b'86808808C 5 Nov.1922 (AAMC.66) Cloncurry - Charleville cover flown by QANTAS on the first return airmail delivery flight over this route and bearing the extremely rare FOR AERIAL TRANSMISSION red on white vignette. Flown by Hudson Fysh (Cloncurry - Longreach) and P.J. McGinness (Longreach - Charleville) and addressed to C.G.Grey, editor of The Aeroplane in London.Of the approximately 15 covers known from these inaugural Qantas flights, 2 are recorded to New Zealand addresses and this is the only other cover known to a foreign destination. Grey has annotated the cover in pencil at lower left Arrived December 21. On annotated exhibit page together with March 1924 Qantas flown commercial cover from McKinlay to Longreach, bearing the black on pale green 2nd Qantas vignette. [Qantas had expanded its route to include several small settlements like McKinlay, 71 residents, 80kms south of Cloncurry]. Cat.$12,000.Provenance: John Cress $6,0008,000809C Late 1923 (Frommer 10) QANTAS black & red on emerald-green vignette BY AIR MAIL / See Western Queensland attractively used on an April 1924 flown cover from Cloncurry to Mrs Hudson Fysh, at Dahra, Longreach; displayed on an exhibit page together with the booklet covers (The Spirit of the Times is in Aerial Travel.) and a strip of 7 of the vignettes.Provenance: Ex Maurice Williams, Director of Australia Post. $500600810 811810C 2 June 1924 (AAMC.71) Adelaide - Sydney flown cover, carried on the first A.A.S. flight via Mildura, Hay and other intermediates. Cat.$550.$200250'