Stamps, Coins and Postal History (#425) 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 501-600 of 657. Previous|1234567|Next Lot #501 1940 (SG.131) 1d Pictorial, McCracken Imprint block. Minor faults, but very scarce. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #502 1937 incoming cheques from USA, England & Canada, endorsed "Foreign Bills Payable" and each with a Papuan postage stamp affixed (1d or 2d) and tied by different violet bank cachets. All addressed to the Bank of New South Wales at Port Moresby. Unusual group. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #503 1950 parcel tags: with 5 Aug. part tag with 5/- Robes, 2/- crocodile & 1/- lyrebird; 22 Sept. full tag with 5/- Robes & 9d platypus and 10 Oct. part tag with £1 & 5/- Robes & 6d kookaburra. All cancelled Port Moresby. Very scarce group. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #504 1952-58 pictorials in Imprint blks.4: 1/6 Rubber Tapping, 1/7 Cattle, 2/- Sepik Masks, 2/6 Shepherd & flock & 5/- Coffee. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #505 1962 (SG.33-35) Malaria: 69 sets, mainly in blocks. superb MUH. View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot #506 1962 (SG.36-8) South Pacific Conference set of 3: 31 sets, mainly in blks., superb MUH. View details Estimate$180 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #507 1962 (SG.39-41) British Commonwealth Games, Perth: complete set of Courvoisiers' original colour separations & completed designs, all imperforate and affixed to the official Archival album page [#627]. Superb & UNIQUE. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #508 1963 (SG.45s & 71s) £1 QEII x2 and 10/- Riflebird o'pt "SPECIMEN". View details Estimate$120 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #509 1952-91 collection in s/books. Earlier years to 1973 incomplete, mixture of mint & used as singles & blks, also effected by humidity. 1974 onwards, almost complete as fine MUH imprint blks of 4 or larger. Includes s/books of duplicates. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #510 1952-91 collection in a cased album on quality standard Leuchtturm hingeless pages. Appears complete simplified, less the Specimens. Majority fine MUH. View details Estimate$350 - $450StatusUnsold Lot #511 30 Apr.1927 (AAMC.P1b) New Guinea - United States cover bearing 1d & 2d Huts, tied by RABAUL datestamps; US 16c + 8c Airmails tied by READING, Pa. double ring oval paying the internal airmail fee from San Francisco (b/s June 9); Philadelphia (11 June) backstamp. Fewer than 15 examples of the dual-franking arrangements with New Guinea are believed to exist. Attractive native hut pencil illustration at left. NB: The previous example sold by us - Lot 493 in our Auction 414 - brought $1900 + BP. View details Estimate$1,250 - $1,500Price Realized$1,800StatusSold Lot #512 21 July 1930 (AAMC.P20) Port Moresby - Salamaua cover, flown and signed by Ray Parer for MorLae Airlines Ltd. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #513 14 Mar.1931 (AAMC.P29) Port Moresby - Salamaua cover, flown by Guinea Airways. AAMC reports 'four covers are known'. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #514 1 May 1931 (AAMC.P30) Salamaua - Port Moresby cover, flown by Lionel Shoppee for Papuan Airways. [12 flown]. The small mail connected at Port Moresby with the mailboat to Cairns (8 May cds); from Brisbane they were flown by ANA to Sydney (11 May) and then by sea to Christchurch (19 May backstamp). View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #515 14 Sept. 1931 (AAMC.P31) Salamaua - Samarai cover, flown by P.H.Moody to connect with the mailboat for Australia and thence New Zealand. With additional Papuan and Australian adhesives to pay for additional legs; backstamped SYDNEY & CHRISTCHURCH. [12 flown & delivered to New Zealand]. Ex Ray Kelly View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #516 24 Sept. 1931 (AAMC.P32) Port Moresby - Samarai cover, flown by P.H.Moody on the inaugural flight over this route. [10 flown]. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #517 1 Oct. 1931 (AAMC.P33) Wau - Lae cover, flown by E. Mustar for Guinea Airways on the 3rd mail flight to carry the company's round purple cachet. Ex Ray Kelly, who reports "a small quantity of mail". View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #518 12 Oct. 1931 Wau - Salamua cover, flown by Guinea Airways with the company's 2-line cachet "GUINEA AIRWAYS LTD/WAU". Plus a piece with "PER HOLDENS'" another rare cachet. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot #519 6 Nov.1931 & 7 Jan.1932 (AAMC.P36 & P40) Rabaul - Australia - UK & UK - Australia - Rabaul cacheted covers carried from and to New Guinea by mailboat to connect with the First All-Australian airmail flights by the "Southern Sun" and the "Southern Star". [100 & 30 flown, respectively]. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #520 18 Mar.1932 example of New Guinea despatched registered airmail (from Rabaul) for acceptance on the Indian Airmail Service via Perth to Calcutta. Numerous backstamps. Early examples are scarce. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #521 23 Mar.1932 (AAMC.P44) Port Moresby - Salamaua registered cover, flown by Orme Denny for Guinea Airways. [57 covers flown of which 24 were registered]. View details Estimate$125 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #522 19 July 1932 registered airmail cover from Madang - Salamua - Wau; carried "per favour" by pilot, Harold Woodman, who was the District Officer at Madang, who patrolled in the area by air. View details Estimate$120 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #523 28 Sept.1932 (AAMC.P46) Kokoda - Port Moresby cover, flown by Orme Denny & Frank Drayton for Guinea Airways. [107 covers flown]. View details Estimate$120 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #524 30 Sept.1932 (AAMC.P47) Port Moresby - Salamaua cover, flown by Denny & Drayton for Guinea Airways - the first flight of a contract arrangement with the Papuan Government for mails to connect with steamships to Australia. [124 flown]. View details Estimate$120 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #525 30 Sept.1932 (AAMC.P47) Port Moresby - Salamaua - Wau cover, flown by Orme Denny & Frank Drayton for Guinea Airways in a Junkers F13; with details of the flight on reverse. This was the first flight of a contract arrangement with the Papuan Government for mails to be flown to connect with steamships heading south to Australia. [124 covers flown]. View details Estimate$100 - $125StatusUnsold Lot #526 7 Oct.1932 Edie Creek Goldfields - Sydney cover, carried "per favour" to Wau, where it would have been carried by the regular flight to Port Moresby via Guinea Airways; thence by steamer to Sydney. View details Estimate$120 - $150Price Realized$110StatusSold Lot #527 21 Jan.1933 (AAMC.P53) Kainantu (Upper Ramu Goldfields) - Lae - Salamaua cover, flown & signed by John Jukes for Guinea Airways. As postal facilities were not available at Kainantu, all mail was cancelled upon arrival at Lae P.O. [12 flown]. Ex Ray Kelly. [NB: The most recent recorded sale of a P53 cover is $1600 + commission, July 2012 at a Sydney auction.] View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #528 21-25 Jan.1933 (AAMC.P54) Bena Bena (Upper Purari River) - Wau - Lae - Salamaua cover, flown and signed by Ray Parer for Pacific Aerial Transport. The time & date of despatch has also been recorded on the cover by H.E.Woodman, the Assistant District Warden. Postmarked en route at WAU as there were no postal facilities at the newly prepared airport at Bena Bena. Backstamped on arrival at Salamaua. [8 flown]. [NB: The most recent recorded sale of a P54 cover is $2600 + commission, July 2012, at a View details Estimate$1,500 - $1,750StatusUnsold Lot #529 10 Feb.1933 (AAMC.P56) "FIRST OFFICIAL AERIAL MAIL AUSTRALIA, PAPUA - NEW GUINEA" cachet on 2 reg'd covers from PERTH & MELBOURNE to SALAMAUA; both signed by pilot, Orme Denny, who collected the mail once it arrived at Port Moresby aboard the "Macdhui"; also, an example from SYDNEY, carried by N.E.A.L. to Brisbane & addressed to LAE. Also, 17 Mar.1933 commercial cover from Sydney franked 4d and carried by air from Salamaua to Lae and addressed to Jack Davaney, chief mechanic of the short-lived H View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot #530 10 Apr.1933 (AAMC.P59) Wahgi River (Goroka) - Lae - Salamaua cover, flown, signed & endorsed by the pilot, Ian Grabowsky for Guinea Airways. Grabowsky carried the first airmails to & from Goroka at the time that the Leahy Brothers Expedition was based in the Wahgi Valley. [5 flown]. Ex Ray Kelly. [NB: The most recent recorded sale of a P59 cover is $2800 + commission, July 2012 at a Sydney auction.] View details Estimate$1,800 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot #531 26 Aug.