AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 813		Estimate: $300 1901 (1 Apr) Governor-General handstamped frank in blue on mourning envelope used in Sydney and addressed to Deputy Postmaster-General, very fine
Lot 814		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $160 Small group of Kangaroo covers, with ½d on printed matter unsealed envelope, 1d Die IIA on 1914 picture postcard, 1913 and 1914 (2) covers to USA, franked respectively with ½d and 1d pair, ½d and 2d, and 2½d (latter with 'PASSED' censor mark), 1918 cover to USA with 2½d and ½d KGV, 1919 cover to Germany with 3d, 1934 Sheard airmail cover to England with 6d optd OS with 1/- Lyrebird Optd OS, and 1936 airmail cover to England with 9d plus 3d Sturt and 6d Kingsford Smith. All very fine (9)
Lot 815		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $200 Small collection of KGV issues on cover, beginning with a 1d Engraved (slightly oxidised), 1d Red including 1916 underpaid cover to USA with censor marks, most of the basic stamps (on a simplified basis) represented by solo frankings up to 5d (no 4d Violet, but including 4d Blue), also punctured 'OS' usages (½d Orange, 1½d Brown, 2d Orange, 3d Blue), punctured 'T' (1d Red (2), one redirected with another 1d Red plus 2d Kangaroo also punctured 'T', 2d on 1½d), punctured 'OS/NSW' (2d Red), and 1d and 2d optd 'OS' on separate covers. Few minor faults, generally very fine (29)
Lot 816		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $130 1913 (4 Feb) registered cover from Sydney stamp dealer Fred Hagen (embossed red label on reverse), addressed to Stanley Gibbons Inc. in New York, with combination franking of ½d New South Wales, 2d Queensland and 1d Kangaroo Die I pair tied by 'REGISTERED/SYDNEY' cds. Slight soiling on one 1d, otherwise fine. A 1d underpayment of the 5½d U.P.U. foreign registered rate
Lot 817		Estimate: $100 1913 (12 Feb) picture postcard to New Caledonia with New South Wales ½d Green and Kangaroo 1d Die 1 tied by Sydney cds. A fine and attractive combination franking
Lot 818		Estimate: $750 Realised Price : $600 1914 (23 Mar) long OHMS registered envelope from the PMG's Department to Paris with combination franking of 3d Kangaroo Die I punctured Large 'OS' and South Australia 2½d Blue punctured OS tied by 'REGISTERED/ADELAIDE' cds, and backstamped at Paris 25 4 14. Fine and a very rare combination State/Commonwealth 'OS' franking
Lot 819		Estimate: $60 1917 (6 Mar) OHMS cover from The Australian Museum to Washington D.C. with 2d Kangaroo Third Wmk and ½d Green KGV Single Wmk, both punctured 'OS/NSW', tied by Castlereagh St. cds, fine
Lot 820		Estimate: $60 1918 (3 Jan) OHMS cover from Hawkesbury Agricultural College to Washington D.C. with 2d Kangaroo Third Wmk and ½d Green KGV Single Wmk both punctured 'OS/NSW' and tied by Richmond (NSW) cds, fine
Lot 821		Estimate: $80 1920 (3 Feb) locally addressed registered cover with KGV Single Wmk 1½d Chocolate (3) tied by Singleton cds, and with red registration label
Lot 822		Estimate: $250 1922 (4 Feb) cover to Muscatine, Iowa with KGV 4d Violet tied by Katoomba (NSW) cds, with arrival cds alongside. Clean and very fine. BW cat AU$450 on cover
Lot 823		Estimate: $80 1925 (15 Jan) F. Owen French Piano two-sided advertising cover with 1½d Red KGV Single Wmk pairs (2) tied Registered Sydney cds to Indiana, USA
Lot 824		Estimate: $300 1927-51 selection of mostly commemorative and airmail stamps on commercial covers, including 1931 6d Kingsford Smith (3), 3d Blue commems, few advertising covers, condition mixed (66)
