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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.

Lot# 26 - 04/12/1934 Estimate: £60 First Australian rocket, SS 'Canonbar' to Brisbane, blue/light grey souvenir cover franked 2d, Queensland AMS guarantee hs on front, also verso tying maroon/white Rocket Fight vignette.

Lot# 27 - 10/12/1934 Estimate: £75 First acceptance of mail for the Sudan, Longreach to Khartoum, bs 23/12, via Darwin 12/12 and Cairo 22/12, carried on first regular Imperial Airways/Qantas Australia-England service, registered (label) souvenir blue/grey 'Kangaroo' company cover, franked 1/10d, canc Longreach 10/12 cds.

Lot# 28 - 26/11/1935 Estimate: £35 Adelaide Airways Ltd, F/F Mount Gambier to Melbourne, bs 28/11, imprint etiquette airmail cover franked 5d, typed "First Flight/Mount Gambier to Melbourne". Small mail.

Lot# 29 - 27/03/1936 Estimate: £50 WASP Airlines, F/F Sydney Hill to Broken Hill, bs 27/3, imprint airmail etiquette cover franked 5d, typed 'First Flight/Sydney Hill to Broken Hill', signed by the pilot P. Graham.

Lot# 30 - 09/01/1937 Estimate: £175 KNILM, return of Dutch East Indies-Australia charter flight, plain cover addressed to E.A. Crome, franked verso Australia 1d, canc 'Enmore 15 JA 37'Sydney cds (the return flight left Sydney on 16 January, and DEI 71/2c & 10c canc 'Batavia/Centrum/19.1.37' to confirm arrival, also an Australia 2d canc Sydney 4 FE 37. Signed by the entire crew of four. One of only six flown. Lot# 31 - 22/02/1937 Estimate: £525 Guinea Airways, Adelaide to Darwin experimental survey flights, airmail etiquette cover franked 5d, canc Charleville '9am 25 FE 37', bs Cootamundra '4.15pm 25 Feb 1937', and Melbourne '26 FE 37', typed "Carried by special Guinea Airways Air Liner (ms) 'Lockheed Electra' Adelaide to Darwin", signed by the pilot E.C.Chater. Is this only the second cover to have been reported as having been carried on one of the Guinea Airways experimental Adelaide-Darwin survey flights?. For a description of the other cover, see the Australian Airmail Catalogue, 2008, #704.

Lot# 32 - 08/07/1938 Estimate: £50 North Queensland Airways Pty Ltd, F/F to Queensland cattle stations, Normanton to Koolatah, no arrival stamp as there were no post offices at these stations, airmail etiquette cover franked 2d, canc Normanton cds, signed by the pilot Alan W. Tagart, and the postmaster at Normanton, A.L.Lloyd, and the postmaster at Koolatah.

Lot# 33 - 26/06/1940 Estimate: £225 Wartime airmail, first acceptance of mails by the new air route from Australia to England via Hong Kong and the Pacific route, Brisbane to England, bs Sutton Coldfield 5/8, imprint etiquette registered (label) cover franked 5/- robe canc Bundaberg 24/6 cds, ms "Via Hong Kong and Pacific route to USA", white/dark blue airmail etiquette, sealed red/white Australian OBC censor tape, blue boxed 'Passed By/Censor/5' hs. Correctly rated 4/7d/1/2oz + 5d registration for all air the two ocean clipper service to New York (TEAL to New Zealand, Pan Am FAM19 to San Francisco and US internal air service to lNew York, then New York to UK by sea (see Boyle p859). This service opened after Italy entered the war on June 10th 1940 and closed Mediterranean section of the long established Empire (Kangaroo) route through Europe and across the Indian Ocean. The Pacific Clipper service ceased after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 11/12/41. An attractive and important WWII item. Francis Field authentication hs.

Lot# 34 - 21/01/1947 Estimate: £150 Duke of Gloucester's return flight to England, plain cover franked 6d, canc 'RAAF PO Darwin/19 Jan 1947', typed "H.R.H. The Governor General's flight/per Avro York Endeavour MW140/Australia-England Flight", black framed "RAAF/Concessionary Postal Rates" hs, signed by seven members of the crew.

Lot# 35 - 01/12/1947 Estimate: £150 Qantas F/F Australia-England service with Lockheed Constellation, Sydney to London, franked 1/6d, bearing special red/white/black Sydney to London label and the blue/grey 25th Anniversary label, official cover with company logo on flap, signed by Capt K.G. Jackson (flew Mascott-Karachi) and Capt D.F. McMaster (flew Karachi-London). A fine early post WWII item, see Crome pp 145/6.

Lot# 36 - 16/12/1947 Estimate: £175 Qantas resumed operation of Sydney-Japan service, printed company cover with winged logo verso franked 1/6d, canc Sydney 16 Dec 47 cds, bs 'AFPO 28/18 De47/RAAF Japan' cds, grey/red Australia to Japan vignette, signed by the pilot Capt. J.G.Morton. Lot# 37 - 26/06/1949 Estimate: £75 Qantas Skymaster F/F regular service, Sydney to Hong Kong, Hong Kong 10c canc Hong Kong/28 JU 49 arrival cds on front, official company cover with embossed winged logo on flap, franked Australia 1/- canc GPO Sydney/26 JE 49 cds, large pale blue/grey/black/white,signed by the pilot, Capt. JM Hampshire.

Lot# 38 - 20/10/1923 Austria Estimate: £20 Early glider mail, Waschberg Mountain, plain buff cover franked 1922-24 100k, 200k and 300k, canc Wien/20/10/23 "Erste osterrriichissche/Segelflugwoche/ Waschberg bel Stockerau/13-21 Oktober 1923" machine cancel.

Lot# 39 - 31/03/1930 Estimate: £16 Oleag/CIDNA/Aeroput F/F Graz-Vienna, arrival ds on front, plain cover franked 1925 air 50g&15g, black/blue etiquette.

Lot# 40 - 13/07/1933 Estimate: £8 WIPA round trip glider flight, Vienna to Vienna, 19/7 arrival ds on front, 2S+30G light brown border PSC with additional 20gx2 1925 airs, tied special cancellation, violet commemorative cachet, blue/black etiquette, verso picture Kronfeld's glider over Stephan's Cathedral.

Lot# 41 - 21/02/1935 Estimate: £65 First Austria acceptance for Belgian Congo, Vienna to Coquilhatville, 28/2 arrival ds front and back, plain card carried on the first regular SABENA flight by the aircraft "Edmond Thieffrey" from Brussels to Leopoldville via Marseilles-Oran-Colomb Bechar-Reggan-Gao-Niamey-Zinder-Fort Lamy-Bangui-Coquilhatville, franked Austria 1925 air 10g & 30g, red framed bilingual French/Flemish F/F cachet. Kohl 35.101 A7, 57 flown.

Lot# 42 - 21/02/1935 Estimate: £85 First Austria acceptance for Chad, Vienna to Fort Lamy, 27/2 arrival ds front and back, plain card carried on the first regular SABENA flight by the aircraft "Edmond Thieffrey" from Brussels to Leopoldville via Marseilles-Oran-Colomb Bechar-Reggan-Gao-Niamey-Zinder-Fort Lamy-Bangui-Coquilhatville, franked Austria 1925 air 10g & 30g, red framed bilingual French/Flemish F/F cachet. Kohl 35.101 A6, only 20 flown. A superb item in fine condition. Ex Clowes. Lot# 43 - 19/05/1936 Estimate: £5 Glider Air Train, Vienna-Budapest, arrival ds on front and b/s, cachet, blue/black etiquette.

Lot# 44 - 25/09/1958 Estimate: £12 Austria acceptance for first TAI direct flight Paris to Tahiti, bs 2/10, four line cachet, "Via Paris/TAI/Premier Vol" hs, franked 5.45S canc special Atomic Energy Conf. Ds.

Lot# 45 - 21/05/1939 Azores Estimate: £15 F/F FAM 18 Southern North Atlantic route, Horta to Marseille, bs 22/5, attractive and uncommon grey/pale grey souvenir cover franked $1.75 x2, blue flight cachets verso, Pan Am.

Lot# 46 - 21/05/1939 Estimate: £6 F/F FAM18, Southern Atlantic route, Horta to Lisbon, cachet, b/s, Pan Am

Lot# 47 - 26/05/1939 Estimate: £75 Rare acceptance of mail from Azores for Bermuda for carriage over the Pan Am Southern Route, Horta to Hamilton, bs 31 May 35, via New York , May 27, airmail etiquette cover franked 5E75, weak postmark tying square blue FAM 18 type F18c cachet applied primarily to Horta-New York mail, black four line "Pan American Airways/First Transatlantic Airmail/Southern Route/via Bermuda, Azores and Portugal" and black framed "Premier/Voo/Transatlantico/Horta" flight cachet,

Lot# 48 - 03/02/1941 Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 18, Horta to Bolama (Portuguese Guinea), blue cachet, b/s, Pan Am

Lot# 49 - 03/02/1941 Estimate: £6 F/F FAM 18, Horta to Bolama (Portuguese Guinea), blue cachet, b/s, Pan Am Lot# 50 - 07/12/1962 Estimate: £2.5 TAP F/F Santa Maria, Azores to Funchal, Madeira, b/s, cachet, souvenir cover.

Lot# 51 - 05/04/1971 Estimate: £5 Transportes Aereos Portugueses (TAP), F/F Azores to Portugal, souvenir cover postmarked Ponta Delgada, cachet, b/s Lisbon 5/4.

Lot# 52 - 02/01/1929 Bahamas Estimate: £8 F/FFAM 7, Nassau-Miami, red two line cachet, b/s, printed souvenir cover, Pan Am

Lot# 53 - 02/01/1930 Estimate: £75 Very scarce acceptance from Bahamas for Guatemala, bs 9/1, for carriage on F/F FAM7 Resumed on Daily Basis service from Nassau to Miami where US stamp was affixed for OAT to Guatemala on FAM network, registered (label) Walter Hess corner cover dual franked Bahamas 2x1d & 2x3d War Tax opts, canc Nassau 2 Jan 30 cds, and US 15c C8 postmarked with dumb cancel, violet Miami/Jan 2/1930 double ring cds verso, red three line "First daily Flight/Nassau to Miami/1930" and green two line "First Flight/Nassau-Guatemala" flight cachets.

Lot# 54 - 12/05/1936 Estimate: £685 Bahamas acceptance for return of LZ129 Hindenburg, 1st North America flight, Lakehurst to Germany, b/s Frankfurt (Main) 14/5, franked 3/3d canc Nassau cds, violet US Lakehurst-Frankfurt flight confirmation mark. Uncommon acceptance, only 2 flown.

Lot# 55 - 19/04/1948 Estimate: £85 British South American Airways, first flight, Nassau to Miami, bs 20/4, airmail cover franked 6d, typed "Via First Flight, B.S.A.A./Nassau-Miami, Florida" Ilustrated Beith R., p25.

Lot# 56 - 21/02/1957 Estimate: £2.5 F/F FAM 5 Nassau to New York AMF, cachet, b/s, Pan Am Lot# 57 - 11/04/1961 Estimate: £2.5 F/F, Nassau to Lima, official cover, b/s, BOAC

Lot# 58 - 13/12/1933 Bahrain Estimate: £135 F/F Bahrain to Bandon, bs 21/12, carried on the inaugural flight of Imperial Airways/ITCA extension of Indian route to Singapore, franked 1933 opts 1a, 3a (cat £500 used on cover), and 3a.6p, canc fine strike Bahrain 13 Dec 33 cds, black circular "By Air" cachet, official red/blue speedbird souvenir cover. Rare item in fine condition,

Lot# 59 - 01/01/1952 Estimate: £25 KGVI 6d air letter, franked 6d opt 'BAHRAIN/6 annas', unused.

Lot# 60 - 02/06/1953 Estimate: £20 Air letter unused, pale blue/maroon, imprint GB QEII 6d opt. Bahrain 6 annas, imprint 1953 Coronation logo.

Lot# 61 - 14/09/1953 Estimate: £12 BOAC imprint etiquette air cover to England, 17 Sep 1953 company arrival ds on front, franked GB KGV 6d/6anna opt, canc Bahrain cds, BOAC blue/pale blue cover with company logo on flap.

Lot# 62 - 06/11/1963 Estimate: £9 KLM Flying Dutchman F/F Bahrain-Jakarta, cachet, b/s, souvenir cover.

Lot# 63 - 31/12/1934 Belgian Congo Estimate: £35 Imperial Airways involvement, Stanleyville to Liege, Belgium, ms note inside arrived 10/1/35, small cover 10x6cm, franked 3F air on front and 1F50 King Albert mourning stamp verso, black boxed 'Avion' hs. Carried 550km by road to Aba and further 260km by road to Juba, then Imperial AW AN200 service to Brindisi, finally rail to Liege. Lot# 64 - 23/04/1935 Estimate: £40 Elisabethville to Bulawayo, via Broken Hill 24/4 transit cds, mixed meter (2F50c) and airmail stamp (6F) franking, boxed 'Avion' and st line 'Par Avion' hs's. This is the earliest known machine cancel used in the Congo, the Timbograph type described in BC Bulletin 33/9. and first used in 1929. It shows code A3 confirming origin as Elisabethville.

Lot# 65 - 22/10/1935 Estimate: £375 Return journey Coquilhatville to Antwerp via Brussels bs 2/11, Count De Looz-Corswarem, Mahieu and D'Hoore official flight to the Congo, Missionaires de Sacre Coeur/ Mission de Coquilhatville corner cover franked Congo 1F50 canc Coquilhatville 22/10 cds, ms "Raid de Loos de Corswarem", black two line"Coq 22 10 35 Raid/de Looz de Corswarem" cachet. Mail from Coquilhatville was very small, likely only 2-6 (at most) flown. Folds, but of good appearance and rare.

Lot# 66 - 22/11/1935 Estimate: £30 Congo to Madagascar, Elisabethville to Tananarive, bs 24/11, plain cover franked Congo 6F, red two line "Par Avion Regie Malgache assurant/1ie Laison Bruxelles-Tananarive". Carried on Sabena extension regular Congo service to Elisabethville, then by Regie Malgache to Madagascar.

Lot# 67 - 03/07/1936 Estimate: £155 Rare and original unopened flown copy of the 3rd July 1936 'Paris-Congo' newspaper, Brazzaville to Chari Bangoran, via Bangui and N'dele, still in its original wrapper franked 2F & 40c Moyen Congo stamps, canc Brazzaville 8/7/36 cds, black 'Par Avion' hs and four line "Paris-Congo/Hebdomadaire franco-belge d'informations illustrees/B.P. 321- Leopoldville-Congo Belge/B.P. 43 Brazzaville- A.E.F." hs, addressed to the 'Chef du Subdivision, N'Dele, per Bangui/Chari Bangoran'. Flown by Air Afrique or Sabena from Brazzaville to Bangui or Fort Archambault on the Brazzaville-Algiers service, then surface to destination.

Lot# 68 - 29/08/1936 Estimate: £15 Memorial Week for Queen Astrid, Ostend to Leopoldville, bs 7/9 and return to Uccle, souvenir cover franked 5F Belgium and 5F25 Congo stamps.

Lot# 69 - 13/10/1937 Estimate: £12 Sabena, first mail from Libenge to the interior of the Congo, Libenge to Bukama, no arrival ds, commemorative card with map of route, franked 1F50, black two line "1re Avion Sabena/Libenge-Bumba-Stanleyville". Lot# 70 - 09/09/1938 Estimate: £10 Internal airmail, Coquilhatville to Jadotville, bs 19/9, via Luluabourg, 15/9 transit cds, imprint airmail cover franked 3F 25. Nice routing.

