Auction No 151 - Prestige Philately

Oct 24, 2009
Prestige Philately - Auction No 151 Page: 13
MISCELLANEOUS (continued)
Lot Type Grading Description Est $A
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O*C
Miscellany with South Australia reprints (10, including 1/- violet); New Zealand Life Insurance 1937 &
1941 6d blocks of 4 used, duplicated 1947-77 Pictorials in multiples **; two old-time albums with
pickings; covers including New Zealand 1940s-70s flights, Health & Government Life frankings, Tonga
Tin Can x5, BOAC flight covers, early PPCs mostly from France; also a bag of predominantly New
Zealand circulated coins; very mixed condition. (1000s)
*O - including Australia KGV 4d orange Line through 'FOUR PENCE' (rough perfs & off-centre*),
Queensland 1880 20/- rose apparently unused but creased; New Zealand Officials with useful earlies
including QV Perf 14½x14 2/-, plus Centennial and QEII sets *; condition variable. (77)
500
200
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Ex Lot 15
*/**OC Mostly mint array with Argentina 1953 imperf 50c Rescue of the "Antarctic"; French Antarctic 1956-60
25f & 85f plus 50f 100f & 200f Airs; Germany 1928 2m Zeppelin on postcard to USA; Russia including
1931 Airship Construction Fund imperf & perforated sets, 1934 Airs all except 50k without watermark,
1935 1r on 10k San Francisco Flight (Cat £350), 1950 Anniversary of First Antarctic Expedition, 1958
Polar Stations M/S (stamps **); South Georgia 1963 Pictorials to £1 blue **, plus handy material from
other nations including a few covers, condition variable.{Page 13.1} (100s)
OCF
Odd lot with Tasmania Chalons, WA 2d with undated 'POST OFFICE/ PARKERVILLE' provisional
cancel; 1917 1d Envelope uprated 1½d to Italy, etc; also Australia Third Wmk 5/- Roo well centred *
and Great Britain 1857 cover to Melbourne with 1/- pale green SG 73; condition very mixed. (40 + 9
covers)
*/**OC - with Australian stamps & a few covers, Burma Opts on KGV to 1r on registered cover to the Nawab
of Bahawalpur, Afghan primitives x7 including a pair (offered "as is"), and mostly modern Sudan array
on Hagners (mostly */**).
*/** Oddments with Australia Cream Paper 2/5d Wren (very fine) & 5/- Cattle (even gum-toning) blocks of
4 **, Envelope cutouts including rare KGV Oval 1½d brown, WA fiscals, New Zealand Dunedin set *.
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PS
Pacific Islands collection with unmounted Aitutaki and Penrhyn 1903 & 1914 sets, Cook Islands
1921 Long Types and 1931-32 Arms to £1, Samoa 1914-24 Long Types to £1, 1932 & 1935-42 Arms
to £1, other handy material from Niue & Tokelau, mixed condition, Cat £1300+. (550+)
Postal Stationery bundle with good groups from Gibraltar (Registration Envelopes x15 including
KEVII size H used, condition variable) and Cape of Good Hope (32, generally fine to very fine unused),
others include Japan 1892 3s Postal Card with Meiji datestamps, GB (1d+)1d reply-half used from
Belgium (offering 500,000 European stamps for 80/-!!), etc. (74)
21 *O Small box of stockcards with a world array & lots of pickings. (100s)
250
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*O Untidy array mostly used with Australia Roos including First Wmk to 5/-, Third Wmk 2d varieities, 5/-
(3) & 10/-, KGV Heads to 1/4d with varieties on 1½d reds, 1930s commemoratives to 2/- with
duplication; also Australian Colonies with a few pickings and a modest New Zealand collection with
good coverage of 1970s to mid-1990s **; condition variable, postmark interest on Australian
Commonwealth issues. (many 100s)
THEMATICS & SUBJECTS
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BIRDS: Four volumes with a few long sets ** including 1975 BIOT & 1979 Barbados, lots of Eastern
Europe & Gulf States; also lesser selections of Butterflies & Flowers. (many100s)
COMMUNICATIONS: Australia - Victoria 1895 local usage of stampless OHMS 'TELEPHONE
DIRECTORY' wrapper, minor faults/repairs. Unusual free mail item.
25 PS B DEATH & MOURNING: Australia - Queensland 1899 usage to Isle of Wight of 1½d Postal Card HG 11
with Rays '148' & Thursday Island cds, superb 'COWES' arrival cds & readdressed, minor blemishes.
Message: "...We lost a man overboard at 11pm last night, which was most unfortunate..."
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MARITIME MAIL: Album pages with a few GB pre-stamp items & a few Trans-Atlantics, other
pre-stamp covers from NSW & Victoria, a range of mostly pedestrian Paquebot items, several with
'POSTED ON THE HIGH SEAS' markings, a few military including two with 'CENSORED/HMS
GERANIUM' h/s, etc, condition variable.{Page 12.1} (75)
MOUNTAINEERING: Peru 1969 commemorative PPC for The Australian Andean Expedition, to GB
with Reform 3s on 90c, autographs of the nine members. Reasonable offers considered.
600
250 T
Offer T
Offer
400 T
350
400
250
100 T
75 T
500
150