AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, INCOMING MAIL TO AUSTRALIA

Lot 588		Estimate: $450 Bulgaria: 1938 (4 Nov) commercial advertising cover to Victoria, franked 55l for ½oz airmail rate via Greece, adhesives tied by Poste Aerienne-Sofia datestamp, backstamped Athens and on arrival at Melbourne. Extraordinary origin/destination
Lot 589		Estimate: $700 Dodecanese Islands: 1939 (Apr-Dec) airmail covers (roughly opened) from same correspondence Castelrosso to Adelaide, franked 5.50l and 4.75l respectively, latter censored at Melbourne on arrival (16 Jan 1940). Amazing origin/ destination
Lot 590		Estimate: $100 Great Britain: 1935 (4 May) cover flown England to Victoria bearing KGV 1/- and 3d with private perfins 'G.H.P./&Co.', Melbourne arrival backstamp
Lot 591		Estimate: $50 Great Britain: 1955 QEII 2/6d Waterlow printing, SG 533, FDC commercially used airmail to Australia
Lot 592		Estimate: $450 Latvia: 1938 (10 May) commercial airmail cover to Australia bearing 1l and 50s paying ½oz airmail rate, tied by Riga-Lidpasts datestamp, endorsed 'Per 'Lot', backstamped Berlin-Zentralflughafen. Unusual origin/destination
Lot 593		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 Liechtenstein: 1934 (13 Aug) registered printed matter rate philatelic cover Schaan to N.S.W. bearing 55rp franking including 1930 Air 25rp, sent by airmail within Europe, Basel and Geneva transits, backstamped Sydney. Very early airmail acceleration to Australia from this country
Lot 594		Estimate: $400 Lithuania: 1938 (30 May) commercial cover Kaunas to Henry B. Smith, Woolbrokers, Australia, franked for 3l 40c ½oz airmail rate (a 20c on reverse), backstamped Berlin-Zentralflughafen and on arrival at Melbourne. Extraordinary origin/destination
Lot 595		Estimate: $600 Mexico: 1937 (Apr-Jun) commercial airmail covers from same correspondence to Victoria franked 2p 25c sent via Pacific and Atlantic routes respectively, showing instructional handstamps to those ends, former without backstamps, latter with Paris transit and Melbourne arrival. Attractive duo, scarce origin/destination
Lot 596		Estimate: $75 Samoa: 1956 (22 May) registered cover to Australia bearing 8d and 5d, registration label and adhesives tied by Tuavisi datestamps, backstamps of Apia, Sydney and Hobart