The March 1952 Airpost Journal Volume XX/I/ Number Six
• NORFOLK'S HISTORIC MACE Symbol of Civic Authorily, Peace and . Good Will.
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Chosen as Site of 1952 Ameritan Air Mail Society ·Uonvention
Augus~ 29, 39, 31 AAMS EXCHANGE DEPABTMEKT APJ ADS BUY - SELL - WANT LISTS
RATES: I AM INTERESTED IN Am MA.IL FIRST Day Covers and £lights 1n exchange for TBJUI:& CBNTS PBB WORD per IDaer U. S. covers. I. Pistiner, Box 607, Spring Uon.. Hinimum charce 50 cents. Remittance mun accompllll)' order and cop7. The dale, Conn. Ex·lt AIB.POST .JOURNAL, APJ Ads, AlblOD, PeDD'L PLATE NO. SINGLES, BLOCKS, MINT, USED: also first flight covers; to trade SEVERAL THOUSAND FIRST FLIGHT for others I can use. George S. Chai:>man, covers, CAM's, FAM's, CanadiaDB, 50% 883 Euclid Ave., El Centro, Calif. Ex·lt discount 1947-1950 catalogues. George Chapman, El Centro, Calif. 263-4t• WANTED - ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS - 19th OPPORTUNITY. MY OWN COLLECTION. Century unusual cancels on cover; early New "LOW PRICE" four page Trana; illustrated advertising covers and mater. Oceanic and Souvenir Historical cover ial; swap or buy. Alfred C. Horn. 82 E. list. Also new lists :for Rocket Flights, Brown St., West Haven, Conn. Ex263·2t 114int A1rma1ls and A1rma1l on coveni. Compare my prices - Postage please. FOREIGN FIRST DAY COVERS WANT William H. Peters, Interlachen, Fl~~rai• ED in wholesale quantities. Will exchange philatelic material for same. Foreign cor respondents wanted to service FDC. Write FINE LOT OF 15 AIRMAil.. COVERS, Walter Brooke, Boyertown, Pa. Ex263-2t includl.ng 3 Zeppelins, $3. Remit Interna tional Money Order. K. Kroger, Schiller• str. 37, (22b) Zweibrucken, French Zone, WANTED TO BUY - ZEPPELIN FLOWN Germany. 259·12t0 covers and cards. Send offers with prices. Goris, 3F Rue de Berg, Paris 12, France. Ill AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, BARBER Ex263-2t Pole design, 24 lb. Parchment Stock, 100 per cent rag content, i11.oo per thousand WANTED - UNITED STATES, CONFED· postpaid. Samples Ten Cents. Milton ER.ATES, Foreign stamps and covers. Es EhrliC!J., 76-29A 167th Street, Flushing. pecially interested in rarities. john A. Fo'X, New xork. Member AAMS. 258-6t0 116 Nassau Street, New York 38, N. Y. Ex262-2t A.AMS EXCHAXGE ADS WANTED- METER STAMPED AIRMAIL iPlONEERS WANTED LOUISVIliL&. covers, also other Meterstamps, covers or White Plains, Ithica, Hicksville, Vin-Fiz, cuts, U. S. and Foreign before 1940. Cash San Diego. P. Sondheim, 80·08 35 Ave., or exchange. Herman Wasmer, 903 New Jackson Heights, N. Y. Ex-lt port, Chicago 13, Dllnois. Ex262-2t
NEED RARE AND SCARCE AIRPORT WANTED - ROCKET POST LITERA Dedication covers. Cash or trade for cov TURE, clippings, data, mater1al, etc. of ers you need. Harry L. Waha, 14025 Ash· world. Will buy, borrow or exchange. A. E. ton Road. Detroit 23, Mich. Ex-lt Carroll, Box 738, Bis Bear Lake, Cal1£or HAVE TO EXCHANGE FOREIGN nia. Ex262-2t early semi-offilcals, forerunners, histori cals, stationery, air events labels, Zeppe WANTED - CAM FIRST FLIGHT COV· lin covers. Molder, 19 Belsize, Toronto, ERS, 1946 to date. Write for more details. Canada. , Ex-lt Robert E. Haring, P. 0. Box 187, Demar est, New jersey. , Ex263·2t · wANTED: HPO COVERS. I'LL EXCHAN GE first day or anything you need for MEXICO C51-53 AND ClOS-107 IN V. F. HPO's. Any quantity of any routes want Superb condition to trade for better grade ed • .Terry Jarnick, Box 182, Superior, Wis Mint Airmail. Joaquin Rosas P.. 910 ·E. consin. Ex-lt San Antonio st., P. O. Box 81.2, El Paso, FDC FFC COVERS FOR EXCHANGE - Texas. Ex-lt Desire used stamps, world airs, George VI, Venezuela. Replies guaranteed. Phelps EARLY AIR EVENTS AND AIR SOUV Cree, Box B. Ocean Grove, N. J. Ex-lt ENIR labels exchange wanted. J, :r. Lohr, 1447 Minford Place, New York 60, N. Y. WILL EXCHANGE COVERS FOR ANC Ex-lt IENT Greek and Roman coins from 700 B. C. to the Fall, 476 A. D. P. Sondheim. 80-08 35 Ave., Jackson Heights, N. Y. lt MISSING C. A. M. FIRST FLIGHTS? WILL exchange CAM's :for mint u. S. Send fDr HAVE SEAPLANE FLOWN NAVAL AV Usts. What routes or _years do you need? IATION Amtlversary covers, also ship Nahl, 2014J Lincoln, Evanston, Dlinois. and flight covers. Exchange for unlisted Ex260-4t Scott Material and covers. Cdr. Murch, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Ex-lt HAVE COMPLETE SETS AIRPOST JOURNAL, 1948 to date. What do you need? Benjamin Ladin, 5701 Fifteenth FIRST FLIGHTS {CAM's) - 1934 TO 1950 Avenue, Brooklyn 19, N. Y. Ex262-2t offered slightly over cost. FAM's 1935 to date - 50% AAMS Catalogue Discount TRADE OR BUY CAM, FAM, F. F., F. D., ings. Superb. Showpieces. Horn, 32 Ster Zepps and Dedications. Dr. E. L. Beadles. ling Pl., Brooklyn 17, N. Y. Ex-lt Ashland, Dlino!s. Ex·lt Announce 1952 Convention Of American Air Mail Society For Norfolk, Va., Aug. 29, 31 • Labor Dav Weekend to Feature Kitty Hawk and Williamsburg Trio in Addition to Usual Functions • lr HE American Air Mail Society, largest and oldest organization of airpost collectors, has chosen Norfolk, Virginia as the locale of its 1952 convention which will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 29, 30 and 31. Rear Admiral Jesse G. Johnson, USN Retired, President of the Society, will head the local com· mittee on arrangements and a fine tentative program has already been formulated. Activities during the three days will include the Society's annual banquet, a visit to Naval installations in and near Norfolk, a trip to historic Williamsburg, Jamestown
THE AIRPOST JOURNAL 0.niiik~~UB~cA~~ ibc~ Entered as second·class matter, February 10, 1932, at the post office at Albion, Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthly. ll(AHCH. 1952 - VOL, XXIII, NO. 6 - ISSUE NO. 263 - 25c PER COPY 176 THE .AIRPOST JOURNAL United Nations Rapidly depict the San Francisco Opera House where the Conference on International Handling BC'.Jcklog of Orders Organization which drew up the Char ter of the United Nations was held in • 1945. There will be but one denomina TWO NEW STAMPS ANNOUNCED tion {5 cents) printed in blue. • The subject matter of the other stamp will relate to the United Nations activi ~'\ TOTAL of 1,113,216 first day of /"\\.. issue cancellations have been ties for the furtherance and protection provided on first day covers for the of Human Rights. complete series of 15 United Nations stamps, it was announced early in Feb ruary. K. L. M. Has Fine The stamps were issued in three groups on October 24, November 16 and Window Display of - December 14, 1951. It was necessary to engage a temporary staff of 114 to sup Airpost Stamps plement the regular staff of the Postal Administration during the period of af fixing the required stamps to covers sent in by mail to the UN for servicing 3:nd cancellation. In addition to the great volume of re quests for first day cover services, an unexpectedly large number of orders was received for mint United ·Nations stamps. It is estimated that approxim ately 16,000 individual mint orders were received by mail during the last three months of 1951. It was advisable, due to cancellation · and mailing processes involved, to pro cess the first day cover requests before mint stamp orders could be filled. This considerable backlog of mint orders cre ated difficulties of personnel and hand ling for the Postal Administration and resulted in some delay. Additional staff is now working on mint orders which are being filled at the rate of approximately 400 a day. The Postal Administration expects that the entire 1951 backlog will be filled with • To dramaiically call attention to in the next six to eight weeks. Special the Netherlands Centenary Stamp arrangements have also been made to fill Exhibition recently held in the Na current 1952 orders to prevent the oc tional Philatelic Museum, Philadel currence of further delays. phia, K. L. M. Royal Dutch Airlines The Secretary-General of the United devoted an entire window of its Fifth Nations also announced that the United Avenue Building in New York to a Nations will issue two commemorative specially prepared stamp exhiliil. postage stamps in 1952, one on United Displayed were huge enlarged Nations Day, October 24, and the other photographs of Dutch and colonial on -Human Rights Day. December IO. stamps upon which famous IC. L. ·M. The United Nations Day stamp will Flying Dutchmen are depicted. MARCH. 1952 177 Tenlalive ---·-- Program AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY i wenty-N;nth Annual Meeting and Convention NORFOLK, VA. AUGUST 29-30-31, 1952 FRIDAY, AUGUST 29 10:00 A. M. Registration, Monticello Hotel 3:00 P. M. First Business Session, Monticello Hotel 8:00 P. M. Official Opening, Special Aviation Exhibit, Norfolk Museum of Arts 9:00 P. M. Informal Get Together and Frolic, Monticello Hotel SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 10:00 A. 1)1. Registration continues, Monticello Hotel 10:30 A. M. Final Business Session, Monticello Hotel 1:00 P. M. Luncheon, Officers' Club, U. s. Naval Base 6:30 P. M. Mayor of Norfolk's Reception 7:30 P. M. Annual Banquet, Monticello Hotel SUNDAY, AUGUST _31 9:30 A. M. Bus Trip to Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg 8:00 P. M. Symphonic Drama, "The Common Glory" NOTE: The Convention Officially Closes on Stlnday, August 31 but for those Desiring to Stay Over for Another Day tl:fe Following Program is Available: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 9:30 A. M. Bus Trip to Kitty Hawk 8:00 P. M. Symphonic Drama, "The Lost Colony"
New and Unusual Service to, Collectors AIR MAIL PRICE LIST MINT & USED - SINGLES & SETS. WRITE FOR COPY NORMANDY STAMP STUDIO House of Alrmal'Ls Exclusively Box 4326, Normandy Station Miami Beach. Florida Want Lists Filled References Requ-~ ALTONM~ J. BLANK 1089 WINSTON ROAD, S
