Auction #76

1929.04.02: Vlastos 427 (x2), 439(x2) / Hellas 474, 486 on First Flight to India Cover mailed to Port Said, Egypt. Special violet postmark, ΑΘΗΝΑΙ ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΩΣ 1.ΑΠΡ.29 dispatch and PORT SAID, EGYPT arrival via Alexandria. A bit roughly opened at top, small portion of the flap missing, VF

1929.08.17: Patras-Minessota, ΠΑΤΡΑΙ (ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΗ) 17.ΑΥΓ.29 tying a 5δρχ Landscapes and 3δρχ +5δρχ Aeroespresso issue on registered cover, with red "Διά Aeroespresso" and violet "Special Delivery" (the US Post considered that the letter was sent as "Express"), sent to SAINT CHARLES MINN SEP.4.1929 USA, via BRINDISI POSTA AEREA 20.8.29, TORINO FERR. AMERICA (RACC. PART.) 22.8.29 & CHICAGO ILL. SEP.3.1929. Handwritten "1er vol Patras-Brindisi...

1931.05.25: Corfu-Buenos Aires, ΚΕΡΚΥΡΑ-CORFOU 25.ΜΑΙ.31 red tying a 8δρχ Arcadi issue on registered cover, with red boxed ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΩΣ PAR AVION and First Flight marking IMPERIAL AIRWAYS ENGLAND-INDIA LINE, FIRST AIRMAIL CORFU-LONDON MAY. 1931, sent to BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA 13.JUN.31, returned to sender ΚΕΡΚΥΡΑ (ΑΦΙΞΙΣ) 7.ΙΟΥΛ 31 (Corfu), via ΑΘΗΝΑΙ ΣΥΣΤ. ΑΦΙΞ. 6.ΙΟΥΛ.31 (Athens). Registration receipt included, VF

1932.04.26: Airmail Cover with stamps tied by ΠΡΩΤΗ ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΗ ΕΚΘΕΣΙΣ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ 1932 ΖΑΠΠΕΙΟΝ ΜΕΓΑΡΟΝ 26 IV 32 (1st Aviation Exhibition of Athens at Zappeion) on cover to Salonica (27 IV 32 arrival on back, MAcedonia). Special ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΗ ΑΦΙΞΙΣ cachet in violet on the front. VF

1973.05.21: Hoverlines cover from ΠΕΙΡΑΙΕΥΣ 21.V.73 to the United Kingdom, signed by both captains. Clean and unusual.

1932.04.13, Athens-Pernambuco: ΑΘΗΝΑΙ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΗ ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΩΣ 13.IV.32 on 40λ postcard stationery uprated with 3δρχ +25δρχ Landscapes issue & boxed violet ΕΝΑΕΡΙΩΣ ΔΙΑ ΠΗΔΑΛΙΟΥΧΟΥΜΕΝΟΥ - MIT LUFTSCHIFF, red DEUTSCHE LUFTPOST BERLIN - FRIEDRICHSHAFEN BODENSEE LUFTFOST... and red-brown LUFTSCHIFF GRAF ZEPPELIN 3. SUDAMERIKA FAHRT 1932, sent to Brasil, R & Sup

1937.12.03: Crash of the plane 'Cydnus' (Imperial Airways). Route: India - Great Britain, via Athens. When taking off at Brindisi, it overturned and sank. Handstamp 'DAMAGED BY SEA WATER IN AIRPLANE ACCIDENT' boxed in violet. Cover from ALEXANDRIA 3.DE.37 to Southampton, R & VF

1944: Vlastos R42 / Hellas R25, "ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΗ ΛΕΣΒΟΣ 10 Σεπτέμβρη 1944" (Liberated Lesvos)400.000δρχ/2.000δρχ surcharge on registered postal stationery, tied by ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΗ ΣΥΣΤΗΜΕΝΑ 21.ΣΕΠ.44 (Mytilini, registered) pmk sent in town. Boxed registration and censor marks. VF

1945: Vlastos R20 / Hellas R51, 2nd surcharge "ΑΥΤΟΔΙΟΙΚΗSΗ ΕΒΡΟΥ ΕΑΜ-ΕΛΑΣ" with ornaments: 1 block of twenty stamps (showing the two errors "ΕΒΡΟΥ" in serif letters and ΑΥΤΟΔΙΙΚΗSΗ for ΑΥΤΟΔΙΟΙΚΗSΗ), mint never hinged, VF-Sup (Bill Ure's collection)

1941.10.08: GREENDALE OCT.8.1941 tying a 30c airmail on cover addressed to Castella Piraeus Greece, examined in Frankfurt, red "Geprüft Oberkommando der Wermacht e" tying the censortape "Geöffnet, Oberkommando der Wermacht e", returned via NEW YORK NOV.30.1941. Stamped RETURN TO SENDER SERVICE SUSPENDED, R & VF-SUP

1904, School document with 5δρχ green (stamped paper) issued in Athens 18.9.1904

1942, 2L ISOLE JONIE stamped paper, uprated with Dr. Bollo 3/25c ISOLE JONIE postage stamps, on legal document dated 8.12.1942