October 2017 Issue 24 TAKE OFF! AIR24

RU01 £1400 £140 for 10 months Very scarce flown from Ryde, Isle of Wight to Portsmouth before travelling by surface to Croydon Airport. It then flew on the first flight of the joint Imperial and Qantas Airways service from Croydon on 8th December 1934, arriving in Sydney on the 21st December. The final part of its journey to New Zealand was via boat. This is a rare cover since all mail from Ryde was unofficial as the Postmaster General refused permission for an airmail service. Furthermore it features a very scarce imperf Portsmouth, Southsea, and Isle of Wight Aviation airmail label, with this being the only example of the imperf label on an airmail cover that we have seen, a superb airmail cover.

£170 for 5 months RU02 £850 London Scottish and Provincial Airways special airmail flown at the request of the Nottingham Post Office to be flown from the PO Exhibition at Nottingham to London. The mail departed on 23rd May 1934 and took 43 minutes to reach its destination, having been piloted by F. Jaques. It features a clear 2.15pm timed Nottingham CDS (the time all test flight covers were cancelled). This particular example is addressed to the then Member of Parliament for Nottingham and has been signed by the Nottingham Postmaster General on the reverse. The company was Back aiming to be authorised to fly regular airmail routes but were actually refused permission Front and subsequently shut down later that year. RU03 £225 £56.25 for 4 months First Round the World flight airmail. This airmail was flown with a small quantity of mail on the first leg on 17th March 1924 from the Clover Field Training and Testing Facility at Santa Monica, California to Clover Field in Seattle, Washington where they arrived on 20th March. They were flown by eight US Amy Air Corps personnel in a contingent of four Douglas DWC planes. They continued their round the world trip leaving Seattle on the 4th April but this particular cover was flown back to California. The cover features a Santa Monica, California - Seattle, Washington First Leg cachet’.

£50 for 3 months RU04 £150 Attractive cover flown on the endurance record flight by Reginald Robbins and James Kelly on 26th May 1929 at Fort Worth, Texas. It features a special cachet with flight details ‘Commemorating a new world endurance record at Fort Worth, Texas by Robbins and Kelly in their plane Fort Worth of 172 hours 32 minutes, 2 seconds in the air’. It has been signed by Robbins plus another unidentified aviator (we don’t believe it to be Kelly). Front Back RU10 £475 £95 for 5 months Hindenburg cover flown on the Second North America return flight which departed on 21st May 1936. This airmail was sent from Montreal, Canada to Lakehurst, New Jersey from where it RU12 £575 £143.75 for 4 months was flown on the Hindenburg to Frankfurt, Germany. The cover First Round the World flight by Graf Zeppelin cover flown on has both New York and Frankfurt arrival backstamps and an the Tokyo to Lakehurst, New York leg. The cover is cancelled with additional nine 6c airmail stamps on the reverse. two Tokyo postmarks dated 21st August 1929 and four superb Japanese stamps, plus a special red cachet. On the reverse there is a clear Lakehurst arrival backstamp and green Graf Zeppelin cachet. This leg from Tokyo is very rare and the first we have ever been able to offer, a superb item.

RU11 £450 £90 for 5 months Graf Zeppelin card flown on the Italian Flight to Rome which left on 29th May 1933. The card has been franked with a 10 Lire Tripolitania Zeppelin stamp postmarked in Back Tripoli and a special blue Graf Zeppelin Rome flight cachet. This card was also flown again on the Second Graf Zeppelin Front South America flight via Friedrichshafen to Pernambuco, Brazil. This card is lovely example of one of the scarce Italian acceptances and to have been double flown.

