AEROPHILATELY OF THE WORLD, GENERAL

Lot 942		Estimate: $200T Realised Price : $220 B.C.O.F.: 1948-50 group of covers to the one addressee in England bearing G.B. KGVI adhesives, rated at 1/3d or 3/- (one only) tied by cds 'AUST ARMY P.O./214', mixed condition (7)
Lot 943		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $220 Belgium: 1936 (Sep) 'Athena' crash, meter cover Belgium to Australia with two-line cachet in black 'Salvaged from the Air Liner/ATHENA'
Lot 944		Estimate: $100 Burma: 1940 (12 Mar) airmail cover to USA bearing KGVI 1R and 3a6p plus 3a Peace tied by double-circle Rangoon cds, censor cachet and red bars over airmail label; also 1953 6a Air Letter uprated with 2a used to India
Lot 945		Estimate: $180 Christmas Islands: 1980s-1990s commercial airmail covers to Book Club in Australia, 24c to 45c rates, all different franking compositions, odd fault, mostly good commercial quality, hard-to-get material (46)
Lot 946		Estimate: $75 Cook Islands: 1938 (23 Jul) cover flown G.B. to Rarotonga on 1½d 'All-Up' Empire Air Mail Scheme, pictorial cachet in black and arrival backstamp
Lot 947		Estimate: $100 Gilbert & Ellice Islands: 1938 (23 Jul) cover flown G.B. to Fanning Island on 1½d 'All-Up' Empire Air Mail Scheme, pictorial cachet in black and arrival datestamp at left
Lot 948		Estimate: $100 Great Britain: 1935 (4 May) cover flown England to Australia bearing KGV 1/- and 3d with private perfins 'G.H.P./&Co.', Melbourne arrival backstamp
Lot 949		Estimate: $100T Hong Kong: 1935 (26 Mar) airmail cover with cachets, flown on Imperial Airways service to London bearing KGV 5c and 10c, 1935 Jubilee 5c strip of 4 and 10c pair
Lot 950		Estimate: $100 Iceland: 1949 (9 Oct) registered commercially used airmail FDC to Victoria bearing UPU set tied by Akureyri datestamps, label below, Reykjavik and Melbourne backstamps
Lot 951		Estimate: $100 Italy: 1917 (20 May) souvenir postcard bearing 25c opt flown Rome to Torino, minor blemishes, carried on FDI
Lot 952		Estimate: $75 Kenya: 1933 (15 May) registered airmail cover to Canada bearing KGV 5c, 20c pair and 50c tied by double-circle 'NAIVASHA' datestamps, various transit and arrival backstamps
Lot 953		Estimate: $100T Malaya: 1936 (20 Mar) airmail cover carried by Imperial Airways to Kowloon bearing Strait Settlements 6c, 10c, 4c and 5c tied by Penang datestamp, backstamps of Victoria and Kowloon. Attractive
Lot 954		Estimate: $100T Malaya: 1952 (9 Feb) commercial airmail cover bearing 25c, flown Baling to Macau, arrival backstamp. Unusual destination
Lot 955		Estimate: $100 Mozambique: 1937 (1 Sep) airmail cover to London bearing seven adhesives rated to 2.01P tied by Beira datestamps, small bilingual airmail vignette affixed
Lot 956		Estimate: $75 New Guinea: 1938 (23 Jul) cover flown from G.B. on 1½d 'All-Up' Empire Air Mail Scheme, pictorial cachet in black, Rabaul and Townsville backstamps
Lot 957		Estimate: $75 New Zealand: 1938 (27 Nov) 'Calpurnia' stampless crash cover England to Dunedin, two-line violet cachet 'RECEIEVED IN DAMAGED CONDITION/EX FLYING BOAT CALPURNIA'
Lot 958		Estimate: $175T New Zealand: Kermedec Islands 1949 (16 May) airmail cover (creases) to England bearing KGV 1/- and 6d tied by 'RAOUL ISLAND/KERMEDEC ISLANDS' cds, endorsed by postmaster at left. Unusual
Lot 959		Estimate: $75 New Zealand: 1954 (11 Jun) airmail cover to Cuba bearing 3/- and 1/6d tied by Nelson Bay datestamp. Exotic destination
Lot 960		Estimate: $350 Realised Price : $340 Norfolk Island: 1947 (19 Sep) commercial airmail cover to Australia bearing Ball Bay 5½d tied by fine and scarce 'R.N.Z.A.F./E/N.Z.A.P.O.' cds
Lot 961		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 Norfolk Island: 1959 Ball Bay 2/- Blue rare commercial use for airmail rate to U.S.
Lot 962		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $240 Papua: 1938 (29 Jun) airmail cover Samarai-Losuia, first flight to Tobriand Islands to uplift sick patient, Losuia arrival front and reverse. AAMC P135
Lot 963		Estimate: $125 Papua: 1938 (23 Jul) Empire Air scheme cover from UK with reasonable strike of 'UNCLAIMED/Port Moresby' pointing finger handstamp (Lee #8) in black
Lot 964		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $220 Papua New Guinea: 1949 (21 Jun) First Flight Kieta-Buin signed 'Hugh M Birch Captain Catalina VH-EBC', AAMC unlisted P184 variant, minor tone, rare
Lot 965		Estimate: $125 Realised Price : $110 Papua New Guinea: 1959 (22 Jan) Port Moresby - Sydney inauguration of Super Constellation service flight, AAMC P213, fine
Lot 966		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $420 Papua New Guinea: 1961 (10 Aug) commercial airmail cover (slightly reduced at right) from Sydney to Goroka unstamped and showing on front rectangular 'T' handstamp and mss. '10d' within, Postal Charge 1d, 3d and 6d affixed in taxing, reverse with '1st NOTICE...' handstamp and Goroka cds
Lot 967		Estimate: $125T Realised Price : $110 Pitcairn Island: 1951 (27 Nov) airmail 'Roy Clark' cover from Whitanga to Pitcairn Island bearing 1½d (2) + 2d (2) tied by Whitanga cds's, double-circled arrival datestamp of '4.JAN.52'
Lot 968		Estimate: $150 Singapore: 1947 (3 Dec) airmail cover to Czechoslovakia bearing BMA opts 2c (2), 8c (2) and 50c tied by Singapore cds, flap fault. Scarce destination
Lot 969		Estimate: $150 Zanzibar: 1959 (3 Apr) underpaid airmail cover Zanzibar to N.Z. bearing 5c, 10c, 25c, 35c and 50c, endorsed in blue crayon 'T110c' and circled 'TO PAY/ DOUBLE DEFICIENT POSTAGE' mss. '2/3', ordinary adhesives 1/- pair and 3d affixed and cancelled on arrival