Airmails 2013 (#414) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 353. Previous|1234|Next Lot 301 June 1914 (AAMC.2) a "Wizard Stone" postcard, prepared for the first planned official airmail flight in Australia, from Melbourne to Sydney. The flight was cancelled as a result of a crash 5 days before the scheduled flight. This card was later carried by train to Sydney and subsequently forwarded by sea to New Zealand. Foreign destinations are rare. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 302 16-18 July 1914 (AAMC.3) Melbourne - Sydney special postcard carried by Maurice Guillaux on the first official airmail flight in Australia. Flight time was 9 hours, 33 minutes. "The most important flight in pre-World War 1 Australian aviation history" (Nelson Eustis). The card with minor faults but with a fine strike of the oval date stamp tieing a 1d Roo; clear Sydney arrival cds of 18 July. View details Estimate$350 - $400Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot 303 15-27 Feb.1917 (AAMC.10) Mt.Gambier - Melbourne special postcard carried by Basil Watson on an official air mail flight. He made 5 stops en route and carried cards postmarked at each town. This card is a fine example of the 371 carried all the way from Mt.Gambier and has a particularly interesting written message: ".....May Aviation succeed in Peace as it has in helping to down our enemies..." View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 304 Feb.1917 (AAMC.14a) Basil Watson special postcard, Unused. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 305 23 Nov.1917 (AAMC.16) South Australia's First Official Air Mail: souvenir postcard flown Adelaide - Gawler by R. Graham Carey(the first Australian civilian pilot) in his 60hp Bleriot XI, acquired from Maurice Guillaux. (minor surface thins & abrasions on image panel). With official typed message from the organizing committee refering to the airmail delivery flight as an "educational novelty". View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot 306 26 Nov.1917 (AAMC.18) Gawler - Adelaide special postcard carried by R. Graham Carey in his Bleriot 60 monoplane on the return flight. With KGV 1d Red tied by 24NO17 cds of GAWLER. Signed at a later date by the pilot.[67 cards carried on the return flight]. A few minor creases, etc. Ex. Nelson Eustis. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSold Lot 307 Nov. - Dec.1918 (AAMC.18ab) Bandar Abbas - Mussoree (Delhi) cover carried by General Borton & Major General Salmond on their RAF Survey flight from Cairo to Calcutta. With a fine strike of the circular "CARRIED BY FIRST AERIAL MAIL CAIRO - DELHI / DECR. 1918" and arrival cds on reverse. Signed by Salmond. The all Australian crew comprised of Ross Smith, J.M. Bennett and Wally Shiers. Before they had left Cairo, Smith had written to his mother that they intended to fly to Australia in a Handley P View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,500Price Realized$5,500StatusSold Lot 308 6-11 Aug.1919 (AAMC.20a & 22) special postcards carried by Captain Harry Butler in his "Red Devil" Bristol Tourer: Adelaide - Minlaton, with a privately written message and Minlaton - Adelaide, #114 with printed message & signature of the pilot. A most attractive pair in very good condition. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$450StatusSold Lot 309 4 Sept.1919 (AAMC.23) Hobart - Launceston cover, flown by E.D. Cummings in a War Loans advertising plane, a Sopwith Pup. With two-line cachet "FIRST TAS. AERO MAIL / D.P.M.G." and "LAUNCESTON 5SE19" arrival backstamp. This was the first aerial mail in Tasmania. [6 covers are believed to survive]. The Nelson Eustis example, almost identical to this cover sold for $3500 + commission. View details Estimate$3,000 - $3,500Price Realized$2,250StatusSold Lot 310 10 Nov.1919 (AAMC.25b) postcard from Chahbar on the Persian Gulf to Karachi, flown by Poulet & Benoist in their Caudron G4 "La Mouche" with cachet 'FIRST THROUGH AERIAL MAIL / GREAT BRITAIN TO INDIA / KARACHI 14.10.1919' in violet, with amendment in red ink "Paris to Melbourne 11.11". Only three items with this amended cachet recorded, and thus rarer than the Bandar Abbas - Karachi cover [AAMC.25a, 8 reported] which sold for $11,000 plus commission in our December 2003 sale. View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSold Lot 311 Oct.1919 - Mar.1920 (AAMC.26a) Baghdad - Bombay cover, carried by Campbell Matthews & Thomas Kay on their ill-fated attempt to fly from England to Australia. The Sopwith Wallaby crashed at Bandar Abbas on 3 Feb.1920, departing after repairs on 24 Feb. They arrived in Karachi on 3 Mar. and the cover was sent by surface to Bombay, with 7 Mar. arrival backstamp. The aviators continued their flight from India but crashed again in Bali on 17 April, where the flight was abandoned. Very few covers have View details Estimate$3,000 - $3,500Price Realized$3,250StatusSold Lot 312 THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL AIRMAIL FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA: Nov.