Stamps, Coins & Postal History (#445) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized 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 1-19 of 19. Previous|1|Next Lot #404 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1882-1930s General Birdwood correspondence with 1882 Egypt 20m Postal Card to Clifton College from his mother, post WWI items including 1920 Australia 1½d Envelope to Govt House, Wellington & 1932 cover addressed "Please Mr Postman deliver me to General Birdwood who is visiting Western Australia", other covers to India (5, one from eponymously named Birdwood in SA) or Peterhouse College Cambridge (2, one redirected to Deal Castle), and a 1938 card from SymbolC View details Quantity13Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #405 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1913-64 group of covers with single and mixed frankings. With three 'Roo covers to Br. Columbia (1d x2 & 3d x1), KGV heads (6), then a mixed range, with frankings to 2/3d, many franked 2/-, registered and/or to overseas destinations. Mixed condition, worth a look. (44 items). SymbolC View details Estimate$300 - $350StatusCLOSED! Lot #406 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1914 (Nov 11) triple-rate printed cover to Scott Stamp & Coin Co with attractive tri-colour franking comprising Roos First Wmk 4d orange and 2½d plus KGV 1d red paying the correct 7½d rate, adhesives tied by indistinct PERTH (?) machine cancel, cover with small edge tear. SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #407 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: KGV Heads on cover with ½d green pair on 1915 cover, Smooth Paper 1d red solos (8), including 1915 Fred Hagen (stamp dealer) handstamped "HELP/(Cross)/AUSTRALIA DAY/JULY 30TH" within "map" in violet, and a perf OS example on 1917 on District Pay Office cover, 1d violet solo on Mc Hugh Bros (Launceston) cover to Launceston, 1931 Perth Airmail to Melbourne with 2d strip of 3, etc; unchecked for varieties, probable slogan postmark interest, mixed conditio SymbolC View details Quantity45Estimate$250 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #408 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1917 (Aug.7) Ackland registered cover to Russia with attractive combination franking of KGV 1d red, Tasmania 2d Pictorial & SA 2½d tied by REGISTERED ELIZABETH ST/MELBOURNE datestamps, red/white registration label, MOSCOW '26.10.17' arrival backstamp (during the October Revolution), the cover undelivered and returned to Melbourne via Kobe, Japan (backstamp), DEAD LETTER OFFICE/MELBOURNE '7FE18' datestamp on face. SymbolC View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusCLOSED! Lot #409 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1920-44 Official covers with 1920 (Dec 10) Botanic Garden OHMS cover to England with ½d green perforated 'OS' BW:65ba (Cat. $150 on cover) plus 1½d brown perforated 'OS'; 1932-33 Water Supply Commission window envelopes x2 one with SMult 1d P13½x12½ perforated 'OS', the other with CofA KGV 1d optd 'OS' (Cat. $100 on cover), both wth a few tonespots; also 1944 use of KGVI 1½d green PTPO Stationery Envelope for Shire of Flinders. SymbolC View details Quantity4Estimate$150 - $250StatusCLOSED! Lot #410 1931-60s covers (9) comprising 1931 PPC from Italy taxed with 1d Due added tied by BOULDER (WA) datestamp, 1940 1/1d airmail rate censored to India, 1943 7½d triple-rate surface cover to USA (3d for 1st oz, plus 2d x2 for the additional 2oz, plus ½d War Tax), 1952 MANUKA (ACT) French Ambassador registered cover to France, SymbolC View details Quantity9Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot #411 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1935-1942 collection of 20 hand-illustrated envelopes (12 posted during WWII), all but one addressed to "Tom Whitford" in Springwood (NSW), sent from various NSW locations, the attractively-executed watercolour images include Australian soldiers in uniform all with patriotic captions including "Australia's Tank Corp will be there" & "A Job in Palestine/a Coldstream Guard at Jerusalem", one item (front only) is signed "W. Whitford", others are illustrate SymbolC View details Quantity20Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #412 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1935-61 airmail covers (10) including 1935 registered to Germany with 2/- Roo & 6d Kingford Smith, solo frankings of 1954 2/- Royal Visit & 2/- blue Olympics Publicity and 1956 2/- Olympics (2); also 1959 triple-rate & 1960 double-rate covers to Switzerland and 1961 1/2d unsealed letter rate to Germany, plus two other items, generally fine. SymbolC View details