€C 0-CALLED "Permanent" sets •• lwiitas (small sheets) idea is kept fully ;::JJJ come to the front in this month's under control. At present the Isabella set review of new issue news. We have exists in perforated form in one color com some interesting ones promised for Ice bination and imperforate form in the re land, Cuba, Fr. Morocco, Ifni, and verse color scheme. Mistakes, under such Hungary. There is also the usual num an arrangement, can easily occur, e. g., ber of commemoratives. by inadvertently perforating the sheet BRAZIL supposed to be imperforate and vice In January we noted a set of two versa. Let us hope that the Cuban postal overprints and stated that they were administration will exercise extreme care available in used form only. Since that and vigilance in this matter! time it appears that 500 sets have come We now illustrate L.lie 25c value of the on the market in "mint" condition. We Isabella set chronicled last month. repeat our question: Is this an item of DOMINICAN REPUBLIC private nature? We have two groups Details of the soon to be released interested in the answer those who Columbus Lighthouse issue are at hand. possess the item at $15 and those who Designed by Joseph Lea Gleave, who is do not! also the architect and designer of the COSTA RICA Lighthouse, this set will be produced by From Ernesto Quiros A. of San Jose Thomas de la Rue in England. The sub we have received a First Day Cover con ject will be a side view of the monu- taining two values of the previously ment with a in flight caught in the forecast Isabella series. Values at hand signal light. will appear the signa- are 15 centimos, plum, and 20 centimos, ture of ·Columbus in symbolic form. De orange. Printed by Thomas de la Rue nominations will be: 12c ochre, 14c blue, and Co. of London the horizontal rec 20c sepia, 2Sc lilac, 25c marine blue, and tangles show a portrait of Isabella and 29c green. There will be 500,000 each the ships of Columbus along with per- of the first two values and 300,000 of tinent historical data. , the rest. Plans also call for small sheets CUBA of 10 in quantities of 250,000 each. The plans for 1952 call for quite a EGYPT number of stamps from this island. All 12 of the current airs have been Among them are a number of air items. overprinted in Arabic, "King of Egypt Promised for February but not yet seen and Sudan," according to reports. as we go to press are 8 and 15 centavos FR. MOROCCO values and April should bring high valu This year's "Day of the Stamp" will es of 2 and 5 pesos. These are reported reproduce the first air mail of 1922 as additions to the current series. Later (AP-1, the 75c value). The denomina on in the season the 50th anniversary of tion will be 15£. plus 15f. the founding of the Cuban Republic will A new set is due shortly consisting of find four stamps. These will be 5, 8, 10, four denominations: IOf, Chellah Ramp and 25 centavos in denomination. Minia arts at Rabat; 40f, Marrakech and Atlas; ture sheets are also promised. lOOf, Kasbah of the Anti-Atlas; and 200f, Just .~s an aside let us hope that this an air view of Fez. MARCH. 1952 179
-stamps for mustratlon, courtesy or F. W. KESSLER • Airpo&i Stamps of Recent VinJage
GUATEMALA iksjokull; and 3.30 kr. blue, Orasfajo Evidently the first stamp to take the kull. These miniature beauties are in place of the recent 8c bi-sect will be a keeping with the previous set. Face is 4c commemorative. This item is being approximately 60 cents. produced by Tipografics Nacional and IFNI will be in four colors. It will honor the To take the place of the numerous recent Organization of Central American overprints on Spanish stamps there will States and will show the _national flag be a set of six values released. Subject and the OCAS emblem. Plans call for matter is reputed to be a gazelle ~nd 2>000,000 copies to be issued. For those plane in an allegorical setting. Quanti who might wish to add the information ties and denominations are: 35c, 150,- to their write-ups, the OCAS is a five 000; 50c, 250,000; 1 P, 1,500,000; uro nation federation comprising Costa Rica, P, 1,000,000; 5 P, 500,000 and 10 P, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and 100,000. Salvador. HUNGAllY ISRAEL An 11 value bird set, triangular in The. Israel-Palestine Philatelic Society shape, is being produced in 2, 3, or ~ of America advises that two air mail colors and may be in use by the time stamps will be issued on April 13 to this appears in print. We illustrate them commemorate the Second National Phil and note that the denominations are: atelic Exhibition to be held in Haifa, 20, 30, ·40, 50, 60, 70, and 80 filler as April 13-18. The designs will depict 1, 1.40, 1.60, and 2 ..50 florints. scenes of Haifa and the stamps will have ICELAND a face value of 130 pruta. In much the same style as the recent JORDAN postal commemoratives there will be This country is overprinting "Fils" in three air values issued soon. Values, English and Arabic on its current stamps, colors, and scenes are: 1.80 kr. green, _ to replace the old currency of · mils. Snaefellsjokull; 2.50 kr. greenish, Eir- (Continued on next page) J 8. THE AIRPOST. JOURNAL AIRS OF THE MONTH- • The Attractive New Triangles from Hungary While not reported jt is presumed the_ set described in our January issue is now air mails will be so overprinted also. shown. . LAOS . . SAN MARINO The first of the Indo-China French The 200 lire air value in the V Cen- U nion to· produce air stamps is Laos. tenary of Columbus' Birth series is The common design will show a native blue and black and shows a map of the maid· weaving. So far but three stamps Americas with the Statue of Liberty and are noted: 10, 20, and 30 piastres. tall buildings and a portrait of Col~-: LIBYA bus. The stamp is engraved. We illustrate This area is now known as the United it elsewhere. Kingdom of Libya and comprises the We also illustrate the "Flood Relief' former political entities of Tripolitania, overprint chronicled in January. Cyrenaica, Fezzan and Ghadames. The URUGUAy currency will be in milliemes. No In the already familiar four motored doubt an air set will make its appear- plane design we have an additional ance in due course. value, 36c in blue. It is a product of LUXEMBOURG the National Printery. Courvoisier is preparing a three col- VENEZUELA ored set of four airs for issuance in con- Two more values of the coats of arms nection with the Centilux stamp show sets are at hand. The 71hc. green of the this May. Design is reported as being Caracas set and the 90c red brown of a reproduction of the first stamp of the the Venezuelan nation series are the two Duchy as well as the current one. The most recent to reach this writer. . respective items will show William III YEMEN 184941890 and Grand Duchess Char- A t' t d h t 1 commemora 1ve se an w a ap- otte. pears to b e th e b egmnmgs· · of a new MACAO . . . permanent set have reached us. The The thre~ items noted m Jan~ary issue regular items are a 12 bogashas, blue and are not . aus after all. Our ~ormant brown, showing a view of the King's was a bit befuddled and. whil~ the · summer palace at Wadi Dhir and a 20 sta~~s can be use~ for. air mail they bogashas, purple and brown, showing a defm1tely are not arr mail stamps. scene in the gorge of Ibb. They are SALVADOR large uoright in form The 1 Col. value of the Constitution "(Continued o~ page 206) More ... AIR MAILS SPECIALIZED We are pleased to offer a second portion of a Specialized Air Mail collection. This group is strong in Matched Blocks, scarce uses and sought-for items of the "Long Map" and "Winged Globe" Series. Scarce Lindbergs Book let First Days, Zeppelins and Clippers abound., Also Included* ... SUPERB CUT SQUARES and ENTIRES AT PUBLI£* AU£TION April 29th and 30th Request Catalog A szlvesferINCORPORATED colh1£ 505f/FTH AVENIJE·NEW YORK 17 Last Minute News of Interest to Airpost Collectors • ·HE 20th Annual STAMPEX, the order and will, no doubt, get the T great National Stamp Exhibition blame for it in any event! Inquiry dis of the Essex Stamp Club of Newark, N. closes that the order is to some extent in J., a Chapter of the American Air Mail the sender's interest in that space on air Society, will be in full swing by the time craft has been strictly limited and much this issue reaches most of our readers. parcel post prepaid at air mail rates has This show, usually held in the fall, has been necessarily held up-in some cases been switched to the Spring this year in longer than it would have taken to ef the frank hope that it will give the new fect delivery by surface means; thus the Philatelic year a bang-up send-off. New sender's air mail postage has been wast ark always puts on a grand show and it ed and the recipient disappointed. Again is felt that this year will prove no excep we state that Army-Air Force Post Of tion. The dates: March 28-30. The fices are under the jurisdiction of the De place: Continental Auditorium, 982 partment of Defense-not the Post Office Broad Street, Newark, N. J. Department. 0 0 0 Another fine show in the offing is that According to a Post Office Depart of the New England Chapter of the Am ment release dated February 18, the new erican Stamp Dealers Association which 80c air mail stamps will be printe~ from will be held in the Dorothy Quincy plates 24592, 24593 and 24595-at least Suite of the John Hancock Building, these are the numbers assigned to plates Beverly and Stuart Sts., Boston on April laid down for this purpose. It is very 25, 26 and 27. A stamp collectors' con possible that one of these plates will be test open to Juniors between the ages held in reserve and not immediately put of 8 and 17 and who reside in New Eng to press. land is being featured in connection 0 0 0 with the show. Valuable prizes have On April 21 the Jack Knight Air Mail been donated for award to the winners. Society will sponsor a special cover com This show will be a miniature edition of memorating the 40th Anniversary of the the great A. S. D. A. National Stamp First Aeroplane Flight on the Isthmus of Show held in New York in November Panama, accomplished by Clarence A. and should be a "must" for collectors in deGiers in a Bleriot machine on April 21, the Beantown area. 1912. Special labels and cachets will be 0 0 0 applied. Pilot deGiers, now a business Relatives of men fighting in Korea and executive in New York will retrace the stationed overseas will not be pleased route in a Pan American World Airways with the ruling announced on March 5 plane on that date. Information as to restricting Air Parcel Post packages ad these covers and the fees charged for dressed to APO's in care of the Post handling same can be secured from Da masters at New York, San Francisco, Se vid C. Crockett, 88 Elton Road, Stewart attle and New Orleans and to Navy Post Manor, Garden City, N. Y. Offices attached to New York and San Francisco to a weight of 2 pounds and COVERS - AIRMAIL - STAMPS to a size not exceeding 30 inches in length and girth combined. It should be Mint - Used Singles and complete sets on and off cover. ("Mr. Aero World") remembered that this restriction has been Our House Organ issued monthly ready imposed by the Department of Defense for distribution. Write for free copy. and not by the Post Office Department HARRY REICHENTHAL /.&. itself. However, the Post Office Depart ("MR. AERO WORLD") if~~ P. O. Box 73N, New York 60 (1!)1~ ment has been required to IMPLEMENT £ U. S. Navy Had Regular Air Mail Service In 1918-21 Period : • - ti·tet~N[;!!~.~\~£.~ , 1l. .&. Nnuy ArrlnJ t -~u ';/. \T Oicl'.\ll >MC!'\11' If a..u. ~\IUIGJ.NIA -:~~~. OFFICIAi. Yt.('SIN~ ~-"" r.... ,,..; ...1'1' ...... noo - . !Ul!Jll1(1, ll. • y::«W-- 0 ·Jllll.'