Lot# 71 - 25/08/1939 Estimate: £100 Special flight Congo to Angola, Leopoldville to Loanda, bs 26/8, plain cover franked 30c, ms "Par Avion Special Leopoldville-Loanda du 26 Aout 1939". Carried the Governor General of the Congo to meet the President of Portugal who was visiting Angola. Also a survey flight to see if it was worth extending the Sabena route as far as angola. A rare item, only 20 flown.

Lot# 72 - 27/11/1939 Estimate: £12 F/F new SABENA Eastern Congo internal route Usumbura to Costermansville, bs 30/11, plain Van Reet cover franked 75c, typed "Par 1o Courrier Aerien/Usumbura to Costermansville", dark blue/white airmail etiquette.

Lot# 73 - 28/11/1939 Estimate: £10 WWII, F/F new Sabena internal route between Stanleyville and Usumbura, Costermansville to Stanleyville 30/11, and on to Kikwit, bs 18/12, plain cover franked 75c, black three line 'Stanleyville-Costermansville-Usumbura' flight cachet, typed 'Premier Courrier Aerien/Costermansville-Stan'.

Lot# 74 - 10/03/1941 Estimate: £75 WWII censored F/F Leopoldville to Johannesburg, Leopoldville to Durban, via Eloisabethville, 15/3, high franking registered (label) commercial corner cover franked eight stamps 33F (one damaged, see scan), black framed "1er depart laison aerienne/Congo-Afrique du Sud/***** Mars 1941", large unidentified black "C.R." hand stamp verso. Scarce item.

Lot# 75 - 04/08/1919 Belgium Estimate: £45 Stockel Aviation Meeting, special B&W picture card franked Belgium 1c tied by 'Anvers/4 Aout 10' /Depart' cds, picture side shows "Meeting d'Aviation de Stockel - Juillet -Aout 1910 - Kinet, sur le champ d'Aviation" .

Lot# 76 - 24/06/1922 Estimate: £80 Brussels Aviation Meeting, flown registered cover addressed to Paris, bs La Poueze 27/6, posted at meeting, franked 2x 50c, each cancelled special dated Expo cachet "Brussels Aviation/ Brussle-Vliesplein", also red/white registration label ""Brussels Aviation/ Brussle-Vliesplein/Evere". Scarce item, even more so with special regn label which Jennekens & Godinas value at 2x non regstered cover. Lot# 77 - 15/10/1931 Estimate: £150 Belgium acceptance for Imperial Airways F/F London to Palestine, bs Haifa 20/10, opening of new winter timetable via Tiberias, airmail etiquette cover franked 2F air x2, 25c ordinary, canc Bruxelles cds, typed "Par Avion Imperial Airways Londres-Palestine". Opening of the Alexandria-Haifa service, Athens-Haifa-Baghdad in one day. Scarce item.

Lot# 78 - 16/05/1932 Estimate: £25 Sabena F/F Antwerp to Berlin, Berlin C/L2 arrival ds on front, plain cover franked 1F50c air, and 50c airs x2, red circular 'Mit Luftpost Befordert/Berlin C2' receiver, green oval "1e Vol Anvers-Berlin/16 Mai 1932" flight cachet, black/dark blue bilingual airmail etiquette.

Lot# 79 - 23/02/1935 Estimate: £12 F/F SABENA Brussels-Leopoldville, bs 28/2, and return to Brussels 8/3, souvenir cover carried on the first regular F/F SABENA flight by the aircraft "Edmond Thieffrey" from Brussels to Leopoldville via Marseilles-Oran-Colomb Bechar-Reggan-Gao-Niamey-Zinder-Fort Lamy-Bangui-Coquilhatville, franked Belgium 4F and Congo 4F stamps, red framed bilingual French/Flemish F/F cachet.

Lot# 80 - 01/10/1935 Estimate: £250 Count De Looz-Corswarem, Mahieu and D'Hoore official flight to the Congo via the shortest route over the Libyan desert via Tunis-Sebha-Fort Lamy, Brussels to Fort Lamy 8/10 arrival ds on front, carried by air to Chad then returned by surface mail to Belgium, Van Reet pictorial card franked Belgium 1F1c and Belgium 1c to obtain ultimate arrival mark (1/12) and Chad 90c, signed by Count De Looz-Corswarem under a handwritten comment on the deferred departure from Brussels. Rare item, only six items were flown to Chad. Ex Clowes.

Lot# 81 - 24/10/1936 Estimate: £10 First five day flight, Brussels to Stanleyville, bs 28/10, souvenir card with printed stages of route franked 3F50, Sabena.

Lot# 82 - 02/08/1937 Estimate: £50 First acceptance of Belgian mail for the Eastern Congo for carriage by Imperial Airways East Africa service, Brussels to Goma, via Rutshuru 9/8 and Kampala 6/8, imprint etiquette registered (label) cover franked 6F +25c verso, canc Bruxelles 2/8 cds, typed "By Imperial Airways". Imperial AW flying boats were serving East Africa 3x week, so it was better for mail for the Eastern Cong to travel via Port Bell (Kampala).

Lot# 83 - 23/12/1938 Estimate: £50 Christmas and New Year Air France publicity greetings card, Brussels to Elisabethville, 30/12 arrival ds on front. Franked 1F, although the card enjoyed a reduced tariff, against the normal 3F. Verso shows a design of aircraft/birds in arrowhead formation. Scarce. Lot# 84 - 27/06/1939 Estimate: £50 First Belgium acceptance for Canada, bs Montreal 2/7, for carriage on Pan American F/F 'northern' trans Atlantic route Southampton -Shediac. Plain registered (label) cover franked 5F air + 75c, 35c ordinary, canc Bruxelles 27/6 cds, ms 'Via Southampton' and 'Yankee Clipper'. Scarce.

Lot# 85 - 22/03/1928 Bolivia Estimate: £30 Lt James Doolittle, Curtis Airplane Co, South American Sales Flight , La Paz to Santiago, bs 24/3, red "Shield" flight cachet, blue boxed "Correo Aereo" hs, addressed to Curtis Airplane Co, US Souvenir Historical Flight.

Lot# 86 - 23/07/1928 Estimate: £25 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, early commercial cover, Cochabamba to Santa Cruz, bs blue framed oval "Correo Aereo/Jul 23 ..../Santa Cruz-Cochabamba" postmark, blue/pale blue Lloyd Aereo Biviano corner cover, franked 15c postage and 70c airmail, canc violet framed oval "Correo Aereo/23 Jul .../Cochamba-Santa Cruz" postmark. Non invasive ironed vertical crease, does not detract.

Lot# 87 - 01/01/1929 Estimate: £20 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano Agent's Hand stamp, Cochabamba to La Paz, no arrival ds, printed cover franked 25c postage and 55c airmail (35c first 30g + 20c for each 20g or fraction of thereafter), canc undated saw-toothed "Lloyd Aereo Biliviano/Gerencia/Cochambab" hand stamp. In the early years of internal route development LAB produced undated hand stamps to be applied in the town where the letter was posted. Interesting and unusual, but please note there is no actual date on this cover.

Lot# 88 - 02/06/1929 Estimate: £20 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, route development 1929-1932, Cochambaba to Riberalta (475 miles), 5/6 arrival ds's on front, blue/grey LAB company cover franked 15c postage and 1928 LAB 15c and 20c airmail, canc blue oval Cochambaba ds, typed "Correo Aereo/Cochambaba-Ribertalta". Some minor flap damage.

Lot# 89 - 04/09/1929 Estimate: £25 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano development of internal routes, F/F Cochamba to Oruro, bs 4/9, blue/pale blue Lloyd Aereo Biviano corner cover franked 15c + 35c airmail, blue framed "Primer Correo Aereo/L.A.B." flight cachet. Ironed horizontal crease. Lot# 90 - 20/11/1929 Estimate: £20 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, F/F Cochabamba to La Paz, bs 20/11, LAB company cover franked 35S 15c, canc Correos/Cochabamba toothed oval ds, framed "Primer Correo Aereo/L.A.B." F/F cachet.

Lot# 91 - 24/07/1930 Estimate: £40 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, Sanya Cruz to Argentina, bs Embarcacion 20/6, via Cochabamba 13/6, and Villazion (Bolivia) 18/6 and Jujuy (Argentina), plain cover franked25 c postage and 75 c LAB airmail fee (1928 15c, 1930 50c and 5c x2 LAB definitive's), large red framed "Correo Aerea/Santa Crtuz" hs, and verso red framed "Economice Tempo/Empleanco El/Correo Aereo/L.A.B.". Flown LAB to Cochambaba, then rail via Villazon to Jujuy, then by road to Embarcacion. Scarce itinerary with exceptional routing, see scan. Non invasive nibbles bottom rh corner, see scan.

Lot# 92 - 12/01/1934 Estimate: £25 Lloyd Aereo Bolivano, F/F La Paz-Arica (Chile), franked 1929 15c and 20c airmails for use on LAB airlines, large black official 'Primer Vuelo/Bolivia-Chile' flight cachet, white/green etiquette, no arrival ds.

Lot# 93 - 02/01/1937 Estimate: £20 German South Atlantic service, Bolivia to Denmark, Lab Condor Lufthansa airmail service, Oruro to Copenhagen, bs 8/2, red/green 'Via Panagra' airmail cover (Panagra has bee crossed out), franked 2B 35c, canc violet oval 'Correo Aerea/…ru' postmark, ms 'LAB Condor'. Oruro via LAB- Condor flight DLH 213 to Germany, then DLH to Copenhagen.

Lot# 94 - 10/07/1947 Estimate: £25 Bolivia to California, no arrival ds, blue/grey LAB/Condor envelope with company logo in corner franked 4B, large violet 'Rebuts' (Return to Sender' hs, black Nuevo Laredo/28 Jul 47 transit cds applied on return journey. In 1942 Brazil joined the Allied war effort and blockaded the delivery of airline spare for Varig and Condor and, in 1943, the name of Condor was abandoned. Shortly after its routes were taken over by Panagra - hence the black PANAGRA hs over 'Condor' on this cover. Interesting. Lot# 95 - 20/02/1930 Brazil Estimate: £60 NYRBA outlaw cover, carried on the first regular service, Pernambuco to Miami, no b/s, commercial envelope, 27x13cm, buff with printed "By First Air Mail Pernambuco to States" cachet and "Remington Rand, New York", franked 5000R and 2000Rx2 opt airs + 500R and 200Rx2 (one has small corner damage), canc Pernambuco-Recife/Correo Aereo cds, black boxed "Via Nybra/Correspondencia Aerea" cachet and purple st. line "Par Avion" cachets, also a "Wallace Ingham -Recife/20 Fev 30" cds. Not only are covers from this route very rare, see AAMC p2075, but this item is of special interest for other reasons as well. There is only one other similar cover known to Grigore and this is illustrated on p74 of his book. It is also an 'outlaw' cover because NYRBA had no FAM contract with the USPO guaranteeing that their mail would receive continuing air mail service once it had cleard th first US port of entry. So it was confiscated by the USPO on arrival at Miami, no backstamps were applied, and it was forwarded to its final desti Lot# 96 - 05/04/1930 Estimate: £10 Brazil-France-Germany, cover postmarked Sao Paulo (Brazil) April 5, 1930 with transit b/s Toulouse (France) April 13 and no arrival b/s at Hannover. Has the scarce double boxed hand stamp “Via Aerea C.G.A.”.

Lot# 97 - 12/07/1930 Estimate: £25 Early Compagnie Generale Aeropostale Aviso service(1/3/28-31/12/35) using fast ex navy destroyers (9 day transit France-S. America, of which 5 days were at sea), Pernambuco to Hamburg, via Recife 12/7, colour PPC of Pernambuco Congresso franked Sc. 250, C20 (verso), and C21 (2), canc Pernambuco cds, large violet 'Par Avion' hs, partial strike violet framed 'Correo Aereo/Linhas C.G.A.' back stamp, illustrated Kriebel p12. Flown Buenos Aires-Natal by Aeropostale Aeropostal Argentina S.A, then carried by fast Aviso from Natal-Dakar, then flown Dakar-Toulouse by Aéropostale (this service started in 1925).

Lot# 98 - 28/08/1930 Estimate: £30 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano/Syndicato Condor, Rio de Janeiro to La Paz, 2/9 arrival ds's front and verso, first return flight of the new international airmail service linking Bolivia with the rest of the world via Rio de Janeiro, plain cover franked 18000R airmail and 300R ordinary, canc Syndicato Condor/Servicio Aereo/28 Ago 30/Rio de Janeiro" cds, special black circular Brazil-Bolivia flight cachet, special black/red/yellow/green LAB etiquette issued for this flight and rated a great rarity by Mair. While LAB was dev eloping its routes within Bolivia, Syndicato Condor was doing the same in Brazil. The two routes met up on 30/7/1930, thus completing a service from the West Coast to Europe. An attractive cover, see scan.

Lot# 99 - 20/09/1930 Estimate: £15 Brazil-Hungary, pre-printed Aeropostale envelope postmarked Sao Paulo (Brazil) September 20, 1930 addressed to Budapest (Hungary) with arrival b/s October 1st. Rare destination for an Aeropostale cover from South America.

Lot# 100 - 21/02/1931 Estimate: £55 VARIG, F/F Pelotas to Santa Cruz, bs 23/2, attractive red/pale green souvenir cover franked 200R postage + 350R airmail, canc Pelotas cds.

Lot# 101 - 16/06/1931 Estimate: £35 DO-X mail, Segment 2 Rio de Janeiro to New York, Brazilian mail northbound from Rio de Janeiro to Natal, bs, pale grey/green 'Servicio Aereo - Condor envelope, franked 1000R, canc Rio de Janeiro cds, nice strike black diamond 2DOX Premeiro Voo/Europa-America do Sul/Estados Unidos/1931" flight cachet. Lot# 102 - 23/07/1931 Estimate: £25 VARIG, internal Express airmail, Pelotas to Porto Alegre, bs 23/7, red/buff 'Correspondencia Aerea' cover franked 2300R to include Express fee, canc Pelotas cds, "Expressa No.." hs, also "M.P." (by hand) hs. Nice early commercial item.

Lot# 103 - 19/04/1932 Estimate: £40 VARIG, F/F Bage-Livramento, bs Livramento 19/4, attractive black/pale blue souvenir cover franked 200R postage + 350R airmail, canc Bage cds.

Lot# 104 - 21/11/1932 Estimate: £20 Cover from Brazil (Rio ?) postmarked November 21, 1932 addressed to Paris with b/s December 5th. Very high franking of 8700 reis (Scott nos. 227, 230, C21, C22 and C23 – small corner defect 1000R stamp). The cover was repaired in Paris by the Post Office with a manuscript note “Accidentée dans le service. Réparée par nos soins. (signature) » [Damaged in transit. Repaired by us]. Since it is not registered, the cover was probably very heavy and burst during the handling. The usual reference works do not report any crashes at that time on that route. Scarce thus.

Lot# 105 - 20/09/1933 Estimate: £12 Brazil Civil War, censored internail airmail Sao Paulo to Rio Grande, bs 23/9, plain cover franked 1200R, black boxed Censurado/Rio Grande censor mark on front.Throughout this period of his office President vargas maintained censorship to protect himself and his ideals. A nice combination of airmail and military history.

Lot# 106 - 17/10/1933 Estimate: £50 VARIG, F/F Porto Alegre to Palmeira, bs 17/10, attractive brown/cream 'Junkers 13 over oxcart' souvenir cover franked 300R postage + 350R airmail, canc Porto Alegre cds.

Lot# 107 - 29/10/1933 Estimate: £18 Opening up the Amazon, Panair F/F Manaos to Rio Brancas and return Rio Brancas to Manaos, all appropriate departure and arrival cancellations, black Manaos to Rio Brancas and blue Rio Brancas to Manaos cachets, printed souvenir corner cover, 11x24cm.

