AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, AEROPHILATELY

Lot 784		Estimate: $1,250 1930 (9-10 July) Perth - Wyndham and (14-15 July) Wyndham - Perth first flight covers including all intermediates, each cover registered and franked with 1½d and 3d Sturt and 3d airmail, fine and very scarce as a complete set (45 covers)
Lot 785		Estimate: $140 1937 (12 Nov) cover from Melbourne to Barbados, by airmail to U.K. and from U.S.A. franked 3/5d rate, 17 DEC 1937 arrival backstamp. Another from this correspondence realised AU$340 (+ GST) in a 2019 Melbourne auction
Lot 786		Estimate: $120 1937 (Nov) Qantas printed envelope from Brisbane to England with 'DAMAGED/SEA WATER/IN AIRPLANE/ACCIDENT' framed cachet in violet, carried aboard flying boat 'Cygnus', 3 x 2d NSW Sesquicentenary still affixed. Fine and attractive
Lot 787		Estimate: $40 1939 (1 April) cover from Outer Harbour (SA) to Switzerland franked 1/9d, and with scarce 'AUSTRALIA - ITALY' handstamp in violet
Lot 788		Estimate: $150 1940 (12 July) FAM-19 service covers flown in intermediate stages from Los Angeles to Honolulu (2, cacheted in blue or green), and to Auckland cacheted in blue. AAMC 905b, catAU$450+ (3)
Lot 789		Estimate: $150 1940 (12 July) FAM-19 service covers flown on intermediate stages from San Francisco to Canton Island, Noumea and Auckland, each cacheted in blue. AAMC 905b, cat AU$450+ (3)
Lot 790		Estimate: $150 1940 (14 July) FAM-19 service covers flown on intermediate stages from Honolulu to Canton Island, Noumea and Auckland, each cacheted in purple. AAMC 905b, cat AU$450+ (3)
Lot 791		Estimate: $250 1940 (15 and 22 July) FAM-19 service covers flown on intermediate stages from Canton Island to Auckland, Noumea, Honolulu, Los Angeles and San Francisco, each cacheted in red. AAMC 905b, cat AU$750+ (5)
Lot 792		Estimate: $200 1940 (16 and 19 July) FAM-19 service covers flown on intermediate stages from Auckland to Noumea, Canton Island, Honolulu and Los Angeles, each cacheted in violet. AAMC 9-5b, cat AU$600+
Lot 793		Estimate: $200 1940 (21 July) FAM-19 service covers flown on intermediate stages from Noumea to Canton Island, Honolulu, Los Angeles and San Francisco, each cacheted in green. AAMC 905b, cat AU$600+ (4)
Lot 794		Estimate: $30 Realised Price : $46 1941 (26 May) censored cover from Cottesloe (?) (WA) to Colombo, Ceylon franked 1/3d for the airmail rate, some peripheral faults
Lot 795		Estimate: $150 1941 ( 1 Dec) prisoner-of-war cover from Melbourne to Switzerland franked 1/6d airmail and 9d Platypus pair, with typed 'CLIPPER/Aust. U.S.A. Portugal' although too late for the last clipper to U.S.A. on this route, paying the very short-lived half-price 3/- POW rate via U.S.A.
Lot 796		Estimate: $30 Realised Price : $32 1943 (date unclear) cover from Swan Hill to Switzerland with Australian and German censorship, franked 2/1d and endorsed 'By Boat to America. Thence Air Mail to Switzerland'. Lisbon transit machine cancel (15 June) and Wallisellen arrival cds (24 June) on reverse
Lot 797		Estimate: $50 Realised Price : $60 1945 (30 Oct) registered cover flow by Qantas, Port Moresby - Brisbane on resumption of the civil administration. AAMC 1010a, cat AU$100, rarely seen registered
Lot 798		Estimate: $140 Realised Price : $120 1947 cover to U.K. with scarce franking of £1 Robes, plus 2/-, 5½d and ½d paying 6-6½oz. airmail rate to U.K., slight faults, but the £1 very scarce on cover
Lot 799		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $90 1949 (15 March) Qantas envelopes flown Australia - Hong Kong and return flights, each with red and black vignettes affixed, and signed by pilot E.C. Sims, AAMC 1204-5, cat AU$300 (2)
Lot 800		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $60 1949 (26 June) Qantas envelopes flown Australia - Hong Kong and return flights, each with blue and grey vignettes affixed, and signed by pilot J.M. Hampshire, AAMC 1218-19, cat AU$200 (2)
Lot 801		Estimate: $50 1953 (5 Sept) cover flown Sydney - Hollandia with red and blue Qantas vignette affixed, signed by pilots Forgan-Smith and Jacobson, backstamped on arrival. AAMC 1323