!jit..inlt-lillll. JlL ":. HITHERTO unknown and un bring up the Navy mail since it took A catalogued air mail cover carried about two days to get a letter from Nor by Naval pilots between Norfolk and folk to Washington by ordinary means. Washington during 1918 has recently This was such an improvement that it . come into the possesison of President wasn't long before they were attempting Jesse G. John.Son of the American Air to make daily flights, and then some per Mail Spciety. We illustrate the cover son got the idea of using a special en herewith and it will be noted that this velope in order that this mail would be service was restri~ted to official Nary accumulated and dispatched by this ser Department mail and was not open to vice. Finally the service built into pretty the public. The cover in question was big business, as I recall it, letters going dispatched on January 29, 1919 from to all Bureaus, mainly to C and R and Norfolk to Washington via seaplane. Al the old Buteau of Steam Engineering, though the. exact date of the commence with Ordnance and Suply and the Direc ment of this service is unknown, there is tor of Naval Aviation getting the ~emain evidence that it operated on a regular der. I recall definitely that one day this basis from November 16, 1918 each day U. S. Navy Aerial Mail was suddenly until about 1921. Service was under the abandoned. We heard that the Post Of dir~tion of Vice · Admiral P. N. L. Bellinger (then a Lt. Comm.) and Vice fice Department protested and the unof Admiral J. H. Towers (then a Comm). ficial mail was, ·accordingly, discontin The initial pilots were said to be Lt. Ja ued." cobs, USNR and Ensign Harry David son, USNR. Although there is n9 record This is a fine item for Navai cover of the schedule of the rehrm flights from collectors and will find a place in the Washington,· the mail seaplane left Nor Souvenir Section of the Catalogue when folk each day at 1:00 P. M. and took supplements to this section are prepared. about one hour and fifty-two minutes to make the flight to Washington. A then officer connected with this - 1952 - Foreign Used Airmails -1952 service has written Adm. Johnson as fol lows: "With regard to the history of Now available for soc which also lneludes all supplements for 1952 and is deductible · these envelopes, I can only recollect that from the first order for $5.ot. we were flying planes more or less infre quently between Hampton Roads and GEORGE HERZOG. INC. Washington, and someone got the idea to 68 NASSAU ST. N. Y. C. == 2; • m -- = mA•E'ilR•0 £Ll f:¥:t: • 1111 POSTAL STATIONERY NOTES BY·IAN C. MORGAN 1455 Union Avenue, Montreal Z, P. 0. • NEW 1952 CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENT READY SOON • W!THIN a few weeks after most readers receive this copy of The Airpost Journal, the 1952 supplement to the 1951 edition of theAmerican Air Mail Catalogue of Air Letter Sheets will be available. The Catalogue Committee has decided to defer publishing a· complete new catalogue un til 1953 but will bring out this nominally priced Supplement which, when used in connection with the 1951 edition of the catalogue, will provide complete and up-to-date information on all air letter sheets issued to date. It should be remembered by all concerned that this is a Supplement to the existing catalogue and is oot a catalogue in itself. It will be needed by all present users of the catalogue and a combination price is available for both the 1951 edition and the Supplement for those who are not pres ently using any catalogue. The price of the Supplement is $1.00, pos't free and orders should be placed with the Albion, Pa. Publication Off!ce. A copy of the 1951 edition of the catalogue plus the Supplement can be had from the some office for $2.50 post free. HERE are a number of new is impressed stamps show various public T sues to chronicle this month, buildings in Angola, including post of the Portuguese Colonies being princi fices. Each value occurs on not only pally in the limelight with a total of 108 white, but gray and cream paper as new items. Readers are particularly di well. The colors of the overlays which rected to our Editorial anent these new occur on front and back of sheet, except sheets, and the forthcoming multitude where panels are required for addresses of new varieties from Spain, printed or other indicia, are blue, green, yellow elsewhere in this issue. green, and gray. We illustrate the 1.50 ANGOLA ags. herein. This style and format .is, Three values, each on three different used for all. of the other Portuguese Col colors of paper, and each in. four dif onies described hereafter. ferent coloring schemes add up to 36 CAPE VERDE varieties from this obscure Portuguese There are but two values for this Col Colony. All of these sheets are in the ony in the format and color schemes des format used for the previously described cribed above. Hence, there are but .24 sheets issued for Portuguese India in varieties in the complete set. The values honor of the tri-centenary of the birth are 4$50 green and . black and 5$00 of Venerable Padre Jose Vaz, but the black and brown, both picturing the , ' MARCH, 1952 185 Design of the New Air Letter Sheets Being Released for • Many Portugese Colonies post office at Praia. The sheets were impressed stamp shows the radbl te~e first released on January 2, 1952. graph station at Lorenzo Marques, while ETHIOPIA the 2$50 gray and brown stamp shows Last month we chronicled an air let the central telephone exchange in the ter sheet from this country, which is same city. sometimes known as Abyssinia, and stat Our correspondent Virgiilo Netto ad ed that it had been issued on Decem vises us that remainders of the 1948 is ber 14, 1951. The correct issue date is sue of air letter sheets have been de November 17, 1951. These sheets are stroyed as they were too heavy for the normally watermarked "Gray Valley desired purpose. He states that 200,000 Parchment" but due to the manner of copies of the 1$00 value were originally cutting are frequently found without issued and 152,408 copies were destroy watermarks. ed. Of the 250,000 copies of the 2$50 FINLAND value issued, 174,898 copies were de According to K. Blom a new aero stroyed. But 50,000 copies of the 1$75 gram of the (ace value of 25 mk. is to value were originally issued and some appear soon. • 38,407 copies of this value were de GRENADA stroyed. It is evident from the above Harold G. Fisher and Richard L. Sing report that the quantities of these color 'ley both have shown us the new air let ful sheets actually sold were compara· ter sheet from this British Colony which tively small and eventually they should was released on March 1. This sheet become highly desirable collector items. holds somewhat of a unique place in NORWAY that the imprinted stamp bears a por Richard L. Singley is the first to show trait of His Late Majesty, George VI, it us the new 55 ore . sheet with the newly being -issued subsequent to his death. added border of red . and blue· parallelo The ·impressed stamp is . purple and in grams. This sheet was issued on March · the design of ~e current stamps from 8 and in its new dress the sheet has a Grenada and is on gray paper with gray striking resemblance to our own United ish-blue overlay. The inscription in the States sheet. . · upper left comer is in the narrow set ST. LUCIA ting and all lettering is in d_ark "f?lue. From several sources we learn that a • LIBYA · 12c sheet, bearing the ·current stamp According to Harold Fisher, one .. or showing the Phoenix ·arising from burn more air letter sheets will soon be ·issued ing buildings, is on order and will by this newly · created state whic~. was ~ shortly be released. chartered by the United States and came into being early in February. ST. THOMAS It is somewhat of a relief to note that MOZAMBIQUE · , ~' there is _but one value for this Portu Last month we chronicled the 3$50 guese Colony, thus the total varieties . value from this Portugtie5e Colony and add up :to but a modest 121 The 2$50 can now report the receipt of two ad sheet has a green and black_ stamp pic ditional values which occiir in the saine turing the post office at Madalena and color and paper variety as described un was first issued on January 19, 1952. der Angola. The 1$20 black and green (Continued on page 203) ~t'i~ Official Publication o1 the 1 American Air Mail Society. Pub J\ijtt JJ1I®J~ almt~m1~l! lished monthly at Albion, (Erie ~ WORLD'S LEADING AERO-PHILATELI~ MAGAZINE ~ Co.), Pennsylvania, U. S. A. ii ESTABLISHED 1929 - Entered as second-class matter at the Post Gffice at Albion, Pa., February 10, 1932, under the Act of March 3, 1879 . The AIRPOST JOURNAL is not conducted• for profit. The Editor, Business Manager, and all other editors, feature writers and contributors serve gratis and without compensation of any kind. All receipts from advertising, subscriptions and contributions are applied directly to the betterment of the magazine and the ' ·promotion of aero-philately. EDITOR L.B. GATCHELL - 6 The Fairway, Upper Montclair, N. J. BUSINESS MANAGER GEORGE D. KINGDOM, Tyler Building, Conneaut, Ohio ASSISTANT EDITORS ALTON J. BLANK - 1089 Winston Rd., So. Euclid 21, Ohio GRACE CONRATH, P. 0. Box 519, Albion, Pern'a ERNEST A. KEHR - 230 West 41 Street, New York 18, N. Y. ART EDITOR EDWIN L. HASTRY DEPARTMENT EDITORS R. LEE BLACK - Interrupted Flight Cover News FLORENCE L. KLEINERT - A. A. M. S. Chapter News IAN c; MORGAN - Aero Postal Stationery RICHARD L. SINGLEY - F. A. M. Air Mail Routes WILLIAM R. WARE - Contract Air Mail Routes WILLIAM T. WYNN - Dedication Covers Assistant Editor ALTON J. BLANK also conducts "Airs of the Month" :i;:>epartment ASSOCIATE EDITORS FRANCIS J. FIELD F\ W. KESSLER DR. MAX KRONSTEIN THOMAS J. O'SULLIVAN JAMES WOTHERSPOON SUBSCRIPTION RATES Anywhere ...... :...... $3.00 per year. Second (duplicate) copy sent to Subacriber's same address, $1.50 per year. Back Numbers, 25c each; Bound Volumes, if in stock, $4.75 per volume. ADVERTISING RATES One Inch, per issue ...... $ 3.00 Front. Inside or Back Cover ...... $17.50 Quarter Page, per issue ...... $ 4·5° Composition charge for solid, tabular Half Page, per issue ...... $ 8:00 or special typographic layouts: lOc to Full Page, per issue ...... $15.00 25c per inch additional. Interested advertisers may apply for contract rate for space u.sed every issue for a period of 12 months. Advertising and editorial copy MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE 20TH OF THE MONTH preceding publication date. The right is reserved to refuse any advertising. THE AIRPOST JOURNAL has been published under the auspices of THE AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY since October, 1931. It has reached its hl&:h place of usefulness to the hobby primarily through the genius, industry and devotion of the late WALTER J. CONRATH successively Business Manager and Editor. To his memory are the future issues of the JOURNAL gratefully dedicated. WHERE TO WRITE Correspondence concerning advertis Department Editors may be written ing, new and renewal subscrii,>tions, direct at the addresses printed at the back numbers and bound volumes, top of their columns. All general edi address changes and other matters of torial copy and communications on all circulation. business matters of all other matters should be sent to the kinds and all remittances should be personal attention of the Editor at ent direct to the Publication Office at 6 The Fairway ALmON, PENN'A UPPER MONTCLAIR, N. J. ~----~------~------·------· AN EDITORIAL More Collector Exploitation ... HE long arm of those who thrive on exploiting collectors has finally reached T down into the newest phase of our hobby-the collecting of air letter sheets! It would appear that some countries are either flagrantly anxious to exploit collectors or that they are being very badly advised by those who are apparently willing to sacrifice the good of the hobby for an immediate and ephemeral profit. Several years ago this newest and most interesting phase of