AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, FIRST DAY COVERS

Lot 398		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $230 1927 Canberra 1½d (marginal) cancelled 'CANBERRA/9 MY 27/F.C.T.' (FDI) affixed to Opening of the First Parliament commemorative card. Scarce
Lot 399		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $200 1932 Bridge 2d (both printings) and 3d on neat plain FDC (unopened) registered at Mornington (Vic)
Lot 400		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $320 1942-44 QE 1d Brown-Purple (3) on neat plain FDC (unopened) cancelled 'FOREST HILL/ 1 JA 43/QUEENSLAND'
Lot 401		Estimate: $600 1942-44 QE 1½d imprint block of four tied to plain FDC by Killara (N.S.W.) cds. Rare format
Lot 402		Estimate: $350 1942-44 KGVI 2d Purple block of four from lower right corner of sheet on 'Hayward C Parish' FDC registered at Matraville (N.S.W.) where also backstamped. Parish was employed at G.P.O. Sydney and is known to have produced FDCs for perf changes, no wmk paper, coil perf and other rare permutations for himself and J.C. Thompson
Lot 403		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $280 1942-44 KGVI 2d Purple on 'Haslem' illustrated FDC clearly cancelled 'COLLIE/4 DE 44/W.A.', unusually fine, flap unsealed
Lot 404		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $120 1945 Gloucester set on rare Radio Stamp Club FDC unusually censored to Peru, with typewritten enclosure 'This envelope contained no/enclosures when opened by the/censor.', same U.S. Censor No. ('58192') as shown on censor tape. This design was plagiarised for use on Challis generic covers from 1946 onwards
Lot 405		Estimate: $2,500 1949 No Wmk ½d Kangaroo right pane imprint block of four on 'Thompson' Official FDC, cancelled at G.P.O. Sydney (15 SE 49). Only five FDCs are recorded, and this is possibly the only imprint block
Lot 406		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $46 1949-50 Arms 5/- Carmine on illustrated FDC cancelled at Albury
Lot 407		Estimate: $350 Realised Price : $270 1949-50 Arms £1 Blue on hand addressed plain registered FDC cancelled at Barmera '28NO 9', BW 270y
Lot 408		Estimate: $125T Realised Price : $95 1950-52 QE 1½d Green block on unaddressed OHMS FDC cancelled at Sydney, handstamped 'FIRST DAY COVER' in red
Lot 409		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1953 3d Tasmanian Stamp Centenary strip of three on previously unrecorded trilingual illustrated FDC used Sydney to Belgium, tiny edge tone
Lot 410		Estimate: $125 Realised Price : $95 1963-65 Navigators 5/- to £2 on FDCs, additional 10/-, the 7/6d, 10/- and £2 on plain covers, odd blemish (5)
Lot 411		Estimate: $200 1971 Christmas Sheet No. block of 25 on FDC registered at Brunswick (Vic). Rare
Lot 412		Estimate: $1,500 Postage Dues: 1954 (17 Feb) New Value Plate 1/- Carmine and Yellow-Green on inscribed, unaddressed FDC by Arthur Bergen, stamp tied by 'TRANS AUST RAILWAY/1/PAY TRAIN' cds (another strike on reverse). Extremely rare, with perhaps as few as ten prepared. FDC unlisted in ACSC