Lot# 108 - 19/12/1933 Estimate: £20 VARIG internal airmail, Porto Alegre to Rio Grande, bs 19/12, black/grey green printed commercial cover franked 1400R airmail, 200R postage and 100R obligatory tax, fine strike green "Gauchoi-Auxilia a Varig/Que FCI Fundada Para Te Servir" hs verso. Lot# 109 - 17/05/1934 Estimate: £30 Consular mail to Bogota, bs 25/5, via Barranqilla 24/5, Rep Colombia consular corner cover, fr 6200R (airmail fee only), circular Franquia (exempt postage) postal cachet, rect purple boxed Via Panair cachet verso, unframed winged Via PAA on front. Flown FAM 10-6 to PO Spain, then FAM 5 to Barranquilla, then Scadta to Bogota. Nice item.

Lot# 110 - 05/01/1935 Estimate: £15 Pre-printed Air France envelope postmarked Rio de Janeiro January 5, 1935 addressed to Orléans (France) with arrival b/s January 14th. Early Brazilian Air France envelope. Cover addressed to Raymond Vanier, famous Aeropostale pilot and manager of South American lines. He had gone back to France to work for Air Bleu in 1935.

Lot# 111 - 16/09/1939 Estimate: £150 Early World War II censored LATI commercial air cover to Germany, Baade & Baade airmail corner cover, franked 5400R canc Porto Alegre cds, printed "Via (ms) LATI" typed endorsement ", Maubeuge double circle Period 1 "Controle Postal Militaire/Admission WN", sealed Brazil brown/black S.P Censura censor tape with coat of arms, tied by violet Brazil two line "5 Censura/****** Do Sul censor mark verso, blue two line "Retour/A L'Envoyeur" hs on front. Intended for carriage by LATI but was sent, instead, via Transatlantic Clipper to France where it was censored at Maubeuge on the French-Belgian border, and then returned to sender. Upon the French declaration of war against Germany on 3/9/39 Air France ceased all flights to Germany. So, on reaching Maubeuge, this cover could go no further and was returned to Brazil. For this reason Maubeuge mail is much sought after.

Lot# 112 - 06/03/1940 Estimate: £55 POW censored 'LATI' air cover, Brazil to Switzerland, no arrival ds, grey airmail envelope franked 5400R, canc Sao Paulo cds, sealed B&W 'Opened By Censor 1234' tape (Prisoner of War Censorship, New York), typed "Via LATI/Aerea Italia". It is likely that the sender's intention was for carriage by LATI (5400R is the correct LATI rate to Germany), but it would seem that (suspected) POW status caused a reroute via the special US POW censor in New York. Interesting.

Lot# 113 - 05/12/1940 Estimate: £45 Brazil to Sweden, rare LATI uncensored WWII printed company airmail cover, Rio to Lidkoping, franked 5400R, canc Rio/Correo Aereo, 5/12/40 cds, typed "LATI". Correctly rated for Brazil to Europe by LATI (5000R air fee + 400R basic, see Beith p41), flown LATI to Rome. Carried all the way from Rio de Janeiro to Rome by LATI, thus avoiding the British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service. No Swedish censor because Sweden was neutral and did not censor incoming or outgoing mail during WWII. Flown by pilot Ferioli.

Lot# 114 - 18/12/1940 Estimate: £55 Brazil to Germany, flown by LATI, rare censored WWII PPC, La Catrena to Varel, franked 2500R, canc 'La Catrena Aereo/18/12/40' cds, censored black German six line OKW roller censor mark code d Munich, also boxed 1542 additional German censor. Correctly rated for 1940 Christmas concessionary tariff to Europe by LATI, see Beith p41. Carried all the way from Rio de Janeiro to Rome by LATI, thus avoiding the British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service. Flown by pilot Pavia. Lot# 115 - 27/11/1939 Burma Estimate: £25 Uncensored WW II airmail, Burma to Tasmania, bs Hobart 6/12, airmail etiquette cover franked 14 annas, canc Mamyo cds. Uncommon origin/destination combination.

Lot# 116 - 30/08/1941 Estimate: £8 Uncensored WW II airmail, Rangoon to Kandramanikam (South India), bs 3/9, via Trichinopoly 2/9, registered (label) cover franked 6 1/2anna, blue/white airmail etiquette.Uncommon destination.

Lot# 117 - 25/09/1941 Estimate: £7 Commercial imprint etiquette underpaid ? 1941 air cover from Rangoon to New York, franked 16a, black semi-circle "Rangoon/Due/…As", and violet "Postage Due (ms) 11 Cents/Foreign Sect. GPONY" hs's, both on front.

Lot# 118 - 13/04/1928 Canada Estimate: £45 F/F White Horse to Atlin, b/s, blue/white company semi official stamp CL42 on front, scarce red/white/ blue company etiquette, Yukon Airways and Exploration Ltd, signed by pilot TG Stephens.

Lot# 119 - 02/12/1929 Estimate: £30 Canada acceptance from India, early commercial air cover to Duncan BC, bs 6/1/30, via Vancouver 4/1/30, likely carried on the new European timetable of the India service introduced early Dec 1930 (all train service from Athens-London), see Wingent p29, franked 11a verso canc Ludhiana Cutchery (300 km north of Delhi), India airmail etiquette, Imperial Airways. Uncommon origin/destination.

Lot# 120 - 11/03/1930 Estimate: £28 F/F Lac La longe to Christopher Lake, b/s, red/white semi official company stamp CL46 cancelled st line magenta "Cherry Red Airline Ltd" cachet, printed company cover with red plane corner logo.

Lot# 121 - 01/03/1939 Estimate: £12 TCA, F/F North Bay to Winnipeg, bs 2/3, plain cover franked 6c, black flight cachet. Lot# 122 - 24/06/1939 Estimate: £15 Pan Am FAM 18 F/F Shediac-Botwood, b/s, scarce blue/cream "First Flight/West to East/God Save The King" souvenir cover, franked 10c, official black cachet on front.

Lot# 123 - 10/08/1939 Estimate: £12 Imperial Airways F/F Montreal to Southampton, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 30c, official black flight cacher, violet four line "Imperial Airways/First Transatlantic Airmail/Northern Route/via Eire, N'Fld & Canada".

Lot# 124 - 08/12/1942 Estimate: £40 WWII inward German POW 'Kriegsgefangenpost' PC to Vancouver, bs Cobble Hill, BC Jan 1, 1943 cds, ms "Mit Luftpost Nach Nordamerika/40 pfgs"Par Avion/Taxe percue...RM 'ms 40' Rpf", black straight line "Examined by Censor DB/7" Canada POW camp censor, also red framed "5/Oflag VII B/" hs. Rated 40pfg for airmail surcharge to Canada (surface POW mail was postage free). The ms '40 pfgs' indicates that the airmail fee was paid in cash.

Lot# 125 - 23/11/1943 Estimate: £60 World War II German prisoner of war northern trans Atlantic airmail from Canada to Germany, Internment Camp #132, Abbt. I, Ottawa to Chemnitz, official black/white Form I.O.17 'Prisoner of War/Base Post Office Ottawa Canada' envelope, franked 30c, canc camp 'POW/ 23 Nov 43/132' cds, thick framed magenta 'By Air Mail/Par Avion' hs, black straight line Canada 'Examined By D.B. (ms) 428' censor mark, and German black small circle with 'Ab' letter code censor mark applied on arrival. An uncommon item in particularly fine condition.

Lot# 126 - 05/10/1950 Estimate: £25 Air France F/F Montreal to Paris, bs Paris Aviation 6/10, plain cover franked 15c, one stamp ties a superb red/white/blue souvenir label of this flight.

Lot# 127 - 29/12/1925 Canal Zone Estimate: £35 United States Army Service Plane, special flight Cristobal to Port Limon, special green circular dispatch cds "AS Plane #41", violet circular San Jose 29/12 receiver on front, Roessler corner cover.

Lot# 128 - 17/05/1929 Estimate: £20 PANAGRA F/F Cristobal to Guayaquil (Ecuador), bs17/5, plain cover franked 15c, large black framed 'map' flight cachet. Also B&W photoscan, 45x145mm, of Sikorsky S38 seaplane which flew this leg of the route. Lot# 129 - 17/05/1929 Estimate: £20 PANAGRA, F/F Cristobal to Lima, bs 20/5, and on to Callao 20/5 by rail, plain cover franked 30c CZ stamps and 50c Peru stamp tied by Lima slogan cancel as receiver, black 'Primer Correo Aereo/C.Z.-Peru' hs, and large black framed 'map' flight cachet.

Lot# 130 - 24/05/1929 Estimate: £30 PANAGRA F/F Cristobal to Tumaco (Colombia), bs 25/5, and return to Canal Zone, bs's Cristobal and Colon 27/5, red/cream 'First Flight/Canal Zone to Colombia' souvenir cover, franked 15c, large black framed flight cachet. Carried by Sikorsky S38 seaplane.

Lot# 131 - 08/10/1929 Estimate: £30 PANAGRA F/F Cristobal to Buenos Aires, bs 14/10, black/white Mizrah ,Primer Correo Aereo' cover franked 50 c, violet framed flight cachet.

Lot# 132 - 15/07/1940 Canton Island Estimate: £6 Trans-Pacific, Pan Am F/F FAM 19, Canton Island to Noumea, red cachet, b/s, air cover franked 10c.

Lot# 133 - 22/07/1940 Estimate: £6 F/F FAM 19 Canton Island to Honolulu, cachet, b/s, airmail cover, Pan Am

Lot# 134 - 22/07/1940 Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 19 Canton Island to San Francisco, b/s, cachet, b/s, plain cover, Pan Am

Lot# 135 - 24/02/1947 Estimate: £5 F/F, FAM 19 Trans- Pacific Route, Canton Island to Sydney, cachet, b/s, airmail cover, Pan Am

Lot# 136 - 01/06/1937 Channel Is Estimate: £18 Jersey Airways Ltd, F/F Jersey to Southampton, and on to London by rail, black double line circular Company's London office 1/7 dated arrival mark, plain cover franked with the Company's meter franking in red, blue angular Jersey F/F sender cachet on front and green angular London F/F receiver cachet verso, also blue st. line "From Jersey" hs. Lot# 137 - 22/05/1939 Estimate: £9 F/F Guernsey to England, no arrival ds, franked 1 1/2d, attractive printed green/cream 'R.R.Green' souvenir cover.

Lot# 138 - 22/05/1939 Estimate: £75 F/F Inter-Island airmail, Jersey to Guernsey, no arrival ds, Philatelic Magazine cover franked 1 1/2d, canc 'Jersey/5 am/22 May 1939'. Flown covers are definitely rare, and bear the Jersey postmark of 5am, see Red grove pp103,104. Nice item in fine condition.

Lot# 139 - 10/09/1945 Estimate: £60 Channel Island Airways, first airmail service Guernsey to Jersey, no arrival ds, souvenir cover franked German Occupation Local 2 1/2d stamp, official violet circular cachet.

Lot# 140 - 31/03/1947 Estimate: £35 Channel Island Airways last flight, Guernsey to Southampton, no arrival ds, plain cover franked GB 3d, canc Guernsey 31 Mch 1947 cds, dark blue/white airmail etiquette. Uncommon.

Lot# 141 - 20/10/1953 Estimate: £5 First day of extension of BEA letter service to Channel Is, Guernsey to Jersey, franked BEA 6d (3rd issue)+ 1d and POA

Lot# 142 - 25/01/1971 Estimate: £45 BEA, London Heathrow to Jersey, mailed during the postal strike period, commercial cover bearing BEA 3/7d airway label, cancelled 'Cashier ..../West Londo/Air Terminal/...', and 3d Jersey stamp. Also Jersey 2x1d Jersey postage due stamps, canc Jersey PO, to make up the additional 5d postal rate required for incoming mail to the Channel Islands. Interesting, see Lister pp 39,40. Lot# 143 - 26/02/1929 Chile Estimate: £55 Chilean Air Force, inauguration of airmail service to the North, F/F Santiago to Chuquiamata, bs 28/2, plain cover franked 1P + 20c airs and 15c ordinary, canc Correo Aereo/Santiago cds, ms 'Primer Viago/Santiago-Arica', red 'Via Aerea' hs, addressed to C.P.Carlson, (Engineer, Chile Exploration Co,) Chuquiamata. One of 52 covers addressed to Chuquiamata and carried to the nearest airport at Tocopilla. The pilot was Bonitez, who later became commandante of the Chilean Air Force. Francis Field authentication hs verso. Rare item

Lot# 144 - 22/07/1929 Estimate: £40 Linea Aeropostal Santiago Arica/Panagra, Iquique (Chile) to Cristobal (Canal Zone), bs 1/8, fand on to Balboa 2/8, first acceptance of mail from Iquique for carriage on the Panagra Santiago-Cristobal (Santiago-Orvalle-Copiapo-Antofagasta-Iquique-Arica-Mollendo-Lima-Cristobal) service, airmail cover franked $1.95, red/black airmail etiquette. Flown by Linea Aeropostal Santiago Arica from Iquique to Arica, bs 28/7, then carried by Panagra on the second flight to Cristobal. The fact that this cover was posted in time for the fist flight + the Arica transit cds, indicates that the earlier flights of this service did not land at Iquique and consequently mail was not picked up. An nice exhibit item. Scarce, and in fine condition.

Lot# 145 - 22/07/1929 Estimate: £25 PANAGRA/Chilean Air Force, F/F Santiago to Cristobal, bs 25/7, for carriage on the PANAGRA Santiago-Cristobal (Santiago-Orvalle-Copiapo-Antofagasta-Iquique-Arica-Mollendo-Lima-Cristobal) service, airmail cover franked 25c +$3.95 airmail, black framed F/F cachet, red/black airmail etiquette. The plane from the north was not available at Santiago for the departure of the inaugural mail flight, so carried from Santiago to Ovalle by the Chilean Air Force, for OAT by PANAGRA.

Lot# 146 - 15/09/1932 Estimate: £40 Guillaumet flight, pre-printed Aeropostale envelope postmarked Valparaiso September 15, 1932 addressed to Husum (Germany) with arrival b/s September 27th. This cover was certainly flown across the Andes from Santiago (Chile) to Mendoza and then to Buenos Aires by famous pilot Henri Guillaumet. After his well-known flights in 1929 and 1930, Guillaumet did the weekly cross-Andes flights from May 24, 1932 to September 15, 1934 (CAF Bulletin no. 30 p.15 note.).

Lot# 147 - 15/12/1932 Estimate: £70 Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, a rare red/white/blue CGA New Year Greetings card, Valpariso to Rome, no arrival ds, franked at the special 40c postage + $1.20 airmail rate, canc Valpariso cds, "Felicitationes/Pascua y Ana Nuevo" printed in blue in the top right hand corner with winged envelope and arrow logo.

Lot# 148 - 23/04/1935 Estimate: £20 Cover postmarked Valparaiso (Chile) April 23, 1935 to Geneva with no arrival b/s but transit Marseille Gare Avion b/s of May 5th. Total postage of 7.8 pesos. Interesting failed attempt to connect with the GRAF ZEPPELIN flight. The sender had written instructions to connect with the Graf Zeppelin from Buenos Aires to Pernambuco. On this second South American flight of 1935, the Zeppelin did not go to Buenos Aires but began its return trip in Rio on April 25. The cover was flown by Air France (or Panagra) from Santiago to Buenos Aires but obviously failed to connect with the Graf Zeppelin in Rio. It then took the usual Air France air/ship route from Natal to France. A little trimmed on top. Interesting also for Zeppelin collectors. Lot# 149 - 19/11/1935 Estimate: £25 Panagra, diplomatic airmail, Santiago to Connecticut, no arrival ds, printed 'US Embassy/Panagra' airmail cover, franked $14.60, three line "Free/Diplomatic Mail/Correspondencia Diplomatica" and black circular 'US Embassy/Santiago' hand stamps. As this was diplomatic mail only the UPAE (Postal Union of the Americas and Spain) fee was applied. No internal airmail fee and no internal postage charge were levied. Interesting.

