Page:1 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Nov 28, 2016 Lot Type Grading Description Est $A COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA - Postal History 432 C World War I civilian censor covers or PPCs from Queensland 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 South Australia x14 including to Japan Denmark Italy Sweden & Switzerland, one unusually from Victoria 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 Brisbane 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 Tasmania 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 - New South Wales 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 Western Australia '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.