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Auction 121 - 10:00am Sunday 21st July 2013
PPA Preamble Welcome to Auction 121 and it is another large auction with over 4,300 lots. This is our first since the great 2013 World Exhibition held in May in Melbourne. We had a succesful show and it was very pleasing meeting old, and new, clients there. Many new books were published and we have a quite a few for sale. A complete list is printed on the back of our bidsheet and new books have been highlighted. A full list is also available on our website. Simply select Books for Sale from the top left menu on our website and then order the books you want, keep in mind that there are 2 pages of books on the website. As usual our auction starts with Cinderellas and continues with our popular Picture Postcard section. Remember that postcards are often placed in other parts of the catalogue so it is worth looking throughout the entire catalogue. If you have access to the internet go to our website and simply select Auction 121- by Topic and then, from the long list of topics (about 250 different), choose Picture Postcards to see all the postcard lots in the auction; and every one of them is illustrated. Amongst the PPCs are a nice range of Penguin cards including a Plasmon Biscuit advertising PPC (#50). To search for all the bird thematics go through the same steps but select Birds from the list. We then have Australian stamps, with many Roos and Georgian Heads all the way through to modern decimals, including varieties, postal history, postal stationery etc. Some of the more notable are a 3rd wmk 9d Die IIB with large flaw below value circle (#143), and a 1½ red Single wmk printed on gum (#213), a 1½d red Die II plate 1A impt pair (#270) and a 1d green Die II perf ‘OS’ (#289). As you have come to expect, many plate varieties are also listed, particularly in the Georgian Heads sections, but also throughout the catalogue, including a 5/- Bridge retouch over centre of bridge (#368) and 60c Whale Essay (#462). The next section are the Postage Dues, Postal Stationery, Commemorative covers and Postal History. Some of the more interesting items are 4½d KGV Sideface Reg Env CTO (#572), a 1970 Cook Bicentennial set of 12 all with the red spot on sail flaw. (#688). There is also another strong selection of popular advertising covers (#765-881). The Australian Colonies/States section has a good range of both stamps and postmarks, including a selection of numerals. As expected there is a wide selection of datestamps from all states. Some of the more interesting lots in this section are NSW Sydney Views & Laureates (#998-1006), a selection of 1930s Relief Tax ‘95’ rays of Brownlow (#1072), ‘121’ BN (#1074), ‘1521’ BN (#1113), ‘1665’ BN (#1117) 1909 Fernleigh on PPC (#1249), 1900s Guy Fawkes on PPC (#1266), 1927 St Elmo (#1451), NT 1930 Northern Australia OHMS cover (#1516), SA 1934 Telephone Office Keeper Aero Park (#1821),VIC 1958 2/- Railway Stamp block of 4 (#2040), 1941 Joel South (#2401), 1969 Karawinna (#2403), 1937 Nayook West (#2470), 1921 Nine Mile (#2569) 1925 Noorongong (#2586), WA 1854 4d (#2851), 1936 Jingymia (#2894). There are over 1400 lots in the rest-of-the-world section so there is plenty for everyone, including Brazil 1931 Zeppelin cover (#3016), Fiji 1897 earliest use of 1/- on cover (#3189),1922 Ellington on regd cover (#3221), 1929 Rotuma on regd cover (#3238), 1931 Sabeto agent on regd cover (#3240), 1922 Viria on regd cover (#3244), GB selection of 1d plate nos (#3353-3357), KEVII 10/- used pair (#3373), 10/- KGVI dark blue (#3387), £1 Silver Wedding on regd cover (#3391). Cochin unissued 1a30 and 6p on 9p (#3546-3547), Luxembourg 1874 imperf 5c yellow (#3645) & Netherlands 1920 2.50 surcharges (#3714-3716), New Zealand 1899 6d Pigeon Post (#3805), Niue 1941 5/- (3867), Portuguese India 1948 airmail to Australia (#4021-4023), Tierra Del Fuego 10c block of 4 (#4273) and Yemen 1933 cover to Australia (#4349). We always have a broad range of Military and Censored covers and this auction is no exception. While there is an obvious strength in Australian & British WWI & WWII material you will also find much more outside of these areas. To help with your specific collecting interests and to find the lots that interest you, we provide an extract service. This service saves you time and helps to keep our costs down. Simply provide us with your collecting interests. You can specify whether you just collect stamps, postal history or postal stationery, whether you collect mint or used, what periods you collect, what countries you collect etc. You can be quite detailed. In nearly all cases we can provide an extract which is well matched to your collecting needs. The most effective way of bidding is to use our secure website www.premierpostal.com. However you can always use the printed bidsheet that comes with the catalogue and fax or mail it to us, you can also phone your bids through if you prefer. We take bids any way they come. David, Cathy & Keith.