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by WALTER J. CONRATH urged to accept the position of editor-in chief of the proposed catalog. Being President A.A.M.S. widely experienced in the several special Albion, Pa. ties of airposts and outstandingly quali• fied, Mr. Angers' choice was enthusiastic· ally received by the officers and direc Catalog Survey Committee Report tors, as it will be welcomed by aero Approved by Officers and philatelists everywhere. The editor-in Directors chief will be assisted by the catalog FTER SEVERAL YEARS during committee in completing the organiza tion. This group has been designated to which there has been no available form the board responsible for the pub A comnlete airmail catalog, it now lication and will later name editors or seems an almost assured fact a new and editorial boards for the individual sec more comprehensive volume soon will be tions. in the process of preparation under the sponsorship of the American Air Mail Content a.nd Scope Society. The committee meeting discussion was At a meeting of members of the con of the opinion that the proposed catalog vention-appointed Catalog Survey Com should be all inclusive of airmail items mittee including L. B. Gatchell, F. W. which do n·ot now have a current list Kessler, the writer, 'and several of the ing. The impossibility of naming the officers . and directors of the A.A.M.S., exact scope of the book without advance held several weeks ago at Cleveland, the knowledge of the finances -available was, matter of the proposed publication of a however, admitted. complete airmail catalog was thoroughly It was the opinion of the committee discussed. As the group was perhaps the that the book must be representative first most representative which could be as of American Airmails, which would in sembled before another convention, fur clude the Canadian flights. Also brought ther phns for the organization and out was the point that collectors of in financing of the book were also con dividual groups or specialties should do sidered. The findings and recommenda their share to help finance the listing tions of the committee were later offered of those sections in order that they be for the approval of the balance of the adequately included. officers and directors. At this writing a sufficient number have reported their In that it is reported that several hearty endorsement and desire that the exisiting catalogs and handbooks of Society go ahead with plans for the world airposts would probably not ap publication, which was the initial pear in the future, the committee was of recommendation of the survey com the opinion that the proposed book mittee. would be greatly strengthened by the inclusion of pioneer aero-philatelic items George W. Angers Named and rarities of the world. There is also Editor-in-Chief reported to be increasing interest in these covers in America. The second unanimous recommendation of the catalog committee was that Adequate Financing Essential George W. Angers, present secretary and Incorporated in the report of the sur president emeritus of the A.A.M.S., be vey committee, it was pointed out suf-

e OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE e AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY THi= AIRPOST JOURNAL • DECEMBER, 1936. VOL. VIII, NO. 3 • ISSUE 80 10c PER COPY 3 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

ficient finances must be raised through Finance Committee voluntary contributions, subscriptions Mr. L. B. Gatchell, 10 Birch Brook and orders to assure the. underwriting Road, Bronxville, N. Y., widely known of the catalog before work of publica aero-philatelist, past president of the tion is inaugurated. As the Society dues A.A.M.S. and editor-in-chief of the are currently intended only for the op Society's Contract Air Mail handbook eration of the various departments, it is (published 1935), and the writer will impossible for the treasury to assume serve as co-chairmen of the catalog any additional obligation. A separate finance committee. Additional members cata!Og fund is being established and of the committee in various sections of contributions and subscriptions will first this country and abroad will be named be received. A complete list of all in the near future. subscriptions received will be published in subsequent issues of the AIRPOST Contributions will be received im JOURNAL, and reprinted for the finance mediately and should be made payable committee. In the event that sufficient to "The American Air Mail Society, advance contributions are not subscribed Cahlog Fund" and forwarded to either by sponsors or purchasers of special chairman. . Acknowledgement of receipt editions, all funds will be returned to will be made and we hope to be able to the original donors. If and when an present a substantial listing of the initial arbitrary sum is subscribed, together subscribers in the next issue of The with an estimate of funds from future JOURNAL. sales, with which it is determined the desired complete airmail catalog can be published, individual 'advance orders for THE COVER the book will be accepted. • Illustrated on the cover this month is Three Editions Planned one of the special air mail postal cards recently issued at the Empire Exhibition It was the concensus of opinion of the of South Africa. These cards were mail survey committee that three individual :able to any address VIA AIRMAIL at the editions or bindings be designated and rate of one half penny, when posted at prepared. The sponsors' edition would an exhibition postoffice. be artistically bound and stamped with the best available materials •8nd would It is interesting to note this low rate be presented to those contributors who for air service as it will undoubtedly be subscribe the more substanial amounts, adopted by various nations for postal thereby assuring the publication of the card correspondence in the near future. complete airmail catalog. At the com Much interest has also been aroused throughout the world by the special mittee meeting several aero-philatelist~ were mentioned as being willing to con souvenir phibtelic panes of stamps is tribute one hundred doH•rs to assure sued for South Africa's "JIPEX". The the appearance of a complete book to be stamps were produced in blocks of six published under the direction of the with descriptive overprints at the sides Society. A half dozen or more patrons and six miniature ·advertising labels on willing to subscribe this sum would cer the top and bottom. Two values, the tainly prove the soundness of our hobby half penny and the one penny, were and at the same time assist greatly by issued in the bi-colors of the regular insuring the future of aero-philately current issue. through the publication of a more de We are indebted to our good friend sirable and comprehensive catalog. and correspondent, Mr. Park Smith, The Strand, C. P., for this information and A second edition of the proposed cata the interesting airpostcards illustrated. log would be termed "DeLuxe". This would be prepared specially for those LOOSE LEAF BINDERS airmail colletcors who subscribed a for the AIRPOST JOURNAL minimum amount of ten dollars toward Keep your file of back numbers in the publication. It is planned to have good condition. Bound in black water both of the contributors' editions auto proof fabricoid, stamped with gold. graphed by the board of editors ·and the Will hold 24 issues. Window on back foi: volume numbers. Each, post list of subscribers who make the publica paid, $2.00. tion possible would be listed in all three AIRPOST JOURNAL - Albion, Pa. editions. 4 CONTRACT AIRMAILS

by WM. R. C. ALLEY 'New York City

In. the field of U. S. 1st Flight covers, the designations-"Pioneers" and "Gov ernmentals" or "Experimentals" clearly and aptly define these two stages in the development of the Air Mail. My objection is to the name used to classify the third and fill'al division "The Contract Air Mails", or C.A.M.s. • CACHET of first flight In fact, this appellation is a decided of U.S. airmail by contract draw-back to the spread of interest in these historical as well as official 1st Seattle to Bakersfield was the most Flight covers and a decided handicap. difficult covers to obtain. Next in order Mention them under this title to a were (1) Portland to San Francisco, (2) group of stamp collectors and none are Medford to Sacramento, (3) San Francisco interested. Speak, however, of Official to Fresno, ( 4) Bakersfield to Medford and U. S. 1st Flight covers and several will (5) Los Angeles to Medford. promptly start asking questions. VARIETIES Chas. G. Riess in the last Dworak cat The Hartford varieties on Route 1 are alog, called this group "Domestic Air scarce. On Route 9-Milwaukee 9E40 is Mail Routes" but in my opinion this also as scarce as Grand Rapids. Route 11-· does not tell the . story nor does it carry llSlf appears to be distributed in the the appeal to interest found in the East and llSlfa in the West. Route 13- designations for the first two divisions. 13S6f will bring close to full catalog or better at auction anytime. What is urgently desired is a title that really denotes what this group of covers Routes 16 and 17 are seldom seen in is and at the same time, be forcible auctions. The Reno fields on Route 18 enough to arouse interest in the non are very rare, so is Kitty Hawk-magenta co!lector. on Route 19. Route 21J.-Utica with su perb cachet is a difficult item to find as It required many years for the true value of the Pony Express and Civil War is Salt Lake City field on Route 26 with clear field impression. Patriotics to be recognized, While C.A.M.s will come into their proper appreciation So fur, only three copies of 27El6- in time, ·an adequate descriptive title Dearborn-Pontiac have appeared, accord would do much to advance this objective ing to mY records. · I have never seen and give them the recognition they so 29Wlfa. I believe only three sets of richly deserve. Kansas City field-28W2f and28E2f exist. ·can you help the cause "1long as to a The only known copy of St. Petersburg -magenta-is now in the Gatchell col suggestion for ·a proper title. lection and will be listed as 25Elld NOTES Route 25. Routes 33 and 34 kayoed my point to point •ambitions. The C.A.M. collection having reached ·the point where missing varieties came Check your auction catalogs for C.A.M. slowly. I decided to collect original Route covers dlscribed as SUPERB. You will 8 on a point to point basis through be surprised at the result. About 25% trading. It took two years to accomplish of my covers are replaced by better 01-i:es this with some interesting results. during the course of a year. 5 6 AIRS OF THE MONTH • • by ALTON J. BLANK on British Colonials and mentions this colony specifically. Quote: "Air stamps All data on New Issues of Air Mail Stamps should he sent direct to Editor show an all-round increase, the most Alton J. Blank, 1850 Burnett Avenue, pronounced being the 4 •annas, which East ClevP.land, Ohio. rises from 20 / - to 30/-. As only about 2,400 of this value were issued, complete sets are probably rarer than any other BEAUTIFUL SET from Panama low value Colonial series of recent issue." takes first interest in eye-appeal A this month. And Venezuela seems to be preparing just as attractive a set. Nicaragua continues on her surcharging way and we present some interesting notes anent past issues from Germany and Kuwait. • AUSTRALIA • Current plans call for an entire new airmail series issued along with a new postal set on or before the Coronation of George VI. The stamps are to be recess printed on the new Hoe Rotary Presses in Melbourne. The stamps will be perf. 15xl4 and will be the size of the current · English emis • NICARAGUA • Milton J. Harris shows sions. me several used copies of the current 15c. violet Momotombo design bearing o BRAZIL • Reputedly issued the 23rd the red overprint "Resello 1935" in the of October last but as yet no copies have straight line border rather than the reached us, is a set to commemorate the scroll-work design. Is this a variety or birthday of Santos Dumont the hero of has the entire International series been Brazilian aviation". Will anyone who overprinted again? possesses information kindly favor us with news of the same? The current 50c. olive brown and one Cordoba orange have both been sur • COSTA RICA • Colors of the annual charged with a red overprint in three Fair set listed last month are: le. gray lines changing their values to 15c. The black, 2c. sepia, and 3c. purple. There surcharge reads: "1936 Vale Quince Cen will be one million of the one cent and tavos"; It is in three lines. 500,000 of the other two values "issued. e FRANCE On· May 31 there will be From Mr. Kessler comes the 4c. on 5c. issued a special stamp to · CC?mmemorate light blue with the "Resello 1935" over the 10th anniversary of Lindbergh's print inverted. It seems those fortunate flight to Paris. The date of issue is the enough to be on this gentleman's new same day the International Philatelic issue service received their copies along Exhibition is scheduled to open at Paris. with the rest of the set at a small frac ..,-F. W. Kessler tion of _what they are now bringing .

