AUSTRALIA

1944 2½d on cover pmk St Kilda - 5 DE 44 to Yorks - Censor Label 3 - tied Censor #315. Patriotic Vignette: Sword through Flags of Germany-Italy & Japan' - Scarce!

1946 Eus.#1035a Mountbatten 'Victory' Flight - 6alaya-Aust-NZ-Malaya per AVRO York-MW.102 - COVER fr: Aust Peace 2½d pmk Stanmore NSW - 30.3.46 & NZ Victory 2d pmk Whenuapai Air Force - 1 AP 46 & 1d pmk 9 AP for return flight - with red 2-oval 'Air. S.S.E.A. - COMM. SQUADRON - m/s April 10th 46 - Singapore' arr pmk - only 7 Flown! - see also NZ & Malaya BMA!

1946 SEAC Supreme Commander Lord Mountbatten & Lady Edwina 'Goodwill Flight' to Aust & NZ - per AVRO York - MW-102 Cover fr: Aust Peace 2½d pmk Stanmore, NSW & NZ Vict 3d pmk Whenuapai Air Force - 1 AP 46 & 1d pmk Whenuapai - 9 AP for Return - with red 2-oval 'AIR. S.S.E.A. - COMM. SQUADRON - m/s 10 AP 46 - Singapore' arr cachet - Further fr: BMA 8c red pmk S'pore - 12 AP 46 for Return to Aust. Pilot Signed: Jack Matthews. Endorsed on back: 'For H.M. Collection - Ern Crome - 1986' on his last trip to London - wanted to present this Unique cover personally to HM Queen at Buck. Palace, but refused by Prince Charles - suggest send by Post - & consequently Crome took it back to Aust!! - very RARE!

1947 Eus.#1102 PAA 1st Clipper Flight: 10.7.47 Sydney to Noumea [arr 11/7] - violet Cachet. Plane stopped at Noumea during QANTAS strike!

1947 Eus.1119a PAA 1st Clipper Flight: 6.11.47 Sydney to Suva, Fiji stage [arr 7/XI] - Black 'Map' cachet.

1948 Reg Air Cover fr: 3d & 1/6 Air pmk 'King St-NSW - 7.9.48 - addr to Toronto [arr 13 SP] - b/s Sydney - 7/9; & Vancouver - 11/9 tr cds.

1951 Eus.#1289 KLM 1st Flight (Return) - 12.12.51 Sydney to Amsterdam (arr 16/XII) - Violet Cachet - See also Netherlands.

1957 Eus.#1379c 40th Anniv Flight - Adelaide-Gawler - illus cover fr 3½d pmk Adelaide - 23 NO 57 - b/s Gawler (arr 23/XI cds) - spec triang vignette & violet Cachet, Pilot Signed: R.G. Carey

1958 Eus.#1394/5 TEAL 30th Anniv Tasman Flight: 'Boomerang' folding Card - 8d Aust - pmk Sydney - 10/IX & Return fr: NZ 6d pmk Wodbourne - 14/X cds

1958 Spec Folding Commem Flight Cover fr same design stamps for 30th Anniv. 1st Aust-NZ Trans-Tasman Flight - Aust 8d pmk Sydney - 10.9.58 & NZ 6d pmk 'Woodbourne Air Force Special Flight - 14 OC 58 - b/s Sydney 14/X on Return. Black Cachet

1958 QANTAS - 1st 'Round-World' Air Service illus cover fr 1s, 2x2s 'Encircling' pmk Sydney-14.I.58 - b/s spec duplex - 20.I.58. Violet Cachet.

1960 HG.#DFG6-S.2 OHMS Airletter: Jet plane design blue/blue - no value in design. - h/s single-lined violet 'SPECIMEN'