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Lot Type Grading Description Est $A COMMONWEALTH OF - Postal History 432 C World War I civilian censor covers or PPCs from x10 including PPC to Siam, registered to Jamaica & Printed Matter to Holland; Thursday Island cover with contents & two PPCs all to GB with sans serif 'PASSED BY CENSOR.' h/s (96x6mm) in violet; or x14 including to Japan Denmark Italy Sweden & Switzerland, one unusually from processed through Adelaide, one with the very scarce smaller oval 'PASSED BY/4TH MD/CENSOR' h/s in violet; also covers from NSW Qld or SA all to Belgian soldiers interned in Holland. An interesting lot from the "smaller" States. (30) 600T 434 C B 1901 envelope with 'QUEENSLAND CLUB' embossing on the flap, to England with largely superb strike of 'GOVERNOR-GENERAL/[Coat of Arms]/FRANK STAMP/AUSTRALIA' h/s in blue with defaced d/s of SP19/01 alongside, minor soiling & corner opening tear at upper-right but clear of the Frank. Rare usage from Queensland. [With newspaper extract of 28.9.1901 "Lord Hopetoun in Brisbane"] 300 436 C A/A- 1912 cover to USA franked with ½d issues from all six States tied Sydney '-4AP12' datestamps slightly overpaying 2½d foreign letter rate, also cover to Malta with mixed franking of Pictorial ½d green, NSW Arms 1d red and ½d grey-green and Victoria Bantam ½d green tied 'ULVERSTONE/MR4/12/TASMANIA' datestamps paying 2½d UPU rate. [ACSC states interchangeable use of States' stamps Australia-wide was permitted from 13.10.1910] (2) 400 442 C B 1915-18 censor covers from Queensland to Switzerland (a dealer's cover with combination franking of 2d Roo + ½d Queensland), Holland or Denmark, each with red/white 'OPENED BY CENSOR' label, and from Adelaide to Holland with German 'Militarischerseits unter/Kriegsrecht geoffnet/Berlin D17, ben....1917/Uberwachungsoffizier' label, minor blemishes. (4) 200T 453 C A 1932 double-rate commercial Qantas cover to the company's Brisbane office with KGV 2d & 3d x2 tied by very fine 'DALY WATERS/NA' cds (rated RR), provisional blue & black/white registration label with Rat's Tail on 'R' & mss "Daly Waters". The rate was 2d per ounce + 3d per half-ounce airmail supplement x2. 250 457 CPS 1939-41 interesting airmail batch to Queensland mainly from Greece x14 including early censor labels & cachets, plus from Forces in Malaya x5 or Papua x5 (one with part-strike of the large 'PASSED BY CENSOR/...' h/s - very scarce on commercial mail - & two with the scarce boxed 'PASSED/BY/UNIT CENSOR' h/s), & a few others including 1941 (Mar 17) two almost identical covers to Greece but Returned to Sender, condition variable. (28) 400 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA - Flight Covers - Pioneer Flights etc 505 C B 1946 (Nov 30) First Flight Brisbane-Norfolk Island per "Sunderland" Flying Boat AAMC #1080a, blemishes, Cat $900. 300 506 C AIRMAIL LABELS: 1931 Qantas white/blue vignette 'By Air Mail/North Queensland/Australia's Winter Playground' full strip of 8 AAMC #202c together with the booklet front cover and a single example used on flown cover from Melbourne, endorsed "1st Flight Brisbane to Maryborough." with Maryborough b/s. Ex Maurice Williams.(3 items) 300T COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA - Military - World War I See also Neil Russell's collection of Prisoners of War mail: Lots 539 to 653. 513 C B 1914 illustrated Brisbane YMCA postcard with printed 'Troopship RANGATIRA' (A22), to NSW with Perth machine of 16NOV14 overstruck with Sydney machine of NO26-1914, tax h/s & 1d Postage Due, redirected to Melbourne, minor defects. ["Rangatira" departed Albany 1.11.2014, indicating this card was embargoed. Letter states "...we have just been informed that all our mail matters is under a strict censorship..."] 300 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA - Military - World War II 522 PS A 1942 (Aug 25) usage of Japanese POW Envelope with printed device in red at upper-right & 'ZENTSUJI WAR PRISON CAMP/NIPPON' in blue at upper-left, from an officer to his wife or mother in Brisbane, large censor h/s - incorporating Hosotani seal - in violet. 200 PRISONERS OF WAR CAMPS -

