Airmail Collector Sale 67
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PO Box 99, Cardiff CF23 6XP UK Tel: 44-(0)29-2075 4748 Fax: 44-(0)29-2076 1076 [email protected] Web Site: www.airmails.co.uk Postal Auction 18 October 2012 67 Lot# 1 - 20/03/1932 Airship Estimate: £40 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano/Syndicato Condor/Graf Zeppelin, 2nd S. American flight, Cochabamba to Friedrichshafen 13/4, and on to Berlin 13/4, plain cover franked 1.75B, canc Cochabamba cds, blue/white 'Correo Aerea' airmail etiquette, nice strike red circular "Luftpost Befordert/Luftpostampt/Berlin C2" arrival hs. Carried by LAB from Cochabamba to Puerto Suarez, Condor from Corumba -Campo Grande-Tres Lagadas Rio-Bahia-Recife, Graf Zeppelin to Friedrichshafen. Lot# 2 - 08/05/1936 Estimate: £15 Hindenburg First N America Flight, Germany to New York, bs 9/5, plain cover franked 75pf, canc green 'Deutsche Luftpost/8.5.36/Europa-Nordamerika' on board postmark. Some toning on 75pf Zeppelin stamp. Lot# 3 - 12/05/1936 Estimate: £575 Dominican Republic acceptance for return of LZ129 Hindenburg, 1st North America flight, Lakehurst to Germany, b/s Frankfurt (Main) 14/5, franked $1.20 canc Trujillo cds, violet US Lakehurst-Frankfurt flight confirmation mark, typed endorsement "Transatlantic by Hindenburg". Uncommon acceptance, only 10 flown. Catalogued 1250 Euros Sieger (2001). Lot# 4 - 12/05/1936 Estimate: £40 Hindenburg, return of the first North America flight, Lakehurst to Frankfurt, attractive PPC franked 57pf canc 'Deutsche Luftpost/12.5.36/1,Fart/Europa-Nordamerika' on board postmark, Frankfurt type 1 ' arrical ds on front. Picture verso shows picture of airship and "Erster Aufstieg des Luftschiffes Graf Zeppelin /am 2 Jul 1900 (Momentaufnahme)". Lot# 5 - 19/06/1936 Estimate: £400 Greece acceptance for the HIndenburg 3rd North America flight, Athens to Brooklyn, bs Jun 22 1936 cds, registered (label) cover franked 23d 64l, canc Athens 15 Jun 36 cds, bilingual airmail etiquette fied by Greek black framed "Mit Luftschiff" flight cachet, red 'Deutsche Luftpost/Europa-Amerika' receiver on front. Lot# 6 - 07/10/1936 Estimate: £20 Airship, Tenth North America flight of the Hindenburg, Frankfurt-Lakehurst, no arrival ds, on Board postmark, red flight confirmation cachet, Hindenburg souvenir cover addressed to the Gaumont British Picture Group, Broadway, franked 700pf, some toning. on Zep stamps. Lot# 7 - 13/11/1935 Andorra Estimate: £150 Rare Andorra acceptance for the Belgian Congo, for carriage on the extension of the regular Congo service to Elisabethville, Andorra la Vieja to Elisabethville, ?21/11, via Seo de Urgo 14/11, Calaf 14/11 and Marseilles 14/11, Victor Nawratil registered (label) etiquette cover, franked Spanish PO Andorra 4P SG24, cat £28 used (scarce on cover), canc Certificado/13 Nov 35/Andora Lavieja boxed registration ds, ms "Correo Aereo Par Avion/Bruxelles-Marseille-Congo Belge". One of the six believed to have been accepted at Andorra for thew service to Elisabethville by Sxabena. A scarce item in superb condition. Lot# 8 - 29/08/1928 Argentina Estimate: £15 Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, Buenos Aires to Paris, no arrival ds, registered (label) CGA Buenos Aires company corner cover franked $1.14 inc 1928 90c airmail, canc 'Via Aerea/2 May 28', large black 'Via Aereo' hs. Carried on the South America/-Europe service. Note use of Argentina's first airmail stamps to pay the 18c rate (x5) to Europe via West Africa. CGA to Natal then by fast 'Aviso' from Natal-Dakar, then flown Dakar-Toulouse by Aéropostale. Lot# 9 - 14/07/1929 Estimate: £45 Aeroposta Argentina, F/F Buenos Aires to Posados, bs 15/7, plain cover franked 4x5c, canc Buenos Aires/Via Aerea cds, ms 'Via Aerea'. Lot# 10 - 12/10/1929 Estimate: £25 Pan American Grace Airways, F/F Buenos Aires to USA, private 11/10 Union Trust Co, Ohio arrival ds verso, franked 5c postage, 35 airmail, canc 'Via Aerea/Buenos Aires', typed "Via Aerea Panagra/Directo a Estados Unidos", ms ' Panagra'. Lot# 11 - 13/12/1929 Estimate: £20 Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, Buenos Aires to Copenhagen, bs 26/12, 1928 blue/cream registered (label) 12c airmail PSE (H&G #2) with additional 12c postage and 12 regn and 1928 90c air (airmail rate to Europe 18c per gram), canc 'Via Aerea/4 Apr 28', carried on the South America/-Europe service. Note use of Argentina's first airmail stamps to pay the 18c rate (x5) to Europe via West Africa. CGA to Natal then by fast 'Aviso' from Natal-Dakar, then flown Dakar-Toulouse by Aéropostale. Uncommon destination. Lot# 12 - 19/02/1930 Estimate: £14 NYRBA F/F, Buenos Aires to Miami, bs 26/7,and on to Chicago 1/3, purple flight cachet, registered (label) airmail