Coins and Stamps (#518) 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) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-22 of 22. Previous|1|Next Lot #634 THE FIRST AIRMAIL IN AUSTRALIA - June 1914 16 June 1914 (AAMC.1) Melbourne - Bendigo - Ballarat, real photo postcard flown by French aviator, Maurice Guillaux, signed and endorsed by him (in French) with a greeting to the mayor of Ballarat. Superb condition. SymbolPC View details Estimate$20,000 - $25,000StatusCLOSED! Lot #635 9 June 1914 (AAMC.1a) Bendigo - Ballarat letter from D.Andrew (Mayor) on 'City of Bendigo' letterhead to "His Worship the Mayor of Ballaarat" flown by Maurice Guillaux in his Bleriot monoplane with added message in French including "...j'avoir transporte le premier en Australie un lettre" ("I have carried the first letter in Australia"), signed "M. Guillaux" at upper left, undercatalogued at $15000.Ex Frommer, sold for $33600 in the September 2016 sale of his Grand Prix Pioneer Australian ... SymbolL View details Estimate$25,000 - $30,000StatusCLOSED! Lot #636 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: 4 Sept. 1919 (AAMC.23) Hobart - Launceston cover with Peace Loan advertising and KGV 1½d brown carried by ED Cummings in a Sopwith Pup on the first aerial mail flight in Tasmania, violet two-line 'FIRST TAS. AERO MAIL/DPMG' handstamp and 'LAUNCESTON/-5SE19/TASMANIA' arrival backstamp, very fine with only 6 examples believed to have survived, Cat $4000. Accompanied by photo of the Sopwith Pup circling Hobart GPO. SymbolC View details Estimate$1,800 - $2,200StatusCLOSED! Lot #637 Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) Mesopotamia (Iraq) - Australia flown cover endorsed "On active service" at top, flown by Ross Smith, Keith Smith, Jim Bennett & Wally Shiers on their onwards flight to Australia; the vignette tied by one of two superb strikes of the oval "FIRST AERIAL MAIL" cachet, addressed to Mrs J.Morris, Maroona, Victoria. Exceptionally, the cover is signed by Keith Smith, J.M.Bennett & W Shiers on the reverse & inscribed "Darwin 12-12-19" in Bennett's hand. SymbolC View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$7,000StatusSold Lot #638 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) a "Ross Smith" vignette attractively tied by one of 2 strikes of the oval "FIRST AERIAL MAIL" cachet on a cover picked up at RAMADI, MESOPOTAMIA, one of the refuelling stops on the flight from England to Australia. With the three-line violet h/stamp on the back flap together with the sender's name and address. The lot also includes the original handwritten enclosure "...an aeroplane came hovering around the camp and landed SymbolC View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000Price Realized$5,500StatusSold Lot #639 17 April 1922 (AAMC.64) Geelong - Melbourne flown cover, bearing the blue "Herald Air Mail" vignette alongside the two 1d KGV adhesive, all of which are attractively tied by the GEELONG roller cancel. SymbolC View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusCLOSED! Lot #640 April 1922 (AAMC.64a) "Herald" Air Mail vignettes; a horizontal pair with selvedge at left & top, mint with full gum. Multiples are scarce. (2). Cat.$400++ Symbol** View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #641 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: 21-22 July 1925 (AAMC.80-89a) Adelaide - Melbourne - Sydney per Australian Aerial Services, intermediates group comprising of Melbourne - Echuca, Melbourne - Sydney, Echuca - Broken Hill, Deniliquin - Broken Hill, Hay - Broken Hill, Broken Hill - Echuca, Broken Hill - Mildura, Sydney - Deniliquin & Sydney - Echuca, all with KGV adhesives including 4d Olive (2) & 4½d Violet (5); generally fine to very fine, Cat $2700. (9 covers) SymbolC View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,200StatusCLOSED! Lot #642 Oct.1929 (AAMC.145b) Eyre Peninsula Airways Ltd vignette (black on yellow), block (4), no gum. Extremely scarce multiple. Cat.$750. Provenance: The Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, Leski Auctions, March 2008. Symbol(*) View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #643 Oct.1929 (AAMC.145b) Eyre Peninsula Airways Ltd vignette (black on deep red), block (4). Mint. An extremely rare multiple. Cat.