• · GERMANY • Boyjan's Bulletin for 1 • PERU • The new regular airpost set Sept. 15, 1936 contains a notation to the has just come to hand . and is illustrated effect that dangerous counterfeits exist herewith. The • stamps are beautifully of the North Pole set of 1931. The designed and printed by the rotogravure numeral "3" of "1931" is closer to the process by Waterlow & Sons. Colors "9" th~n the "l" they state. and quantity issued of each denomina tion are as follows: e KUWAIT e "Philatelia" in the "Phila telic Magazine" for Sept. 18, 1936, an 5c yellow green (750,000), 15c ultra English publicatfon, discusses the market marine (400,000), 20c slate (400,000), 30c 7 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

red brown (150,000), 35c brown (200,000), lB., 1.20B., 1.SOB., 1.95B., 2B., 2.50B., 3B., 50c yellow (200,000), 70c blue green 3.70B., lOB., and 20B. One design will (50,000), 80c black (50,000), lS dark blue show a woman flying over the part of (100,000), l.50S sepia (50,000), 2S ultra the globe which features South Amer marine (50,000), 5S green (25,000), lOS ica; -another will show a heron in flight vermilion and brown (10,000). over a Mountain Range; a third will -F. . W. Kessler show a . plane above the National Pan • PANAMA • J. V. Sanner has shown theon, and the fourth will present a fly me the new Postal Congress set printed ing plane. by the American Banknote Company and The designs are the winning ones sub it is a beauty. The stamps are of rather mitted in a national contest. large format and are we! I executed. They -are illustrated herewith.

• PERU • Two varieties have been BOUND VOLUMES found on the "Habllltado" overprints of the AIRPOST JOURNAL chronicled last month. The 25c. is known Bound in dark blue waterproof fabri coid, stamped with gold. both with a double surcharge as "S.025 Vols. 2,3,& 4-0ct. 1931 - Sep- I cts." instead of "S.0.25cts." tember 1933 ...... $4.00 Vols. 5 & 6---0ctober 1933 to e VENEZUELA • Four designs will September 1935 ...... $4 .00 comprise the seventeen value series soon Vol. 7-0ctober 1935 to Sep- to be issued in this land. Denominations tember 1936 ...... $2.75 AIR_POST JOURNAL - Albion, Pa. will be: 5c., lOc., 15c., 25c., 40c., 70c., 75c .. 8 DECEMBER 1936 c. A. M. s.

by CHAS. 6. RIESS Information concerning C.A.M.'s uould be sent direct to the editor of section, P. O. Box 11, Albany, N. Y.

Santa Barbara, California was em· braced as a stop on A.M. 11 on Novem ber 1, 1936. Northward dispatch 152 lbs.; southward dispatch 27 lbs. Inaugural pilots: northward W. R. Thompson, southward-A. W. Stainbach. Postmaster at Santa Barbara is Richard T. Ambrose. Information received from Santa Bar bara post office states that that office did not receive or dispatch any air mail from or to A.M.11 prior to November 1, 1936. Official P.O.D. cachet applied to all first flight covers in purple. Cachet Rentz, southward--Gene Stotts. Post large square type showing The Old master at Joplin is Leslie L. Travis. Offi Franciscan Mission 1786-1936 and sur cial first flight cachet as shown in last rounding terrain with plane flying over issue of Airpost Journal applied to all head together with separated bottom first flight covers in green. part showing three sailing boats on a Providence, R. I. received its first somewhat choppy sea. Cachet is also direct air mail from the north from. Bos inscribed with necessary first flight ton, Mass. via A.M.18 on October 15, 1936 wording. Approximately 80 to 90 per via trip #23a. Providence although first cent of first flight covers were dispatch given air mail service several years ago .ed northward t]'.:tru a misunderstand had received air mail from the south ing of instructions although many of and dispatched air mail both northward these covers were addressed for south and southward but until October 15, 1936 ward dispatch. Covers, although ad had never received -mail from the north, dressed southward if cancelled 9:30 A.M. On that date Boston dispatched one were dispatched northward while covers pouch, weight 3 ·lbs., to Providence. cancelled 4:00 P.M. were dispatched Pouch consisted of 84 covers from Boston southward. Apparently all covers were post office and 41 covers from Boston dispatched by the first flight (northward Air Mail Field. This constitutes a new flight) no mattetr how addressed unless directional flight Boston to }>rovidence specific instructions were given to dis and covers of this flight are in order for patCh only by second flight (first south listing. Covers from Boston Air Mail ward flight) from Santa Barbara. Al Field while legible are for the most part though covers sent by the writer. to poorly cancelled due to poor condition Santa Barbara with definite instructions of handstamp. Covers from Boston to dispatch only in direction as address proper are cancelled, "Boston, Mass. ed by both first flights said covers were South Postal Annex. Oct. 15, 1936 4 P. nevertheless all dispatched northward, M.'' and covers from Boston air mail The writer of this column would ap field are cancelled. "Air Mail Field Bos preciate hearing from some collector who ton, Mass. Oct. 15, 1936 3 P.M." Covers has a duplicate Santa Barbara south are backstamped Providence, R. I. Oct. ward (4:00 P.M.) dispatched cover for 15, 1936 9:30 P.M. First flight pilot Frank sale or exchange. Bradbury. Acting Postmaster at Bostor., Peter F. Tague. In •addition Boston also Joplin, Mo. was embraced as a stop on - dispatched a pouch via this same flight A.M.30 on October 26, 1936. Northward to New Haven consisting of commercial dispatch-74 lbs., southward dispatch- and transit mail, weight 2 lbs. Many 54 lbs. Inaugural pilot northward- (Continued on Page 24) 9 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