RU13 £75 £25 for 3 months Bermuda First Overseas airmail postmarked 16th April 1925 at Hamilton, Bermuda and flown from the island on the airship USS Los Angeles to Lakehurst, New Jersey. The cover has an interesting ‘Home of the , Hawthorn Court, New York’ address and on the £32.50 for 10 months RU14 £325 reverse a New York arrival backstamp. Graf Zeppelin 1933 South America flight cover flown from London to Friedrichshafen, Germany from where it was carried on the Graf Zeppelin to Uruguay. The cover two special Zeppelin flight cachets and a 1933 20th Philatelic Congress cancelation, a very scarce postmark. There is a clear 01303 278137 Montevideo, Uruguay arrival backstamp and the cover is in good overall EMAIL: [email protected] condition.

2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF AIR24 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] RU15 £200 £50 for 4 months Hindenburg North America cover flown from Frankfurt to New York. The cover has an attractive assortment of eight German RU16 £275 £55 for 5 months Olympic stamps with cancellations and a special North Graf Zeppelin cover flown from Alexandria, Egypt to America Zeppelin flight cachet, plus New York arrival backstamps. Friedrichshafen, Germany in April 1931. This superb Egyptian cover features an advert for tobacco and cigarettes and has three clear Egyptian cancelations through two airmail stamps, plus a Friedrichshafen arrival backstamp. It is addressed to Paris and the remaining journey from Germany to France was completed via surface means.

RU17 £200 £50 for 4 months First International Mail flight flown from America to Mexico and back on 2nd July 1936. Pair of covers each flown over the Rio Grande on one of the journeys with relevant stamps, cancelations, and special rocket mail Cinderella stamp. The idea was conceived as part £20 for 10 months of Texas’ centennial celebration in 1936 and spearheaded by the Post RU18 £200 Commanders son of the Texas City of McAllen who deigned his own Catapult mail carried on the German liner ‘Bremen’ flown triangular 50 cent stamps. In addition to this Cinderella stamp, the mail on 29th August 1933. This special postal stationary card leaving the US had a 16 cent stamp applied and those on the return commemorates the Postal Exhibition at Aschersleben and from Mexico a 40 centavo Aero Correo value. was despatched from the exhibition to Koln from where it was flown on the special supplementary flight to Cherbourg. At Cherbourg it was then carried aboard the liner ‘Bremen’ across the Atlantic until it neared the American east coast. The final distance of 1,180km on 29th August was completed by Catapult aircraft to New York which took off at 9am and arrived stateside at 4pm. The cover features two excellent exhibition datestamp as well as two flight cachet including one from the Catapult flight.

RU19 £125 £25 for 5 months Graf Zeppelin flown postal stationary card flown from Russia to Friedrichshafen, Germany in September 1930. The card has been uprated with two attractive Russian stamps both cancelled with special Zeppelin Moscow postmarks and a German arrival postmark on 11th September. During the Graf Zeppelins worldwide flight the year before in 1929 a scheduled flyover Moscow was cancelled due to adverse winds. The Russians saw it as a diplomatic snub and resulted in an official complaint from Stalin’s government. To repair relations the Graf undertook a special two day round trip from Friedrichshafen to Moscow leaving on 9th September 1930, and landing to collect mail at Moscow where it was greeted by a crowd of 100,000. This lovely postal stationary card was carried on the return flight to Germany.

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ARG27A £45 1948 100 Days of the Berlin Airlift plain card with green German & English translated ‘Air ARG27 £50 Supply Operation 1948 100 Days of the Berlin Airlift card with to and from Berlin blue border and ‘Luftbrucke Berlin’ cachet airmail without extra plus a German & English translated ‘Air Supply charge 1948’. ARG27B £45 Operation to and from Berlin 1948’ cachet. 1948 100 Days of the Berlin Airlift plain card with green German & English translated ‘Air ARG28 £30 Supply Operation to and from Berlin airmail 1926 South German Air without extra charge 1948’. Week (held from 31st May to 6th June), card with the Karlsruhe Luftpost ARG29 £50 postmark dated on the 1928 Berlin first day of use 7th June, International plus the special purple Aeronautical ‘Suddeutschlandflug Exhibition label Karlsruhe’ cachet. illustration with Berlin Exhibition postmark, flown to the Leipzig/Halle Airport.