collecting, which brings together not only the airpost cotlector but the collector of postal stationery, was plagued by a number of privately prepared, but officially franked, air letter sheets from Austria. The procedure of bringing privately prepared postal stationery to the post office to be impressed with a regularly authorized postage stamp has ~ been legal and permissible in Austria and many other European countries for a great many years. There was-and is-nothing inherently wrong in this procedure _itself but, under the skillful manipulation of those anxious to reap quick profits from philatelists, a deluge of such sheets appeared within a very short period of time several years ago and were brought to the market at unconscionable mark-ups over the face value of the sheets themselves. At this tirrie the Editors of the American Air Mail Catalogue of Air Letter Sheets took the position that these privately pre pared sheets would not be given Catalogue recognition apd we like to believe that, due largely to this action, collectors have not been troubled with these emissions in recent months. Austria has now issued its first regular sheet for general use and it would seem that things have returned to rational good order in this particular country at this time. . However, within the last several months two flagrant exl1IJlples of a multitude of emissions not required in the Postal Service, and apparently produced only for cotlector consumptiori, have come to light. Five of the Portuguese Colonies Angola, Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, Portuguese India and St. Thomas and Principe-have recently come out with a series of handSome air letter sheets which are a fine example of the printers' art but, unfortunately for the collector, have been issued in no less than 111 separate and distinct varieties! It all started with Portuguese India which late last year brought out three sheets, each of the v;ilue of 12 tangas, but on three different colors of paper-white, gray and cream. The style and format of this sheet was adapted to the remaining Colonies mentioned but for these Colonies each value was produced in four separate color combinations on the three different colors of paper; hence, there are 36 distinct varieties in the set for Angola; 24 for Cape Verde Islands; 36 for Mozambique and 12 for St. Thomas and Principe-a total of 111 varieties for these five Colonies alone, Parenthetically, we might say that there are four other Portuguese Colonies from which advices l\ave not as yet been had! It should be perfectly obvious to even the most tolerant and zealous of collectors that the production of 111 separate varieties to serve a postal need for which ten separate sheets would have sufficed, is an imposition on collectors and exploitation at its worst. As a consequence the forthcoming Supple-. ment to the 1951 edition of the American Air Mail Cat(llogue of Air Letter Sheets· ~~ill list only the face different basic varieties of each of these sheets, thus permit ting the collector to acquire these as a minimum but to expand as far as he might desire through the whole gamut of ~olor variations. (Continued 'on. page 203) RANDOM NOTES FROM THE EDITORS DESK HE decision of the Post Office ltave made him beloved and respected T Department to issue an 80c air the world around. We congratulate The mail stamp will be applauded by all Philatelic Foundation on the occasion of thinking collectors. Those who are en this unique and valuable "acquisition". gaged in a world-wide commerce are The Foundation is located at 22 East 35th well aware of the need for such a high Street, New York 16, N. Y. value; furthermore, any postal clerlc or 0 0 0 mailroom clerk of a large corporation We have recently received from the can attest to large amounts of postage hands of Col. Hans Lagerloef, Honorary required on air mail packages sent to all Member of the American Air Mail So parts of the world. We imagine-as usual ciety and distinguished philatelist, two -that the Post Office Department will copies of "Catalogue VIII" covering Col. be criticized in some circles for bringing Lagerloefs 1948 and 1949 stamp dona out a stamp with such a high value, but tions to the Swedish Postal Museum. One if there ever was an issue brought out copy is printed in Swedish and the other for purely utilitarian purposes, this is in English and both are handsomely il one. As a matter of fact even higher lustrated. The catalogue has been done values · of air mail stamps are required by Nils Strandell, also a distinguished and some day the Post Office Depart philatelist, and we are particularly de ment will probably have to issue them, lighted to have our copy autographed by In this connection we are reminded that Col. Lagerloef. The collections donated a 4c adhesive air mail stamp for use on in 1948 and 1949 covered Bolivia, the postcards sent by air mail is also ur Netherlands, and essays, proofs and re gently needed. It is true that the Post prints of Denmark. The volume is de Office Department has available a print dicated to ex-President Herbert Hoover, ed 4c postar card but, as is well known, whom Col. Lagerloef terms "the great most of the postcards which are sent by est· living American". Col. Lagerloef air mail are the view or picture type re has been a great benefactor of the Swed quiring the affixing of adhesive stamps. ish Postal Museum as well as many other 0 0 0 worthy philatelic causes throughout the A release just received from Theodore world and the collections donated in E. Steinway, Chairman of the Expert 1948 and 1949 represent, of course, only Committee of The Philatelic Foundation a small part of his donations to the Post brings the good word that Sir John Wil- · al Museum. son, Bart, C. V. 0., Keeper of the Royal Collection and perhaps the world's most Elsewhere in this issue we have print distinguished philatelist, has graciously ed an announcement from the British accepted the invitation to become an Overseas Aircraft Corporation-familiar honorary member of the Foundation's ly known as BOAC-concerning the Expert Committee. It has been the first regular inter-Continental jet flight pleasure of this editor to serve with Sir service to be inaugurated direct from John Wilson on several lnternational the New York office of the BOAC Com Juries and from personal experience we pany but several other correspondents caIJ... well testify to not only his ability have also sent us information in respect bu~ to his graciousness and tact which thereto including Jimmie W otherspoon, MARCH. 1952 189 less than, on the average, half of th.ls 11 11 charge. It is true that if more than Angers · Publishes Memoir twenty covers are ordered (there are 42 in the complete set) the charge will be Of Siege Of Paris reduced to 56c per cover, but there is no getting away from the fact that it Pigeon Post Service will cost collectors $23.52 to arrange for complete coverage by this service. Un • der the circumstances, no doubt, most E have been honored to receive collectors will be satisfied with one or W the first numbered copy of a two covers in each directio~. probably specially prepared Memoir covering the from the terminal points. use of carrier pigeons in handling mail 0 0 0 during the Siege of Paris 1870. This From time to time we have mentioned Memoir was originally written in Feb the Airmen's Journal published monthly ruary 1871 by M. de Lafollye who was by S/Sgt. John F. Komfeind, AF16S24- inspector of telegraph lines and in 376, Hq 4S7th Maint. and Supply Group, charge of the pigeongram service for the APO 963, Clo Postmaster, San Francisco French Government during the siege. It Cal. Sgt. Kornfeind, a member of the has. been translated and published for American Air Mail Society and an ar the first time in English by Past Presi dent philatelist, has kept this mimeo dent George W. Angers of the American ed sheet, published under great Air Mail. Society, and Dr. Everett E. , full of news of interest to all . Thompson of Springfield, Mass. Typed the folks as home, as well as to phila and produced by the offset method, the telists. We are now advised that Sgt. brochure includes twenty-eight pages of Kornfeind has been ordered home to well illustrated material and provides a Chicago and that the January 1952 issue much needed document and handbook just received is the last of this interest on this particular subject, the glamour of ing little paper. Congratulations to our which intrigues many a speaker to de good friend for a job well done and our claim upon the subject but frequently best wishes for the future. • • While on without a foll knowledge of the facts! the subject of publications, we should While. this brochure. was not prepared like to record the receipt of a handsome for commercial distribution, we have publication entitled "Year Book of the prevailed upon the author to make it Philippine Islands" published by the available to students and others interest Philippine Philatelic Association. We ed for the nominal sum of $1.00 which note that many of our friends and mem will assist in offsetting some of the costs bers of the American Air Mail Society of production. If you desire a copy of had a hand in writing . this interesting this limited edition, send $1.00 at once booklet, particularly Pablo Esperidion, .to George W. Angers, 293 Bridge Street, probably ,the most prolific writer on Phil Springfield, Mass. ippine matters any where.in the world. 0 0 • Many of our readers are interested in the special cancellations used at the Air our Associate Editor located in Great Mail Field Post Offices of the Postal Britain. We do not want in any way to Transporatation Service. We have noted deprecate the good offices of this com- several lately which may be of interest. . pany in making this cover service avail On a cover carried by first flight from able to philatelists, but it does seem to New York to Frankfurt, Germany on us that the cost of 70c per cover is some February 10, 1952 by the Swissair Line, what on the high side if it is ·intended the cancellation which is applied in pur to merely offset out-of-pock~ expenses. ple reads around the edge of the circle As is well known, Pan Arru#ican World "New York (IDL.) N. Y. Air Mail Field Airways and som~ of the other American P. T. S." This cancellation was applied companies have been rendering similar at the Air Mail Field Post Office located services for many years for.considerably Interesting And Unusual Flight Covers L@t Long Delp _Yon -•"- Here are a few airmail covers that may belong in YOUR collection. Check You'll find several pages of offers of Airmail Covers, several pages of over these items and ask to see the ones that interest you. Or, beltei4 -·- stilL just send your check and ·order (in cases where only one is avail First Day Covers, more pages filled with Stamps, Albums. Supplies, able, you stand a better chance of landing the cover). Your AAMS Catalogs ~d Philatelic Needs in "THE COLLECTORS HANDBOOK". number is your reference. Look 'em over: - You may order by Number for Convenience - If you have a copy ••• send your ORDER TO LONG TODAY. SHIP TO SHORE: Sir Alan Cobham flew and signed this unusual...... Nov. 25, 1926 Moth Seaplane cover, bearing both U. S. and Brit- If you don't have this handy booklet, a postal card will bring you a FREE l$h postage. NY & S. S. Homeric postmarkings and a truly un- . copy of the current edition. usual cover <#31B) listing $10.00. Special (A64) ...... $3.50 USS LOS ANGELES: Several covers were cancelled Lakehurst, June • .