Page: 48 Website: www.prestigephilately.com Feb 17, 2012 Lot 345 - All-Over Advertising on Reverse Lot 347 - Late Fee Lot 357 - Registered to Austria ? Lot 361 - First Watermark Ex Lot 360 - Commercial Papers Rate x2 Lot 364 - Triple Rate + Registration
Feb 17, 2012 <strong>Prestige</strong> <strong>Philately</strong> - <strong>Auction</strong> <strong>No</strong> <strong>171</strong> Page: 49 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA - Kangaroo Frankings (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A Lot 335 335 CL B - 1938 Tait Bros sextuple-rate airmail cover to Germany with CofA 10/- grey & pink plus QM 1d green tied by 'SHIP MAIL ROOM/MELBOURNE' cds, Athens transit b/s & very fine currency control h/s on the face, minor spotting. Ex Arthur Gray: acquired for $1700 ($A2570) in 2007. [The rate was 1/9d for the first ½oz, plus 1/8d x5 for each subsequent ½oz = 121d (10/1d) for a cover weighing up to 3oz. Until about March 1939, there was no separate Air Mail Section at Melbourne GPO & all overseas mail was processed through the Ship Mail Room]{Page 49.1} 336 CO B - 1938 Angliss & Co sextuple-rate airmail cover to France with CofA 5/- pair plus KGVI 2d tied by 'LATE FEE/MELBOURNE VIC' cds, central fold well clear of the stamps. [The rate was 1/9d for the first ½oz, plus 1/8d for each subsequent ½oz x5 for a cover weighing up to 3oz, + 1d late fee]{Page 46.5} 337 CL B - 1941 (June) triple-rate censored OHMS cover (slightly reduced) to Canada via New Zealand with rare franking of CofA 2/- Die I vertical strip of 6 tied by Canberra cds, minor blemishes & a little reduced at left. [The rate is unclear: Walker states it was 3/11d per ½oz but Breckon says it was 4/1d. It was therefore apparently either 6d overpaid or 6d underpaid!] (2) 338 CL B - 1943 cover from the Australian delegate to the International Red Cross Committee to the IRCC in Portugal endorsed "Via New Zealand/and U.S.A" with CofA 2/- plus QM 1d purple-brown pair tied by 'REGISTERED/ SYDNEY NSW' cds, sellotape censor tape (applied where?) & Sydney censor h/s on face, minor blemishes. [The rate was 1/11d for Trans-Pacific surface mail thence by air to destination + 3d registration] 339 C OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS: PPCs x7 including to Algeria, Argentina & "Rabaul/German New Guinea" and one from a sailor aboard HMAS "Australia" with superb 'PASSED/SHIP'S CENSOR' h/s; and covers to Germany - with ½d 1d pair & 2½d tied by 'LATE FEE/SYDNEY NSW' cds, Canada, Natal & Sweden; condition variable.{Page 46.4} (11) 340 C C - 1925 cover to the Philippines with very late usage of 4d orange & Second Wmk 2d grey tied by 'CASTLEREAGH ST/NSW' cds, flap repair & some aging. Unusual destination. {Page 46.6} 341 342 C - Selection to Europe comprising 1913 PPCs to Switzerland or Austria (message in Esperanto), 1914 PPC to France and a cover to Holland (Gravenhage b/s), 1916 to France, 1917 to Finland (Abo b/s) with 'PASSED' h/s, 1918 Brisbane to Sweden (Stockholm b/s), 1918 (?) to Denmark, 1937 2/1d rate to Germany via Greece (b/s), condition variable. {Page 85.2} (9) C/CL ADVERTISING & ILLUSTRATED COVERS: Selection comprising 1917 Mitchells (automobile manufacturers) with all-over "Gordon Van" illustration on reverse (cover is repaired); c.1919 Australian Films Ltd with Simplex film projector; 1923 Famous Lasky Film Service with 3d tied by 'SPECIAL/SYDNEY' cds; 1935 Parker Pen with 9d plus 6d Large Kooka & 3d Jubilee; 1936 S.A. Fruitgrowers' Co-Operative sent at triple-rate + 1d late fee & 1947 Columbia Ribbon & Carbon Co; some faults but all collectable. (6) 343 C A/C - 1913 group for 1) Harringtons (photographers) Sydney-New York with 1d only & taxed but Postage Due 2c pair removed, flap missing; 2) for Gordon & Gotch Press Agency Melbourne-Boston; 3) for TH Wood Seed Merchant Brisbane-Charters Towers with 'NOT KNOWN BY/...' & 'UNCLAIMED/...' h/s, a beautiful item but sadly stained; 4 & 5) for Massey-Harris Farm Machinery Launceston-Campbell Town with different all-over illustrations on the reverse; also 6) 1918 for Methodist Book Depot Melbourne-New York with 'Passed' h/s in violet.{Page 46.7} (6) 344 C A - 1913 (July 13) Denman, Lack & Robinson (Saw Manufactures & Importers) to America with Roos ½d & 1d pair tied by Melbourne machine cancel. Most attractive. 345 C B - 1913 (Sep 13) French self-addressed cover for Deffrennes-Duplouy Frères (Linen & Furnishings Manufacturers) to Lannoy (b/s) with First Wmk ½d & 2d tied by Melbourne cds, attractive all-over advertising on the reverse, a couple of minor blemishes, opened-out for display. Gorgeous!{Page 48.1} 346 C A - 1913 (<strong>No</strong>v 28) Denman, Lack & Robinson Black Diamond Files cover to America with 1d Die I strip of 3 tied by Melbourne machine cancel paying the foreign commercial papers rate for an item weighing up to 2oz. 347 C A- - 1914 (May) for Foreign Trading Association to Switzerland with an attractive tri-colour franking of Roos ½d, 1d pair & 2½d tied by 'LATE FEE/SYDNEY NSW' cds, minor spotting, central fold well clear of stamps. [In this period, the late fee was equal to the single letter rate]{Page 48.2} 348 C A- - 1916 (Aug 1) for Jackson & McDonald (Importers) to Switzerland (b/s) "per SS Niagara" with Third Wmk 2½d tied by Sydney machine cancel, unusually with no Censor markings, faint discolouration at the base. 1,800 750 250 250 500 250 400 250 500 150 300 200 350 150
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