ARG30 £75 1926 Leipzig/Halle - Stuttgart with ‘mit luftpost befordert postamt No.1 Stuttgart’ cachet and illustration advertising winter flights with the comforts and heating of modern planes.

ARG31 £35 1953 Hamburg, Germany - Sao Paulo, Brazil first flight with ‘1.Flug Hamburg-Sudamerika’ cachet and illustration advertising the Leipziger Messe (Leipzig Trade Fair). ARG32 £100 1922 Munich - Hamburg via Berlin airmail with terrific variety of German airmail stamps and Munich Flugpost cancellations, with Berlin and Hamburg arrival backstamps on the reverse.

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ARG02 £75 1948 100 Days of the Berlin Air Bridge, flown Berlin - Frankfurt, our choice of German Berlin overprinted stamps.

ARG22 £40 1930 Deutsche Lufthansa First Night Flight, from ARG23 £45 London-Berlin-Hanover-Rotterdam-Copenhagen- 1938 England - Argentina via Germany with purple Stockholm. ‘Deutsche Luftpost Europa-SudAmerika’ cachet, our choice. flight cover bargains BUY ANY TWO £10 COVERS BELOW FOR £18 ARA13 1975 Air Anglia Jersey - Aberdeen...... £10 ARB237 1970 BEA 10th Anniversary of the Vanguard, ARA30 1975 Air Anglia Edinburgh - Amsterdam.... £10 flown London - Paris...... £10 1977 Air Anglia Amsterdam - Jersey...... ARA32 £10 ARC06C 1959 Comet 4 London-Tokyo...... £10 ARA14 1975 Air Anglia Aberdeen - Jersey...... £10 ARC06D 1959 Comet 4 Tokyo-London...... £10 ARA15A 1974 Air Anglia Aberdeen - Stavanger...... £10 1959 Comet 4 London-Sydney...... ARA27 1974 Air Anglia Amsterdam - Aberdeen.... £10 ARC07C £10 ARA28 1976 Air Anglia Humberside - Aberdeen... £10 ARC12C 1959 Comet 4 London-Singapore...... £10 ARA31 1975 Air Anglia Amsterdam - Edinburgh.... £10 ARE226N Gerhard Zucker Rocket Mail with ‘mit lufttorpedo ARA33 1977 Air Anglia Jersey - Amsterdam...... £10 par aerotorpedo’ label...... £10 1975 Air Anglia Stavanger - Norwich...... ARA35 £10 ARH34A 1934 Windsor - London (route of the first UK aerial ARA44 1974 Air Anglia Aberdeen - Norwich...... £10 post in 1911), flown by autogiro...... £10 ARA45 1974 Air Anglia Norwich - Aberdeen...... £10 1969 London - Sydney Air Race, RAF Little Rissing ARA56 1976 Air Anglia Birmingham - Norwich..... £10 ARO01 ARA57 1975 Air Anglia Aberdeen - Edinburgh...... £10 cover, flown in race...... £10 ARA68 1977 Air Anglia Humberside - Jersey...... £10 ARO11 1969 London - Sydney Air Race, flown on the ARB104 1957 BOAC Sydney - London...... £10 race by the outright winners, plus several ARB116 1957 BOAC London - Tokyo ...... £10 backstamps from stop off points...... £10 ARB201 1951 BEA 6d stamp on a flown air mail 1971 London - Victoria Air Race, Royal Aero Club cover...... £10 ARO32 ARB222 1961 50th Anniversary of the first U.K. aerial post official cover...... £10 with BEA 11d airway letter service stamp.£10 ARO18A 1969 50th Anniversary of the first flight England ARB255 1966 BEA London - Germany...... £10 - Australia, doubled with BFPO 1102 postmark and 1974 BA Japan - London...... ARB416 £10 several backstamps...... £10 ARB106A 1961 BOAC Lima, Peru - London...... £10 ARQ33A 1954 Qantas Sydney - Vancouver...... £10 ARB109 1970 BOAC London - Tokyo first flight..... £10 1977 40th Anniversary of the first mail flight to ARB117 1957 BOAC Tokyo - London ...... £10 ARS16 ARB201A 1953 BEA 6d Air Letter Service extension to Shetland, includes a great booklet on air mail in Channel Islands FDI...... £10 Scotland...... £10 SEE SCANS OF THESE COVERS AND OUR WHOLE RANGE OF BY VISITING OUR WEBSITE SHOP AND CLICKING THE ‘FLIGHT’ BUTTON

