Stamps & Postal History (#89MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 201-300 of 928. Previous|12345678910|Next Lot #702 1922-30 Third Watermark 1d carmine & yellow-green BW #D106 complete right-hand pane of 60 (6x10) divided into two blocks of 30, plus lower-half of the left-hand pane, with listed varieties, most units are unmounted, Cat $1800++. (3 blocks) View details Estimate$450StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol**/*Gradea/a+ Lot #703 1922-30 Third Watermark 1½d carmine & bright yellow-green AJ Mullett Imprint block of 4 (lower units unmounted) & 1½d carmine & yellow-green John Ash Imprint block of 4 (unmounted) BW #D107za & zb, Cat $550 (mounted). (2 blocks) View details Estimate$300Price Realized$240StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbol*/**Gradea Lot #704 1922-30 Third Watermark 1½d carmine & bright yellow-green AJ Mullett printing (some minor perf separation, most units unmounted) & 1½d carmine & yellow-green John Ash printing (unmounted) BW #D107B & C complete sheets of 120 with full imprints, Cat $3000++. [With plating notes] (2 sheets) View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbol*/**Gradea Lot #705 1931-36 CofA Wmk Perf 11 3d BW #D118 (SG D108) block of 8 (2x4) with 'CANTERBURY/9JE38/NSW' cds, Cat $800+ (£560+). A very scarce large multiple. View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold Symbolg/fGradea b1 Lot #706 1946-57 Redrawn Frame Plates 7d carmine & yellow-green Authority Imprint block of 8 (4x2) from the Ash Plate with Dot below the Imprint BW #D136zb, well centred, unmounted, Cat $750+. The ACSC states "Rare". View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Symbol**Gradea b1 Lot #707 Selection with WWI POW notelope from Holdsworthy Camp & letter on 'CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AUSTRALIA' letterhead from Trial Bay, 1935 registered cover to Czechoslovakia with 1d + Macarthur 2d & 3d, 1937 airmail to Denmark correctly rated 1/9d but with jusqu'a bars of London, 1939 airmail to Sydney with Darwin cds & boxed 'PAQUEBOT' h/s, and 1950 from Hobart with Darwin cds & 'UNCLAIMED' h/s, condition variable. (7 items) View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcps Lot #708 Large carton of covers in shoeboxes & albums, mostly Decimal period with a high proportion of airmail covers from a family correspondence to Germany with numerous better frankings including International Stamps, good postmark content, also some FDCs & other philatelic covers, generally very fine. ( ) View details Estimate$250Price Realized$320StatusSold Symbolcps Lot #709 #NAME? View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold Symbolcps Lot #710 Box of mostly pre-decimal commercial covers the majority to overseas destinations including Brazil, Italy, Hawaii, Ireland, Hungary, Dutch Indies & Sabah, with numerous airmail covers including a few Clipper items & a good range of rates to 9/- including 5d Empire Air Rate, 1/2d Thylacine on PPC to Germany etc, a number of unusual make-ups including with se-tenant issues, many WWII censor covers with variety in the censor labels & cachets, 1945 to GB with rare Queensland red & blue airmail label View details Estimate$300Price Realized$320StatusSold Symbolc/cl Lot #711 Huge ledger album of covers from family correspondence with WWII Camps including 'MIL PO DARWIN No 1' x3, 'RAAF PO GERALDTON', 'PUCKAPUNYAL/MIL PO VIC' Krag machine cancels x2, inwards to Caulfield Mil PO with 'NO TRACE/CAULFIELD RACE COURSE' (not previously seen by us), handpainted with '1/AFCC' h/s used in the NT, two philatelic covers with 'VICTORIA/LABUAN' linotype cancels, a few Postage Due covers, inwards mail including five from GB reused with Red Cross address labels, 1940s unclaimed cov View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold Symbolcps Lot #712 Mostly commercial mail including a bundle of South Australian 1930s-40s registered covers plus a few advertising covers from smaller towns one with 'PAID AT PORT AUGUSTA/1D 8OC37/SA' cds (ERD by 11 years; rated RR), also two 1948 philatelic covers with scarce 'MILDURA BCH UNIVERSITY/VIC-AUST' cds, Postal Stationery including KGV 5d Registration Envelopes with 'COMPENSATION' handstamp x9 & STO Wrapper 5d light blue for Sydney Stock Exchange, etc, condition variable. (70 approx) View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcps Lot #713 Selection of taxed mail with a few pre-WWII items, 1957 irregular usage with Revenues, several Business Reply Paid cards with values to 2/- including a 1/- block of 4 (damaged), etc, condition variable. (28 items) View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Symbolc/co Lot #714 Album of pre-decimal solo frankings with a couple of KGV, 1930s 3d Commemoratives, 5d Ram to NZ, 2/- & 2/3d Commemoratives, etc, noted a few scarcer postcard rates, condition variable. (92) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$400StatusSold Symbolc Lot #715 Two huge albums of decimal solo frankings with better items including 5c Bird from Vietnam, 15c Timber & 25c Wool, 30c Cook, 30c Fish & 35c Beef, 35c 1972 Christmas, 1988 63c Christmas, 1990s many $1+ Commemoratives/ Special Issues, postcards including 13c Bird, 8c Ord River, 18c Fauna, 63c Living Together, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (few 100) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Symbolc/cl Lot #716 Display pages of Queensland WWI Censor covers with sans serif 'PASSED BY CENSOR.' 