1910-39 Covers and cards flown from or by French, German or Belgian services including 1920 cover from Paris to London franked 3F25c with two red "AIR MAIL / EXPRESS" cachets; 1912 cards carried on the "Gelber Hund" or airship "Schwaben" with "Flugpost am Rhein" datestamps (4, all differing towns, also an unused card); 1931 card from Friedrichshafen to USA carried by DO-X with on board cachet; 1927 Paris to Basle first flight; 1931 Antwerp to...
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Lot #935 - air mails
c.1924-70 Covers and cards, both first flights and commercial mail from various British Empire and foreign countries including 1931 flight from Valletta to Abadan backstamped at Alexandria, Basrah, Mohammerah and Abadan; 1951 Round Australia flight backstamped in all eight States or Territories; commercial mail from Gold Coast, Bahrain, South America (by German Condor or Zeppelin services), 1941 Italy to USA flown by Lati via Peru, air...
Lot #936 - air mails
1927-41 Covers mostly flown between the USA, Central and South America and the Caribbean, mainly first flights including 1929 Canal Zone to Miami flight signed by Charles Lindbergh and the Cristobal Postmaster, other 1929 first flights from Miami to various destinations in the Caribbean (5), 1927-30 first flights from Surinam (2) and various Central American countries to the US, 1930 USA to Buenos Ayres first flight flown by Lindbergh, 1931...
Lot #937 - air mails
1939 Large Official Air Mail envelopes from various postal administrations, all used to enclose correspondence sent by air to Egypt, from Rhodes (2), Darwin, Aba, Rangoon (censored), Athens, Bengasi (2), Tunis, Budapest (censored in Palestine) or Juba, a couple roughly torn open, otherwise fine and unusual. (11).
Suggested price: £ 200-250
Lot #938 - air mails
1939 Air mail bundle labels (10) and bag labels (98) all for air mail correspondence addressed to Egypt, many with datestamps or cachets of the despatching office including Hong Kong, Japan, China, boxed handstamps of Basrah (3), Baghdad (3) or Bahrain, a few with censor cachets, also unused Misr airways mail bag labels (9), etc., a scarce and unusual lot. (120).
Suggested price: £ 300-350
Lot #939 - air mails
Transatlantic Flights. 1926-60 Covers including 1926 S.S "Homeric" Ship to Shore catapult flight flown by Alan Cobham, initialled "AC", with G.B and USA stamps; 1939 Pan-Am first flight cover flown in both directions with $1 in USA stamps (including 10c special delivery) and G.B 9d pair and 2/6 Seahorse; and various other first flights from USA, Canada, G.B or Ireland, two covers flown in both directions, also May 1939 illustrated covers...
Lot #940 - air mails
Transatlantic Flights. 1936 (Sep 2) Cover carried in both directions on the record breaking flights of the "Lady Peace" which made a forced landing in Wales due to lack of fuel. Bearing USA 6c Air Mail cancelled at New York with a Llandilo arrival c.d.s (Sep 4), G.B stamps tied by Southport (Sep 14) and a Newfoundland 4c applied upon arrival 121⁄2 hours late at Musgrave Harbour, N.Y arrival c.d.s (Sep. 21), signed by the pilot Dick Merrill...
Lot #941 - air mails
British West Indies. 1919-47 First flight covers showing the development of air mail services within the West Indies, many from 1928-31 when the various routes were greatly extended, with covers from St. Lucia (7), Trinidad & Tobago (11), Antigua (7), St. Kitts, Bermuda (2), Grenada, Dominica, Jamaica (5), St. Vincent, Montserrat or the Bahamas (18), also covers mainly from the USA, Central or South America flown to Trinidad (2), Antigua...
Lot #942 - air mails
British Guiana/British Honduras. 1929-37 First flight covers and cards from British Guiana (8) including 1929 (Sep. 23) registered postcard flown to Surinam (just three registered items carried on this flight), 1929 (Sep. 25) flight to Antigua (78 items flown), 1935 (Sep. 18) first internal flight, from Georgetown to Garraway Stream Postal Agency; and covers from British Honduras (11) including 1929 (May 22/23) flights to Havana (26 items...
Lot #943 - air mails
Malta/Cyprus. 1931 (June 19) First flight covers from Malta to Naples or Genoa and 1933 (Oct. 9) cover to Fiume flown to Rome all with "AIR MAIL / MALTA" violet datestamps; and 1932 (Apr.) first flight covers from London to Limassol or Nicosia to London. (5).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #944 - air mails
AV2/OAT/Air Transit. 1939-64 Covers and cards with "OAT" cachets (16) including covers from Ireland (2) and 1941 cover from Canada to Greece with bilingual "MAIL SERVICE SUSPENDED", or with "AV2" cachets (17) including small "AV2" in red or black on 1939-40 covers censored in Singapore (2), very large "A.V.2" on 1945 registered cover from Cyprus, etc. Also 1941 cover from Shanghai to Switzerland with circular violet "AIR-TRANSIT / 2" of...
Lot #945 - air mails
Crash & Wreck Mail. 1933-54 Crash covers comprising 1933 (May 9) crash at Casablanca, 1936 Scipio crash and 1937 Cygnus crash (2) all from India, 1939 Centurion crash from Australia, 1943 cover from Argentina, 1953 Calcutta Comet crash from Hong Kong and 1954 Singapore crash from New Zealand (2). Also 1930 registered cover from Adelaide to England with violet boxed "DAMAGED BY FIRE / ON / S.S. COMORIN". (10).
Suggested price: £...
Lot #946 - air mails - zeppelins
1908-12 Picture postcards of airships from Germany (3) or France (3), including unused printed "Luftshiff" card with the cachet "AN BORD DES / ZEPPELIN / 25 JUN. 1912 / LUFTSCHIFFES / VIKTORIA LUISE", another card of the "Viktoria Luise" posted at Hamburg. Also 1915 Photo card of a partly inflated Naval airship used with "S.M.S PRINCE EUGEN" and K.U.K Marine Feldpost Pola datestamps, and a 1925 card of Hugo Eckener. (8).
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Lot #947 - air mails - zeppelins
1929-37 Covers and cards including 1931 Swiss card carried on the Graf Zeppelin Egypt Flight, 1937 (May 3) Hindenburg flight dropped at Cologne, etc. (7).
Suggested price: £ 120-150
Lot #948 - air mails - zeppelins
1932 Graf Zeppelin World Flight, large album in German containing a complete set of 264 cigarette cards issued by ‘Club’ and ‘Liga’ cigarettes, each with a Photo illustrating the history of the Zeppelin or scenes on the 1932 flight, a fine and interesting album.
Suggested price: £ 80-100
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