Lot# 150 - 20/03/1937 Estimate: £15 Airmail cover to Prague, Czechoslovakia, 26/3 arrival ds on front, and on to Haida 27/3, grey company airmail cover franked10P 30c, canc Correo Aereo/Santiago cds. The fast transit time of six days precludes carriage by Panagra. The dates indicate Air France flight #86R, which left Natal on March 22nd. Plane V. de Montevideo, pilot Guillaumet, uncommon destination.

Lot# 151 - 09/06/1937 Estimate: £30 250th South Atlantic crossing, Condor/Lufthansa, Valparaiso to Hamburg, bs 14/6, carried from Santiago across the Andes to Buenos Aires, then OAT to Europe, airmail cover franked $1.80 postage + $8.50 airmail, purple 'flag' flight cachet.

Lot# 152 - 17/06/1941 Estimate: £30 LATI World War II censored airmail cover from Valparaiso to Louise Stoehr, Berlin-Hermsdorf, via Santiago 10/12, correctly rated 12.60P (see Beith page 41), typed "Via Condor LATI", black on white OKW, code d (Munich) censor tape, tied by black circular eagle and swastika censor mark, grey airmail envelope.

Lot# 153 - 12/11/1970 Concorde Estimate: £5 Concorde 002 F/F at Mach 2, at Fairford, Gloucester, illustrated souvenir cover, franked QEII 9d canc special black boxed commemorative cachet.

Lot# 154 - 21/01/1976 Estimate: £5 F/F Concorde, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, bs 21/6, illustrated souvenir cover franked France 1.70F Concorde, postmarked 'Paris Aviation 21-1-76' cds, red four line flight cachet.

Lot# 155 - 23/05/1976 Estimate: £7 Belfast acceptance for carriage on the inaugural transatlantic flight London to Washington, bs 24/5, illustrated souvenir cover franked 11p, canc special Belfast 20 May 1976 departure postmark, violet framed 'Belfast-London' and blue framed 'London-Washington' flight cachets. Lot# 156 - 23/05/1976 Estimate: £6 Guernsey acceptance for carriage on the inaugural transatlantic flight London to Washington, bs 24/5, illustrated souvenir cover franked Guernsey 11p, canc Guernsey 22 MY 76 cds, green framed 'Guernsey-London' and blue framed 'London-Washington' flight cachets.

Lot# 157 - 31/08/1976 Estimate: £5 F/F Concorde, Geneva to Casablanca, bs 31/8, illustrated souvenir cover franked Switzerland 90c, Geneva Airport postmark, circular green flight cachet.

Lot# 158 - 31/08/1976 Estimate: £5 F/F Concorde, Paris to Geneva, bs 31/8, souvenir cover, postmarked 'Paris Concorde/31-8-76/Correspondance Privee'.

Lot# 159 - 22/11/1977 Estimate: £5 F/F Concorde, New York-London, bs 23/11, illustrated souvenir cover franked USA 13c air, postmarked 'AMF/Nov 23 1977/JFK NY' cds, circular blue 'New York-London' flight cachet.

Lot# 160 - 22/11/1977 Estimate: £5 F/F Concorde, Paris to New York, bs22/11, souvenir cover franked France 1.90F Lindbergh air, postmarked 'Paris Concorde/22-11-77/Correspondance Privee'.

Lot# 161 - 02/01/1926 Costa Rica Estimate: £20 US military aviators courier flight US army planes, San Jose to Cristobal, colour PPC showing Coffee Pickers franked 10c canc special 'Correo Aereo/Canal Zone/Ene 2 1926' postmark, blue circular arrival dated cachet on front "Costa Rica-Canal zone/Air Mail/Jan 2, 1926/6.00pm/Received/AS Plane #41". Lot# 162 - 29/12/1928 Estimate: £175 1928/29 Flood Flights, air cover from Limon to San Jose, bs 'San Jose/Dic 29 1929/Costa Rica' cds, franked 20c, canc Limon double ring 'Adminstracion Correo de Limon/Dic 29 1928/Costa Rica' cds, violet three line "Primer Correo Aereo/Dec 29 - 1928/Limon - San Jose" in the same ink as the postmark. This is only the second type Ba cover ever reported. It is also the first to be reported with a backstamp and thus confirms Saundry's theory that, following an unsuccessful first attempt on the 29th, a second, and successful, attempt was made later the same day. See a detailed analysis of The 1928/29 Flood Flight Covers of Costa Rica (pp 43-60, and of the 1929 flight Limon to San Jose (PP51-53), by R. Saundry, Airmail Postal History of Costa Rica, 1999. A rare and important exhibit item in fine condition.

Lot# 163 - 11/03/1930 Estimate: £12 Pan Am, F/F San Jose to Miami, no arrival ds, plain cover, blue boxed purple cachet "Primer Vuelo/Costa Rica/Unaidos".

Lot# 164 - 20/05/1931 Estimate: £15 San Jose to Milan, Italy, no arrival ds, early airmail cover franked 80c air & 20c ordinary, canc Correo Aereo/Costa Rica cds, printed 'Correo Aereo' cancelled by violet double line Jusqu'a applied in New York. Flown by FAM 5 from San Jose to Miami, by US internal air service to New York, then surface to Europe. Nice routing.

Lot# 165 - 23/06/1931 Estimate: £25 Costa Rica to Czechoslovakia, San Jose to Prague, bs 5/7, early airmail cover franked 80c air & 20c ordinary, canc Correo Aereo/Costa Rica cds, cancelled by violet double line Jusqu'a applied in New York, typed "Via New York". Flown by FAM 5 from San Jose to Miami, by US internal air service to New York, then surface to Europe. Nice routing.

Lot# 166 - 28/10/1927 Cuba Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 4 Resumed Service, Havana to Key West, bs 29/10, violet cachet, Pan Am

Lot# 167 - 24/02/1928 Estimate: £6 West Indian Aerial Express, F/F Santiago de Cuba to Havana, franked 1927 5c air canc, black boxed rectangular cachet inscribed "Primer Correo Aereo/Santiago De Cuba to Havana", purple cds, Hotel Venus printed cover. Lot# 168 - 24/02/1928 Estimate: £12 West Indian Aerial Express, F/F Santiago de Cuba to Port au Prince franked 5c o/p Lindbergh Febrero 1928, canc official violet cds, blue straight line 'Western Indian Aerial Express/Rep. Dominicaine ..Cuba. Puerto Rico..Haiti', and monoplane in circle cachets, b/s 24/2, black boxed rectangular cachet inscribed "Primer Viaje Aereo/Cuba. Haiti-Santo Domingo-Pto Rico/Aeroplano Santa Maria" verso, printed special cover signed Basil Rowe pilot.

Lot# 169 - 15/02/1932 Estimate: £12 F/F, internal route extension, Manzanillo to Camaguey, b/s, ms 'Primer Vuelo', large violet hexagonal flight cachet.

Lot# 170 - 02/09/1946 Estimate: £12 Early post war flown cover, Havana to Brno, Czechoslovakia, bs 7/9, franked 45c, printed commercial airmail cover. Uncommon origin/destination.

Lot# 171 - 15/12/1946 Estimate: £5 F/F Havana to Tampa, cachet, b/s, National AL.

Lot# 172 - 15/10/1959 Estimate: £5 Cuban Philatelic Club, 20th anniversary 1st Cohete Postal Rocket, souvenir cover franked 10c air opt 'Experimento del Cohete Postal Ano de 1939' (the world's first official govt rocket stamp), canc special purple cachet, also pink 'Marilyn' and flag cachet.

Lot# 173 - 19/04/1932 Cyprus Estimate: £40 Imperial Airways first call at Cyprus, Limassol to Tiberias (Lake Galilee), bs 19/4, black/dark blue etiquette (small scuff) rated very scarce by Mair. Scarce stage.

Lot# 174 - 04/12/1935 Estimate: £18 Regie Malgache/Imperial Airways, Elisabethville to Limassol, bs, via Cairo 12/12, imprint etiquette registered (label) commercial airmail cober, franked 14F typed "Imperial Airways/Via Broke Hill". RM to Broken Hill, then IAW to Cairo. Nice. Lot# 175 - 05/04/1960 Estimate: £8 F/F Comet 4B, Nicosia to London,b/s, long souvenir cover, BEA

Lot# 176 - 25/02/1927 Danzig Estimate: £40 Airmail service to Germany carried by a Deutche Lufthansa flight with Junkers G23 aircraft, Danzig to Insterbug, East Prussia, no arrival ds, red "Mit Luftpost befordert./Kononigsberg (Pr)1" transit cachet on front, Junkers G23 airmail postcard franked 5pf PC rate + 10pf airmail supplement, canc oval Danzig Luftpost ds. No air connection from Konigsberg to Insterburg so forwarded by train and endorsed with scarce violet "Mit Zug weiterbefordern/Konigsberg Pr. 1." on front, German "Mit Luftpost" airmai Label.

Lot# 177 - 27/06/1936 Estimate: £25 Night airmail service to United Kingdom, Zoppot to London, via Danzig 24/2, franked Oct 1935 air 10pf x5 and 15pf, canc oval Zoppot/Freie Stadt Danzig/27.6.36 ds, ms 'Mit Flugpost', blue "Mit Luftpost" airmail Label, flown by Lufthansa to Croydon via Berlin. Non invasive closed nick top edge, otherwise fine.

Lot# 178 - 01/03/1937 Estimate: £40 Express airmail cover, Danzig to Annaberg, Germany, bs Annaberg 16/3London EC/25/2, Danzig 24/2, franked 10+5, 15+5, 25+10, 40pf+20pf 1936 'Winter Help' issue, canc oval Danzig Luftpost ds, black/red 'Durch Gilboten/Expres' label, blue "Mit Luftpost" airmail Label, flown, by Lufthansa via Leipzig and Chemnitz.

Lot# 179 - 19/07/1937 Estimate: £40 Airmail service to Switzerland, Danzig to Territet, bs20/7, Danzig 19/7 transit cds verso, franked 1935 airmails to 1Groschen, canc oval Danzig Luftpost ds, blue "Mit Luftpost" airmail Label, flown by Deutsche Lufthansa direct.

Lot# 180 - 14/06/1938 Estimate: £15 Airmail service to Sweden, Zoppot to Mellbystrand, no arrival ds, Danzig transit cds verso, franked 25pf foreign letter rate and 55pf airmail supplement canc oval Zoppot Luftpost ds, blue "Mit Luftpost" airmail Label, flown by Lufthansa via Berlin, then Lufthansa/Swedish ABT to Malmo. Lot# 181 - 12/05/1914 Denmark Estimate: £150 Ussing flight, Copenhagen to Roskilde, POA Roskilde 12/5 8-9E, franked 5o, red circular "Besorget Med Danmarks/12 Maj 1914/1ste Flyvpost" first flight cachet, violet dr. circular 'Bornehjaelps' cachet, special 'Bornehjaelpsdagen 1914 PC, illustrated Luning p 47. Scarce item.

Lot# 182 - 16/11/1940 Estimate: £15 DDL F/F Copenhagen to Ronne, 16/11 arrival ds on front, attractive pale blue/dark blue/cream souvenir cover, franked 10c air & 15+5c Red Cross ordinary, canc Copenhagen cds, red circular flight cachet.

Lot# 183 - 24/06/1941 Estimate: £70 Denmark to Uruguay, flown by LATI, an extremely rare censored WWII etiquette airmail cover from Copenhagen to the Ministry of External Affairs, Montevideo, bs 22/7/41, franked 390 ore canc Copenhagen 24/6/41 cds, ms "Italie - Brasil", typed 'Par Avion', blue 'Ad' in circle German censor mark, indicating inspected in Munich, but not opened, also purple '26' in circle additional German censor mark. Flown Lufthansa from Copenhagen-Frankfurt, air or rail to Rome, LATI to Rio, Syndicato Condor to Buenos Aires, then Condor to Montevideo, thus avoiding British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service. This cover was carried on the last E-W LATI flight to terminate at Rio - the Rio-Buenos Aires extension opened on 22/7/41. Very fine and rare - an outstanding exhibit item.

Lot# 184 - 30/10/1941 Estimate: £35 WWII censored high franked airmail, Copenhagen to New York, no arrival ds, Brandt's Bureau commercial corner cover, 20x10cm, franked 2k 65o, canc Copenhagen cds, sealed verso black/white OKW code e (Frankfurt) censor tape, tied red OKW (f) censor mark. Carried Copenhagen-Frankfurt-Lisbon by DLH, the to Miami by Pan Am FAM 18. The total airmail rate for a 5gm letter from Denmark to the US by this route until December 1941 was 125o, see Boyle p337, so did this cover go by a more ciuitous route via Moscow, Vladivostok, Japan and San Francisco, see Boyle 333, ironed vertical crease. An interesting item.

Lot# 185 - 17/09/1946 Estimate: £10 First SAS trip to USA, Copenhagen to New York, SEp 19 arrival ds on front, large red two line cachet, illustrated souvenir PC franked 1K.

Lot# 186 - 17/05/1955 Estimate: £45 SAS 'Mail War' F/F DC6 Stockholm to Baghdad, bs 18/5, printed souvenir cover, franked 65o. These F/F covers were produced by the Danish Philatelic Club and showed, as a special imprint, the head of an Arab. The Iraqui authorities took offence to this and confiscated all the mail. Only after lengthy negotiations and, after the 'portrait' had been obliterated by a black colour, was the mail returned. This is the first known "Mail War" case after World War II, which explains the high price of these items, valued at 350Dm in 1985, see 'First Flight Covers of SAS Scandinavian Airlines 1951-84 by Hans Proksh. Lot# 187 - 09/03/1929 Ecuador Estimate: £175 PANAGRA, the first flight to carry mail from Ecuador to Peru under the FAM 9 contract, Guayaquil to Lima, bs 11/3, plain cover franked 10c cancelled with black framed 'P.A.G.A.C./Servicio/Aereo/Ecuador' hs's, also black straight line '9 Mar 1929' office date stamp dispatch mark, and ms '#43'. On March 2, 1929 the USPO awarded PANAGRA the mail contract for FAM 9. Although Peruvian Airways had already become part of PANAGRA on January 25, 1929, the first mail flight from Cristobal to Mollendo (Peru) did not take place until May 17. In the meanwhile PANAGRA carried out various mail flights within the planned FAM route - this particujlar item being the first mail carrying flight from Ecuador to Peru under the FAM 9 contract. This cover is very scarce. The flight on which it was carried is, thus far, unrecorded in the literature. And, the early Guayaquil framed 'P.A.G.A.C.' cachet on this cover antedates, by some two months, its previously earliest recorded use on May 4, 1929 (see American Air Mail Catalogue, Vol

Lot# 188 - 25/05/1929 Estimate: £15 PANAGRA, underpaid second return flight, Esmeraldas to New York, via Cristobal, 27/5 transit cds, plain cover rated 10c + 1.50 sucre airmal paid in gold (30c gold = 1.50 sucre), typed "Pagado 30 centavos Oro por falta/de estampillas", and "Servicio Aereo First/Return Flight to USA". A charge of 30 Centavos Gold was levied due to lack of postage stamps. The cover was prepared for the first flight, but missed it - probably due to underpayment of postage. Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 189 - 16/07/1929 Estimate: £65 Ecuador to Chile, Pan American Grace Airways F/F Guayaquil to Valparaiso, b/s, plain cover franked 4c canc violet boxed "P.A.G.A.I. Servico Aereo Ecuador" cachet, black 3 line "Guayaquil-Valparaiso" cachet front and verso. Ex Heinmuller Air Mail Collection.