ALL AERO-PHILATELISTS will be ex tremely interested in the announcement appearing at the beginning of this issue with reference to the proposed publica tion of a complete airmail catalog under The the sponsorship of the American Air Mail Society. That a complete and com AIRPOST JOURNAL prehensive airmail catalog is absolutely Official Publication of the American essential to the collector and prospective Air Mail Society, Published Monthly collector is a foregone conclusion. It has at Albion. Pennsylvani'.1• U.S.A. been the outstanding aero-philatelic is sue for over a year. Many collectors Entered as second-class matter. Febru have become discouraged by the fact no ary 10. 1932. at the post office at Al bion. Pa .. under Act of March 3, 1879. new catalog has been planned ·and new collectors found editions of earlier cata WALTER J. CONRATH logs completely exhausted. Managing Editor DEPARTMENT EDITORS The officials of the AAMS have con CHARLES G. RIESS sidered the problem· carefully for years Contract Air Mail Routes and the various committees ·appointed· ALTON J. BLANK have heretofore thought the task too Airs of the Month expansive to undertake as a Society ven MAURICE S. PETTY ture. Less than two years ago a group Dedications and Unofficials of the members compined to publish FRANK A. COSTANZO the handbook of Contract Air Mail Crash Cover News covers, which seemed most essential at W. R. PATTON that time. Since then listings of other Canada sections h·ave become partially obsolete JAMES C. HEARTWELL and many new items have appeared Air Stamps You May Have Missed which have not been listed in any cata• log to this date. All editorial copy, advertising, new and renewal subscriptions should be sent THE PRESENT catalog plan, although / direct to the publication office at Albion, Penn'a. still in the stage of development, should receive the endorsement and support of The AIRPOST JOURNAL Is not con every person interested in airmails. It ducted for profit. The managing edi should be understood a catalog not only tor, all department editors, feature writers and contributors serve gratis serves as a medium of checking one's and without compens.. tion of any kind. collection, but also assures the collector All receipts from advertising, subscrip of the future stability of his holdings. tions end eontributioi•s are applied di Aside from this a book of this nature reotly to the betterir ~nt of the maga zine and the promotlo .. .&f aero-philately. will draw new adherents to ·the hobby and further strengthen the market values SUBSCRIPTION RATES through increased demand for aero United States ...... $1.00 per year philatelic material. Canada and Fore!gn...... $1.50 per year Single Copies ...... lOc each AFTER considering the problem both Back Numbers ...... 15c each through personal contact of other mem ADVERTISING RATES bers and collectors and the results of the OJ1e inch. per issue ...... $ 1.00 recent AAMS questionnaire, members of Quarter Page. per Issue ...... $ 3.25 the catalog survey committee were of Half Page. per issue ...... $ 6.00 the opinion a complete book could be Full Page. per issue ...... $10.00 published at this time and that financial Front Inside or Back Cover Pages assistance should be sought from all in (when available) ...... $12.00 terested collectors to assure the appear Interested advertisers may apply for contract rate for space used every ance of the catalog. issue for a period of 12 months. Ad vertising copy must be received by the THEREFORE it is essential that members 20th of each month, 10 days before of the American Air Mail Society and publication date. aero-philatelists everywhere unite and co-operate to· assist in the financing and 10 DECEMBER 1936 production of a suitable complete cata perimental flights on the trans-Atlantic log for the hobby. It is hoped the fund, routes will be inaugurated within six which is now being raised, will be suffi weeks or two months. Announcements cient to produce an unexcelled book. on the trans-Pacific extension to Chin3 have been expected momentarily. Reports of the progress of the financ Collectors may expect plenty of ac ing, planning and organization of the tivity-new stamps, new cachets and new catalog board of editors will be published history-making covers. Airmail's frontiers in the JOURNAL each month. The final are ever being extended and the year cahlog will depend largely on the amount 1937 will undoubtedly be an important of subscriptions received and the com one in the ultimate development of the mittee cannot recommend going ahead most essential international services. with production until a satisfactory catalog fund is available. DELAY in receiving this copy of The JOURNAL has been caused through the installation of new press equipment at the publication office. Delivery of the equipment was considerably overdue and NAMES sometimes fail to convey the full a number of additional revisions were significance of an object or item. Ad necessary to secure the desired results. vertising ·agents labor diligently to select We feel the change will be both notice proper calssifications to attractively able and beneficial to this publication and classify their product. In an article ap we hope to catch up to our schedule in pearing elsewhere in this issue fellow a few issues. In the meantime we thank member Wm. R. C. Alley challenges the all our readers for their tolerance and advisability of a continuance of the name patience. "Contract Air Mail" •as applied to our official contemporary first flights. True, the name lacks official sound and might AIRPOST JOURNAL ADVERTISERS mislead many to believe these covers are DESERVE YOUR PATRONAGE the products of the contractors them selves. The question raised demands further study. If a new name is found agreeable ·and more readily understood let's have a new name, by all means. USl:D AIRS Suggestions and discussion should be forwarded to the author or other mem COLOMBIA, 495-98 •...... $2.00 bers of the C.A.M. handbook board of LIECHTENSTEIN, 401-06 ...... 1.50 409-13 ...... 45 editors. 414 ...... 70 415-16 ...... 1.10 PARAGUAY, 461-65 ...... 3.20 ROUMANIA, 517 -21 ...... 35 ./li,'l,mai£tL ui I 93 7 RUSSIA, 736-38 ...... 1.10 749-51 ...... 45 WITH THE TURN of the year comes SWITZERLAND, new provis. promise of the inauguration of many ·ad 10, 30, 40 cent...... 50 ditional important airmail routes in Used singles and sets on approval upon receipt of wantlist and references. virtually all parts of the world. The year 1937 will see the linking of United Join my States Foreign Air Mail Route 14 to the NIOCA SERVICE mainland of the Orient and also to New Issues On Covers Addressed Australi·a. At least three countries are to you. Beautifully made up covers running an interesting race to establish franked with complete sets coming regular service across the Atlantic. right to you from all parts of the world. You will like it. Also Hinden thereby gaining the initial prestige of an burg :and Transatlantic Airplane cov inter-continental business which prom ers from most European countries. ises in the future to be the most im Order them now. Send for particulars. portant of the world. Additional ser vice in South and Central America will M. Cl-ILUMECKY come as an ordinary evolution to the network already established. Geweygasse 11, VIENNA, AUSTRIA Unofficial announcements and predic Soecialist for SCADTA. mint & used. tions indicate service or additional ex- 11 RIR STAMPS 1.Jcm ~ ~ ~

by JAMES C. HEARTWELL back. I have never seen ~mother like this one, and I have looked for them, 341 Carroll Park West all others being perfectly normal on the Long Beach, Calif. back. I would appreciate opinions about the variety, and how such an error could occur." If any reader can en UNLISTED VARIETIES lighten Mr. Jones or the writer about ALVADOR--40c ultramarine print this stamp, the information will be ed on both sides-Harold A. Jones greatly appreciated. s of Detroit again sends a most in Editor's Note-From some practical ex teresting variety to be called to the at perience with the graphic arts it would tention of fellow collectors. Mr. Jones' be the writer's opinion that the stamp letter, In part, "I am sending along a in question was produced by an offset. variety of Salvador # 873 (4()c ultra This variety is caused· by the operator marine of the La Merced issue from my or the press failing to insert a sheet ot collection for your inspection and pos the stamp paper into the press, the sible discussion In your column. I think plate of the stamps printing on the this is the variety listed by D. Field as tympan or . draw sheet. Then, without #241a, printed on both sides, priced at washing off the impression on the draw 60/-. This stamp is clearly printed on sheet the next sheet of stamp paper is both sides, the back being IN REVERSE. Inserted into the press -and printed in the I don't know how · this error occurred, usual way. The back of this sheet, then, unless in some manner In the process will show the offset Image (In reverse) of the stamp taken from .the wet ink on the draw sheet. The first impres sion after the impression on the draw sheet would be the clearest, having the. maximum ink; subsequent impressions would show lighter as the ink was used up, or perhaps washed off by the op erator when it was noticed. The off set could also be produced by a portion of the paper being torn, allowing th<> Impression to go on the draw sheet only where tiie paper is torn away. The existing quantity of the variety is .de PE'ndent, then, on whether the entire sheet was impressed on the draw sheet, or a portion of the paper was torn away, causing several stamps to be off of printing the paper received the im set by press impression.-W. J . c: pression from the Inked plate rather than the printing plate--if such a thing UNCATALOGUED ITEMS is possible. A well known dealer. here insists that this is .a. spurious variety, In the interest of air mall stamp col stating that in his·' opinion the ink lecting, this check list of air mail issues simply soaked through the paper, due not included in Sanabrh's 1937 cat to the tact that the Image on the back, alogue has been compiled. The list, no when the stamp is held to the light, is doubt, is incomplete. so information re exactly superimposed upon the Image on garding other issues will be inserted in the front. Personally I do not fully this column if brought to my attention. agree with this explanation, for two The stamps In this list have been issue:i reasons. (1) If the ink has soaked under questionable circumstances, and through I don't believe the Image on the mentioning them here Is by no means an back would be so clear and even. (2) effort to establish them, but merely to Furthermore, ALL of these stamps present information not found in cat v.ould be like this with im:ges on the alogues published in this country. 12 DECEMBER 1936

