Victoria Tourism-related: 1911-63 photographic booklets (4) and 1927-92 mainly 'Greetings from' envelopes (16 + front), the first 'Spend your next holiday at Maldon', noted 1963 with rare Tidal River Camp cds (21 items)
Lot 938
Estimate: $120
Realised Price : $160
1913 (8 Feb) used of 1911-12 KGV Fullface Lettercard (BW LC10, 'National Park') uprated to Germany with Tasmania Pictorial ½d and 1d tied by three Macquarie Plains cds
Lot 939
Estimate: $40
Realised Price : $30
1919 (26 May) unstamped postcard (Notice of Meeting of the Sydney Philatelic Club) sent from Sydney to Arncliffe, with large 'UNSTAMPED' (56mm x 5.5mm), circular 'MORE TO PAY/2D' applied but crossed through, and similar handstamp for '3D' applied, fine
Lot 940
Estimate: $250
1923 (Sep) cover addressed to 'Captain A.C. Jowett' used from Melbourne to Toowoomba and then re-addressed to Clifton, franked with KGV 4d Blue (2) paying the quadruple 2oz rate. (The addressee was the son of Edmund Jowett, who on his passing in 1936 was regarded as one of the world's great pastoralists, BW cat 4d Blue on cover AU$600
Lot 941
Estimate: $150
Realised Price : $115
Victorian Commemorative Covers: Mostly commercially used, with 1926 'Back to Donald' (rare Massey cds), 1934 'Back to Euroa', Centenaries 1938 Geelong (4, three illustrated, four different labels), Ballarat (registered), and Wangaratta Cobbs Mail Coach, 1954 Maryborough, 1974 Gembrook and 1978 Mirboo North, odd fault (11)
Lot 942
Estimate: $80
Realised Price : $125
1932 (12 Jul) parcel tag franked with 1d and 4d KGV and 1932 6d Kookaburra cancelled 'REGISTERED/SYDNEY N.S.W.' cds, addressed to Warren (NSW) and tag with attractive thematic golf illustration
Lot 943
Estimate: $180
Realised Price : $210
1937-1985 Express/Special Delivery/Messenger Delivery group, appear to be almost all different rates, some nice frankings including 1959 Flowers 1/6d plus QEII 2d (29 covers)
Lot 944
Estimate: $100
1938 (28 Sep) registered cover with return handstamp to Louisiana, USA franked with 1935 Anzac 2d and 1/- tied by hexagonal 'Q'LAND PHIL SOCY'S EXHBN/BRISBANE datestamps, slight soiling
Lot 945
Estimate: $50
Realised Price : $55
1939 (7 Apr) Burns Philp envelope addressed to Gizo, B.S.I., with KGV 2d red cancelled oval 'RADIO STATION/WILLIS ISLAND' ds with another strike at top left, straight-line 'WILLIS ISLAND', per (mss) 'MALAITA' all in violet, with Gizo arrival cds
Lot 946
Estimate: $250
1945 (13 Dec) cover to Richmond (Qld) franked with KGVI 2½d together with multicolour 'DAY DREAM ISLAND/GREAT BARRIER REEF' advertising label alongside, tied by Proserpine cds, slight ageing. (Two similar covers in 1970s and 1980s sold for over AU$1,000 each at auction)
Lot 947
Estimate: $2,000
New South Wales Registered Mail: Collection of covers with blue C6 labels, stated all different, essentially from 1950s and 1960s plus some earlier and later, noted Bradfield, Bullaburra, Caringbar (error), Fern Bay, Frenchs Road, Goodnight, Green Valley (cds without time, not recorded Hopson and Tobin), Herne Bay, Island Bend, Macdonaldtown, Majors Creek, Maroubra Bay, Mascot Aerodrome, McCallums Hill, Number One, Oyster Bay, Parramatta East, Picnic Point, Rufus river, Turvey Park, Twins Camp, Wanganella, Warragamba Dam, Widgiewa and Yarra Bay, condition variable although presentable (approx 820 covers)
Lot 948
Estimate: $75
Realised Price : $60
1950 (14 Jan) unusual cover to Victoria handstamped on reverse 'MORNINGTON ISLAND' in violet with mss 'G.W. Taylor/Supt 14/1/50', franked with ½d and 1d pair tied by 'TENNANT CREEK/N.T.' cds 21 JAN 50
Lot 949
Estimate: $180
Cash on Delivery Mail: c1953 cardboard box front, 1957 parcel wrapper and 1966 envelope with different 'C.O.D. 2' labels used in New South Wales, the first missing corner, the last label torn on opening, rated 5/5d, 4/9d or 34c, very scarce group (3 items)
Lot 950
Estimate: $300
1956 (6 Jun) Morris Hedstrom Ltd airmail envelope (275 x 125mm) to Samoa with Sydney machine cancel and stamps washed off, obvious damage from immersion on water, very fine strike of the straight-line 'SOILED MAIL EX VASU' handstamped in violet applied at Apia on face. (The mail was flown to Fiji, then per wooden motorship 'Vasu' which foundered in rough seas about b300km north of Tonga, and was abandoned. Brian Peace at page 322 states that '29 pieces of mail were recovered')
Lot 951
Estimate: $80
Realised Price : $145
1966 (10 Mar) registered Tattersalls cover from Congupna Rd (Vic) with combination of 1966 20c Bird and 1965 5d Christmas
Lot 952
Estimate: $100
Realised Price : $75
1995 (9 Mar) parcel front from Launceston to George Town prepaid with Business Parcel/Receipted Delivery green and black label only issued in Tasmania, very few of which are likely to have survived
