Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 1

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1 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 1 MISCELLANEOUS O*C Consignment remainders including Western Australia d plus other classics with faults, Australia 1940 AIF 6d block of 4 used, Great Britain d blue pair (faults), 1948 Silver Wedding x2 sets *, New Zealand mint 1895 Perf 12x11½ ½d block of 6, 1899 Perf 11 5/- Mount Cook & /- Admiral, North German Confederation 1868 cover to London with 1g x5, etc. (few ) *OC Diverse assortment including a modest Australian Colonies collection, British Commonwealth 1937 Coronation omnibus FDCs x53, Great Britain with FDCs including 1948 Olympics illustrated and stamps including d orange Plate 1; European material including mint Germany Post Offices in Levant ¼pi on 25pf, Greece 1896 Olympics to 1d (10L used) plus other handy material from Hungary, Iran, Italian States including forgeries, Monaco, Portugal, Spain & Switzerland; also an album of mostly European "maximum cards" with strength in s material including France Red Cross and Great Britain /6d HMS Victory. Mixed condition. (many s) *O General World collection in dilapidated Empire Album including GB d brown Plate 1, Seahorses 10/-, Mauritius 1859 imperf 1/-, North Borneo 1894 & Labuan Pictorials mint, other useful material from Australia & Colonies, Canada and India; also a well-filled section of Europe & Colonies plus handy America (including Hawaii) China & Japan; then an Australian collection in Seven Seas albums with bulk of the value in era "postage" (1974 onwards **); and uninspiring New Zealand collection with sparse early material, 1960s-70s Health M/Ss **, largely complete unmounted, condition mixed. (Qty) CPS Great Britain Silver Wedding 2½d & 1 tied to plain unaddressed FDC by 'ABERFELDY' cds of 26AP/48, India very fine 2a6p Envelope uprated & registered to London, South Australian 1858 front with fair Imperf 6d SG 3, two Russian pre-stamp entires, NSW & WA PPCs the latter including one of 1916 to a Private at "Bunbury Camp", & a really ghastly KGV scenic Letter Card. (16) C CINDERELLAS 34 V A C1 PICTURE POSTCARDS [See also Lots 567 to 590 under "Antarctica"] Ex Lot 20 Postal History group including GB 1850s with boxed 'CHARLOTTE/PLACE' or 'PITT STREET' cancels, eleven fine to very fine German pre-stamp outers or entires, and five Indian documents with Pudukkottai 'NON JUDICIAL' revenues (2 types). (18) GREAT BRITAIN: 1944 German Propoaganda Forgeries KGVI Perf 11 3d deep violet with margins at top & base, cds in violet T Lot C A GREAT BRITAIN: 1911 Fry's Chocolate advertising PPC of Crowning of KGV, unused. 50 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA - General & Miscellaneous Lots 76 */** Scrappy lot including KGV Heads, Kooka M/S * (small thin), s Postage Dues to 5/- mint with a few multiples, quantity of KGVI imprint blocks and ½d brown block of 32 perf 'VG'; also 'C/of/A' perfins on British issues to 5/-, condition variable. (16 items) COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA - Postal History 207 C B B commercial airmail cover from England with 'BRITISH EMPIRE GAMES/11FE38/SYDNEY AUSTRALIA' largely fine arrival b/s, opened a little roughly. Rare inwards mail to a major sporting event. [To a member of the English swimming team, with enclosed letters from members of his family]

2 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 2 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA - Military & Censor Mail 213 Ex Lot 213 C World War I: Five items to Pte Leslie Palmer in hospital in England or Australia (1919) including 1918 GB PPC with oval 'NOT AT No 1 AAH/23AUG1918/HAREFIELD' d/s, & a Red Cross leave pass, condition variable; also 1915 stampless PPC to WA with 'PASSED BY/CENSOR' h/s used only on Lemnos for 2 weeks, fine. (7) QUEENSLAND - Postmarks C C C1 Lot 362 BRISBANE: boxed 'NOT CALLED FOR' two large-part strikes on the face of cover from Scotland with Jubilee 6d tied by 'FORFAR' duplex, 'ADVERTISED/30NO87/UNCLAIMED' cds on the face & DLO b/s in the same red ink, some toning mostly on the reverse. Ex Campbell: illustrated by him at page C (C) Lot 366 BRISBANE: 'BRISBANE/RECEI[VE]D/TOR[N]/QUEENSLAND' partly fine strike on the remnants of a mourning cover front from GB affixed to the face of Qld OHMS cover with a superior strike of the h/s (& another partial strike) on the reverse, some repairs. What can we say: ugly but full of character and exactly the type of item for which this rare marking was required. Also a fine part-strike on 2d Chalon. [Recorded by Campbell only on a 1900 wrapper: see page 136. The vendor states only the 2 covers are recorded] 500