ANDORRA, 1932. ..A set of 12 stamps NICARAGUA, 1929. Obsolete stamps ranging in values from 25c to 5p was privately overprinted . Without authoi-· prepared for use but never issued. ity, two values of the Centenary of In Scott's Tentative Listings includes these dependence stamps (Scott's #406-407) stamps. Authority was granted a pri were overprinted vertically, "Corseo vate concern to carry mail over the An· Aereo-1929-P.A.A." in three lines. Also, dorra-Seo De Urgel-Barcelona route. official stamps (Scott's #1702, 1704-1708) This concern had the stamps printed but were similarly overprinted horizontally not one flight was made. Of the 5000 with the addition of a bar used to block complete sets printed, BOO were over out the word "OFICIAL". Shiny red ink printed "FRANQUICIA DEL CONSEIL" was used for the overprinting of these for official use. eight values. D. Fields lists a similar Nicaraguan BELGIUM, 1931. Government stamp set for September, 1929. The set, how (Scott's #831) overprinted privately with ever, consists of only six stamps which out authority. The French overprint at were overprinted "CORREO AEREO--P. the left is "Service Postal Aerien Paris" A.A." The same as Scott's #1001-1003, and the Flemish overprint at the right but ·in larger letters, and with mono is "Vliegpost Dienst Antwerpen Parys". pl3ne in black or red. Of the 1915 issue, The same overprint with Londres, Ams the 5c, lOc, 25c and 50c stamps were terdam, Dusseldorf or Malmoe in place so overprinted as were the 25c and 50c of Paris W3S also printed, forming a set stamps of the Centenary of Independ of five single stamps. ence issue of 1921. Specimens of the above have gone through the post in a BULGARIA, 1931. ..Prepared for use legitimate manner. but never issued. With the exception of the 2 Leva which was again done in NICARAGUA, 1935. The seventeen red, the set (Scott's #801-804) was over varieties overprinted "VALID0--1935" printed in new colors-the 4 Leva in and countersigned in manuscript· "J. C. green instead of blue, the 10 Leva in blue M." the initials of the Secretary of the instead of green, and the 1 Leva in red Treasury, Jose Carlos Martinez. are list dish brown instead of carmine. As men ed in Alton Blank's "Airs of the Month" tioned, but not listed, in both Scott and columns of January and February, 1936. San3bria, the above set printed in 1930 These are said to be fakes. was never used but was sold at auction SPAIN, 1933. In connection with the in November, 1931; with other obsolete issues . 1933 flights of the Graf Zeppelin to South America, via Barcelona. two spe LATVIA, 1933. Latvia to Africa special cial stamps were prepared, according to flight issue. Government imperforate D. Field. As, however, it was decided stamps, type APl, were overprinted not to call at Spain, it is understood "LATVI.JA-AFRIKA-1933" and in cer that these were never issued, even tain cases surcharged additional values. though a call was made on the seventh The stamps fell into the hands of spec flight, in September. The then current ulators and very few were used on mail. 50c portrait stamp and the lp of the Scott's Tentative Listings include the Montserrat issue were overprinted in six 10s green, and 15s red, the 25s utra lines, "PRIMER CORREO--D:Ea,--ZEP marine, the 50s on 15s red and the lOOs PEf,IN--EN-·BARCELONA--7. V. ~933", on the 25s ultramarine. to the extent of 30,000 and 20,000, re spectively. NEWFOUNDLAND, 1932. W •a y z a ta A notation in F. J. Field's "Blue List" Label. Prepared by Aerial World Tours, mentions some unoffici•al Barcelona Zep Inc. for mail to be carried on a pas pelin stamps of 1933 as a set of three senger and mail plane from Wayzata, overprints on the Congress issue. Knowl Minnesota to London, England. Stops edge of this set of three and the above were to be made on the trip. Sold by a mentioned set of two would lead one to private company in a foreign land, th~s believe that there were possisbly two so-called stamp which is included in unissued Spain Zeppelin sets for 1933. Scott's Tentative Listings turned out to be a label, having never been in New AIRPOST JOURNAL ADVERTISERS foundland or a post office. The flight was DESERVE YOUR PATRONAGE never made. J3 ~~ AllRMAllLS

1921 Issue Inscribed "POSTAL . AEREO". Sc to 3 Pesos, set of 10, Mint .. • . $32.50 Used . · ! · 20.00

1923 Issue . 'Inscribed "TRANSPORTES AEREOS" Sc to S Pesos, incl. 20c Registry, complete set of 12, ... . Mint . .. -$22.50 Us~d. .. . 8.75 Sc to 1 Peso, short set of 8~ Used.. .50

· 1932 Issue " (:~ . • "L ·Sc to S Pesos, incl. 20c ·Registry; complete set of 14, .. . . Mint ... . $12.00 . . . . . Used.... .· 3.75· Sc to ·1 Pesos, short set of 10, Mint 4.00 Used .75

... 1934 Cartagena Commemorat'ive Issue lOc on soc' to_' 30c on 2 P~so, · co~plete set of 4, .. : .Mint .... $ 2.50 .. . We carry. a complete stock of· all Colombian Republic Airmails · Ask for special qua._tation_ SPECIALIZED CATALOGUE, over 100 illustrations, 120 pages · · ·SOc postpaid · -- F. W. KES-SLER ' ' . 551 FIFTH AVE. a~~ NEW YORK. N. Y. · 1J.ieto4icd /\. II R ~ /\ ~ LS A ·small selection of beautiful pictorial designs, unusually attractive sets of Airmail · Stamps. All sets are complete, and in mint condition. Country Scott No. Description Price Aegean Islands 158-63 Dante Comm. 50c to lOL, set of 6 ...... $ 2.90 Albania 629-35 5q to 3fr., set of 7 ...... 1.2~ Australia 303 Kingsford-Smith, 6p olive brown ...... 20 Austria 678-85 300k to 4800k, 8 values ...... 95 Austria 706-20 Pictorial set of 15 ...... :...... 6.50 Belgium 831-34 50c to 5fr. set of 4 ...... 60 Belgium 251-53 Prof. Piccard, Stratosphere issue, 3 vals...... 95 Bolivia 342-51 5c to !Ob. Map of Bolivia, set of 10 ...... :...... 2.0ff Canada 502 5c brown ...... OB China 667-69 25c to lOOc, set of 3 ...... 1.10 Congo 501-04 50c to 5fr., Pictorials,. set of 4 ...... 50 Cyrenaica 325-30 Colonial Art Exhibition. 25c to 2L, 6 vals...... 50 Czechoslovakia 513-20 Pictorial issue. 50h to 20kc.. set of 8...... 2. 75 Eritrea 500-05 Colonial Arts Exhibition, set of 6, 25c to 2L.:...... 50 France 355-56 Airpost Exhibition, 1.50fr. Carmine and l.50fr. ultramarine ...... 30 France 361?~6'1'. 1.50 & 10 Fr., lOOth Ocean Crossing...... ,95 France 310 75c Balloon Commemorative ...... 15. French Offices in Morocco 514-19 50c to lOfr.• Pictorial set of 6 ...... '...... 1.75 Greece 6.5.8-64 Pictorials. 50L to 50d, set of 7 ...... 1.25' Guatemala 731-39 Green Bird Ovpt.. Interior 2c to lq. set· of 9...... 5.50 Guatemala 750-50 Green Bird Ovpt., Exterior le to· lq, set of 11...... 5.50 Haiti 401-04 25c to lg. set of 4 ...... · .65 Hungary 974-75 Zeppelin lp and 2 p. set of 2 ...... 95 Iceland 304-08 15a to lk.. Pictorial set of 5 ...... 95 India 501-06 2a to 12a. Pictorial set of 6...... 2.20 Italian Colonies 301-06 Dante, 50C to lOL, set of 6 ...... 3.40 Italian Somaliland 300-05 Colonial Arts Exhibition 25c to 2L., set of 6...... 50 Italy 1017-19 Ferrucci, 50c to 5L., set of 3 ...... 95 Japan 453-57 8Y,,s to 33s, set of 5 ...... :...... 40 Liechtenstein . 401-06 Pictorials. 15rp to lfr.. set of 6 ...... 1.60 Liechtenstein 409-13 Bird set, lOrp to 50rp, set of 5 ...... ,...... 55 Luxemburg 501-04 75c to 1%fr.• set of 4 ...... 35 Mozambique Com. 165-74 J'riangulars, 5c to BOc, set of 10 ...... 30 Netherlands 710 Dutch Indies Flight, 30c green, triangular ...... 50 Newfoundland 506-08 Unwmkd. 15c to $1., set of S ...... 3.75 Newfoundland 513-17 Pictorial set. 5c to .75c, 5 vals...... 6.50 New Guinea 101-13 \1,p to Ll, set of 13 ...... 12.50 Nicaragua 1017-18 Pictorials, 15c and 20c. set of 2 ...... 45 Parc:guay 452-56 Zeppelin triangulars, 4p to 20p, set of 5...... 1.65 Persia 1134-50 Pictorials, le to 3t, set of 17 ...... 8.40 Peru 806-12 Lima Comm. issue. 5c to lOc. set of 7 ...... 9.80 Rouroania 504-06 Horizontal wmk., lL to 5L, set of 3 ...... 15 Russia 912-13 !'erf. 12V2 Zeppelin 40k and 80k, set of 2...... 1.50 R:ussia 936-38 Stratogphere, 5k to 20k. set of 3 ...... 1.80 Saar 505-08 Plebescite, 50c to 5fr., set of 4 ...... 2.75 Salvador 860-63 Pictorial 15c to 40c, set of 4 ...... 70 Spain 718-30,1001 Goya 5c to lOp. set of 14 ...... 1.85 Spain 731-42 Columbus. 5c to lOp. set of 12 ...... 1.50 Switzerland 283-85 65c to lfr.. set of 3 ...... 1.10 Tripolitania 643-48 Colonial Art, 25c to 2L. set of 6 ...... 50 Uruguay 626-37 Pegasus, Sc to 4.50p, set of 12 ...... 24.00 WRITE FOR COMPLETE AIRMAIL PRICE LIST F. W. KESSLER 551 Fl FTH AVE. ~~D NEW YORK. N. Y. AERO-PHILATELY anti tAe £adU?A

