REST OF THE WORLD, NEW GUINEA

Lot 725		Estimate: $1,000 Realised Price : $800 1915 'G.R.I. 3d' on Käwieng Registration label, SG 42, Michel 16dII, fine mint block of four, lower units unmounted. Cat £640+
Lot 726		Estimate: $60T Realised Price : $48 1914-15 'G.R.I.' overprint and value 5mm apart, 1d on 5pf unmounted, 2d on 10pf mounted and 2d on 20pf unmounted, SG 51-53 (3)
Lot 727		Estimate: $175 Realised Price : $135 1932-34 Undated Bird Air 5/- Olive-Brown, SG 201, fresh unmounted marginal block of four
Lot 728		Estimate: $200 Realised Price : $320 Postal History: 1924 (22 May) real photo PPC endorsed 'Botanical Garden's Rabaul' bearing 1918-23 NWPI overprints on Kangaroo 3d and KGV colour changes ½d, 1d Violet and 2d Scarlet tied by Rabaul datestamps. Attractive four colour franking
Lot 729		Estimate: $600 Postal History: 1935 (22 Feb) intact parcel tag from Wau bearing extraordinary franking of Undated Bird Air issues including £1 block of four (a little wrinkled, though sound and which catalogues £330+ as used stamps alone). A rare survivor from gold shipment ex Wau Goldfields
Lot 730		Estimate: $200 Postal History: 1939 (10 Jul) airmail cover (small blemishes) Kavieng to London bearing Coronation 5d paying 'all-up' 5d ½oz airmail rate which is rare from New Guinea, backstamped Townsville, slight toning
Lot 731		Estimate: $350 Postal History: 1943 (May-Jun) covers (3 - original enclosures) from same correspondence to Sydney at 1d surface and 3d airmail (2, one stamp lost) rates, cancelled by rare 'UNIT POSTAL STATION/A.P.1' datestamp showing a swan and boomerang, in use at Merauke, the earliest a particularly good strike in violet