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Australian Area<br />
Australia<br />
Start CHF<br />
1473 <br />
AUSTRALIA, 1924, Kan ga roo and Map, £1 gray, 3rd wa ter -<br />
mark, o.g., never hinged and post of fice fresh, well cen tered<br />
with wide mar gins, tiny nat u ral gum in clu sion, Very Fine. SG 75;<br />
£2 250 (3 430 CHF) (Photo).<br />
Est. 900 - 1 000 CHF.<br />
900 CHF<br />
1474 <br />
AUSTRALIA, 1953-57, Queen Eliz a beth II definitives,<br />
3½d-2s6d, ten sets of 12 (com plete ac cord ing to Scott), o.g.,<br />
never hinged, Very Fine. SG 224e//282d. Scott 292-303; $679<br />
(640 CHF) (Photo).<br />
Est. 300 - 350 CHF.<br />
300 CHF<br />
1475 <br />
Start CHF<br />
AUSTRALIA / POW mail - Egypt, 1942 cover to Cairo-Egypt,<br />
bear ing on the front P.O.W. CAMP / MURCHISON, VIC,<br />
handstamp along side to boxed P.W. MIDLE / EAST 164 ca chet.<br />
Var i ous cen sor marks and la bels. Un usual des ti na tion (Photo).<br />
Est. 100 - 150 CHF.<br />
100 CHF<br />
1471 <br />
AUSTRALIA, 1919, First Ae rial Post Eng land-Aus tra lia, the<br />
so-called Ross-Smith vi gnette in dark blue, sheetlet with<br />
mar gins all around, o.g., never hinged and post of fice fresh, ab -<br />
so lutely pris tine white gum, un doubt edly the fin est pos si ble<br />
con di tion of this dif fi cult sheetlet (Photo).<br />
Est. 8 000 - 12 000 CHF.<br />
8,000 CHF<br />
1476 <br />
AUSTRALIA / POW mail, 1942 in com ing air mail cover from<br />
Milan-Italy to Victoria, free of post age, bear ing boxed cen sor<br />
mark along side P.O.W. MURCHISON - VIC handstamp. On re -<br />
verse Ital ian mil i tary cen sor la bel and cen sor handstamps. Un -<br />
usual (Photo).<br />
Est. 100 - 150 CHF.<br />
100 CHF<br />
According to Eustis, 576 examples of the vignette were<br />
printed, of these 125 were destroyed and another 364 were<br />
used on mail; of the remaining 87 mint examples about 20 had<br />
their margins removed in anticipation of being used on mails<br />
and further 25 (ca) are held in institutional collections around<br />
the world, leaving only 42 or so sheetlets available to private<br />
collectors.<br />
1473<br />
Ex 1474<br />
1475<br />
1472 <br />
AUSTRALIA, 1919, Kan ga roo and Map, £2 black & rose, 3rd<br />
wa ter mark, o.g., lightly hinged, well cen tered, fresh, cor ner perf<br />
crease at up per left, oth er wise Very Fine. SG 45; £4 000 (6 090<br />
CHF) (Photo).<br />
Est. 1 800 - 2 000 CHF.<br />
1,800 CHF<br />
1476<br />
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