February 2018 Issue 25 TAKE OFF! AIR25 RU49 £250 £62.50 for 4 months 1923 Lympne Motor Glider Meeting, flown by glider on RU51 £175 £35 for 5 months a route of Lympne - Hastingleigh where it was dropped 1932 Imperial Airways Juba, Sudan - Broken Hill, Northern (near Ashford where the mail was then postmarked), Rhodesia. Good condition with Broken Hill arrival datestamp on signed by the pilot J.H. James. 125 were flown but we have reverse, only 7 items of mail were flown on this leg, very rare. only seen unsigned examples before, scarce signed item ARE79 £600 £100 for 6 months 1911 South African First Aerial Post with 1d stamp, the Cape Peninsular Flying Fortnight was launched to promote aviation interest and establish a South African flying school. The event ran from the 21st December until January 3rd during which time two aircrafts, a Blériot monoplane and a Paterson biplane, were used for several demonstration flights in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Kimberley, RU62 £250 £50 for 5 months 1934 New Zealand - Australia on ‘Southern Cross’ and signed by famous pilot Air Commodore Charles Kingsford-Smith. SEE MORE OF OUR AIRMAIL COVERS ON OUR WEBSITE VISIT WWW.BUCKINGHAMCOVERS.COM AND CLICK THE ‘FLIGHT’ BUTTON CATAPULT & ROCKET mail ARE226GE £125 £12.50 per month for 10 months ARE226GF £125 £25 per month for 10 months 1935 Catapult, Germany - USA with blue ‘D.Bremen 1932 Catapult, Germany - USA with green ‘D.Bremen Southampton’ cachet & on reverse ‘received at New York USA Southampton’ cachet (advance flight to Southampton from (FGN) under cover from PO at’ (means postmarked at NY Germany first then onwards to NY), with special Bremen New Varick Street Annex where much catapult mail was directed. York postmark. ARE226NA £75 Gerhard Zucker Rocket Mail postcard featuring him and the rocket, with special German Rocket Flight stamps and postmark plus a German Nazi Party cachet. ARE226Q £50 Collection of six 1969 Rocket Post items, 3 envelopes, 1 card, and 2 sheetlets, all flown and with multiple signatures. RU66 £75 1929 SS Ile de France catapult mail with good illustration, sent from New York to Paris and with Paris Gare Du Nord arrival datestamp on RU65 £50 the reverse. 1938 SS Europa catapult mail with block of four German stamps and red ‘mit Luftpost D.Europa befordert’ cachet, addressed to Washington DC. ARE226R £75 1935 Silver Jubilee George V Rocket Experiment by the Australian Rocket Society with special www.buckinghamcovers.com label and cachet. 2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF AIR25 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] ARZ51A £75 1936 Graf Zeppelin Leipzig Exhibition ZEPPELINS Flight flown Friedrichshafen - Leipzig with ‘Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Leipziger Messe’ cachet, on Berlin Olympics card. ARZ61 £80 1929 Graf Zeppelin Friedrichshafen, Germany - Zurich, Switzerland with ARZ60 £75 flown on board and special 1929 Graf Zeppelin Friedrichshafen, ‘Graf Zeppelin Schweiz Germany - Barcelona, Spain then returned to Fahrt’ cachets, postcard with Friedrichshafen on normal airmail service via illustration of the Zeppelin on Paris, posted on board cachet and nice Paris the reverse. Gare du Nord backstamp, postcard. RU44 £75 1933 Graf Zeppelin card flown on Switzerland RU45 £300 £100 per month for 3 months flight with green ‘Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin fahrt in 1930 Graf Zeppelin card with nice illustration of the zeppelin over die Schweiz’ cachet and Graf Zeppelin cancel. New York and red ‘Luftwchiff Graf Zeppelin Sudamerikafahrt’ cachet, flown from Friedrichshafen, Germany - to Rio, Brazil RU47 £80 1931 Graf Zeppelin postcard with blue ‘Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Landungsfahrt nach Wien’ cachet, flown from Friedrichshafen, Germany - Vienna, Austria, signed. RU46 £150 £50 per month for 3 months RU48 £125 1931 Graf Zeppelin card £25 per month for 5 months with red ‘mit Luftschiff Graf 1930 Graf Zeppelin card flown on the Zeppelin Befordert’ cachet German Round Flight which started and with nice block of four stamps. ended at Friedrichshafen, with a red ‘mit Signed on the reverse by Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin befordert’ cachet. K.Schonherr, the Helmsman The card has eight German airmail on the Graf Zeppelin, scarce stamps cancelled with a special Zeppelin to have Graf signed items. Day, Berlin postmark. www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 German Airmail ARG33 £35 1938 Hamburg, Germany - Esbjerg, Denmark, map of N.Germany and Scandinavia illustration. ARG27C £40 1949 Berlin Air Bridge official FDC, Brandenburg Gate and US,UK, & French flags illustration. BACK FRONT ARG34 £75 1928 Glider, Car, & Motorcycle Show at Krummhubel, Bruckenberg (modern day Karpacz, Poland by the Bruckenberg Mountain) with special Bruckenberg postmarks & o/printed stamps and cachets. ARG27 £50 1948 100 Days of the Berlin Airlift card RU64 £75 with blue border and 1934 First South Atlantic flight card via ‘Luftbrucke Berlin’ steamship ‘Westfalen’ flown