COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA, AEROPHILATELY, OVERSEAS AIR MAIL RATES

Lot 844		Estimate: $150 Sweden: 1936 (14th Jan) cover flown Melbourne to Sweden via Greece bearing five different adhesives totalling 2/2d paying ½oz airmail rate throughout, Athens transit and Malmo transit backstamps
Lot 845		Estimate: $300 Realised Price : $550 Argentina: 1934 (6th Dec) registered 1½d Postal Card South Australia to Buenos Aires uprated with adhesives totalling 3/7½d - one stamp scuffed, flown all the way via United Kingdom and USA. Seldom seen use of 3/6d postcard airmail rate + 3d registration
Lot 846		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $850 Bahamas: 1931 (14th May) registered combination cover flown to Holland via Batavia on KLM flight bearing adhesives to 3/9d (3/6d airmail fee + 3d registration) plus US 5c Airmail all cancelled at Sydney for onward flight from New York to Bahamas where re-registered at Nassau for return to Sydney via San Francisco, many backstamps. Attractive cover carried on AAMC 205
Lot 847		Estimate: $350 Bermuda: 1932 (28th Apr) registered cover from East Geelong to St. Georges via San Francisco to New York, bearing 1d (2) + 2d + 5d on 4½d paying 2d per ½oz British Empire rate, 3d registration and 4d internal US airmail as this now could only be paid with Australian adhesives, various transit and arrival (6.6.32) backstamps
Lot 848		Estimate: $150 Egypt: 1936 (23rd Oct) cover Sydney to Port Said addressed to a passenger aboard R.M.S. "Orantes" bearing 1/6d Hermes underpaying the airmail rate by 1d, thus framed 'T/(mss. 20)/CENTIMES' and pen-framed mss. '2d', Egypt 8m affixed and cancelled, backstamps of Cairo and Port Said
Lot 849		Estimate: $200 Egypt: 1937 (9th Aug) cover flown Sydney to Port Said, addressed to an officer on the RMS "Comorin" bearing KGVI 2d red (7) underpaying the 1/7d ½oz rate by 5d, framed 'T(mss.100)/CENTIMES' in red and Postage Dues 30m and 10m affixed and cancelled on arrival at Port Said
Lot 850		Estimate: $200 France: 1935 (Jan) cover Perth to Paris bearing KGV 1d Green + 9d Macarthur, underpaying ½oz rate by 11d, framed 'UNDERPAID/FOR AERIAL SERVICE' in black
Lot 851		Estimate: $100 France: 1938 (8th Apr) use to France of KGVI 2d red Lettercard uprated with 1/6d Hermes + 1d QM, paying 1/9d ½oz rate
Lot 852		Estimate: $1,250 Realised Price : $950 Germany: 1932 (19th March) cover to Germany via San Francisco and Catapult flight to Hamburg bearing combination franking of 2d (2) and 3d + US 15c Airmail tied by Brisbane cds, together with white/olive 'See/Western Queensland' vignette also tied. A fine cover
Lot 853		Estimate: $200 Germany: 1935 (23rd Jul) real-photo postcard of Qantas plane bearing 9d Kangaroo + 2d Juiblee flown Sydney to Germany
Lot 854		Estimate: $1,000 Germany: 1938 (23rd Feb) cover flown Melbourne to Berlin bearing Kangaroo CofA 5/- and KGVI 2d, paying the 1½oz rate + 1d Late Fee, filing crease at left. Scarce
Lot 855		Estimate: $50 Realised Price : $50 Gilbert and Ellice Islands: 1964 (9th May) cover flown from Townsville bearing QE 5d (2), framed 'AERIAL SERVICE/COMPLETED/AT SYDNEY' in violet, mail sent by sea to Gilberts. [No regular air service was introduced until 1964]
Lot 856		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $525 Great Britain: 1934 (8th Dec) printed cover carried on Qantas/Imperial Airways Australia to England service bearing franking of 6d CofA Wmk optd OS + 1/- Lyrebird optd OS, paying the ½oz rate to UK. Possibly an unique franking
