AUSTRALASIA, AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, MISCELLANEOUS

Lot 537		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $1,450 1913-46 range on hagners with few Kangaroos mint and used/CTO, KGV with blocks, singles with values to 1/4d, various commemoratives, with singles, blocks of four and larger, etc, plus few oddments used, largely unmounted mint (few 100)
Lot 538		Estimate: $300 Cover/postcard group comprising 1928 covers to Perth from Carnarvon, Derby and Port Hedland with rectangular 'FORWARD/BY AIR MAIL' cachet, 1939 airmail cover Sydney to Argentina rated at 2/3d for ½oz rate, 1946 Peace set on regd OHMS cover to USA, postcards (3, two with Japanese inscriptions), Sth Australia 1907 cover with Southern Railway backstamp, Austria 1922 ppc to Adelaide with 'CALLED TO POS...’ and framed ‘NOT KNOWN/LETTER CARRIER/ADELAIDE’, mixed condition (10 items)
Lot 539		Estimate: $150T Realised Price : $420 1931 (18 May) registered cover to Austria bearing 6d Kangaroo (3rd Wmk) tied by legible Ecklin South cds and bearing rare red registration label (torn), backstamped Terang, Melbourne, Perth
Lot 540		Estimate: $500T Realised Price : $380 1936 (7 Oct) commercial cover Melbourne to 'Beira/Portuguese East Africa', insufficiently prepaid in bearing 2d S.A. Centenary (rate was 3d) and with Australian deficient postage instructional handstamp applied to reverse alongside affixed Mozambique Postage Due ½c and 1c blocks of three tied by Beira datestamp. Remarkable origin/destination item
Lot 541		Estimate: $500T Commemorative/Airmail stamps of 1927-1940 on mostly commercial covers (56, seven registered), noted Tax marking, advertising covers, scarcer multiple frankings, 3d 'Blues' (15) and higher denominations, Late fees, etc, some faults, generally average commercial quality
Lot 542		Estimate: $200T Realised Price : $260 Northern Territory: 'MATARANKA/NORTHERN TERRITORY' cds very fine strike tying KGV 5d to 1936 (31 Jul) commercial airmailed cover to Sydney where backstamped
Lot 543		Estimate: $750 Instructional Marking: 1930 (1 Jan) interbank passbook savings envelope used Melbourne to Ormond showing framed 'DAMAGED BY FIRE/IN LETTER RECEIVER' and unframed 'DAMAGED BY/ WATER' in black. Very rare
Lot 544		Estimate: $250T Military: 1943 (22 Nov) stampless cover (little roughly handled) from Nassau, Bahamas, endorsed 'R.A.A.F. OVERSEAS' in stamp position and 'A421201/Sgt. GODDARD O.E./C/O R.A.F. STATION' on reverse, sent to addressee's daughter in Sydney. A small contingent of Australian Air Force personnel received advanced Pilot training from R.A.F. in Bahamas, and this is the first item from that source seen by us
Lot 545		Estimate: $300 Military: 1944 (2 Mar) use of 'AIR MAIL/LETTER CARD' with 'POSTAGE/1d/PAID' in red to Victoria with datestamp of 'AUST UNIT POSTAL STN./351' in use by 2/11th Field Regiment at W.A. for a little over 4 months, censor cachet at left, minor staining. Scarce usage other than N.T. or Papua