AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL HISTORY, GENERAL

Lot 742		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 743		Estimate: $75 Circa 1913 picture postcard ('Sydney Heads') with message in French but unaddressed and apparently sent under cover, ½d Kangaroo affixed cancelled by indistinct double circle 'CONSULAT GENERAL de FRANCE/SYDNEY' cachet, and with very fine second strike alongside, unusual
Lot 744		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 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 745		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 746		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 747		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $125 1920s to 1950s mostly commercial cover selection, including early commemoratives, some 3d Blue's, Canberra, W.A. Centenary, 3d Airmail Booklet plate, 1931 6d Airmail, 2d Macarthur Dark Hills, etc, frequent mixed condition reflected in conservative estimate (66)
Lot 748		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 749		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 750		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $230 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 751		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1930s to 1980s range of Queensland covers, with advertising covers, details of commerce/industry of user in advertisement a feature, no duplication, condition mixed, generally good commercial quality (approx 230)
Lot 752		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 753		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 1934 cardboard box fragment bearing 1/- Large Lyrebird x 7 + 3d Victorian Centenary tied by unusually legible strikes of handheld 'PARCELS POST/BRISBANE' obliterator (7/3d Scale 4 8-11lbs interstate parcels rate)
Lot 754		Estimate: $150 1935 (Nov-Dec) pair of airmail covers from same correspondence Melbourne-London, earlier at 8d (2d letter + 3d internal airmail x 2), later 1/7d (1/6d full airmail service + 1d late fee), frankings include KGV 1/4d, odd blemish, unusual duo (2)
Lot 755		Estimate: $2,500 Realised Price : $2,000 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 756		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 757		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 758		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 759		Estimate: $75 1941 (18 Apr) telegram form to Darwin bearing 'COLLINGWOOD/POST OFFICE' oval datestamp (PPA116 - RR) whilst in a state held together by two rubber bands, accompanied by original cover (opened roughly) with a better strike of cancel
Lot 760		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 761		Estimate: $150 1946 usages of two editions of Parcel Post labels franked 3/7d for 3-7lbs food parcels to U.K., differing franking compositions for the rate, from Armadale (WA) and Ashfield (NSW), some stamp/label faults (2)
Lot 762		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 763		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 764		Estimate: $150 1949 (25 Jul) 1/6d Hermes airmail cover Hazelbrook to I.R.O. - U.N.E.C., Samar, Philippines, elusive Other Asian Countries 1/6d per ½oz rate, very fine 'IRO-UNEC/AUG 4/POST OFFICE' rubber datestamp on reverse, mail to this International Refugee Organisation Camp is rare
Lot 765		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $55 1950s-60s picture postcards showing a variety of make-ups of the 9d (1), 1/- (6, each with 1/- Lyrebird) and 1/2d (8) airmail rates, a few with minor stains, generally very fine (15)
Lot 766		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 767		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 768		Estimate: $100 1953 (31 Dec) airmail cover (opened at left) from Wellington (NSW) to Japan, franked 6d Kookaburra pairs x 2, commercial mail to this destination is very scarce in this era (2/- ½oz airmail rate)
Lot 769		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 1963 usages of Returned Unpaid Letter official covers with declared '8d' and '10d' more to pay, Zoological 6d and 8d (plus 2d QEII) affixed as receipts, scarce (2)
Lot 770		Estimate: $80 Thursday Island 1960-63 cover and aerogramme, former airmail to U.K. with bold handstamped 'PAQUEBOT', latter cancelled by 'THURSDAY ISLAND PAQUEBOT' cds, fine commercial usages (2)