Wherein is ably explained how one air altogether the product of '.masculine re• post collector's "better half" has kept search and initiative. from becoming an aero-philatelic widow To me my airpost collection and its -and is actually enjoying it! several sidelines are far more interesting and worthwhile than bridge, more or less dreary social affairs and some of by MRS. GLEN W. NAVES the things that attract the rank and file 127 College Street of women, and sometimes m•ake them Spartanburg, S. C. more or less nuisances to men. And while the "social whirl" is all right now and then, for a continuous interest I'll XAMINATION OF AIRPOST JOUR take airpost covers and stamps. NAL FILES reveals the interest Almost three years ago, by virtue of E ing fact that occasionally a woman an instrument generally known as a has written about aero philately and marriage certificate, I became "custod that her contribution actually was pub ian" or "caretaker" of approximately six lished. feet of ambitious young manhood who is enthusiastically "submerged" in airmail Splendid! collecting, aviation, newspaper work, the Women have invaded other fields once outdoors, ·Boy Scout ac'tivities and sim regarded as the exclusive property of ilar interests. Plus these, he has long men, so why not The Airpost Journal had the habit of burning much mid and the hobby it so admirably repre night oil, clattering away at an old type sents? I am convinced that quite a writer, hanging around airports and number of women have very creditable composing. rooms, and piling news collections and that aero philately is not papers, stamp magazines, aviation pub· lications and the like here and there all over the house. Give him half a chance and he's off flying or to chat with pilots and airport employes. So what to do? The "solution" was easy. I gave "the problem" a careful diagnosis and fouri-.J him to be absolutely "incurable". The only thing to do with him was to "join him", and so I became a collector my self. I had already "saturated my fin gers" with printer's ink, having written newspaper features for about four years. And so I took on stamp collecting. Airmail covers and United States com memoratives are my speciality. In the latter group I collect singles, pairs and blocks, used and unused, and first day covers. Among important 1937 plans "the prob· lem" and I have is to devote ·an entire room-probably the largest one in the house-to our aero philatelic library, frames, albums and other related m·a terial, exclusively. Frankly, I think every wife should e MRS. GLEN W. NAVES, enthusiastic share in her husband's interests, parti airpost and U. S. commemorative stamp cularly when they are so sound and en collector . with her "problem". (Continued on Page 22) 16 Covers from Mrs. Naves' Collection

Signed · ' ~ Pilot ( ~~· A.: . •J-· f0.1 I~ , ~/ ,,,,-,-; ~ I .<'.\ y· - ~--- ~';,;_ ·7~ '/!' - ' · M "'-----;-7\~,.- Mrs.Glen lfaves, . . , .. ;jjl J.4:S Caulder Ave., Co-

• Examoles of covers In the collection of Mrs. Glen W. Naves of Spartan burg. s. r... whose husband Is an enthusiastic aero-philatelist. The top cover Is nnP. nf six carried aboard the U. S. Navy Balloon in the 1935 Gordon Bennett Cup Races. Warsaw. Poland. The typed and signed cachet is tied on b:v the Dostrnark. The cover reproduced at the bottom was flown by Lieut. Felix Waitkus. Lithuanian filer, on his 1935 trans-Atlantic flight. Lieut. Waitkus. in addition to signing two covers which were posted at Floyd Bennett field the day of the takeoff and mailed to Mr. and Mrs. Naves, ftP.w several across for them. The cover shown is franked with a block of four two-cent current U, S. shmDs. cancelled Brooklyn, N . Y., the nearest postolfice to Floyd Bennett field. The covers were dispatched by ordinary mail from Kaunas, Lithuania , back to the United States. The small cachet to the left is that of the Lithuanian Aero Club.

17 ,

Dedication and Unofficial Air Mail Covers

by MAURICE S. PETTY send covers to Mr. Gottschall at Williams• News of future and past events under port, Pa., as per last issue, as work is this section should be sent direct to being delayed ...... Mr. J. V. Murray re- Mr. Petty, 507 Quackenboe St., N. W., ports comple,tion of seaplane base at Washington, D. C. Hamilton, Bermuda.

EDICATION collectors are requested AIRPORT DEDICATIONS: Two writers to read pages 10 and 11 of Novem have quoted Syracuse, N. Y. Airport D ber Journal, and if you can offer Manager regarding dedication of Sept. any financhl assistance to insure dedi 19-20, as saying "dedication exercises for cation covers being in such a catalog, new runways and completion of the work let use hear from you . at once with necessary for A-1-A rating." Latter, re definite offer. fers to entire airport, which was en· COMING: Charlotte, N. C. now post larged and improved. Correspondence, poned to about Jan. 1st. P.M. holding souvenir program, and several news covers...... Los Angeles postponed to prob- clippings with details of event, convince ably January. Covers to Clyde McAtee, us that this was as much of an airport 2478 W. 15th., Los Angeles, with le each re-dedication as any ever held. All Syra• extra forwarding charge ...... John H. Al- cuse called it an airport dedication. We len, Plain Dealing, La., is holding for call it a "re-dedication" because it is possible dedication at Many, La. 1 cent same airport as originally dedicated In forwarding also...... Emil A. Thurman 1928 ...... Have seen unmailed covers sign- writes "no dedication at Jackson, Miss. ed by Col. Roscoe Turner with printed No date set for Bloomington first flight. cachet reading "Carried by Col. Roscoe Wedell-Williams Air Lines sold to East Turner twice across the continent. ern Air Lines. New Zeppelin LZ-130 well Flown by him from New York to Prov under construction in Germany." idence-Hillsgrove-R.I. airport dedica For first news on items covered by tion May 30, '36; a record flight. Car short notice post cards this month, we ried from Burbank, Calif., to a point thank: Rex Copp, on Glenview, Ill. (now 65 miles of Gallup, New Mexico, where postponed, and it is said CofC will hold Col. Turner crashed August 30, 1936, en covers. though Theo Light writes it . will route to New York for entry in the Ben be a long time); C. A. Hunter, on Los dix Air . Race." 50 of these so carried Angeles (also postponed, see above); and and interesting souvenirs, but unmailed David Rosenthal on Miami...... Do not itesm cannot qualify for inclusion in our

"DAISY" ALBUM TH~ Complete with Inner Folder ELBE and 100 Sheets LI NE NOW MADE IN BLUE AS WELL AS RED Smart • Sturdy Construction . Low Priced! Spring Back Style of Album-bound in rich Blue or Red Imitation Leather. Em- • bossed front cover. Inner Folder has a $2 50 white stock sheet in the inside back cover. Sheets are scored to lie flat and ·1 are quadrilled in soft gray. Sheet size Re I: a1 ll"x81/"". Mounting Space 9"x6¥.i". Free-Send for Cahlog No. 9-P ELBE FILE &BINDER CO. ~~~ 215 GREENE ST. - NEW YORK, N.Y. 18 DECEMBER 1936 check list...... Aberdeen, Miss., Oct. 13, other source says 255 ...... Mr. Will T. said to have had printed envelopes. Who Cheek writes that 1001 covers (actual can show one? Covers are said to have count) with CofC cachet at dedication been flown, part to Memphis, and part of Municipal Airport, Nov. 1, were pick ed up and flown out by American Air to Birmingham, after being cancelled.... lines plane. That's what we like, same Hove now seen cover pmkd. Corinth, treatment for all. Louis Fischbach shows Miss., Oct. 15th with CofC dedication one with Air Mail Field cancellation .... cachet, with Roscoe Turner's signature Barre-Montpelier, Vt. airport, located at beneath typed inscription "This cover Berlin Corner, midway between the two flown from Chicago Municipal Airport to cities, was formally dedicated Oct. 4th. Roscoe Turner Airport, Corinth, Miss." Quite a celebration according to news 25 reported so flown ...... Tupelo, Miss. papers in our possession, and apparently CofC reports 300 covers Oct. 14th; an- is a re-dedication of same airport dedi-

2ND AIRPOST AUCTION Our SECOND AIRPOST AUCTION--·-- wlll probably be held in February. Material to be included therein should reach us by January 15th. ~t the present writing a great wealth of airpost material has already been sent us for this sale. However. we shall be able to include desirable mint and used airmail stamps. and very high quality covers. sent us by the above-noted date. Airport dedications, common CAMs, and the like, cannot be accepted for this sale. --·-- OUR FIRST AIRPOST AUCTION, held at the Collectors Club, New York, on November 21st. met with wide acclaim and a success far exceeding our fondest hopes. Many items brought the highest prices ever recorded in the annals of airposts. Based on preliminary estimates and comparisons, the average prices realized were well above those of similar auctions held previou.sly. , We were particularly pleased with the great number of congratulatory messages which we have received from collectors in the United States -and abroad. Many' complimented us on the excellent appearance of the cata logue and the thoroughness of its descriptions. Others stressed the high quality of the stamps and covers offered therein, making this sale a }and mark of airpost history. As it is impossible to acknowledge each of these messages individually, we trust that these words will be accepted as an expression of our appreciation. If you contemplate the disposition--·-- of airmail stamps and covers, we recommend that you give serious consideration to our AffiPOST AUCTIONS. Established as foremost in the airmail field by the scope and success of our FIRST AIRPOST AUCTION. these sales offer you the benefits of: 1. A comprehensive and diversified market. Our mailing list probably includes the largest number of airpost collectors of any philatelic firm, in the U. S. or abroad. No other organization offers the proven advantages of a service devoted exclusively to airposts. 2. Direct contact with the world's richest market... New York City, where our sales are held. 3. Considerably higher prices than by selling at wholesale, since the auction method eliminates a major portion of the wide spread between retail and wholesale prices. 4. Prompt liquidation, if you have desirable material eligible for im-· mediate inclusion in a sale. Settlement is made to owners within thirty days of the sale, without exception. Write today for a full statement--·-- of our terms, contained in our "S A L E S R E G U L A T I 0 N S" ROYCE A. WIGHT BOX 164 BALTIMORE, MD.

