AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL HISTORY, GENERAL

Lot 582		Estimate: $300 Range of mostly Commonwealth period Telegram forms, including illustrated types plus few envelopes, sighted Tasmania 1876 Electric Telegraph, etc (over 40 items)
Lot 583		Estimate: $150T 1912-33 small group comprising 1912 registered cover to London bearing Sth Australia 4d violet tied by Sydney cds, red & black label, 1913 advertising cover for 'Thomson Davies' bearing 1d Kangaroo (2) used Hobart to Launceston, 1919 all-over advertising cover for Malloch Bros. used from Perth, 1933 registered cover Melbourne to Ethiopia bearing 6d Sepia Air optd OS, some staining (4)
Lot 584		Estimate: $250 'THURSDAY ISLAND/1/26AUG16' datestamps tying KGV ½d green and 1d red pair on cover to USA , Brisbane transit cds. Fine and attractive
Lot 585		Estimate: $250 1917-65 remainders of covers and stationery items including underpaid cover to UK bearing 1½d with 'OFFICIALLY OPENED' labels affixed and G.B. 2d P.Due affixed and tied, unused lettercards, wrappers (20 items)
Lot 586		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $210 1920's-30's range of mostly covers, many business or official types with some punctured 'OS', few registered with values to 5d, few 1d reds, etc, mixed condition with some ageing/toning in places (approx 120). Useful lot
Lot 587		Estimate: $1,000T Realised Price : $950 1930's (mostly) original hoard of commercial mail, mostly to Station Master, Darling Harbour Sydney, or City Fruit Markets Sydney, majority from wide range of N.S.W. Towns, plenty of cds's, slogans and early meters, noted many KGV frankings, Stationery, adverts, registereds, reliefs, taxed, perfins, Military (includes 1945 correspondence to Engineer of board Supply Ship M.V. "Merkur" - some addressed to Balikpapan or Madang), appear mostly average commercial quality (1300+ covers - some containing off cover stamps including 1d Reds). Potential
Lot 588		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $280 1934 (22 Feb) QANTAS cover flown Daly Waters to Brisbane bearing 3d Air (4) and KGV 2d (2) paying 2oz airmail rate - uncommon make-up also philatelic cover bearing 1929 3d Green type A punctured 'OS' + 2d S.A. Centenary on 1939 (31 May) cover flown Sydney to Rabaul on Carpenter Airways flight, signed by pilot R.O. Mant, still very rare on cover
Lot 589		Estimate: $100 1934 (6 Sep) OHMS window-faced envelope for 'Public Trust Office' bearing KGV 2d punctured 'OS/NSW' cancelled by red pen obliteration and black date '6/9/34', light central filing fold
Lot 590		Estimate: $200 1935 (23 Jul) real-photo postcard of QANTAS plane bearing 9d Kangaroo + 2d Jubilee flown Sydney to Germany
Lot 591		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $60 1940 (6 Jun) cover to London bearing Perf 13½x14 KGVI 1½d Maroon, block of twelve (4x3), re-addressed on arrival, censor-tape and cachets at left, minor cover fault. Unusually large multiple of this franking
Lot 592		Estimate: $400 1941 OHMS printed cover (245x150mm) Sydney to London, bearing Robes 10/- (3) + 5/-, endorsed 'Via New Zealand/& USA', diamond censor cachet and 'CALIFORNIA/CLIPPER' in violet. Remarkable example of 5/10d per ½oz x 6 rate, adhesives faulty due to machine cancelling. Interesting
Lot 593		Estimate: $80 1941 (16 Apr) airmail cover to England bearing 6d AIF + 6d Kookaburra 'JOHN ASH' imprint pair by Melbourne cancel, censor tape and cachet at right
Lot 594		Estimate: $100 1946 (Dec) airmail cover flown Melbourne to U.S.A. bearing 1/6d Hermes + 1/- Mitchell, the latter particularly scarce on cover, the 2/6d paying the airmail rate for entire trip
Lot 595		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $115 1951 (1 Jun) "9/11½" meter cover handstamped 'SPECIMEN' in black