3 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 3 VICTORIA "Half-Lengths" 436 F A-/B WESTERN AUSTRALIA Lot 436 Campbell & Fergusson: 3d greenish blue SG 29a vertical interpanneau pair [22/4], margins just shaved (at upper-left of the lower stamp) to large, tied to cover to England by BN '1' of Melbourne (b/s), scarce English 'M/NW/A' h/s applied to mail missent to the North-West District of London, all writing - including a pen-line across the stamps - is faded. A very scarce "intersection" pair, and a rare franking. Ex Moreton and Diffen. 400 Lot F B Printed at Perth from Perkins Bacon Plates Imperf 6d sage-green SG 28, almost 3 margins, with Irish diamond-numeral '186' cancel of Dublin, Cat 400. Most unusual. AFGHANISTAN C B Lot part-'indian Telegraphs/RECEIPT...' form with Indian Telegraph Stamps 1r grey pair (upper portion only as usual) tied by straight-line 'KANDAHAR ' d/s & with boxed 'PASSED' Censor h/s (very early) in red to the left, the message repeated on the reverse: "Supdt Sorting Office Silu/Letters parcels for General Stewart's force to be sent Cabul via Lahore", very minor blemishes. Rare. [A wonderful item from the short-lived British Occupation of Afghanistan during the Second Afghan War] 600T

4 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 4 ANTARCTICA [This is the largest selection of Antarctica postcards we have offered. Catalogue numbers are from "Postcards of Antarctic Expeditions " by Margery Wharton. The much improved Revised Edition (2007) is available from Prestige Philately for $110] 567 C A- Lot 567 BRITISH - Picture Postcards British National Antarctic Expedition (Scott): Canterbury Times Set 2 "Discovery and Terra Nova at Anchor in Robertson Bay" Wharton #DE-16, used within New Zealand in 1905, very minor blemishes. 568 C A Lot 568 BRITISH - Picture Postcards sepia photograph with hand-written "Discovery at Simonstown [South Africa] 1901 en route to the Antarctic" C A Lot 569 BRITISH - Picture Postcards real photo PPC with hand-written "The Discovery in which Sir Ernest Shackleton [sic] ventured out to reach the South Pole", unused. Unlisted by Wharton. 570 C A+ Lot 570 BRITISH - Picture Postcards uncaptioned stern view of "Discovery" at Thames Embankment Wharton #DH-2, unused. Superb! C B Lot 571 BRITISH - Picture Postcards uncaptioned view of "Discovery" at Port Lockrey as Wharton #DH-8 but no printing on the reverse, minor blemishes, unused. 75

5 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 5 ANTARCTICA (continued) 572 C A+ Lot 572 BRITISH - Picture Postcards Nautical Photo Agency uncaptioned Captain Scott on the deck of "Discovery" Wharton #DN-1, unused. Superb! C C Lot 573 BRITISH - Picture Postcards British Antarctic Expedition (Shackleton): "EH SHACKLETON CVO" Wharton #GA-1, bumped corners & spotting on address side, unused. 60 Lot C A BRITISH - Picture Postcards "DR FORBES McKAY" Wharton GA-2, unused. Lot C A BRITISH - Picture Postcards "JOYCE, DOGS & PENGUINS" Wharton GA-3, unused. 576 C B Lot 576 BRITISH - Picture Postcards "SY NIMROD IN FLOE ICE" Wharton GA-4, soiled on address side, unused. 75 Lot C A BRITISH - Picture Postcards "PONIES ON ARRIVAL IN ANTARCTIC" Wharton GA-5, unused.

