Catalogue
Australia, decimal in two stock books, includes booklets (12), decimal issues in blocks from 1966 - 1980s, in one book, (high FV), second with singles and blocks from 1966-1980s. All appear to be MUH. (100s)
Estimate $300
SOLD $260
Australia, decimal collection housed in a blue KA/BE stock book with issues from 1966-1980 with additional large blocks of issues (FV $36). MUH. (100s)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Australia, Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Gold Medallists, miniature sheets each with ten 45c stamps. MUH. (16)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Australia, mostly Premier cliplock folders (5) containing FDCs (210), PO packs (100+) with stamps to $10, pre-stamped cover used and unused (approx 280), a few cards and MUH stamps $3.70, additional FDC (approx 100). MUH and used. (approx 600)
Estimate $120
SOLD $140
Australian Antarctic Territory, a collection on Hagner sheets in a clip-lock folder, includes pre-decimal issues in blocks some as multiple blocks from 1959 issues, also decimal issues with several selected issues as blocks (ships) and singles from 1966 to 1982 and PO packs of 1973 set, noted additional Australia strip of 5 of 2/- 1953-4 Tasmania commem. Mostly MUH, some with condition problems. (lot)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Cinderella, WASP (Western and Southern Provincial Airlines Ltd) from Sydney to Narromine, they show the Harbour Bridge being a mere 2 years old; the old Sydney skyline and an Aboriginal with spear, this is a full mint unhinged set of 6 vignettes, (AAMC 495a). Fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $300
Rocket Mail, 4 Dec.1934 (AAMC.R1) SS "Canonbar" to Brisbane, flown cover carried on the first rocket delivery mail flight in Australia; with special vignette on reverse, organised by the Queensland Air Mail Society, posted at Pinkenba, Qld.; another similar for SS "Maheno" to Fraser Island, August 11, 1935. Fine - very fine, both with attached different Cinderella vignettes. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Australia, air mail covers, from Cook (SA) to Ashfield (NSW) 20 June 1935 (a cover from Mackay Aerial Reconnaissance Expedition Western Australia 1935); another from Newtown (NSW) to Narromine (NSW) 6 August 1938; both covers fixed with 3d (air or Silver Jubilee) and 2d (KGVI or KGV 2d on 1 1/2d red). Fine. (2)
Estimate $100
Passed in
First flight covers, 1939 Sydney-Coonamble, Butler Air Transport Special Xmas Flight printed cover with 5d Ram tied by GPO postmark 23 December 1939, to E.A. Chrome, Pilot signed by P.B.Lusk. Coonamble b/s, (AAMC 887a Cat. $100); another 1934 (11th May) Australia to NZ "Goodwill flight" by Charles Ulm in "Faith in Australia" with 1d KGV pair & 2d KGV tied by Sydney slogan cancel (1d's not cancelled, 2d inked cancel) plus NZ 2x1d KGV with one tied by Wellington arrival cds for 12 MY 34. No.45 of 250, signed by G.U.Allan & R.N.Boulton, (AAMC 379 Cat. $250). Both very fine, scarce. (2)
Estimate $120
SOLD $80
Australia, 1943 Parachute Mail cover by Flying Boat "Coolangatta" to Mornington Island, 24 Dec. 1943, cover signed by Commander K.G. Caldwell, addressed to E.A.Crome, and endorsed by J.B.McCarthy, (AAMC 970 cat $150); together with a cover from Blenheim, 30 March 1938 via Darwin, 23 March, 1938 to London 26 March 1938, addressed to Flying Officer Clouston and Victor Ricketts, Australian Consolidated Press, London, fixed with 1d kiwi, 1d QE, issues, cover claimed only 12 were flown on trip. Both very fine and scarce. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $300
Austria, 1948 set of Provincial costumes, 3 groschen - 10 schilling, complete set including 1 schilling red (SG 1126 CV £130) (illustrated), (SG 1108-1144). Fine mint with minor hinging. (37)
Estimate $80
Passed in
Burma, an extensive collection from 1937-1954, housed in The Utile Hinged Leaf Album, KGVI part arranged by denomination with mint and used, noted high denominations from 1 - 15 rupees, noted (SG 16 M & U; SG O27 M & U, SG 17 M) (illustrated); Independent State issues to 10 rupees M&U; interesting examples on pieces; Japanese Occupation issues, peacock overprints as forgeries (20), with interesting letter by D.D.O.S. of 14th Army in Burma; important postal stationary cards of KGVI obliterated by cross some with re-valuations (6) used and unused; stamp issues from 1942 including used SG J46; 1943 mint set with some shade varieties (SG J73-81), Independence issues (SG J85-87), others (J88-J97); assorted postmark issues including set (SG 18b-32) and additional mint sets including Service issues of 1939 to 10 rupees mint (SG O15-O27). Mint and used. (lot)