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ARO90 £40 ARO96 £30 1931 Australia - England, second experimental return flight, 1959 Adelaide - Perth flown as a tribute to Major Norman arrived at Croydon on 4th June. Brearley, veteran pilot and aviation pioneer who founded Western Australian Airways. ARO98 £20 1946 Australia - Canada with purple first official airmail flight Australia - Canada cachet’

ARO97 £15 1962 Sydney, Australia - Bombay, India with purple Air India Boeing 707 Inaugural Service cachet.

ARQ02 £20 1952 Qantas Empire Airways Sydney - Mauritius. ARQ45 £25 1965 Qantas Brisbane, Australia - Hong Kong via Manila first flight with purple cachet.

ARQ03 £20 1952 Qantas Empire Airways Sydney - Cocos Islands.

ARO39 £95 £19 for 5 months ARQ43A £100 £50 for 2 months 1938 Carpenters Airways 1953 Qantas Sydney - Bangkok, signed Captain J Australia - New Guinea first Pollock and Captain J Haylock. flight, signed by the pilot Captain R. O. Mant. 01303 278137 EMAIL: [email protected]

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ARJ58 £100 £25 for 4 months 1938 Elkhorn, Wisconsin, USA - ARC20L £85 Lundy Island, UK - first by rail to New York 1935 Marseille - South America ARB05A £75 then a ship to Plymouth (5 cent US stamp crash postcard with ‘Raid 1931 Dornier Do X Flying Boat first Trans- rate to UK), Atlantic Coast Air Service to Interrompu’ cachet, carried on Atlantic return flight from South America Lundy arrived 7/11 (1/2d x2 Lundy stamps). Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi to Europe with Brazil acceptance and Bahai world record distance attempt, backstamp, plus special DOX black cachet. the flight crashed at Porto Praia, Portugal.

ARG23 £45 1938 England - Argentina via Germany with purple ‘Deutsche Luftpost Europa-SudAmerika’ cachet, three nice £50 for 3 months ARA136 £150 examples available. 1948 Sky Merchant World Flight - Atlas Supply Company ART109A £35 equipped a flying salesroom on a global flight that visited 29 1939 Pan American cities - 4500 ‘airsheets’ were produced by the American Air Northern Route Mail Society. England - Canada via Ireland, Newfoundland, and Canada first air maill.

ARO10 £25 1937 Pan American Airways New Zealand - USA per ‘Samoan Clipper’ first air mail. ART118 £35 ART109B £35 1939 Pan American Northern Route 1939 Pan American Airways England - Newfoundland first air New York - Ireland first airmail. mail with a Trans-Atlantic Air Mail First Acceptance cachet.

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ARE52 £50 1936 London - Colombo first flight with the Indo - Ceylon Special Flight Xmas cachet.

ARE81 £50 1950 Ballon Post with special ‘Salzburg Ballon Post’ cachet and mit ARE80 £150 1927 Konigsberg (now Ballon Post etiquette - flown with Kaliningrad) - Moscow first flight via Riga Kufstein, Austria arrival backstamp flown by Deruluft. This postal stationary on 24/10 and Rosenheim, Germany card has a great illustration of the three landing cachet. cities crests and the reverse features an advertisement for the German Exhibition in Konigsberg. This card is normally found with the advertisement in German but this Russian text version is much scarcer.

ARK22 £20 1937 Amsterdam - Bandoeng KLM 500th flight with official commemorative cachet.

