AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL STATIONERY, ENVELOPES

Lot 536		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 1916-1919 1d Red 'Star' Embossed PO envelopes, a used accumulation, with representation of the various dies and envelope stocks, some uprated with adhesives, many from the Rev. Graebner (SA) inwards and outwards correspondence, and with considerable postmark interest. Some roughly opened or slightly reduced, but condition generally good. Unusual in this quantity (79)
Lot 537		Estimate: $150 Realised Price : $115 1918-19 1d Red Die 3 + ½d Green 'Star' Embossed unused and used, and 1d Red Die 4 + ½d Green 'Star' Embossed unused (reverse discoloured) and used. BW EP13,EP14 Cat AU$380 (4)
Lot 538		Estimate: $300 1920-24 George V 'Star' Embossed Post Office envelopes cancelled-to-order for U.P.U. distribution, comprising 2d Orange (BW EP21w), 2d Red (EP23(1)w), 1½d on 2d Red (EP26w), and 1½d Red (EP28(1)w (2, one with 'SPECIMEN' receiving authority handstamp applied in Bechuanaland, but the envelope unfortunately spoiled by an offset of a registration envelope as a result of poor storage conditions). BW Cat AU$600+ (5)
Lot 539		Estimate: $350 1923-24 'THREE/HALFPENCE' on 2d Orange 'Star' Embossed revaluing of obsolete stock, said to have been only 50 envelopes surcharged. Back flap stuck, otherwise very fine. BW EP24 Cat AU$750
Lot 540		Estimate: $500 1928 George V Oval Embossed Dies ½d Orange, 1d Green, 1½d Red, 2d Brown cancelled-to-order with 'G.P.O./MELBOURNE' cds 20 DE 28 for U.P.U. distribution, few tone spots on three lower values. BW EP29,30,31w,32 Cat AU$1250 (4)
Lot 541		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $95 Envelopes: Kangaroo envelope used stamped-to-order cut-outs, comprising 2d Grey Die IIA, 2½d Blue, and 6d Chestnut Die IIA, the latter creased but rare. Only two complete envelopes each of the 2½d and 6d are recorded. (3)
Lot 542		Estimate: $500 Realised Price : $1 1916-18 ½d Green 'Star' Embossed, stamped-to-order group with various shades, comprising Australian Drug Co. (2, both with '20 POSTED' handstamp in violet), Vacuum Oil Co., Barrow Brothers, Rocke, Tompsitt & Co. (with '20 POSTED' in violet), and Howard Smith Ltd. (222 x 96mm), the last three users unrecorded in BW. Generally very fine and a scarce group. BW ES25 Cat AU$1200 (6)
Lot 543		Estimate: $300 1916-1918 ½d Green 'Star' Embossed stamped-to-order envelopes on stock similar to that used for the Post Office envelopes prepared for U.P.U. distribution, but without any user identification and almost certainly for the Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Victoria, comprising superb unused in yellow-green shade, and three uprated examples in dull green shade, with 1½d and 2d rates to Rev Graebner in Unley (SA) (one taxed but with postage due removed), and a 1½d rate to Rev Darsow in Toowoomba, Qld. Very fine and a scarce group BW ES25 Cat AU$800 (4)
Lot 544		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $190 1921 1½d Brown 'Star' Embossed + ½d Green KGV Sideface stamped-to-order for the Vacuum Oil Co. with imprint for the Wellington (NZ) branch on back flap, used from Melbourne to Te Mata, NZ, 1 FE 21. Back flap tears, otherwise very fine. BW ES53 Cat AU$600
Lot 545		Estimate: $500 Envelopes: 1930 1d Green + 1d Green George V Oval Embossing stamped-to-order on Texas Company window envelope, used at Melbourne 1 October 1930 (the earliest known date). The envelope has been somewhat roughly opened, but scarce. BW ES66 Cat AU$1000
Lot 546		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $150 Envelopes: 1933 2d Red + 3d Blue George V Sideface used stamped-to-order cut-out from Hobart Savings Bank registered envelope, the 3d impression damaged at lower left. The Brusden-White catalogue records three cut-outs dated between 1935 and 1938, this piece is a new discovery cancelled by the REGISTERED/HOBART' cds 24 MAR 42. BW ES18 Cat AU$500 for cut-outs
Lot 547		Estimate: $80 Group of used Official envelopes, comprising 2d Red 'Star' Embossed with 'OS' in die used by Commonwealth Sub-Treasury Melbourne (22 MY 23) and Commonwealth Treasury Melbourne (3 MY 24), 1d Red 'Star' Embossed with 'OS' in die used by Commonwealth Sub-Treasury Adelaide (25 OCT 28), and 2d Oval Embossed with 'OS' in die used by Commonwealth Sub-Treasury Melbourne (29 MY 31) and by an unknown user. Few small faults but generally fine and a useful group. BW EO12(2),EO15,EO19(2) Cat AU$225 (5)
Lot 548		Estimate: $300 Group of large (approx 228 x 102mm) Education Department envelopes, comprising 1½d Brown Sideface with 'OS' in electro (2, Type 1 electro used from Charlton to Melbourne 11 MR 26, and Type 2 electro used Barongarook to Melbourne 20 MAR 24), 1½d Red 'Star' Embossed with 'OS' in die used Rutherglen to Melbourne 14 AU 24, and 'THREE/HALFPENCE' on 2d Red 'Star' with 'OS' in die used Cape Clear to Melbourne 29 SE 24. Condition fine, and a scarce group. BW EO7A,EO7B,EO14,EO15 Cat AU$650 (4)
Lot 549		Estimate: $80 Realised Price : $105 Envelopes: 1918 1d Red + ½d Green George V Sideface OS, and 1½d Brown + ½d Green George V Sideface OS stamped-to-order cut-outs used on Deputy Commissioner of Maternity Allowances envelopes. Six complete envelopes of the former, and three complete envelopes of the latter are recorded. BW EO5,EO8(2)
Lot 550		Estimate: $200 1920 2d Orange KGV Sideface with 'OS' in electro stamped-to-order window envelope for Commonwealth Treasury, Melbourne, used 19 SEP 1921. Small portion of back flap missing, otherwise fine. BW EO9 Cat AU$500
Lot 551		Estimate: $150 1921 2d Orange 'Star' Embossed with 'POSTAGE' added and 'OS' in die stamped-to-order on window envelope for Commonwealth Treasury, Melbourne, used 15 DE 21, very fine. BW EO10 Cat AU$350
Lot 552		Estimate: $120 1923 'THREE/HALFPENCE' on 2d Red 'Star' Embossed with 'OS' in die, large (228 x 102mm) Education Department envelope used from Thornbury to Melbourne, 21 AU 24, fine. BW EO14 Cat AU$250
Lot 553		Estimate: $500 Military Envelopes: 1916-1919 group of 1d Military Envelopes, comprising 'AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE' 1st setting (ME1) mint (somewhat grubby); 'A.I.F., ABROAD' 1st setting used from Campbelltown (Tas) with pencil endorsement indicating the addressee was a prisoner-of-war (minor peripheral damage, and stamp impression damaged at top left), 2nd setting mint (3, one addressed but not posted); 'AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE, ABROAD' 1st setting mint. BW Cat AU$1900 (6)