b'68427c 1930s era better postmarks on cover comprising AMBUNTI Powell Type 104 double-ring used as receiving cancel 1931 cover from Manus, FINSCHHAFEN Type 3 tying 3d Huts to 1930 cover to USA,GASMATA Type 100 on 1933 Chinese merchants cover to Rabaul, KAVIENG Type 42 double-ring to Namatanai, KIETA Type 69 (Rated E) to NZ & Type 71 (Rated E) to Bahamas, WEWAK Type 114 (Rated E) in violet to USA;mostly good to fine strikes. Scarce group. (7 covers) $250300428C 1935 (Oct.5) registered airmail cover to England with Dated Birds 2/- pair & 1/- pair tied by central RABAUL datestamp, REGISTERED SYDNEY transit & LEYTONSTONE arrival backstamp, printed address, stamps alone Cat. 250+ (on cover) .$150200429C 1939 (Dec.30) censored to New Zealand with 1/- Bulolo Air pair tied by KAVIENG datestamp, rubber registration handstamp, fine strike of boxed Passed by censor/T.N.G. No. 8 handstamp, KAVIENG, RABAUL & SYDNEY transit backstamps, fine condition overall$100150430C 1939 (Jan.24) registered cover to Manchester, England endorsed on reverse From/G. Dutton/Benji/Kavieng (Benji Plantation, 35 miles from Kavieng) with Bulolo Airs 6d & 4d pairs tied by KAVIENG 24JAN/39, datestamp, rubber Kavieng registration handstamp, boxed Passed by Censor/T.N.G. No. 8 handstamp,on reverse KAVIENG & SEATTLE MAR/9/1940 transits & MANCHESTER MAR/14/1940 arrival datestamp, small edge tear, otherwise fine. .$200250439 442431431PS JAPANESE OCCUPATION: c.1943 use of Japanese Army undenominated Dove & Helmet Postal Card in orange, from a member of the Japanese 81st Infantry Regiment occupying a section of New Britain Island close to Rabaul, addressed to Okayama, Japan. $250300New Zealand432** * O 1938-52 KGVI Collection of d to 9d values in two Lighthouse albums, mostly mint with numerous plate blocks & imprint blockand some varieties, better items sighted incl. 1d purple-brown imprint block of 8, WATERMARK INVERTED booklet pane of 6 (Cat. 240+), Plate 20 (2) & Plate 21 (2) blocks of 4, 6d WATERMARK INVERTED mint (Cat. 325), 5d Coarse Paper Plate 91 & 96 blocks of 6, 8d Plate 110 blockof 6, etc; also a few KGVI counter coil pairs and KEVII mint & used range to 1/-. Good lot, the KGVI 1d purple-brown section alone with CP Cat. of NZ$1500+.$500750433** * O 1953-61 QEII Definitives mostly mint array to 10/- in Lighthouse album including 2d on 1d Stars SG.763b(2, Cat. 260), specialist items with plate blocks incl. 6d Plate 1 & Plate 2 (2) corner blocks of 6, 8d brown Plate 21 corner blocks of 4 (2), 9d & 1/6d Plate 1A blocks of 12, 1954-63 Officials to 3/- mint & used;also 1940s-70s mostly mint in stockbook with QEII Definitives to 1 (2, mint & MUH) & to $2 MUH (4),some Health M/Ss, and cinderellas. (100s).$300400434** * O C 1953-70s mint accumulation in two stockbooks with QEII pre-decimal commemoratives plate and imprint multiples plus some varieties; decimals with 1967 Definitives plate and imprint multiples to $2 magenta Geyser imprint block of 6 & $2 multicoloured Geyser Plate A block of 4 both MUH, scads of c to 3c Flowers multiples with annotated varieties, plus counter coils pairs to 20c & booklet panes; generally very fine with high proportion being MUH. Should reward specialist inspection. (many 100s) .$300400'