ARR20A £150 ARS116 £75 £50 for 3 months 1924 Berlin - 1934 Railway Air Services Douglas Isle of Stockholm via Man - London first flight with scarce 10am Warnemude first CDS Douglas postmark, this is a rare first night service flight cover due to a mistake by RAS official flown by Junkers- at Douglas Airport which resulted in them Luftverkehr, postmarking the majority of the souvenir Stockholm arrival covers with a 4.30pm postmark - after the backstamp on 19/08. flight had left! Only ten examples with the 10am postmark are known to exist.

ARE82 £250 £25 for 10 months 1935 Quetta Earthquake Emergency Mail addressed to England with ‘Quetta earthquake postage free’ cachet and ‘Earthquake area postage free’ written on, plus Quetta postmark on reverse. The 1935 earthquake in Quetta in modern day Pakistan brought devastation to the area and killed 60,000 people. The postal service, along with most public services, were brought to a standstill and the RAF established a postal route which they ran free of charge. The cachet used on this example were applied instead of a postmark.

8 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF AIR24 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] Zeppelins ARZ41 £100 £20 for 5 months 1937 LZ 129 Hindenburg with purple ‘Luftschiff Hindenburg Deutschlandfahrt am 1. Mai 1937’ cachet, the Zeppelin crashed just 6 days later on May 6th so this was one of its final flights. ARZ38A £75 1931 Graf Zeppelin Hungary flight with ‘luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Ungarnfahrt 1931’ cachet and Budapest acceptance.

Want to spread ARZ56 £75 the cost of ARZ57 £125 £25 for 5 months 1934 Graz Zeppelin Germany - Brazil your covers? 1930 Graf Zeppelin postcard posted on board before with ‘an bord des luftschifes Graf Zeppelin Ask us about being dropped over Orly, France during the flight from Sudamerikafahrt 1934’ cachet. Flexi Pay! Friedrichshafen to England, with red oval flight cachet Call plus Orly and Paris datestamps. 01303 278137 for full details. ARZ59 £125 £25 for 5 months 1934 Graf Zeppelin flown postal stationary card with illustration of the Brandenburg Gate, flown Germany to Pernambuco, Brazil with red ‘Europa- Sudamerika’ & black ‘Graf Zeppelin Sudamerikafahrt’ cachets ARZ58 £150 £50 for 3 months 1912 German airmail postal stationary card with illustration of a zeppelin, uprated with an extra German stamp and a ‘Wiesbaden - Frankfurt Luftpost’ cancellation, hand addressed to England.

ARZ42E £175 £35 for 5 months 1934 USS Macon leaves Miami for fleet manoeuvres in Caribbean Sea with Miami postmark, only 20 produced. ARZ42D £125 £12.50 for 10 months 1934 USS Macon, South California Training cover with Los 01303 278137 Angeles acceptance and New York arrival backstamp, signed EMAIL: [email protected] by three crew members including the Executive Officer.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 9 BALLOON POST 1870-1871 Siege of Paris The Siege of Paris lasted from 19th September 1870 until Jules Duruof flew the first balloon out of the city inlate 28th January 1871, and resulted in the capturing of the city September, and like those after him he was faced with by Prussia and the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Prussian artillery cannons as he glided across their military lines. Duruof successfully travelled 50 miles west of Paris As Prussian forces surrounded Paris they blocked messengers and continued the rest of the journey by train to Tours, the from entering the city, cut overhead telegraph lines, and even location of the French Provisional Government. By the end found the cities secret telegraph cable running through the of the siege 66 balloons carried two and a half million letters River Seine, forcing Paris to engineer a radical solution to and 102 passengers out of Paris, a great success with all but their communication problem. The result was remarkable; eight balloons reaching their destination safely. the largest scale balloon post ever attempted. The city rushed to devote resources to repairing and creating balloons to We can offer for the first time two superb letters carried fly mail out of the besieged city, as well as ensuring each by balloon from Paris, a remarkable piece of history with a balloon would have a homing pigeon so return messages and wonderful backstory. The letters were all carefully folded into a knowledge of the outcome of each balloon could be quickly very small allowing as many as possible to travel inside reported to Paris. each balloon, and these two examples show the ingenious means of how the residents of Paris ensured their voices were heard.

