AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, AEROPHILATELY AND FLIGHT COVERS

Lot 1165		Estimate: $250 1922 (17 Apr) 'Herald' air mail vignette in blue, vertical marginal strip of three, minor faults. A very rare piece demonstrating that this issue was originally printed in sheets of 20 as mentioned in AAMC
Lot 1166		Estimate: $1,500 Realised Price : $1,300 1925 (21 Apr) De Pinedo flight India to Australia with two-line cachet in red 'Italian Consul General's (Melbourne) letter of 12-11-25./Calcutta to Melbourne by Seaplane, 13/5/25.', right portion of cover with map cachet on reverse, AAMC 78. [One of 42 flown to Sydney]. Cat AU$2000
Lot 1167		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $200 1929 QANTAS Black/Red vignette inscribed 'BY AIR MAIL/See Western Queensland', complete strip of eight with selvedge at top
Lot 1168		Estimate: $175T 1930 (19 Feb) cover flown by Australian Aerial Services, Camooweal to Daly Waters, arrival backstamp, AAMC 151. [Only 50 flown]. Cat AU$250
Lot 1169		Estimate: $350T Realised Price : $270 1931 (7 Jul) cover addressed to Canada flown on 'Gypsy Moth' Thursday Island to Japan, signed by pilot Francis Chichester on reverse with six-line cachet, this flight originating from Sydney on 3.7.1931, AAMC 210. Cat AU$475
Lot 1170		Estimate: $150 1931 (6 Nov) cover sent by mailboat from Rabaul to connect with the First All-Australian airmail Australia to England aboard the 'Southern Sun', cachet in violet, arrival backstamp, minor toning, AAMC 222b. Cat AU$225
Lot 1171		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1931 (24 Nov) New England Airways Ltd, tete-beche sheet of eight, AAMC 225b, Frommer 38b. Cat AU$150
Lot 1172		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $700 1933 (26 Mar) illustrated advertising cover flown Waipapakauri to Sydney on the 'Southern Cross' following repairs after the crash at New Plymouth, signed by pilot Kingsford Smith, minor soiling, AAMC 299. Cat AU$850
Lot 1173		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $550 1934 (Dec) QANTAS Australia to England, carried further on feeder service to African destinations Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, South Africa or SWA at rates of 2/3d, 2/5d or 2/9d, each bearing 9d Macarthur plus other values, (8 items)
Lot 1174		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $46 1935 (18 Jul) 'Southern Cross' perforated vignette in blue and red on silver, sheet of four with margins, AAMC 516a, Frommer 50b. Cat AU$80
Lot 1175		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 1935 (19 Aug) Adelaide-Darwin and then Darwin-Adelaide, signed 'J Chapman Pilot', AAMC 522-23, unusual 'boomerang'
Lot 1176		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1940 (6 May) souvenir postcard flown by TEAL on flying boat 'Awarua' flight from Sydney to Auckland, signed by commander Garden and crew, previously flown and signed by Ulm, AAMC 900ac. Cat AU$300
Lot 1177		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1941 (18 Dec) QANTAS Sydney to Mornington Island black/blue vignette for parachute mail, AAMC 936a, Frommer 58a
Lot 1178		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. Cat AU$250
Lot 1179		Estimate: $200T 1945 (2 Jun) use of KGVI 7d Air Letter Sydney to England, flown on first QANTAS Lancastrian service, printed cachet in red, AAMC 1007b. Cat AU$300
Lot 1180		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 1948 (14 Nov) QANTAS blue/white vignette for South Africa-Australia flights, Frommer 78a
Lot 1181		Estimate: $75 1948 (14 Nov) QANTAS souvenir cover with vignette affixed flown Sydney to South Africa, signed by pilot L.R. Ambrose, AAMC 1193. Cat AU$100
Lot 1182		Estimate: $200T 1949 (15 Mar) QANTAS vignettes affixed to souvenir covers flown Sydney to Hong Kong and return, signed by pilot E.C. Sims, AAMC 1204-05 (2 covers). Cat AU$300
Lot 1183		Estimate: $300 1953 (2 Jun) Coronation airletters flown on return flight from G.B. to Australia, Ceylon, Fiji, Mauritius, New Hebrides, Norfolk Island, Pakistan, P.N.G., Singapore and Solomon Islands, AAMC 1318b, (10). Cat AU$750+
Lot 1184		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $65 1953 (Nov) QANTAS souvenir cover flown Bangkok to Sydney, signed by pilot J Harper. AAMC 1332. Cat AU$75
Lot 1185		Estimate: $100 1954 plain or long official envelopes to UK, latter with Malaya Officially Sealed label, showing one or two fine strikes of framed 'SALVAGED MAIL/AIRCRAFT CRASH/SINGAPORE 13.3.1954' in red (slightly differing settings), AAMC 1337
Lot 1186		Estimate: $350T Pigeon Post: 1933 (24 Apr) cover bearing Gala Day vignette, variety 'Overprint Inverted', minor soiling as always. AAMC PP5d