b'56Australian Aerophilately & Rocket Mails402402PC 16-18 July 1914 (AAMC.3) Melbourne - Sydney special postcard carried by Maurice Guillaux on Australias first Official airmail flight; with 1d Engrave tied by the oval AERIAL MAIL cachet in violet; SYDNEY arrival cds and POWLETT RIVER cds at final destination. Exceptionally fine condition. Cat.$750. $400500403 Ex 404403L 1917 THE BASIL WATSON FLIGHTS: Official Souvenir Programme titled Exhibition of Aviation by Basil Watson - Australias Brilliant Aviator. 12 pages plus covers, the aerial mail cards carried on the February 1917 flights (Eustis 10 - 14) are advertised on page 9 (All cards carried will bear the Australian Aerial Mail post mark and the aviators signature.; with several advertisements (Shell benzine, Huttons Hams & Bacon, The Mutual Leather Coat, Underwood typewriters, etc. and with details of Watsons life and aviation career. Lightly affixed to the front cover is a small card with handwritten message A momento of our dear Basil, from Mr & Mrs Smith. The only example of this rare programme known to us.Born in Bendigo, and the only son of Mr and Mrs James I. Watson, Basil died when his aeroplane crashed in Port Phillip Bay on 28 March 1917, just a month after the series of exhibition flights. He was buried at Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew, two days later.$300500'