AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL HISTORY

Lot 1140		Estimate: $400T Realised Price : $340 1914 (Feb) registered cover Sydney to Boston bearing 1d and Queensland 1/- paying 2oz letter rate + 3d registration to USA, U.S. customs cachet, arrival backstamps
Lot 1141		Estimate: $150 1915 (4 Aug) registered cover to Ireland with South Australian large label handstamped 'KOORINGA', KGV 1d Red (4) tied by cds
Lot 1142		Estimate: $125 Realised Price : $180 1916 (3 Jul) cover Brisbane to Holland at printed matter rate bearing KGV 1d red, attractive
Lot 1143		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $135 1917 (19 Mar) use of GB 2d Registered Envelope (small faults) with Australian Imperial Force registration label from FPO HC1 (La Motte au Bois, France)
Lot 1144		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $160 1918 (9 Mar) use of 4d Orange Reg'd Envelope uprated with KGV 4d Pale Buff-Orange from Moonee Ponds, paying double letter rate to New York, attractive
Lot 1145		Estimate: $125 Realised Price : $220 1922 (16 Oct) OHMS registered from Pingelly, WA, to Chidlow, unclaimed, re-registered at Perth for return, franked punctured 'OS' KGV 2d Dull Orange (2) and Kangaroo 3d Olive (slight fault), attractive
Lot 1146		Estimate: $300 Cover/postcard group comprising 1928 covers to Perth from Carnarvon, Derby and Port Hedland with rectangular 'FORWARD/BY AIR MAIL' cachet, 1939 airmail cover Sydney to Argentina rated at 2/3d for ½oz rate, 1946 Peace set on regd OHMS cover to USA, postcards (3, two with Japanese inscriptions), Sth Australia 1907 cover with Southern Railway backstamp, Austria 1922 PPC to Adelaide with 'CALLED TO POS...', and framed 'NOT KNOWN/LETTER CARRIER/ADELAIDE', mixed condition (10 items)
Lot 1147		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $75 1929 (29 Oct) cover flown Hay to Melbourne bearing 3d Air (2) + KGV 1½d (2), 'Blue Angel' vignettes affixed both sides, weak strike of framed 'FORWARDED/BY AIRMAIL' (latest recorded use from Hay) and straight-line 'PER AERIAL MAIL' both sides, minor creasing
Lot 1148		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $380 Commercial airmails to overseas destinations collection in album, mostly 1930s-50s including Canada 1938 'all-up' 5d rate, Czechoslovakia 1951 registered, Dutch New Guinea, East Germany, Fiji 1950 9d rate, French India 1948, Germany 1938 3/5d rate, GB 11/3d meter and 1/- postcard rates, Hungary 1950 3/- double rate, India 1939 1/1d and 1949 1/- rates, Japan, Jugoslavia 1939 registered, Malaya 1940 9d and postwar 1/- rates for Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Norway 1956 4/- rate, Solomons various meter 5d to 3/- rates, Sweden 1945 1/6d superb 'O.A.T.', U.S. 1938 2/2d and higher later 'Clipper' rates etc, odd fault, mostly good commercial quality (142)
Lot 1149		Estimate: $700 1930 (1 Jan) interbank passbook savings envelope used Melbourne to Ormond showing framed 'DAMAGED BY FIRE/IN LETTER RECEIVER' and unframed 'DAMAGED BY/WATER' in black. Very rare
Lot 1150		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $130 1930 (24 Jun) mourning cover Melbourne to USA, mss. 'By Air Mail' crossed-out bearing 1½d Sturt (4), framed 'INSUFFICIENTLY PREPAID/FOR AIR MAIL SERVICE' in red, also British Consulate receiving handstamp of 21.7.1930'. Unusual example of internal airmail rate to Sydney and surface carriage to USA
Lot 1151		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $260 1932 (12 Sep) cover to UK showing fine Perth 'OBSERVE SUNDAY' slogan, in use for one week before being withdrawn as unconstitutional. A rare slogan and only the second seen by us from WA
Lot 1152		Estimate: $100 1935 (16 Apr) airmail cover Brisbane to Ceylon bearing 1/6d (2) and 6d paying scarce triple rate
Lot 1153		Estimate: $100 1936 envelope with enclosure to UK bearing KGV 1d, '1' cds, 1956 aerogramme to UK with 'PAQUEBOT' handstamp, 1964 commercial cover to NZ with NZ 1d (2) and 6d tied by paquebot cds with three strikes of 'PAQUEBOT MAIL/M.V. 'WAIRIMU' ', also 2 stamps, (3 covers)
Lot 1154		Estimate: $175T 1936 (24 Feb) 'Orion' picture postcard flown Riverview to Moggill, postponed Jubilee firing, red vignette affixed and cacheted including 'MAIL DAMAGED/BY WATER' in red
Lot 1155		Estimate: $500T Realised Price : $440 1936 (14 Apr) cover to London bearing Kangaroo 5/- and 2/- (2) and KGV 1d tied by Sydney Late Fee machine cancel or Air Mail cds. Attractive example of the 9/- sextuple airmail rate (2½-3oz) plus 1d Late fee
Lot 1156		Estimate: $100 Realised Price : $160 1936 (23 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 1157		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $125 1936 (31 Dec) and 1937 (10 Sep) air covers from Sydney to Gothenburg, Sweden via Greece, bearing Roo 2/- and KGV 2d, or Roo 2/- and KGVI 3d (Die Ia) respectively> Walker records rate as 2/1d
Lot 1158		Estimate: $100 1936 (26 Dec) illustrated Scout Jamboree cover, 'SCOUTS CENTENARY CORROBOREE/BELAIR S.A.' cds
Lot 1159		Estimate: $100 c.1940s part of censor cover bearing Robes 5/- and 10/-, 1/- Lyrebird and 1/6d Hermes tied by two strikes of 'Director of Military Operations/and Intelligence' in violet, censor label on reverse
Lot 1160		Estimate: $100 1940 clipper mail to UK at 5/10d rate or to USA at 4/- or 8/- rates, (3)
Lot 1161		Estimate: $75 Realised Price : $80 1940 (1 Aug) illustrated cover to USA printed for 'Schooner Yankee/Third World Cruise', with AIF 1d and 2d tied by 'THURSDAY ISLAND/QUEENSLAND' cds, arrival backstamp
Lot 1162		Estimate: $80 1945 (2 Oct) underpaid cover Melbourne to New York bearing 1/6d Hermes, framed 'Insufficiently Paid for/Transmission by Air Mail.' in red
Lot 1163		Estimate: $60 1959 (18 Mar) souvenir cover flown Perth to Melbourne, signed by pilot Fred Hoinville, Australia's only skywriter, photo and home-made vignette affixed, 'No. 21' on reverse
Lot 1164		Estimate: $125 1975 (5 Jan) use of OHMS (free) Electoral Papers envelope Perth to Rockingham showing fine boxed 'DAMAGED BY FIRE' in violet. Rare