$750. Provenance: The Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, Leski Auctions, March 2008. Symbol* View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$580StatusSold Lot #644 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: 1932-33 (AAMC.242) Australia - Germany flown cover carried on the return of the Bertram Atlantis Expedition franked 3d Airmail tied by DARWIN 12 DE 32 cds, plus Dutch East Indies (2) for arrival and departure after a long delay for repairs, AKYAB (Burma) cds tieing India 3a Air and German 10pf Eagle tied by BERLIN 14 4 33 arrival cds. SymbolC View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! Lot #645 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: 13 June 1932 (AAMC.269a) Sydney - Bourke - (Quakers Hill) Sydney, flown cover, carried and signed by Jones and Ritchie on the first all-Australian designed and built Jones Monoplane "Wonga". [Only 10 flown]. SymbolC View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #646 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: 1934 - 1950 group of flown covers; 2 registered and including a few foreign. (12, of which the Australian items Cat.$470.). SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #647 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: The Last Flight of the "Southern Cross" 18 July 1935 (AAMC.515) a cover (#30) carried from Mascot to Richmond, with special vignette showing the route the aeroplane had followed around the world; signed by Charles Kingsford Smith, Mary Kingsford Smith, P.G. Taylor, John Stannage and all other personnel on board. SymbolC View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot #648 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS": A complete IMPERFORATE proof sheetlet of four of the round-the-world-route-map vignettes designed by Ernest Crome. (AAMC: 516f). Provenance: From the estate of Ernest Crome. SymbolP View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusCLOSED! Lot #649 9 Jan.1937 (AAMC.702) (Batavia, D.E.I.) - Darwin - Sydney flown cover, flown by KNILM and signed by the whole crew; cancelled Jan.12 on arrival. Endorsed verso in Crome's hand "one of twelve only". SymbolC View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$210StatusSold Lot #650 A 1938 - 1951 collection of flown covers, comprising of Aug.1938 Empire Service Sydney - London (AAMC.826); Dec. 1939 Sydney - Coonamble Christmas flight (AAMC.887a); 30 April 1940 Auckland - Sydney (2 different) (AAMC.899 x 2); 30 April Sydney - Auckland (AAMC.900); Oct. 1943 Sydney - Kerand (AAMC.964a); Dec. 1946 Brewarrina - Sydney (AAMC.1088a); Dec. 1947 Sydney - London with vignette, pilot signed (AAMC.1124); and, June 1951 Melbourne - Christchurch (AAMC.1274). (Total: 9 flown covers). SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot #651 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: 29 Nov. 1938 (AAMC.831b) Sydney - Canberra flown cover (cancelled on arrival), carried by RAF Vickers Wellesley long-range bomber on the first leg of the return flight to England. One of only 2 covers flown; the pilot returning the England by ship after the plane crashed near Derby. SymbolC View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot #652 22 July 1939 (AAMC.873) Adelaide - Darwin - Dili flown cover, carried by Guinea Airways on a survey flight to Portuguese Timor; signed by the crew of Cameron, Ross and Scott as well as the Minister for Civil Aviation, J.V. Fairbairn, who was on board. SymbolC View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #653 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: 30 Aug.1944 (AAMC.982) Sydney - Fanning Island, registered flown cover, signed and carried by P.G. Taylor on his Catalina Flying Boat "Frigate Bird" with Sydney & Fanning Island backstamps. (15 flown). SymbolC View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #654 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: 15 May 1946 (AAMC.1044b) Australia - U.S.A. cover flown on the TWA Skymaster "Shamrock" and signed by all members of the crew; with Washington arrival cds's. SymbolC View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$60StatusSold Lot #655 Aerophilately & Flight Covers: 5 April 1957 (Unlisted) cover endorsed "First Round the World Flight by No.11 Maritime Squadron R.A.A.F." and signed by Flight Sgt. C.J. Prior, 11 Sqdn, RAAF. SymbolC View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusCLOSED! Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next