Lot 825		Estimate: $120 Realised Price : $90 1929 (22 Mar) cover from Thursday Island to Cambridge, Massachusetts with very late use of 1d Kangaroo Die I tied by cds, underpaid and with handstruck '30/CTMS/T' and 'U.S. CHARGE/TO COLLECT/6 CENTS' with U.S. 1c and 5c postage affixed and cancelled in mss. Reverse with advisory handstamp 'This letter was posted insufficiently prepaid./Please advise your correspondent to enquire of/local postmaster cost of correct postage on/matter of future destination.' in purple
Lot 826		Estimate: $150 1931 (14 May) commercial airmail cover to 'The Daily Mail' contemporary franking uprate (includes 6d Kangaroo Small Multiple Wmk) of 1/9d for 2d envelope, the whole cancelled by Bruthen (Vic) cds (1/11d per half oz. airmail)
Lot 827		Estimate: $2,500 King George VI: Very useful assembly formed with intention of composing a commercial usage exhibit, focussing upon First Definitives, with scarce perf change 1½d Red-brown solo, coils (sharp horizontal teeth) 2d Scarlet and 2d Mauve (+ ½d), 3d Die I 'White Wattles' rare solo (commercial papers rate), parcel labels/tags and bulk postage docket including frankings of Robes 10/- (9) and £1 (6) (approx 250 items), also good selections of 1937 NSW Sesquicentenary, 1940 AIF, 1941 Surcharges, and Second Definitive Series (1942-49), includes advertising covers, imprints, useful rates with airmail postcards, some faults, mostly exhibitable (300+)
Lot 828		Estimate: $150 1937 (12 Feb) cover from Melbourne to London franked with 5/- Kangaroo C of A Wmk, 1/6d Hermes and 1/- Lyrebird tied by 'SHIP MAIL ROOM/MELBOURNE' cds, for five times rate. Cover a little shortened at left, otherwise fine
Lot 829		Estimate: $100 Thursday Island: 1940s/2000 cancellations on commercial covers selection including 1944 military 'AUST F.P.O./162' (Higginsfield Airstrip Cape York), 1960s Paquebot cds (2) and very fine handstamp, 1990 rectangular 'POSTAGE PAID' (for additional 5c postage), odd fault (12), also duplicated range and a few philatelic items
Lot 830		Estimate: $100 1940 (27 Aug) uprate of KGVI 1½d postal card from Rose Slutkin for 9d airmail postcard rate to Palestine, censored at Sydney and the whole cancelled by GPO Sydney cds. Scarce pre-war rate
Lot 831		Estimate: $100 1945-48 shipping documents correspondence from Melbourne to Bank of New Zealand in Wellington, sent airmail (one registered) at rates varying from 1/3½d to 4/2½d, frankings including 2/- Kangaroo (7, with a pair) and 1/- Mitchell (4), generally fine (22)
Lot 832		Estimate: $150 1946 (10 Sep) airmail cover from Sydney to Shanghai China, stained and roughly opened, at very scarce 3/6d half oz. airmail rate, Chinese chops (2) and backstamp
Lot 833		Estimate: $150 1948 (27 Mar) airmail cover to Peru with 1d Princess and 1/- Lyrebird tied by Hamley Bridge (SA) cds, endorsed 'INTERNAL', indistinct arrival, a rare rate (1/1d half oz. airmail U.S. - Peru only)
Lot 834		Estimate: $75 1951 (31 Jul) airmail cover from Collingwood North (Vic) to the unusual destination of Barbados at 1/10d per half oz. rate, short-lived, backstamped on arrival
Lot 835		Estimate: $100 1952 (26 Dec) airmail cover from Hobart to Malaya bearing 6d Kookaburra pair (overpays 9d half oz. airmail), missent to Hong Kong, with 'HONG KONG/4-30/31 DE/52' Backstamp
Lot 836		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1966 (11 Oct) registered at Law Courts Melbourne official legal documents cover (folds) bearing 'VG' puncture QEII 4c + 2/- Flannel Flower, a very scarce commercial £sd/Decimal combination for registered commercial papers rate
Lot 837		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $115 1970 (27 May) registered cover to Israel bearing Cook minisheet tied by Brunswick West cds, PO label 'Inspected/and safe for/Transmission' (signed), tied by rare double oval 'POSTMASTER/27 MAY/BRUNSWICK WEST 3055' datestamp, printed enclosure from PMG's Dept 'Following explosions in aircraft carrying mail to Israel . . . ', early and rare precursor to today's tight security procedures