ARB56 £300 £100 for 3 months ARB56A £300 £50 for 6 months Flown to Kervenic, near Vannes, in Brittany. Flown to Pres Montdider, Somme USS Macon The USS Macon was an airship built by the US Navy to serve as a ‘flying aircraft carrier’ and carried both single and double seated fighter and scouting aircraft. Launched on 11th March 1933 she was in service for only two years after crashing off the coast of California in 1935 after sustaining damage in a storm. At 785 feet in length she was one of the largest flying objects in the world and still holds the world record for the largest helium based airship. ARZ42C £850 £170 for 5 months Fantastic collection of 41 USS Macon covers with different illustrations and cachets which commemorate a range of events and flights. All the covers have been written up on pages by the previous collector, which was clearly a labour of love and have all been kept in excellent condition. I struggle to imagine where a better collection of USS Macon covers could be found.

10 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF AIR24 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] ARI26 £75 ARS12 £60 1932 Imperial Airways South Africa - England first flight, interesting 1937 Kirkwall - Shetland via Aberdeen signed by Bernard double crash mail which first was aboard the ‘City of Basra’ which Wilson who was a pilot with Highland Airways and also crashed at take-off in Salisbury, South Africa. The mail was transferred signed by Captain E.G. Starling the Chief Pilot of Allied to the ‘City of Delhi’ which was forced into an emergency land in a Airways. swamp near Broken Hill, Australia and as such the mail was delayed! This is also a scare Imperial illustration - great item.

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RU05 £325 £65 for 5 months Scarce early American airmail cover flown by Beckwith Havens on 28th November 1911 at the Athletic Park Aviation RU06 £325 £65 for 5 months Front Meet in Savannah, Georgia. The mail was carried around the Illustrated airmail from the Harvest Festival Aviation Exhibition park and then for roughly a mile where he dropped it out of at Fort Recovery, Ohio. Originally intended to be flown on 6th the plane to the waiting Post Office officials below. A lovely August 1912 by George Schmitt but his plane was damaged on item with the official purple Aerial Substation Athletic Park, take-off and subsequently aviator Earle Sandt carried this airmail Georgia cancelation. Whilst 624 pieces of mail were flown in two days later on 8th August from the festival to the local Post total, 619 of these are cards and just the remaining 5 were Office. The cover features a superb Aviation Station, Fort Recovery covers. We are pleased to be able to offer one of the covers, postmark and a great illustration of the festival on the reverse. a truly scarce airmail cover.

Back RU07 £300 £100 for 3 months Front Rare example of an experimental and survey flight RU08 £150 £50 for 3 months of the transcontinental route which were conducted Postcard from the abandoned flight by Walter Brookins which was between January and June in 1923. This particular meant to commence on 18th May 1912 but was forced to cancel after example was flown from West to East departing huge crowds flocked onto the airstrip and couldn’t be cleared by police. San Francisco on the 15th May before arriving in Brookins was an American aviator and the first pilot trained by the Wright Philadelphia on 19th May. A very limited amount of brothers for their exhibition team, he set several records for both altitude mail was carried on these flight as few collectors and endurance. knew about them at the time. RU09 £525 £52.50 for 10 months Graf Zeppelin card flown on the Sixth 1932 South America flight which departed on the 12th September. This registered card is franked with two 5 Lire Cyrenaica airmail stamps and was flown from Bengasi via Rome to Friedrichshafen, and then flown by Graf Zeppelin to Pernambuco, Brazil. It features both Friedrichshafen acceptance datestamp and a Pernambuco arrival backstamp, as well as a special green Zeppelin flight cachet. Scarce and in very good condition.

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