Sale #165

1935 C of A £1 grey, FU example (blunt perf S.E corner), SG.137, Cat. £275

1938 £1 bluish slate on thin rough ordinary paper, corner marginal block of four, VFU (T/L stamp with small corner crease), SG.178a. Cat. £300+. (4)

1938 ½d Wallaroo UM sheet of eighty (a handful with gum creases), SG.164. Cat. £200+

1942 2/6d booklet (black on buff cover), fine, SG.SB28, Cat. £110.

1960's-80's mainly UM collection housed on hagner leaves, also a range of 45 presentation packs together with a selection of FDC's from 1950's, also a few early first flight covers from 1920.

1850-1980's good to VFU collection housed in two Schaubek albums, noted - Austro-Hungarian K.U.K Feldpost sets, 1918-19 First Republic Optd set of ninenteen, 1919 Postage Due set of eleven, Relief set of 20, 1922 Airt set, 1922 Musicians set, 1945 set of twenty one, 1945-47 Long Pictorial defin set of thirty seven. Good 1940's & 50's commem sets & comprehensive late sets to 1980's.

1867 coarse printing 50k brown (SG.AH57a) fine used examples showing minor shade variation, odd tones or short perfs.

1908 Accession set M unsurfaced paper, a complete set of 18 up to 10k generally fine M, incl. several 72h perf faults & gum crease, 1h to 35h, 2k, 5k & 10l are UM, others part o.g. SG.189B/199B, 200/206. Cat. £455 (18)

1915-18 selection of POW & PPC's plus one cover bearing a variety of cancels, particularly noted 1917 Feldpostkarter cancelled SCHWAL IM TIROL & bearing cachet of Hospital Train 'F' operated by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. (17)

1927-30 first flight covers (6) incl. 1927 OLAG/CSA/LUFTHANSA Vienna - Berlin official OLAG card, another for Vienna - Prague, 1927 OLAG/DHL Vienna - Breslau official OLAG card, Apsern Airfield pmk (only133 flown) airport arrival cachet, another for Vienna - Gleiwitz, 1928 OLAG Innsbruck - Zurich flight, 1930 first acceptance cover Imperial AW route to India card flown Vienna - Baghdad then on to Teheran (82 flown).

1935-39 first flight covers (3), 1935 May 23rd acceptance for Sabena first flight to Belgian Congo from Vienna - Fort Archambault, Chad with cachet, another but Vienna - Fort Lamy (only 20 flown), 1939 May 30th acceptance for Lufthansa first flight to Istanbul with cachet.