AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 1620		Estimate: $450 1914 (28 Jul) use of NSW 3d registration envelope, uprated with Kangaroo 1st wmk 3d Olive Die I used Wagga Wagga to Melbourne. Attractive State/Australia combination
Lot 1621		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $380 1929 (18 Mar) registered crash cover flown Darwin to Sydney, crashing at Cape Don (N.T.), signed by pilots S.J. Moir and H.C. Owens, one adhesive fallen off and mail later carried in June by Lester Brain from Brisbane to Sydney, on arrival a Concord Post Office 'STAMP/MISSING WHEN/RECEIVED AT/CENTRAL/CONCORD P.O. (initialled), AAMC No 130 $AU700. Only 20 carried
Lot 1622		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1935 (16 Jul) airmail cover Sydney to Monaco bearing Kangaroo 2/- Maroon and 1/6d Hermes, representing a double weight letter. Subsequently redirected to London, but a very scarce destination
Lot 1623		Estimate: $80 1936 (19 May) OHMS cover to Batavia bearing 3d Cable and 6d Typo Kookaburra tied by 'DARWIN N.T./AUSTRALIA' datestamps, Batavia arrival backstamp, minor soiling. Attractive make-up of 9d per ½oz rate
Lot 1624		Estimate: $250 1938 (1 Apr) OHMS envelope for 'Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations', with all-over written advertising on reverse, bearing KGV 1d Green punctured 'G/NSW', used locally at Singleton. Unusual and the first example we have seen
Lot 1625		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1938 (27 Dec) registered airmail cover from Perth to Italy (re-addressed) bearing Kangaroo 2/- Maroon, KGVI 2d Red Die II (x 2) and 4d Koala, paying 2/5d rate + 3d registration
Lot 1626		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1939-50 extensive range of airmails from Europe mostly to the same addressee in Sydney but a few to London. Including mail from Belgium with 1939 cover franked 12 x 1F75c and pair 1F, Switzerland with 1940 and 1941 censored covers, Saar, Italy with two 1939 censored covers, Greece, Monaco, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Italy including registered express covers. Mixed condition (70)
Lot 1627		Estimate: $250 1939 (22 Jul) Guinea Airways cover flown Adelaide-Koepang via Darwin where Netherlands East Indies 45c affixed and tied, signed by the entire crew and passenger J.V. Fairbairn, Minister for Civil Aviation, AAMC #872
Lot 1628		Estimate: $120 1939 (20 Aug) airmail cover Prague to Sydney franked with tied Bohemia & Moravia 2K, pair 1.50K and 50h adhesives and struck with the framed 'T..../5A' handstamp on arrival. Additionally franked 3d and ½d Australian postage dues and tied by manuscript cancels. Tiny tear at top. Exotic taxed item
Lot 1629		Estimate: $80 1939 (3 Nov) and 1940 (6 May) (torn and roughly opened at left) censored airmail covers Lisbon to Sydney the first franked 5$ & 1$75, the other 10$, 1$75 & 2$ and both bearing 'PASSED BY CENSOR/S.1 (or S.14)' handstamps. Airmail from the Iberian peninsula rather scarce at this date
Lot 1630		Estimate: $75 1939 (23 Nov) and (25 Nov) censored (both with Egyptian censor tape at sides) covers from Genoa, Italy both to Port Said, the first by airmail and bearing 50c & 1L25c adhesives and redirected to Sydney (b/s). The front with framed 'Not Known by Postmen/ CASTLEREAGH STREET' with completed spaces for postmens’ signatures on each of the six days delivery attempts were made before succeeding. The other franked 2L75c & 75c adhesives and re-directed to Colombo and then re-directed to Sydney (b/s). A few peripheral faults although both illustrating considerable efforts to find the addressee (2)
Lot 1631		Estimate: $70 Realised Price : $55 1939-50 selection of mainly airmails to mostly the same family business in Sydney from Africa & Asia; including 1939 Ceylon franked 1r, 1939 Egypt to Fremantle, re-directed to Sydney, 1947 KUT registered airmail using decimal and pre-decimal values on the same cover, others from Macau (2), India, Malaya, Aden, South Africa, Japan, Hong Kong etc. Very mixed condition (28)
Lot 1632		Estimate: $70 Realised Price : $110 1940 (14 May) registered, express, censored airmail cover Oradea, Roumania to Sydney bearing 2 x strip of four 30 lei tied by 'PASSED BY CENSOR' handstamp and with Australian censor tape at right. Backstamped Athens and Sydney. Slightly grubby though a very unusual origin/destination
Lot 1633		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $46 1941-47 Mail from South America to Australia (one from Uruguay to Shanghai) including several censored airmail covers, two from Mexico, one from Brazil and the others from Argentina. Mixed condition (8)
Lot 1634		Estimate: $300 1941 (17 Jan) QANTAS envelope Sydney-Dili (Portuguese Timor), signed by pilot H.B Hussey, 'NOT/OPENED BY/CENSOR' diamond cachet struck in violet, backstamped Dili, AAMC #912, fine. Cat AU$400
Lot 1635		Estimate: $250 1942 (2 Dec) cover Melbourne to Scotland franked KGVI 2½d with censor tape and cachet at right, roughly handled in mail, piece of gummed paper affixed and framed 'ACCIDENTALLY DAMAGED BY/STAMP CANCELLING MACHINE' cachet in black applied. Interesting
Lot 1636		1945 (7 Sep) airmail cover to Sydney with 3d KGVI tied by 'TOKYO BAY' cds and with 'H.M.A.S. "SHROPSHIRE"/Official Signing of/Japanese Surrender' cachet
Lot 1637		Estimate: $200 1947 (16 Dec) QANTAS souvenir covers flown Australia to Japan and return service, Grey and Red vignettes affixed, signed by pilots Morton and Harding, AAMC #1128-29 Cat $AU300 (2)