Estimate $400
SOLD $260
British Commonwealth, collection in a brown Lighthouse album with issues from various countries with a good range of pickings, many are KGVI but also some QV - KGV and QEII noted range of issues from Bahamas, Aden, British Honduras, Cape of Good Hope (include 1d triangles (2), one on blued paper other illustrated; Cook Islands, British Solomon Islands SG 60-72 (CV £85). Cyprus, Fiji, Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Gold Coast including 1938 set to 10/-, India QV issues, Monserrat, QEII 1953 set to $4.80 (no 48c), selected 1953 Coronation, British East Africa issues, noted KEVII 2 rupees used SG 27 (illustratred), British South Africa Company, Orange Free State, Natal, Norfolk Island, Western Samoa, Tristan da Cunha, Papua, Territory of New Guinea, Kenya Tanganyika and Uganda, Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad, Johore, Tonga, Transvaal, Virgin Islands, Zululand, etc. MUH, mint and used. (100s)
Estimate $300
Passed in
British Commonwealth, collection in a Lighthouse album with issues from various countries with a good range of pickings, mostly KGVI but many KGV and QV, noted range of issues from Barbados seated Britannias (9) including imperfs, seahorses etc, these come from Bermuda, noted KGVI 2/6 (2) mint, Bahamas SG 178-192, British Guiana, Canada used selection to 1927, Cayman Islands, KGVI 1950 set to 10/- (SG 135-147, cat £80), 5/- SG 125 (£40), Dominica, KGVI sets SG 99-109, 121-134, 140-158, etc., also assorted of Northern and Southern Rhodesia. Rhodesia, British South Africa Company, Ceylon. Hong Kong QV - KGV as mostly used some scarce items noted, India, QV - KGV, Ireland, Jamaica, Lagos, Kenya and Uganda, Leeward Islands, Maldive Islands, Mauritius, Monserrat, St.Lucia, St.Helena, St.Kitts Nevis, Seychelles, PEI, Togo, Sierra Leone, Sudan with a range of issues, some 1937 coronation, Great Britain and O/P, Barbuda, NWPI Pacific Islands, Norfolk Island etc. MUH, mint and used. (100s)
Estimate $300
SOLD $180
British Commonwealth, in four albums one in a KA-BE hingeless album, containing Nauru stamps, a few issues mint to 1935, but relatively complete from 1935-1986 including M/S these almost MUH, another stock book of similar issues from Nauru from 1935-1980s as singles, blocks, M/S, special uses etc; a large stock book of MUH issues from Samoa, blocks, M/S, issues 1973-1986; another stock book of PNG, MUH issues mostly in blocks of 4, 1970s-1980s. A useful accumulation, almost all MUH, a very few used. (100s)
Estimate $140
Passed in
British Commonwealth, an accumulation with duplicates stored in two large stockbooks, arranged neatly from Aden to Rhodesia with strength in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, and Malta in one album, and another album of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe includes South Africa, South West Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Mostly used. (100s)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
British Commonwealth, 1937 Coronation set complete as pairs or blocks housed in Stanley Gibbons Coronation album, some issues with paper toning, mint/MUH; covers from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, FDCs including 1937 Coronation (2), Peace (4), UPU (1), Registered covers KGV 1922 (3), KGVI cover 1951 issues to 5/-. MUH, mint and used. (approx 100)
Estimate $100
Passed in
