AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, 1927-65 OTHER £SD ISSUES, PRE-DECIMAL FIRST DAY COVERS

Lot 516		Estimate: $800 Realised Price : $600 1928 3d Kookaburra Miniature Sheet on Orlo-Smith & Co registered FDC, with scarce unnamed Exhibition registration label and special red datestamp (also on reverse)
Lot 517		Estimate: $250 1930s-70s FDC collection, appear largely private cachet-makers, some less often seen types, includes 1932 1/- Large Lyrebird with machine cancel (date unclear), later with values to 5/- noted, condition a little mixed at times, generally fair/fine (approx 250)
Lot 518		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $300 1934 Victoria Centenary Perf 10½ 2d, 3d and 1/- on individual plain typed address FDC's cancelled at Hornsby, peripheral faults (3 covers). Cat AU$600 on one cover
Lot 519		Estimate: $300 1935 Silver Jubilee set on plain registered typed address FDC cancelled at Grafton
Lot 520		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $65 1936 Cable 2d and 3d on plain registered typed address FDC cancelled at Warburton
Lot 521		Estimate: $350 Realised Price : $270 1937-80 FDCs unaddressed apparently all different, mostly illustrated private cachets, a little toning noted in some (approx 200)
Lot 522		Estimate: $350 1938 5/- Robes Thick paper + 3d Blue Die II on plain registered typed address FDC cancelled at Sydney
Lot 523		Estimate: $150 1941 KGVI 1½d Green tied by light although definite 10 DE 41 Naracoorte (SA) cds to plain FDC. Cat AU$500
Lot 524		Estimate: $400 1942 QE 1½d Green tied by 1 DE 42 Rozelle (NSW) cds to plain FDC. Cat AU$800
Lot 525		Estimate: $350 1944 KGVI 2d Purple block of four from lower right corner of sheet on 'Hayward C Parish' FDC registered at Matraville (NSW), also backstamped. Parish was employed at G.P.O. Sydney and is known to have produced FDCs for perforation changes, unwatermarked paper, coil perf, and other rare FDC permutations for himself and J.C. Thompson
Lot 526		Estimate: $5,000 1948 No Wmk 1d Princess upper pane imprint block of four on 'Thompson' Official FDC, cancelled at Chief Parcels Office, NSW (5 AU 48), red ink mark at top right of no significance for a unique item. The only FDC recorded
Lot 527		Estimate: $3,500 1949 No Wmk ½d Kangaroo right pane imprint block of four on 'Thompson' Official FDC, cancelled at G.P.O. Sydney (15 SE 49). Five FDC's recorded, this possibly the only imprint block
Lot 528		Estimate: $350 1949 Arms £1 Blue on plain registered written address FDC, cancelled '28NO 9' Barmera, BW 270y
Lot 529		Estimate: $750 1950 Arms £2 Green on plain registered typed address (re-addressed) FDC, cancelled at Brisbane, also with 'EXPRESS' handstamp
Lot 530		Estimate: $175 Realised Price : $240 1953-70s 'Sigma' FDCs including additional items from other Pharmaceuticals - Hoechst, Essex, Ames, also Alcoa and Alfred Hospital. Seldom seen covers, typically mixed condition for these over-size items (91)
Lot 531		Estimate: $1,250 Realised Price : $950 1953 QEII 3½d Booklet pane (with upper and lower selvedge) tied by G.P.O. Melbourne cds (8 JY 53) to unaddressed 'Wide World' generic FDC. One of the finest of the small number of panes on FDC
Lot 532		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $130 1959-64 QEII 4d Lake Booklet pane on WCS unaddressed FDC
Lot 533		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $170 1959-64 QEII 5d Blue Booklet pane on registered label address WCS souvenir FDC
Lot 534		Estimate: $1,000 1964 Air Mail 5d, showing the major Re-entry to second 'A' of 'AUSTRALIA', BW 423d, a rarity used, this is the first example on FDC that we have recorded. The ACSC statement that '... sheets seem to have been only distributed in South Australia' is corroborated by this item being cancelled at Adelaide
Lot 535		Estimate: $125 Realised Price : $140 1964 QEII 5d Green Booklet pane of six on 'WCS' label address FDC cancelled at Adelaide
Lot 536		Estimate: $2,000 Realised Price : $1,500 Victoria Datestamps: Extensive collection wholly on FDCs (and therefore generally very fine cancellation strikes), 1940s-1970, apparently all different, many with 'WWW' numbers lightly pencilled on reverse along with rarity ratings for 'A' to 'M' offices, noted CNS (Box Hill #120A), RRRR (12), RRR (43) and RR (82) ratings, few others marked as 'unlisted variants' of otherwise listed cancels, some datestamps not in regular use also noted, covers generally fine and include some of the more unusual cachet-makers (approx 840). Very useful lot
Lot 537		Estimate: $1,500 Postage Dues: 1954 (17 Feb) New Value Plate 1/- Carmine and Yellow-Green on unaddressed inscribed FDC by Arthur Bergen, stamp tied by 'TRANS AUST RAILWAY/1/PAY TRAIN' cds (another strike on reverse). Extremely rare (possibly as few as 10 prepared) and FDC unlisted in ACSC