AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, AEROPHILATELY/FLIGHT COVERS

Lot 796		Estimate: $175 Realised Price : $140 1920s-70s First Flight cover selection domestic and int'l (mainly QANTAS 1950s-60s) with useful 1930s (some multi-franked), mixed condition (59)
Lot 797		Estimate: $500 1930s-58 range of covers/cards (44), vignettes (19) and miscellaneous ephemera (8) various flights mostly internal, few pilot signed, strong in 1930s period, vignettes including QANTAS Sydney-South Africa (4), few other labels, letters, etc, nothing particularly scarce though a useful lot, mixed condition (71 items)
Lot 798		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $400 1931 (6 Jun) Francis Chichester cover flown Lord Howe Island to Sydney, endorsed 'Lord Howe Is/Francis Chichester/83', partly tying one of two adhesives, AAMC #184a. Cat AU$550
Lot 799		Estimate: $350 1935-36 selection of airmail covers (5) from same correspondence Homebush/Hurstville mostly to Major at Kirkee Arsenal India bearing varying frankings for ½d ½oz airmail rate including 1/- ANZAC, 3d Cable and 1/- S.A. Centenary
Lot 800		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $550 1935 (18 Jul) cover flown Mascot-Richmond on the last flight of the 'Southern Cross', with single example of the perforated vignette affixed, signed by pilot Kingsford Smith, AAMC 516
Lot 801		Estimate: $200 1937 (5-7 Oct) Air Mail Exhibition, the set of four different coloured perforated vignettes, AAMC 768c, Frommer 54b, fresh. Cat AU$240
Lot 802		Estimate: $400 1938 (23 Feb) airmail cover flown to Berlin bearing 5/- Grey and Yellow + KGVI 2d Scarlet tied by Melbourne datestamp, filing crease at left and adhesives with minor blemishes, still an attractive example of the 1½oz rate + 1d Late Fee
Lot 803		Estimate: $300T 1946 (7 Apr) 7d KGVI printed airletter, cacheted in violet, flown Sydney-Singapore, signed by Captains Furze and Moxham. AAMC 1036a
Lot 804		Estimate: $150 1952 (1 Sep) QANTAS inaugural service Australia-South Africa and return, use of KGVI 7d Air Letter uprated with 1/6d and 2/-, cachet in violet and vignette affixed, AAMC 1307a
Lot 805		Estimate: $200 1953 QANTAS/B.O.A.C. multi-colour vignettes sheet of 15 with small piece of selvedge missing at left, Frommer 93b, fresh. Cat AU$300