New Caledonia Pioneer Airmails
1096	
C.
The TOM FROMMER Gold Medal Collection of The AIRMAILS OF NEW CALEDONIA 1929 - 1941:
A much-admired single frame Exhibit which was awarded gold medals at Aeropex 2019, the Singapore 
Stamp World Championships, a “Diamond Medal” at the New Zealand National Championships and 
a “Ruby Medal” at the Victorian Championships. The collection, on the original Exhibit pages, follows 
the Australian Airmail Catalogue [1997] listing and includes one of about ten covers that survive of the 
attempted catapult mail from the French Cruiser ‘Tourville’ in July 1929 (AAMC.N1), the May 1931 Victor 
Roffey first airmail Noumea - Kone (AAMC.N7, 2 examples), 2 May 1931 Kone - Noumea and return by 
Roffey (AAMC. N9 & 10, several different examples), 12 May Noumea - Voh by Roffey (AAMC.N15), 
16 May Noumea - Thio (N19), 21 May Noumea - Koumac (N21), 21 November 1931 Noumea - Brisbane 
(N41), and 14 Dec. Rockhampton - Brisbane - Sydney (N42a), 9 March 1932 Brisbane - Noumea by 
Verneilh (N44) and Paris - Noumea (N43), together with a souvenir postcard signed by the pilot, March 
1939 Martinet flown covers (N55 & N56), July 1940 first Pan Am flights via Noumea, 2 April 1941 Sydney 
- Noumea by C.R. Gurney (N74), 2 Feb. 1942 New Caledonia to Australia (N73), and several additional 
covers that didn’t make the single frame (16 sheet) cut. (39 items).����������������������������������������$6,000–8,000
New Guinea
Ex 1097
Ex 1098
1097	
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1931 (SG.137-149) ½d - £1 Native Huts Airmail Overprinted set, (13) 
all MUH but some with gum discolouration or light tone.���������������������������������������������������������������$200–250
1098	
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1931 (SG.137-149) ½d - £1 Native Huts Airmail Overprinted set, (13) all fresh MVLH.������������������$200–250
1099
Ex 1100
1099	
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1932 (SG.187-89) Undated Birds 5/-, 10/- & £1 matched marginal singles, MUH. (3).�������������������$250–300
1100	
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1932 (SG.190 - 203 excl. 193a & 194a) ½d - £1 Undated Birds Airmail set, 
excluding the later-issued 2½d and 3½d; matched marginal singles, superb MUH. (14).��������������$300–500
1101
Ex 1103
1101	
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1935 (SG.204) £2 bright violet Buluo Goldfields Air Mail, superb MUH.����������������������������������������$300–400
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