AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, AEROPHILATELY/FLIGHT COVERS

Lot 501		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $380 1928 (17 Dec) illustrated cover carried on Saskatoon-Regina Canada airmail thence to Australia by surface, bearing Canada 5c Air and Australia 3d Kookaburra tied by Saskatoon slogan cancel (1½d Canberra opposite corner uncancelled), backstamped Regina slogan and Glenhuntly (Victoria) 21 JA 29. Rare use of Australian stamps in Canada under reciprocal postal agreement
Lot 502		Estimate: $200 1935-39 cover fronts to the one addressee in Germany with type-written 'By Australia-Greece-Germany Airmail', make-up frankings including 5/- Kangaroo, 2/- Jubilee pair and single, 1/- ANZAC, etc (9 items)
Lot 503		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1935 (18 Jul) cover flown Oodnadatta to Sydney, cacheted in blue 'MACKAY AERIAL/ RECONNAISSANCE EXPEDITION/WESTERN AUSTRALIA/1935', various backstamps, AAMC #517 [50 flown]
Lot 504		Estimate: $200 1937 (13 Apr) Cairns-Normanton FFCs (3) comprising Cairns to Normanton, intermediate to Croydon, and return Croydon to Cairns, latter a scarce reg'd item, the group signed by Pilot 'C. Jones', covers a trifle water-stained, possibly in transit. AAMC #719-20a - states 'Total mail carried was less than 200 items', suggesting this material is somewhat underrated
Lot 505		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $220 1938 (12 Mar) cover flown England to Dutch East Indies in a Percival Vega, endorsed 'Left Lympne 3am 12th March 1938./Forc Landed near/Waingapu, Dutch East/Indies 16th March 1938.', signed by pilot 'Jim Broadbent', AAMC #798 [48 flown]
Lot 506		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $260 1938 (8 Jul) Normanton first flight to Queensland Cattle Stations Rutland Plains, Dunbar and Koolatah, matching illustrated covers (3) signed by Pilot 'Alan W. Tagart', two additionally signed by manager at Koolatah Station. AAMC #817
Lot 507		Estimate: $200 1939 (Jan) 'Koranga' crash banker's cover (320x167mm) addressed to Melbourne with stamps fallen off, large portion of explanatory notice affixed