Lot 570 570 PS B LIVERPOOL: POW Envelope with printed 'POST/FREE'-in-Double-Circle & 'SENDER'S NAME AND ADDRESS' on the flap (Emery #PSPE1), to Queensland with 'LIVERPOOL/3MR16/=NSW=' cds but with the address crossed-through indicating "stopped" by the censor, a few blemishes & a piece of the flap missing. A very scarce usage of a rare postal stationery item. [Usually, offending parts of a letter were obliterated or excised. However, occasionally the content of a letter was considered so offensive or treasonous that it was returned to the sender] 400T Page:2 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016

Lot Type Grading Description Est $A PRISONERS OF WAR CAMPS - Queensland

Lot 601 601 CL B ENOGGERA: INWARDS MAIL: 1915 (Oct 9) cover from London to Brisbane where forwarded to "Internment Camp/Enoggera", 'UNCLAIMED/ENOGGERA CAMP' h/s - affected by vertical fold - & forwarded to "German Concentration Camp/Liverpool/NSW". (EFR at page 215: only two other items - both inwards - are recorded.)

This was one of the smallest camps, housing only 140 internees. In August 1915, the camp was closed & all inmates transferred to Holdsworthy NSW. 250T AUSTRALIAN POWs IN GERMANY 643 C (A-) 1917 cover to a POW c/- Australian Red Cross in London with KGV 1d red tied by 'GIN GIN/22AU17/QUEENSLAND' cds, 'BRITISCHER KRIEGSGEFANGENER' label with roneo'd address label affixed & tied by London cds of 12NO/17 & German censor cachet of Cassel POW Camp in violet, minor repaired tear at the top. 200T AUSTRALIAN POWs IN TURKEY Only 69 Australians were held as POWs by the Turks. Mail is rare. Gary Diffen in "The Australian Military Campaign at Gallipoli" (2015) identifies only 10 outwards items, six from Pte Sidney Drake: see pp139-141. At pp142-3 he states that only two inwards covers to POWs ex Gallipoli have been recorded]

Lot 650 650 PS A- 1916 usage of KGV 1d Postal Card to an officer with the 15th Infantry Battalion c/- the American Embassy at Constantinople with KGV ½d added & tied by 'ALBION/22JA16/QUEENSLAND' cds & 'PASSED CENSOR/ 24JA16/BRISBANE' cds in red, British POW cachet also in red, minor corner bend. Gorgeous! 750T Page:3 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016

Lot Type Grading Description Est $A AUSTRALIAN COLONIES/STATES - General & Miscellaneous Lots 656 *OL A/B Queensland 1868-78 1d Imperf single SG 83a with part o.g. & 2d deep blue SG 100 block of 6 - minor faults - with large-part o.g. (Cat £420+); 1880 20/- with dubious Rays cancel; South Australia 1856-58 2d red SG 9 strip of 3 with good to large margins, a couple of small faults at left & manuscript cancellation removed; and Victoria Woodblocks 6d with Serpentine Roulettes SG 58 very fine used, Stamp Statute 1d postally used, ½d on 1d mint with large-part o.g. x6 & postally used x4, and 5/- affixed to 1883 Certificate of Incorporation, and Stamp Duty 5/- affixed within 1888 Articles of Association. An interesting group. 400 657 SDC A/B Travelling Post Offices collection on display pages from all Colonies/States except Victoria mostly in Colonial period including on covers and cards and also some mounted Commonwealth material, noted New South Wales with 'WEE WAA/TPO', 'MOREE TO WERRIS CK' and 'ENGLISH MAIL/NSW' on 1910 cover from Hungary, Queensland Great Northern 'GN RAILWAY/QUEENSLAND' on Chalon 6d and 'TPO 6 S&WR' on Papua 2d Lakatoi, South Australia early 'RAILWAY/SA', squared circles and partial 'PAY TRAIN/TRA...' (Trans-Australian Rwy), Tasmania with 'TPO' and 'TML' types on Pictorials on picture postcards and 'TPO EGF/WA' (Eastern Goldfields) on Swan 1d blue postal card, condition variable but overall fine. (29 entires plus 100s of stamps) 800

Ex Lot 658 658 **/*/O A/B Eclectic collection of oddities and cancellations from all Colonies on display pages with Qld 1879 2d blue 'QUEENSbAND' and 1897 Cracked Plate x2, others such as SA 9d Long Tom Short 'N' of 'NINE' and Tasmania Chalon 4d strip of 3 showing engraver's layout guideline, also paper folds, double transfers & 'kiss' prints, inverted & reversed watermarks (noted SA 2d orange 'P' Departmental), sideways watermarks including Vic 1883 1/- blue used (Cat £750 but thinned), mixed & double perforations, misplaced overprints, Railway Parcel stamps, then a selection of more unusual cancels such as "Don" manuscript on Tasmania Chalon 4d, Receiving Offices, 'TELEGRAPH OFFICE/RIALTO' on 1906 registered cover, foreign cancels and 'LOOSE LETTER' types, a partial 'RMSS/HOBSONS BAY' duplex, 1902 Egypt postcard to Adelaide with German 'DEUTSCHE/SEEPOST/ AUSTRALISCHE/HAUPTLINIE' datestamp, condition generally fine. (100s) 600 661 CPS A/B Queensland Fleet Card CTO (rare thus but stupidly addressed), Victoria STO Envelopes 1901 1d rose for Shire of Colac and 1892 2d rose Error of Colour, & a few covers, condition variable. (9 items) 200T QUEENSLAND - Moreton Bay District

