AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL HISTORY, REGISTERED MAIL

Lot 563		Estimate: $150 1913 (27 Oct) registered cover to Canada bearing First Wmk 4d Orange (short corner perf), tied by Brisbane cds in violet, red/black label, transit and arrival backstamps, paying 1d rate ½oz British Empire + 3d registration
Lot 564		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1922 (24 Aug) registered cover bearing Kangaroo Third Wmk 3d Olive (2) + KGV 1d Violet + 2d Red, used Sydney to Brisbane, red registration label, slight soiling
Lot 565		Estimate: $75T Realised Price : $60 1925 (12 Dec) registered cover Adelaide to Hawaii with red label, bearing Third Wmk 6d Chestnut, Honolulu backstamp, paying 3d 1oz foreign rate + 3d registration, slight toning
Lot 566		Estimate: $175T Realised Price : $240 1934 opened-out registered airmail cover Australia to Nairobi bearing SM Wmk 2/- + 3d Green Air (another removed), Cairo transit and Nairobi arrival datestamps where unclaimed, forwarded to India where 'UNCLAIMED/REFUSED LETTER' labels affixed and cacheted at Madras and Bombay, DLO cancels and returned to Melbourne. Full of character
Lot 567		Estimate: $60T Realised Price : $46 1947 (4 Feb) registered cover to Malvern with provisional label (number 73) and datestamp for 'P.I.C.A.O./MELBOURNE-AUST'