95x6mm on underpaid PPC to France & cover to Japan, 77x10mm on registered cover to Jamaica & Printed Matter cover to Holland, 82x10mm on cover to the USA and on cover from Japan, seriffed type 87x5mm on Printed Matter cover to the USA, and 'PASSED CENSOR/BRISBANE' cds in red on cover to France, PPC to Siam & cover from Italy, a few minor defects but the strikes are generally very fine to superb. (10) View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolc Lot #717 Display pages of South Australian WWI censor covers with small 'passed' on postcard to USA with KGV 1d red perf 'OS', 'PASSED.' h/s in violet on covers to Denmark Italy Sweden & Switzerland (the last two with red/white 'Opened by Censor' labels), on PPC from Japan and unusually on cover from 'DIAPUR/VICTORIA' to Holland, and in red on two covers to USA, triple-oval 'PASSED BY/4TH MD.../CENSOR' h/s on covers to Holland & Switzerland and on PPCs from Japan & South Africa, smaller 'PASSED BY/4TH MD View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolc Lot #718 1901-18 commercial covers to the United States including 1901 Boer War patriotic cover, 1905 registered with SA ½d 2d & 3d, 1913 with superb 'VICTOR HARBOR/SA' squared-circles & small 'Victor Harbor' h/s on large registration label, 1915 double-rate with KGV 1d red View details Estimate$500Price Realized$400StatusSold SymbolcGradea/b Lot #719 1914 Cole's Book Arcade (Melbourne) cover to England with late combination franking of ½d Roo + WA ½d tied by Melbourne machine cancel, minor blemishes. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$200StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #720 1915-18 censor covers from Queensland to Switzerland (a dealer's cover with combination franking of 2d Roo + ½d Queensland), Holland or Denmark, each with red/white 'OPENED BY CENSOR' label, and from Adelaide to Holland with German 'Militarischerseits unter/Kriegsrecht geoffnet/Berlin D17, ben....1917/Uberwachungsoffizier' label, minor blemishes. (4) View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #721 1916 PPC with KGV 1d red, 1921 cover with 1d red x3 & two 1924 covers each with 1½d green x2, all to Greece, the covers with their original letters written in Greek, some faults. Scarce destination in this period. (7 items) View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolc/lGradeb/c Lot #723 1935 commercial airmail cover to Austria with scarce solo franking of Silver Jubilee 2/- violet tied by 'WAVERLEY/NSW' cds, Athens transit & Vienna arrival b/s. [The rate was 1/9d for air to Brindisi, then by rail; or 2/- by air all the way] View details Estimate$200Price Realized$220StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea Lot #724 1935 cover with typed "First Flight/Canberra-Sydney" & rare albeit philatelic franking of 6d Roo with 'OS' Overprint (Cat $1000 on cover). View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolcGradea Lot #725 1941 unusual size envelope (185x197mm) to USA with 'CALIFORNIA/CLIPPER' h/s & rare franking of Robes £1 block of 4 (a few faults) + 4d Koala & 2/- Roo tied by Sydney cds of 24JY41, minor wrinkles. One of the highest-rated World War II airmail covers we have recorded, making this a wonderful item for the airmail enthusiast or the collector of KGVI issues. [NB: this cover does fit on a standard album page] The Clipper rate to the USA was 4/8d for the first ½oz + 4/7d for each successive ½oz. View details Estimate$3,500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcoGradeb Lot #726 1946 Myer Emporium 5/10d blue Food Parcel Label (slightly trimmed at the base) to Surrey but forwarded to "La Moye/Jersey CI" (Channel Islands), Melbourne parcel roller cancel, a few blemishes. View details Estimate$300Price Realized$240StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradeb Lot #727 1965 commercial quadruple-rate airmail cover ro New York with rare franking of Captain Cook 7/6d (Cat $500 on cover) + 6d Bird, minor peripheral tears. The rate was 2/- x4. View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolclGradeb Lot #728 1966-79 commercial covers with multiple frankings of the same stamp including pairs of the 15c Timber, 25c Wool, 20c Australia-Asia (singles), 35c Olympics, 30c Fish, 18c Conservation, 35c Beef, 1974 35c Christmas, 9c on 8c Opal etc, most are airmail covers, condition variable. A good lot. (66) View details Estimate$450Price Realized$340StatusSold Symbolc/cl Lot #729 1973 commercial registered airmail cover endorsed "Photos & Negative", to Austria with scarce franking of $2 Bass + 25c Aboriginal Art, minor blemishes on the reverse. View details Estimate$250Price Realized$420StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #730 THURSDAY ISLAND: WWI sans serif 'PASSED BY CENSOR.' h/s (96x6mm) in violet on PPCs ("Thursday Island" and "Hamond Island Natives") to London both with 'SINGAPORE' transit cds; and on 1915 cover - a bit soiled - with enclosed letter headed "Thursday Island/June 13th 15/Radio Station" & a real photo PPC of the sender. [Letter states "...I am in a very funny little place now - such a lot of black people live here besides a lot of Japanese..."] (5 items) View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolc/lGradea/b Lot #731 1917 (Oct) "Money is a Good Soldier" Liberty Loan leaflet with imprint of 'Albert J.Mullett, Govt.Printer, Melb' at lower-left, dropped from a balloon over Melbourne by the Australian Flying Corps AAMC #14e, Cat.