OCEANIA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Lot 992		Estimate: $500 1952-1990 complete collection in Seven Seas hingeless album, lacking only the Postal Charges, unmounted and generally very fine
Lot 993		Estimate: $400 1952-1994 collection in KABE hingeless album, missing only D1, some pre-decimal issues toned and/or unused. The 1952 definitives are lightly hinged and fine, and all decimals appear fine unmounted
Lot 994		Estimate: $250 1952-1994 The companion used collection in Seven Seas hingeless album, lacking the Postal Charges, the pre-decimal issues of variable quality and a few decimals are mint rather than used
Lot 995		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 1952-2000 mostly mint collection in stockbook with 1952 Definitives to £1 unmounted, optd 'SPECIMEN' 1952 £1, 1963 10/- Rabaul (unused) and £1 QEII, later issues to 2000 incl booklets. Also small range of pre-war New Guinea and Papua, including a few airmail covers. Mixed condition, mostly fine (100s)
Lot 996		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $500 1965 2/3d ANZAC Proof in sunken mount, annotated on reverse '940' and 'E. Douglas'. Fine and very fresh
Lot 997		Estimate: $120 1982 Native Pottery, Food/Nutrition (50 sets each) and ANPEX Games (100 sets) in sheets (600). Retail AU$480
Lot 998		Estimate: $125 Stamp Duty: 'Stamp/Duty/1d.' with bar obliterating 6½d Hut, marginal block of four, cancelled by 'KEREMA/4 JA 63' datestamp
Lot 999		Estimate: $1,000 Post WWII Airmails: 1949 (21 Jun) New Britain District 'Catalina' first flights. The complete set comprising flights from Rabaul to Jacquenot Bay, Kandrian (Gasmata) and Talasea, all signed by pilot Hugh Birch and addressed to Hudson Fysh, AAMC P180-182 (3 covers)
Lot 1000		Estimate: $600 Post WWII Airmails: (7 Dec) Tasman and Mortlock Islands flights: Sohano - Nukumanu and Sohano - Tauu covers, both franked 5½d and cancelled 7 December, both with ornate hand-illustrated maps of the route to the isolated islands, addressed to Hudson Fysh, AAMC P187-188 (2 covers)