21st CENTURY AUCTIONS

AUSTRALIA FLIGHT COVERS
 
RVC328) Australia 1929 (2 June) First Flight cover Adelaide to Perth with 1927 1½d Canberra & 1929 3d Airmail type B tied by Adelaide machine cancel typed ‘Per First/Air Mail/2nd June, 1929’ AAMC 136, Cat $25 (3d Airmail Cat $75 on cover), Price $49
 
AFC1431) Australia 1929 Airmail ‘J.H. SMYTH LTD’ cover to Perth with KGV SM wmk perf 13½ x 12½ 1½d Red & 1929 3d Airmail tied by Sydney machine cancel, with straight line ‘ADELAIDE & PERTH’ handstamp in violet, 3d Cat $30 on multi franking cover, Price $24.99
 
AFC378) Australia 1929 (2 June) First Flight registered intermediate cover flown Adelaide – Forrest with 1927 1½d Canberra, 1928 3d Kookaburra single from lower right of mini sheet & 1929 3d Airmail tied by Adelaide machine cancel or cds, ‘FORREST/4JE29/W.A.’ arrival cds on front, Adelaide red reg. label & red & blue BY AIR MAIL sticker, attractive cover, AAMC 137a Cat from $50, Price $49
 
AFC395) Australia 1929 (2 June) First Flight registered cover Perth – Adelaide with 1927 1½d Canberra, 1928 3d Kookaburra & 1929 3d Airmail Type B tied by ‘REGISTERED PERTH/25MAY29/WEST AUSTRALIA’ cds & Perth 4 June machine cancel, Perth red reg. label & red & blue BY AIR MAIL sticker, AAMC 137 Cat $25, Price $24.99
 
AFC338) Australia 1929 (15 December) registered First Flight cover Australia – Karachi – London with Kangaroo SM wmk 6d, KGV SM wmk perf 13½ x 12½ 1½d & 3d Die I & 1929 3d Airmail all tied by ‘COLLINS ST./14DE29/MELBOURNE’ cds, typed ‘By Australia & Karachi Air Miles/First through Service’, ‘PLEASE REPLY’ Arrow red & blue BY AIR MAIL label, AAMC 146 cat from $100, Price $89
 
AFC330) Australia 1931 (23 April) First Flight plain cover to the Scotland with Kangaroos SM wmk 6d & 1/-, KGV SM wmk perf 13½ x 12½ 2d & 1929 3d Airmail all tied by ‘ADELAIDE/11 A 18AP31/SthAUSTRALIA’‘ cds, ‘AUSTRALIA/ENGLAND FIRST OFFICIAL AIR MAIL FLIGHT’ cachet in violet on reverse AAMC 188, Cat $50, Price $39
 
AFC356) Australia 1931 (19 Nov) registered First Flight cover to the UK with KGV 5d, 1931 6d Airmail & 6d Airmail optd ‘OS’, with ‘GPO MELBOURNE/19 NO 31/-4-‘ cds, faintly struck ‘Special Air Mail Flight’ cachet in violet, AAMC 222, Cat $40 (franking Cat $57+), Price $45
 
AFC369) Australia 1931 (23 April) registered First ‘All the way by Air’ Flight cover to the UK with KGV SM wmk perf 13½ x 12½ 4d Olive & 1/4d Greenish-blue & 1931 6d Kingsford-Smith all tied by ‘QUEEN VICTORIA BLDGS/21AP31/N.S.W.’ cds, ‘AUSTRALIA/England FIRST OFFICIAL AIR MAIL FLIGHT’ cachet in violet on reverse AAMC 188, Cat $50, Price $39
 
AFC1443) Australia 1931 (23 April) registered First Flight cover to the UK with 1931 Kingsford Smith set + two additional 6d values & 1929 3d Airmail all tied by ‘G.P.O. MELBOURNE/22AP31/-4-‘ cds, ‘AUSTRALIA/England FIRST OFFICIAL AIR MAIL FLIGHT’ cachet in violet on front & reverse AAMC 188, Cat $50, Price $39
 
AFC1457) Australia 1931 (1-2 May) First Flight cover Perth to Launceston carried on Melbourne-Hobart flight with 1930 3d Sturt & 1931 2d Kingsford Smith tied by ‘PERTH/2-3 27AP31/WESTERN AUST’ cds with round ‘FIRST OFFICIAL FLIGHT/MELBOURNE-LAUNCESTON-HOBART’ cachet on violet, ‘ENQUIRY COUNTER/MAY 2 1931/POST OFFICE LAUNCESTON TAS’ 37mm cds in violet on reverse, AAMC 198a, Cat $60, Price $49
 