$750. Unusually fine. Ex John Sussex. View details Estimate$600Price Realized$650StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea Lot #732 1920 Melbourne-Traralgon with 'By/HERALD/AERIAL/DELIVERY' label tied to the reverse by Herald & Weekly Times cachet of 30JUL1920, KGV ½d green pair cancelled on arrival at Traralgon AAMC #47, Cat $2000. View details Estimate$1,250Price Realized$950StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea- Lot #733 1926 Pacific Islands Survey Flight per Group Captain Richard Williams return sector from Tulagi (Solomons) to Rabaul (New Guinea) AAMC #102var, printed 'THE RESIDENCY/TULAGI/...' in blue on the flap & endorsed "Aerial Mail" at upper-left, repaired opening fault at the top. A great rarity of Australian & Pacific Islands pioneer airmail covers. Sergio Sismondo Certificate (2006). As stated in the AAMC, the majority of the 50 covers were "flown the entire route" from Melbourne & return, but sever View details Estimate$5,000StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolCGradeb Lot #734 1928 (Oct 13) Blenheim-Sydney First Trans-Tasman Flight from New Zealand AAMC #126 stampless with 'BLENHEIM/12OC28 630AM/NZ' cds & poor tax h/s, endorsed "Per favour of/Squadron Leader Kingsford Smith/in the Southern Cross Sept 1928", 'DELIVERY ROOM/9A 24OC28/GPO SYDNEY' b/s & Postage Due 1d pair tied to the face by two further strikes two hours later, minor blemishes, endorsed "Garanteed [sic] flown/FJField" on reverse, Cat $NZ2000+ (1994), AAMC $4250 (2008). A remarkable cover. Ex Jim Stapleto View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,800StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #735 1932 (Dec) Bertram Atlantis Expedition cover with "propellor" cachet at lower-left, carried from Melbourne to Darwin where registered for return to Victoria, signed by the pilot "Hans Bertram". Ex John Sussex. View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolCGradea Lot #736 1933 (Mar 26) New Zealand-Sydney per "Southern Cross" #299 being an illustrated hotel cover with 'WAIPAPAKAURI' cds & Australian 2d cancelled on arrival at Sydney, signed by the pilot "CKingsford Smith", Cat $1000. A beautiful cover. View details Estimate$600Price Realized$500StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolCGradea Lot #737 1934 (Nov 28-30) Royal Visit flight Sydney-Lismore [#190/200] and Sydney-Newcastle [#48/200] per "Faith in Australia" while carrying the Duke of Gloucester AAMC #465 & 467, both signed by the pilots "GU Alan", "B Sheil" & "RN Boulton". [Stated to be the first occasion any member of the British Royal Family piloted an aeroplane: the Duke was at the controls between Coffs Harbour & Newcastle. Ex John Sussex. (2) View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolCGradea/b Lot #738 1934 MacRobertson Air Race official mail carried by Dutch KLM Douglas DC2 "Uiver" AAMC #444-6 with ten flown covers including Holland-Java, Holland-Australia, Holland-Batavia-Australia, also the red KLM publicity card for the flight, two later 1934 covers one from the crash in Iraq with enclosed British PO advice slip stating "contents may be missing", contemporary postcards x3, and related modern items. View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolc Lot #739 1935 (Oct 23) GB-Italy-GB-Australia per "Lady Southern Cross" AAMC #545) flown by Charles Kingsford Smith and Tommy Pethybridge but the flight was aborted over Italy, and the plane returned to England from where the covers were subsequently re-sent to Australia, posthumous handstamped explanation on reverse signed by "BSheil", Cat $650. [No.10 of 49 flown] View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolCGradea- Lot #740 1935 (Feb) England-Australia Flight per Ray Parer & G Hemsworth Arrival at Darwin R Rohrer real photo cards 1) the Plane in a Field (the Airport?); and 2) Five Men Inspecting the Plane while Ray Parer Effects Minor Repairs; unused. Ex Coo-ee Picture Library. View details Estimate$150Price Realized$160StatusSold SymbolcGradea/a+ Lot #741 1936 (May) Melbourne-Sydney & Sydney-Melbourne per Holyman Airways #602b & 602bb) [NB: The dates for these flights are incorrect in the ACSC] (2) View details Estimate$300Price Realized$360StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea Lot #742 AIRMAIL LABELS: 1931 Qantas white/blue vignette 'By Air Mail/North Queensland/Australia's Winter Playground' full strip of 8 AAMC #202c together with the booklet front cover and a single example used on flown cover from Melbourne, endorsed "1st Flight Brisbane to Maryborough." with Maryborough b/s. Ex Maurice Williams. (3 items) View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolC Lot #743 Box with WWI POW covers from Trial Bay x2, Holdsworthy or Liverpool Camps, then WWII bundle from one correspondence (most with the stamps torn-off), and fifteen mostly OHMS covers from POW Camps including 1946 from Bridgetown, Kununoppin, Northam, Quairading & Tambellup all in WA, condition variable. (68) View details Estimate$200Price Realized$180StatusSold Symbolcps Lot #744 Photo-album with 1915-16 correspondence from & about Pte Oscar Stahl including Perth YMCA letterette with photo in blue on the reverse from Black Boy Hill Camp (faults on the address panel), group of letters to his mother (one stated to be from Gallipoli), letter & telegram advising he was wounded, etc, condition variable. (22 items) View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolc/L Lot #745 Exhibit pages of 1916-18 Troopship mail from the 17th to 41st Convoys with a good range of Censor handstamps many of which identify the specific ships, includes mail from South Africa, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde Islands & Canal Zone, 22nd Convoy cover to USA & taxed, 41st Convoy Ceylon PPC with scarce 'TRANSPORT/CENSOR/CEYLON' cachet, several YMCA items including Melbourne YMCA postcard, Gratuitous Distribution Letter Card with Poem on the Reverse, condition rather mixed. A good lot of this popula View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Symbolc Lot #746 Batch of Troopship postcards mostly identified by Convoy, many real photo types including several outstanding photos by JE Barnes (Kew) etc, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. Ex Michael Blake. (30) View details Estimate$300Price Realized$400StatusSold SymbolcGradea/b Lot #747 Hospital Ships 1) folded lettersheet with superb straight-line 'HMAHS Kanowna' cachet in violet slightly obscured by 'AUSTRALIAN IMP FORCES/8MA16/BASE/POST OFFICE' cds used in Egypt, to Tasmania; 2) Australian Red Cross cover with triple-oval 'No 1 AUSTRALIAN HOSPITAL SHIP/KAROOLA' cachet - dateline removed - in violet, to South Australia; and 3) 1916 illustrated folder (104x155mm) with portraits of KGV & Queen Mary as used for the 1911 Coronation Postal Cards, with three fabric swatches pinned View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea-/b Lot #748 Covers (3) & KGV 1d Postal Cards x2 all to Australians known to be POWs at Cassel (2, both with large circular camp cachet), Crefeld, Dülmen or Gottingen, the last forwarded to Dülmen, various British & German cachets, also a stampless PPC from Switzerland to an Australian POW at Friedrichsfeld bei Wesel. Nice group. (6) View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcpsGradea-/b Lot #749 The interesting balance of the consignment including 1916 Melbourne YMCA cover with 'MILITARY CAMP MARIBYRNONG' cds, 1916 cover with 'METHODIST SOLDIERS TENT/SEYMOUR CAMP' imprint in red & the similarly headed letter, 1916 with superb 'PASSED - BY CENSOR/ 3 /[crown]' ('3' reversed) cachet in blue used at Palermo Hospital Camp of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Sicily, 1917 PPC from a soldier in Macedonia to NSW, 1918 usage of Church of England Australian Fund for Soldiers Overseas cover View details Estimate$1,400StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcps Lot #750 1915 usage of 1d Roo Postal Card with three different Prisoner of War handstamps in green, to West Sumatra but apparently missent to GB where superb 'PRISONERS OF WAR/[crown]/INFORMATION BUREAU' cachet applied, unusual usage of LONDON WC OFFICAL PAID' cds in red indicating POW mail was free, superb 'SIBOLGA' arrival cds, corner bends at upper-right & lower-left. A most unusual POW usage to an unusual destination. [The letter, in English, states "...The number of letters we may write is much rest View details Estimate$750Price Realized$900StatusSold SymbolpsGradeb Lot #751 1915 usage to Victoria of an unusual printed OAS envelope of a type not previously seen by us with ACMF crest on the flap, 'MILITARY CAMP/AERODROME HELIOPOLIS' cds in blue & oval 'FRANKED/BY.../FOR CO 21ST BN/AIF' cachet in violet. View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold SymbolcGradea Lot #752 1916 1d scenic Letter Cards with military views, all different, unused. Ex Michael Blake. (6) View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold SymbolpsGradea/a- Lot #753 1916 real photo PPC of Mitcham Military Camp (SA) featuring dozens of tents, chopping wood, underground oven & a group of bare-chested soldiers on a makeshift raft, a couple of minor inkspots, used under cover. [The writer, Sapper WW Evans, says "...Tell me which you think is me..."] View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold SymbolcGradea- Lot #754 1916 red/buff envelope with 'Infantry Brigade' on the third line & '(Use this line for any extra units.)' towards the base, KGV 1d red tied by 'ASCOT VALE/4JL16/VIC' cds & manuscript "Please get this signed by officer", boxed 'ABPO/MISSING' h/s and rounded-boxed 'UNABLE TO TRACE/RETURNED LETTER OFFICE/ALEXANDRA PARADE/MELBOURNE/RETURN TO SENDER' h/s in red View details Estimate$160Price Realized$120StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #755 1916 