AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, AEROPHILATELY, 1939-1945

Lot 1178		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $60 1939 (21 Dec) Sydney - Mornington Island Christmas mail cover, cacheted and signed by pilot R.B. Trapp, endorsed on reverse on arrival, only 83 carried. AAMC 887, cat AU$175
Lot 1179		Estimate: $75 1940 (20 May) Columbia Pictures cover (blemishes) Sydney to New York by airmail bearing 1/6d Hermes pair + QE 1d tied by GPO Sydney cds, Sydney censor tape/handstamp (1.7d first half oz. + 1/6d additional half oz.)
Lot 1180		Estimate: $25 Realised Price : $42 1940 (21 Sep) cover addressed to Brisbane flown by Airlines of Australia from Thursday Island to Cooktown. AAMC 911, cat AU$50
Lot 1181		Estimate: $200 1941 (16 Jan) cover flown by Qantas Australia - Portuguese Timor, signed by Pilot H.B. Hussey, only 54 carried. AAMC 912, cat AU$400
Lot 1182		Estimate: $250 1941 (21 Jan) cover flown by Qantas Portuguese Timor - Australia with three-line cachet in violet, only 21 carried. AAMC 913, cat AU$500
Lot 1183		Estimate: $50 Realised Price : $38 1941 (20 Nov) Pan-Am 'California Clipper' flight cover flown Australia to Fiji. AAMC 930a, cat AU$100
Lot 1184		Estimate: $35 Realised Price : $26 1942 (29 Jun) Cover flown by ANA Sydney to Adelaide. AAMC 946a, cat AU$75
Lot 1185		Estimate: $150 1942 (31 Aug) Swedish Chamber of Commerce Sydney cover (opened three sides) with typewritten 'London-Sweden' alongside airmail etiquette, franked 7d for that rate, London oval 'O.A.T.' and censor handstamps in red. A rare rate
Lot 1186		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $60 1942 (23 Dec) Brisbane - Mornington Island Christmas 'parachute' mail printed Qantas cover, black and red vignette affixed, cacheted and signed by pilot W.H. Crowther, endorsed on reverse on arrival, only 85 carried. AAMC 951, cat AU$150
Lot 1187		Estimate: $75 1942 (23 Dec) Sydney - Mornington Island Christmas 'parachute' mail printed Qantas cover, black and red vignette affixed, cacheted and signed by pilot W.H. Crowther, endorsed on arrival on reverse. AAMC 950, cat AU$150
Lot 1188		Estimate: $150 1943 (23 Jun) registered 2/2d airmail cover Rialto to Switzerland via U.S.A. and Portugal, Melbourne and Germany censor tapes, backstamped Rialto, Lisbon, Basel, blemishes although exhibitable example of a scarce rate (1/11d half oz. airmail + 3d registration)
Lot 1189		Estimate: $75 1943 (24 Dec) Sydney - Mornington Island Christmas 'parachute' mail printed Qantas cover, black and green vignette affixed, cacheted and signed by pilot K.G. Caldwell, endorsed on reverse on arrival. AAMC 970, cat AU$150
Lot 1190		Estimate: $85 Realised Price : $65 1943 (24 Dec) Brisbane - Mornington Island Christmas 'parachute' mail printed Qantas cover, black and green vignette affixed, cacheted and signed by pilot K.G. Caldwell, endorsed on reverse on arrival. AAMC 971, cat AU$175
Lot 1191		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $60 1943 (29 Dec) Adelaide Co-operative Society Ltd cover (creased) Adelaide to London bearing variety of stamps (including 2- Kangaroo) perfin 'ACS', aggregate franking of 8/4d paying quadruple 2/1d per half oz. airmail rate, Adelaide censor tape/handstamp
Lot 1192		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1945 (2 Apr) Qantas covers flown Sydney - Lae and return flight, both with green, black and white vignettes affixed, signed by pilots Deignan or Jacobson. AAMC 1003-03, cat AU$550 (2)
Lot 1193		Estimate: $30 1945 (17 Nov) Qantas cover flown Fiji to Australia, signed by pilot Denny. AAMC 1014, cat AU$60
Lot 1194		Estimate: $60 1945 (17 Nov) Qantas covers flown Australia – Fiji and return flight, signed by pilot Denny. AAMC 1014-15, cat AU$120 (2)
Lot 1195		Estimate: $125 1945 (30 Nov) Qantas covers flown Australia to Ceylon and return flight, signed by pilots Howse, Furze and Moxham, minor blemishes. AAMC 1016-17, cat AU$300 (2)