Lot 723
| | | Estimate: $15,000 | Realised Price : $11,500 |
1919 Ross Smith vignette with margins all round, faintest trace of hinge in top selvedge, signed 'Francis Field' in pencil in lower margin. One of the finest we have seen and originally purchased as unmounted mint
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Lot 724
| | | Estimate: $100 | Realised Price : $170 |
1927 (Jul) Cloncurry to Normanton, signed by Hudson Fysh and return flight with cachets, handstamps, also publicity brochure, AAMC 106-7 (3 items)
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Lot 725
| | | Estimate: $100 | Realised Price : $125 |
1929 (2 Jun) Adelaide to Perth and return flight by W.A. Airways, group containing covers with vignettes, 'Earliest Delivery' mint strip of 3, publicity brochure; red, white and blue 'BY AIR MAIL' label mint strip of 7, AAMC 26-37c group. Interesting lot
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Lot 726
| | | Estimate: $600T | Realised Price : $525 |
1931 (30 Mar) cover flown on Trans Tasman service Norfolk Island to Lord Howe Is with arrival cds, signed by Chichester and numbered '45', AAMC 183
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Lot 727
| | | Estimate: $750T | Realised Price : $575 |
1932 (14 Apr) cover flown Calcutta to Rangoon stage of Bertram Atlantis Expedition, propeller cachet in blue-black and violet cachet tying red/white vignette, AAMC 244a
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Lot 728
| | | Estimate: $80 | Realised Price : $60 |
1933 (24 Mar) registered cover, roughly opened, printed for QANTAS flown Camooweal to Brisbane, with 'See/BY AIR MAIL/Western Queensland' vignette in white/olive affixed, Longreach transit and arrival backstamp
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Lot 729
| | | Estimate: $100 | Realised Price : $75 |
1934 (1 Oct) registered cover from Melbourne to Hobart or Flinders Is by Holyman Airways, unclaimed and returned, AAMC 424, 426a
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Lot 730
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1934 (3 Jul) registered airmail cover flown Papua to Australia, cachets in violet, one with error 'JUNE 1934', AAMC 395d
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Lot 731
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1934 (11 Aug) S.S. "Maheno" to Fraser Is rocket mail cover with green vignette affixed, AAMC R3
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Lot 732
| | | Estimate: $100 | Realised Price : $115 |
1934 (25 Sep) cover carried Wyndam to Daly Waters, backstamped 8.10.34, signed by H.C. Miller, joint owner of MacRobertson Miller Aviation Co.
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Lot 733
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1935 (4 May) cover flown England to Australia bearing KGV 1/- and 3d with private perfins 'G.H.P./&Co.', Melbourne arrival backstamp
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Lot 734
| | | Estimate: $200 | Realised Price : $280 |
1935 (18 Jul) cover flown Oodnadatta to Sydney with cachet in blue 'MACKAY AERIAL/ RECONNAISSANCE EXPEDITION/WESTERN AUSTRALIA/1935', various W.A. backstamps, signed by pilot J. Neale and crew members
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Lot 735
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1938 (28 June) KGVI 1½d Postal Card uprated with 1932 6d Kookaburra + KGV ½d Orange + 1d QE paying 9d postcard rate to UK
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Lot 736
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1939 (Oct) and 1941 (Feb) airmail covers to USA paying single rate at 1/7d and 4/-, the latter with 'PRISONER OF WAR SERVICE' and censor cachets in violet
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Lot 737
| | | Estimate: $200T | Realised Price : $400 |
1941 (11 Jul) QANTAS cover from Anthony's Lagoon (N.T.) to Hudson Fysh, Darwin, bearing the 21st Anniversary etiquette, signed Alph Ashby and G.T. Morgan
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Lot 738
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1943 (4 Jun) return flight of First Airgraph mail Australia - England with original enclosure, AAMC 953b
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Lot 739
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1946 (Dec) airmail cover flown Melbourne to U.S.A. bearing 1/6d Hermes and 1/- Mitchell, the latter particularly scarce on cover, the 2/6d paying the airmail rate for entire trip
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Lot 740
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1948 (14 Nov) QANTAS vignette in blue/white for Sth Africa - Australia flights, Frommer 78a
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Lot 741
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1953 'PMG/Pitcairn Island' airmail cover from Australia bearing 1/- Lyrebird and 1/0½d tied by indistinct Darwin cds, double-circle arrival datestamp of '6.SEP.53'
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Lot 742
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1974 (12-27 Jan) Waikerie Gliding Championships, set of covers signed by participating pilots from various countries, including few additional signed covers (one by Don Dunstan) including a few not previously listed in Eustis (42 covers)
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