Gratuitous Distribution Letter Cards Type 1 with Poem on the Reverse on grey stock, stained on the reverse but fine facial appearance, unused; and on thick paper with message headed "Tel el Kebir/11.1.16" & '2nd AUST INF BDE FIELD PO/9FE15' cds; plus Type 2 with "2nd AIF EMBARKING" in black on the reverse. on thin paper, unused but the margins removed. Scarce trio. (3) View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradea/c Lot #756 1917 three covers to Belgian soldiers interned in Holland at Amerspoort Camp (2) or Harderwijk Camp, two with 'OPENED BY CENSOR' labels, the other with 'CONTROLE POSTE MILITAIRE' label. (3) View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea- Lot #757 1917 cover with 4-line imprint at upper-left with unauthorised overseas usage of Australian KGV 1d red tied by GB skeleton 'BULFORD CAMP/2AP/17/SALISBURY' cds but not taxed. View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb Lot #758 1918 PPC of Langensalza POW Camp to England View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeb/c Lot #759 Modest single-volume collection of mostly Stamped-to-Order Envelopes including Municipal & advertising types, also cut-down KGV 1d red STO Wrapper front, etc, condition variable. (97 items) View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Symbolps Lot #760 POSTAL CARDS: 1919 'THREE/HALFPENCE' on 1916 1d Die 1 with New Admonition Added (#P27) BW #P50, unused, Cat $2500. Superb! [The ACSC states "Although there is no record of the number of this card surcharged, it must have been small. At least three [unused] examples are recorded". John Sinfield's unused example sold at the Prestige auction of 8/11/2013 for $1725] View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradea+ Lot #761 LETTER CARDS - "MILITARY": 1d carmine on grey surfaced stock #LCM1, unused, Cat $500. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradea Lot #762 LETTER CARDS - "MILITARY": ditto, 1d carmine on grey surfaced stock #LCM1 a complete pack of 6 with the Post Office band inscribed 'MILITARY LETTER CARDS/Six for 6½d', unused, Cat $3000+. Ex Tony Finlayson. Very rare in this format, and a wonderful exhibition page. [Barry Scott's band only sold at the Prestige auction of 17/2/2012 for $1322!!] View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$1,600StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradea/a+ Lot #763 ENVELOPES: 1928 KGV Oval ½d orange, 1d green, 1½d red & 2d brown BW #EP29 30 31 & 33, CTO with part-'GPO/-DE28/ MELBOURNE' cds (struck off the envelope, as always), Cat $1100. Under-rated and superb! [These were Post Office emissions, printed only for UPU distribution. The ½d 1d & 2d were never issued for over-the-counter sales. The 1d was available for STO for the Printed Matter rate. The ½d is known only uprating 1d STO Envelopes for the Municipality of Westbury. The 2d brown is unknown on STO View details Estimate$600Price Realized$480StatusSold SymbolpsGradea+ Lot #764 ENVELOPES - "MILITARY": 1916 (Mar) First Issue 'AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE.' 1d #ME1 with space between 'Regimental' & 'Number' = 2-3mm & address lines with 9½ Dots per 10mm, Sydney machine cancel of OC26/1916, endorsed "Hosp/14.12.16", Cat $450. View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradeb Lot #765 ENVELOPES - "MILITARY": 1916 (Jul) Second Issue 'AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE.' Reset Text with First Address Line 19mm Below the Printer's Rule 1d #ME2 on unsurfaced greyish stock addressed but with "Australia" endorsed across the face & unused, light vertical fold. Weird! View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradeb Lot #766 ENVELOPES - "MILITARY": ditto, 1d #ME2 on unsurfaced greyish stock, minor blemishes on the reverse, 'REDFERN/13NO16/NSW' cds, endorsed "Not Joined Unit/21.1.17" but then "Found" in red, very minor blemishes, Cat $2000. The ACSC doesn't list this stock. [Only two used examples of #ME2 have been recorded. Barry Scott didn't have a used example] View details Estimate$650Price Realized$480StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradeb Lot #767 ENVELOPES - "MILITARY": 1916 (Sep) Third Issue 'A.I.F., ABROAD.' First Setting with 25mm Thick & Thin Printer's Rules below Heading 1d on Laid Stock and Second Setting with 27mm Two Thick Printers Rules 1d on Laid Stock #ME3A & 4A, a couple of very minor blemishes, unused, Cat $600. (2) View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradea- Lot #768 ENVELOPES - "MILITARY": ditto, First Setting with 25mm Thick & Thin Printer's Rules below Heading 1d on Laid Stock #ME3A, superb Sydney machine cancel of AP16/1917, endorsed "Missing/11-4-17" & "P" (= POW) in green, British 'OPENED BY/CENSOR/ PW 456' label (partly lifted to reveal the cancel & endorsement), Cat $400. View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradea- Lot #769 ENVELOPES - STAMPED TO ORDER: 1960 5d light blue as BW #ES98 but 227x155mm with printed 'OHMS' & 'PRINTED MATTER/(Post Card Only)' at upper-left & address of the NSW Water Conservation & Irrigation Commission, unused. A most unusual size; most unusual Printed Matter usage; & the only example we have seen. [Presumably