-i---...... \ 5, 3 pm 1925 and were flown on a special inland flight of this ex ZR-3 which was commissioned by the U. S. Navy. Bearing the REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOU receiving mark of the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, this beautiful cover bearing a 2c Norse-American stamp for postage LIVE The Department Store of lists as Z-509 at $20.00. You don't have it in YOUR Zeppelin Philately is as close to you as cover! Get it! On t&e JJ.eX~ PCl.9'e are offered a few interesting and unusual covers • • • Thesf1> and many other fine covers are available from • • • from a very fi~ stock of Flight material. Life Member: 4 111. 2 HA\RK.JET STo' AAMS JELltllJER Ro. LO~G AP.S BA\UlR,SBURG, PA\o SPA A. A. M. S. Chapter News • FLORENCE LAMPORT KLEINERT ~cial program will be held on "Irish News of A. A. M. s. Chapters should be Night", March 17th. Exhibitions of sent direct to Mrs. Kleinert at Irish stamps, coins, music and movies 213 Virginia Avenue, Fullerton, Pa. will form the entertainment. Members • and friends are welcome at this meeting. E welcome the new air mail .. W chapter in Allentown, Pa. this The Essex Stamp Club, Chapter #25, month! invites all members to visit "Stampex 1952" to be held at the Continental Au- At. the January 15th meeting of the ditorium, 982 Broad Street, Newark, N. Allentown Philatelic Society, your Chap- J., on March 28th to 30th. C. Earl An ter Chairman suggested this society be- derson, Exhibition Director, 6 Myrtle come a chapter of the American Air Avenue, Chatham, N. J., has announced Mail Society. After a discussion, an un- there will be special trophies for the animous vote of the members was taken best exhibits of nineteenth and twen and as will he seen from last month's tieth century collections, a Grand Secretary's Report this Society has now award and 80 regular awards. become Chapter No. 29 of the Ameri can Air Mail Society. The Allentown "The Jack Knight Air Log" reports Philatelic Society welcomes all stamp the Jack Knight Air Mail Society, Chap collectors to its monthly meetings which are held on the first and third Tuesdays ter #28, met on February 23rd at the at the Y. M. C. A., Centre Square, Al "Norpex Exhibit" in the East Lounge of lentown, Pa. Please contact Robert C. the Edgewater Beach Hotel where the Jacob, President, Louis Krieg, Secretary, Ncnthshore Pilatelic Society held its an or the writer for additional information.· nual stamp show. The Jack Knight Kessler M. Miller, Secretary-Treasur-· Juniors will me.et on March 9th at Earl er, of The Utaero Air Mail Society Wellman's home, 8582 Oak Avenue, Chapter #27, reports the Chapter's 1952 officers as follows: R. S. Johnson, Presi Brookfield, Ill. Frank Pfeifer is con dent, Robert .A. Olsen, Vice President ducting a special class in "The Essen and Kessler M. Miller, Secretary-Treas tials of Philately". Barney Fialkowski urer. wa8 the guest speaker on February 10th The Christmas Party of the Chapter and showed specialized "Albania". · was held at the University Club in Salt Lake City, Utah and featured a skit on Perry Nahl will conduct an auction ~·cover Trading" put on by Kessler Mill for the First Flight Federation, a unit of er and Joy Squibb. Members and guests the American Air Mail Society, on March enjoyed the interesting United Air Lines 16th at 2014 Lincoln Street, Evanston, film, "6584". Ill. Members and guests are invited to Future plans for a chapter publica attend this auction. tion and member associated trips were made to be further developed this year. Donations are requested for a special The Boston Air Mail Society, Chapter "Helicopter Catalogue Auction", to be #1, had ETik H. Gould show his fine held in April under the auspices of the collection of "Music on Stamps" at its Jack Knight Chapter. Fred Holladay, January 21st meeting held at 6 Bow 800 Sperry Drive, Colton, Calif., is mak doin Square, Boston, Mass. Laura Le Vesque, President, writes that this Chap ing plans to issue a catalogue of Heli ter's February 18th meeting featured. an copter Flight Covers and proceeds will Auction Sale and Bourse books. A spe- be . used for this purpose. PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND OTHERS GUEST AT B. & 0. SALE CEREMONIES • Several ~ Officers and a Number of Members of the American Air Mail Society were Guests of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at a Luncheon Mark ing the First Day Sale of the Controversial B. & O. Stamp, February 28, at Baltimore. In the left Photo We Note Hon. Bertil A. Renborg, Chief United Nations Postal Administration, far left, Hon. Osborne A. Pearson, Assistant Postmaster General, USPOD, center and to his right Harry L. Lindquist, Presi dent, National Federation of Stamp Clubs flanked by Robert E. Fellers, Ass't Executive Director, Bureau of Finance, USPOD. Those in the Right Photo, 1. tor., are Norman M. Haac, Glenn L. Martin, Famous Pioneer Flyer, President Jesse G. Johnson, Director Bernard Davis, Vice-President Ernest A. Kehr, Morris Rothblum, Stamp News Editor of the Camden-Courier, and Sol Glass, President, Bureau Issues Association. All Photos Were Taken by Edwin L. Hastry, Art Editor of the Airpost JoumaL Edgar Mohrmann 'Europe,• fore.nost Plallalellc Dealer,, and would be happy to meet all philatelists interested in his and leading stamps autioneer of Germany, will be in New York during t:1ie mo~~s .of·· .. . '. _... ::> APRl·L and ·,, MAY auctions and. illustrated · bull~tin "Atlantik-Post". Mr. Morhmann, who is also an expert for the European States, the Old German States, and German colonies, would he pleased to meet with interested collecto~ t~ discuss t!ie . advant- .' ages of a connection with his firm. · · · · EDGAR MOHRMANN during April and May, 1952, at The 70 Park Ave. Hotel · 70 Park Avenue _New Yo·rk City,, N. Y. Mails Of The Pioneer Zeppelins • by JAMES WOTHERSPOON he study and collecting of the • I found this card at Place ...... · ...... T early covers and cards flown by Date ...... the German airships, is an interesting I have handed in the telegram At ...... ," and very fascinating pastime. and paid M ...... - ..... Little is generally known about the Address ...... Oberturkheim, July 31, 19119 very early flights. The first Zeppelin Bingen, August 2, 1909 Quadrath, August 5, 1909 flight took place at Manzell, near Fried Horren, August 5, 1909 richshafen on July 2, 1900. From that Dusseldorf, June 30, 1910. flight until the flight of the LZ-IV, from The development of aero philatelic the Lake of Constance along the Rhine mail, from the airships commenced with to Mainz and back to Echterdingen near the formation of the Deutsche Luftschiff Stuttgart, no mail is known to have been arht Aktien Gesellschaft ( DELAG) in carried. This flight was made on August 1909. The first airship to be operated by 4, 1908, and the airship was wrecked DELAG was the LZ-7 "Deutscheland", by a gale that same night, on the field at Echterdingen. which was acquired by them on June 22, 1910. Four trial trips had been car Special cards are known from flights ried out previous to the handing over of carried out by the Luftschiffbau Zeppe the ship to DELAG. The LZ-7 was des lin G. m. b. H., builders of the Zeppe troyed during a gale in the Teutoborg lins. These cards were similar to reply Forest near Iburg. Cards exist from cards, one side carried the address of flights of the LZ-7 bearing the printed the Luftschiffbau, and the other part name "Deutschland". carried instructions to the finder. Two types of these cards are known, one yel The second airship secured by DE low with the text . . . LAG was the LZ-6. This airship was "The. finder of this card is requested secured to carry out the flights which to immediately post one half 1lf this had been scheduled for the LZ-7. First card. If he returns this half to us he will re flight of the LZ-6 was made on August ceive a personal letter of thanks from 25, 1909, but the ship had not been ac His Excellency Graf von Zeppelin. Luftschiffbau Zeppelin cepted by DELAG at that time as it was considered too small. After being length on one part, the counterpart bearing the ened bv one compartment and carrying following: out trial trips between June S and Aug G. m. b. H. ust 21, 1910, the DELAG accepted de Fredrichshafen.'' livery on the latter date. I have found this card at ~ Place ...... Date ...... On September 7, 1910, the LZ-6 made I have posted the other half a flight from Baden Oos to Pforzheim At ...... Address ...... _ ...... and return. Members of an Air Society The second type of card is in blue, had on board specially printed cards, with the text reading ... with the text printed in green ... "The finder of this card Is kind'!;" re lST GERMAN AIRSHIP POS'.r'CARD quested to hand without delay at the The finder is respectfully requested to nearest telegraph office the telerram post this card. in the nearest letter box. contained on the other half. If 'he re The reverse of this card bore the in turns this half of the card his eXpelises will be refunded and he will receive scription in green . . . a personal letter of thanks from His Excellency Graf von Zeppelin. "AIR GREETING" Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and in black printing . . • G.'-m. b, H. Baden Oos ..,... Pforzhelm.. 4-9-1910. Fredrlchshal'en 4-5 N. Zeppelln 6. MARCH, 1952 195 The LZ-6 made 34 flights. The 35th from the shed, a violent gust of wind flight was to be a long distance flight to caused the airship to be driven against Heilbronn on September 14, 1910. The the wall of the shed. Damage was so ex airship was burned out on that day by tensive that it had to be dismantled. The a ·fire in the sheds. flight on which the "On Board" cachet was most extensively used, was the one Some cards carried on flights of the over Dusseldorf on May 7, 1911, during LZ-6, had been prepared for the LZ-7 Flower Day celebrations. "Deutschland." The text of these cards reads ... The card used was of official type with text ... Deutsche Luftschiffahrts A.-G. An bord des Luftsciffs "Deutschland" DEUTSCHE LUFTSCBIFFAHRTS A.-G von ...... den ...... •...... 19 ...... FABRTnach ...... Auf dem Startplatz des Luftschiffs Luftschlff z. Zt. uber ...... • "Deutschland" On this card the word "Deutschland., No postage stamp was us~d on the cards, was abliteratel by a heavy bar with only the "On Board" cachet being ap •"LZ-6" appearing below the bar, all be plied to them, these cards being dropped ing applied by a rubber cachet . . • the with no addresses. first cachet to be used showing the name of an airship. On the reverse of this card appeared the following . . . The LZ-6 only being .for temporary service, · the next airship taken by I;>E FLOWER DAY DUSSELDORF. 