Page:1 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016 Lot Type Grading Description Est $A MISCELLANEOUS LOTS Lot 11 11 C Bundle of mostly 1930s Australian flight covers with a few scarcer intermediates, 1931 Kingsford Smith set on FDC being a Melbourne-Sydney commemorative cover signed "C Kingsford Smith", 1936 cover to London from "Scipio" crash with 'DAMAGED/BY SEA WATER' h/s, 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge 5/- green upper-left corner example on 5th Anpex cover with 'SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE SE PYLON/23MR32' cds & registration label (a bit soiled), also some WWII European covers with German censorship, etc, generally very fine. 800 22 CPS$ Box with flight covers from Australia including 1931 to UK with KSmith 6d block of 4 (2), 1936 from GB with 'Salvaged from Air Liner/ATHENA' h/s, 1934 MacRobertson Air Race cover signed by "Roscoe Turner", 1954 cover & aerogramme to UK both with Singapore crash cachet, etc, also "Angel" vignette part-imprint strip of 3 & Imperf Between Pair, & a few New Zealand including 1931 with 'EMERGENCY EARTHQUAKE AIR MAIL' h/s & signed "DM Allan/FLt", also some Australian decimal coins. 250 26 C A/A- Pacific Islands covers 1900s-1980s including Cocos 1975 airmail to Switzerland, Cook Islands 1965 Matson Lines airmail to Australia, Fiji with airmails, taxed and 1955 KGVI 5d x2 registered cover to Australia, Gilberts 1935 KGV 1½d red with untidy 'OCEAN ISLAND' d/s, Norfolk Island including Bird $1 overprint on 1973 registered airmail to Germany, Tokelau 1951 airmail to UK, Tonga 1907 postcard (creased) to Australia, QE2 up to 5/- and some 1970s free-form self-adhesives, Samoa with values to 2/-, also French Possessions including Tahiti 1921 to Australia, New Caledonia 1943 censored airmail, New Hebrides 1955 with 'NOUMEA' straight-line h/s, condition generally fine. (96) 400 28 *OC World collection in four albums with GB including a presentable Penny Black, 1883-84 6d mint (minor toning), KGV 1924-26 mint set to 1/-, Wembley sets mint, Cyprus Centenary set to 45pi mint, India pickings, Irish Overprints 6d used block of 6, Uganda QV 5r mint, postmarks & other tidbits in the foreign sections, etc, & a bundle of covers with a few useful items, condition rather mixed. (many 100s) 300T 30 CPS A/B Five attractive trans-Atlantic pre-stamp/stampless entires with very fine markings (one to Holland), 1863 American Civil War 'CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION...ON ACCOUNT OF DISABILITY', Boer War cover from 'PETRUSBURG' to Green Point Prisoners of War Camp, and Australia 7d 'AIR LETTER' with Ungummed Sealing Flap for use in PNG (very fine unused, Cat $500). (8 items) 400 Ex Lot 32 32 CPS Mostly foreign mail to Australia with strong 1930s to WWII content from Europe including Spanish Civil War censor mail, 1931 from Switzerland with perfins to 1fr x2, 1938 airmail from Eritrea, WWII cnesored airmails from Costa Rica & Yugoslavia, etc, also some Postal Stationery including a bundle of Envelopes from the United States, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. From a family/business source never before on the market.(130 approx) 500 Page:2 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016 MISCELLANEOUS LOTS (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A Ex Lot 33 33 C Shoebox of postal history with some Australian WWI content including from Egypt & England, some KGV Penny Red frankings unchecked for shades or varieties, 1910 Department of External Affairs cover with 'SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION' imprint, 1930s commercial airmails to Australia including a good range from Italy/Trieste, Czechoslovakia (a couple with Currency Control labels), Austria during the Anschluss, others from France, Switzerland, Greece, etc, PPCs from Morocco Agencies, Cape Verde & Austria during the Anschluss, 1940 China-Hong Kong-Australia airmail, 1905 GB-Melbourne with rare 'NO ATTENDANCE/DURING/DELIVERY HOURS' h/s etc, condition variable. Ex Wanliss Family Correspondence: never previously on the market. (few 100) 500 41 C 1860s-90s mostly scruffy little group of covers to Victoria from GB x12 (three with '1s/MORE TO PAY' h/s of Melbourne) or Canada x2 (one with a stamp missing), and internal Victorian covers x4 (one with handstruck 'GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA' Frank Stamp in violet). Family correspondence: never before on the market. Proceeds to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.