AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL STATIONERY, AEROGRAMMES

Lot 1039		Estimate: $140 1944 7d Blue on Yellowish Paper with printed red cachet for re-opening of Qantas Australia-England service from Perth via Ceylon, cancelled Sydney 11 SE 44 and addressed to England, with diamond censor handstamp in purple. BW AO1e, cat AU$250
Lot 1040		Estimate: $150 1945 7d Deep Blue on Greyish with printed cachet for re-opening of Qantas Australia-England service via Singapore, used from Sydney on 7 April 1946 and backstamped at Singapore, signed by pilots, fine and the example illustrated in the catalogue, ex Nita Wilson. BW A3d, cat AU$225
Lot 1041		Estimate: $75 1952-53 10d Plane in Oval 1954 (11 May) use to U.K., carried by ill-fated 'Belfast' which crashed at Singapore 13.3.1954, dedicated handstamp attests (AAMC 1337)
Lot 1042		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $125 1954-59 10d Red and Deep Blue on Blue mint (2), opt SPECIMEN, and used (6, including first flights, and another with printed cachet used at Heard Island on day of issue of 3½d Antarctic commemorative), mostly ex Nita Wilson (9)
Lot 1043		Estimate: $300 1971 12c Green and Orange-red error 'All Green Printing Omitted', unused and folded, one or two light wrinkles, otherwise fine and rare. BW A37 variety (it is possible this error is actually A36 or A37, since with green printing missing, identification is ambiguous). Ex Nita Wilson
Lot 1044		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1952 'Postage/Paid' OHMS airletters (BW AO1) handstamped 'SPECIMEN' in violet (4), one with printing in Blue, two with printing in Blue and 'ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE' in Indigo, and one with all printing in Deep Blue, two show the variety 'White Flaw Between A and I of MAIL'. Also an example used to England uncancelled but with message dated 20 Mar 1957 (5)
Lot 1045		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1959 OHMS Jet Design overprinted SPECIMEN in red for U.P.U. distribution, handstamped SPECIMEN in violet for collector sale, and used (2, in 1962 to London, and in 1969 to USA), generally fine (4)
Lot 1046		Estimate: $75 Permit Aerogramme: Approved No. 89 (for Lloyd Triestino) commercially used on 1968 (26 Sep) from Spain to Melbourne, flap roughly opened, scarce
Lot 1047		Estimate: $250 Formular Aerogrammes: 1960-61 usages of 1954-59 issue at Honiara, British Solomon Islands, different compositions for 9d rate , 1961 from Visale, Guadalcanal, written by long-serving Sister Mary Theresa, BW FA3D, also 1951 usage of B.S.I. inscribed air letter franked 4d, messages within, and in fine condition (3)