AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL STATIONERY, AEROGRAMMES
Lot 800
Estimate: $140
1944 7d Blue on Yellowish Paper with printed red cachet for re-opening of Qantas Australia-England service from Perth via Ceylon, cancelled Sydney 11 SE 44 and addressed to England, with diamond censor handstamp in purple. BW AO1e, cat AU$250
Lot 801
Estimate: $140
Realised Price : $115
1944 7d Blue on Yellowish Paper with admonition removed, with printed red cachet for the first Qantas Australian-England flight by Lancastrian, used from Sydney 1 JE 45 and addressed to London. BW A2e, cat AU$300
Lot 802
Estimate: $150
1945 7d Deep Blue on Greyish with printed cachet for re-opening of Qantas Australia-England service via Singapore, used from Sydney on 7 April 1946 and backstamped at Singapore, signed by pilots, fine and the example lustrated in the catalogue, ex Nita Wilson. BW A3d, cat AU$225
Lot 803
Estimate: $150
1954-59 10d Red and Deep Blue on Blue mint (2), opt SPECIMEN, and used (6, including first flights, and another with printed cachet used at Heard Island on day of issue of 3½d Antarctic commemorative), mostly ex Nita Wilson (9)
Lot 804
Estimate: $300
1971 12c Green and Orange-red error 'All Green Printing Omitted', unused and folded, one or two light wrinkles, otherwise fine and rare. BW A37 variety (it is possible this error is actually A36 or A37, since with green printing missing, identification is ambiguous). Ex Nita Wilson
Lot 805
Estimate: $100
1952 'Postage/Paid' OHMS airletters (BW AO1) handstamped 'SPECIMEN' in violet (4), one with printing in Blue, two with printing in Blue and 'ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE' in Indigo, and one with all printing in Deep Blue, two show the variety 'White Flaw Between A and I of MAIL'. Also an example used to England uncancelled but with message dated 20 Mar 1957 (5)
Lot 806
Estimate: $200
1959 OHMS Jet Design overprinted SPECIMEN in red for U.P.U. distribution, handstamped SPECIMEN in violet for collector sale, and used (2, in 1962 to London, and in 1969 to USA), generally fine (4)