cover. Lot# 13 - 07/04/1932 Estimate: £30 PANAGRA, unusual West coast airmail, Buenos Aires (Oliva) to North Dakota, bs 7/4, via Cristobal 10/4 and tlanta 12/4, registered (label) cover franked 5c postage, 5c regn, $1.70 airmail, large red "Oliva" hs, ms 'Via Aerea/Certificada', great routing.. It is unusual to find mail sent by the West coast route from Buenos Aires from the late 1931 onwards. Lot# 14 - 29/10/1932 Estimate: £18 Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, Buenos Aires to Germany, fine strike red framed "Mit Luftpost befordert/Postampt/Effen-Mulheim-Flughafen" areival hs on front, airmailcover franked $1.05 inc 1928 90c airmail, canc 'Via Aerea/29 Oct 32', ms 'Via Aerea'' . Carried on the South America/-Europe service. Note use of Argentina's first airmail stamps to pay the 18c rate (x5) to Europe via West Africa. Airmail rate unchanged, but postage rate increased from 12c to 15c. CGA to Natal then by fast 'Aviso' from Natal-Dakar, then flown Dakar-Toulouse by Aéropostale. Lot# 15 - 11/12/1940 Estimate: £35 Argentina to Denmark, flown by LATI, scarce censored WWII airmail cover, Buenos Aires to Copenhagen, franked 1P 20c, canc Buenos Aires, 11 Dec 40 cds, sealed German black/white OKW censor seal, code e (Frankfurt). Under franked by 20c, the correct rated for LATI to Europe was 0.20P basic + 1.25P air fee, see Beith p41. No Bermuda censor and franking confirms not flown by Pan Am. Carried by Syndicato Condor to Rio, then by LATI all the way to Rome thus avoiding the British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service. No Danish censor because Denmark was under German occupation at that time. Lot# 16 - 09/09/1942 Estimate: £35 Pan American-Grace Airways F/F, Salta to Antofagasta, bs 10/9, airmail cover franked 40c, black rectangular Viaje Inaugural PAA Grace Airways cachet. Lot# 17 - 28/09/1954 Estimate: £8 L.A.D.E., F/F Buenos Aires-Mendoza, cachet, b/s. Lot# 18 - 15/07/1927 Australia Estimate: £35 Internal airmail, Normanton to Sydney, 20/7 arrival ds on front, 1d PSC with additional KGV block of 6 orange 1/2d, canc Normanton single ring cds's, first day of use of Qantas black/red "See/By Air Mail/Western Queensland" etiquette rated $100AD on cover by Frommer. Francis Field authentication hs verso. Lot# 19 - 17/04/1929 Estimate: £85 F/F Brisbane to Charleville, b/s 17/4, underpaid plain cover franked 4d, black'T' 1d in hexagon hs, ms 'Via Air Mail/Brisbane-Charleville', Qantas. Scarce 'non Davis Bros' cover, cat $200, Australian AMC. Lot# 20 - 04/06/1929 Estimate: £60 W.A.Airways Ltd, first flight Perth to Adelaide, 7 Jun 1929 arrival ds on front, plain cover franked 4 1/2d, canc Perth 4th JUNE, 1929, ms "First Air Mail Flight/Perth-Adelaide/June 4th 1929". This flight was scheduled for 2nd June, but was delayed until 4th June when but a small portion of the eastern mails was taken by a small plane to Kalgoorie. The bulk of the intended eastern F/F mail was flown to Adelaide on June 5th. This particular cover is one of the few carried on June 4th. Lot# 21 - 21/04/1931 Estimate: £20 Return of the first Imperial Airways experimental flight England-Australia, Melbourne London, no arrival ds, souvenir "All The Way" cover with IAW winged logo and route details, franked 1/11d inc SG 123 4, official violet F/F cachet verso, ANA/Qantas/Imperial Airways. Lot# 22 - 01/05/1931 Estimate: £25 Australian National Airways, F/F Perth to Launceston, bs 2/5, plain cover franked 3d,2d Kingsford Smith airs, large circujlar violet flight cachet Lot# 23 - 22/05/1931 Estimate: £35 KLM return flight Melbourne(22/5) to Soerbaja, Java, bs 28/5, via Sydney 23/5, Batavia (Abel Tasman/Batavia-Centrum cachet) 27/5 verso, special oval Melbourne to Batavia violet cachet, plain reg (label) cover, franked 2/3d. Lot# 24 - 19/04/1934 Estimate: £285 Darwin - Sydney cover, flown by B. Rubin and K.F. Waller in a DH85 Leopard Moth at the end of their survey flight from England and prior to the MacRobertson Air Race later that year (AAMC.365a). Only 12 flown. Signed by Owen Cathcart- Jones who, with co-pilot K.F.Waller, came fourth in the MacRobertson air race in a DH88 comet owned by B. Rubin. A nice item in fine condition. Lot# 25 - 24/07/1934 Estimate: £50 First official airmail between Australia and PNG, Melbourne to Port Moresby, b/s 26/7, and return, flown by Ulm in "Faith of Australia", Australia and Papua cachets, franked Australia 8d (inc SG 139) and Papua 8d, latter canc 26/7 for return, Sydney 1/8 arrival ds, official "boomerang" cover, circular violet Australia-PNG cachet on front, and hexagonal PNG-Australia cachet verso, multicoloured Victoria Centenary Air Race vignette verso (scarce on cover). Small non invasive closed tear top edge, does not detract, see scan.