Auction No 140 - Prestige Philately

Oct 17, 2008
Prestige Philately - Auction No 140 Page: 21
PICTURE POSTCARDS - The "Cartophile" Collection - Overseas Countries (continued)
Lot Type Grading Description Est $A
98 C A/B
99 C A
100 C B
Ex Lot 97 Lot 99
LEVANT: Holy Land views (3) & two others, with Para (3) or Centimes (2) frankings tied by Jerusalem
(4) or Haifa cds, also 1909 from Vienna with Jerusalem arrival cds. (6)
MALAYA - KEDAH: 1909 Kaulfuss Penang "Sleeping Buddha" to Victoria via Penang with Siam 2a
tied to the viewside by Thai '.../28-2-1909/Kedah' bilingual cds. [Kedah was transferred to the
Federated Malay States on 15/7/1909]{Page 21.2}
NETHERLANDS: c.1905 Heron photo-card of postboys & their bicycles outside the local
Spoedboodschappendienst (= Official Express Post Office), unused.{Page 21.3}
100
300
100
101 C A/C
Lot 100 Lot 102
NEW GUINEA: German New Guinea cards (6, including two Gruss aus types, four are used one in
1900), three Mission cards with English captions, three much later New Guinea cards & 1927 inwards
to Papua from Japan, rather mixed condition. (12)
200
Ex Lot 103 Ex Lot 104
102 C B - c.1915 "Similar medicine being served out to the Germans who flogged the Rev Mr Cox", minor
soiling, unused. [Just before the Australian troops arrived in German New Guinea, a group of Germans
flogged the Methodist missionary Rev WA Cox. The Australians took the perpetrators to Rabaul &
administered "eye-for-an-eye" floggings, in the presence of the German residents who were required to
attend. Photography was banned but an enterprising American sailor took this snap, which he later
sold to the German Consul at Soerabaja. The incident is included in Vol X of "The Official History of
Australia in the War" (1927)]{Page 21.4}
250