Lot# 190 - 22/07/1929 Estimate: £40 PANAGRA, first acceptance of mail from Ecuador for Colombia, for carriage on the last leg of the inaugural flight from Santiago (Chile) to Buenaventura, Guayaquil to Buenaventura, bs framed "Co...... /Seccion . Apparto../25 Jul 1929/Buenaventura", plain cover rated 10c postage, canc violet boxed "P.A.G.A.I. Servico Aereo Ecuador" cachet, + 1.50 sucre airmal paid in gold (30c gold = 1.50 sucre). 'P.A.G.A.I.' is the acronym for the original company name 'Pan American Grace Airways Inc.'. This name lasted but a short time until September 1929, and the cachet is therefore scarce. Also fine strike violet six line "Ecuadorian Airways/Division of/Pan American Grace Airways Inc/First Flight/New York-Valparaiso/Valparaiso-New York" cachet, and violet circujlar "Pan-Americaqn Grace Airways" company cachet verso. The plane on the first inward service was held up at Ovalle with undercarriage problems so, for the return, the mail was carried from Santiago to Orville by the Chilean Air Force and transferred to the Panagr

Lot# 191 - 01/08/1929 Estimate: £75 PANAGRA, Ecuador to Chile, Guayaquil to Tocopilla, bs 10/8, via Santiago 4/8, official Guayaquil Post Office envelope, franked 10c x2 postage due stamps to pay postage, airmail fee paid in gold centavos, canc scarce six line "Correo Aero P.A.G.I./Guayaquil-Valparaiso/(FAM 9) Ago 1 1929" postmark (also verso), the first known use of this cachet is July 25, so this one confirms a moveable date slug. Also green/white Scadta etiquette. 'P.A.G.A.I.' is the acronym for the original company name 'Pan American Grace Airways Inc'. This name lasted but a short time until September 1929, and the cachet is therefore scarce. Also a typed instruction 'Via Mollendo-Antofagasta' which is incorrect, as Mollendo was replaced by Arica as a transit stop on July 16. This cover was flown to Santiago and forwarded by train to Tocopilla. A great exhibit item, and one to make the judges' eyes water. Lot# 192 - 28/08/1929 Estimate: £70 Pan American Grace Airways, Harold Harris promotional return flight from Quito to Guayaquil, bs 28/8, plain cover magenta boxed flight cachet, typed endorsement "Por Avion Via PGA". This flight was successful and led to the award to Panagra of the Ecuadorian internal and external airmail concession.

Lot# 193 - 29/04/1930 Estimate: £75 Scarce Pan American Grace Airways F/F Salinas to Guayaquil, bs 29/4, Rizzo corner cover franked 60c canc weak Salinas cds, two different violet Panagra 'Guayaquil-New York 3 1/2 Day Rapid Service' flight cachets and red framed 'Air Mail' hs on the front, and large red "Primer Despacho/Salinas-Guayaquil" and large black oval "Primer Correo Aereo/Guayaquil-Salinas/6 Mayo 1930" verso. This cover was flown Salinas-Guayaquil on the day the accelerated Panagra service was due to collect mail at Guayaquil for transit North. It appears the PO took the opportunity to also apply cachets for the Guayaquil-Salinas flight even though its intended date was not until May 6. A small neat hand drawn map of the route accompanies this item. Lot# 194 - 03/03/1931 Egypt Estimate: £25 Imperial Airways, F/F Alexandria to Khartoum, bs 7/3, registered (label) Frangakis commercial corner cover, franked 27ml air + 3ml ordinary, pale blue/white airmail etiquette.

Lot# 195 - 12/12/1933 Estimate: £40 Scarce F/F Alexandria to Singapore, no arrival ds, carried on Imperial Airways/Indian Trans-Continental Airways extension to Singapore via Bangkok and Alor Star, official red/white/blue souvenir cover franked 5ml,10ml, and 80ml airs on front and 5ml air verso, canc Alexandria cds, typed "Alexandria -Singapore". Scarce leg. 1cm closed top edge tear.

Lot# 196 - 18/05/1943 Estimate: £25 WWII airmail from Egypt to Congo, bs Elizabethville 1/6, via Stanleyville 29/5, plain cover franked 52ml, canc "Egypt/18 MA 43/Prepaid/(Base PO ?65)", violet crowned circle base censor No 50 hs, double winged crown in 'Deputy Field Censor' hs, ms 'Air Mail'. Two week transit was good in wartime. Likely route was up the Nile to Juba, then across the Congo with change of plane at Stanleyville.

Lot# 197 - 07/08/1943 Estimate: £13 WWII dual censored airmail, Egypt to New York, grey cover franked 50ml x2, ms "By Airmail/Via Pan American Clipper", sealed red/cream 'Examined By Base Censor' censor tape tied by Egypt purple circular 'Deputy Field Censor' with crown censor mark, and US black/white EB 14616 (Miami) censor tape. BOAC to Lisbon, then Pan Am FAM 18 to Miami via Bermuda. Lot# 198 - 17/03/1933 Fiji Estimate: £20 Fiji Airways F/F Suva-Lautoka, no arrival ds, green/brown/cream crested souvenir cover, franked 2d.

Lot# 199 - 09/11/1941 Estimate: £6 Pan Am, F/F FAM 19 Suva to Sydney, airmail cover franked with 1938 2d brown and green x2 (cat £16 each) and 1/-, cachet, b/s.

Lot# 200 - 18/11/1945 Estimate: £30 Qantas 'Coriolanus' inaugural flying boat service, Fiji to Australia, bs Sydney 20/11, signed by pilot Capt. O Denny

Lot# 201 - 25/02/1947 Estimate: £12 First Clipper flight, FAM 19, Suva to Sydney, bs 26/2, airmail cover franked 1/5d, canc Lautoka cds, large black framed cachet, Pan Am.

Lot# 202 - 30/11/1964 Estimate: £5 Qantas F/F B707 Nadi to Hamilton (Bermuda), b/s, souvenir cover.

Lot# 203 - 27/11/1965 Estimate: £5 Air New Zealand, F/F, Nadi to Auckland, b/s, souvenir cover.

Lot# 204 - 29/11/1965 Estimate: £5 Air New Zealand, F/F DC8, Nadi to Pago Pago, b/s, souvenir cover. Lot# 205 - 10/02/1971 Estimate: £9 OHMS unfranked airmail cover to Australia, no arrival ds, circular red "Postage Paid in Cash/Suva-Fiji" and violet "Fiji/Official/GS/Paid" hs's, boxed violet "Air Mail" cachet. Uncommon.

Lot# 206 - 30/04/1937 Finland Estimate: £25 Aero Osake Yhito/LOT, F/F Helsinki to Tel Aviv, bs, via Warsaw, plain cover franked 3.5M, blue cicular flight cachet, black/green airmail etiquette.

Lot# 207 - 21/06/1937 Estimate: £20 F/F Helsinki to Oslo, r21/6 arrival ds on front, red/white souvenir cover franked 2M, postmarked Herlsinki Avion 20.VI 37 cds, special Stockholm transit ds vberso.

Lot# 208 - 09/10/1941 Estimate: £40 Finland to USA, early WWII censored air cover, Vasa to New York, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 9.7m, via Lisbon 14/10, black/light blue Finnish airmail etiquette rated uncommon by Mair, dark blue Finnish/Swedish double circle censor mark, and nice strike scarce purple boxed "PAR SERVICE AERIEN TRANS-/ATLANTIQUE EUROPA-ETATS UNIS" directional hs.. This cachet was used originally on Finnish airmail sent on KLM via the Stockholm-Amsterdam-Paris route for OAT on FAM18 via Lisbon, see Boyle p340. No airmail acceptances for North America at Finnish PO's between Dec 1941 and Sept 1944, see Boyle page 340. A scarce WWII item with fine routing.

Lot# 209 - 21/06/1947 Estimate: £5 American Overseas Airlines F/F FAM 24, Helsinki to New York, special depart cachet, b/s, registered (label) airmail etiquette cover.

Lot# 210 - 11/03/1948 Estimate: £5 F/F Helsinki-Copenhagen, b/s, special depart cancel, air cover, Aero A/Y.

Lot# 211 - 17/04/1955 Estimate: £8 Finnair, F/F Helsinki-Amserdam, 17/4/ arrival ds on front, aerogrammme franked 25mk, canc special depart dated cachet, Lot# 212 - 26/04/1956 Estimate: £8 Finand acceptance for KLM F/F Amsterdam-Palma de Mallorca, franked 15s, canc Turku, 24/5 cds, cachet, b/s, souvenir cover.

Lot# 213 - 08/06/1929 France Estimate: £20 Aeropostale registered cover postmarked Paris June 8, 1929 to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) with arrival b/s June 23. Red airmail label. Commercial envelope with map on reverse and Paris Institute stamp. Small window cutting out return address. Franking includes a good copy of Sc.253 (Pont du Gard 20 Fr. stamp) valued at $32.50 (used) in 1998.

Lot# 214 - 09/12/1935 Estimate: £75 Demonstration flight of the Latécoère 521, "Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris",a French six-engined flying boat, from Paris on 9/12/25 to Martinique, bs 22/12 Jan Le Can commercial corner cover franked 5F50, canc Bordeaux Avion 30/11/35 cds,red framed "FeteDuTricentenaire/ 1reLaisonAerienne/France-Antilles/Par Lietenant de Vaisseaux Paris/1935", ms 'Par hydravion Lieut de Vaiseaux Paris', black/grey airmail etiquette. Ironed vertical crease, hardly visible from front.

Lot# 215 - 23/08/1936 Estimate: £30 La Baule Aviation Meeting, red/cream/blue 'Premier Vol' cover, flown to Cannes, bs Cannes Avion 24/8, franked 50c, canc red 'La Baule/Avion/23-8-36' cds, green/white, and red/blue/white 'La Baule Aviation' vignettes, both tied by black framed "Journee Aeriennes/de la Baule-Pornichet-Le Pouliguen" cachet. Nice item.

Lot# 216 - 27/02/1937 Estimate: £65 Air France/ Aeromaritime F/F France-Gold Coast, Paris to Takoradi, bs 3/3, Van Reet cover franked 2F30, canc hexagonal Paris/27-2 37/Air France ds, Red diamond "Air France/Aeromaritime" cachet , purple two line "Via Aeromaritime a Dakar" cachets. Flown by Aeromaritme from Dakar.

Lot# 217 - 25/05/1939 Estimate: £25 Pan Am F/F Marseilles to Lisbon 25/5, scarce BLACK cachet, attractive red/white/blue souvenir air cover from France.

Lot# 218 - 25/05/1939 Estimate: £30 Pan Am F/F Marseilles to Lisbon, bs 25/5 via Marseiilles 25/5, scarce BLACK cachet, attractive air cover franked 3F. Lot# 219 - 25/05/1939 Estimate: £20 Scarcer Crosby cacheted cover, 24x10cm, Pan Am Yankee Clipper Trans-Atlantic F/F via Southern route, Marseilles to New York, bs 27/5, fine gold Crosby cachet, official red flight cachet, airmail cover. Popular with collectors, but not easy to find.

Lot# 220 - 27/05/1939 Estimate: £75 Missed Pan Am first flight Marseilles to New York, rare red framed "Parvenu Apres Depart Du/1er Service Aerien/France-Portugal-Acores-Etats Unis" cachet on plain cover franked F2.25 canc Marseilles 27/5/39 cds, typed 'France-USA'. Missed the first flight, but a rare cachet confirming this, see Ehrlinger W., p11.

Lot# 221 - 30/06/1939 Estimate: £35 Scarce first acceptance of mail from France for USA for carriage on the inaugural Pan Am North Atlantic service from Southampton to New York, bs 1/7, red/white/blue Imperial Airways/Fist Flight/Trans Atlantic Service souvenir cover franked 1938 10F & 1939 2f25, canc Paris Avion cds.

Lot# 222 - 27/05/1941 Estimate: £75 WWII uncensored airmail, Cannes to Washington, DC, airmail etiquette cover with Hotel Savoy logo on flap, addressed to the Press Attache at Vichy French Embassy, Washington, franked 14F59, ms 'Par Avion - Clipper/via Lisbon'. The attache came under the influence of British spy CYNTHIA - see A Man Called Intrepid, The Secret War 1939/45, pp 337-339. Amy Elizabeth "Betty" Thorpe (22 November 1910 – 1 December 1963) was, according to William Stephenson of British Security Coordination, an American spy, codenamed "Cynthia," who worked for his agency during World War II. Thorpe used the access gained by her romantic relationships to obtain codes from the Vichy French embassy in Washington which assisted the Allied invasion of North Africa. A great WWII item.

Lot# 223 - 24/07/1941 Estimate: £60 World War II political prisoner of war northern trans Atlantic airmail from Vichy France internee camp, Gurs to New York, bs 10/8, plain registered Camp de Gurs label cover, franked 17F (12F air surtax, 2F50 registration fee & 2F50 ordinary), canc 'Gurs/Basses Pyrenees' cds, large oval camp censor mark, airmail etiquette, opened on arrival and sealed US OBE 1653 censor tape. Addressees name suggests writer may have been a Jewish internee. Pétain and the Vichy regime collaborated with the German occupation and approved raids to capture Jews and others considered "undesirables" by the Germans in both the northern and southern zones.

Lot# 224 - 06/12/1945 Estimate: £25 Special military flight, Paris to Saigon, "Sans Surtax", b/s, only 43 flown.

Lot# 225 - 14/09/1960 Estimate: £20 UAT DC8 F/F Paris to Southern Rhodesia, bs Salisbury 15/9, plain cover franked 1F canc Paris Aviation cds, blue four line cachet "Premier Laison/Par Jet Liner/Paris-Salisbury/14 Septembre 1960", attractive Berck blue/pink vignette on front. An attractive and uncommon item. Lot# 226 - 27/04/1940 French Indian Settlements Estimate: £75 Early WWII uncensored pre Armistice airmail from French India to France, registered (hs) airmail etiquette cover, Pondicherry to Marseilles, bs 7/6/40, franked 1936 International Exhibition Paris 50c, canc 'Inde Francais/27.4.1940/Pondicherry' cds, fine strike red framed "Delai de Garde/Expire/a Representer' hs ( Extension Time for Safekeeping has Expired), faint black boxed 'Return to Sender' hs. French rule continued until 31 October 1954. Scarce WWII airmail.

Lot# 227 - 20/05/1933 French Indochina Estimate: £8 Registered (label) printed airmail cover to Paris, no arrival ds, franked 36c, cancelled Hanoi (Tonkin) cds, black/grey blue etiquette, tied black boxed "Saigon-Marseilles" Jusqu'a, see McQueen p 33.

Lot# 228 - 20/09/1933 Estimate: £20 Air Orient weekly service between Saigon and Marseille, Hanoï to Marseille, bs 2/10, via Saigon 25/9, orange border/pale grey pre Air Orient company envelope with printed 'Via Air Orient' and company logo on flap blue/green/black imprint airmail etiquette, franked 72c Scott 124 (2), 154 (2) , C4 (2), C8 on front and back of cover, black framed “Saigon-Marseille” hand stamp used between 1931 and 1934, see McQueen p 33. One of the last flights of Air Orient before it was absorbed by Air France. Flights between Hanoï and Saïgon were irregular at this time and became weekly a few months later.