6 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 6 ANTARCTICA (continued) 578 C B Lot 578 BRITISH - Picture Postcards "EMPEROR PENGUINS" Wharton GA-6, minor spotting on address side, unused C B Lot 579 BRITISH - Picture Postcards "UNION JACK HOISTED AT/SOUTH MAGNETIC POLE" Wharton GA-7, printed facsimile note from Shackleton promoting Plasmon Biscuits, bumped corners, unused. [This famous photo of AF McKay and the Australians Edgeworth David & Douglas Mawson was the basis of the AAT d stamp] C A- Lot 580 BRITISH - Picture Postcards "WINTER QUARTERS/MT EREBUS IN DISTANCE" Wharton GA-8, minor blemish at lower-left, unused. 581 C B Lot 581 BRITISH - Picture Postcards ditto, printed facsimile note from Shackleton promoting Plasmon Biscuits, soiled on address side, unused C A- Lot 582 BRITISH - Picture Postcards "THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT EREBUS/13350FT HIGH" Wharton #GA-10, non-contemporary ink notations about the ascent on the address side, unused. [Australians Edgeworth David & Douglas Mawson were among the successful climbers] 583 C C Lot 583 BRITISH - Picture Postcards "SOUTHERN DEPOT PARTY WITH DOGS" Wharton #GA-11, soiled, unused. 60

7 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 7 ANTARCTICA (continued) 584 C B Lot 584 BRITISH - Picture Postcards ditto, printed facsimile note from Shackleton promoting Plasmon Biscuits, faint spotting on address side, unused C A Lot 585 BRITISH - Picture Postcards "THE RETURN OF THE SOUTHERN PARTY" (Wild, Shackleton, Marshall & Adams) Wharton #GA-12, unused C A Lot 586 BRITISH - Picture Postcards British Antarctic Expedition (Scott): Rotary "...CAPTAIN SCOTT AND HIS EXPLORATION SHIP TERRA NOVA" Wharton #KB-7199B, unused. 587 C B Lot 587 BRITISH - Picture Postcards Fry's advertising card of a chocolate wrapper photographed through a block of ice Wharton #XPU-5a, soiled, used in England in C A- Lot 588 BRITISH - Picture Postcards Fry's chromo-litho advertising card "WITH CAPTAIN SCOTT AT THE SOUTH POLE" Wharton #XPU-8a, faint blemish on the address side, unused. A gorgeous card. 200

8 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 8 ANTARCTICA (continued) 589 C B Lot 589 BRITISH - Picture Postcards Scott Mourning Card (portrait, flag & ship) Wharton #XSM-2a, minor soiling, unused C A Lot 590 BRITISH - Picture Postcards Cadbury's Bournville Cocoa advertising card (38x122mm) with photo of Scott using a tripod-mounted telescope. AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY - The Age of Discovery ( ) [The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) was led by Douglas Mawson, a geologist from Adelaide. Mawson had been with Shackleton's 1908 Expedition & was one of the first group to climb Mount Erebus, the highest point on the Antarctic continent. The AAE was essentially a scientific project that made major contributions in geology, meteorology, geo-magnetism & biology. It has been called "the first major scientific exploring venture by Australians beyond their shores". In addition, the extensive physical exploration & associated cartography laid the basis for Australia's later claim to what became the AAT. Mawson's epic editing of the 22 volumes of the AAE "Scientific Reports" was completed only in Mawson lead the British Australian & New Zealand Research Expedition (BANZARE) of which focussed on marine science & resulted in a further 13 volumes of reports] C A+ Lot Figurehead (London) PPC "The gallant Aurora/pushing through the ice floes" Wharton #NA-2, unused. Superb! [Published for the 1930 British Polar Exhibition] AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY - ANARE (Australian Stamps) Period Despite the success of the BANZARE voyages, there was no further official Antarctic contact until after World War II. In 1947, the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition(s) was founded. ANARE (pronounced an-ar-ay) embraces the activities in Antarctica of both government and non-government bodies and individuals, with a central focus on scientific research. Prior to February 1957, only Australian stamps were available] 635 CL A- Lot airmail cover from England with GB 2d 4d & 1/6d & Cricklewood cds, then Australian 3½d tied by Melbourne cds & 9d + 2/- tied by Mawson cds, registered at point of origin & again at Mawson, signed "WJ Storer/PM Mawson" at upper-left, a couple of tiny blemishes.