Quantity10Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot #413 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1935 (Apr 10) JB Were oversized printed airmail cover (358x254mm) to England with Roos CofA 10/- pair & single and 5/-, plus 1/- Anzac, 1/6d Hermes pair & 1d green KGV all tied by 'LATE FEE/MELBOURNE' datestamps, 'LATE FEE' boxed cachets in violet, vertical fold clear of the stamps, cover a little battered around the edges with small tears/blemishes affecting the 1/6d pair, the 5/- & one of the 10/- Roos. [The £1-19-1d franking comprised 1/6d per ½oz ai SymbolC View details Estimate$900 - $1,200Price Realized$3,200StatusSold Lot #414 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1936-39 (few earlier) KGV or KGVI 2d letter-rate covers, many being Commonwealth Parliament Library (Canberra) covers from Larry Lake (Parliamentary Librarian) to family members, also three 1936 covers with 'Posted in Late Fee/letter receiver at/ALBURY RAILWAY STATION/To pay...1d' boxed handstamps (one a superb strike); other postmark interest likely. Mixed condition with many covers retaining their original enclosures. (200+) SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #415 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1937 (Jan.29) inwards cover from Russia to "Department of Agriculture" (Sydney) with Russian 1k Postal Service tied to the reverse side by Karkov (Ukraine) datestamp, taxed on arrival with 4d & 3d added tied by "DELIVERY ROOM G.P.O./SYDNEY" datestamps, trivial edge tones. SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusCLOSED! Lot #416 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1940s-90s slogan cancels in three volumes mostly on covers, large variety of services and themes covered including airmail services, express post, national census, commonwealth rolls, mail centres, postal district, post early. etc. Would make a nice entry into a new collecting area. SymbolOC View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$130StatusSold Lot #417 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1941 (Mar.8) Dept of the Navy registered double-rate airmail cover to England endorsed "Australia-New Zealand-United Kingdom with 10/- Robes, 1/- Lyrebird, 6d Kooka and KGVI 3d & 2d, paying 5/10d clipper rate x2 plus 3d registration, stamps tied by TELEGRAPH OFFICE/GPO MELBOURNE datestamp, cover addressed to "Admiral of the Fleet Sir A. Dudley P.R. Pound". Typed annotations describe the flight route. SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #418 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1941 (Apr.16) quintuple-rate airmail cover to USA with 19/8d franking comprising 10/- Robes, 5/- Robes, 2/- Roo pair & 4d Koala pair paying airmail fee of 4/- for the first ½oz plus 3/11d x4 for each subsequent ½oz, stamps tied by SHIP MAIL ROOM/MELBOURNE datestamp. Typed annotations describe the flight route. SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #419 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1941 (May 16) quintuple-rate airmail rate to New Zealand with 4d Koala block of 6 plus 1d QM paying the 5d per ½oz rate x5, stamps tied by GPO SYDNEY/AIR datestamp. SymbolC View details Estimate$60 - $80StatusCLOSED! Lot #420 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: FOOD PARCEL LABEL: c.1948 complete green/white parcel post label to England with 1/- Small Lyrebird strip of 5 & Ram 5d pair paying the 5/10d rate Food Parcel Scheme rate for parcels weighting up to 11lbs (at 7½lbs the parcel just exceeded the 3/7d rate for parcels weighing up to 7lb), adhesives are tied by weak strike of "WOODVILLE/SOUTH AUST" datestamp, very fine condition. SymbolC View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #421 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1955-63 mostly airmail covers (8) including 1955 2/- Cobb solo to Germany, 1955 2/- Olympic Games Publicity 2/- pair paying double-rate to Germany, 1956 4d Olympics pair paying surface double-rate to India, 1956 2/- Olympics to Germany tied by Olympic Boxing '26NOV/1956' commemorative datestamp, 1957 QEII 4d claret pair paying surface rate to Algeria with customs label on reverse,1963 2/3d Wattle on yellow paper strip of 4 paying 9/- quadruple rate to S SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot #422 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA: Postal History: 1955 (Dec 3) cover from Melbourne to Chile with 2/- Crocodile tied Melbourne machine cancel, underpaid with "RETURNED FOR/ADDITIONAL POSTAGE/SHORT PAID "1/-" d./POSTAL DEPARTMENT/COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA" label affixed. Not seen by us before. Unusual. SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
