AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, MILITARY POSTAL HISTORY, GENERAL

Lot 684		Estimate: $40 1942 (15 September) censored air mail cover to Sydney with 4d Koala cancelled 'FIELD P.O./098' cds at Ferndale (Qld), listed as 'Not Seen' by Proud
Lot 685		Estimate: $30 Realised Price : $28 1943 (19 July) OHMS cover from militia camp at Orange (NSW) to Parramatta with 2½d KGVI tied by 'O.NSW' relief datestamp, a little roughly opened at back
Lot 686		Estimate: $40 c1943 Mother's Day and Father's Day cards used to Virginia, U.S.A., the first with indistinct datestamp and with circular 'PASSED BY/BASE/1624/ARMY/EXAMINER' in violet, the other with 'U.S. ARMY POSTAL SERVICE A.P.O. 32' datestamp (2)
Lot 687		Estimate: $50 1945 (5 July) censored air mail cover to Melbourne with 3d George VI tied by 'FIELD POST OFFICE/037' cds (Labuan, British North Borneo)
Lot 688		Estimate: $180 Realised Price : $135 1947 (20 January) air mail cover from Melbourne to Switzerland franked 1/- Mitchell paying the P.O.W. concessionary air mail rate to Europe. 'SERVICE OF PRISONERS OF WAR' and 'APPROVED FOR TRANSMISSION BY CAMP COMMANDANT' cachets (Tatura Camp). A very scarce solo usage of the 1/- Mitchell stamp (BW cat AU$400)
Lot 689		Estimate: $60 Realised Price : $55 1951-63 small group of concession rate covers, with 3d airmail rate on 1951 Tattersalls cover from Japan, and 1960 and 1963 illustrated covers from Woomera to Adelaide and U.K. respectively; 1955 local Sydney cover with 1d QEII and 'NAVAL SERVICE' in blue; and 1956 cover from HMAS 'Anzac' with ½d and 4d cancelled 'PASSED FREE/SURFACE/POSTAGE machine and with 'H.M.A. SHIPS' in violet. Generally very fine and a useful group (5 covers)
Lot 690		Estimate: $30 Realised Price : $32 1962 (6 September) OHMS stampless cover from Iron Range Military P.O. with 'RELIEF/19/QLD-AUST' datestamp