-Dec.1919 (AAMC.27) England - Australia cover flown by Ross Smith, Keith Smith, Jim Bennett & Wally Shiers on their winning flight, the special vignette in superb condition and tied by one of two strikes of the oval cachet 'FIRST AERIAL MAIL / RECEIVED 26FEB1920 / GREAT BRITAIN TO AUSTRALIA' in black, also tieing the Australian KGV adhesive. Addressed to Mrs Taulon, Darlinghurst, New South Wales (AAMC. cover #325). One of only 13 View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Price Realized$3,250StatusSold Lot 313 30 July 1920 (AAMC.47) Melbourne - Traralgon flown cover with superb example of the 'HERALD AERIAL DELIVERY' vignette tied to front, with Tasmanian 1½d tied by arrival cds. The purpose of the flight by Captain E.W.Leggatt was the experimental delivery of Herald & Weekly Times newspapers to regional towns. [266 flown, but very few appear to have survived]. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,125StatusSold Lot 314 Aug.1920 (AAMC.47c) "Velvet Soap" advertising postcard dropped over Melbourne by R. Graham Carey in his Maurice Farman Shorthorn biplane, as depicted on the card. The reverse of the card shows Carey in the cockpit and an aerial view of the soapworks fo J. Kitchen & Sons, the manufacturers of Velvet soap and is signed by the pilot. Excellent condition. [Eustis says "Only four cards known". His example, unsigned by Carey, sold for $4000 + commission in our auction of March 2008.] View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$2,250StatusSold Lot 315 10 Aug.1920 (AAMC.48) Melbourne - Hamilton flown postcard (minor bends; but scarce) with "Herald Air Mail" vignette in brown (Frommer 3d) alongside the 1½d KGV adhesive. Although approximately 700 items were reported to have been flown, very few appear to have survived. Another example of the experimental newspaper delivery flights by Captain E.W.Leggatt. [NB: We are not aware of another postcard carried on this flight.] View details Estimate$1,250 - $1,500Price Realized$940StatusSold Lot 316 4 Dec.1921 (AAMC.56a) Nungarin [280kms east of Perth] - Mandathuna Station [100kms east of Carnarvon] cover showing a fine strike of the "PERTH DERBY AERIAL MAIL" cds prepared by Western Australian Airways for their inaugural contract air mail flights. This cover was carried by air part of the way north, flown back to Perth (after the disasterous loss of 2 of the aircraft involved) then carried by the steam ship "Bambra" for eventual delivery, departing Fremantle on Dec.10th. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot 317 FORGERY: Dec.1921 (AAMC.56c) An example of a forged "AERIAL MAIL" cachet on a cover purporting to be from Fremantle to Derby but also with forged circular date stamps. View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot 318 19 Dec.1921 (AAMC.57b) Broome - Perth cover carried by Brearley & Kingsford Smith by air only as far as Cape Latouche, approximately 100kms south of Broome, where engine trouble forced them to land on the beach. A boat was despatched from Broome to collect the crew and the mails, which were, once again, carried by the steam ship "Bambra" which was passing through Broome, en route from Derby, on the 22nd. She arrived in Fremantle on the 30th. A very scarce cover; minor opening faults at upper lef View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot 319 17 April 1922 (AAMC.63,64a) Melbourne - Geelong cover, flown by Captain Roy King or Captain A.W. Vigars for The Herald & Weekly Times; with special blue vignette "Herald Air Mail" affixed and postmarked on arrival together with the 1d postage stamps. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 320 5 Nov.1922 (AAMC.66) Cloncurry - Charleville cover flown by QANTAS on the first return airmail delivery flight over this route and bearing the extremely rare "FOR AERIAL TRANSMISSION" red on white vignette. Flown by Hudson Fysh (Cloncurry - Longreach) and P.J. McGinness (Longreach - Charleville) and addressed to C.G.Grey, editor of "The Aeroplane" in London. Of the approximately 15 covers known from these inaugural Qantas flights, 2 are recorded to New Zealand addresses and this is the only othe View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSold Lot 321 2-4 June 1924 (AAMC.71 & 72) Adelaide - Sydney & return flown covers carried by Australian Aerial Services Ltd on their inaugural service via Mildura, Hay, Narrandera and Cootamundra. The cover originating in Adeliade is signed by the pilots Roberts, Butler & Briggs. Five bags of mail were carried; the number of items is unknown]. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot 322 18 Aug.1924 cover flown from Longreach to Charleville by QANTAS and bearing their black on green "BY AIR MAIL" label; addressed to New Zealand and "certified" by the PM at Longreach. [The route, approximately 450kms, took 4 days by surface and less than 5 hours by air.] Accompanied by a cover flown from Charleville to Longreach in July 1926 showing the "FORWARDED BY AIR MAIL' cachet (AAMC.91). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 323 April-May 1925 (AAMC.78b) Calcutta - Sydney flown (half) cover, carried by Francesco di Pinedo in the first flying boat from Europe to Australia. Signed and authenticated on reverse & numbered #89. [1 of 42 addressed to Sydney]. [For details of the dispute that led to the covers being cut in half please see page 34 in the current edition of AAMC.]. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusUnsold Lot 324 20-21 July 1925 (AAMC.89a & 90a) Mildura - Broken Hill and Sydney - Deniliquin covers flown by Australian Aerial Services Ltd on their inaugural flights incorporating several new intermediates on their expanding network. Also, Sept.1925 Narrandera - Melbourne flown cover bearing an "Angel" vignette tied by the postmark. An attractive trio. Cat.$650. View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 325 July 1925 - Dec.1934 range of flown covers; mainly first or special flights and noted July 1925 Hay - Broken Hill, various covers with vignettes, May 1931 Batavia - Sydney, 1934 Trans-Tasmans, etc. Mainly fine; some duplication. Cat.$1245. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 326 7 Aug.1926 (AAMC.97) O.H.M.S. cover franked KGV 1d, flown Darwin - Sydney by Alan Cobham, 2 days after arriving in Darwin at the conclusion of his flight from London in a DH50J, endorsed 'Aerial mail by / Capt Cobham' & signed by him. (Rare, only 10 official covers flown this leg). View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot 327 24 Aug.1926 (AAMC.100) Melbourne - London cover flown & signed by Alan Cobham on the return flight to and from Australia which had started in London in June; together with a typed letter dated 1954 signed by Cobham authenticating the cover, and with a postscript "Plane Used was a D.H.50 fitted with floats....". Rare [Cress states "10 covers posted upon arrival"]. (2 items) View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500StatusUnsold Lot 328 PACIFIC ISLANDS SURVEY FLIGHT: Sept. - Dec.1926 (AAMC.102) Tulagi, Solomon Islands - Rabaul: A cover flown by Group Captain Richard Williams on his survey flight from Melbourne to various Pacific Islands in a DH50A seaplane and endorsed "Aerial Mail" at left. The intention was to follow the East Coast as far as Thursday Island and then via Papua, New Britain and the Solomon Islands to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia before turning east again for Fiji and Samoa. Engine trouble and sickness cau View details Estimate$15,000 - $17,500StatusUnsold Lot 329 May 1927 - June 1939 range of commercial airmail covers including internal with "FORWARDED BY AIR MAIL" cachet or "Angel" vignette, 1931 Rotterdam - Geelong, 1934 Melbourne - Quetta, 1935 Simla - Sydney, 1938 Empire Rate to Egypt redirected to Sydney, 1938 Brisbane - Ireland, 1939 France - Werribee, 1939 Melbourne - Toronto. A nice group with the original write-up and prices of the dealer from whom they were acquired. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 330 1-2 July 1927 (AAMC.106 & 107) Cloncurry - Normanton Qantas flown cover, signed by the pilot, Hudson Fysh [150 flown]; accompanied by an uprated 1d postal card flown Normanton - Cloncurry on the return flight the next day, the card additionally showing the scarce "Visit Normnanton for big game fishing" [AAMC.107a] for The Gulf Air Service. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot 331 5 Aug.1927 (AAMC.108a) Melbourne - Alice Springs - Melbourne cover (front) with "Angel" vignette, carried by Australian Aerial Services in association with the "Reso" tour of Central Australia. The front is addressed to Charles Barrett, (1879-1959) who wrote more than 50 books about the fauna and flora of Australia and Papua New Guinea. He wrote for the Melbourne Herald for 33 years, and edited the nature and travel books published by the Herald and Weekly Times. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 332 Dec.1927 (AAMC.112) Darwin - Charleville intermediate, registered cover flown by Lancaster & Miller on their flight from England to Australia and return and signed by Captain Lancaster. Mrs Miller was the first woman to travel by air from England to Australia. With special map vignette affixed. [12 covers carried on this leg]. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$375StatusSold Lot 333 Dec.1927 (AAMC.113b) Calcutta - Rangoon intermediate cover flown by Lancaster & Miller on their flight from England to AUstralia and return. Mrs Miller was the first woman to travel by air from England to Australia. With special map vignette affixed. [52 covers carried on this leg]. Accompanied by an original photo (faults) of their plane "Red Rose" coming in to land, signed by Lancaster & Miller. View details Estimate$350 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 334 Feb.1928 (AAMC.115b) Calcutta - Rangoon cover with "BRITISH FLIGHT" vignette, carried on this intermediate stage of the flight from England to Australia by Captain H.M. Cave-Brown-Cave, in command of a flight of 4 RAF Supermarine flying boats. There a no recorded covers known, carried outside the Asian stops of Bombay, Colombo, Calcutta, Rangoon and Akyab. [92 carried on this leg, of which this is #90]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 335 7-22 February 1928 (AAMC.117) A real-photo postcard (the lighthouse on Manora Island, near Karachi) carried by Bert Hinkler from Calcutta to Bundaberg, Qld., where it was mislaid until 4 July, when it received a belated "arrival" cds prior to being returned to Calcutta by surface mail (7 Aug. arrival cds). Ex Nelson Eustis. [NB: This card, accompanied by a photograph of Hinkler being greeted on arrival by his mother, was acquired by Cress during our auction of the Eustis collection in March 2008 View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Price Realized$4,750StatusSold Lot 336 22 Feb.1928 (AAMC.119) Registered cover, flown by Bert Hinkler and endorsed by him "Carried by Aeroplane Avian G-EBOV Darwin - Bundaberg" followed by his signature. He arrived at Bundaberg, his home-town on the 27th. [12 flown on this final leg.]. Ex Nelson Eustis. {NB: The next registered cover, almost identical except the addressee, is illustrated at p.39, AAMC. 8th Edition, 2008]. View details Estimate$1,800 - $2,200StatusUnsold Lot 337 8 June 1928 (AAMC.122b) Naselai Sands, Fiji - Eagle Farm, Brisbane cover flown by Kingsford Smith with Ulm, Lyon & Warner on their epic trans - Pacific flight via Hawaii and Fiji in the 'Southern Cross', posted and cancelled in Sydney during the week after their arrival. The cover is signed by Kingsford Smith & the relief pilot Charles Ulm & is endorsed on reverse "From Mrs H.Marks" (wife of the Mayor of Suva) and is one of only six carried this leg. An important piece of Australian aviation his View details Estimate$12,500 - $15,000Price Realized$9,375StatusSold Lot 338 1928 (Aug.25) Charles Kingsford and Charles Ulm in the "Southern Cross" G-AUSU, flew from Perth to Sydney. This cover was cancelled 5 PM 2-? August 1928. It contained a letter written by a friend of Kingsford Smith, Miss Phyllis Gillett (later Mrs Phyllis Downer) addressed to Mrs Elsie Pike. Annotated at top left "Per 'Southern Cross'" and signed by Kingsford Smith. With the original letter and a b/w photograph of Kingsford Smith. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot 339 10 Sept.1928 (AAMC.124) Following their successful flight across the Pacific Ocean, Charles Kingsford Smith & Charles Ulm flew across the Tasman Sea for the first time in the "Southern Cross" on this date. This cover is one of the 15 carried and is signed by both pilots. Although the Australian P.M.G. Department did not agree to send an official air mail, the mail became "official" once Ulm was sworn in under New Zealand's postal regulations as a carrier. (The previously affixed Australian adhes View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSold Lot 340 13 Oct.1928 (AAMC.126) New Zealand - Australia, cover carried in the "Southern Cross" on the first flight across the Tasman in an East-West direction. This was Kingsford Smith's return flight, with the same crew as the 10th Sept. flight. The cover is signed by him and crew members Litchfield and Williams. [16 flown]. View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,000Price Realized$2,625StatusSold Lot 341 March & June 1930 (AAMC.131 & 142) A "Coffee Royal" cover, signed by the rescued pilots, Charles Kingsford Smith & Charles Ulm, who having become lost in the Kimberley region of North Western Australia, while en route to England in the "Southern Cross", had to abandon that flight. This is one of the 12 covers prepared for that flight. Following the recovery from their ordeal (and the controversy swirling around them in its' wake) Kingsford Smith & Ulm carried the same 12 covers on their successf View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$2,200StatusSold Lot 342 17-22 Apr.1929 (AAMC.132a & 133aa) Scarce "non-Davis Brothers" Brisbane - Charleville [740kms] and Toowoomba - Brisbane [130kms] Qantas flown covers; both with "INAUGURAL FLIGHT" vignettes. Cat.$400+. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 343 1929-35 range on annotated exhibit pages. Includes several signed covers (Kingsford Smith, Brearley, Johnson, Butler) and several registered examples. A nice group including AAMC.137a signed intermediate, AAMC.165a uprated 1d postcard, AAMC.188j N.Z. despatch signed by Kingsford Smith, AAMC.187ze Penang to Darwin, AAMC.194 reg'd to Perth, AAMC.204 reg'd to Java, AAMC.197 & 198, AAMC.192 reg'd, AAMC.245a, AAMC.294 reg'd, AAMC.470d, 470f, 470p, etc. AAMC:$2100+. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot 344 1929-1980 range of mainly first flights incl. 1929 (Apr.4) Basrah - Karachi - Adelaide, 1929 (Jun.9) Adelaide - Perth and return pair, 1930 (Feb.19) Camooweal - Daly Waters, 1931 (Apr.23) Aust. - England (5 with 2 intermediates), 1931(Apr.25) Calcutta - Aust. - New Zealand, 1934 (Feb.8) Mt. Coolon - Rockhampton, 1934 (May.11) Aust. - New Zealand Goodwill Flight (faults) and 1938 (Nov.27) 'Calpurnia' crash cover. Mixed condition, better pickings, catalogue value $2000+. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot 345 10-26 June 1929 (AAMC.139a) Sydney - Charleville - Wyndham - Darwin - Adelaide - Sydney cover carried on the "Canberra" aerial survey flight of northern Australia. Pilot was Captain Les Holden. {NB: this is the cover illustrated at p.4,3 AAMC. 8th Edition, 2008]. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 346 1929-39 group of commercial covers, majority airmail from Australia (25), to Australia (17) or via Australia (2), some on annotated pages. Origins or destinations incl. Asia, Europe & USA with registered, re-directed, taxed, official & Service Suspended, with a wide range of frankings. Noted 1929 (Jun.14) Aust. - Ceylon reg. cover re-directed to GB with extra 69c Ceylon franking, 1937 (Apr.20) Aust. - Greece - Sweden cover, franked 2/2, 1935 (Sept.3) Aust. - Holland cover franked 4/1 & 1939 (Apr View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot 347 1929-42 group of mainly commercial airmail covers with various frankings. Incl. 1929 (Jun.3) combination franking cover, 1931 (Mar.19) Brisbane - Harris Park, K'ford Smith reg. FDC with 3d strip of 3, 1932 cover with boxed "INSUFFICIENTLY PREPAID FOR AIRMAIL SERVICE", undated cover for the K'ford Smith 1935 Mascot - Richmond flight cancelled with a straight line "M.O.O. RICMOND" and Military P.O. cds's (4). Mixed condition. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 348 19 Aug.1929 (AAMC.143) Adelaide - Cowell cover, flown and signed by James Mollison on his inaugural flight for Eyre Peninsula Airways Ltd. [6 flown, all cancelled on arrival]. Cat.$600. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 349 30 Nov.1929 (as AAMC.145) Streaky Bay - Kyancutta - Adelaide cover, flown for Eyre Peninsula Airways (with special vignette on yellow stock on reverse) with rectangular cachet tieing the KGV adhesive. The airline received no subsidy and charged no surcharge for the air mail service, which covered a distance of over 550kms. View details Estimate$300 - $350StatusUnsold Lot 350 15 Dec.1929 (AAMC.146) Perth - Karachi - England flown registered cover with printed "BY FIRST AIR MAIL ROUTE AUSTRALIA - ENGLAND Via KARACHI" at left and arrival backstamp. Accompanied by a Jan.30 cover from England to Australia via the same route. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$85StatusSold Lot 351 15 Dec.1929 (AAMC.146) Melbourne - Karachi - England flown registered cover with mss "BY 1st AUSTRALIAN and KARACHI Air Mails only" at left and arrival backstamp. Accompanied by an Apr.1931 cover from Australia to GB via the same route with LATE FEE supplement paid. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot 352 1-3 Jan.1930 (AAMC.148-9) Sydney - Brisbane & Brisbane - Sydney covers flown by Kinsford Smith & Ulm on their inaugural flights for Australian National Airways Ltd; the latter registered. The return flight was forced to land near Casino and the mail was collected the next day by E.H.Chaseling for delivery to Sydney. The company was not off to a great start. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 353 Feb.1930 Melbourne to Calcutta cover rated 4.5d for internal airmail to Perth + seamail to India; July 1931 cover from Burwood, Victoria to Malta (& re-directed Italy) rated 5d for internal airmail + surface mail to Europe; also, Oct.1933 6d-rated cover from Sydney to Germany, via internal airmail to Perth, thence by sea. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 354 14 Feb.1930 cover from Adelaide to Darwin (25/3 arrival b/stamp) flown by AAS from Adelaide to Sydney, by ANA from Sydney to Brisbane, by QANTAS from Brisbane to Camooweal, AAS from Camooweal to Daly Waters and from there by surface to Darwin. An 11 day transit! View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot 355 19-21 Feb.1930 (AAMC.151-52) Camooweal - Daly Waters and return, covers flown and signed by the pilot, Frank Neale, for Australian Aerial Services. [50 & 30 flown respectively]. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 356 19 Feb.1930 (AAMC.153) Darwin - Daly Waters cover (with Camooweal backstamp) carried by Captain Murray Jones as part of a very small mail which was technically not permitted by the Post Office. This is one of only 14 covers he was able to take with him (despite the fact that there were bags of mail waiting to be despatched). Rarely seen. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 357 31 Mar.1930 (AAMC.155-56) Brisbane - Townsville and return, flown registered covers carried on "The Star of Townsville" inaugural flights by the Queensland Air Navigation Co. [Fewer than 100 covers carried in each direction]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 358 1 June 1930 (AAMC.161-62) Melbourne - Sydney & return, registered covers carried on the first flights on this important route by the Kingsford Smith & Ulm partnership, Australian National Airways. The "Southern Moon" carried the mail from Melbourne; the "Southern Star" carried the mail from Sydney. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 359 9 Oct. 1930 (AAMC.170) England - Australia cover, flown and signed by Charles Kingsford Smith; endorsed 'Per Aeroplane "Southern Cross Junior" from England'. This was a record solo flight in 9 days, 21 hours & 40 minutes, which beat Bert Hinkler's record by five days. [Eustis comments "A very small number of signed covers were flown.]. Ex Nelson Eustis. [The cover is illustrated at p.48, AAMC. 8th Edition, 2008]. View details Estimate$3,000 - $3,500Price Realized$2,250StatusSold Lot 360 The first Bass Strait Air Mail: 19 Jan.1931 (AAMC.175) (Hobart) - Launceston - Melbourne - (Sydney) registered cover, flown and signed by Charles Kingsford Smith in the "Southern Cloud". The flight was continued from Melbourne to Sydney in the "Southern Sun" by E. Chaseling, who has also signed the cover (on the back). [14 carried]. Ex Nelson Eustis. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$565StatusSold Lot 361 19 Feb.1931 (AAMC.177) Calcutta - Darwin cover, flown by Fairbairn & Shenstone en route from England; with 'BRITISH FLIGHT' cachet & 'DETAINED TILL 5th. APRIL / ENGINE OVERHAULED' handstamp, [only 43 flown]. View details Estimate$350 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 362 1931 (Mar.19) Kingsford Smith set of 3 on a cover, unusually registered and flown, Melbourne - Sydney - Fiji. With 3 backstamps. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot 363 TWO IMPORTANT FLIGHTS BY FRANCIS CHICHESTER: 30 Mar. 1931 (AAMC.183) Francis Chichester's Tasman flight: Lord Howe Island - Norfolk Island cover, flown & endorsed by Chichester, (#42 of between 50 - 60 flown). This was the first solo crossing of the Tasman from East to West. His DeHaviland DH60G being the first aeroplane to land on Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands.Also,7 July 1931 (AAMC.210) Thursday Island - Japan cover, flown, signed & endorsed by Chichester, postmarked at Manila on July 24th and View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$625StatusSold Lot 364 April 1931 (AAMC.188 & 192) Australia - England & England - Australia covers carried on the First Experimental Airmail flights; the former from BOULDER, W.A. and signed by Kingsford Smith & Allan; the latter also signed by Kingsford Smith. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 365 1-2 May 1931 (AAMC.198,198a) Perth - Melbourne - Hobart flown covers (3, incl. 1 reg'd) plus Perth - Melbourne - Launceston flown covers (3, incl. 1 reg'd). View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$170StatusSold Lot 366 A NEW RECORD FOR THE FLIGHT FROM AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND: 25 July 1931 (AAMC.214) Australia (Wyndham) - England cover (registered on arrival) carried by James Mollison on his record flight, arriving at Croydon Airport on 6th August in 8 days, 19.5 hours. Having done so, he had set the fastest time for the route in either direction. [Only 2 covers reported]. View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$3,750StatusSold Lot 367 18 Sept.1931 (AAMC.215a) Sydney - Melbourne cover, flown and signed by Charles Kingsford Smith in the "Southern Cross Minor". This was the first leg of his Australia - England solo record attempt. [10 flown this leg]. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot 368 THE FIRST FLIGHT FROM NEW CALEDONIA TO AUSTRALIA: 21 Nov.1931 (AAMC.223) Ouaco, New Caledonia - Marlborough, Qld., cover, flown, signed & endorsed by Victor Roffey in the "Golden Eagle; with Brisbane 24 Nov. backstamp. [90 flown]. NB: The Eustis example (unsigned) brought $1050 + commission in our March 2008 auction. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot 369 3-4 Dec.1931 (AAMC.228) Birdum - Daly Waters cover, addressed to Billimari, flown by Qantas on the return leg of their temporary wet season contract service, and signed by the pilot, Joseph N. Wilson. [only 20 flown; very few signed]. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$525StatusSold Lot 370 7 Jan.1932 (AAMC.245b) a rare intermediate from the delayed Christmas Mail flight from England - Australia in the "Southern Star": a cover flown from Rome - Darwin by Kingsford Smith & signed by him. (only 12 thus carried). Accompanied by a London - Melbourne cover (AAMC.245) signed by the co-pilot, G.U.Allan. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 371 18 Feb.1932 (AAMC.251) England - Italy cover, carried by Hamilton & Coupland on the first leg of their attempted flight to Australia. They crashed at Puglia, Italy, where the flight was abandoned and only 8 covers were recovered from the crash site. This example is signed by both pilots, who survived the crash, and is registered as cover #8 with 6-line cachet on reverse. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$2,400StatusSold Lot 372 May 1932 (AAMC.252a) Darwin - Sydney cover, flown & signed by R.T. Richards and Lady I. Chaytor at the conclusion of their flight from England in a DH60GT "Miss Beefex". [Lady Chaytor was to have flown to Australia with Richards, however she became ill in India and continued to Perth by ship. There, following a flight from Darwin, they joined up again and continued their flight via Melbourne.] Ex Nelson Eustis. View details Estimate$300 - $350StatusUnsold Lot 373 THE FIRST FLIGHT FROM AUSTRALIA TO NEW CALEDONIA: 5 April 1932 (AAMC.254) Brisbane - Noumea cover, flown & signed by French aviators, Baron de Verneilh, M.E. Deve and E. Munch in their Couzinet 33 "Bairritz". They crashed on arrival near Noumea. [8 flown]. Ex Nelson Eustis. View details Estimate$1,250 - $1,500Price Realized$1,400StatusSold Lot 374 30 Apr. - 29 June 1932 (AAMC.264) Darwin - Wyndham cover carried on a Round Australia Flight from Perth, posted en route, endorsed "Carried from Darwin to Wyndham by J.J.Thorpe in Aeroplane VH-UPD around Australia 6/6/32". [only 3 carried on this remote leg]. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 375 June - Aug.1932 (AAMC.265) Darwin - India (- England) cover carried and signed by pilot, J.M. Weir on his attempted flight in his DH60X Moth "edith". The flight was abandoned at Karachi due to the collapse of the undercarriage during a feirce monsoon. The aircraft was dismantled and Weir accompanied it by ship to England. This cover, one of only 2 carried by him from Darwin, was forwarded to the addressee in France following his arrival in England in early August. (Paris b/stamp). View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot 376 13 June 1932 (AAMC.269a) Sydney - Bourke - Sydney (Quaker's Hill) cover flown & signed by L.J.Jones, the designer and Dorothy Mitchell, sister of the pilot Roy H.Mitchell, who was killed when the aeroplane crashed on 16 June. [10 flown]. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 377 July-Aug.1932 (AAMC.271a) Dr.W.G.Woolnough Round Australia Geological Survey Flight cover to NSW cancelled at BROOME 5.AU.32, signed by pilots Charlesworth and Miles and expedition leader Woolnough. [2 or 3 flown]. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 378 8 Sept.1932 (AAMC.278) "Mrs Harry Bonney - Adelaide" signed cover, mailed during a stopover during her "Round Australia Flight" in the Gipsy Moth "My Little Ship". An extremely rare example from this flight which made Bonney the first female pilot to encircle Australia. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$525StatusSold Lot 379 17 Nov.1932 (AAMC.286) Calcutta - Akyab cover, franked KGV 1a3p & cancelled on arrival; flown & signed by Jaques Hebert en route from England to Australia. Hebert was the first Canadian to fly this route. [57 flown]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 380 Oct.1932-Jan.1933 (AAMC.292) Lasseter's Reef Expedition registered cover flown and signed by the pilot, Errol Coote on the "West Centralian Gold Expedition" aircraft. [One of 6 covers posted at Laverton, W.A.] View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 381 11 Nov.1932 (AAMC.294c) Madigan Aerial Expedition cover, endorsed & posted at ALICE SPRINGS and signed by Prof.C.T. Madigan during his investigations into an alleged gold strike in northern Australia. Very small number of covers carried. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 382 7 Apr.1933 (AAMC.297) Brisbane - Melbourne cover carried on a survey flight by RAAF Suremarine Flying Boat, signed by the pilot, A. Hempel and the radio operator. [6 flown]. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 383 24 Mar.1933 (AAMC.298) Hobart - Brisbane cover carried on a survey flight by RAAF Suremarine Flying Boat, signed by the pilot, A. Hempel, the radio operator & a crew member. [12 flown]. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 384 26 Mar.1933 (AAMC.299a) Sydney - New Zealand - Sydney cover signed by Charles Kingsford Smith & carried on the second flight of the "Southern Cross" from NZ to Australia. [one of 10 covers flown in both directions]. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusUnsold Lot 385 March - May 1933 (AAMC.306) Dr Carl Nauer registered flight cover from Zurich to Australia carried from Switzerland in his DH80 Puss Moth viaItaly and India. Nauer died shortly after this flight, in a crash in Africa. [100 flown]. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$375StatusSold Lot 386 Signed internal flight covers: 22 May 1933 (AAMC.308) Sydney - Grafton, signed by Keith Virtue; 2 June 1934 (AAMC.383) Brisbane - Mundubbera, signed by Ron Adair; and, 22 June 1934 (AAMC.386) Sydney - Newcastle, signed by T.White. Cat.$400. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 387 20 July 1933 (AAMC.317) Calcutta - Lucknow flown cover, carried by James Wood in "The Spirit of West Australia" whilst on his Perth to England flight; with violet 6-line cachet tieing Dum Dum Air Port label. The onward flight was delayed by the collapse of the undercarriage at Bandar Abbas. [16 flown]. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot 388 1 Sept. 1933 (AAMC.325a) Northern Territory Aerial Survey cover, flown and signed by Frank Neale and Harry Bennett in aPercival Gull. [12 flown]. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 389 9 Oct.1933 (AAMC.334) England - Australia cover flown by Lord Apsley & his party in a Spartan Cruiser "Faithful City", piloted by P.W.Lynch-Blosse & signed by him on reverse. (10 flown). Accompanied by (AAMC.343) Australia - England cover carried by Lynch-Blosse on the return flight 2 months later. (12 flown). View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$450StatusSold Lot 390 13-14 Oct.1933 (AAMC.338 & 339) Melbourne - King Island & return, first flight covers carried by Matthews Aviation and signed by the pilots, Jenkins & Chapman respectively. [30 & 40 flown]. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 391 KINGSFORD SMITH'S THIRD CROSSING OF THE TASMAN: 13 Jan.1934 (AAMC.350) Australia - New Zealand cover, flown by Kingsford Smith in the "Southern Cross", signed by his crew members John Stannage & P.G. Taylor. Also, Mar.1934 (AAMC.367) New Zealand - Australia "Southern Cross" flown souvenir cover. Cat.$700. View details Estimate$350 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 392 5 Feb.1934 (AAMC.355a) Sydney - Longreach cover, flown and initialled by Derek Rawnsley in a DH60X Moth "Edith" on thefirst leg of his flight to England. [20 flown to various intermediates]. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 393 22 Mar.1934 (AAMC.265) England - Australia cover, carried by Rubin & Waller and posted on arrival in Sydney (Apr.19) at the conclusion of their trial flight in preparation for the MacRobertson Air Race. [Very few flown]. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot 394 12 Apr.1934 (AAMC.373) Port Moresby - Townsville cover, flown & signed by Sidney Marshall in a Westland Widgeon on a flight delayed some 2 weeks due to engine problems. This was the first land-plane solo flight from Papua to Australia. [40 flown envelopes signed]. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 395 1934-38 range of first, special, race and rate-change flown covers. Includes inetrnal intermediates, AAMC.438 signed by Kay, AAMC.444 & 445, AAMC.470n to Bulawayo, etc. Mixed condition but mainly fine. AAMC:$1645. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 396 RECORD FLIGHT BY CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH: 23 Aug.1934 (AAMC.398) cover flown Sydney - Melbourne (postmarked on arrival) in the record time of 2 hours, 11 minutes, by Kingsford Smith & P.G.Taylor in the Lockheed Altair "Lady Southern Cross" [VH-USB]. A very small unofficial mail was carried and examples are rarely seen. Kingford Smith had wanted to compete in the MacRobertson Air Race but, having entered in his US built monoplane, he was rejected on this "technicality" but suspected personal anim View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 397 24 Sept.1934 (AAMC.411) cover to Sydney franked 2d tied by Longreach cds, endorsed 'England Australia Flight / per courtesy of / Lester Brain Esq. Pilot / De Havilland 86' & signed by him. This was a QANTAS delivery flight. (12 flown). View details Estimate$350 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 398 Sept.-Oct.1934 (AAMC.419) Woolnough Geological Survey cover, posted at Halls Creek and signed by Woolnough and crew including pilot, O.B. Hall. A little-known flight by the "Southern Cross". [32 flown]. View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot 399 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.433) MacRobertson Air Race registered cover, flown and signed (on reverse) by the winning pilots, Scott & Campbell-Black. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$1,250StatusSold Lot 400 26 Sept.1934 (AAMC.434a) New York - London - Melbourne - New York cover flown by Turner & Pangborn in the MacRobertson Air Race. [Only a small number of covers carried NY - NY]. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$260StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next Previous 1234 Next