for returning records of irrigation water meter readings] View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold SymbolpsGradea Lot #770 WRAPPERS - DEFENCE FORCES: c.1949 4½d Defence Force 'AIR MEDAL SECTION' wrappers, unfolded unused. Pristine! (5) View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradea+ Lot #771 AEROGRAMMES: 1943 Qantas Christmas airgraph with illustration of Kangaroo Santa that was the inspiration for the 1944 7d Air Letter with a similar design printed within. View details Estimate$100Price Realized$80StatusSold SymbolcGradea- Lot #772 AEROGRAMMES: 1944 with Admonition Removed 7d on Yellow Paper BW #A2, unused, Cat $200. View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold SymbolpsGradea Lot #773 AEROGRAMMES - OFFICIAL: 1952 First Issue with 'Postage/Paid' at Upper-Right BW #AO1B, unused, Cat $150. [The ACSC states "A small quantity were distributed in error without the 'SPECIMEN' handstamp"] View details Estimate$100Price Realized$80StatusSold SymbolpsGradea Lot #774 AEROGRAMMES - OFFICIAL: 1952 Second Issue with 'POSTAGE/PAID' - Upper Case - at Upper-Right BW #AO2, to New Zealand with roneo'd PMG's Department advice of 24.5.1954, Cat $750. Rare. [The ACSC states "Fewer than ten examples [all used] have been recorded". Some of those have typewritten amendments to the heading] View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold SymbolpsGradea Lot #775 AEROGRAMMES - OFFICIAL: 1959 Third Issue with 'OHMS/[Jet]' at Upper-Right overprinted 'SPECIMEN' in red, Cat $100. View details Estimate$60Price Realized$40StatusSold SymbolpsGradea Lot #776 LETTER SHEETS - STO: 1918 (Sep) KGV 1d red Die 1 with '1' under the flap BW #LSS5 uprated for the war tax with Melbourne 'PAID ½D' slogan cancel of 3NOV18, the address label partly removed (as is often the case), Cat $2000. [The roneo'd letter dated 'September 1918' urges the addressee to read a pamphlet being sent separately & states "[it] will prove to you...that our quarrel is just and righteous...We were driven to take up arms by [Germany's] malignant aggression...our very life depended on c View details Estimate$500Price Realized$460StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolpsGradeb Lot #777 WARTIME STATIONERY: World War II 6d Airmail Postal Card BW #POW1, unused. Unrecorded unused in the ACSC, and the only unused example known to us. View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,300StatusSold SymbolpsGradea Lot #778 The balance of Michael Blake's exhibit pages & loose material with better items including First Convoy embargoed cover & Melbourne YMCA lettersheet datelined "Aden 29 Nov 1914", Third Convoy postcards x4, range of covers used in Egypt, unusual usage of 1d Kangaroo Postal Card from Mudros, two small photographs of horses being landed at Mudros, Christmas card with internal panorama of Mudros Harbour, two Gallipoli items including a postcard of 3DE15 that states "Weather very cold...in fact snowin View details Estimate$500Price Realized$600StatusSold Symbolcps* Lot #779 Hospitals group comprising 1916 cover with superb 'No 1 AUXILIARY HOSPITAL/GEORGE'S HEIGHTS, MOSMAN' cachet; 1915 defective cover front to the USA with '[flags]/No 3 Auxiliary Hospital/STAGHORN/ SOUTHPORT Q' imprint; unused PPC "The Base Hospital, Fremantle, WA"; unused real photo PPCs "Glenroy/ Military/ Hospital" (Vic), "Military Hospital Enoggera" (Qld) & "Portion of Ward Military Hospital Enoggera". Rare group. (6) View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolc Lot #780 Attractive group of illustrated envelopes for Home Mission Society & Presbyterian Church in NSW both used within NSW with 'LIVERPOOL MILITARY CAMP' or part 'HOLDSWORTHY CAMP' cds; fine Church of England Chaplain's Department cover to England with very fine 'ENOGGERA CAMP' cds; and Methodist Church of Australasia two different used within NSW with 'KIAMA' or 'LIVERPOOL' cds; condition a bit mixed. (5) View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea-/c Lot #781 MILITIA: 1911 covers to Ross Camp (Tas) from Ross & Stowport and usage of Fullface 1d Letter Card with message headed "Camp Ross" & triple-circle 'MILITARY CAMP/MAR 25 Sent/TASMANIA' cds in blue; 1913 Exemption from Training lettersheet used in South Australia (stamp removed) with 'RIFLE CLUBS OFFICE/("13/12/13")/SA' cachet in red; and 1914 First Military District postcard with printed 'Notice...First Stage of Mobilization [sic]...'; all with faults. Very scarce group. (5 items) View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSold Symbolcps Lot #782 MILITIA: Real photo picture postcards of the 1914 Easter Training Camps at Gawler SA x2 & Burrumbeet Vic, unused. (3) View details Estimate$200Price Realized$260StatusSold SymbolcGradea/a- Lot #783 MILITARY CAMPS: Covers with Military Camp cds of Liverpool NSW; Enoggera Qld x2 (one a Brisbane YMCA illustrated front); Mitcham SA x2 (one with 'MILITARY CAMP/24SE1914/STH AUSTRALIA' "relief" cds) & Morphettville SA; Claremont Tas with 'MILITARY CAMP 1/TASMANIA' "relief" cds x2 (one in blue); and Ballarat Vic, Geelong & Maribyrnong plus inwards cover to "Isolation Camp/Ascot Vale"; all but one with KGV 1d red, condition rather