1911. LAG was considered as the replacement The finder of this card is to 'P&Y a for the lost LZ-7, "Deutschland". This finder reward to the Marguerite Day. ship, the LZ-8, was named "Ersatz J)eut After .the dismantling of the LZ-8, the schland". It should be noted that this next. airship to be put into servic~ was airship was the very first to put into use the LZ-10 "Schwaben", the first flight the. round "ON BOARD" cachet. This being made on June 26, 1911. · cachet on cards is extremely rare. The "Schwaben" was the airship used, along with the aeroplane "Gelber Hund'', on the Rhine Main airmail flights from June 10-23, 1912. The flights were made between Darmstadt, . Frankfort, Mainz, Offenbach and Worms. Special cards were issued for the flights, colored light gray and olive brown; also two special. stamps of l°J:?fgs and .. 20l!!gs, First flight of the "Ersatz Deutsch were issued. The Schwaben On land.. was made on April 1, .1911; in all Board" cachet was not generally used, 21 flights being made. On May 16, 1911, stamps being cancelled with a special as the airship was being brought out postmark, as shown below: ·Special Postmark Type 1 Type II ON BOARD CACHETS 196 THE AIRPOST JOURNAi,. In July 1912 permission was granted PIONEER ZEPPELINS to the DELAG to install Post Offices. (Continued from preceding page) aboard the airships operated by them• • Extracts from this permit for the first Cards are known to eXist from the above regular post offices aboard airship reads: flights with the "On Board" cachet im THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF '.fHE pressed. GERMAN POST OFFICE No. 50. August 21, 1912. The "Schwaben" made 219 flights, and Decree No. 118. "Post offices for receiving and d~aJing was destroyed by fire at Dusseldorf on With the ordinary letters and ),lOS.t c~rds. June 28, 1912. in accordance with the official postal requirements of passengers in the air ships when uaveling1 within Germany,. Previous to the installation of Post Of have been provisionally installed nn board the airships of the Deutsche Luf fices on board the airships, mail was tschiffahrt Gesellschaft, Frankfort,. dropped overboard, or handed in at the branch office Friedrichshafen, Boden see. Post Offices at landing places. Such mail Zeppelin Air Ships. had impressed the "On Board" cachet; rhe packages which are to bear the ordinary postal stamps will be cancell• the postage stamps being cancelled where ed with a hand stamp of oval shape mail had been handed in to the Post Of oearing the inscri:ptlon "Luftpost''. t:h• • name of the airship and date, without fice. The "On Board.. cachet always ap tune, of handing in. peared in red or violet. The packa1:es bearing the postmark are to be handed over by the officials of the airship to the local postal auth Mail dropped from the airships was orities as quickly as possible after landing. They will then be forwarded contained in bags of oiled paper, or by the usual postal services. Post pack.. waxed cloth, weighted with sand and ages should not be placed in local let ter boxes. The throwinc out of stamp with black, white, and red pennant at ed packages is also not allowed. tached. Also the message .•• The local postal authorities, after checking the postage paid,, and taxing FROM THE ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP! the unstamped and Insufficiently stamped packages, must attend to the rile finder of this bag is requeSUtl· to forwarding on of the post. hand it to the nearest Post Office as soon as possible. 50pfgs., are enc(osed Cancels as used on board the airships for trouble taken. by the official post offices . . • With the introduction of the P. O. brought into use on February 14, 1912, cancel, mail exists .with only this cancel the first passenger flight being made on on flown cards, but there are found also March 4, 1912. Between October 13-26, cards with the "On Board" cachet ·in red 1912, the LZ-11 made flights between or violet, in addition. The P. 0. cancel Frankfort and Wiesbaden, carrying was always applied in black only .There cards for the .National Aero Fund, the also exists cards with only the "On cards showing a Zeppelin flying over a Board" cachet, dated after the Postal Of city. A special air post cancel was used fices came into use, with town cancel on for mail on these flights, being of oval stamps instead of the official "Luftpost'' shape and inscribed . • . cancel. Such items arise from crew mem bers having mailed personal messages at Wiesbaden - Frankfurt (Main) LUFTPOST landing places. 13. IO. lZ. The LZ-11 "Viktoria Luise'' was being applied in black. MARCH, 1952 197 After about a thousand flights the Copenhagen. This mail also bears the "Viktoria Luise,. was destroyed .in the ·"On Board" cachet of the "Hansa''. airship shed at Leipzig on Jllly 5, 1912. On the outbreak 0£ the war in 1914 the "Hansa" became a war training air The LZ-13 "HANSA.. made its first ship. It was dismantled in 1916. trial flight on July 30, 1912. The most The LZ-17 "Sachsen" made its first notable flight of the "Hansa,., from a -flight on May 3, 1913. Its most interest collector's point of view, was the trip ing flight was to Haida, Bohemia. The from Hamburg to Copenhagen, Den "Sachsen'' departed from Leipzig on mark on September 19, 1912. This was October 13, 1913, for Haida, but had to the first occasion on which a Zeppelin return to Leipzig due to bad weather. passed beyond the frontiers of Germany, A second attempt was made on Novem also the first occasion on which foreign ber 2, 1913, but the airship was forced mail was accepted for transit by Zeppe to land at Liegnitz~ Finally, on Novem lin. Mail was gathered in Copenhagen, ber 9, 1913, the airship arrived at Hai· franked with Danish postage stamps, da, and departed the same day for_ Dres- and forwarded on to Hamburg to be den. The German Sports Club of Hai~ placed on board the Zeppelin for the which had _requested the visit of the flight. On arrival in Copenhagen this "Sachsen", had two special cachets made mail then received the P. 0. cancel of up ... These cachets were applied to various tween Leipzig-Zittau, Dresden·Liegnitz, types of special cards as souvenirs 0£ the Frankenstein-Liegnitz. Special cards airship's visit, but were not flown. Genw were issued for the flights, also a special uine flown covers from this flight should vignette, _showing Zeppelin over Lieg have the "Sashsen.. "On Board'~ cachet. nitz, and inscribed • • • Mail was carried -on the return flight, which bears a souvenir cachet plus the Flug Poste-Mark. Liegnltz. airship cachet. The "Sachsen'' became a war training On April 20, 1913 the Army airship ship in 1914, and was finally dismantled Zll made a flight between Dusseldorf at Duren on September 6~ 1916. and Cologne, which is of interest to col le0:ors as a mail was carried· on the trip. Mail from the ''Sachsen,., while in use as a training ship, is also known to have A special gray airmail card was ·issued, been dropped. also IOpfg. blue air stamp showing the Zeppelin over the Rhine, and inscribed: The LZ-120 "BODENSEE'' could be Erste Deutsche Luftpost am Rhein. classed with the pioneers, the first flight of this airship being made on August 20, A special cancel was also used for the 1919. On July 3, 1921 it was handed over flight .. '. to Italy, where it was re-named the "Es- Between November 5-9, 1913, the peria". "Sachsen" _made flights in connection On October 8, 1919 the "Bodensee~' with the opening of a Zeppelin landing carried out a flight to Stockhohn, Swed place at Liegnitz. The flights were be- (Continued on page 199) OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT • To The Members of The American Air Mail Society: Elsewhere in this issue you will find an announcement concerning our annual convention and it gives me a great deal of personal pleasure to invite you all to my Lome town, Norfolk, Va. for the Labor Day weekend. Norfolk is readily accessible from almost every point in the east and mid-west and I am looking forward to greet ing a very representative group on this occasion. I am sure that the historic fea tures of the beautiful Chesapeake area-to say nothing about the recreational facili ties-\vill appeal to all of you, and certainly those who have never been to either Williamsburg or Kitty Hawk will welcome the inclusion of these points of inter€St in the program. As the months roll by we will announce additional features and details concerning our convention, but I hope that at this time all of you will make your advance plans to meet with us in Norfolk on that occasion. Your .!?resident was honored to represent the American Air Mail Society at the first day sale and ceremony incident to the issuance of the stamp commemorating the first chartered railroad in the United States and, along with several others of our officers and members including Vice President Ernest A. Kehr and Director Bernard Davis, we were the guests of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at a luncheon held in Baltimore on that date. Not only were we able to greet many of our mem bers, but it was a pleasure again to share the company of Osborne A. Pearson, the Assistant Postmaster General, and Mrs. Pearson; Robert E. Fellers, Assistant Execu tive Director of the Bureau of Finance of the Post Office Department; Roy Nooh, former Deputy Assistant Postmaster General and now Postmaster of Washington, D. C.; Alvin W. Hall, Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and Post masters Edward J. Quigley of Brooklyn and Neal A. Sibley of Baltimore.. All of these are good friends of philately and many of them have been particularly help ful to the American Air Mail Society in its endeavors to promote the intelligent pursuit of the air mail phase of collecting. We also renewed acquaintances with Harry Lindquist, President of the National Federation of Stamp Clubs. Franklin R. Bruns, Jr., the Philatelic Curator of the Smithsonian Institution, and Mrs. Bruns; Sol Glass, President of the Bureau Issues Association, and others. Later in the day your President had the pleasure of speaking before the Marco Stamp Club, the active Baltimore group sponsored by the.Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Corporation and we again were privileged to renew an old acquaintance with Mr. Glenn L. Martin. During this affair it was my privilege to present the CAPEX tray, which I had won at Toronto, to the Smithsonian Institution and this was gratefully accepted by Franklin Bruns, the Curator. The multitude of air mail material included in this exhibit brought home to me the fact that all of our members ought to exibit whenever possible in every local iliow throughout the United States. It is a fine way of promoting interest in air mail. For example, at the Marco show, which was primarily dedicated to recording the history of railroad transportation, our member Lt. Comm. Bob Murch of Anna- MARCH, 1952 199 polis won the major award for his magnificent 4-frame showing of Umted States pioneer air mail covers. Sol Glass took first prize in the United Sattes stamp sec tion but I noted that the better part of his exhibit included matched semi-sheets and blocks of the 25c clipper air mail stamp! Ellery Denison of Washington took second prize with his fine Chinese first flight covers and Dr. ]. A. Buchness of Baltimore also scored with selected pages from his Lithuanian air mails. Never miss an opportunity to talk up the many advantages in belonging to the American Air Mail Society. All of us did this in Baltimore and we are sure that such a policy will pay dividends. Take along membership blanks and sample copies of The Airpost Journal and of our Catalogues when you go to these stamp shows and to your local .stamp meetings. The more people interested in our hobby, the better it will be for all of us and the more services the American Air Mail Societ!