19 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL cated June 6, 7, 8, 1930. About 125 air reading "Capetown Municipal Air Port 1 covers mailed, some pmkd. Barre, others 1 Jun 1936---Wingfield." Reported as air at Montpelier (PM says not many). port dedication but we are a bit dubious. Some, brought to field late, were handed Anyone know anything about it? ...... Jer by CofC Pres. to pilot of plane who flew sey City, N. J. CofC says airport dis them to Boston where they were can continued and stadium being built on celled at Air Mail Field same day. Ti> site.,, ..... Mr. A. A. Wasserscheid shows an include in check list, will be necessary air cover, surprisingly not previously re for some one to show us one of each ... corded, pmkd. Houston, Texas, October Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Assn. 31, 1931, with private typing about air writes that event of Oct. 25th was merely port dedication. We have authenticated dedication by WPA and Parks Board oi same as a bona fide re-dedication of new runways at Wold-Chamberlain Houston's . Municipal Airport on Tele Field...... Mr. John Coulthard report~ phone Road that date, and have news Modesto, Calif., Nov. 1st, official count paper accounts of the very elaborate as: 683 air and 331 ordinary rate flown celebration held ...... Mr. Wasserscheid al to and pmkd. Alameda; 88 air flown in so shows Augusta, Maine, of Sept. l, 1928, to by Marjorie E. Hook and pmkd. Mo (#266) without sticker, but with red ca desto; 56 air flown into and cacheted, chet printed direct on envelope; also a then flown by Iron Hat Johnston to and Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, of July 10, 1932, pmkd. at Alameda; 7 air mail not flown (#2289) pmkd. the 10th. Those now cat special, pmkd. Modesto ...... PM at Santa alogued were (according to CofC) mailed Barbara, Calif. reports via Fred Wilde at 4:30 PM on the 10th, ·and the 11th that their airport is located at Goleta cancellation assumed to be due to its be and was dedicated several weeks ago .... ing Sunday, but Mr. Wasserscheid's We have secured a cover pmkd. Jo cover evidences that the others just were hannesburg, So. Africa, June 1, 1936, not collected in time ·for 10th cancella with inscription "Inauguration first field tion ...... Mr. W. T. Wynn, Jr., reports fol air mail by Union Airways "Wingfield' lowing unrecorded varieties: Mackinac Cape 1/6/36" and a circular cachet Island, Mich., July 2, 1934, with ink inscription by Mackinac Island State Park Com.; Aberdeen, S.D., 7/3/34, no cachet; Athens, 0., 9/23/34, no cachet; Aiken, S. C., 4/4/35, with only ink in scription by P.M...... Mr. Harry Achorn, 1000 Miles Jr. reports dedication not held and no date set for Ellsworth, Maine, airport located at Trenton, Maine...... Mr. J. V. for 25c Murray shows clipping stating that A collection of Ten Different British Nov. 25th "air ferry" service by TWA Empire First Flight covers of 1930- was inaugurated which "marked dedica 1932; including special types of offi tion of Logan Field in Baltimore as cial covers, pilot-signed envelopes, second Eastern terminus of TWA." We etc. These ten covers were carried a total distance of nearly 30,000 miles, and are normally sold at from $10.50. Each cover is separately mounted with a pictorial route map, time-table of the flight, and historical details. This collection is offered at the special price of about 25c per 1,000 WANTED!! miles, viz. $7.50. Used airmail stamps of all countries This and other novel offers of in fine condition. Large or small Flown Covers, latest Bargains, Com quantities, but no real common memorative Postmarks, · etc., is in varieties needed. cluded in our latest free Highest cash prices for your II )3£.ue £Utll Duplicates - Collection or Odd Lots. Harlow Ross FRANCIS J. FIELD, Ltd 605 Providence Bldg., SUTTON COLDFIELD, ENGLAND DULUTH, MINN.

20 DECEMBER 1936 do not believe this means an airport port, Tampico, Mexico, August 17, 193(). dedication, but no covers known anyway. OTHER COVERS: Cover mentioned INFORMATION WANTED as to the, last month from Los Angeles Nov.· 1, exact location of Harlem Airport in came from· our good friend, F. R. Purdy, Chicago, supposedly dedicated June 8th, who writes "Covers of United Air Lines 1930 (Cat. #1403) .... Who can show West Nov. 1, with blue cachet were mailed in field, N . .J.. cover of Aug. 30, 1930 (#1650) San Diego on first plane Nov. 1, 1936, and give information on it? ...... Who can 8:01 AM and cancelled at Los Angeles.... show >m Ogden, Utah cover of June 30, Toledo, Nov. 24, cover received with 1928 (Cat. #175)? Supposedly ll,000 mail typed inscription that Toledo purchases ed and we've never seen one, though Transcontinental Airport that day. How newspaper articles ·show it to have been ever, Mr. Omer C. Thompson writes quite a celebration. Further same papers that it was an error as deal was not say first air mail arrived that day and consummated until the 25th. it became regular stop on June 30th. COOPERATORS whose assistance is Attention CAM fans, as First Flight on much appreciated are: Harry Achorn, CAM 26 is recorded as August 1, 1928, Jr.; Walter Conrath; Rex Copp; W. T. instead of June 30th...... We have definite Cheek, John Coulthard, J'. R. F. Dan information of following airport dedi zinger, L. Fischbach, Julius W. Hulff, C. cations, but have never seen or heard A. Hunter, L. W. Dedell, G. F. Lan• of any covers. Anybody have one?: caster, John D. Long, Theo. Light, J. V. Floyd Bennett Field, Glens Falls, N.Y .. Murray, Clyde McAtee, F. R. Purdy, May 26, 1928; Koch Field, Flagstaff, Ariz., David Rosenthal, Emil A. Thurman, A. June 8, 1928; South Bend, Ind., schedul A. Wasserscheid, Fred Wilde, W. T. ed for Sept. 15-16, 1928; Pontiac, Mich., Wynn, Jr. and others including many second chy, June 16, 1929; Perry, Ohio, CofCs and PMs. For covers we are per between Aug. 14 and 18, 1929; Franklin, sonally Indebted to John Coulthard, F. Pa., Nov. 3, 1929 (second day); Rihl Air- R. Purdy, and Omer C. Thompson.

AIRMAILS Scott Standard Net Cat. Airpost Price ALBANIA 622-628 22-28 Set of 7, used ...... 57 .50 ALBANIA 622-625 22-25 Set of 4, mint...... 4'.oo ESTONIA 201-203 1-3 Set of 3, used...... 65 ESTONIA 204-206 4-6 Set of 3, used pairs...... 2.50 ESTONIA 207-208 7-8 Set of 2, used pairs...... : ...... 4.50 JAPAN 451-452 1-2 Set of 2. used ...... 4.50 LATVIA 253-254 3-4 Set of. 2, used...... 1.00 LATVIA 27-31 Set of 5, mint...... 3.50 LATVIA 32-36 Set of 5, mint...... 3.50 PHILIPPINES .... 305-314 1-10 Set of 10 used ...... 32.50 ROUMANIA ...... 510-512 10-12 Set of 3, mint...... 12.00 SPAIN ••n•••••'"•H•>•> 758-761 98-101 Set of 4, used ...... 12.50 SWITZERLAND ~. 275-276 1-2 Set of 2, used ...... ~ ...... 3.25 Interesting selections of airmail stamps sent on approval. References please. Terms: Cash with order. Anything unsatisfactory may be returned within 10 days for --·--prompt refund. GEORGE CLARK 1250 FULLERTON A VENUE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

