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The Al RPO ST JOURNAL for APRIL 1935 • !Jn CCkiA !lnue: "IF I WERE ---. A COLLECTOR ..." . by Francis J. Field • To Further Popularise Foreign First Airmails we are giving Exceptional Value Both Airmail and Stamp Collectors will find these Packets will enrich their Collections. Try a Packet on our strong recommendation. Money re- funded if not completely satisfied. · THE CHEAPEST WAY TO BUILD YOUR COLLECTION Bdtish Inland Firsts 5 varieties $1; 10 for $3; 20 for $10 Imperial Airwa)!S• . Souvenir Covers. 5· for $3; 10 for $6 Australasia. 5 for $2.50; IO for $5.0o; 20 . for $10.00 Assorted Firsts. 5 for $1.00; 10 for $2;00; 20 for . $4,00 FLOWN COVERS ................................ 5 varieties 25c 10 for 50c 20 for $1.00 AIR LABELS ·················•············'"··--· S.. ·varieties lOc 10 for 25c 25 for 50c West Coast Air Services. 1st Airmail. The 11th British Inland Airmail. This service is of importance as ALL first class mail is now taken by air from and to the Isle of Man. Covers bear the Official first day cachet to gether with the Company's crest. Covers flown to Liverpool also bear the Official Airport cachet. Liverpool-Isle of Man $1; Isle of Man-Liverpool $1.25 Complete check list of British Inlands Free. Prices from 25c to $250. Australia Regular Airmail Service. Imperial Airways Souveni·r Covers. Complete coverage of 95 stages $125. or stages from 50c each. We hold a superb range of Imperials. Prices from 50c each. First Day Covers New British Stamps. Pair new 2d. Flown Athens. 25c. Pair new ld. flown RAS. 25c. New 1¥,,d. flown 1st Cardiff-Liverpool Air mail. 50c. New 'hd was distributed free to all on our mailing list. Air Race to Australia. 1st.. signed Scott and Black. $35; 3rd. U.S.A.. $15 A· V ti I LLI V §. Air Mail Specialist Est. 1H95 Four & Five Dock Street NEWPORT MON ENGLAND Mention A .J.4 and if your order totals $1 or more we will send a superb First Air Mail Free. DOLLAR NOTES and Mint Stamps accepted ROYAL POSTAL RAID Rome-Mogadiscio 0 During the visit of King Vittorio Emanuele m in Italian Somaliland. a special flight has been made on the 10th November. 1934. Rome-Tobrnk Massaua-Mogadiscio, covering 5970 Kilometres in 20 hours and 30 minutes actually flown. Pilots were Francis Lombardi and Vittorio Suster. As the news was given to the public only two days before the flight was going to take place. the mail flown was little. and it bears SJ)ecial overstamps both on its arrival as on its departure. The following are my very best prices for these special stamps issued on that occasion: Mint Used Cover Italy, 1. 2. 4. 5. 8. 10 Lire. Complete set of 6 values... ................... ..$2.80 $4.00 $5.25 Italy "Servizio di Stato" 10 Lire. (2000 pieces issued) __ ........10.00 60.00 Cyrenaica from 25c . to . 2& Lire complete. 10 values ----- 4.90 Eritrea from :!5c to 25 Lire complete. 10 values ---········-··- 4.90 Italian Somaliland 25c to 25 Lire complete. 10 values ······-···· 4.90 Tripolltania from 25c to 25 Lire complete. 10 values ··-··-·-- 4.90 Cyrenaica-Eritrea-Italian Somallland-Tripoutania: "Servizio di Stato" 25 Lire complete. 4 pieces Price (very rare issue. 750 pieces) ······-·····-······-·---··········-·-·--·········-'60.00 on request Only the 25 Lire stamp exists of the 4 Colonies set. Said stamp is on flown cover. Prices upon request. ASK FOR ENGLISH PRICE-LIST. SENT FREE Prices are meant to be net in United States currency. For orders worth less than $15. an additional 25 cents must be paid for postage. Remittance to be sent in advance either in bank notes or checks. ERCOLE GLORIA P. O. Box 3211 TURIN (ITALY) A.A.M.S. 1583 • • " trifling. My choice of a specialty would by FRANCIS J. FIELD naturally be guided by personal inclina Sutton Coldfield, England tions. too. In our hobby there are two broad aspects: the philatelic and aero historical. A collection may be developed ~ ECAUSE I am a professional aerc.• under either heading, or it may link up m.J philatelist. I dare not form a per both if run on a geographical basis, i.e. sonal collection for: obviously, many spe collecting according to countries. cial items and "finds" that should grace Let me say at once that my bias is my clients' albums would gravitate to towards the areo-historical-it offers more wards my own accumulation. I am, how individual scope and is less dependent ever. auite at liberty to give rein to an) on pecuniary considerations, but if I were repressed desires in this direction by pass a collector with preferences for ortho ing on ideas and suggestions which are dox philately, I should try my hand suc addressed to those collectors or would-be cessively at plating some of the unover · specialists who take a serious interest in printed stamps while the material is still the hobby. are not content to follow in freely available; only millionaires will be the wake of the crowd: who have the able to face such tasks in the future. patience to hunt up elusive facts and Take, for instance, the first regular air souvenirs, and who-although collecting stamp of the Dominion Republic, the lOc.; for the love of it-may therefore expee11 there are constant white spots and other at least a moderate return for their effora positions to identify; or the first S.C.A.D. and expenditure. A large proportion of T.A.. issue-the large 10. 