b'27163C 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games almost complete set of special cancels (missing Olympic Torch & Sailing), on Official Souvenir Covers mostly bearing 4d to same recipient in U.K., odd blemish, generally very fine unopened. (50) $150200Australian Aerophilately164C Nov. 13 1936 cover (reduced at base) Melbourne-London franked unusual combination for 1/6d airmail rate, carried aboard Imperial Airways service flight IW497 during which Horsa due to inclement weather could not land Nov 23-24 at Amman, subsequently force-landed Nov 24 at Gaza, and mail redirected to Alexandria. Very scarce incident. $250300 Inwards Mail to Australasia Accelerated by Air Transit165 166165C Oct. 27 1919 cover from New Jersey to Melbourne bearing 6c Air Post for 1oz USA internal airmail service, thence by surface. The earliest known airmail service accelerated item USA-Australia. Ex Perry (2013 realised $2213)$1,0001,250166C 1927 (May 18) postcard (creases) from Schneidemhl Germany to Sydney bearing Airmail 10pf x2 and 20pf, endorsed for transmission via Constantinople, Bombay and Netherlands Indies, the 40pf franking representing 25pf UPU rate plus 15pf Berlin-Vienna airmail surcharge. The earliest recorded postcard Europe to Australia accelerated by an airmail service. [The reduced UPU rate of 15pf for postcards was not introduced until Aug. 1 1927]$500600167 169167C 1930 (May 14) cover from Iraq to Cairns Queensland, inscribed AIR MAIL segment scored-over and handstamped RECEIVED TOO LATE/FOR INCLUSION IN AIR DESPATCH applied, bearing British Occupation of Iraq 6a and 3a tied by Mosul double-circle cds, Baghdad (May 15) backstamp, minor flap fault. Given the article at 9a is sufficiently paid for airmail service to Karachi, for which rate was UPU 4a (20-40gms) plus airmail surcharge 1a per 10gms x3, the TOO LATE marking must refer only to Imperial Airways flight IE59, which departed Basra May 15 1930. .$250300'