AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 418		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $140 Shoebox of Australian covers 1920s to 1990s, about half are first day covers, but the balance includes many useful items, incl air mail rates, postcard rates, postal stationery, and some interesting usages (Produce Food 3½d strip on commercial cover noted) (100s)
Lot 419		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1923 (13 Dec) Government Statist's Office Report bearing Single Watermark 1d Violet punctured 'OS', used Melbourne to Richmond. Scarce solo franking
Lot 420		Estimate: $60 1925 (12 Dec) registered cover used Adelaide to Hawaii bearing Kangaroo Third Wmk 6d Chestnut, red registration label, Honolulu arrival backstamp, paying 3d 1oz foreign rate + 3d registration, slight toning
Lot 421		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $120 1930 (9 Aug) registered air mail cover flown Sydney to Melbourne bearing 5d on 4½d + 2d on 1½d + 1d Green and 3d green Air, flown Sydney to Melbourne. Attractive use of 3d registration + 8d double air mail rate
Lot 422		Estimate: $75 1932 (10 Jan) photo-type PPC bearing KGV 1½d tied by dubious large 35mm 'HAWTHORN/ VIC' datestamp
Lot 423		Estimate: $300 1935 (16 Jul) air mail cover sent from Sydney to Monaco franked 2/- Kangaroo and 1/6d Hermes, representing a double weight letter. Subsequently redirected to London, but a very scarce destination
Lot 424		Estimate: $100 1936 (19 May) OHMS cover bearing 6d Kookaburra and 3d Cable tied by 'DARWIN N.T./ AUSTRALIA' datestamps, Batavia arrival backstamp, minor soiling. Attractive make-up of 9d per ½oz
Lot 425		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1937 (12 Feb) air mail cover to Germany endorsed 'Via Italy' bearing Kangaroo CofA Wmk 5/-, 9d, KGV 1d and 1/6d Hermes pair tied by Melbourne Ship Mail Room datestamps, etiquette handstamped with black cross
Lot 426		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $60 1937 (5 Jun) 'BRICO' piston rings advertising cover flown Sydney to Coventry bearing 1/6d Hermes + 1d QE paying ½oz air mail rate + 1d late fee. Attractive
Lot 427		Estimate: $300 1938 (1 Apr) OHMS envelope with all-over written advertising for 'Australia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations' bearing KGV 1d Green (CofA Wmk) used locally at Singleton. Attractive cover and the first example we have seen
Lot 428		Estimate: $100 1938 (27 Dec) registered air mail cover from Perth to Italy with 2/- Kangaroo and 2d KGVI (x2) and 4d Koala, paying 2/5d rate plus 3d registration fee
Lot 429		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1941 OHMS printed cover (245x150mm) Sydney to London, bearing Robes 10/- (3) + 5/-, endorsed 'Via New Zealand/& USA', diamond censor cachet and 'CALIFORNIA/CLIPPER' in violet. Although adhesives faulty due to machine cancelling, a remarkable example of the 5/10d sextuple rate
Lot 430		Estimate: $75 1945 (2 Oct) underpaid air mail cover Melbourne to New York bearing 1/6d Hermes, framed 'Insufficiently Paid for/Transmission by Air Mail.' in red
Lot 431		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $200 1946 (21 Jan) registered air mail cover (roughly opened) bearing Robes Thick 5/- and 10/- + KGVI 3d Brown and 1/- Lyrebird used to USA, Sydney and New York backstamps. Correctly paying quadruple 4/- per ½oz rate + 3d registration
Lot 432		Estimate: $80T Realised Price : $140 1946 (27 Dec) air mail cover NSW to China bearing 1/6d Hermes + 2/- Kangaroo paying ½oz rate, Shanghai backstamp
Lot 433		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $110 1953 (8 Jun) air mail cover from Wollongong to Essex, U.K. franked with 1d maroon Queen, 3½d Coronation and 3d and 3½d Produce Food strips of three, meeting the 2/- air mail rate. Very unusual and scarce usage of the Produce Food strips on cover
Lot 434		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $140 1957 (4 Sep) opened out cover from Melbourne to Amman, Jordan franked with 7½d Olympics. Undeliverable with appropriate backstamps and with bilingual 'RETOUR AL'ENVOYEUR' and 'ADDRESS INSUFFICIENT' handstamps in violet
Lot 435		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $110 1964 (18 Sep) cover from Melbourne to London franked 5/- Cattle, 2/6d Aborigine, 1/- Colombo Plan and 6d Anteater, making up the 4 x 2/3d air mail rate to the U.K.
Lot 436		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $110 1968-69 covers sent from Woomera (SA) to Essex franked at the British Defence Forces 6c concessionary rate, one with 6c Kangaroo Paw, the other with 1c QEII and 5c Banjo Paterson, and both with circular 'BRITISH DEFENCE FORCES MAIL' in magenta. Scarce usages (2)
Lot 437		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $90 1970 (11 Feb) air mail cover from Newcastle to Chicago with 5c Alfred Deakin booklet pane of five plus tab paying correct 25c rate. a scarce commercial usage
Lot 438		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $65 1979-1984 group of souvenir covers in binder (mostly PSEs) celebrating various maritime themes, mostly associated with the RAN for commissioning or de-commissioning of vessels, often with the ship's cachet and signed by the commander or other appropriate personnel. Also a few similar U.S. naval souvenir covers. An unusual and rarely seen group (62 covers)
Lot 439		Estimate: $125T Military: c.1916 Liverpool Camp usage of POW Free printed envelope printed in black, (ASC X3.5 - Emery PSPE.3) to U.S.A. with Col. Holman censor cachet in violet at left (CA.231), 'PASSED BY/CENSOR,S.D.' (CM.43), slight soiling and opened out
Lot 440		Estimate: $75T Realised Price : $105 Military: 1916 (27 Jun) cover to Sydney with circled 'PRISONER OF WAR LETTER/ FREE' in violet (Emery type CA.222) and two strikes of Berrima datestamp, some faults
Lot 441		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $46 Military: c.1940s part of censor cover bearing Robes 5/- and 10/-, 1/- Lyrebird and 1/6d Hermes, tied by two strikes of 'Director of Military Operations/and Intelligence' in violet, censor label on reverse
Lot 442		Estimate: $80 Military: 1940-41 censored air mail covers with tape and cachets at left 1940 (Oct) Sydney to Palestine (1/6d), 1941 (Sep) AIF Abroad and re-addressed to Beirut (9d) and 1941 (Oct) Newcastle to Palestine (9d). Interesting trio
Lot 443		Estimate: $125 Military: 1943 use of Red Cross POW envelope (solid line at base - ASC X2.8) Sydney to Malaya, censor '3' tape and cachets, Melbourne datestamp, minor soiling