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Lot 3488 Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday) Stamps
Estimate $200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $380
AUSTRALIA, an unusual accumulation of covers (about 200) all posted in October 1937 from all around the Commonwealth, all carry the additional sticker stating "This envelope will become increasingly valuable to collectors as the years pass. It is a FDC used to carry the first air mail in Australia without surcharge"; most are fixed with 2d stamps (either KGV, KGVI or 1937 150th anniversary stamps), all are posted to Hobart; together with are first Official Air Mail Rabaul to Sydney, 3/6/1938 all fixed with New Guinea 5d Raggiana bird (44); First Hobart-Sydney Air Mail Service October 7th 1935, all posted from Hobart to address in Sydney, 7th October 1935 fixed with assorted issues of 1930s, many with additional postal stamps 'Dead Letter Office' (34); other flight covers (16) from South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, India, Northern Rhodesia, Swaziland, Bechuanaland, Philippine Islands; other covers (3). Used. (approx 300)
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