AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL STATIONERY, ENVELOPES, STAMPED-TO-ORDER ISSUES

Lot 1234		Estimate: $700 Realised Price : $525 1946-47 1½d Green on Defaced 2½d Red with Type II obliteration of oval of bars on Warbuton Franki (Melb.) Ltd. window envelope, used at Melbourne 3 December 1947. Back flap missing, otherwise fine. BW ES81, cat AU$2000
Lot 1235		Estimate: $2,200 Stamped-to-order Envelopes: 1943-46 1½d Green + 1d Brown KGVI embossed for London Stores Ltd, used in Melbourne 2 July 1946, fine. BW ES82, cat AU$4000
Lot 1236		Estimate: $2,500 Stamped-to-order Envelopes: 1943-46 1½d Green + 1d Brown KGVI oval embossed used from, Sydney 5 January 1943 (the earliest known date), user unknown, very fine used. Only five examples of this envelope are recorded, from four different users. BW ES82, cat AU$4000
Lot 1237		Estimate: $400 Stamped-to-order Envelopes: 1950-51 2d Violet and 2d Green KGVI oval embossed envelopes, used by Harris Scarfe Ltd. (Adelaide) for the 2d printed matter rate. This rate came into force on 1 December 1950, at which time the colour of the embossing should have been changed from violet to green, however one printing was made for Harris Scarfe in violet. The 2d violet with some toning down right side of envelope. See Note in BW catalogue, BW ES84 and 85, cat AU$875 (2)
Lot 1238		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $80 Stamped-to-order Envelopes: 1942-50 2d Bright Mauve KGVI oval embossed (for permit mail), a fine example used by permit holder P.M. 354 and cancelled at Melbourne 20 December 1947. BW ES84, cat AU$200
Lot 1239		Estimate: $3,000 Stamped-to-order Envelopes: 1947(?) 2½d + 2½d Red KGVI oval embossed envelope used by permit holder No. 354 (Roy Robbins, Turf Commission Agent) meeting the 2d permit mail plus 3d airmail fee rate, and used from Melbourne to Canberra. Fine and very rare, with only four entires recorded. BW ES87, cat AU$6000