence, of which this is the only one so endorsed]

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

POSTAL HISTORY: WWII Navy covers comprising three stampless with 'RECEIVED FROM/HM SHIPS' machine, four at 1/½d Forces rate to London (one with naval crest embossed on the flap, two of 1940 with straight-line 'PASSED BY CENSOR.' seriffed h/s in blue or black), ½d rate local cover with the rare straight-line 'PASSED BY CENSOR.' sans-serif h/s & SLIEMA BO/25SP/39/MALTA' arrival b/s (the WWII Handbook records usage on OC--/39 only), and Blue Triangle air letter with letter headed "RN W/T Stn/Dingli/Malta" with censorable comments "...these girls are not allowed to walk out with other ranks, officers only. DEMOCRACY???!!!..." (Qty 10)

Grade A/B (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

POSTAL HISTORY: WWII Army covers including various usages of FPO 188 on airmail covers paid with GB 10d & a very fine Cigraettes Parcel 'thank you' card, FPO 570 - used from 21DE/44 only - on three 1945 OAS covers, various censor devices including 1941 OAS cover to South Africa double-censored with civilian censor label '.../EXAMINER 15/MALTA' label, seven covers with various military censor labels including straight-line 'EXAMINED BY BASE CENSOR' (unlisted in the WWII Handbook), seven covers with various military censor labels including straight-line 'EXAMINED BY BASE CENSOR' (unrecorded in the WWII Handbook), three airmail postcards from London with Forces addresses, ,etc, conditon variable. (Qty 51) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

POSTAL HISTORY: WWII Royal Air Force stampless covers with a variety of RAF censor cachets including the boxed #R2 (recorded 3 months only) 'No 5' & 'No 90' x2 (only one date recorded; both with oval 'HEADQUARTERS RAF/MEDITERRANEAN, MALTA' d/s on reverse), 1944 double-censored with pentagonal #R15 '237' & '353', 1944 airgraph with Return to Sender label because it had been posted & with undated 'NO 12 RAF POSTAL HEADQUARTERS/BN [??]' b/s, 1942 airmail postcard from Blackpool, condition variable. (Qty 18)

Grade A-/C (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

POSTAL HISTORY: Air Mail collection with a group of 1928-31 First Flights including to Iraq x2, Libya x2 & Australia, some other philatelic items but most of the interest is in the commercial mail including items to Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand & South Africa, several registered, a few with Held for Additional Postage markings, some better values including 1930 'POSTAGE - REVENUE' 2/-, KGVI to 2/6d & 1965-70 Pictorials to 2/6d, also formular aerogrammes plus some Forces & Official mail, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (Qty 170) (Image1)

Estimate AU$600

POSTMARKS: Array of British QV adhesives to 5/- rose all with 'A25' cancels including some very fine strikes, Cat £1100+ plus the 5/- which has a poor strike (43); also a group of Village Datestamps on KEVII & KGV adhesives (40) including '[C]ACCIA', 'PAULA' & 'ZABBAR', some toning; and 1910 Postal Card to France with 'NAXARO' cds. (Qty 84 items) (Image1)

Estimate AU$400

POSTAL STATIONERY: Collection of mostly Postal Cards but also a good number of Registration Envelopes & some Wrappers, noted QV ½d overprinted 'Printed Matter' to French part of Switzerland with printed advice for Hammer & Thomson in German, some upratings including with KGV Farthings, many with Malta merchants' cachets (an interesting study in themselves), destinations including Canada, Trieste, Denmark, Turkey, Gibraltar, Ireland, Egypt etc, some problems but generally fine to very fine & well above-average quality. (Qty 200+) (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

POSTAL STATIONERY: Mostly G-size Registration Envelopes with about a dozen H-size almost all used with a variety of registration labels & cachets,, some better upratings & destinations including Australia Canada & Guernsey, a few Express or Insured articles, fascinating modern group including Surcharges & Obliterations, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. (Qty 71) (Image1)

Estimate AU$750