Lot 734 734 FA New South Wales Diadems 8d dull yellow-orange SG 98, margins good to large, very fine Rays '95' cancels of Brisbane, Cat £1300. A very desirable Queensland forerunner. 1,250T Page:4 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016

Lot Type Grading Description Est $A QUEENSLAND

Lot 735 735 W A- 1868-74 Truncated Star Irregular Compound Perf 3d brown Perf 13x13x12x13, a little aged, unused. Unlisted by Gibbons. RPSofV Certificate (2016). 750

Lot 736 736 GA 1882 Second Sidefaces with Lined Background Perf 12 2d blue horizontal pair Imperforate Between SG 168a, indistinct Barred Numeral cancellation, undercatalogued at £3000. RPSofL Certificate (2007).

Ken Scudder at page 122 states "On at least one occasion, a vertical line of perforations was omitted, as pairs imperforate between are known". Both stamps are also imperforate at the top but this may be the result of trimmed perforations, although the upper margin is 1mm from the design. 3,000

Lot 737 737 * B C1 1895 Void Background Perf 12½,13 ½d green with Double Impression SG 208a, light horizontal crease, large-part o.g. with a hinge remainder, Cat £2000. BPA Certificate (2009). [The first print was quite faint & was obviously considered unsatisfactory. The strong second print is 2mm to the right. With a normal stamp for comparison]

Ken Scudder at page 179 states "Clear double prints exist...probably all...from the same sheet of stamps". Until their 2010 Edition, this error was unpriced by Gibbons. From 2011, it was priced at £2000 unused or used, and has not budged since. This is stated to be the only unused example recorded. Considering that there are several used examples known, this stamp should be worth significantly more than the used examples. At a Swiss auction in 2003, a less dramatic used example sold for €24,225! 4,600 Page:5 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016

QUEENSLAND (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A

Lot 738 738 PB 1896-1902 Figures in Lower Corners Only 6d imperforate proof in brown on ungummed unwatermarked wove paper BW #Q42(DP)1F, minor thinning at top, Cat $3000 (2004). Ex Bernie Manning. [This is a progressive design with the spandrels in the lower corners represented by small white triangles only. The ACSC notes that such proofs were struck from a matrix die block of 4. They exist in 8 different colours; between 2 & 6 single examples of each colour are recorded. Alan Griffiths' similar proof in green sold in 2012 for £696] 550 739 P A 1899-1908 Widow's Weeds ½d perforated plate proof of the final design (Filled Tablets) BW #Q1(PP)2 in blue-green on ungummed unwatermarked wove paper, Cat $250. 150T

Ex Lot 740 740 W A PRIVATE RAILWAY STAMPS: Cairns-Mulgrave Tramway Large Format 1d 3d & 1/- and Small Format 2d 3d 6d & 1/- blocks of 4 all overprinted with Serial Numbers in black, unused with no gum as issued. (7 blocks) 750 741 * C REVENUES - STATE DEVELOPMENT TAX: 1939 Crown/Q 6d brown & deep mauve block of 6, large-part o.g. but rather aged & a bit knocked-about, Elsmore Online $1500+ as singles (but date '39' unlisted). A rare multiple. 250 742 *W - - STAMP DUTY: 1901 KEVII 1d violet to 10/- brown (ex 2/6d), condition variable, unused or large-part o.g. (9) 75

Ex Lot 743 743 O A/B - - BEER DUTY: 1889 Crown/Q 2/- pink for 8 gallons, unusually fine; & No Watermark (not listed by Dave Elsmore) 12/9d pink for 51 gallons, soiled & minor defects; manuscript cancels of "14.11.91" or "27-6-1907" (a very late usage), both with 'CANCELLED' h/s in violet or blue. Dave Elsmore does note that the 1901 '12/6' on 12/9d is on unwatermarked paper. (2) 250 Page:6 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016

