Lot No |
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Airmails: Airmails - Australia |
560
 1943 (5th June) Inwards Airgraph letter from Manchester to Cessnock NSW, the message typed "Greetings to you via the very first Airgraph service ab… $70 Archived |
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559
 1942 (15th Aug) Qantas Empire Airways Ltd long cover with 5½d emu tied by Brisbane machine airmail date stamp & typed Qantas Sydney address. Penci… $50 Archived |
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558
 1942 (29th June) Adelaide to Sydney ANA Wartime service with stops at Mildura & Narrandera. 3d Vic Cent, 2d SJ & ½d orange kangaroo tied by Adelai… $40 Sold $32 |
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557
 1942 (March but date damaged in cds) Qantas cover with typewritten "Per 1st Air Mail - Via Darwin-Broome-Surabaya" at base & addressed to Hudson Fy… $80 Sold $120 |
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556
 1942 (26th Feb) Melbourne to Batavia cover intended to go on the Horseshoe route but as the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies prevented th… $100 Sold $100 |
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555
 1942 (22nd Jan) Melbourne to Bombay long folded censored cover. According to Proud this cover would have been on service WS160 which left Sydney on… $200 Archived |
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554
 1942 (15th Jan) Ascot Vale (Victoria) to Basra, Iraq registered cover to Sgt Reading of Devon Regiment c/- FPO 41 Basrah with censor tape overstruc… $75 Archived |
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553
 1941 (23rd Dec) Unrecorded Military Crash cover front badly damaged with 3d KGVI x 2 tied by "A.I.F. FPO No. 24" in Libya & addressed to UK with tr… $100 Sold $320 |
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552
 1941 (18th Dec) Brisbane to Mornington Island Qantas parachute mail flight with 2½d surcharged KGVI tied by Air Mail Brisbane cds. Black & blue Qa… $60 Archived |
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551
 1941 (4th Dec) Rabaul to Sydney cover endorsed "Carried First Non-Stop Night Flight Rabaul Sydney per Catalina Flying Boat RAAF Squadron Leader Dav… $500 Archived |
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550
 1941 (20th Nov) First Australia- to Fiji eastbound Pan Am Clipper service. It was also the last eastbound flight across the Pacific as the next fli… $50 Sold $40 |
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549
1941 (16th Oct) Karachi to Sydney by Flying Boat "Caledonia". Addressed to avid philatelist Hudson Fysh on Qantas env franked with India 6a x 2 & 2… $90 Sold $70 |
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548
 1941 (29th Sept) Melbourne to Sydney with 5d ram pmkd GPO Sydney SS on arrival & then forwarded to Hudson Fysh. Pilot signed by Douglas Way with "A… $75 Sold $55 |
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547
 1941 (3rd July) Cloncurry to Longreach intermediate cover from Darwin to Brisbane Qantas service with NSW 6d QV ovptd "OS" tied by Cloncurry cds da… $60 Sold $65 |
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546
 1941 (3rd July) Brisbane to Darwin with 5d Merino tied by Air Mail Brisbane cds. Red Qantas 21st Anniv vignette on reverse. Pilot signed by Capt. P… $50 Sold $50 |
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545
1941 (13th June) Two covers ex Stockholm, Sweden each addressed to the Swedish Chamber of Commerce Sydney & franked at 4kr05 (at outset) & 1kr30 fo… $1000 Archived |
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544
 1941 (26th Mar) Japan to Sydney incoming airmail cover redirected to Melbourne RSPCo Petroleum Products company env. Strangely not censored but Syd… $100 Archived |
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543
 1941 (21st Jan) Geneva to Melbourne metered Red Cross International printed env addressed with Opened by Censor tape tied by "Passed by Censor" cac… $50 Archived |
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542
 1940 (25th Nov) 2d red KGVI embossed PSE uprated with 3d blue annotated "First Flight Reduced Rates for A.I.F." from Sydney to Darwin. Address cros… $20 Sold $14 |
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541
 1940 (Oct) Bangkok to Sydney Horseshoe route. With pressure from the Japanese Govt preventing the normal route via Hong Kong to USA thus joining Ca… $80 Sold $80 |
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540
1940 (28th Sept) First RAAF Recruiting Train covers posted Bathurst 24.9.40, Cooma 28.9.40 & Harden 4.10.40. all with typed endorsements & addresse… $120 Sold $80 |
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539
 1940 (9th Sept) "M.V. "Southern Seas" Pan American Airways Company" 2-line cachet in blue on plain cover with 2d NSW perfined "OS NSW" & tied by Sy… $20 Archived |
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538
 1940 (19th Aug) GB censored cover to Sydney with 1/3d franking. Sent by "Arundel Castle" departing 23rd Aug. From Durban by air to Cairo catching u… $30 Sold $30 |
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537
 1940 (7th Aug) Round the World censored illustrated Transatlantic Imperial Airways cover with mixed franking of Canada (Montreal 10.8.40), Australi… $100 Sold $100 |
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536
 1940 (16th July) Honolulu to Suva to Auckland by Boeing 314 on FAM 19 First Pan-Pacific airmail. Combination franking of USA 50¢ Trans Pacific Air… $50 Archived |