Lot# 229 - 23/03/1935 Estimate: £35 Air France weekly service between Hanoi and Marseille (diverted to avoid flying over Greece), Hanoi (Vietnam) to Epergne (France), bs 3/4, Marseille Gare transit cds, pale grey/dark blue framed envelope with imprint airmail etiquette, franked 36 Scott C9, canc Hanoi/Tonkin cds, scarce boxed underlined "Hanoi-Marseille" Jusqu'a, used only from February to June 1935, see Collot et Cornu #A12. An early example of the new Hanoi-Bangkok-Marseille route which opened on 1/2/35. This cover experience a route diversion to avoid flying over Greece which was having political problems, and the two day delay in the flight time appears to confirm this. A cover with several interesting features.

Lot# 230 - 30/07/1938 Estimate: £15 Air France F/F Hanoi to Saigon, bs 30/7, blue/grey Air France company cover franked 11c, canc Hanoi cds, blue framed six line flight cachet.

Lot# 231 - 31/08/1938 Estimate: £35 KNILM F/F Saigon-Singapore-Batavia, red/cream/blue printed suvenir cover franked 23c, canc Saigon cds, black boxed first flight cachet. Nice item, scarce. Lot# 232 - 22/05/1939 Estimate: £9 Air France F/F Vientiane to Hanoi, bs 22/5, blue/grey souvenir with printed "1st Vol D'Essai/Vientiane'22 Mai 1939" franked 2c air x3.

Lot# 233 - 04/10/1934 Gambia Estimate: £225 First official acceptance of mail for Gambia from Austria for carriage via the German air service, and return via Graf Zeppelin, Graz to Bathurst, bs 8/10, via Stuttgart 6/10, registered (label) card franked 1S 20g Austrian stamps, canc Graz 4/X/34 cds, and 59pf German stamps canc 5/10/34 cds, fine strike red circular " Deutsche Luftpost/Europa-Sud Amerika" cachet, red/white 'Mit Deutscher Luftpost and pale blue/black airmail etiquettes. Returned to sender via Graf Zeppelin on 14/12/34 over the revised Christmas route via Seville, oval "Registered/14 De 34/GPO Gambia" postmark on front tying the " Deutsche Luftpost/Europa-Sud Amerika" cachet, the red/white 'Mit Deutscher Luftpost etiquette and a black framed 'Return to Sender' hs. A great item in pristine condition.

Lot# 234 - 10/11/1934 Estimate: £150 Gambia to Germany, first official acceptance of mail from Gambia for carriage via the German air service, Bathurst to Lorch, bs 13/11, carried on the German trans Atlantic catapult service flight L 34 from Brazil to Germany, plain cover addressed to HR Seiger, franked KGV 1/-, 3d, 1 1/2d canc Bathurst cds, ms ' D.L.H.', nice strike black straigh line "Only By German Air Mail" hs, special purple/black framed "First Airmail/Gambia-England" wth plane overhead hand stamp cut out of linoleum by an offical of the Gambia PO. Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 235 - 23/11/1935 Estimate: £100 Gambia to Great Britain, carried on the German air service, Bathurst to London, no arrival ds, imprint airmail etiquette cover, franked Silver Jubilee set of 4, canc Bathurst cds, purple framed "Airmail/Gambia-England" cachet, ms 'D.L.H.'. Very fine.

Lot# 236 - 05/03/1937 Estimate: £60 Gambia to Great Britain, carried on the German air service, Bathurst to London, no arrival ds, carried on the German trans Atlantic catapult service flight L 222 from Brazil to Germany, plain airmail etiquette cover, franked KGV 6d x2, 1d, canc Bathurst cds, ms 'D.L.H.'

Lot# 237 - 15/11/1923 GB External Estimate: £60 Early cover flown London to Paris, no arrival ds, franked 4 1/2d (2d air + 2 1/2d postage) canc Kenilworth cds, ms endorsement "By Air", black/green blue etiquette rated very scarce by Mair. Carried by Handley Page Transport or Instone Airlines, a nice precursor to Imperial Airways which entered the European network on 1/5/1924. Lot# 238 - 04/10/1928 Estimate: £25 Experimental airmail, last flight Liverpool to Belfast by flying boat, bs 4/10, plain cover franked 2 1/2d, violet "By Flying Boat" hs, dark blue/black airmail etiquette.

Lot# 239 - 05/02/1929 Estimate: £45 First acceptance of mail from Great Britain for Cuba, for onward air transmission from New York, printed R.E.R.Dalwick PPC franked 8 1/2d, canc Dorking 5 Fe 29, bs Habana/Cuba Feb 14 1929, fine strike red one line "New York Cuba" instructional hs. Carried by S/S 'Deutschland' to New York.

Lot# 240 - 07/02/1929 Estimate: £80 First acceptance of British airmail for Algeria at the new air fee rate of 4d per oz, London to Alger, bs 12/2/29 cds, Capt. Smye printed matter cover franked 2 1/2d + 1/d x4, canc Gosport 7 Feb cds, typed black/grey airmail etiquette, ms "By All the Way Air", Francis Field authentication hs verso. Scarce, and a nice one for the exhibit.

Lot# 241 - 30/03/1929 Estimate: £115 Rare F/F London to Gaza, bs 4/4, carried on Imperial AW first regular flight to India, PSE 1 1/2d with correct additional airmail surcharge of 2 1/2d, canc Dorchester 28/3 cds, ms 'London to Gaza'. IAW had completed preparation for a service between London and Karachi as early as 1926, but political difficulties arose over the question of operating along the Persian shores. These were not surmounted until 1929, when a three year agreement was entered into with the Persian Government and, at the same time, negotiations for a service between London and Cairo also came to fruition. A scarce item in superb condition. According to Newall only three were carried to Gaza, see p293.

Lot# 242 - 10/10/1929 Estimate: £185 London to Peru, first acceptance of UK mail for carriage via S.S. Aquitania to New York, then FAM 5&9 to Lima, bs 1/11, registered (label) cover franked 2/6d seahorse, 1/-, 5d and 1/2d, correctly rated to include 3/6d per 1/2oz air fee, dark blue/black airmail etiquette tied by Dorking 10 OC 29 cds, also oval registered Dorking ds verso. A superb early item in fine condition.

Lot# 243 - 02/06/1930 Estimate: £45 Imperial Airways, first service at the new 4d per oz. rate, London to Paris, no arrival ds, grey/blue imprint etiquette airmail cover, correctly rated 4d, canc London FS cds. Uncommon. Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 244 - 10/10/1930 Estimate: £40 Railway TPO early airmail cover, GB-Chile via Air France, London to Iquique, bs, via Santiago 26/10, pale grey cover with dark blue/white airmail etiquette, correctly rated 4/2air + 3d surface, franked KGV 1/- x4, 2 1/2d, 2d, 1/2d, cancelled (uncommonly for airmail) "UP SPECIAL Gi T.P.O./10 OC 30". Posted on the Glasgow section of the Aberdeen-London (Euston) Railway TPO, which operated from a parcels van with no postings box, hence no town postmark. A nice exhibit item. Lot# 245 - 27/02/1931 Estimate: £20 Imperial Airways F/F London to Sudan, bs Khartoum 7/3, flown on inaugural England-East Africa service, uncommon Roessler yellow/olive "Cape to Cairo/Air Mail/First Flight" envelope with outline of Imperial Airways liner G-AAGX, ref ROE.FF5, illustrated p91 Newton, franked 5d, violet circular 'Imperial Airways/House/London' hs and blue/pink "AC Roessler" address label verso.

Lot# 246 - 27/02/1931 Estimate: £35 Imperial Airways, first airmail England to Africa, London to Butiabia, b/s 12/3, via Kampala 9/3, official 'blue map' souvenir cover, franked 7d, canc London FS/Air Mail cds. Overflown to Kampala due to interruption caused by engine trouble at Juba, see Air Mails of British Africa, Baldwin, p28. Written up on album leaf with map of route.

Lot# 247 - 07/05/1931 Estimate: £45 London-Rimouski-Montreal, first acceptance of British airmails for the Canadian route, London to Montreal, blue circlar Montreal Canada/No 289/Jun 16 1931 arrival ds on front and 16/5 arrival cds verso, also neat framed ms "By First Combined Sea and Air Service/Rimouski-Montreal/S.S.Duchess of Richmond", 1/2 PSC with additional 1/2d x4, canc Glasgow cds. Correctly rated 2 1/2d for the inclusive fee.Francis Field authentication hs verso. Nice item.

Lot# 248 - 17/10/1931 Estimate: £115 Imperial Airways, scarce early acceptance of airmail for Cyprus, for carriage from London to Haifa on the F/F of the India service winter timetable AND on the first link service from Haifa, which opened 24/10, to carry Indain mail to Cairo to link with the now separate southbound IAW service to Africa, plain etiquette cover franked 4d, canc London/Air Mail/16 Oct 31 double ring cds, typed "Per First Flight/England-India/Via Haifa", bs Nicosia 30/10, Cairo transit cds, carried by sea on final leg from Cairo-Nicosia. Hitherto, both the India and the Africa services had been operated jointly as far as Egypt. On the introduction of the winter timetable two distinct dispatches were created - mail to India leaving Croydon on Saturdays, and to Africa on Wednesdays. The separation of services was made more absolute by diverting the Indian itinerary at Athens to a shorter route via Haifa and Baghdad, the calls at Alexandria, Cairo and Gaza being omitted. At the same time a new service was opened between Haifa and Cair

Lot# 249 - 07/12/1931 Estimate: £18 Christmas proving flight, London to Windhoek, special arrival cachet 21/12, via Jo'burg 21/12, then connected with the special SWAA Christmas Kimberley-Winhoek service, Springbok cover, Imperial Airways/SWAA.

Lot# 250 - 18/12/1931 Estimate: £55 New Zealand acceptance for Kingsford Smith's return flight, England to Australia," All the Way" Christmas and New Year flight, London to Timaru bs 28/1/32, via Sydney 21/1/32, grey/red/green "Xmas Greetings" Australia National Airways souvenir cover, correctly rated 1/4d, canc London FS/Air Mail cds. Lot# 251 - 18/12/1931 Estimate: £45 Tasmania acceptance for Kingsford Smith's return flight, England to Australia," All the Way" Christmas and New Year flight, London to Hobart, bs 23/1/32, via Melbourne, 22/1/32, grey/red/green "Xmas Greetings" Australia National Airways souvenir cover, correctly rated 1/4d, canc London FS/Air Mail cds. Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 252 - 07/01/1932 Estimate: £40 First acceptance of mail for New Zealand, for carriage on Kingsford Smith's postponed "All Australian" return flight carrying Christmas 1931 mails, London to Christchurch, bs 28/1 (only a few items were bs, see Walker), via Sydney 21/132, ANA grey blue/green 'Holly' Xmas Greetings cover, correctly rated 1/4, canc London 17/12, Australian National Airways. Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 253 - 01/07/1932 Estimate: £45 GB to Argentina, bs Buenos Aires July 12, and postmans delivery mark, cover to Imperial Chemical Industries, Tucuman, franked 2/6d seahorse + 9x2d KGV ICI perfins postmarked London July 1st, 1932 Torn airmail label. The franking includes the rare Sc. 179 ($30 used in 1998

Lot# 254 - 13/07/1932 Estimate: £30 Imperial Airways service for the Ottawa Conference, franked 2 1/2d, London to Montreal, bs 17/7, carried by from London to Cherbourg by Imperial Airways plane "Wesser", Cherbourg to Red Bay by "Empress of Britain", Red bay to Havre by hydravion "Bellanca", Havre to Rimouski by hydravion "Flying Boat" and, finally, Rimouski to Ottawa by Fairchild plane. Reduces normal sea voyage time by 1/3rd. See Newall 32.17.

Lot# 255 - 31/08/1932 Estimate: £200 Imperial Airways, F/F The Ramleh-Baghdad Auxiliary Service, Croydon to Baghdad, bs 5/9, imprint airmail etiquette cover franked 6d, canc 'London/31 Aug 32/Air Mail' cds, Francis Field authentication hs verso. An additional airmail dispatch for Iraq leaving on a Wednesday, flown to Cairo by the direct England-South Africa service, then by train to Ramleh, and finally by air to Baghdad. This short lived service lasted only eleven flights. See Wingent p80. Nice item.

Lot# 256 - 01/10/1932 Estimate: £60 F/F alternative route London to Bahrain Island, bs 7/10, official printed souvenir cover "First Arabian Air Mail/England to India Via the Arabian Coast/Oct 1st 1932" (difficulties with the Persian govt. necessitated a route change from the southern shores of Persia to the northern shores of Arabia) franked 6d canc Wilton Road/SW1 cds, Imperial Airways, rated 120pts by Newall. Written up and mounted on album page with picture of route and an original news paper cutting, dated 4/6/32, announcing an extension of an agreement with Persian government to permit use of the existing route (only) until October 1st, 1932. Lot# 257 - 08/10/1932 Estimate: £50 TATA take over mails from IAW for Karachi-Madras route, London to Bellary, bs 16/10, red/white/blue 'Indian State Air Service' cover, franked 8d, black 'Karachi to Madras/15 Oct 32/ First Airmail' cachet, printed "First Flight/England-India/ms By Air in India" hs, flown by Neville Vincent.

Lot# 258 - 26/04/1933 Estimate: £100 Acceleration of London-Cape Town service, reduced from 11 to 10 days when Cairo-Khartoum leg flown in one day. Pale blue PC correctly rated 5d, canc London/Air Mail/26 Apr 33 cds, bs cape Town 6/5, airmail etiquette, typed "First Flight, Accelerated Service". Scarce item, not listed by Morton, 2005.

Lot# 259 - 29/06/1933 Estimate: £60 Rare item from the "London Monetary Economic Conference", carried on F/F regular service London to Allahabad, bs 8/7, boxed rectangular "Karachi-Calcutta" arrival cachet verso, registered (London Monetary Economic Conference label) official red/white/blue Imperial Airways/India Trans-Continental Airways souvenir cover, franked KGV 1d & 10d, canc special "London Monetary Economic Conference" cds. There are four nice strikes (two front, two verso) of this Special Event postmark Whitney #197, cat £30. Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 260 - 02/12/1933 Estimate: £35 England-Canary Islands, Southend-on-sea (Essex) postmarked December 2, 1933 to crew member aboard SS Umvoti, Tenerife, and redirected to Las Palmas (Canary Islands). No arrival b/s but Paris transit b/s December 5th. Likely Air France from Toulouse/Marseille to Spain, then to the Canary Islands on a Spanish airline such as LAPE. Air mail label. Sc. 165 (4 pence) franking. Part of flap missing, otherwise fine. Unusual destination. The UMVOTI was built in 1903, during the great shipping strike of 1925. It was scuttled as a WWII blockship off Folkstone in mid-1940.

Lot# 261 - 09/12/1933 Estimate: £12 Imperial Airways F/F London to Singapore, via Paris, Cairo, Karachi, Calcutta and Rangoon, no b/s, official blue/red speed bird cover, franked 1912 1d and 10d (Stanley Gibbons numbers 419 and 314 - catalogue £21)

Lot# 262 - 12/04/1934 Estimate: £30 F/F nine day acceleration of Imperial Airways Southbound Africa Service, London to Harrismith, South Africa, b/s 20/4, plain etiquette cover franked 10d, carried on flight AS 163, see Wingent p57.£30.00

Lot# 263 - 14/04/1934 Estimate: £55 Imperial Airways, first flight accelerated London-Singapore service, London to Kuala Lumpur, bs 23/4, plain etiquette PC, correctly rated 6d, typed "1st Flight 8 day service". The flight was accelerated from 9 1/2 to 8 days, and stops were now made at Kuala Lumour and Penang instead of Bandon and Alor Star. Francis Field authentication hs verso. Lot# 264 - 06/07/1934 Estimate: £45 Imperial Airways, first acceptance of GB airmail for Libya, London-Tripoli, b/s, correctly rated 6d, ms 'London-Tripoli (first dispatch'.