21 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

bition Included large poster signs placed DETROIT AIRMAIL in a number of department stores as well as in every stamp dealer's office. Cards advertising the exhibit were distributed SOCIETY SPONSORS also. In order to advertise the exhibition 1st EXHIBITION and help defray the expense, four vari eties of stickers were prepared and sold The Detroit Airm3il• Society, Branch at ten cents per sheet of four. A few Chapter No. 5 of the American Air Mail of these sheets are still available and Society, sponsored their first Annual may be purchased by any interested Stamp Exhibition during National Phil member at 10 cents per sheet. atelic Week, November 19-23. Members of the local society who ex More than fifty frames of airmail stamps hibited included Albert Felice, Stanley and covers of all classifications were on Madill, Henry Hendrick, Herbert Calla display and the exhibit is said to h·3ve han, Don Smith, Dr. George Brands, been the finest ever staged in Detroit by Mario Binell and Leon Berman. any individual club. The show was ex The Detroit Airmail Society is enjoy tended two additional days at the request ing an active season and meets every of the Detroit News and announcement first and third Tuesday evening at the of the event was made extensively over Detroit News Building.-Leon Berman, radio station ww:r. 1616 Blaine Ave., Detroit, Mich. The exhibition was non-competitive '!Ind open to the public free. Three ad ditional frames ' of stamps were shown in a downtown window on Detroit's AERO-PHILATELY AND main and busiest street, together with a THE LADIES large display sign identifying them as a portion of the Detroit Air Mail Society (Continued from• Page 16) exhibit. It is estimated that more than 10,000 people viewed this attractive ex tertaining as airmail• collecting. For exhibit. ample, my husband thinks golf is 'a play Other means of advertising the exhibi- thing for a fe.,,· well-paid professionals, old men or young men, but if he did play golf, I wouldn't join up with the UNUSUAL ITEMS golf widows-I'd learn. to play golf! Get my latest list of unusual items There are a few "philatelic widows" in tn Canadian first flights, prices our city and they really are, on some running from 50c to $1.00 and up occasions, objects of pity. wards. It will interest YOU. All good things, like aero-philately on 1 W.R. PATTON a "family basis ', the stock market and Box 2384, Winnipeg, Manitoba "getting in on the ground floor of a sure proposition" have a CATCH and in our case it is this: COVER COLLECTORS Glen W., has to include coverage for It's New! It's Free! A Big new Price me on all aVlation events where collec List - describing Beautiful Covers mailed Direct to you from over 20 tible airmail covers are handled and has different Far away Lands! Generom• to "chip in" on other things for my cash discount Coupon for first order collection, so for him the cost of col included. Postage please. lecting, like the cost of living, has GONE HA.ROLD B. CLEIN 1821 Santa Ynez St., Los Angeles, Cal. UP!

GUATEMALA AIRS FOREIGN AmMAIL APPROVALS 35 Different, used, $2.75 The history of aviation is told in its (Money back Guarantee) stamps. If there are blank spots in Request my price list for Mint or your album of the history you are Used Airs from Central America compiling, perhaps my approvals will countries. help. References or Society No. please. CARLOS KROGER, No price lists. Box 140 Guatemala City RUPERT R. ASPLUND CENTRAL AMERICA 4419J Luverne St. Duluth, Minn. 22 by DR. ROBERT PAGANINI Zweislmmen, Switzerland

HE CONGRESS OF the "Federation Internationale Philatelique, F. I. P." T resolved at its session in Luxem burg during the recent exhibition the following: "The envelopes transported by rockets are unanamously considered as covers without philatelic value." Considering that the development of air transportation which has taken di mensions undreamed of twenty-five years ago (the first mail flights took place in 1911) we cannot hope to be .extra-ordin arily surprised a bout the resolution of this congress in Luxemburg . Rocket mail, as one of t>-,e pioneers in the ex ploration of stratosphere mail, certainly will have a promising future whose ex tensions we cannot today fully realize. I cannot understand why "philately" takes such an unfriendly attitude towards the efforts and special branches of aero philately. It seems to me that the real cause lies in the old difficulty of the terms which we express today under "philately" and "aero philately." were issued by such a government. We Philately concedes the collecting of aero philatelists, however, will direct our only official postage stamps 'and refuses attention to such modern problems of anything which has not. been Issued by transportation by air of which the stamp a government. Fortunately, areo philate itself is not the principal thing, but In ly has never taken this one-sided point stead study the historic basis of the new of view and from the beginning included progress and the documentary evidence in its studies not only stamps as such, which aero-philately gives us. but everything connected with the Naturally, shady and spurious ~xplolta transportation of messages through air. tion of collectors will always be attempt Of course, there are a number of aero ed, and I do not think that this could be philatelic collectors who lean more entirely eliminated or avoided. I can towards philately and who believe that remember very well, it is now over only the airmail stamp itself is worth sixty years ago that philately always has collecting. The attempt to make a rule had difficulties with the existence of less as to what should and what should not doubtful characters. We refuse, hoy.'· be worth collecting has raised havoc ever, to condemn the efforts made by with all of us, bu we do know that an serious experimenters who have sacrl• intelligent person will not stand for any ficed a lot of persoml.l gains together dictation by others who tell him what with those made by dubious speculators he should or should not collect, but he who have tried to discredit the fascin· will follow his own Inclination and pur ating problem of the future exploration sue his hobby the way he likes it . We through the stratosphere and the space aero philatelists are only too glad to beyond. leave to the philatelists their joy in in I am positive that the time will come specting stamps with a microscope, and and one will laugh with pity at the the satisfaction that the stamps have the resolution taken during the congress in official sanction of some government, apd Luxemburg. 23 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

CONTRACT AIR MAILS and vice versa via Columbia although (Continued from Page 9) latter point was not given mail service • after June 26, 1936 and that on Sept. 18, collectors missed out on this flight on 1936 service between Charleston and account of improper reading of postal Augusta and vice versa was made direct bulletin schedules together with short instead of via Columbia. Charleston notice of a few days. dispatched 6 lbs. westward via trip 7a Data from Delta Air Corporation re on Sept. 18, 1936 and Augusta dispatched ceived thru courtesy of A. N. Brown 10 lbs. eastward via trip Sa on same states that flights of A.M.24 between date. George W. Whittier first flight Charleston and Augusta and vice versa pilot in both directions. Postmaster at were made by way of Neeces, S. C. · As Charleston is Philip M. Clement, at this point lies directly between Charles Augusta Thomas Jefferson Hamilt,;m, ton and Augusta flights between these Long Beach, Calif. was embraced as a two points were made by a new direc stop on AM.13 on December 1, 1936. tional route and covers of these two First northward flight via trip #2a on flights -are in order for listing as direc which 21 lbs were dispatched. First south tional first flight covers. ward flight via trip #7a on which 142 However, as all details are not yet lbs. were dispatched. Pilot C. N. James thoroughly checked it is not definitely and co-pilot F. C. Dace for both trips. known whether first actual directional Postmaster at Long Beach is Howard K. flights between Charleston and Augusta Goodwin. Pictorial type cachet applied and vice versa were actually flown on to first flight covers in magenta by P.O. Sept. 18, 1936 or whether they were Department. flown prior to this date. Data •at hand P.O. Bulletin of Nov. 25, 1936 state5 reveals that Columbia, S. C., made its that Dayton, Ohio is embraced as a stop last dispatch to A.M.24 on June 26, 1936 on A.M.2 effective D.ec. 16th and 17th. and that the airport at that point at However, P.O. Bulletin of Dec. 9, 1936 present is undergoing improvements. In also shows Dayton, Ohio embraced on formation at hand indicates that planes AM2 by still another directional service. flew between Charleston and Augusta Details in later issue. 1'13ecia£ U.S. ZEPPELINS • CAT. NOS. 1211 - 1214

Complete set of 3, mint, very fine, O.G...... $42.50

Complete set of 3, mint, in Plate Number Blocks of 4 .. $185.00 • • • F. W. KESSLER 551 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y.

24 American Air Mail Society ORGANIZED 1923 AS THE AERO PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA

President • Secretary WALTER J. CONRATH, Albion, Pa. GEORGE W. ANGERS, 293 Bridge Street, Springfield, Mass. Vice-Presidents Treasurer WILLIAM R. ALLEY, 261 Broadway, FRANK A COSTANZO New York Ctiy. P. 0. Box 32, Punxsutawney, Pa. L. B. GATCHELL, 35 Chatfield Road, Sales Manager Bronxville, New York. ROBERT M. FLINN W. R. PATTON, P. 0. Box 2384, Win· 4224 Main Avenue, Norwood, Ohio nipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Advance Bulletin Superintendent MAURICE S. PETTY, 507 Quackenbos WALTER J. CONRATH St., N.W .. Washington, D. C. The AIRPOST JOURNAL, Albion, Pa. Directors The Advance Bulletin ls sent regularly ALTON J. BLANK, 1850 Burnett Ave., by the manager only to those members East Cleveland, Ohio. who are in good standing and provide a LOUIS J. HEATH. The Biltmore, 1940 supply of self addressed regulation Biltmore St.N.W.,Washington, D.C. Government Postal Cards. FRANCIS B. LEECH, National Press Exchange Department Bldg., Washington, D. C. Each member ls entitled to two 25-word CHARLES G. RIESS, P. 0. Box 11, Exchange Notices per year, in the Offi Albany, New York. cial Publication, without charge. Ad PAUL F. ROBERTSON, % Decatur dress direct to the publication office Garment Co., Decatur, Ill. at Albion, Penna. T. F. SOUTHARD. c/o Watt & Sin Official Publication clair, Inc.. Palm Beach, Florida. THF: AIRPOST JOURNAL FRED H. WILDE, 917 N. Burris Ave., Published monthly and sent to all Compton, California. members In good standing.