(18) 200 58 CPS Mostly military/wartime covers with a few World War I including 1916 OAS from Tanganyika (?) with black/green 'OPENED UNDER MARTIAL LAW' label across the flap; World War II including Australian War Savings booklet with "Spitfire" 6d x15 affixed within, Australian POW Postcard - no camp indicated but probably in Thailand - to NSW, China 1940 uprated Postal Card to NSW, commercial airmails including 3 from 'BRITISH CONSULATE/Curacao' to USA, 1942 Guatemala-USA with 'BRITISH LEGATION/V' h/s & franking including a bisect, some parcel fragments including high value frankings from GB & Malaya; post-WWII including Austria 1953 to NSW with Costumes 40g & 10s; etc, condition variable. (140 approx) 350 60 PS Mostly 1890s array of Postal Stationery (largely Postal Cards) from many countries including India & States, mostly unused plus 'SPECIMEN' items from British Bechuanaland & New Zealand, some useful used content including Japan Singapore & Finland all to Victoria, hinge marks/residue on the reverse but generally fine to very fine. An old-time collection that has been in the vendor's family for more than 100 years. (200+) 500 THEMATICS & SUBJECTS 102 C BIRDS: Balance of the covers including Cook Islands 1903 registered with four Torea values, Penrhyn with 1/- Bird x10!, India 1941 Kalyan-Bombay pigeongram & cover, GB 1948 Wedding FDC (the Bird connection escapes us!) & 1954 tiny cover with Herm Is Pigeon Service 1/- label, etc, also Nyasaland QEII 2/6d & 5/- booklets, generally fine to very fine. (22 items) 250T Ex Lot 103 103 *OCPS - Australian group including 1928 Kookaburra M/S x2 (**, & with Exhibition cds in red), Letter Cards Fullface 1d & Sideface 1½d both with view "ZOO ADELAIDE" (flamingoes), BCOF set *; NSW stamps & Postal Stationery including unused 1d Fleet Card; South Australia 1d Postal Card "KOOKABURRA" unused; Tasmania 1855 cover with superb BN '27' & postmaster's mss "Emu Bay"; Western Australia Swans to 1/- x3 all with Commissariat Punctures, 1901 Avis de Reception form with 2½d, 1904 uprated Postal Card to Italy & 1909 registered cover to Germany with ½d x11 & 'MOO SANDSTONE' cds; etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (30 + stamps) 1,000T Page:3 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016 THEMATICS & SUBJECTS (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A Ex Lot 104 104 C - Europe & Colonies group including pre-stamps with Eagle cachets from Italy x2 & France, French Antarctic 50f Port aux Francais on philatelic cover, Iceland 1930 Thingvellir-Reykjavik First Airmail, Norway beautiful 1926 Seagulls telegram, Holland-Batavia 1934 crash cover, Dutch New Guinea International Money Order with 'UNTEA' Overprints, Yugoslavia 1934 Sarajevo Sokol Games set on cover with special cds & registration h/s, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (32 items) 400T Ex Lot 105 105 C - Latin American group with Brazil pre-stamps by ships with bird names x5 & from Cuba "per Eagle", Bolivia 1861 with fine "Condor Feather" postmark, Guatemala 1885 cover with superb 'CORREOS/ESCUINTLA' cds, Costa Rica 1935 registered to Mexico with printed 'LEGACION DE MEXICO/[eagle]/EN COSTA RICA' Frank, Zeppelin covers from Uruguay x2 & Brazil, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (18 items) 400T 113 **C A/A- - India 1994 Water Birds setenant block of 4 SG 1603a, unmounted; and a similar block on 1995 registered airmail cover to Singapore, repaired tear at upper-left well clear of the stamps. (4 + cover) 150T Ex Lot 117 117 C C/A- - Sweden 1809 & 1816 Royal Mail entire "feather letters", the first endorsed "med Hast" (= with haste) & both with two feathers secured in wax seals & with the characteristic "roundels" signifying express delivery, the first a bit stained. (2) 400T Page:4 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016 THEMATICS & SUBJECTS (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A Ex Lot 118 118 C - United States with Local Stamps comprising 1845 with very fine 'THE AMERICAN/[eagle]/LETTER MAIL' (uncancelled), 1849 x2 with Boyd's 2c black/green & 1861 with Boyd's 1c black/blue & 3c Washington, Cat $US875; also 1866 stampless to New York "pr str Eagle", two 19th century with very Eagle illustrations, 1902 to GB with boxed 'Saved from wreck/of ss Eider' h/s, WWI AEF x2 with different Eagle cachets; etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (25) 500T PHILATELIC LITERATURE 126 L A CAPE OF GOOD HOPE: "The Joseph Hackmey Collection" Triangle stamps and postal history exhibit, published by Corinphila "Edition D'Or" (2010). Full colour illustrations of each exhibit page in a single oversized 160+ page volume. A wonderful reference. 100 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA - General & Miscellaneous Lots Lot 166 166 CPS THE BUSINESS OF THE AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL OFFICE: Fascinating eight-frame exhibit all on double-pages with numerous better items including 1898 NSW Elector's Right, 'GOVERNOR-GENERAL' Frank cover used at Sydney JA2/01 (first day of business of the Commonwealth), 1901 WA OHMS with printed 'ELECTORAL' Frank, 1901 with Senate imprint in rosine, Federation PPCs, 1905 'ELECTORAL' letter sheet with 'PAID AT/MITIAMO' (Vic) h/s, 1927 Opening of Parliament House Canberra PPC, 1935 completed ballot paper!!, WWII identity cards including three for Aborigines & Dalgety's 'IDENTITY CARD HOLDER', 1943 edition of "Guinea Gold" with headline 'ELECTION FOR AUSTRALIA', ration cards including for clothing & for cigarettes for Ex-Service Personnel (as if the government hadn't already done enough to kill them!), etc. A feature is the array of Electoral forms including many 'POST FREE' types mostly unused (of course; used ones would mostly have been destroyed) but including 1940 'Application for a Postal Vote Certificate...' lettersheet sent by air with just the 3d air fee paid, Electoral Instructions booklets, etc & related Telegrams.