Italian Colonies
Covers and stamps / Italian Colonies / Bird / Combination covers
(East Africa & Somalia) 1940 express striking orange-red cover to Milano franked East Africa 1L Bateleur Eagle in combination with Somalia 3L. tied Mogadiscio Somalia Italiana cds, blue ESPRESSO (Expres) label bottom left; slight water staining bottom right, still a striking combination cover.
£75
Australia
Covers and stamps / Australian States / Bird
(New South Wales) 1896 (JA 13) long multi franked cover to Auckland, New Zealand, the franking including surcharges with 9d. on 10d. vertical strip of three and 1891 7½d. on 6d. and 12½d. on 1s. pairs and a single, 1893 10d., 188-89 8d Lyrebird horizontal strip of three. Vertical filing crease, arrival backstamp. A striking cover.
£275
Japan
Covers and stamps / Japan / Bird / Fish / Picture Stationery
(Picture Stationery) 1913 4sen card to Leipzig, endorsed ‘Germany via Siberia’, with Kobe despatch cds, the front with fine image of Fisherman with his cormorants
£95
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Bird / Picture Stationery
(Picture Stationery) 1930s 15pf Eagle card with Moderne Kunstler, MMB card numbered 363, entitled ‘Am Ententeich’ (At the Duck Pond); fine unused.
£75
Italian Colonies
Covers and stamps / Italian Colonies / Bird
(Somalia) 1936 (23.4.) registered cover to Padova bearing single-franking 1932 2L.55 Ostrich tied by Posta Militare No. 122 S cds, formula registration etiquette with similar straight-line handstamp. A fine single franking paying 50c postage, 1.25L registration and 80c airmail = 2l.55; slight overall ageing.
£95
Australian States
Covers and stamps / Australian States / Bird / Picture Stationery
(South – Picture Stationery) 1900s 1d. dark brown stationery card with illustration of four Kookaburra; some slight toning on reverse and at edges.
£55
Australian States
Covers and stamps / Australian States / Bird / Picture Stationery
(South – Picture Stationery) 1900s 1d. olive-green stationery card with illustration of four Kookaburra; some slight toning on reverse and at edges.
£55
Australia
Covers and stamps / Australian States / Bird / Picture Stationery
(South – Picture Stationery) 1900s 1d. black stationery card with illustration of ‘Poultry Farm’ fine unused.
£95
Australia
Covers and stamps / Australian States / Bird / Picture Stationery
(South – Picture Stationery) 1900s 1d. brown stationery card with illustration of four Kookaburra; some slight toning on reverse and at edges.
£55
Australia
Covers and stamps / Australian States / Bird
(South – Picture Stationery) 1912 1d. dark brown card with illustration of four Kookaburra used with Eudunda square-circle date stamp.
£75
Australia
Covers and stamps / Australian States / Bird / Picture Stationery
(Tasmania) 1898 2½d. red violet postal stationery envelop with black printed image entitled ‘Diana’s Basin and St Patrick’s Head’; a Post Office envelope fine unused with only 306 being produced.
£115
Australia
Covers and stamps / Australian States / Bird / Picture Stationery
(Tasmania) 1898 2½d. red violet postal stationery envelope with black printed image entitled ‘Lake Crescent and the Old Man’s Head’; a Post Office issued envelope cto with Hobart DE 8 98 cds, fine condition. Only 312 being produced and these arrived in Tasmania on Dec 4th 1897, so this date of DE 8 must be one of the earliest known dates.
£125
Senegal
Covers and stamps / French Maritime / Senegal / Bird
1867 envelope to Bordeaux franked ‘Eagle’ 10c. (touched margin) and a 40c. cancelled lozenge GOR in a blue-grey shade, Senegal Et Dept Gorce date stamp in same ink, Bordeaux maritime cancel below, the envelope being endorsed “paket francais”. With contents. Behr Certificate.
£265
Guatemala
Covers and stamps / Guatemala / Bird
1886 (May 18) cover to Zurich, Switzerland endorsed “via Livingston y New Orleans” and franked four 1881 5c. Quetzal, three cancelled with cork handstamp and one by CORREOS GUATEMALA ‘star’ duplex, reverse with New Orleans and New York transits, Neumunster arrival cds.
£675
North Borneo
Covers and stamps / North Borneo / Bird / Proofs / Waterlow & Sons
1909-23 Waterlow & Sons perforated proof of 12c. ‘Palm Cockatoo’ in unissued colours of red and black in complete sheetlet of nine, each stamp overprinted ‘Waterlow & Sons Ltd Specimen’ with small punch hole in corner, the stamps within the sheet are imperforate horizontally between each other but not margin, fresh unused without gum. Very rare.
£1275
South Australia
Covers and stamps / Australian States / Bird / Picture Stationery
1910 1d. purple black picture postal stationery card titled ‘Kookaburra’ with a group of four birds cancelled by Unley cds, fine and scarce.
£75
Australia
Covers and stamps / Australia / Bird
1923 2d. letter card with image in red of Flamingos entitled ‘Zoo, Adelaide, SA’, used within Hurstville to the sanitary Inspector. Fine commercially used.
£55
Cayman Islands
Covers and stamps / Cayman Islands / Bird
1937 (JA 13) registered cover to Scotland bearing single franking 2/- ‘Booby’ tied Georgetown cds, registration handstamp at left with manuscript “8” number alongside, Jamaica transit backstamp.