Lot# 265 - 27/07/1934 Estimate: £125 First official acceptance of mail from Great Britain for Gambia for carriage via the German air service, London to Bathurst, bs 30/7, via Stuttgart 28/7, carried on the German trans Atlantic catapult service flight L 19 from Germany to Germany to Brazil, airmail etiquette cover franked 11d, canc London FS 27/7 cds, nice strike red circular " Deutsche Luftpost/Europa-Sud Amerika" cachet.

Lot# 266 - 24/09/1934 Estimate: £50 Railway Air Service, acceptance for the United States, Birmingham, UK, to Chicago, bs 5/10 for carriage on the Birmingham to London leg of the RAS airmail service, plain cover franked FDC new 1d SG 440 and 1/2d, typed "By Air B'ham to London". By air from Birmingham to London, then surface to US. Nice item.

Lot# 267 - 11/10/1934 Estimate: £55 London-Melbourne Air Race signed by pilot, airmail cover postmarked London October 11, 1934 and with arrival d/s Melbourne October 29 on front, special four line flight cachet. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn, an American crew, flew a Boeing 247-D “Warner Bros. Comet”. They placed third overall and 2nd in the speed category. This cover is signed by Colonel Roscoe Turner. A brown/cream souvenir card, 17x12cm showing picture of plane and inset head & shoulders of Roscoe Turner and flight timetable is included.

Lot# 268 - 01/12/1934 Estimate: £50 London to Amritsar, bs 8/12, carried on the first Imperial Airways flight to connect with the India National Airways first Karachi-Lahore feeder service (IAW service # IE297, see Wingent p126), commercial non philatelic cover franked 6d, black 'Karachi-Lahore/6 Dec 34/ First Airmail' cachet. A nice one for the exhibit, and in fine condition.£50.00

Lot# 269 - 08/12/1934 Estimate: £50 London to Batavia, Dutch East Indies, bs Batavia/Centrum/17.12.34, carried on the F/F London-Singapore extension to Australia, official red/white/blue 'Kangaroo' souvenir cover, franked 1/- KGV, Imperial Airways/Qantas. Scarce.

Lot# 270 - 27/07/1935 Estimate: £35 First acceptance of mail from Great Britain for carriage on Air France/Ala Littoria F/F Paris to Rome , London to Naples, bs 30/7, via Rome 29/7 , ms "First through flight via Rome", plain cover franked 4d. Also B&W illustration of route, 9x10cm. Lot# 271 - 03/01/1936 Estimate: £125 Inauguration 100% Air France England-Argentina airmail service, long commercial cover from Macclesfield (England) postmarked January 3, 1936 with Paris-Avion transit b/s January 4, 1936 and arrival Buenos Aires b/s of January 8, 1936. Good handstamp, struck in Paris, advertising this first all-airmail weekly service by AIR-FRANCE. This cover went from France to Dakar (Senegal) by air and crossed the South Atlantic to Natal (Brazil) on the LATECOERE 300 seaplane named "Croix du Sud" flown by Rouchon accompanied by 4 crew members (flight 33A). The cover was then flown from Natal to Buenos Aires. Listed in Collot and Cornu. Ligne Mermoz. p. 218. It was in that very seaplane, the "Croix du Sud", that famous pilot Mermoz and 4 crew members disappeared on December 7, 1936 during a regular airmail crossing of the South Atlantic. A few small bottom edge nibbles, otherwise good. An interesting memento of an historic flight.

Lot# 272 - 15/10/1936 Estimate: £20 Imperial Airways/Elders Colonial Airways, first direct flight London to Oshogbo, bs 22/10, plain etiquette cover franked 6d, typed 'Via Kano'. Completion of landing ground Oshogbo allowed the mail service to then be extended from Kano to Lagos. Copy of map of route from Kano to Lagos, 14x9cm, included.

Lot# 273 - 21/05/1937 Estimate: £125 Imperial Airways printed souvenir cover, 21x10cm, commemorating the 1000th flight from England on the Empire air routes, addressed to the Pennsular Hotel, Hong Kong, bs 1/6, also violet framed 'Peninsila Hotel/1 June 1937/Kowloon' arrival ds, 6d three reign franking (acknowledging the three reigns during which the 1000 flghts were made). The cover was carried by RMA "Castor". A super item.

Lot# 274 - 24/06/1937 Estimate: £125 Last surcharged mail to South Africa franked at old rate, and first return of mail to England at new E.A.M.S. 1 1/2d rate, London to Cape Town, fine 5/7 arrival ds on front, plain cover franked 7d canc 'London/25 June 1937/Air Mail' cds, ms endorsement "Last Flight at Airmail Rates", also Cape Town to London, franked South Africa 1d and 1/2d stamps canc Cape Town 7 Jul 1937, tying airmail etiquette, Imperial Airways. Super item in fine condition.

Lot# 275 - 25/06/1937 Estimate: £15 First "All Up" mail to South Africa, bs Simonstown 7/7, mail franked at new 1 1/2d rate, black/white printed 'First Empire Flight/at 1 1/2d Rate' souvenir cover (uncommon).

Lot# 276 - 20/02/1938 Estimate: £30 F/F Second Stage EAMS, London to Nathanya, Palestine, bs 27/2, red "Mails India" map cachet, Imperial Airways.

Lot# 277 - 27/04/1938 Estimate: £45 Great Britain to Gambia, London to Bathurst, bs 29/4, carried on the German trans Atlantic catapult service, carried on the German trans Atlantic catapult service, flight L 239, from Frankfurt to Brazil, airmail etiquette cover franked 9d to pay the 1/2oz rate, canc London FS 27/7 cds, red circular " Deutsche Luftpost/Europa-Sud Amerika" cachet. Minor top edge damage. Lot# 278 - 21/05/1938 Estimate: £55 Imperial Airways/ISAL, interbank airmail London to Tehran, bs 31/5, via Baghdad 26/5, Midland Bank cover franked GV 3d and 6d 'MB' (Midland Bank) perfins, canc Londond FS cds. Carried by Imperial Airways to Baghdad, then by the Iranian State Air Line on the new Wednesday air service from Baghdad to Tehran, via Kermanshah which opened on 5/5/1938. The new transmission time from Baghdad to Tehran was 4 days, thus gaining up to 8 days compared with the earlier surface transmission. See Proud, p327. Interesting item.

Lot# 279 - 23/07/1938 Estimate: £40 Imperial Airways, F/F Third Stage EAMS England to Tonga, Nukualofa 29/8 arrival ds on front and verso, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, official black map cachet "Empire Air Mail Scheme/Stage 4/1 1/2d Half Ounce".

Lot# 280 - 27/07/1938 Estimate: £30 Imperial Airways, F/F Third Stage EAMS, London to Nauru, bs 25/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, typed "First Flight/to/Nauru/at/1 1/2d All Up Rate".

Lot# 281 - 27/10/1938 Estimate: £30 First acceptance for Lisbon, bs 31/10, franked 4d, via Stuttgart and German service, Imperial Airways

Lot# 282 - 20/05/1939 Estimate: £45 First All Up mail to Kuwait, bs 29/5, via Basra 27/5, rated 1 1/2d, typed endorsement "1st Air Mail/No Air Fee", plain cover, Imperial Airways.

Lot# 283 - 08/06/1939 Estimate: £150 Rare acceptance from Great Britain for Bermuda, bs Hamilton 8 Jun 39, for carriage over the Pan Am Southern Route, airmail etiquette underfranked cover with KGVI 1/3 1/d, canc Liverpool cds, violet four line "Pan American Airways/First Transatlantic Airmail/Southern Route/via Bermuda, Azores and Portugal", and violet two line "First Official Airmail/Despatch from Gt. Britain". Cover was returned to sender in Liverpool where two GB 5d and 4d postage due stamps were applied, canc by Liverpool cds, and black "9d" hs. Only a few covers were prepared addressed to Bermuda, see Clark W.J.,#32.1.

Lot# 284 - 30/06/1939 Estimate: £300 Rare acceptance from Great Britain for Barbados, bs 6 Jly 39, for carriage over the Pan Am Northern Route, via New York Jul 1, 1939, 10pm arrival ds verso, airmail etiquette cover franked 2/3d, canc Liverpool 29 Jul, 39 cds, typed "North Atlantic Air Service/First Through Airmail/England-Barbads (via Newfoundland)". A truly scarce item in fine condition. Lot# 285 - 25/06/1941 Estimate: £18 World War II airmail, London to New York, Runciman, London commercial buff cover, 10x20cm, franked KGVI 2/6d x2, sealed black/white PC90 OBE #6625 censor tape.

Lot# 286 - 01/08/1941 Estimate: £75 First acceptance for Bermuda at 1/3d rate, now direct to Bermuda rather than via New York, Francis Field envelope franked 1/3d, canc Sutton Coldfield 1 Aug 1941, Francis FIeld authentication hs verso. Scarce.

Lot# 287 - 03/12/1943 Estimate: £40 "No Service", uncensored WWII ordinary air mail from London to a S/Sgt, Rocs, No 4 BOD, MEF, b/s 4 BOD 5/1/44, correctly franked 1/3d, par avion etiquette, violet two line "1/3d Per 1/2oz Air Mail Letter/Service Not Available". At that time airmail to the Middle East was by airgraph and air letter service only, see Daynes, Wartime Airmails. This item was therefore carried by sea round Bay of Biscay and through the Med.

Lot# 288 - 27/11/1944 Estimate: £55 "Air Mail Service Not Available, censored WWII ordinary philatelic air mail from London to South Africa, no arrival ds, correctly franked 1/3d, canc. Uckfield cds, par avion etiquette, verso black two line "Please Inform Sender/Air Mail Service Not Available", sealed late use of GB orange/white Press & Censorship Bureau censor tape with P&CB in corner and examiner's blue crayon number 204, see Torrance and Morenweiser, p82. At that time ordinary airmail to South Africa was by airgraph and air letter service only, see Daynes, Wartime Airmails.

Lot# 289 - 12/06/1947 Estimate: £45 F/F FAM 24, by favour cover, Prestwick (Scotland) to Shannon, no arrival ds plain cover franked 5d canc '12 Jun 1947/Prestwick' st. line ds, flown on new routing of New York service via Prestwick, American Overseas Airlines. Scarce and very fine.

Lot# 290 - 07/12/1947 Estimate: £145 Qantas, return flight of the inaugural Australia-England service with Lockheed Constellation, London to Sydney, bs 11/12, franked 1/3d, bearing special red/white/black London to Sydney label and the blue/grey 25th Anniversary label, official cover with company logo on flap, Capt D.F. McMaster (flew London-Karachi) and Capt. A.A.E.Yates (flew Karachi-Sydney). A fine early post WWII item, see Crome pp 145/6.

Lot# 291 - 29/07/1948 Estimate: £25 Olympic Games, Wembley, red/white/blue official souvenir cover FDC flown to Calvados, France, no arrival cds, franked Olympic set of 4, canc ' Olympic Games/ Wembley/29 Jly 1948/Gt. Britain' cds, airmail etiquette. Lot# 292 - 29/10/1963 Estimate: £25 QEII 6d airletter addressed to passenger on board SS 'Queen Mary', New York, framed Cunard North Pier/Nov 1 1963 arrival ds verso, also 'Unclaimed/SS Queen Mary", 'Sent to Quaratine', 'Not first, Not cabin, Not Tourist Not Crew', and green and black 'Returned to Sender'cachets'. Uncommon.

Lot# 293 - 02/10/1919 GB Internal Estimate: £185 Scarce Railway Strike Mail, London to Glasgow, and on to Isle of Arran, no arrival ds, plain cover correctly rated 2/1 1/2d (inc air fee of 2/-), canc 'Western District Office/2 Oct/19', ms "Aerial Post/To Glasgow".

Lot# 294 - 27/08/1930 Estimate: £435 Last mail from St. Kilda, the remotest part of the British Isles in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. On 29 August 1930, the island was evacuated and the remaining 36 inhabitants removed to the Scottish mainland at their own request. Part flown to Konstanz, Germany, imprint airmail etiquette cover franked 4d, canc 'St. Kilda/27 AU 30' cds, fine strike red framed “Mit Luftpost befordert /Postamt Konstanz" Bremerhaven” arrival confirmation hs, also Koln/30.8.30 transit cds cancelling airmail etiquette, and red framed “Mit Luftpost befordert /Postamt Koln Flughafen" transit confirmation hs. A journey of 1000 miles by ship, rail, and air from a truly rare origination made in only 3 days and as long ago as 1930. A superb item in fine condition.

Lot# 295 - 02/07/1932 Estimate: £185 War Loan Conversion Notice Flight, Bank of Ireland cover with 1 1/2d postage paid postmarked dated 2 July and cachet "Special Air".

Lot# 296 - 12/04/1933 Estimate: £40 Great Western Railway, first airway letter, Plymouth to Cardiff, franked 1 1/2d, canc 'Cardiff/ 1.15pm/12 Apr/1933' cds with slogan "The Telephone Saves Time/Money" (Redgrove 's type A7, see p11), purple double line oval cachet "Parcels Department/GWR Plymouth (North Road)/12 April 1933" applied at Plymouth only.

Lot# 297 - 15/05/1933 Estimate: £60 F/F Great Western Railway daily air service, Torquay to Cardiff, Philatelic Magazine cover franked GWR 3d Airway label tied violet framed 'Torquay R.C./15 May 1933/G.W.R.' cachet Terminal' canc, Cardiff 15 May 1933 arrival cds. Lot# 298 - 18/07/1933 Estimate: £75 Scarce, Great Western Railway, first acceptance at Newton Abbot for Birmingham, cancelled on arrival at Birmingham, Jul 17 cds tying GWR 3d Air Stamp cancelled violet "Parcels Office/Jul 17 1933/Newton Abbot G.W.R." hs. Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 299 - 25/08/1933 Estimate: £65 International Airlines/Western Air Express, London to Portsmouth, cover franked 1 1/d, canc Portsmouth cds, black/yellow 'IA/Western Air Express' stamp canc 'First Flight/25-8-33/Croydon'.

Lot# 300 - 26/08/1933 Estimate: £35 Western Air Express services to West Country, London to Plymouth, 3d pre-paid black on yellow vignette tied by London oval cachet, violet three line "First Flight 26-8-33" cachet,plain cover, signed by pilot SWA Scott, International Airlines Ltd.

Lot# 301 - 03/09/1933 Estimate: £65 International Airlines/Western Air Express, Plymouth to London, scarce late usage of short lived service, plain cover franked 1 1/2d cancelled on arrival London 3 Sep 33, black/yellow 'IA/Western Air Express' stamp canc black oval "International Airlines/3 Sep 1933/Plymouth". This service was poorly advertised and short lived. Relatively few covers were carried and none are common. Covers exist carried on 24, 25 and 26 August and 1 Sept, 1933. Covers carried on other dates may exist but "I have not seen any". See Redgrove p18.

Lot# 302 - 30/09/1933 Estimate: £60 Last GWR Air Service, Cardiff to Plymouth, GWR 3d air stamp tied by violet diamond 'Air Mail/Cardiff/30 Sep 1933/Great Western Railway' hs, posted on arrival with 1 1/2d stamp and Plymouth Oct 1st cds, typed "Great Western Railway/Air Mail/Cardiff to Plymouth/Last Flight/1933". Mail addressed to Plymouth was flown back to Cardiff and sent by rail as plane could not land at Plymouth because of fog. See British Air Mails #353/89b, p155. Uncommon.