-26 Sept.1933 (AAMC.P66) Port Moresby - Rabaul intermediate flight covers: Port Moresby - Samarai registered (26 Aug.) and Port Moresby - Talasea (26 Sept.), the delay in the flight caused by the need for extensive repairs following a forced landing on the Mambare River. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #532 12-22 Apr.1934 (AAMC.P69a) Port Moresby - Cooktown - Townsville - Bowen - Rockhampton - Brisbane cover, flown, endorsed and signed by the pilot, Sidney Marshall in his Westland Widgeon III. This was the first solo flight by land plane from New Guinea to Australia. [102 covers flown; 40 signed]. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #533 1 Oct.1934 (AAMC.P73) Sydney - Port Moresby cover, flown and signed by the pilot, Sidney Marshall, in his Westland Widgeon III. This was the return leg of the flight to Australia in April. [5 flown]. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #534 1 Oct.1934 (AAMC.P73a) Sydney - Cape York cover, flown, endorsed and signed by the pilot, Sidney Marshall, in his Westland Widgeon III. This was the first leg of the return flight from Australia. At a cost of 70 pounds, Marshall had arranged for a rough airstrip to be cleared at Somerset on Cape York, where he could refuel for his flight to Lae. [4 flown]. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #535 19 Dec.1934 (AAMC.P75) Port Moresby - Cairns registerd cover, flown by Lord Sempill in his DH80 Puss Moth. This was the first single engine plane to fly from Port Moresby to Cairns. [Of 112 covers carried, only 14 were registered; this is one of 7 to Sydney and the only one known returned by mail to Papua - 9 Jan.1935]. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #536 19 Dec.1934 (AAMC.P76) Port Moresby - Abau cover, flown & signed by Orme Denny for Guinea Airways. Denny landed his Fox Moth on the beach at Dedele Point; the small mail was then transferred to canoe and carried via Robinson River to Abau. [29 flown]. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #537 10 Apr.1935 (AAMC.P79) Brisbane - Port Moresby cover, flown by Ray Parer for Pacific Aerial Transport Ltd in a Fairey 111F (which had previously been flown by C.G. Davies in the MacRobertson Air Race). [One of 25 covers posted back to Brisbane on arrival at Port Moresby]. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #538 11-19 July 1935 (AAMC.P80) Sydney - Thursday Island cover, flown by Stuart Campbell in a Short Scion S16 Seaplane which was being delivered to the Oroville Dredging Co. [6 flown]. [NB: The AAMC entry appears to be incorrect. Grey reports that 6 covers were flown to Thursday Island and 6 to Daru, for a total of 12]. View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #539 8 Aug.1935 (AAMC.P83a) Sydney - Wau cover, flown & signed by Parer & Hemsworth in a Fairey Fox; posted back to Australia on October 14th, having been forgotten earlier. The route was Brisbane to Cape York, a forced landing at Hisiu Beach with engine trouble, then Port Moresby for repairs and finally Wau, arriving on August 14th. The plane had previously been flown by Parer in the MacRobertson Air Race. [12 recorded]. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #540 15 Aug.1935 (AAMC.P84) Wau - Madang covers, flown by Orme Denny for Guinea Airways; one signed by the pilot. The first aerodrome at Madang had only been cleared in mid-1935. [70 flown]. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #541 29-30 Aug.1935 (AAMC.P86-7) Port Moresby - Ioma and return covers, flown & signed by Orme Denny for Guinea Airways in a Junkers 34. [95 & 54 flown, respectively]. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #542 31 Aug.1935 (AAMC.P88) Daru - Oroville Police Camp (D'Albertis Junction) cover, flown & signed by Stuart Campbell in a Short Scion Seaplane; with receipt endorsement on reverse, signed by Cecil Cowley. [81 flown]. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #543 1 Sept.1935 (AAMC.P90a) Daru - Port Moresby - Darwin cover, flown & signed by Squadron Leader A.E.Hempel, in an RAAF Southampton Flying Boat. Backstamped DARWIN 27 NOV, the cover is accompanied by the original mail WAY BILL, signed by the postmaster at Port Moresby and recording one bag of mail for Port Romilly (Papua) and another for Darwin. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #544 5-9 Nov.1935 (AAMC.P93) Port Moresby - Oroville Police Camp cover, flown & signed by Stuart Campbell in a Short Scion S16 Seaplane; the cover is also signed & dated by Cecil Cowley, the Officer in Charge. [89 flown]. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #545 5 Nov. - 1 Dec.1935 (AAMC.P94) Port Moresby - Oroville Police Camp - Daru cover, flown by Stuart Campbell in a Short Scion S16 Seaplane; the cover is signed on reverse by Cecil Cowley, the Officer in Charge. With DARU 1 DE 35 arrival cds on front. [12 flown]. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #546 27 Nov. - 1 Dec.1935 (AAMC.P95) Oroville Police Camp - Daru cover, flown & signed by Stuart Campbell in a Short Scion S16 Seaplane; the cover is signed & endorsed on reverse by Cecil Cowley, the Officer in Charge who has also signed the adhesive in the absence of postmarking equipment. With DARU 1 DE 35 arrival cds on front. [117 flown]. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #547 17 Mar.1936 (AAMC.P97) Port Moresby - Daru cover, flown and signed by Russell Rogers, pilot for the Second Archbold Expedition, in "Kono" a Fairchild NR777 amphibian. The purpose of the expedition was to explore and collect specimens in the area of the Fly River. [12 flown]. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #548 17.Mar.-17 Apr.1936 (AAMC.P98,98a) Sydney - Brisbane cover, flown & signed by P. Hawes, & Adelaide - Wau cover via Daru, flown by Brearley & Stephens in their DH66 Hercules "City of Adelaide" for Stephens Aviation Ltd and cancelled on arrival at Wau. [9 flown]. These flights were for the purpose of ferrying the aircraft to Wau, however they proved too heavy and cumbersome for operations in New Guinea. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #549 28 Mar.1936 (AAMC.P98b) Daru - Port Moresby cover, flown by Rogers & Archbold for the Second Archbold Expedition in a Fairchild NR777 Amphibian "Kono". View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #550 16 Apr.1936 (AAMC.P100) Port Moresby - Daru cover, flown by Rogers & Archbold for the Second Archbold Expedition in a Fairchild NR777 Amphibian "Kono". Signed by the pilot, Russell Rogers. View details Estimate$350 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #551 24 Apr.1936 (AAMC.P101) Port Moresby - Daru cover, flown by Rogers & Archbold on the fourth flight of the Second Archbold Expedition in their Fairchild NR777 Amphibian "Kono". Signed by Russell Rogers. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #552 28 May 1936 (AAMC.P103) Port Moresby - Daru cover, flown & signed by Russell Rogers on the fifth and final flight of the Second Archbold Expedition. Backstamped on arrival. [12 flown]. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #553 18 June 1936 (AAMC.P104) Daru - Mount Blucher cover, flown & signed by Archbold & Rogers in the "Kono", the Fairchild NR777 Amphibian which they had used for the Second Archbold Expedition. The mail was dropped by parachute as the plane was unable to land because of bad weather. [192 flown]. View details Estimate$120 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #554 23 Nov.1936 (AAMC.P108a variant) Wau - Sydney cover, carried by Tommy O'Dea & Les Ross via Port Moresby and Brisbane for Guinea Airways in a Lockheed Electra. Ex Ray Kelly, who reports a "Small Unofficial Mail carried". View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #555 4 June 1937 (AAMC.P113) Kokopo - Brisbane via Cairns, OHMS cover, flown & signed by Gatenby & Marshall in a Tugan Gannett (VH-UYE). This flight carried an emergency airmail necessitated by violent volcanic eruptions at Rabaul; the plane also carried journalists who were reporting on the devastation in Rabaul and the 507 people who lost their lives there. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #556 19 June 1937 (AAMC.P114) Mai Mai (Sepik District) - Wewak cover, flown, endorsed and signed by William Gray for Mandated Airlines, flying a DH83 Fox Moth. The cover was postmarked on arrival at Wewak. This was the first flight from the newly cleared airfield at Wambara at Mai Mai. [21 flown]. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot #557 4 Aug.1937 (AAMC.P115a) HMAS Australia - Rabaul cover, prepared and signed by the pilot, W.Gibson, for a planned catapult mail at Rabaul on this date. Due to aircraft problems the flight did not occur. This is one of 12 covers prepared and backstamped at RABAUL. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #558 11 Oct.1937 (AAMC.P117) Port Moresby - Lake Kutubu cover, flown and signed by Aubury Koch for Guinea Airways in a Junkers W34. This was a delivery flight to the police camp then under construction at Lake Kutubu. [17 flown]. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #559 24-31 Oct.1937 (AAMC.P121) Lake Kutubu - Port Moresby cover, flown in a Junkers W34d Seaplane and signed by Aubury Koch for Guinea Airways; also signed by Ivan Champion, Officer in Charge. [17 flown]. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #560 Dec.1937 commercial cover bearing 1/6 in airmails tied by BRISBANE PAQUEBOT machine cancel, correctly rated for airmail delivery to England. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #561 25 Jan.1938 (AAMC.P124) Sydney - Port Moresby cover, flown and signed by Barbara Hitchins in her DH Gipsy Moth; also signed by her passenger, C.K.Roberts. [5 flown] View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #562 18 Mar.1938 (AAMC.P128) Rabaul - Salamaua cover, flown on a survey flight for W.R.Carpenter Airlines by R.O.Mant, flying a DeHavilland DH86. [50 flown]. View details Estimate$80 - $100StatusUnsold Lot #563 18-20 Apr.1938 (AAMC.P129 & 130) Sydney - Salamaua & Sydney Rabaul covers, flown & signed on a survey & aircraft delivery flight for W.R.Carpenter Airlines by R.O.Mant, flying a DH86. Ex Ray Kelly (reporting 5 items flown to each destination). View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$170StatusSold Lot #564 30 May - 5 June 1938 (AAMC.P133-34a) Salamaua - Sydney cover, Rabaul - Sydney cover (signed by R.O.Mant), Sydney - Rabaul - Sydney cover, Port Moresby - Cooktown, Cooktown - Port Moresby & Cooktown - Salamaua cover, flown on the first contract mail flights by W.R.Carpenter Airlines. View details Estimate$120 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #565 May-June 1938 (AAMC.P131b) Archbold Expedition cover, flown from Honolulu to Hollandia, with HOLLANDIA, VICTORIA - HONG KONG & HONOLULU backstamps from the return flight. Endorsed "No.9 of 20 covers carried on this flight". Cat.$1000. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #566 29 June 1938 (AAMC.P135) Port Moresby - Samarai - Losuia cover, carried by Ken Garden in a Stinson Reliant Seaplane for Guinea Airways. The emergency flight to pick up a sick man who needed urgent transport to Port Moresby hospital, was the first flight to the remote, sparsely populated Trobriand Islands. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot #567 29-30 June 1938 (AAMC.P136a) Port Moresby - Samarai - Losuia - Port Moresby cover, flown in both directions and signed by Ken Garden in a Stinson Reliant Seaplane for Guinea Airways. The emergency flight to pick up a sick man who needed urgent transport to Port Moresby hospital, was the first flight to the remote, sparsely populated Trobriand Islands. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #568 23 July - 10 Aug.1938 (AAMC.137-38) Empire Airmail Scheme covers carried on the first despatches including one bearing the "RETURNED TO WRITER/UNCLAIMED/PORT MORESBY pointing hand" handstamp. View details Estimate$120 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #569 Aug.1938 registered airmail cover from MADANG to USA, with MADANG, SYDNEY, SEATTLE & TECHNY, Illinois backstamps. View details Estimate$100 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #570 10 Mar.1939 (AAMC.P138a) Port Moresby - Bundaberg airmail cover, sent by F.E.Secor, Chief Pilot for the K.N.I.L.M. - Fairchild Aerial Survey joint venture. The exploration and survey flights began in October 1938 and ceased in mid-1940. View details Estimate$120 - $150StatusUnsold Lot #571 3 Oct.1938 (AAMC.P139) Buna Bay - Port Moresby cover, flown by Ken Garden for Guinea Airways in a Stinson Reliant. On a routine flight from Salamaua to Port Moresby, bad weather forced Garden to make an unscheduled landing at Buna Bay. O.J.Atkinson, the Resident Magistrate at Buna, took the opportunity to send a few covers which were cancelled on arrival. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #572 14-17 Dec.1938 (AAMC.P141) Melbourne - Port Moresby return flight cover, flown by Russell Rogers in the "Guba II" Consolidated 28 Flying Boat and signed by the navigator, Lewis A. Yancey. The flight had become necessary because of the requirement of repairs to the automatic pilot. [6 flown]. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #573 12 Jan.1939 (AAMC.P141a) Hollandia - Port Moresby cover, flown in the "Guba II" and addressed to Richard Archbold's wife, in San Diego, California. [NB: This cover illustrates the AAMC entry at p246 in the Eighth Edition]. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusUnsold Lot #574 25 Feb.1939 (AAMC.P142) Port Moresby - Thursday Island - Darwin registered cover, flown and signed by Eddy & Kelly in a Grumman Amphibian; with next day DARWIN arrival backstamp. The only registered cover from this flight recorded by us. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #575 31 Oct.1937 (AAMC.P142) Port Moresby - Thursday Island - Darwin cover, flown and endorsed by W.Eddy & J.Kelly in a Grumman Amphibian VH-AAY. View details Estimate$300 - $350StatusUnsold Lot #576 29 Mar.1939 (AAMC.P144) Archbold Expedition flight cover, Hollandia - Port Moresby per "Guba II" with 'BIOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS/.../1938 NEW GUINEA EXPEDITION' imprint at upper-left, minor soiling at right. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot #577 31 July 1939 (AAMC.P147) Melbourne - Wau cover, flown and signed by Ray Parer in a Boeing 40B [VH-ADX] which he was delivering to New Guinea for use by the newly established Parer Glason Syndicate. The plane was a large single engine bi-plane, ideal for the transport business which was their main focus. It crashed and was written off on 21 Sept.1939. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #578 31 July 1939 (AAMC.P148) Melbourne - Port Moresby cover (some spotting), flown and signed by Ray Parer in a Boeing 40B [VH-ADX] which he was delivering for use by the newly established Parer Glason Syndicate. The plane was a large single engine bi-plane, ideal for the transport business which was their main focus. It crashed & was written off in Sept.1939. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #579 4 Jan.1940 (AAMC.P150) Goilala Police Camp - Port Moresby cover, flown and signed by Tommy O'Dea for Guinea Airways. This was the first airmail flight from the camp. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #580 2 Mar.1940 (AAMC.P151) Bwagaoia (Misima Is.) - Port Moresby reg'd cover, carried on the 1st airmail flight from the island. The 8d Air tied by double-circle "POST OFFICE/2/MAR/1940/BWAGAOIA, PAPUA" cds in violet [Lee #87, rated E]. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #581 19-27 Mar.1940 (AAMC.P153) Sydney - Wau cover, flown and signed by Ray Parer in a Boeing 40, cancelled on arrival at WAU 27MAR40. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #582 WORLD WAR II aerial drop leaflets: Two examples of the Allied printed leaflets dropped to inform Japanese soldiers how to surrender (in Japanese) and to inform the natives (in Pidgin) how to treat and direct the Japanese prisoners to appropriate areas at Lae, Salamaua and Finschhafen. Both in very good condition. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot #583 2 Apr.1945 (AAMC.P160) Sydney - Lae cover flown by Qantas on re-opening of service, with black/green vignette & signed by Capts. Deignan & Jacobson. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #584 25 July 1931 (Si.120.Bb) Leningrad to the icebreaker "Malygin", North Pole, flown Zeppelin registered postcard and registered cover franked with a set of imperf. Zeppelin stamps, 30k + 1r and 35k + 2r. (Sc.C26 - C29). Both with red Zeppelin Polar cachets and registration labels. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #585 1942 (SG.J11 & J16) 8c Carmine & 15c Blue with overprints in violet, FU on piece. Cat.£290. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #586 HEJAZ: 1917 (SG.11-16) 1pa - 2pi complete Postage set, zig-zag rouletted in matching blocks of 15. From the Australian War Memorial (1995) archival sales. View details Estimate$500 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #587 HEJAZ: 1917 (SG.11-16) 1pa - 2pi complete Postage set, zig-zag rouletted: 8 sets in matching blocks of 4. From the Australian War Memorial (1995) archival sales. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #588 HEJAZ: 1917 (SG.D17-D19) 20pa - 2pi complete Postage Due set, zig-zag rouletted: 23 sets in blocks including blocks of 15 with Plate Numbers. From the Australian War Memorial (1995) archival sales. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #589 1935-70 (between SG.53-200+, D1-8) mainly FU on annotated pages incl.1956 defins, with blk.6 5/- & wide range shades; 1964 & 65 defins; 1966-67 surcharges, both wmk sets & with many opt. varieties incl. SG.142Aa inverted "8" & 1968 defins; also 1940 Postage Due set *; as well 4 airletters 2 mint & 2 used 1950's. Well annotated, Cat.£375+. Condition fine. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #590 1843 6Rp. black, Zurich Cantonal, fine used on piece, with 4 full margins. Lovely. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #591 3 quality Leuchtturm albums with hingeless pages 1843-2005 and stamps 1850-1983 incl. Pro Juventute and Pro Patria sets. Earlier years a mixture of mint/used, later years majority**. Better items incl. PAX issues and early Pro Juventute FU. Mixed condition. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot #592 1945 (Mi.447-459) 5c to 10Fr, PAX set of 13. FU, the 5 highvalues with 1945 cancels. The 2Fr with a light vert. crease otherwise a lovely set incl. 3 extras. Cat. 1,000 euro. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #593 Useful group with 1832 entire to London, charged 1/8 & other markings, 1855, 1867 & 1873 group with Helvetica frankings, 1910, 1911, 1912 & 1913 5c Postal Cards (2 mint, 2 used), 1916 censored p/card to Italy and 3 Oct.1925 Geneva - Milan cover & 28 May 1926 up-rated postal card 1st flights. On annotated pages 1932 GB underpaid inward cover, 1925 local flown up-rated 10c postal card with the scarce 35c airmail, 1932-36 o'seas airmail covers (4) and a WWII group incl. 3 covers from 3 Swiss Interm View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #594 Jan.1895 Provisionals (SG.51-53) on album page incl. Type 1 (4), one with misplaced surcharge, Type 2 (4) incl. 2 with "Double surcharge" (52a) & one with misplaced surcharge, Type 3 (7) incl. blk.6 with 2 units showing "double surcharge" variety (53a). Mainly fine. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #595 1927-72 (Sc.C10,25,39,51,60,64 & 78) Airmail booklets with 1927 6 x 10c Spirit of St Louis, 1941-44 6c (5), 1949 6c (2, with different back covers), 1958 7c blue (3), 1960 7c carmine, 1962 8c (2) and 1972 8 x 11c + 6 x 2c. Cat. Sc.$500+. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #596 1865-97 (Sc.PR4 & PR124) Newspaper Stamps; $50 dull rose, wmk double-line 'USPS', top left cnr block of 4 with Plate. No. "135", some perf. seperation 2**/2*. A scarce block, cats Sc. $490, without Plate No. Plus 1864 5c blue on yellowish paper, MNG as issued, slight tone. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot #597 LOCAL POSTS: 1855 Blood's Penny Post 1c black (Sc.15L18), on cover together with 3c Washington on 21 Apr.1859 cover from PHILADELPHIA to Jersey City, with double-ring "BLOOD'S PENNY POST" cachet at lower left. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot #598 Commemorative covers, 1931/32 (3), 1933 (28), 1934 (59), 1937 (3) and 2 others. Majority U.S. Frigate Constitution (75+). also incl. Utah, Cachalot, Kanawha, Northampton, Aylwin etc. Noted 4 signed covers. Mixed condition. Selling on e-bay $5 to $40 each. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #599 1985 (re SG.411-15) 5th Independence - Expo 85, imperforate Proofs of 4 stamps & Miniature Sheet in Format International Security Printers folder. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot #600 Aust. incl KGV head 1d group incl. shades collection, tin of pre-decimal bundleware and decimal** gutter strips & blocks, FV $55+. Box of Aust. & Pacific Islands FDCs incl. mint PSEs. Collections of Nepal, Thailand & Russia. USA Year & other packs 1972 to 2004. Mixed condition, majority fine. View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234567|Next Previous 1234567 Next Previous 1234567 Next