}. can bring to you and other members! .Respectfully Submitted, JESSE G. JOHNSON, President PIONEER ZEPPELINS - (Continued from page 19'1) , JOIN THE A. A. M. S. • en. Mail carried on this flight bore the "On Board" cachet and a two line cachet: -I~·~;;;oe-Fdt" I . COLLECTION BODENSEE I . 8 OKT.1919 I AIR POST ISSUES I - This very attractive -- 1 mint collection will I I be offered for un- I Between August 24, 1919 and Decem " reserved sale by ber 5, 1919, the "Bodensee.. carried mail I auction on between Friedrichshafen and Berlin. From September 12 nntil , October 4, I Wednesday, 1 1919, landings were made at Munich. I_ April 23 1 Mail was accepted for mailing at Fried~ i Send your request I ' richshafen, Munich, Berlin, and Berlin - for the auction Staaken. The "Bodensee" mail should I catalogue with tOc j carry the "On Board" cachet or postal v . to cover handling 1 cancel, of dates between August 24 and I charge. December 5, 1919, as the airship was ._,__ Ready March 25. -·--1 only in service during this period. H. R. HARMER, INC. I'" This has not been intended to be a 32 E. 57th St, New York 22, N. Y. complete record of flights of the pioneer 1I Also in London, England, and Sydney, a Zeppelins, but more as a resume of the e Australia ! I Distributing Agents for Rapkin's I more important flights carried out by the I . Albums and Accessories. I various Zeppelins...... 0.-.(>4111-4:,.....,....tt.-.,).-,.04B:)>()~>.-.c:).... ) ....0.-.. New York Area To Receive Helicopter Air Mail Later This Year • by SAMUEL S. GOLDSTICKER. JR. President First Flight Federation • (l)-LaGuardia Airport; Great Neck, Hicksville, Garden City, i'reeport, I N a recent decision, the Civil Rockville Center, and Long Beach to Far Rockaway. (all in N. Y.) Aeronautics Board announced its long (2)-LaGuardia Airport; New Rochelle; awaited opinion in the "New York Area Marmaroneck; Rye (all in N. Y.); Greenwich, Stamford, south Nor Helicopter Case" by selecting New York walk, and Fairfield to Bridgeport Airways to operate a series of shuttle and (Conn.). (3)-LaGuardla Airport, Mt. Vernon, suburban routes radiating from LaGuard Yonkers, Scarsdale, White Plains, ia, Idlewild, and Newark Airports. Tarrytown and Ossming to Peekskill. all in N. Y.). The shuttle routes which this carrier (4)-Newark Airport, North Bergen, will operate are between the above air Englewood and Hackensack to Ridge wood. ports, and between each of these airports (5)-Newark Airport, Rutherford and and a point in midtown New York City Passaic to Paterson. (6)-Newark Airport, Montclair, Sum (probably the roof of the Port Authority mit and Morristown to J)over. Bus Terminal or the roof of one of the (7)-Newark Airport, Westfield; Plain field, New Brunswick and Princeton new Airline Terminals presently under to Trenton. construction). Passengers as well as mail (8)-Newark Airport, Staten Island (NY), Perth Amboy, Red B!i'nk and will be carried on these flights, which Long Branch to Asbury Park. NOTJ;:: will reduce the travel time between air All points on routes 4 througli11\(ex ports from hours to minutes. This will cept Staten Island are in New Jersey. be quite an aid to passengers arriving at In addition to the above points, the one airport but having to get a connect Civil Aeronautics Board will also permit ing plane at another. New York Airways to serve any other During the first year of operations, point within the Greater New York suburban service will be confined to mail Area, provided of course the Board gets only on the following . "clover-leaf" advance notification. The Board defined routes: the Greater New York Area as that area "N"-LaGuardia Airport (New York bound by Freeport, Bridgeport, Peeks City), Mt. Vernon,. New Rochelle, Scarsdale, White Plains, Greenwich kill, Dover, Trenton, and Asbury Park. (Conn.), South Norwalk (Conn.) However, the carrier claims no point Bridgeport (Conn.), Pleasantville, Tarrytown, Yonkers, back to La within ten miles of any major airport will Guardia Airport. be served. One of the initial effects of "E"-LaGuard:la Airport (NYC), Great Neck, Hicksville, Garden City, Free this "blanket decision" may be to add to port, Rockville Center, Long Beach, the mail routes certain points which Far Rockaway, Staten Island, back to LaGuardia Airport. NOTE: Except were certified on the passenger routes, where noted, all points on routes N but not on the circular mail routes. . . & E are in New York State. "S"-Newark, Plainfield, New Bruns such as Mamaroneck, Rye, Fairfield, wick, Princeton, Asbury Park," Long Peekskill, Ossining, and Scarsdale on Branch, Red Bank Perth Amboy, back to Newark Airport.1 route N; Ridgewood, Dover, and Mont "W"-Newark Airport, North Bergen, clair on route W; and Westfield and Englewood, Hackensack, Rutherford, Passaic, Clifton, Paterson, Morristown, maybe Trenton on route S. So far as Summit, back to Newark Airport. possible, only first-class postoffices will NOTE: All points on routes S & W are in New Jersey. be served via these Helicopter routes. After one year of operations, these Although the Civil Aeronautics Board "clover-leaf' mail routes are to be re selected New York Airways as the car placed by a series of linear routes radiat rier to operate these 1 routes, it did not ing from Newark and LaGuardia Air award this carrier its Certificate of Con ports to major terminals at the outside venience and Necessity until early of the area. These routes will include: (Continued on page 202) Just a ~·- n the oceasion of the FIRST DAY OF ISSUE of the fom o U. N. AIR MAIL stamps, 100 numbered sets of special· ly cacbeted and autographed covers were prepared, to he sold for the benefit of the Publication fund of the o/merican ofir _Jlail Sociellj Each cover bears the specially designed printed cachet used by the U. N. itself in sending its own covers for distribution to the press and distinguished personages. The set of four covers is properly franked with one each of the four air mail stamps on each cover and has of course, the official FIRST DAY OF ISSUE cancellation on each. IN ADDITION, each of the four covers is autographed by one of the following distinguished persons connected with the first day ceremonies: · BON. BERTIL RENBORG Chief, United Nations Postal Administration HON. ALBERT GOLDMAN Postmaster, New York, N. Y. BERNARD DAVIS Director, National Philatelic Museum and Member of the Board which chose the desii:ns for the u. N. stamps, ADM. JESSE G. JOHNSON, USN (Ret'd.) President, American Air Mail Society SPECIAL · $zso Post PRICE Set of 4 covers Free YES, you can have another set or sets - until Supply Is Exhaust ed - even if you ordered previously. ACT NOW! Send order to , JESSE 0. JOHNSON President A. A. M. S. CARDINAL POINT NORFOLK 8, VA. Overseas Airpost Notes • by JAMES •WOTHEBSPOON • HOLLAND ers are cancelled STOCKHOLM AVG December 4, 1951. Amsterdam-Tok A 28-1-52, and were backstamped the io, Japan. same day on arrival in the islands. No K. L. M. inaugurated service from official cachet was used but some mail Schipol Airport; mail received a circular exists with' a private printed cachet violet cachet depicting a bird in flight showing helicopter, and the text . . . over a rising sun and the text . • . • MED/BY/PAR "EERSTE VLUCHT KLM LIJNDIEN FORSTRA-FIRST-PREMIER ST AMSTERDAM-TOKIO-Schipol 4 HELICOPTER December 1951." On arrival in Tokio Bromma-Gallnoby-Stavsudda the mail was backstamped on the 7th. Moja--Husaro-Ingmarso-Skalvik December 7, 1951. Amsterdam-Sid Bromma 28 Febr. 1952. ney, Australia. Pilot. N. G. Grimskog. K. L. M. inaugurated service to Syd Osterman Aero A. B. ney on the above date, via Biak, Dutch "Febr." has been deleted from the New Guinea. Mail received a circular cachet and "Janr." inserted in script. cachet in violet, showing a four motor plane and the text . . . "EERSTE • VLCHT KLM LIJNDIENST AMSTER DAM-SYDNEY. SCHIPOL 7 DECEM N. Y. HELICOPTER BER 1951". Mail was backstamped at (Continued from paire 200) Sydney the 11th on arrival. Mail from Biak received cachet similar to Tokio • March and has not as yet assigned its service cachet but in black, without ris ing sun, and BIAK in place of SCHI route number. POL. Return first flight mail fro~ Au During this time, the unsuccessful ap stralia bears cancel of Sydney, Decem plicant, Metropolitan Airways, was pur ber 12, and a cachet in violet • . . . chased by Robinson Airlines (operators "AUSTRALIA - HOLLAND, map of of AM-94) to form a subsidiary corpora route, DEC. 51. FIRST REGULAR AIR tion, Helicopter Holdings. The Federal MAIL BY K. L. M. Mail was back Courts have been petitioned to order the stamped Dec. 16 on arrival at Amster CAB for a rehearing and a new decision, dam .. and should this materialize, service can not begin. Due to· the possibility of AUSTRALIA there being a new decision on these January 31, 1952. routes, the unavailability of equipment Sydney-Cocos Islands, Indian Ocean. and trained personnel and the unfortun· On January 31, 1952 QU.ANTAS com ate closing of Newark Airport it is ra menced a service carrying mail- and sup ther obvious that service will not be plies to the Cocos Islands, for the con started until late this year, probably struction workers building the airfield about September. In fact, should there to be used for the proposed Australia to be a revised decision, it is likely that Africa service. there will be revisions in the route struc tures which would make much of the SWEDEN preceding information obsolete. With January 28, 1952. Stockholm. this in mind, it is suggested that NO The annual winter helicopter service COVERS BE SENT TO POSTMAST to the Islands off Stockholm commenced ERS, AMF, ECT, until more certain in on the above date. In previous years the formation can be obtained. Details will service operated from Lindarangen Air be in The Airpost Journal and other air Port but this year's service operates from mail publications as the situation devel Bromma, the airport for Stockholm. Cov- ops. MARCH, 1952 203 MORE COLLECTOR EXPLOITATION (Continued from• pare 181) Spain had already produced a large variety of listable sheets in that the different rates to various countries required sheets of many different face values. In addi tion these sheets-which incidentally are no credit to the printers' art-exist ~n sev eral colors of overlay and basic plate variations. We are now advised that, effective February 1, this country has standardized on .an air letter rate of 4 pesetas to any country in the world. There can be no quarrel with this arrangement, of course, but the rub lies in the fact that te public is not to be permitted to raise the value of the existing sheets by affixing adhesive stamps but must return these