The Treasurer's Report NEW MEMBERS 1828 Klander, Chas., 521 Elm St., Cincinnati, Ohio. 1829 Vaughan, C. H .. 1605-22nd St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 1830 Long, Clarence, 139 Narberth St., Narberth, Penna. 1831 Anderson, Arvid E .• M.D., 508 Becker Bldg., Aberdeen, Wash. 1832 Zumstine, Louise, 191-11 Woodhull Ave., Hollis. N. Y. l!i;;3 B~tes, H. M., 16 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. 1834 Miller, H. B., M.D., 5402-32nd St., Woodside, L. I.. N. Y. 1835 Wurzburg, Francis L .. Graybar Bldg, 420 Lexington Ave., New York. NEW APPLICATIONS POSTED Following have made application for membership in the Society. If no objec tions are received and references are found in order, they will be admitted December 30th, 1936. Hege, Vail C .. 1348 E. South Street, South Bend, Indiana. Age 36. Pharmacist. Air mail stamps and Foreign first flights. By Walter J. Conrath. Hurd. C. R .. Milton. Mass. Age 72. Salesman. By Walter J'. Conrath. Air mail stamps and covers. J''eldman, William A.. % American Stamp Company, Far Rockaway, N. Y. Age 30. Stamp dealer. Air mail stamps and covers. By Geo. W. Angers. Morrison. Noel Scott, 133 Yabba Street, Ascot, Queensland, Australia, Age 31. Air mail stamps and covers and Rocket mails. By F. W. Kessler. Young, Alan Hunter, Box 2038 X.G.P.O., Brisbane, Australia . Age 39. Architect. Air mail stamps, Australian first flight covers, Zeppelin covers and Rocket mails. By Walter J'. Conrath. Bjerregaard, Percy E., 723 Foster Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Legal age. Air mail stamps. By Erick Hildesheim. Heaps, Harry D,. 845 Anderson Ave., Drexel Hill, Penna. Age 37. Business man ager. By Frank A. Costanzo. Air mail stamps and general collector. Jenkins, John Lyall, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Age 28. Hotel Clerk. Ar mail covers. By Walter J. Conrath. Grandstrand, C. o .. 351 Bedford Ave .. Mount Vernon, N. Y. Age 48. Clerk. Air mail stamps and covers. By Wm. R. Alley. 25 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

Suarez, Victor M .• Box #38, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Age 28. Dealer. Air mail stamps and covers. By Geo. W. Angers. Oakes, J. W., 1413 Chartres St., Houston, Texas. Age 28. Clerk. Air mail stamps. By Geo. W. Angers. Williamson. Mrs. Percy, 643 High Street. Pottstown. Penna. Age 46. Housewife. General 'and Air Mail stamps. By Walter J. Conrath. Christy, Stephen F., 906 Park Ave .. New York, N. Y. Age 26. Aviation. Air mail stamps. By Walter Conrath. Gervers. Paul P .. P.O. Box 31. Garfield, New Jersey. Age 37. Accountant. Air mail stamps and covers. By F. H. Wilde. Hughes, Llewellyn, 7723 N. Paulina St., Chicago. Ill. Age 44. Rotogravure Engraver. Air mail stamps and covers. By Geo. W. Angers . Martin, Bert H .. Box 542, Holdenville, Okla. Age 57. P.O. Clerk. Air mail stamps and covers. By Geo. W. Angers. Conrath, Grace, Albion, Penna. Age, legal. Business Man3ger, Airpost Journal. By F. W. Kessler. Schmieder. V. T .. Miss. 78. S. Hanover St .. Minster. Ohio. Age 39. Executive. Air mail stamps and covers. By Walter J. Conrath. ADDRESS CHANGES-New Address Shown Below: 123 Markee, Frederick D., 44 Otis St., Newtonville, Mass. 689 Wood, A. S., 15 Apollo St .• Brooklyn, N. Y. 1409 Devine, Clayton F., 828 Utilities Bldg., Chicago, Ill. 1543 Votaw, Ray c., 2314 Webster St., Berkley, Calif. 1612 Purdy, F. R .• 4443% Kansas St., San Diego, Calif. RESIGNED 1031 Clark, Malcolm S., 332 Virginia Ave., San Francisco, Calif. 1423 Philliber, Robert S., 219 E. Union St., Punxsutawney, Penna. Wishing you a very happy New Year- FRANK A. COSTANZO. Treasurer.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATES le PER WORD-MINIMUM CHARGE 25c EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT A. A. M. S. Members entitled to two 25-word ads per year this Exchange FINE COLLECTION OF MINT AIRMAIL Section, free of charge. stgmps offered for sale by private col lector. Listing over $325.00 at current EXCHANGE FOR AIR-MAIL STAMPS market prices, it is offered at $260.00. A or covers old colored lithograph flying complete typewritten list of material machines, balloons and pictures. De contained therein submitted to seriou:; inquiries. Address EAG. c/o Airpost scriptions sent. Rare. Edwin Frost, Journal, Albion. Penna. 79-2t* Morsemere Pl., Yonkers, N. Y. 75-2t. DAYTON ADDITION TRANSCONTI· I AM IN MARKET FOR AIRPOST AP nent·al Route 2-Ci::ncelled Dec. 17th: provals at good disrount from Sanabria Indianapolis field, Columbus and Colum bus field to Dayton; Dayton to Columbus prices. Please register if value over $10. and Indianapolis. $2.00 for the set to first Ramon Coffman, Shorewood Hills, Mad 10 replies. Perham C. Nahl, Oakland, ison, Wis. California. (H3PPY New Year). lt AIRPOST LABELS WANTED. (ETI 1928 PHILIPPINE, ZEP. CAMS FOR quettes) Unused. All countries. Describe sale. Bargain. S. T. Bors, 14 Merrill St., and price. Covers and stamps in ex Binghamton, N. Y. change. A. M. Hard, 1430 E. 1st St., Long SCARCE & RARE MINT AIRS TO EX Beach, Calif. change for used and mint airs and other stamps, revenues, precancels, cat. 10c up. lr'ATRONIZE AIRPOST JOURNAL Lots must cat. $10 up, but if necessary ADVERTISERS will take duplicates. List what you have, or send trial lot which will be held in BOUND VOLUMES safe subject to your recall if no deal. of the AIRPOST JOURNAL Basis even catalogue. Vernon Baker, Bound in dark blue waterproof fabri Ohio. 79-3t* coid. stamped with gold. Vols. 2,3,& 4-0ct. 1931 • Sep• NICARAGUA STAMPS. 100 DIFFER tember 1933 ...... $4.00 ent, $1.25; 150 different $2.50. We sell Vols. 5 & 6-0ctober 1933 to used 1-4 Scott. Airmail stamps. New September 1935 ...... $4.00 Vol. 7-0ctober 1935 to Sep- issue service 5% plus. S2nd want list tember 1936 ...... $2.75 and references. Richard Contreras Com AIRPOST JOURNAL - Albion, Pa. pany, Granada. Nicaragua. 77-3t 26 :JAe 9M-at AIR RACE TO SOUTH AFRICA

THE COMPETITORS IN THE GREAT AIR RACE ALL TO JOHANNESBURG CARRIED SOUVENIR COV ERS FOR A. PHILLIPS, AND THESE WE OFFER, subject to safe arrival, from $2 to $20 each.

1. SCO'l'T and GUTHRIE. THE WINNERS. Arrived 1st Oct. $20 2. CLOUSTON. Crashed 125 mi. south of Salisbury $7 3. VICTOR SMITH. Hetired at Khartoum $5 4. HALSE. Crashed at Salisbury. Sold in sets only 5. FINDLAY and WALLER. Crashed at Abercorn $10 6. LLEWELLYN and HUGHESDON. Crashed at Tanganyika $5 7. 'OSE and BAGSHAW. Crashed at Cairo $5 8. MILLER. Retired at Belgrade. Sold in Sets only 9. ALINGTON and BOOTH. Retired at Regensburg $2 The light machines could only carry a very small mail and therefore there wi!l be only 20 TO 25 COMPLETE SETS AVAILABLE These we offer at $75, subject to safe arrival, hut ORDERS SHOULD BE PLACED lMMEDIATELY. A few sets are being reserved for overseas clients and of the others only four sets remain unbespoken. They are a sound investment as short sets of the Australian Air Race now realize $200. SEND YOUR ORDER NOW. Covers are postmarked with departure and arrival postmarks and in many cases are SIGNED by PILOTS They bear the Cachet shown above. A. PHILLIPS GREEN LISTS AIR MAIL SPECIALIST #175. RARITIES. A Selection , #174 ATLANTIC. Two offers FOUR & FIVE DOCK STREET ~ #173. EDWARD VIII. First Days NEWPORT MON ENGLAND f"~ #172. ZEPPELIN. A Selection #170. ARGENTINE. Bargains Est. 1895 Tel. 3789 FREE ON REQUEST GREEN LISTS FREE ON REQUEST JUST OUT·Mi~:=ps

PERU, issued Dec. 15th. The most beautiful set issued by this country. Sc to 10 Soles, complete ...... $8.00 PANAMA, Large size Pictorial Commemorative Set of the Pan-American Postal Congress. Beautifully engraved. Sc to 1.00, complete set , ...... : .. $2.85 CUBA, 2 beautiful mo~ernistic values, issued in commem- oration of General Maximo Gomez, set of 2...... 20 NICARAGUA 15c on 50c and 15c on I Cordoba, set of 2 Provitdonals ...... 39

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