mixed. (12) View details Estimate$500Price Realized$400StatusSold Symbolc Lot #784 MILITARY CAMPS: Illustrated lettersheet with 'FOR KING/AND/EMPIRE/[flags]/ADELAIDE YMCA/TENTS' on the face & a huge YMCA tent in blue on the reverse, unused (and very scarce thus). [Gary Diffen illustrated a similar lettersheet for Perth YMCA at page 7] View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold SymbolcGradea Lot #785 MILITARY CAMPS: Illustrated YMCA lettersheet with '[flags]/MELBOURNE YMCA/ON/ACTIVE SERVICE/...' on the face & 'YMCA Tents/The Social Service Centre of Camp/...' in blue on the reverse, the semi-literate letter headed "Broadmeadows Camp 9 light horse Reinforcements", KGV 1d red tied by manuscript cancellation & Melbourne machine cancellation applied in transit, minor opening faults. View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #786 MILITARY CAMPS: Picture postcards of "Frasers Paddock" (Enoggera) Qld, real photo; HM Baily "Claremont Camp near Hobart" real photo; "The First Australian Expeditonary Force in Camp in Victoria" & "YMCA Soldiers Club/A Corner in the Gardens" St Kilda Road Vic; also Lonsdale & Bartholomew (Sydney) "Our Australian Nurses", a Nurse Outside a Tent (message dated "11/9/14" on the address side), Driver & Ambulance "Presented to our Brave Defenders...22nd Nov 1915" (message dated "13/1/16" states "This View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold SymbolcGradea/b Lot #787 MILITARY CAMPS: 1915 (Oct 7) OHMS cover from Adelaide with KGV 1d red perf 'OS', to "2nd Depot Batt/Belmont/West Australia", large very fine strike of the rubber 'MILITARY CAMP, ASCOT/19OCT1915/WESTERN AUSTRALIA' arrival b/s (ERD; RO period) in violet & 'OCT 20 1915' date h/s on the face in the same ink, redirected to "Blackboy Hill" with very fine arrival cds on the face, superb 'UNCLAIMED' h/s & returned to the sender. A very desirable cover. Ascot Camp was at Belmont Racecourse. Haynes & Pop View details Estimate$750Price Realized$575StatusSold SymbolcGradea- Lot #788 FIRST CONVOY: Bagged cover cancelled & taxed on arrival at Melbourne with the letter headed "SS Katuna" (A13); Adelaide YMCA illustrated cover with Fremantle machine & incorrectly with 'T/10' h/s intended for use on overseas mail, from either "Ascanius" or "Medic"; PPC of "Argyllshire" (A8) with KGV 1d red & Albany WA cds, light 'FIRST FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE/...' cachet in violet; entire with lengthy letter headed "SS Hororata/Just past Eucla SA...", weak Albany cds, Melbourne tax h/s & rare fr View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Symbolc Lot #789 FIRST CONVOY: Illustrated Brisbane YMCA postcard with printed 'Troopship RANGATIRA' (A22), to NSW with Perth machine of 16NOV14 overstruck with Sydney machine of NO26-1914, tax h/s & 1d Postage Due, redirected to Melbourne, minor defects. ["Rangatira" departed Albany 1.11.2014, indicating this card was embargoed. Letter states "...we have just been informed that all our mail matters is under a strict censorship...Our Band...is to make its debut at the end of the week..."] The sender, Herbert Bi View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #790 FIRST CONVOY: OAS cover with very fine triple-oval '1ST FA BDE AMN COL/AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE' (Ammunition Column) cachet in violet & Albany cds of 29OC14, to Sydney with '1D'-in-circle h/s & Postage Due 1d tied by Sydney cds of 2NO14, minor opening fault & soiling on the reverse not affecting the very fine appearance. [Bob Emery listed this cachet as CA74, & noted one example of 1.12.1914, after arrival in Egypt. This cover proves it was manufactured in Australia] Gary Diffen, in "Philatel View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold SymbolcGradeb Lot #791 FIRST CONVOY: Western Australian PPC ("Mount Clarence, Albany") with Albany cds of 28OC14 & 'T' h/s plus superb strike of the rare fancy-framed 'PASSED/...' handstamp in violet, to Adelaide where 'T1D' h/s applied. View details Estimate$150Price Realized$320StatusSold SymbolcGradea- Lot #792 FIRST CONVOY: Use of Adelaide YMCA postcard with lengthy message headed "Aden", from "Ascanius" (A11) to South Australia but with Sydney machine of DE21-1914 & '1D'-in-circle h/s, rather battered with reinforced central fold & creasing. [At Aden, the troops were advised that mail sent from there to Australia would not be censored & that they could write whatever they liked! This consequently fascinating communication states "...We had a collision with the Shropshire we are lucky to be on here to View details Estimate$150Price Realized$160StatusSold SymbolcGradec Lot #793 FIRST CONVOY: Use of Australian 1d Kangaroo Postal Card with AIF Christmas & New Year greetings printed in red & gold on the reverse, to Sydney with arrival cancel of DE7-1914, minor creasing. [The First Convoy started arriving in Egypt from 2.12.1915. The Sydney postmark suggests the card must have been sent - probably from Colombo - in a sealed bag. However, despite the AIF heading, it may also have originated in Sydney? See Bob Emery at page 138] View details Estimate$100Price Realized$300StatusSold SymbolpsGradeb Lot #794 FIRST CONVOY: Picture postcards of the ships comprising "Geelong" (Troopship A2) real photo dated Oct 20th, unused; "Orvieto" (A3) pre-War card with 'HMAT Orvieto A3 Xmas 1914/Printed at Sea' overprint, minor faults; "Shropshire" (A9) pre-War card with 'HMA Transport No 9' overprint, superb Melbourne cds & 'T1D' h/s; "Karoo" (A10) advertising card for WG Deuchar Shipping Agent !, unused; "Ascanius" (A11) "Departure of South Australian Infantry/...20th October 1914", unused; "Hororata" (A20) used View details Estimate$350Price Realized$400StatusSold Symbolc Lot #795 SECOND CONVOY: Picture postcards of the ships comprising "Berrima" (A35, to Tasmania with manuscript "1d To Pay", and to Adelaide with 'T1D' h/s & very late irregular usage at the GPO of Diamond-Numeral '64'), "Ulysses" (A38, used later in the War), "Ceramic" (A40, with Brisbane arrival cds of 19FE15 so not taxed; and pre-War card with Christmas/New Year greetings on the reverse & imprint 'Printed on Board Troopship A40 by the DAP Press", unused), and "Kyarra" (A55, pre-War AUSN card used under View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold SymbolcGradea-/b Lot #796 Exhibit pages of postcards (mostly) & covers including a few items posted soon after the Troopships arrived, various datestamps including '1st AUST LH BDE FIELD PO', '2nd AUST INF BDE FIELD PO', '7th INF BDE/FIELD PO' in violet, 'MILITARY CAMP/AERODROME HELIOPOLIS' x3 (one an illustrated cover for the 5th Infantry Brigade Recreation Tent), '3rd LIGHT HORSE/AIF/...', 'BRITISH CAMP/PO/HELIOPOLIS' x2 (one an Adelaide YMCA Army Department cover), cachets including huge 'O.A.S' in red & boxed 'BASE D View details Estimate$400Price Realized$550StatusSold Symbolc Lot #797 1915 'AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITIONNARY FORCE/CAIRO/1914-15' PPC with 'Xmas Wishes' Added at Lower-Left (Type 1b), to Victoria with 5m Sphinx tied by '2nd AUST INF BDE FIELD PO/6JA15' cds, to Victoria, very minor repaired cut. A beautiful item: see Gary Diffen at pp50-51. [Note, the three sub-types all have the word 'Expeditionary' misspelt. The postcard rate was 4m but there was a shortage of 4m stamps so it is commonplace to find overpaid postcards] View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold SymbolcGradea- Lot #798 CACHETS IN LIEU OF CENSOR CACHETS: Group of mostly postcards with cachets comprising large boxed 'BASE DETAILS PO/...' in blue, 'AUST IMP FORCE/FREE/INTER BASE' & 'AIF/FRANKED/ON ACTIVE SERVICE' with mss "DB Blackwood/(Capt AIF)"; Officers' Handstamps '...Brigade Major/6th Infantry Brigade/AIF' & '...Colonel/Commanding 6th Inf Brigade/AIF'; Regimental Handstamps '5th TRAINING BATTALION/...' in violet and similar for the 6th in blue & 8th in red, '27th BATTALION AIF/...7th INF BDE', superb '2nd L View details Estimate$600Price Realized$650StatusSold Symbolc Lot #799 INDIAN FIELD POST OFFICES: Mail from Australian soldiers comprising PPC with Indian IEF 2a6p tied by 'FPO/No 32' cds used at Ismailia & superb Indian Censor #75 cachet in rosine; Indian Field Service Postcard multi-response type in Hindi (?) but with message in English & IEF 1a tied by 'FPO/No 313' cds used at Ismailia; cover with 'FPO/No 35' b/s used at Alexandria & Indian Censor #84 cachet; and PPC with 'AIF INTER BASE PO/...' cds & Indian Censor #125 cachet; also Ward Lock & Co PPC "Defeat of View details Estimate$250Price Realized$440StatusSold SymbolcGradea/b Lot #800 OFFICERS CACHETS: Covers (4) & PPCs (4) with cachets comprising fancy-oval 'CENSORED BY/...Lieut/AIF'; 2-line '...Major/CO 2nd Div Sig Coy AIF'; 3-line 'ON ACTIVE SERVICE/...Lieut/4th TRNG BATTN'; 4-line '...CAPT/OC D Company/17th Inf Battn/AIF'; large oval 'AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND/EB Norton/Capt/CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL' & recut with the inner frame removed & rank altered to 'Major'; and 2-line '...Lieut/ADJT CONVT HOSP'; also hand-drawn '("Jas E Herbert") Lt/A Coy 26th'; good to very fine. A ver View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolco Lot #801 The balance of the Forces in Egypt collection full of interesting items including a parcel label from a Cairo photographer to Western Australia, unusual datestamps including 'PORT TAUFIQ-ISMAILIA/TPO', 'MILITARY CAMP/AERODROME HELIOPOLIS' x2 (one in blue, the other with partial Brigade cachet) & Indian Forces, two items with British skeleton 'Z AND W TPO' cds of the North West Frontier Force, 'GREETINGS FROM a SOLDIER in Egypt' multi-part letter card, YMCA items including cover with 'SOLDIERS RE View details Estimate$650Price Realized$480StatusSold GSTex GSTSymbolc Lot #802 ADVANCE PARTY: Exhibit pages with (Mar-Apr) postcards x4 (one of HMAT "Suffolk" with the ship's name cut-out) & a cover (repaired tear) all with 'PASSED BY/CENSOR' h/s in violet x3 or rosine x2. Scarce group. [The 3rd Infantry Brigade left Egypt on 28.2.1915, arriving at Lemnos on 5.3.2015. The 2-line censor cachet was used only on Lemnos, & only prior to the landings on Gallipoli] (5) View details Estimate$150Price Realized$200StatusSold Symbolc Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678910|Next Previous 12345678910 Next Previous 12345678910 Next