AFC360) Australia 1932? ‘S. Mitchell’ Airmail cover to the UK with 1931 Kingsford Smith set tied by Perth machine cancel with indistinct dateline, typed ‘AUSTRALIA-ENGLAND/VIA KARACHI’, 6d Cat $150 as solo franking, oddly all values of this set are unpriced as multi franking on cover, Price $99
 
AFC1452) Australia 1932 Airmail cover to the UK with 1928 3d Kookaburra pair, 1931 Kingsford Smith 3d x 2 & 6d, 1932 Recess 2d Bridge, tied by multiple strikes of ‘MORNINGTON/17MR32/VIC’ cds, central vertical filing fold affecting one of the 3d Kingsford Smith’s, endorsed ‘Via Australia and Karachi Air Mail’, attractive cover, 3d Kooka Cat $150 on multi franking cover, Price $149
 
AFC363) Australia 1934 (9-10 Dec) First Flight ‘QANTAS EMPIRE AIRWAYS’ cover to The Netherlands carried on the first regular Aust-England service with Kangaroo SM wmk 2/- Maroon & KGV C of A wmk 4d Olive tied by ‘MELBOURNE-3/7DE34/G.P.O.’ cds, returned to Melbourne with instructional markings in Dutch on front & reverse, various backstamps, attractive cover AAMC 470p, Cat from $50, Price $59
 
AFC361) Australia 1934 (10-14 April) First Flight registered cover Australia – New Zealand with KGV 5d on 4½d surcharge, 1929 3d Airmail & 1932 recess 2d Bridge tied by ‘G.P.O. MELBOURNE-4-/7AP34’ cds, typed ‘Per ‘Faith in Australia’/-VH- UXX’ etc, with violet ‘FIRST OFFICIAL AIR MAIL/APR 1934/AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND’ cachet, AAMC 369, Cat $60, Price $49
 
AFC390) Australia 1935 (7 October) Illustrated ‘First Flight Hobart-Sydney Airmail’ long ‘Wing your way to Wealth’ Flight cover with KGV C of A wmk ½d & 1½d tied by Hobart machine cancel, large straight line ‘UNCLAIMED’ in black & 37mm ‘DEAD LETTER OFFICE SYDNEY’ circular stamp in red on front, ‘RETURNED TO SENDER/FROM/DEAD LETTER OFFICE/SYDNEY N.S.W.’ sticker on reverse AAMC 536 which states ‘The plane from Melbourne carried 3,190 letters from Hobart’, some edge faults, interesting & attractive Cat $40 for Melb – Sydney cover, Price $59
 
AFC391) Australia 1935 (7 October) Illustrated ‘First Flight Hobart-Sydney Airmail’ long ‘Wing your way to Wealth’ Flight cover with KGV C of A wmk 2d & 1934 3d Vic Centy tied by Hobart cds, boxed ‘RETURNED/UNCLAIMED’ in black & 37mm ‘DEAD LETTER OFFICE SYDNEY’ circular stamp in red on front, AAMC 536 which states ‘The plane from Melbourne carried 3,190 letters from Hobart’, tear at top & some edge faults, interesting cover Cat $40 for Melb – Sydney cover, Price $49
 
AFC1453) Australia 1935 (8 October) First Flight cover Sydney to Melbourne with KGV C of A 2d Scarlet & 1929 3d Airmail type A tied by ‘STRATHFIELD/6.30A 8OC35/N.S.W.’ cds, with typed ‘First Air Mail Service/Sydney-Melbourne/Holyman’s Airways Pty Ltd’ AAMC 537 Cat $40, Price $29
 
RVC258) Australia 1937 Airmail cover Hobart to King Island with 1934 2d Vic Centy & 1936 3d Cable BW 170, tied by Hobart machine cancel or partial ‘TAS’ cds, ‘CURRIE/11 AU 37/KING IS’ arrival cds on reverse, 3d Cat $50 on multi franking cover, Price $49
 
AFC1427) Australia 1937 (13 April) First Flight cover Cairns to Normanton (addressed to SA) with 1927 1½d Canberra pair & KGV C of A 2d Scarlet tied by ‘CAIRNS/4-A 13AP37/QLD.’ Cds & with ‘NORMANTON/13AP37/QUEENSLAND’ cds alongside & on reverse, endorsed ‘By First Air Mail/Cairns to Normanton’ AAMC 719 Cat $30, Price $24.99