9 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 9 FAROE ISLANDS 670 F A B1 GREAT BRITAIN Ex Lot British Occupation Surcharges '20' on 1ö to '60' on 6ö Mi 2-6, the two high values on small pieces, various cancels, Nordens Frimarken Cat SKr3500 (= $A600). Horst Osper Certificate (1992). (5) 250T 708 O Ex Lot accumulation with heavy duplication of commoner issues but also ½d Bantam plates, Surface Printed to 2/6d (2), Large Uncoloured Corner Letters 3d (16) & 6d (4), Larged Coloured Corner Letters 2½d rosy mauve (15) & 2½d blue (17), "Lilacs & Greens" 1½d (12), 2d (4), 3d & 5d, "Jubilees" to 1/- (13), KEVII 1/- (17), 2/6d (5) & 5/-, also some Officials plus "Jubilee" & KEVII letter-rate covers mostly to Germany, condition is very mixed. (1300+) 709 G A B High Values White Paper 5/- & 10/- SG 180 & 183, steel cancels, Cat 675. (2) */** A King George V Control singles ½d (35) and 1d (26) from various printings; also KEVII 1d optd 'ARMY/ OFFICIAL' control 'A' corner block of 4 ** (some toning), mostly unmounted. (61) 400T 200 Ex Lot */** A Multiple Crowns 4½d chestnut "arrow" strip of 4 from the base of the sheet, major Double Perforations error, a few reinforced perfs. Striking. [Also a Control '2' block of 6, unmounted] (2 items) GREAT BRITAIN - Postal History C B Lot cover to New Zealand "Via San Francisco" with scarce solo franking of Jubilee 1/- green (some toned perfs) largely obscured by NZ Sideface 2d pair added for redirection fee & tied by 'AMBERLEY' cds, 'FOXTON' arrival b/s, minor faults. 150T

10 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 10 GREAT BRITAIN - Postal History (continued) 713 C C/B Ex Lot two large-part covers to "Shiraz/Persia" with 1) Jubilee 5d + 1d lilac x5, discoloured; or 2) Jubilee 2½d x5; both with Indian Sea Post Office transit & 'BOUSHIR' Persian arrival b/s. Scarce quadruple- & quintuple-rate covers. (2) 250T 714 PS B Lot usage of KEVII 1d Postal Card to "Ipoh/Perak" but cancelled only on arrival at Penang, 'IPOH' transit & poor 'TAIPING' arrival d/s also on the face, minor defects. T 715 C A- Lot PPC to the German Consulate in Sydney but readdressed to Germany with 'DEUTSCH- AUSTRALISCHE DAMPFSCHIFFS-GESELLSCHAFT' h/s in violet but not up-rated, Hamburg arrival cds, corner bend. Around the world for a penny! 200T 716 C A/B Ex Lot First UK Aerial Post group comprising 1) London to Windsor PPCs in brown (very fine, with printed -? - note on reverse from the Organizing Committee) or brown-red, both with 'FIRST UNITED KINGDOM/AERIAL POST/LONDON/-2-' cds; 2) Windsor to London PPC in greenish black with '.../WINDSOR/-3-' cds; and 3) London to Windsor Envelope in black with '.../LONDON/-3-' cds; a few minor blemishes. (4) 400T