Lot Type Grading Description Est $A QUEENSLAND - Postal History

Lot 744 744 C A- 1864 cover to "Kembla/Wollongong/New South Wales" with 2d x3 with faint cancel & postmaster's endorsement " Post Office" on the flap, 'DALBY/MR30/1864/-QUEENSLAND-' Brisbane & Sydney transits & 'KEMBLA/AP9/1864/=NSW=' arrival b/s. 300T

Lot 745 745 CB 1892 hand-illustrated cover (young boy with fishing gear & letter on hook, and dog) "I'll just drop a line to..." to Yorkshire with Lined Background 1d strip of 3 & BN '203' of 'GIN GIN' (part-cds at upper-left), 'BUNDABERG' transit & 'HOWDEN' arrival b/s, minor blemishes. Delightful! 250 746 CPS A/B 1894-1911 selection of covers and cards in album with destinations such as Argentina, Austria, Canada, Ceylon, Ireland and Papua, noted 1906 to USA with 'REGISTERED/MOUNT MORGAN' cachet and to Japan with 'YOKOHAMA' receiver, postal stationery four illustrated Postal Cards including 1899 to Malta taxed and 1910 ½d wrapper to London uprated to 3d, domestic usages 1901 with Revenue/Postage stamps mixed franking, 1908 punctured 'OS' illegally used on private mail and two Qld/NSW combination covers, also group of picture postcards and covers with postmark interest, numeral ties and TPO markings, condition variable but mostly fine. (42) 400 747 C B 1895 double-rate registered cover to the USA with Lined Background 6d & Void Background 1d pair tied by 'R'-in-oval h/s of Brisbane, 'VICTORIA BC/CANADA' transit, 'San Francisco, Cal/ F.D. /REGISTERED' cds & three-line 'REGISTERED/San Francisco, Cal' arrival b/s both in violet, minor blemishes. 200

Lot 748 748 CB 1897 complete black/pink 'PARCEL POST/FORM OF CUSTOMS DECLARATION' label affixed to a slightly larger piece from the packet with ½d pair 2d & 5d strip of 3 tied by Rays '87' of 'IPSWICH' (light cds), a smaller black/white label affixed at Brisbane & tied by two part-strikes of a British Parcel Post handstamp, minor faults. Rare. Ex Hugh Campbell: illustrated at page 73 of "Queensland Postal Rates". 500T 749 SDC A/B POSTMARKS: Selection in twelve albums on Ken Smithies' pages from Colonial era to modern with datestamps and some numeral cancels including ties on cover, noted many on piece with some covers and postcards also, primarily from larger towns with sub-types but some closed offices and rated items seen with quality of strikes generally well above average. Needs to be viewed as there are plenty of pickings. (100s) 800 Page:7 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016

QUEENSLAND - Postal History (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A

Ex Lot 750 750 SD A - Selection of per favor strikes prepared by engraver Campbell before issue or by Trevor Sellars from the archives mostly on contemporaneous stamps on piece including 'GOOSE PONDS', 'GROSVENOR', 'GUNPOWDER', 'MAROON DAM', 'NIVE STORE', 'SUNSHINE BEACH', 'TERRORS CREEK' on KGV 1d red, 'TULLY FALLS', 'WAIWEER', etc. Ex Ken Smithies with his pencil notations of provenance. (150+) 500 PAPUA - Postal History Most of the Papuan lots are from the collection formed by the late Dennis Leonard from Sydney. 1293 C B 1927 PPC from Japan sent as Printed Matter with 2s stamp on the viewside, 'THURSDAY ISLAND' transit & 'SAMARAI' arrival cds, 'MISSENT' h/s & redirected to Cairns where 2d Postage Due affixed & cancelled with blue "X", a little soiled. A bit of an enigma. [The card is addressed to Samarai so our vendor ascribed the Missent h/s to Thursday Island. However, we are of the view that it was an irregular redirection usage at Samarai as both the handstamp & the cds are inverted] 150T 1295 C A 1938 commercial cover to China with scarce franking of Coronation 1d + 2d Bird of Paradise tied by 'CAIRNS' slogan cancel with superb boxed 'PAQUEBOT' h/s below, 'SHANGHAI' arrival b/s & Chinese "chop" on the face. 200

Lot 1302 1302 CL B OFFICIAL MAIL: 1896 OHMS cover with 'Tresurer's Office/Port Moresby BNG' imprint at lower-left, to Brisbane with rare commercial franking of Queensland Lined Background 6d green tied by one of two strikes of the 'PORT MORESBY/ 14SE96/BRITISH NEW GUINEA' cds, 'THURSDAY ISLAND' transit & Brisbane arrival b/s of 1OC/96, slightly reduced at left & some minor spotting mostly on the reverse. 1,500