AUSTRALASIA, AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES AND OCEANIA, PAPUA, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 522		Estimate: $200 1902 (31 Jul) registered cover (portion missing top left) Port Moresby to Melbourne bearing 6d and 4d tied by 'B.N.G' and Port Moresby datestamp, backstamped Cooktown and Brisbane, filing creases, also 1908 (30 Dec) cover Samarai to England bearing 2d pair, Sydney transit and London arrival backstamp
Lot 523		Estimate: $500T 1930 (11 Mar) cover Port Moresby to USA with combination franking of 3d 'AIR MAIL' and USA 5c Air, cancelled at Sydney 19.3.1931 for the internal air service, framed 'INSUFFICIENTLY PREPAID/FOR AIR MAIL SERVICE'. About 15 such covers recorded
Lot 524		Estimate: $800 1931 (17 Sep) cover flown by P.H.Moody in a DH80A seaplane 'Puss in Boots', Port Moresby to Salamoa, forwarded by sea for delivery to Victoria, the same addressee as illustrated in Eustis as AAMC P32
Lot 525		Estimate: $150T Realised Price : $160 1938 (27 Apr) commercial airmail cover (small flap fault) Port Moresby to Switzerland bearing attractive franking including 1/- AIR MAIL overprint for 1/9d ½oz airmail rate via Italy
Lot 526		Estimate: $200 1945 (4 Apr) QANTAS cover with vignette affixed, flown Lae to Sydney, signed by pilots H.H. Deignan and A. Jacobson, AAMC 1003