British Commonwealth, includes issues for Canada, Great Britain, and Newfoundland featuring the Prince of Wales or proposed King Edward VIII, also noted miniature sheets for New Zealand Tarapex '86 and fantasy issues; a Diamond Anniversary postal medallic cover of Edward VIII's 325 day reign issued by Benham and includes a 1936 Bermuda medallic crown in gilt bronze; a 1994 souvenir telephone card for the Centenary of King Edward VIII; five postcards, all different featuring Edward the Prince of Wales (all except one unused); an invitation to the Investiture of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales named to J.W.Summers, Esq., M.P.; a softcover book titled King Edward VIII, A Study of the Stamps of the Reign of King Edward VII, by A.J.Kirk (2nd Edition), published for the Great Britain Philatelic Society; large booklets produced by travel agencies in anticipation of traveller's needs for attending various coronation events, one titled Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VIII May 12th 1937 and the other, Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth May 12th 1937; a fantasy fifty pounds banknote for the Royal Bank of Windsor featuring various images of Edward VIII. Used - MUH. (lot)
Estimate $50
SOLD $100
British Commonwealth and Europe, accumulation of used/CTO total (CV £650), mint (CV £240), total CV stated to be £890 (SG 2007). Used, mint. (100s)
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
China, Chinese Imperial Post issues of 1898 - 1910, singles, a few pairs and blocks of 4, with values, 1 cent to $2, $1 (13 SG 117 and 131), $2 (17), a few with Republic O/P, (approx 300) and another group of 1897 Imperial Chinese Post issues to 20c with duplication (approx 40), a others on pieces many with interesting postmarks, including junk issues, also noted 1 ca green (SG 1, cut edges, one edge perf.). Used. (approx 375)
Estimate $400
SOLD $2,000
China, various issues described on leaves, including Imperial Chinese Post and Chinese Imperial Post issues of 1897 - 1910, mostly singles, a few pairs and block of 4, with values, 1 cent to $5, a few with the 'Pa-kua' or double trigram bar cancellations, described fully on written up album leaf, one a block of 6 with bars on 1c on 1 ca (SG 58), O/P for (SG 93); 1902 set no wmk to $5, $5 (illustrated) (SG 133 £750), two sheets of plate varieties 1898-1912 (mostly described). Used, some scarce. (79)
Estimate $200
SOLD $400
China, Republic on leaves, 1923 Adoption of the Constiturion, used sets (2), (SG 362-365); 1928 Chang Tso-lin set to $1 mint (SG 372-375 CV £200); 1929 Unification 4c and $1 both mint, minor rust spot on $1 (illustrated) (SG 377, 379, CV £285); 1939 150th anniv of US constitution (SG 501-504); 1941 Express Letter stamp, rouletted issue, used, (SG E616, CV £140) (illustrated). Mint and used. (20)
Estimate $200
SOLD $240
China, a small collection housed in a stock book, containing Republican issues, noted set of 4 North-West Scientific Expedition of 1932 (SG 406-409) mint (CV £425); treaty port issues from Kewkiang, Amoy, Chinkiang; part sets of definitives from 1930s some with revaluations, Shanghai Municipality local post and air stamps 1932-1937. Mint and used. (approx 100)
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
China, Sun Yat Sen series as a stamp collection housed on 15 encased leaves in plastic sleeves, includes many issues in large blocks, issues 1931-1937 of SG type 58, issues are singles, pairs, strips, blocks of 4 to 25, first type issue with double circles, printed by De La Rue (SG 389-395), noted mint $2 (5), similar mint $5 (3), used (39); together with used all with second issue thick circle used $1 (20), used $5 (45), (SG 403, 405), all these on encased leaves. MUH, mint and used. (100s)
Estimate $200
SOLD $140
China, Sun Yat Sen series as a stamp collection on about 110 leaves (some blank), includes many issues in large blocks, all housed in a large thick black spring-back album, this is an extraorinary collection of all issues 1931-1937 of SG type 58, issues are singles, pairs, strips, blocks of 4 to half sheets, first type issue with double circles, by De La Rue, London (SG 389-395 CV £125/set mint), noted mint $2 (18), similar mint $5 (15), second type with thick circle (SG 396-405), with high values both perf types, noted $5 mint block of 6, plate 1B (SG 405 and another SG 404, CV £900) ($2 and $5 blocks MUH both illustrated) and others (3) as blocks of 4; quantities of used some as blocks of 20+; a small quantity of 1944-1946 issues by De La Rue (SG 735-739), some as imprint or plate blocks, up to 100 of each 1931-1937 SG numbers, with a selection of varieties, many mint but quantities are used, overall a very attractive collection, inspection a must to see the quantity and quality. MUH, some mint and used, a very few blocks with paper toning. (approx 2,000)
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $3,400
