b'62416C 1-2 May 1931 (AAMC.198 & 198a) Melbourne - Hobart registered cover flown on the first southbound service by A.N.A. Ltd; together with a Launceston - Melbourne registered flown cover carried on the first northbound service; both with arrival backstamps, commemorative cachets in violet and appropriate registration labels. (2). $120150417C 1 May 1931 (AAMC.198a) Launceston - Hobart and Launceston - Melbourne flown covers, carried on the inaugural A.N.A. Ltd. services, (2). .$80100418 419418C FRANCIS CHICHESTER FLOWN COVER: July 1931 (AAMC.210) 2d KGV Envelope (+ 3d Air + 1d KGV) cancelled at THURSDAY ISLAND at the start of Chichesters planned flight to JAPAN; with MANILA transit and JAPANESE arrival backstamps. Endorsed No 75 in Chicheters hand and signed verso beneath a hand stamped explanation of the termination of the flight at Japan and no further owing to total wreck there of my plane. Cat.$525. $400500419C Nov.1931 (AAMC.219) Darwin - Camooweal, flown cover, signed by the pilot, C.A. Butler and bearing the MT.LAWLEY arrival cds of the ultimate addressee. Butler had also carried a very small mail aboard his Comper Swift G-ABRE, at the time, the smallest plane to successfully fly from England to Australia. [Only 14 flown this leg]. Cat.$750. $500750420C 19 Nov.1931 (AAMC.222) Australia-England ANA first All-Australian flight (2), one Hobart registered with REGISTERED HOBART 19NO31 datestamps cancelling Kingford Smith set plus 6d Airmail, re-registered in London for return flight with HOBART 23JA32 arrival backstamp; the second cover festooned with KGV d green (6) & 1d browns (10) shades, plus d orange and 6d Kingsford Smith Airmail pair, noting varieties Barb on fraction bar at right [4R40] on a d green and Bullet hole in kings headon a 1d brown; the latter cover a tad roughly opened at left. (2) . $120160421 422421C 3-4 Dec.1931 (AAMC.228) Birdum - Daly Waters cover, addressed to Melbourne, with fine BIRDUM/3DE/31 datestamp tying stamp, flown by Qantas on the return leg of their temporary wet season contract service, signed by the pilot, Joseph N. Wilson. [Only 20 flown; very few signed]. cat.$850+. .$300400422C13 Jan. 1934 (AAMC.350) Australia - New Zealand cover, flown aboard the third Trans-Tasman flight in the Southern Cross with Kingsford Smith, Taylor, Pethybridge and Stannage making up the crew. Postmarked on departure and arrival. $350400'