15, 30 and 50c.. the following ideas may be taken up by adhesives of 1920-1922 (not the scarcer anyone who is in the position to expend stamps of the French company)-even the from $10 upwards each month. perforation varieties and positions help · If I were a collector I should specialize in reconstructing the original sheet, for quite definitely, cutting my cloth (finan the perforation method was uniform for cially) to suit my pattern: for aerophil each denomination. ately· is much to extensive a field. and The less ambitious philatelist also has life too short. to permit of dabbling and plenty of scope. He may collect stamps PIGEON POST items are the first collectable group of airmails. Illustration shows tissue message devised by the Paris "Matin" in 1905. These were put in small envelopes attached to souvenir cards and posted to addresses. Examples with pigeongram at tached are of great rarity-From the "APEX" card. e OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE e AMERICAN Affi MAIL SOCIETY Tl-IE AIRPOST JOURNAL e APRIL, 1935. VOL. VI. NO. 7 e ISSUE 60 10c P ER COPY [ 3 ] OFF THI: 5594 OJ ;:~ - BANCO 11 BolOTA m Boecru. i;J . > -t m s z • -t • J ;::v > "AIR MAIL () " ~":r . ·"-~ "' • -~. · "'o.• ~ c ... -~ - ;~ ·~.- · ... "' . LUFIPOSI MOPHILA HAMBURG 193) FLOWN COVERS of unusual interest. Co lombia a n d Canada meter air mall. Ger man, Hungarian and Japanese pictorial air post obliterations. -Covers courtesy of the author. [ 4 ] APRIL 1935 representative of the various methods of famous pilots by 'means of the com and purposes of overprinting; or of aero memorative postmar)ts that have appear nautical designs depicting the range of ed in many countries and the pictorial aircraft types and the geographical range cachets of Canada, Germany, Japan, and (pictorially) in which they are used. Al on dedication covers, etc. Again, to save ternatively, why not form a collection of time and expense, no transit and arrival used air stamps, pieces and covers bear postmarks or cachets are now applied to ing obliterations of foreign countries German air correspondence: there were ("used abroad"), seapost and rail post literally hundreds of varieties in use services; or of flown covers revealing, by between 1919 and 1934, the majority of the franking stamps, the diversity of air which are quite inexpensive-why not postage rates throughout the world, rate make a specialty of them? changes, etc. Flown covers bearing meter franking would form an interesting spe The history of mail fl~ng may be di cialized group which will have a very vided into many groups and sections, each distinct future. of which can be developed into an ab sorbing study. I suppose the first me& If I were a collector, I should get off sages to be carried through the air were the beaten track. It would be my ambi attached to arrows, and their arrival tion to show an album guaranteed to in might have been either alarming or un terest and intrigue the "outsider", the welcome. but the first collectable group man who Is inclined to turn up his nose is that of the pigeon services. Here we when stamp collecting is mentioned. as have room for considerable research well as the hard-boiled philatelists. I which m~y take its place in the albums as would spare no efforts to get real his illustrations, news-cuttings, "locals" anu torical facts to support and illustrate the other stamps illustrating message-carcy- items; get as much "human interest" into ing birds. the Great Barrier service the album as possible. The aero-histori stamps, messages flown on war fronts, cal basis of collecting offers wonderful and the souvenir pigeon posts of Indih, scope in this way. Take cachets and Australia and England. The "pellicule" postmarks, for Instance. messages carried by pigeons into Paris Why not build up a collection illus (1870-71) are the "classics" of this group trating the evolution of flight and stories but are difficult to find; the "reproduc- KLM KEB.STPOsTvLUCHT 'NEDllU.AND •WEST INDJf ATTRACTIVE DUTCH AffiPOST: A most colorful registered air mail cover carried by the Dutch K .L.M.