AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAGE METERS

Lot 1350	[ ^ ]	Estimate: $100 Starting Price: $75 Postage Meters: 1928-1950s collection of pieces mounted on pages and selected to represent the goods and services available at a large department store, as illustrated by the slogans associated with the meters. Topics include electrical goods, home appliances, ladies wear, menswear, music, food, hardware and toys. All with the meter users identified. A very fine group including many scarce early types (84 pieces)
Lot 1351	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $120 Starting Price: $90 Postage Meters: Detailed and extensive study of the meters used by Anthony Hordern, Sydney from 1928 to 1962, showing the various types used, with a number of essays and proofs of the first machine (No. T5), and associated slogans (including a number of black proofs), mostly pieces but with a number of covers included. A wonderful study which would be impossible to duplicate (116 pieces)
Lot 1352	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $100 Starting Price: $75 Postage Meters: 1930s to 1950s mounted collection of pieces and mostly covers demonstrating the varied way in which postage meters have been used, and their use with ancillary services, with registered mail, security scanned mail, deficient postage, remailing using meters, coloured inks, certified mail, priority mail, etc. An interesting group that would be difficult to assemble from scratch (51)
Lot 1353	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $100 Starting Price: $75 Postage Meters: A study of the meters used by the Electricity Commission of Victoria and Harrison, San Miguel Pty. Ltd. in Adelaide between 1937 and 1950, and the mix up in the supply of Nos. 355, 356 ad 358 to these users. A fascinating story illustrated by both pieces and covers showing the changes made to the meter dies, with a full range of slogans used by the companies. An exceptional lot which would be impossible to duplicate (71 pieces)
Lot 1354	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $50 Starting Price: $38 Postage Meters: 1940s to 1950s small accumulation of postage meters used by N.S.W. major Department Stores showing a wide range of types and slogans, mostly pieces but also with a few covers with much of thematic interest. Also includes a few items of ephemera (39 pieces)
Lot 1355	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $60 Starting Price: $46 Postage meters: Detailed and extensive study of the meters used by Myers Adelaide, showing the various types used and associated slogans, with pieces, covers and parcel labels, with strength in the 1940s and 1950s (115 pieces)
Lot 1356	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $300 Starting Price: $230 Postage Meters: 1940-43 extensive collection of material (mostly pieces) showing the security and patriotic slogans used by many meters users, both government departments and commercial) during this period. Also with several pages of original records from B.C. Low demonstrating the development of these slogan, and including two proofs in black (for 'Safeguard the/FIGHTING FORCES/BE SILENT' and 'CARELESS TALK/COSTS LIVES & SHIPS'. Some duplication, a wonderful and unique lot that would be impossible to duplicate (116 pieces)
Lot 1357	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $75 Starting Price: $85 Postage Meters: 1940s to 1980s large accumulation of pieces and covers featuring a wide range of slogans, with great thematic interest, subjects include food, sport, local community celebrations, electrical goods, automotive, health and many others. Some specimen impressions included (282 pieces)
Lot 1358	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $250 Starting Price: $190 Postage Meters: 1940s to 1980s collection, largely written up, featuring postage meters associated with aviation in Australia covering all the major airlines as well as regional services, also meters used by international airlines in their Australian offices. Wide range of meter types and slogans. Also included are a few stamped covers on the same theme and some ephemera. A very fine lot (approx 170 pieces)
Lot 1359	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $100 Starting Price: $75 Postage Meters: Large accumulation of meter pieces and covers dealing largely with automotive companies, services and products, showing a wide range of meter types and slogans (including several proofs of slogans in black), some ephemera including an early Esso token. A very fine lot that would be difficult, if not impossible, to duplicate today (approx 220 pieces)
Lot 1360	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $90 Starting Price: $70 Postage Meters: Study of the postage meters used by the Royal Agricultural Society at its Sydney offices (Nos. 774, BK7 and E4255), mostly pieces but including a number of covers (many specially printed) and showing the slogans used over the period. A fine group that could not be duplicated (30 pieces)
Lot 1361	[ C ]	Estimate: $100 Starting Price: $75 Postage Meters: A study of the use of postage meters from 1950s to 2000s, in particular their use on combination or supplementary to postage stamps, or in lieu of postage stamps, with use of slogans for public service announcements, political slogans, use for Darwin concession mail following Cyclone Tracey, uprating of postage on covers and postal stationery, errors including incorrect engraving of meter dies, use of specimen dies, delayed mail, registered mail, use of high values in meters, etc. An interesting lot that would be well nigh impossible to put together from scratch, almost all complete covers (76)
Lot 1362	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $80 Starting Price: $60 Postage Meters: 1950s to 1980s large accumulation of cut-outs, labels and covers from a wide variety of companies and businesses, the large majority incorporating slogans of great thematic interest, covering food and drink, health, electrical appliances, travel, environment, women's clothing, menswear and many others (300+ pieces)
Lot 1363	[ C/^ ]	Estimate: $120 Starting Price: $90 Postage Meters: Accumulation of advertising slogans on franking machine impressions, with a huge variety of thematic subjects, mostly 1950s to 1980s but some earlier. Many fronts and some covers, mostly clear strikes with no obvious duplication (650+)
Lot 1364	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $200 Starting Price: $150 Postage Meters: Collection in binder of pieces and covers from large department stores (Anthony Hordern, Foy, Myers and others) showing the range of meter types used with many slogans, rare rail freight meters, few specimen and demonstration impressions. Also included are a number of stamped covers on the same theme, a few N.S.W. perfins, and various ephemeral material. A good lot with much of use (Approx 150 pieces)
Lot 1365	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $100 Starting Price: $75 Postage Meters: 1950s to 1980s small study of franking machines used for rail freight, showing the special dies used, including demonstration impressions and usage. Also a few postal dies showing the origins of the modified rail die designs. A scarce lot, especially the usage on labels (42 pieces)
Lot 1366	[ C ]	Estimate: $120 Starting Price: $90 Postage Meters: 1950s to 1970s meters used on postcards, wide range of companies, and government departments, covering a wide scope of subject matter, many with slogans (47 postcards)
Lot 1367	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $50 Starting Price: $38 Postage Meters: Sunbeam Corporation Ltd. study of meter types and slogans used 1950s to 1970s with pieces, cover fronts and parcel labels, including 0.00 sample impressions, and examples of N.S.W. and Victorian railway freight parcel meters. A good group that could probably not be duplicated, with explanatory sheet detailing the history of the meters used by the Company (23 pieces)
Lot 1368	[ ^/C ]	Estimate: $100 Starting Price: $75 Postage Meters: 1965-66 study of the conversion of postage meters to decimal currency in 1965-66, mounted on pages and on hagners mostly on piece but also some fronts and covers, and showing examples of before and after conversion, mistakes made, late of use of £sd machines, and including some specimen impressions. An interesting lot (91 pieces)