Lot 857		Estimate: $100 Great Britain: 1937 (28th Dec) OHMS flapless cover Perth to London underpaid for airmail rate by 1/1d bearing KGV 5d, mss. 'T260' in blue crayon and framed Foreign Section 'MORE TO PAY' cachet with mss. '2/2' deleted with red crayon as item had travelled by sea
Lot 858		Estimate: $500 Great Britain: 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 859		Estimate: $200 Greece: 1934 (8th Dec) 1½d Postal Card flown Melbourne to Greece uprated with adhesives totalling 9½d, cachet in blue applied and customs label on reverse, carried on Qantas service
Lot 860		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 Netherlands: 1933 (8th Jun) cover to Rotterdam flown from Sydney on Adelaide to Perth, surface mail to Holland, bearing 1d + 6d + 3d, handstamped 'LATE FEE'. Attractive example of 5d internal airmail + 3d overseas surface mail + 1d Late Fee for overseas, overpaid by 1d
Lot 861		Estimate: $200 New Zealand: 1929 (14th Oct) cover W.A. to Auckland bearing 1½d and 3d, framed cachet in black 'UNDERPAID/FOR AERIAL SERVICE', flap fault
Lot 862		Estimate: $100 New Zealand: 1939 (13th Jan) cover flown Charleville West to Auckland bearing KGV 5d, framed 'AERIAL SERVICE/COMPLETED SYDNEY' in violet, mail sent by sea to NZ
Lot 863		Estimate: $300 Portuguese East Africa: 1934 (7th Dec) cover Melbourne to Tete carried on Imperial Airways/Qantas service bearing KGV 5d + 1/6d Hermes pair, paying 2/5d airmail ½oz rate via Egypt and Rhodesia + 1/- rate to Tete, various backstamps. Rare and unusual
Lot 864		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $360 South Africa: 1934 (4th Dec) registered cover flown airmail Melbourne to South Africa via Egypt with backstamps of Cairo and Capetown, bearing KGV 3d + 1931 6d Sepia opt OS + 1/6d Hermes + 9d Macarthur. Attractive 2/9d ½oz airmail rate throughout + 3d registration
Lot 865		Estimate: $250 Tanganyika: 1934 (10th Dec) Imperial Airways/Qantas cover to Dodoma, bearing KGV 1d + 1/6d flown Brisbane to Egypt (AAMC 470a) then by sea via Dar Es Salaam, various backstamps, minor staining
Lot 866		Estimate: $600 Realised Price : $460 U.S.A.: 1928 (10th Nov) airmail envelope Melourne to New York bearing 3d Kookaburra paying sea mail rate, US 5c Air affixed and cancelled at San Francisco for airmail journey to east coast, underpaid by 3c though still despatched by air with arrival backstamp
Lot 867		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 U.S.A.: 1929 (4th June) underpaid use of US 5c Envelope to Missouri used in combination with 3d (2) flown on internal Perth to Adelaide service (AAMC 139), manuscript endorsement 'Insufficiently Prepaid', as internal ½oz airmail in US was 8c, Chicago backstamp
Lot 868		Estimate: $200 U.S.A.: 1930 (24th Jun) mourning cover to USA, mss. 'By Air Mail' crossed-out bearing 1½d Sturt (4) tied by Melbourne machine cancel, Sydney cds on reverse together with framed 'INSUFFICIENTLY PREPAID/ FOR AIR MAIL SERVICE' in red, also British Consulate receiving handstamp of 21.7.1930'. Unusual example of paying the internal airmail rate to Sydney and underpaying the surface carriage to USA, though sent as privilege consular mail
Lot 869		Estimate: $400 Realised Price : $300 U.S.A.: 1930 (1st Jul) combination cover to US bearing Australia 3d + 1½d (2) + US 5c Air tied by Perth cds's, additionally cancelled on arrival by Reading cds
Lot 870		Estimate: $100 U.S.A.: 1945 (2nd Oct) underpaid cover Melbourne to New York bearing 1/6d Hermes, framed 'Insufficiently Paid for/Transmission by Air Mail.' in red