Public Auction #305 - Stamps & Covers

Postal History collection (110) 1946-52. Extremely diverse with normal Pictorial stamps used as Postage Dues (12 diff covers) with inwards from GB (3, all with 6d violet), from USA (taxed 114 cts with 3d & 3/- Pics). Australia (4), NZ with 4d Pic, Fiji (2) taxed 3d double deficiency. Other inwards (80+) inc 1946 from Hong Kong, 1949 Civil Censor from Japan, 1949 Registered from Austria with 2 censor cachets, sent via San Francisco USA, 1946 from Czechoslovakia, 1949 from Italy, 1950 Airmail from Norway. Pictorial advertising envelope from Spain. Then Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, India, Pakistan, USA inc underpaid RTS for additional postage, New Caledonia, Fanning Island, NZ & odd local cover. All from a single "Burns Philp" Apia correspondence. Then other covers/cards (35) to a connected NSW address, mostly of local Australian origin plus oddments of Philatelic mail inc Tonga Tin Can mail covers. All attached by glassine strips to contemporary pgs. Strips can be removed by applying moisture with a small brush. The "Postage Due" covers alone worth our estimate. (145). Estimate A$750