AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH, POSTAL STATIONERY, POSTCARDS, POST OFFICE ISSUES

Lot 451		Estimate: $7,500 Realised Price : $5,750 Postal Cards: 1903 photographic essay for a uniform postal card issue showing a map of Australia, emu and arrowroot farming, and with Vaughan KEVII imperforate essay in sepia (as BW E3, an unrecorded colour) affixed at top right, endorsed 'Rough Sketch/10.8.03/CP', reverse with chamfered boxed 'POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT/C.11710/QUEENSLAND' ds in blue, 11 DEC 03. Central horizontal crease and some minor blemishes resulting from removal from official file. Ex Dr Leslie Abramovich, Carl Steig and John Sinfield. A remarkable and unique essay, illustrated in the BW catalogue on page 1
Lot 452		Estimate: $750 Postal Cards: 1903 pictorial postcards (132 x 92mm) showing collotype illustrations of a Kangaroo and Joey, a Group of Aboriginals, and a Camel Train, reverse with 'POST CARD' heading and with manuscript endorsement 'G03/3432' indicating origin from an official Post Office file. These cards probably represent a submission from a private post card manufacturer as samples for a series of pictorial postcards. Rare and ex Dr Leslie Abramovich (3)
Lot 453		Estimate: $600 Postal Cards: 1904 Postcard Design Competition: two postcards (138 x 88mm) with half-tone illustration of 'PRINCES' BRIDGE, MELBOURNE' printed in black and chestnut, the chestnut card with pencil-drawn post card heading inscribed 'NEW SOUTH WALES/COMMONWEALTH/OF/AUSTRALIA/PICTORIAL POST CARD', and dated 'JULY 1904' at bottom left. The Princes' Bridge illustration is identical to that used on the back cover of £1 stamp booklets (see BW No. B1(N)a). Fine and a unique pair, ex Dr Leslie Abramovich
Lot 454		Estimate: $600 Postal Cards: 1904 Postcard Design Competition, watercolour handpainted pictorial design on off-white card (180 x 95mm), endorsed on face 'Kindly let me know what you think of this rough design. Mabel Scott, 78 Nicholson St Fitzroy'. Reverse with a few blemishes, 'COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA/POSTMASTER/GENERAL'S/DEPARTMENT' double circle ds 10 DEC 04, and endorsed 'The Postmaster-General Melbourne' and 'G04/4173' file number. Attractive, very few designs seem to have survived from this competition
Lot 455		Estimate: $650 Realised Price : $550 Postal Cards: 1911-36 all-different range of George V issues, comprising BW P1, 23, 24, 27zx, 28, 28d, 48(1), 48(2), 52, 53, 56, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68. All very fine to superb unused, BW cat AU$1500 (19)
Lot 456		Estimate: $120 Postal Cards: 1911 1d Rose Full-face 'ADDRESS ONLY TO BE WRITTEN THIS SIDE' off-white stock variety 'Major Double Strike of AUSTRALIA and Admonition' cancelled Melbourne machine 29 SEP 11 and addressed to Sydney, very fine. BW P1(1)f, cat AU$250
Lot 457		Estimate: $120 Postal Cards: 1911 1d Rose Full-face 'ADDRESS ONLY TO BE WRITTEN THIS SIDE' off-white stock variety 'Major Double Strike of AUSTRALIA and Admonition' cancelled at Fremantle, 25AU13. Fine, with printed message on reverse, BW P1(1)f, cat AU$250
Lot 458		Estimate: $1,800 Postal Cards: 1911 1d Coronation cards, comprising a set of the portrait types and sub-types, lacking only George V in oak leaf wreath (BW P8(2), and Queen Mary in diffuse oval (BW P10(2)). Wide range of colours and mixture of buff and white stock on reverse. A couple with minor blemishes, however very fine for these, BW cat AU$3625 (29)
Lot 459		Estimate: $1,300 Postal Cards: 1911 1d Coronation cards, an all different selection comprising 23 of the 31 portrait types and sub-types, wide range of colours and mixed white and buff stock on reverse, few minor blemishes but generally fine, BW cat AU$2875 (23)
Lot 460		Estimate: $600 Postal Cards: 1911 1d Coronation cards, a selection comprising George V types unused (9) and used, Queen Mary types unused (2) and used, and Prince of Wales types unused (2) and used. Range of colours and mixed white and buff stocks on reverse, few with small faults (16)
Lot 461		Estimate: $1,400 Postal Cards: 1917 Provisional Use of Divided Reply Cards Tasmania 1d on 1½d Brown reply half unused, minor blemishes but generally of fine appearance. BW P40, cat AU$3000
Lot 462		Estimate: $1,500 Postal Cards: 1917 Provisional Use of Divided Reply Cards Tasmania 1d on 1½d Brown reply half with 'REPLY' obliterated, very fine unused. Rare, with only a total of 6,820 single cards (both outward and reply) issued. BW P40, which states 'It is estimated that approximately ten examples survive of each half', cat AU$3000
Lot 463		Estimate: $3,000 Postal Cards: 1917 Provisional Use of Divided Reply Cards Victoria 1d Rose Die 2 outward half with text at lower left obliterated, very fine unused. Only 3,188 single cards issued between the four sub-types, and probably only three or four unused examples of this card survive. BW P43, cat AU$5000
Lot 464		Estimate: $1,600 Postal Cards: 1918-19 'THREE/HALFPENCE' on 1d Red George V Sideface obsolete 1916 issue, superb unused, very rare. BW P50, which states 'At least three unused cards are recorded', cat AU$2500
Lot 465		Estimate: $1,600 Postal Cards: 1918-19 'THREE/HALFPENCE' on 1d Red George V Sideface obsolete 1916 issue, superb unused, very rare. BW P50, which states 'At least three unused cards are recorded', cat AU$2500
Lot 466		Estimate: $60 Postal Cards: 1920-22 1½d Red-brown George V Sideface cancelled-to-order 'G.P.O. MELBOURNE/2' cds 5 NO 20 for U.P.U. distribution, very fine. BW P52(1)x, cat AU$100
Lot 467		Estimate: $220 Postcards: 1923 'ONE/PENNY' on 1½d Red-brown George V Sideface without admonition at base very fine unused, a scarce card. BW LC58, cat AU$500
Lot 468		Estimate: $220 Postal Cards: 1923 'ONE/PENNY' on 1½d Red-brown George V Sideface without admonition at base superb unused and scarce. BW P58, cat AU$500
Lot 469		Estimate: $250 Postcards: 1923 'ONE/PENNY' on 1½d Red-brown George V Sideface without admonition at base, unused with area of toning at lower right, and showing considerable misplacement of surcharge, a scarce card. BW LC58ca, cat AU$1250 for severely misplaced surcharge
Lot 470		Estimate: $300 Postal Cards: 1923 'ONE/PENNY' on 1½d Emerald-green George V Sideface with one-line admonition at base, variety 'Surcharge Misplaced', very fine unused. BW P60c, cat AU$500
Lot 471		Estimate: $180 Postal Cards: 1930-37 1½d Red-brown George V Sideface with 88.5mm admonition printed on flimsy white stock very fine unused and scarce. BW P68(2), cat AU$300
Lot 472		Estimate: $250 Realised Price : $210 Postcards: 1938-1959 duplicated range of KGVI and QEII cards, comprising BW P70 unused (3) & used, P71 unused, P72 unused (2), P73 unused (2), P74 unused (3) and opt SPECIMEN in red, P75 unused (4) and opt SPECIMEN in red, P75 unused (2), P78 unused (5), all superb (25)