AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, AEROPHILATELY

Lot 814		Estimate: $200 1914 (Jun) A.B. 'Wizard' Stone postcard produced for the scheduled flight from Melbourne to Sydney. Addressed and franked with uncancelled 1d Kangaroo, very fine. AAMC No. 2a
Lot 815		Estimate: $40 1916 picture postcard featuring R. Graham Carey in his 60 Bleriot plane, considerable staining and vertical crease but scarce
Lot 816		Estimate: $6,000 Realised Price : $4,600 1919 England-Australia flight cover carried by Ross and Keith Smith, blue vignette tied by special double oval ds, and with 'PER/VICKERS VIMY AEROPLANE/TO AUSTRALIA' cachet, signed by Keith Smith and addressed to W.A. Watt, M.P. Very fine example of this famous flight, No. 353 in Tom Frommer's census, with Longhi Certificate (1999)
Lot 817		Estimate: $80 1929 (2 Jun) cover to Vienna, Austria, with 6d Blue Kangaroo Third Wmk tied by Adelaide machine cancel, carried to Perth by airmail, thence to Vienna, with boxed 'Posted at (Vienna)/under cover to the Postmaster/at ADELAIDE' in violet, very fine
Lot 818		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $115 1933 (3 Dec) Australia - New Zealand 'Faith in Australia' flight postcard carried by Ulm, Allen and Bolton, subsequently re-used on 1940 (30 Apr) TEAL first flight, very fine. Eustis No. 900a, which states that 100 postcards were reused in this manner
Lot 819		Estimate: $75 1934 (29 Mar) Kingsford Smith et al New Zealand - Australia flight souvenir cover addressed to John Gower in his own hand, Kangaroo C & E Club 'Kangaroo' Cinderella tied to reverse, alongside Gower's hexagonal handstamp
Lot 820		Estimate: $100 1934 (16 Nov) autogiro flight postcard registered at Portland, stamps tied by 'M.O.O. PORTLAND/VIC' cds, AAMC 461b, very fine and scarce
Lot 821		Estimate: $150 1934 (9-10 Dec) return Australia-England QANTAS/Imperial Airways flight Brisbane to Singapore intermediate cover bearing scarce solo franking of 9d Macarthur, very fine (unopened cover)
Lot 822		Estimate: $50 1939 (27 Apr) and (22 Jun) covers from Charing Cross (NSW) to Minneapolis, Minnesota franked 3d blue KGVI for surface rate, with pair of U.S. 3c commemoratives added for internal U.S. air mail, cancelled at San Pedro (Calif). Plus 1939 (30 Mar) cover from the same correspondence with 3d Blue and U.S. 3c definitive pair and 10c special delivery all cancelled at Charing Cross, with 'Special Delivery - Air Mail' handstamp and boxed 'NOT ELIGIBLE FOR.AERIAL MAIL FEE/DEFICIENT./SYDNEY NO. 2' both in violet. Few cover creases but an interesting trio (3 covers)
Lot 823		Estimate: $100 1940 (23 Apr) scarce commercial airmail postcard ('Maori Children Bathing in Thermal Pool Rotorua NZ' entrant in 1st TEAL New Zealand - Australia flight (AAMC 899), correct 3d rate, sender requesting recipient reply in 'Esperanto'
Lot 824		Estimate: $150 1945 (Nov-Dec) airmail covers to the same addressee in Holland bearing various types of London rectangular 'O.A.T.' handstamps, Heifetz Types XI and XII, latter scarce and also with Dutch label affixed, a little roughly handled. Nice duo for exhibit page (2)
Lot 825		Estimate: $80 1948 Australian National Airways air mail etiquette complete booklet containing six panes of 2, very fine, Frommer 80c