China, on leaves a collection of issues described from Sinkiang, SG Nos. 95-110 (SG 110 £100, London and Peking O/P, total £475), 151-164 (London O/P CV £150), 227-238 (including pairs), 259, 260; North China, Cavalry Charge $1 with overprint 'Chun-cha-ki" 1946 Peace, unlisted in SG, Scott or Yang (illustrated); North-East China People's Post, youths with banner M/s 1947 (SG MSNE169 CV £650) (illustrated), 1950 issues (SG 275-285, 301-302, 303-311 with extras); Mao issues 1947 with surcharges (SG NE183, b,c; NE184, a,b, and surcharge inverted cf.SG NE183a); Andong 1946 issues (SG NE 103, 105-109, CV £1000). Mint. (98)
Estimate $500
SOLD $450
China, East China People's Post, Seventh Anniversary of Shandong Communist Postal System, $5, block of 10 with large character O/P (obliterate Japanese flag), imperf. at top two stamps in block (SG EC325var.); North China People's Post, O/P $12 on $200 carmine (3), (SG NC260); others (12), uncertain portraying Wang Mang spade money various denominations; Local post Kewkiang O/P 1/2, 1 and 2 cents, last as vertical pair (illustrated) (SG 18-20); China Republic, set of Marshall hang Tso-lin posted at Harbin (SG 372-375) 4 and 109 cent with red O/P for Manchuria (SG 21-24); Manchuria, Kirin and Heilungkiang. Mausoleum set with O/P 1929 (SG 29-32) used (SG 32 illustrated); together with covers from Hong Kong (10) c.1970s-1980s. MUH, mint and used. (35)
Estimate $200
Passed in
China, The Martyrs, stamp collection on about 115 leaves, and two loose envelopes of stamps in large blocks, all housed in a large thick black spring-back album, this is an extraordinary collection of all issues 1939-1941 of SG type 60, issues are singles, pairs, strips, blocks of 4 to whole sheets, unlisted imperfs, issues are on unwatermarked and watermarked paper, many as imprint blocks, up to 100 of each SG number, with a large selection of varieties, many mint but quantities are used, noted several examples of issues with various paper thickness described as thick and thin papers, perf. missing due to paper folds, colour shade varieties, imperf between pairs (horizontally and vertically see SG 508a CV £250) (illustration of large block of 10 Cv £2,500), others unlisted in SG; no perfs at base or top, all from the same printer, Commercial Press Hong Kong, with and without secret marks, stamps are mint and used, overall very attractive collection, inspection a must to see the quantity and quality. MUH, some mint and used, some blocks with paper toning. (approx 2,000)
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $1,900
China, 1941 Express letter and Registration letter stamps on three leaves of loose leaf album, includes single and blocks of 4 mint for both and used singles of both, (SG E616 [illustrated for mint] and R617, total CV £1,335). Mint and used. (12)
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
China, Dr. Sun Yat Sen collection on about 120 leaves, and two loose envelopes of stamps in large blocks, all housed in a large thick green spring-back album, this is an extraorinary collection of all issues 1942-1945 of SG type 84, issues are singles, pairs, strips, blocks of 4 to 16, imperfs, rouletted and perf without gum, many as imprint blocks, up to 100 of each SG number, with a large selection of varieties, many mint but a quantities are used, noted several examples of $20 rose carmine perf. (SG 670 each CV £160) also imperf, unused (80+), (SG 658, each CV £70); (10+) of (SG 661a each £250), also (18) of (SG 663a CV £225 each), other rouletted x perf stamps unlisted including a pair $30 rouletted by 6.5 unlisted (illustrated); $100 brown perf. (14+2, M&U) (SG 674 each CV £300M, £250U), thick and thin papers, shades, double perfs, imperf between pairs (horizontally and vertically see SG 672a CV £250) (illustrated), others all with high CV; no perfs at base or top, misplaced perfs, double perfs, different papers, off set blocks, printers and shades, noted many with SG CV many £100s for individual items, lot includes additional items in envelopes; also 11 stamp covers and envelopes fixed with stamps of this series c.1944-1946, with several as registered letters (one illustrated). Stamps are mint and used, overall high CV, inspection a must to see the quantity. MUH, mint and used. (approx 2,000)
Estimate $2,500
SOLD $2,600