by Deutsche cachet plus German/ Luft Hansa on the inaugural service to Brazil. English ‘Air Supply With a red ‘Deutsche Luftpost Europa - Operation to and from Sudamerika’ cachet and nice illustration of the Berlin 1948’ cachet. route, and Brazilian arrival datestamp on front ARG31 £35 ARG28 £30 29/08/53 Hamburg, Germany - Sao Paulo, 1926 South German Air Week (held from 31/5 - Brazil first flight with ‘1.Flug Hamburg- 6/6), card with the Karlsruhe Luftpost postmark Sudamerika’ cachet and illustration advertising dated 7/6 plus the special purple ‘Suddeutschlandflug the Leipziger Messe (Leipzig Trade Fair). Karlsruhe’ cachet. Want to spread the cost of your covers? Ask us about Flexi Pay! 01303 278137 Call 01303 278137 for full details. EMAIL: [email protected] 4 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF AIR25 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] EXTERNAL UK AIRMAIL ARE271 £25 1972 Fastest round the world flight race from Mansfield, UK - via Sydney - Mansfield, carried cachet signed. ARE53 £85 £17 per month for 5 months 1929 London - South Africa, this mail was flown by Union Castle mail boat to connect with the first flight of Union Airways on 26/08/29 from Cape Town. Route then split to either Jburg or Durban. ARE53A £100 £25 per month for 4 months 1929 London - South Africa, first airmail to South Africa, fantastic illustrated envelope with all 4 low value PUC stamps used, superb. ARI20 £30 ARK05 £20 1931 Imperial Airways London - Sudan first air 1936 KLM England mail, this was a leg of the new UK - Mwanza, - Netherlands first Tanganyika line, scarcer yellow illustration flight, our choice. ART125 £50 1931 England - Canada first flight by the new ARI63 £30 combined sea and air mail service to Canada via S.S. 1932 Imperial Airways/Tata Sons, London - Madras ‘Duchess of Richmond’ & then by aeroplane, nice first flight, extension of the London - Karachi line British ensign label illustration. which stopped at Ahmedabad/ Bombay/Bellary/ Madras, our choice of destination SEE MORE OF OUR AIRMAIL COVERS ON OUR WEBSITE VISIT WWW.BUCKINGHAMCOVERS.COM AND CLICK THE ‘FLIGHT’ BUTTON www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND AIRMAILS ARO26 £30 1934 Australia - New Zealand with first official air mail cachet, carried in ‘Faith in Australia’ ARO01 £10 1969 London - Sydney Air Race commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the first flight from England to Australia, RAF ARO35 £40 Little Rissing 1934 First official airmail New Zealand - cover, flown in ARO72 £40 Australia, flown by Ulm and Boulton in the Avro race. 1940 New Zealand - England with purple inaugural 10 ‘Faith in Australia’ flight cachet and illustration of seaplane landing. ARQ46A £50 1945 Qantas Fiji - Australia signed by Captain O.Denny. ARO99 £40 1959 40th anniversary of the first aerial post from England - Australia, flown cachet (50 flown). ARO81A £30 1931 Dunedin - Christchurch first airmail with map of New Zealand and ‘New Zealand was first country to use an air stamp’ info ARO81 £30 1931 Wellington - Auckland first airmail with map of New Zealand and ‘New Zealand was first country to use an air stamp’ info. ARQ41A £100 £50 per month for 2 months 1947 Qantas Rabaul, New Guinea - Sydney signed by pilot J A Bonnington 6 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF AIR25 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] RU53 £60 1952 Qantas Bangkok - Sydney first regular airmail service with Qantas 30 Years as Royal Carriers airmail label and signed by the Captain RU52 £75 £25 for 3 months 1931 Airmail with ‘Melbourne, Australia - Batavia, Netherlands Indies special flight’ cachet, nice mix of Australian stamps and addressed to Dublin. RU55 £175 £35 for 5 months RU54 £75 1945 Sydney - New Guinea re-opening flight with label illustration and 1945 Qantas Johannesburg - Sydney first direct signed by the flights Commander. flight with label illustration of the route,signed by the Captain 1959 40th anniversary of the first aerial post from England - Australia, flown cachet (50 flown). ARQ43A £100 £50 per month for 2 months 14/11/53 Qantas Sydney - Bangkok, signed Captain J Pollock and Captain J Haylock. ARQ42A £175 £25 per month for 7 months 04/10/45 Qantas Sydney - Singapore signed by Captain K Caldwell plus one. ARQ44A £125 £12.50 per month Want to spread the for 10 months cost of your covers? 16/12/47 Qantas Australia - Japan, Ask us about signed by Captain J G Morton Flexi Pay! Call 01303 278137 for full details. www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 INTERNAL GB AIRMAIL ARS06A £60 1934 Highland Airways Inverness - Kirkwall with first air mail label, first day of air mail ordinary letter rate. ARS05 £20 1934 Highland Airways first ARS206 £10 air mail Wick - Inverness. 1975 Severn Airways first scheduled flight Cork - Swansea. RU50 £150 £50 for 3 months 1933 International Airlines Ltd Plymouth - London first flight with a Western Air Express 3d prepaid ARJ22 £75 1937 Coronation first flight from Isle label, only 20 flown by of Man - Blackpool, illustrated cover.