11 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 11 GREAT BRITAIN - Postal History (continued) 717 C B 718 C B Lot "Arf a mo Kaiser!" PPC with printed promotion for the Over-Seas Club Tobacco Fund & ½d 'M/LD' perfin for printed-matter rate, to the Seychelles with 'ANSE ROYALE/SEYCHELLES' arrival cds on the face, minor defects commercial cover with Wembley 1d pair to "Adelaide/SA" with 'ADELAIDE/SOUTH/AFRICA' & 'RETURNED LO/CAPE TOWN' cds on the face, endorsed "Try Cape", "not Cape" and "South Australia", fold & repaired tear at base. Unusual Wembley cover. 150T 719 C A INDIA - Postal History Lot (Feb 27) England to British East Africa inaugural flight cover Muller #184, 'ENGLAND - B E AFRICA/AIRMAIL/OPENING FLIGHT' typed endorsement, Kisumu & Nairobi b/s. Fine condition. 200T 744 C B Lot apparently commercial cover to Shanghai with typed "First England-Australia Airmail", 1a & 12a tied by 'KARACHI AIR/12APR31' cds, Singapore 'IMPERIAL AIRWAYS/LTD/LONDON-AUSTRALIA/...' slogan b/s & Chinese-language arrival cds, minor faults. 200T 746 CL C Lot 'Service des postes' envelope to England with the stamps washed-off but the airmail & registration labels still in place, 'DAMAGED BY/SEA ATER' (error; apparently a variant of Sanford #g) h/s applied at London, superb '.../HUDSONS PLACE' arrival cds on the face. From the flyingboat "Scipio" that crashed off Crete. [While "Scipio" crash covers are common, that is not the case for official or registered mail so this is a very scarce item] 400T

12 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 12 MALAYA - Straits Settlements - Postal History 795 C A MALTA Ex Lot (Feb 8) two covers to Yokohama each with 12c blue tied by Singapore cds, both endorsed "RAF Plane" and "By courtesy/air flight/raf/singapore-japan". (2) 200T 797 C B NETHERLANDS INDIES Lot commercial cover from a Maltese merchant in London to Malta where re-addressed to Switzerland with 'JOSEPH ARRIGO/MALTA' private cachet in blue and KEVII ½d & 1d strip of 4 (on reverse) affixed for the redirection & registration fees, GPO Maltese Cross cancels & oval registration d/s, 'MONT-PELERIN' arrival cds & again forwarded to 'CHARDONNE' (arrival b/s), minor blemishes. 250T 821 C B NEW ZEALAND - Postal History Lot entire to "Sourabaja" with light but obvious strikes of the 42mm double-circle 'JAVA/ SA=/MARANG/POST OFFICE' & boxed 'POST PAID' h/s both in red, minor filing fold, written in French. [The British language postal markings were introduced during the British Occupation of Java ] 200T 867 C B Lot cover to the German Consul at Melbourne where redirected to Sydney, then to 'MANILA/P.I' (duplex on face) "per SS Taiyuan via Brisbane" where Nachzusenden (= to be forwarded) label affixed & sent to Germany, a little soiled. 150T

13 Prestige Philately - General Public Auction No 139 Page: 13 SINGAPORE 915 CO A- SOUTH AFRICA (Provinces) Lot large-part commercial airmail cover (217x151mm) to London with exceptional franking of KGVI Perf 14 20c 50c $2 pair & $5 x2 lightly cancelled with '---/29MAY49/SINGAPORE' cds (blank at top; Proud #D208; fine strike on the reverse), opened-out. 300T 921 C A- Lot 921 BOER WAR: 1899 (Dec 8) stampless POW cover to India endorsed "From Major S Humphrey/1st Gloster Regt" at upper-left, '[arms]/8dec1899/commandant GENERAL' d/s in purple & Pretoria cds of the same date, Bombay transit & Calcutta arrival b/s, flap fault. An unusually fine POW cover. With magazine-photo of Major Humphrey. [Humphrey commanded 5½ companies of the Gloucestershire Regiment at the Battle of Nicholson Nek, where the British defeat has been blamed on their mules taking flight with all their provisions the night before! After Boer riflemen gained superior positions, a junior British officer raised the white flag, resulting in the largest surrender of British troops since the Napoleonic Wars] 750T 922 C B SWITZERLAND - Postal History Lot 922 BOER WAR: 1900 cover to England "Via Delagoa Bay" endorsed "From Major S Humphrey/1st Gloster Regt" at L/L, Transvaal 2½d tied by Pretoria cds of 27MRT00, partial 'CORREIO AMBULANTE/LOURENCO MARQUES' transit b/s in blue & very fine 'REUNION A MARSEILLE/LV No1' French marine sorter b/s, minor flap-tears. 200T 925 C B Lot (Oct 26) cover to England with imperforate 40r green Mi #17 x3 tied by three strikes of Geneva d/s, French & London transits on face and Bath arrival b/s, minor blemishes. 200