Bundle with the best being from Victoria, group of Sydney Harbour, etc, also Land Settlement Agent for Victoria x2 & Tasmanian 2d Letter Card "Great Lake..." (unused), condition variable, some unused, twelve to New Calédonia (one from WA, a few underpaid & taxed).
Public Auction #187 - General Public Auction
By: Prestige Philately Pty Ltd
Prestige Philately Pty Ltd Public Auction #187 - General Public Auction
Our first general sale for 2014 is another well-balanced offering of fine stamps, proofs, covers, postal stationery etc.
British Empire collections are a strength of the miscellaneous section. An attractive range of photographs is followed by a strong offering of picture postcards, notably a collection of World War I humour cards offered by the album.
Australia features several very fine Two Pound Roos, and exciting corner blocks of 15 of the so-called “Chambon Essay” for the 1/- Large Lyrebird, in red and in blue! A fine selection of airmail covers, both first flights and commercial mail will attract a lot of interest.
Moving on to Australian Colonies/States, New South Wales and Tasmania are well represented. The sale of an unused 1d Sydney View for $26,450 in our sale of 8th November last, resulted in another superb Penny View being consigned for this auction. A complete CTO set of South Australian Long Stamps to £20 are offered individually. A sensational batch of 1870s covers from tiny settlements in the Northern Territory are offered at auction for the very first time.
Rest of the World includes colourful proofs from the Cook Islands, a very fine Falklands collection, a selection of the controversial ‘OPSO’ Handstamps from New Zealand, and a Pitcairns collection that includes the two earliest recorded stamped covers from that lonely outcrop.
The key section in the sale is the “Five Settings” collection of NWPI complete formes of 30 to 5/- x2 with most of the rarities including 1d and 2½d with margins, 1d Die II, 3d Die II and the famous 2½d with Missing Fraction. Several blocks have major overprint varieties. We also offer not one but two examples of the rare NWPI First Wmk 5/-!!
The sale concludes with a section of philatelic literature section, including very scarce early “name sale” auction catalogues.
Lot #58 - picture postcards
Bundle including 1899 advertising for Charles Boles Saddler, Eight Hours Day Procession, suburban types, country towns etc, condition a bit mixed, some unused.
Lot #59 - picture postcards
Box of cards from NSW (24); Queensland (7); South Australia (approximately 70); and Tasmania (50+, including a few superb Beatties); many are fine to very fine, some unused.
Lot #60 - picture postcards
Top-class group from NSW x8 including "St Barnabas Church Jubilee" (hand-tinted), ironic "Aborigines' Palace" & advertising type for Brinsmead Pianos (small repaired tear); Victoria x17 including Melbourne Cup x2, the high-diving platform on the Yarra at Kew, "Hermit's Camp at Carrum", real photo types 1919 "Peace...Melbourne Celebrations" & Valentine School Children at Boort, advertising cards for Howard Smith Co (...
Lot #61 - picture postcards
"Rose" Trans-Australian Railway group from at least three different series, one used in 1927, otherwise very fine unused (12); lovely chromo-lithographed card for "Melotte" Cream Separators, superb unused; Lassetter & Co two 1909 advertising cards "The Morning Delivery" (slightly trimmed at the top) & "The Buyer's Encyclopaedia", each with NSW œd with 'L/S' perfin; and group of scenic Postal Cards with NSW 1d & 1œd (3, two with...
Lot #62 - picture postcards
Box of mostly NSW cards including prominent buildings, rural scenes & towns, a couple of caves, beaches etc, others including a few Torres Strait Islands, small batch of Tasmanians including real photo types, etc, many to New Caledonia (some with postage due markings) & some "used" in the New Hebrides, condition variable..
Lot #63 - picture postcards
Top-class group including SA Railways "Assembly Platform..." (Platforms 2, 1 & 0 !!), 1916 Australia Day (decorated train), 1914 "Glenelg train in King William Street", 1909 "Official Opening Adelaide Electric Tram System", c.1907 "Swimming Races Glenelg", "Salt Carriers Edithburgh", c.1920s real photo of charabancs at Belair National Park (light bend), etc; also Valentine's "Todd River, Alice Springs"; a few blemishes but generally fine...
