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AUSTRALIA - Postal History
719	✉		1915 (Jan 29) cover (small faults) from Melbourne to New York with ½d & 2d Roo, red on white 'OPENED BY/CENSOR' label at left, endorsed "Per S.S. Maitai".	100.00	75.00 sold
720	✉		1923 (Jan 4) use of 4d blue KGV (cnr fault) with 1½d red-brown & ½d green on cover from Melbourne to Queensland. Attractive 3-colour franking. [6d = 1-1½oz letter.]	50.00	40.00 sold
721	✉		1923-25 KGV Covers comprising [1] 1923 use of 2d Stationery Envelope PTPO for Australian Drug Co uprated with KGV 2d red for transit to USA; [2] 1924 Thursday Is to USA with 1½d green pair; E&ASCo (Shipping Company) crest on flap; [3] 1925 cover to USA endorsed "Per RMS Maunganui/via San Francisco" with ½d orange strips of 3 x2. (3)	100.00	85.00 sold
722	✉		1933 First Australian Trade Ship large 'POSTED ON BOARD FIRST AUSTRALIAN EXHIBITION SHIP TO THE EAST/TSS NIEUW HOLLAND/...' cachet with details of the itinerary in violet superb strikes on covers with 'FIRST AUSTRALIAN TRADE EXHIBITION SHIP/...' imprint on the flap, from Brisbane, Port Moresby (repaired opening tear) with Papua 2d or Soerabaja with Dutch Indies 5c & 10c, and a similar envelope but without the cachet with Straits Settlements 4c orange pair & Penang cds; also two KPM postcards of the 'Nieuw Holland' & a flimsy 'SAMPLES/TRADE SHIP/TSS NIEUW HOLLAND' gummed label (stained). (7)	200.00	150.00 sold
723	✉		1938 inwards surface cover from Stanley Gibbons (London) with GB 4½d KGV/KGVI mixed franking & attractive address label, addressed to Mannum (SA) with arrival backstamp, containing Gibbons colour guide in pristine condition with Perkins Bacon coloured labels. Lovely item.	250.00	190.00 sold
724	✉		1942 Victorian Government Tourist Bureau censored cover to USA sent at 4/- airmail rate with nine KGVI values to 1/- all perf 'VG', minor blemishes. Most unusual.	65.00	50.00 sold
725	✉		1956 (Oct 22) oversized cover (370x255mm) with 5/- & 10/- Arms plus 1/- Small Lyrebird tied by Newcastle (NSW) datestamps paying 2/- per ½oz airmail rate x8 for items weighing up to 4oz. Fine condition.	50.00	75.00 sold
726	✉		1960-64 Overseas 2/3d Rate Airmail Covers 1961 Relide Swiss Watches triple-rate advertising cover to Germany with 2/3d Wattles Yellow Paper x3, 1963 double rate with 2/3d Royal Visit pair, 1964 double rate with 2/3d Wattles Yellow Paper pair, 1964(?) with 2/3d Wattles Yellow Paper plus 2/3d Airmail, plus one other item. (5)	65.00	50.00 sold
727	✉		1971 (Mar 12) Cover to England with Melbourne-London Emergency Air Mail Service label tied by triangular handstamp, 3d Machin added upon arrival tied by London '12MCH71' datestamp, some faults. Unusual.	40.00	32.00 sold
728	✉		1974 (?) oversized envelope (310x250mm) to UK with $9.30 franking comprising $2 Navigators single, $2 Paintings x3 including pair, $1 Paintings & 30c Possum all tied by weak Newcastle (NSW) datestamps paying Zone 5 30c airmail rate x31 for contents weighing up to 15½oz, some faults on $2 Paintings pair, cover with central fold, fine overall. Late commercial usage of $2 Navigators. [Ex Philips Industries hoard]	80.00	60.00 sold