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535
 1940 (16th July) USA to NZ to Australia with 50c Airmail & 10c imperf tied by Charlotte Amalie cancels with "First Flight USA to N.Z. delayed to Ju… $30 Archived |
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534
 1940 (16th July) USA to Australia via NZ with US 20c & 50c Clipper Airmails tied by San Francisco cds & Registered. "Passed By Censor" cachet benea… $60 Archived |
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533
 1940 (16th July) ditto but with "via Canton - Honolulu" typed at top with 10c Airmail tied by Canton Island JUL 22 AM 1940 cancel & Honolulu b/s da… $30 Sold $30 |
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532
 1940 (16th July) ditto but Australia to NZ to Canton Island before Brooklyn, NY. 1/6d Hermes tied by Sydney 21 DEC 1939 slogan & then Canton Island… $40 Archived |
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531
 1940 (16th July) Adelaide to Auckland for the service above. 1/4d KGVI x 2 & 1/- lyrebird tied by Adelaide cds's with Auckland 19 JL 40 transit cds… $50 Archived |
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530
 1940 (16th July) Australia to New Zealand to USA on First Trans Pacific Airmail but with all mail delayed in NZ due to outbreak of WWII hence 1/6d … $40 Sold $30 |
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529
 1940 (July) Canton Island to New Caledonia, New Zealand, Los Angeles & San Francisco intermediate flights from the F.A.M. 19 Clipper service. Attra… $120 Archived |
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528
 1940 (24th June) Penang to Sydney intermediate leg of the war emergency "Horseshoe" route by Qantas. Signed by pilot RB Tapp on flying boat "Corio"… $180 Sold $180 |
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527
 1940 (19th June) Melbourne to Sydney before Airmail on DE1 service to Cairo & Durban which was the first Horseshoe Route flight departing on 19th J… $150 Archived |
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526
 1940 (14th June) USA to Melbourne via Hong Kong by Pan Am Clipper cover. Censor tape & triangular "Passed Censor Hong Kong" in bluish green & boxed… $75 Archived |
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525
 1940 (4th June) Sydney to Treviso, Italy Bank of NSW 1/9d metered Air Mail cover addressed to The Manager Banca Commerciale Italiana with "RELEASED… $50 Sold $110 |
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524
 1940 (June-Oct) Censored airmail covers with Australian frankings to USA x 2, South Africa & England. Interesting flight details provided for each … $150 Archived |
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523
 1940 (2nd May) Inaugural Trans-Tasman Flying Boat Service cover from Australia to New Zealand. Pilot signed by Capt. JW Burgess. VG cond. AAMC 900 … $30 Archived |
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522
 1940 (30th Apr) ditto with 2, each on a differently illustrated printed env franked 5d on one & ½d kangaroo & 1½d & 3d KGVI on other. VG cond. AA… $40 Sold $26 |
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521
 1940 (30th April) ditto with Adelaide slogan tying 2d KS & 3d KGVI. Wellington & Christchurch b/s's. Good cond. AAMC 900, Cat. $100 $30 Archived |
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520
 1940 (30th April) ditto with "Aotearoa" illust cover with 2d SJ & 3d NSW tied by GPO Sydney cds. Palmerston North b/s. Typed address to EA Crome. V… $30 Archived |
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519
 1940 (30th Apr) ditto on TEAL illust long covers x 2 with 5d ram tied by Sydney GPO Airmail Section cancels. Both b/s Auckland with latter "Passed … $30 Archived |
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518
 1940 (30th Apr) ditto but illust cover also with cachet pmkd Taradale plus return cover with blue aircraft in flight illust env pmkd GPO Sydney Air… $60 Archived |
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517
 1940 (30th Apr) ditto with long having 5d sheep & short Regd with ½d kangaroo, 1½d KGVI & 6d KS Airmail tied by GPO Sydney RS. Christchurch & Wel… $50 Sold $40 |
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516
 1940 (30th Apr) Australia to NZ Trans-Tasman Flight covers x 2 each on TEAL illustrated printed envs in both short & long formats franked 5d sheep … $30 Archived |
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515
1940 (30th Apr) ditto but plain covers x 2 with 5d Centennial with boxed 6 line cachet in violet. Both covers addressed to Australia. Good cond. AA… $30 Archived |
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514
1940 (30th Apr) "New Zealand - Australia - England Through Air Mail Service Inaugural Flight" boxed violet cachets with "Empire Airmail (New Zealan… $120 Archived |
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513
 1940 (30th Apr) ditto but Hudson Fysh signed illust cover just above cachet. Incls 1940 NZ Centennial Philatelic Exhibition cinderella also tied by… $80 Archived |
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512
 1940 (30th Apr) New Zealand to Australia by TEAL flying boat with 2½d Centennial tied by Auckland slogan & neighbouring boxed 6-line cachet in vio… $30 Archived |
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511
 1940 (15th Mar) Carpenter Airlines "RM Carinthia" crashed near Kavieng with only a small amount of mail recovered incl this Dept of Procurement & S… $400 Sold $575 |
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