Lot #64 - picture postcards
Premium bundle with many excellent cards including by Falk, Detmold, Austral Stores, Western Mail etc, subjects including mining, aboriginies, beaches, pearling etc, also panoramic "Government Gardens" with Criterion Hotel advertising on the reverse (rejoined panels), a few non-WA cards used in WA, many are fine to very fine, a few handy postmarks, some unused.
Lot #65 - picture postcards
Australian real photo PPCs of the "Emden" & the "Sydney" both with captions re the Cocos engagement, both very fine unused; also German PPCs of the "Emden" 1) artist's impression of attacking Madras; & 2) on Red Cross cigar card!; both used.
Lot #66 - picture postcards
Group including Russo-Japanese War, geishas & hotels, also seven packs of cards as sold to tourists.
Lot #67 - picture postcards
Box of cards with an array of subjects including Maori (one with the caption printed twice!!), hot springs & geysers, streetscapes, trams, buildings, Stewart Island etc, some real photo types, publishers include Muir & Moodie, Fergusson and Beattie, many are fine to very fine, some unused.
Lot #68 - picture postcards
Box including mountains, lakes, fiords, waterfalls, geysers, prominent buildings, Maori subjects etc, some real photo types, noted two to Argentina, generally fine to very fine.
Lot #69 - picture postcards
Box of mostly modern cards predominantly indigenous shots including women suckling piglets x3, numerous headdresses & "sing-sings" etc, many unused.
Lot #70 - picture postcards
Old-time postcard album with an array of subjects including cities, peasants, bourgeois families, 1908 Moscow floods, some real photo types, etc, mostly unused & generally very fine to superb.
Lot #71 - picture postcards
Collection of Niagara Falls cards, mostly American but some Canadian cards noted, includes unusual views, bizarre "illuminated" cards, winter scenes, the aero-cable, trolley cars, "Maid of the Mist", barrel survivors Bobby Leach (1911) & Jean Lussier (1928 real photo, in a rubber ball!!), etc, many moderns, 115 are mounted & annotated, condition of the earlier material is variable but many are fine to superb unused or used.
Lot #72 - picture postcards
Bundle of mostly Imperial Airways cards featuring famous flying boats, also a few seaplanes including 1914 "Daily Mail Aeroplane Tour", some very strange contraptions, a few artist cards & real photo types, mostly very fine & virtually all unused.
Lot #73 - picture postcards
Bundle of German cards mostly featuring the Dornier DO-X, also a few seaplanes including one being catapulted from a ship at sea, two with swastika on the tail, generally very fine & mostly unused.
Lot #74 - picture postcards
Bundle of American cards mostly of Pan Am flying boats & their bases with many of the famous "Clippers", many artist cards, also some real photo types, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused.
Lot #75 - picture postcards
Balance of the flying boats & seaplanes collection with planes from many countries & airlines including groups for Chalk's (West Indies) & Avianca (Colombia), some artist cards & many modern types, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused.
Lot #76 - picture postcards
Large bundle of turbo-prop aircraft, mostly-1950s to 1970s cards with some more modern types, numerous airlines from around the world, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused.
Lot #77 - picture postcards
Helicopters from many countries with military, industry and civilian types, mostly modern, generally very fine unused.
Lot #78 - picture postcards
Gorgeous bundle of 1930s to 1950s airline advertising cards of the world featuring route maps, mostly geographical but some stylised and artistic types included, mostly unused & generally very fine. A very interesting lot that demonstrates the development of aerial services, especially internationally.
Lot #79 - picture postcards
Interesting bundle including aircrew x100 approximately (mostly hostesses), an unusual batch of cockpits x50 approximately, two real photo "Graf Zeppelin" cards (one used), small group of aerial photographs, and reproductions of classic 1913-38 European aerial promotion posters x11, etc.
Lot #80 - picture postcards
Album of Donald McGill humour cards including a good range of his scarce early Christmas types x29, also flirting/saucy subjects, children, soldiers etc, condition variable, mostly used. Some noted as being Ex Robert Scott (the leading UK collector of McGill cards).or Ronnie Barker (the source for some of his material?).
Lot #81 - picture postcards
Adam & Eve cards highlighting the eternal relationship between men & women, especially as regards temptation, courting etc, a few children types, generally good to very fine unused or used.
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