AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES, AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

Lot 878		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $170 1947-1970 range of covers, mostly FDCs, with 1947 registered cover from Heard Island with 2/- Kangaroo, 1948 cover from Macquarie Island with 2½d Farrer, with various cachets including 'OPERATION/SINBAD', then 1955 3½d ANARE, 1958 2/- AAT, 1959 set, 1961 5d Blue AAT, 1961 5d Mawson, 1966 AAT set, 1968 5c AAT, each on FDC used at each base, also additional FDCs cancelled in Australia. All fine and FDCs complete for the period (43 covers)
Lot 879		Estimate: $1,300 1959 1/- Dog Team and Iceberg Presentation Die Proof in issued colour in sunken frame, with Note Printing Branch cachet on reverse endorsed '8.1.60/17' (Sir Daryl Lindsay, Stamp Advisory Committee). Minor staining, otherwise fine, nine die proofs were prepared, one of which is in the Royal Collection. BW AAT4DP(1), cat AU$4000
Lot 880		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1966 Pictorial $1 rare solo registered use by Defence Forces Vietnam, tied by 1967 (12 Sep) AUST F.P.O./3 cds to package-wrapping endorsed 'LETTER TAPE/NO COMMERCIAL/VALUE', provisional registration label (surface rate was 2c per 1oz. + 20c registration fee)