sheets to the Post Office Department for credit. The public will ten be issued composite sheets -as long as they are available-made up by applying an additional meter impres sion in whateve,r amount may be necessary to bring the basic overprinted sheet up to the value of 4 pesetas! The varieties possible under this arrangement are legion and we have no doubt but that every possible combination will eventually appear! A few seen to date show the added meter impression at the bottom of the sheet or at one or the other sides of the sheet and we have no doubt that some of these will be found upside down and some reading down. The Editors of the Catalogue have no intention. of contributing to this completely unnecessary exploitation by listing all the possible variations in meter location which, may appear under these conditions. The Spanish Post Office Department on its. own initiative-or had it been properly advised by interested philatelists-could have avoided all of this by the simple expedient of destroying the limited stocks of unused sheets of various denominations still on hand. To have done so it would have suffered a very small monetary loiss but one of little consequence compared to the prestige this Postal Administration has lost by a breach of good faith with philatelists the world around. -L.B. G. AIR LETTER SHEETS isting sheets were not permitted to at (Continued from page 185) tach additional adhesive stamps to make up the new rate of 4 pesetas. These • sheets had to be turned into the post SOMALILAND offices and redeemed. However, the Sam HantnWn, writing in W estem post office-:it says here-wishing to uti Stamp Collector, states that an air letter lize the stock of sheets on hand and al sheet was issued on December 1, 1951. ready impressed with meter stamps of This sheet has not been seen and until various and sundry values, is in the pro some one produces a copy this report cess of printing additional meter im will have to be regarded as an uncon pressions on each of these values to raise firmed rumor. them to the desired 4 pesetas! Some of SPAIN these impressions have been placed on According to F. W. &ssler, by a re the bottom of the sheet, some on the left cent decree, the rate for air letter sheets edge, some right-side up and some up to any point in the world has been side down. The number of varieties pos standardized at 4 pesetas. At the same sible under this arrangement are legion. time the authorities demonetized all pre Although a number have already ap vious air letter ·sheets which, as is well peared, we think that we will hold the known, were produced by printing a chronicle of them until some later date. metered impression upon the basic sheet. For some peculiar reason, known only to Perhaps by that time there will be no the authorities, and apparently without interest in them whatsoever! any logical justification, holders of ex- (Continued on page 206) PRESIDENT Rear Admiral JESSE G. JoHNsoN, U. S. N. (Ret'd) Cardinal Point Norfolk 8, Va. EXECUTIVE BOARD (Former Presidents) HARRY A. TRUBY WILLIAM R . .ALLEY GEORGE w. ANGERS RICHARD L. SINGLEY HERBERT H. GRIFFIN GEORGE D. KINGDOM L. B. GATCHELL M. 0. WARNS GRACE CONRATH VICE-PRESIDENTS ALTON J. BLANK J. P. V. HEINMULLER CLAUDE w. DEGLER ERNEST A. KEim A Non-Profit Corporation SECRETARY-TREASURER Under the Laws of Ohio JoHN J. SMITH Organized 1923 Ferndale & Emerson Sts. Incorporated 1944 Philadelphia 11, Pa. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DffiECTORS EDITOR OF PUBLICATIONS THE AlRPosT JoURNAL Term Expires 1955 Published monthly and sent to ALBERT N. BROWN L. B. GATCHELL all members in good standing. California 6 The Fairway Upper Montclair, N. J. EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT BERNARD DAVIS Each member is entitled to Pennsylvania ATTORNEY two 25-word Exchange Notices per year in the Official Publica GEORGE D. KINGDOM tion, without charge. Address PERHAM c. NAHL direct to the publication office Illinois CHAPTER CHAIRMAN at Albion, Penn'a. FLORENCE KLEINERT WILLIAM T. WYNN, JR. ADVANCE BULLETIN SERVICE Michigan GRACE CONRATH HISTORIAN - RECORDER Mana1rer Term Expires 1953 KARL B. WEBER The Airpost Journal, Albion, Penn'a. LOUISE DAVIS HOFFMAN The Advance Bulletin is sent New York regularly by the manager only DIRECTOR OF to those members who are in FOREIGN RELATIONS good standing and provide a THEODORE LIGHT DR. MAX KRoNSTEIN supply of self-addressed regula Illinois tion Government Postal Cards. KESSLER M. MILLER AUCTION DEPARTMENT SALES DEPARTMENT CHARLES G. fuEss ALTON J. BLANK Utah Manager Mana1rer 1089 Winston Rd. JAMES WoTHERSPOON P. 0. Box 11 South Euclid 21, Ohio Great Britain Albany, N. Y. MEMBERSHIP DUES $3.00 PER YEAR Dues include subscription to THE AIRPOST JOURNAL. Applicants must ·furnish two references, philatelic preferred. At least one of these references must reside in Applicant's home town. Applicants under 21 years of age'must be guaranteed by Parent or Guardian. Membership is a privilege - not a right - and may be terminated by the Society .in acco~dance with its By-Laws. WRITE SECRETARY-TREASURER FOR APPLICATION BLANK SE~RETARY'S REPORT • NEW MEMBERS 3801 Santonastasi, Alphonse R., 2901 E. Venango Street, Philadelphia 34, Pa. 3802 Dickey, H. S. Newton, Kansas. 3803 Jones, Martin G., 925 19th Ave., New Westminster, B. C., Canada. 3804 Altuway, Memduh, Akaratler Dibek, Cikmazi 2/1, Besiktas-lstanbul, Turkey. 3805 Joshi, Govinda Dass, 9/37 Keltole, Kathmandu, Nepal. 3807 Hutchinson, William, 20 Teresa Place, Buffalo 10, N. Y. NEW APPLICATIONS Tost, William C., 79 Cloverly Road, Grosse Pointe Farms 30, Mich. Age 42. Mer- chandise Manager. AM U 20 UC X by George J. Gruen. Shannon, James R., Box 1019, Redding, Calif. Age 48 by Fred W. Kessler. Hauptmann, H. C., 56 Manchester Road, Tuckahoe, N. Y. Age 48. Circ. Manager. AM UC GF CAM FAM ID by Grace Conrath. Rosenfeld, Maynard, 519 Jefferson Avenue, Woodbine, N. J. Age Legal. Stamp Deal- er. by Grace Conrath. Held, Martin M., 6151 Broadway, San Diego, 14, Calif. Age 61. Retired. PC HC GF CAM FAM OF ID by Grace Conrath. Boyd, John K., Box 55, Waverly Station, Baltimore 18, Md. Age 38. Electrician. AM AU UC PC HC FF GF CAM FAM CC OF DC Z CF lD by Wm. T. Wynn, Jr. REINSTATEMENT 520 Peer, Walter D., P. 0. Box 23, Canal Winchester, Ohio. CHANGES IN NAME West, Barbara P. has changed her name by marriage to Barbara P. Ohre. DEATHS REPORTED Horwitz, Edward S., Cincinnati, Ohio. McCormick, F. R. A., Dµblin, Ireland. CHANGES IN ADDRESS Bogost, Meyer S., c-o Public Works Office, 14th Naval Dist., Navy No. 128, c-o F. P. 0., San Francisco, Cal. Harley, John H., Hotel Kancher, Waukeegan, Ill. Irwin, J. Robert, 1803 Johnson St., N. E., Minneapolis 18, Minn. Keams-Preston, D. A., 6731h Valley St., Lewistown, Pa. Thurman, Emil A., 1354 St. Bernard St., New Orleans 16, La. Williamson, Robert F., 1222 Oak St., South Pasadena, Calif. Wilson, James H., 1824 Sullivan Canyon Road, Los Angeles 49, Calif. 206 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL RANDOM NOTES - next donation ..auction. .. .. We are glad to note that the Charles at Idlewild International• Airport and the F. Durant Air Mail Society of Albany, indicia "IDL" is included in order to N. Y., under the guidance of President distinguish this Field Post Office from Charles G. Riess, is holding regular meet the one which has been in use for many ings and attracting new members from years at La Guardia Field, also located the Albany-Rensselaer-Schenectady area. at New York. .. We have also noted a The new Society, which is a chapter of letter mailed at Miami International Air the American Air Mail Society, was re port, machine canceled "International cently written up in local papers in Al Airport, Florida". In this connection it bany... It was also good to hear again should be noted that, while this is an in from our traveling member, George P. teresting cancellation, this is not an Air Collier of San Juan, Puerto-this time Mail Field Post Office but is a regular from Port of Spain, Trinidad. post office located adjacent to and im And so to bed. mediately outside the gates of Miami In Ill ternational Aixport. It should be further AIR LETTER SHEETS - noted that the name of the Post Office (Continued from page 203) is "International Airport, Florida," rather than "Miami International Airport, Flor SUDAN • ida." An air letter sheet, obviously patten1ed after the British type sheet, was recently Through the courtesy of Lt. Comm. issued and has been shown us by Messrs. Bob Murch we have received a cover Shavak Mistry, Walter Guthrie and posted at Barrow, Alaska on March 7, Richard L. Singley. The sheet is on un 1952, which Bob tells us was secured watermarked light blue air mail paper, through the courtesy of Lt. Clyde Mor the same as used for the British sheets rison, USN, a Naval aviator presently on and for many of the Crown Colonies, but duty at the U. S. Naval Academy, which the description at top appears in both was carried from the Patuxent Naval English and Egyptian characters. All Airport Center to Barrow, Alaska on a printing is in light blue with the excep special flight named "Operations Ski tion of the impressed stamp which is Jump Two" which was widely publicized printed in orange and is a horizontal by the Associated Press. Lt. Morrison oblong in the desibn and format of the who has recently joined the American current 21h Pt. air mail stamp picturing Air Mail Society, advises us that Kassala Jebel. Naval P2V Neptune planes equipped • with skis were flown to Barrow AIRS OF THE MONTH-· in various stages and are presently con (Continued from page 180) ducting ice landings. It is believed that \Ve have not seen the commems yet one or more of the planes will be able but they are for two different affairs. to land on the ice at the North Pole and The 1 Imadi is for the accession of his if this is accomplished it will be an his majesty King Alu;ned to the Throne Feb toric first achievement for Naval Avia mary 18, 1948. The other is a 30 bo tion. The covers bear a mimeographed gashas value and signalizes the victory map type cachet captioned "Chesapeake march of March 13, 1948. This stamp Bay to Arctic Ocean" and the first cov is horizontal in format and shows two ers to return are postmarked Barrow, scenes between the flag of Yemen. Alaska, March 7, 1952 and arrived in the United States on March 9. Pilot of the Co-operators this month are: John S. plane carrying the souvenir mail was Whittlesey, Hugo Fraccaroli, Rafael R. LCDR. C. D. Kephart, USN, of Patux Garcia, A. F. Kunz, Donald Goertz, Al ent, Md. Through the courtesy of Lt. fred F. Stem, James Thatcher, Nicolas Morrison and Comm. Murch one of these Sanabria, Inc., Sandor Legrade, Sam covers has been donated to the American Hantman, Irving Ray, C. A. Phillips and Air Mail Society and will be sold in the Marie Hurley. SANABRIA • 1950 Edition Supplemented To • $4.75 post free • NICOLAS SANABRIA£~ Ine. 521 Fifth Avenue New York 17, N. Y. AIR SHEET LIITTER ALBUMS NOW AVAILABLE Write for free descriptive folder about !his new specially designed Album for Air Letter Sheets F. W. KESSLER 500 Fifth Ave. New York 18, N. Y. • ----·-·-·- -·- -· ·- -·-·-·- --·- -·- •