Lot# 303 - 25/11/1933 Estimate: £20 Provincial Airways Ltd, inauguration of the third GB Internal Airmail Service, " West Country Air Service", London to Plymouth, 3d orange bi-coloured vignette tied by Plymouth 25 Nov 1933 machine cancel applied on arrival, framed "First Flight" cachet, plain cover. The service operated for six days only. Francis Field authentication hs verso. Lot# 304 - 19/02/1934 Estimate: £30 Inauguration of the fifth GB Internal Airmail Service, Birmingham-Liverpool, red "Midland& Scottish/Air Ferries Ltd" and "First Dispatch/February 19th 1934/BIF to Hooton" flight cachets, Liverpol arrival cds POA, and oval purple "Midland& Scottish Air Ferries Ltd/ Liverpool (Hoton Park)" arrival date stamp verso, plain cover, Francis F Field authentication hs verso. Mail carried for two days only. Signed the pilot C.E.N. Pelly

Lot# 305 - 07/05/1934 Estimate: £25 Apex International Air Post Exhibition, London, First Day souvenir cover with yellow Apex cachet, franked 1/2d canc special Exhibition postmark, brown perforated Apex vignette verso.

Lot# 306 - 12/05/1934 Estimate: £45 Apex International Air Post Exhibition, London, PC, franked 1 1/2d canc official Exhibition postmark, blue 'Apex 1934/London 7-12 May' cachet, verso full set of six Apex vignettes.

Lot# 307 - 18/07/1934 Estimate: £55 Great Western Railway, first aerial excursion, Plymouth to Cardiff, posted on arrival, plain cover franked 1 1/2d canc Cardiff 18 Jul 1934 machine cancel, and on to Warrington, bs 19/7, typed "Souvenir of the First Aerial Excursion/Plymouth-Cardiff/Great Western Railway/July 18th 1934". Signed by passenger W.Nichols. Scarce. Also 200 word type note about this excursion.

Lot# 308 - 20/08/1934 Estimate: £8 Railway Air Service, new air mail service, F/F Birmingham to Liverpool, carried all the way by air on the first day of the service 20th August 1934, special envelope prepared for the parent company Imperial Airways Ltd, franked KGV 1 1/2d and postmarked Birmingham 20 Aug 1934 8.30am, violet three line "Posted (ms Manchester) under cover to Postmaster Birmingham" hs, typed "Manchester-Liverpool".

Lot# 309 - 20/08/1934 Estimate: £7 Railway Air Service, new air mail service, F/F Glasgow to Belfast, carried all the way by air on the first day of the service 20th August 1934, plain cover franked KGV 1 1/2d and postmarked Glasgow 20 Aug 1934 6am.

Lot# 310 - 20/08/1934 Estimate: £20 Railway Air Service, new air mail service, F/F Glasgow to London, bs Southend 21 Aug 1934, flown as far as Manchester on 20th, PC franked KGV 1d and postmarked Glasgow 20 Aug 1934 6.00am. Cards are uncommon. Lot# 311 - 01/10/1934 Estimate: £50 Railway Air Service, new timetable for the Glasgow-London service, Glasgow to London, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, canc Glasgow 6am/1 Oct/34, ms 'By Air Glasgow-Croydon'. The time table change was a 9am depart, in place of 9.15am, for the south bound plane, and a morning instead of an afternoon departure for the north bound plane. This was the only mail carrying service remaining in operation after 29 September, when all other routes were terminated prior to the introduction of a completely new time table on 1 November 1934. A rare and esoteric item for the RAS specialist.

Lot# 312 - 31/10/1934 Estimate: £15 Railway Air Service, last flights from Manchester and Birmingham, new timetable Liverpool replaces Manchester and Birmingham, Belfast to Manchester, 1/11 arrival ds's front and verso, plain cover franked 1 1/2d canc Belfast 31 Oct 34 cds. This was the last time that mail was carried by air from Belfast to Manchester, see Redgrove p71. Timetable and route changes make a nice addition to an aerophilatelic collection.

Lot# 313 - 31/10/1934 Estimate: £15 Railway Air Service, last flights from Manchester and Birmingham, new timetable Liverpool replaces Manchester and Birmingham, London to Manchester, 1/11 arrival ds's front and verso, plain cover franked 1 1/2d canc London SW1 31 Oct 34 cds. This was the last time that mail was carried by air from London to Manchester, see Redgrove p71. Timetable and route changes make a nice addition to an aerophilatelic collection.

Lot# 314 - 01/11/1934 Estimate: £25 F/F New Contract, Liverpool to London, fine boxed purple Railway Air Service 3d paid, and Liverpoool, Lime St cachets, POA Croydon 1/11, Railway Air Service.

Lot# 315 - 01/12/1934 Estimate: £125 Highland Airways F/F Inverness to Kirwall, red/blue/ivory Company envelope printed specially for this flight showing outline map North of Scotland and map of route, franked 1 1/2d, canc Inverness cds, special red/blue vignette cancelled "Arrival/Dec 1/Kirkwall" hs. Flown covers bearing the special vignette are "considerably less common than plain covers", see Redgrove, p43. Only 20 of these company envelopes were flown from Inverness to Kirwall, Redgrove p46.

Lot# 316 - 01/12/1934 Estimate: £35 Highland Airways F/F Inverness to Wick, red/blue/ivory Company envelope printed specially for this flight showing outline map North of Scotland and map of route, franked 1 1/2d, canc Inverness cds, special red/blue vignette cancelled "Arrival/Dec 1/Wick" hs. Flown covers bearing the special vignette are "considerably less common than plain covers", see Redgrove, p43.

Lot# 317 - 01/12/1934 Estimate: £35 Hillman Airways, F/F tenth GB Inland Airmail Service London-L'pool-Belfast-Glasgow service, Belfast to London, no arrival ds, posted 8.45am, blue/ivory Davis cover franked 1 1/2d, signed by the pilot C.E.N. Pelly. Lot# 318 - 01/12/1934 Estimate: £18 Hillman Airways, F/F tenth GB Inland Airmail Service London-L'pool-Belfast-Glasgow service, Liverpool to Belfast, bs 1/12, posted 10.30am, blue/ivory Davis cover franked 1 1/2d.

Lot# 319 - 10/12/1934 Estimate: £85 Rare first acceptance of mail for Thurso for carriage on Highland Airways Inverness-Wick-Kirkwall service, Inverness to Thurso, bs 10/12, plain airmail etiquette cover franked 1 1/2d canc Inverness 10/12 machine postmark, typed "Highland Airways/First Air Mail/Inverness-Thurso". A super item infine condition.

Lot# 320 - 01/02/1935 Estimate: £35 Blackpool and West Coast Air Services Ltd, Isle of Man to Glasgow, F/F eleventh GB Inland Airmail Service, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, official red company six line flight cachet and violet st. line '1 Feb 1935' ds, signed by pilot, D.E.Armstrong. On arrival in Glasgow this cover was sent on in error to Essex and bears a blue four line "Hillman's Airways/Essex Airport/Stapleford, near Abridge/Essex" hs. Interesting.

Lot# 321 - 25/03/1935 Estimate: £40 Accelerated service from Shetlands, first acceptance from Lerwick for the Kirkwall-Inverness airmail service, Highland AW. Plain cover, franked 1 1/2d, 'Lerwick, Shetland 4.15pm, 25 Mar 35' machine cancellation, see illustration Beith p9. The first official airmail to make use of steamer, rail and air services.

Lot# 322 - 25/03/1935 Estimate: £40 First acceptance from Shetlands for carriage on the Kirkwall-Inverness service, Lerwick to Glasgow, no arrival ds, printed cover franked 1 1/2d, canc Lerwick, Shetland 25 Mar 35 machine cancel.

Lot# 323 - 03/06/1935 Estimate: £12 Hillman Airways, cover flown tenth GB Inland Airmail Service London-Liverpool-Belfast-Glasgow service, Belfast to Glasgow, no arrival ds, registered (label) airmail etiquette cover franked Silver Jubilee 1/2d, 1 1/2d and 2 1/2d, canc violet oval Belfast registered ds, type 2 hollow wings Glasgow arrival cachet on front.

Lot# 324 - 02/12/1935 Estimate: £35 F/F New RAS Contract folllowing the expiry of the Hillman AW contract, first direct flight Liverpool to Glasgow, plain cover, franked 1 1/2d, addressed to the Company offices and bearing the Company's official black oval "Glasgow Central/LMS & SR/2 Dec 1935/Enquiry Office" receiving cachet, also blue st. line "First Flight" hs and black "Railway Air Services Ltd" cachets. Lot# 325 - 02/12/1935 Estimate: £18 F/F New RAS Contract following the expiry of the Hillman AW contract, first direct flight London to Liverpool, plain cover, franked 1 1/2d, addressed to the Company offices and bearing the Company's official black framed four line "Railway Air/ Serices/2 Dec 1935/Liverpool Lime St" receiving cachet, also straight. line "First Flight" hs.

Lot# 326 - 28/01/1937 Estimate: £150 Highland Airways Ltd, Western Isles second Sanday emergency service, Kirkwall to Westray, flown when the island mail boat was disabled by bad weather, window envelope franked 1 1/2d cancelled Kirkwall 25 Jan 37, addressee 'Mr. J Hume, Merchant, Westray' written in ms below address window. Certified by the Postmaster of Westray and back stamped '28 JA 1937'. Francis Field authentication hs. Also original 250 word newspaper cutting describing this event.

Lot# 327 - 29/01/1937 Estimate: £175 Aberdeen Airways, Shetland Emergency flight, Alnwick, Northumberland to Lerwick, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 1 1/2d. By the end of January 1937 mails for Shetland had lain storm-bound for two weeks at Aberdeen. Aberdeen Airways were chartered to fly mail to Sumburgh in Shetland via Thurso in two stages, Aberdeen-Thurso, flown by Flying Officer J.Gordon Hay, and Thurso-Sumburgh flown by pilot Henry Vallance. This cover is signed by both pilots, and also bears a Francis Field authentication hs verso. These covers are" decidedly rare", see Redgrove p113. A superb item.

Lot# 328 - 23/11/1937 Estimate: £40 Allied Airways (Gandar Dower) Ltd, F/F Lerwick to Aberdeen, b/s 'Rosemount/Aberdeen/23 NO 37', grey/blue Shetland Hosiery Co. "Viking" cover, franked 1 1/2d, canc Lerwick/8.30am/23 NO 37 cds. A nice item in pristine condition.

Lot# 329 - 03/10/1938 Estimate: £10 F/F, Newcastle (9 am) to Croydon, company vignette tied by 12.50pm clock receiver and green circ company cachet, plain cover, North Eastern Airways Ltd, meets Redgrave's criteria for a flown cover.

Lot# 330 - 31/07/1939 Estimate: £60 Scottish Airways, First Regular North Ronaldshay Airmail, Kirkwall to North Ronaldshay, bs 31/7, uncommon Francis Field blue/ivory souvenir cover with imprint of monoplane and "First Regular Airmail/To N Ronaldshay/Monday 31st July, 1939", franked 1 1/2d. Canc 'Kirkwall/11.15am/31 JY/39'.

Lot# 331 - 31/07/1939 Estimate: £60 Scottish Airways, North Ronaldshay Regular Airmail, F/F North Ronaldshay to Kirkwall, no arrival ds, and on to Inverness and Sutton Coldfield, uncommon Francis Field blue/ivory souvenir cover with imprint of monoplane and "First Regular Airmail/To N Ronaldshay/Monday 31st July, 1939", franked 1 1/2d, type 'via Kirkwall and Inverness'. Francis Field authentication hs verso. Lot# 332 - 01/09/1941 Estimate: £30 Inauguration RAS Wartime Airmail Service, Belfast to Liverpool, no arrival ds, PC franked 2d + 3d air fee, canc Belfast 1/9 cds, large red circular 'RAS/1 September' cachet . Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 333 - 09/02/1942 Estimate: £40 First acceptance of mail from Northern Ireland to Scotland for carriage on RAS Belfast-Liverpool wartime airmail service, Belfast to Glasgow, bs 10/2, plain cover franked 5 1/2d, canc Belfast cds, large blue 'RAS/Belfast-Glasgow/9 February 19423' cachet.

Lot# 334 - 04/11/1943 Estimate: £30 Great Western and Southern Airlines introduction of wartime Penzance-Scilly Isles airmail sevice, flown cover from Scilly Isles to Penzance at the 4d rate, plain cover franked 2 1/2d cancelled Penzance machine postmark applied on arrival, black framed "Letter by GW & SR/Airlines/Paid (ms 4d) " to denote payment of airmail charge. The service was introduced to cope with the influx of service personnel to the islands. See Lister P., p7.

Lot# 335 - 11/08/1945 Estimate: £12 Stornoway-Glasagow air letter service, cover flown Stornoway to Glasgow, plain cover franked 2 1/2d canc violet circular "Scottish Airways Limited/Air Letter Service" hs, posted on arrival in Glasgow, 11 Aug 45 cds.

Lot# 336 - 10/09/1945 Estimate: £25 Channel Island Airways, first airmail service Jersey to Guernsey, no arrival ds, souvenir cover franked 2 1/2d, official violet circular cachet.

Lot# 337 - 09/02/1947 Estimate: £125 Rare first mail carried by BEA on their new Glasgow - Outer Hebrides service, Glasgow to South Uist, bs 11 Fe 47 cds, plain cover franked 2 1/2d canc Glasgow 9 Feb , ms "By First Flight of/BEA Service/Renfrew/S.Uist/10th Feb 47". Only about 20 have been traced. A super item in fine condition.

Lot# 338 - 08/03/1947 Estimate: £40 First day use permanent boxed paid cachet when BEA took over the service from Great Western and Southern air lines, Scilly Islands to Penzance, plain cover franked 2 1/2d, postmarked St Mary's/2 JU 47/Isles of Scilly, tied red boxed 'Letter by BEA/Paid (ms) 4d" cachet applied on arrival. A nice one for the exhibit. Lot# 339 - 28/09/1947 Estimate: £15 F/F All Up Service between N. Ireland and Great Britain, Belfast to Liverpool, BEA ‘All-up Service’ cover.

Lot# 340 - 01/06/1948 Estimate: £15 Inauguration first helicopter-operated public mail service, Peterborough to Diss, bs 1/6, printed souvenir cover, BEA

Lot# 341 - 14/06/1948 Estimate: £250 A rare first BEA 'All Up' service, Isle of Tiree (the most westerly island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland) to Glasgow, plain cover franked 2 2/2d canc Scarnish/Isle of Tiree 14 Jne 1948, large violet "BEA/First 'All Up' Mail/Renfrew-Tiree/14 June 1948" with a map of the islands. Beith states"little mail is known from the first day as the service was not well publicised". He reports the outgoing flight, and having seen one item of mail from that flight with a red commemorative cachet, see Beith R, Scottish Air Mails 1919-1979, p22 and the illustration of the red cachet on the same page. But he makes no mention of a return flight, or any mail from therefrom. A truly scarce item, and a must for the gold medal exhibit.

Lot# 342 - 04/10/1948 Estimate: £185 Rare first BEA 'All Up' service, Glasgow to The Isle of Barra (the southernmost inhabited island of the Outer Hebrides), bs "Castle Bay/4 OC 1948/Isle of Barra", plain cover franked 2 2/2d canc Glasgow 4 Oct 1948 cds, ms "First Air Mail/Glasgow/Isle of Barra/Monday/Oct 4th 1948". "Due to lack of publicity only 12 outward first flight covers have been traced", see Beith p22. See also an illustration of an almost identical cover on page 23. Another must for the gold medal exhibit.

Lot# 343 - 01/02/1950 Estimate: £45 BEA Air Letter Service, network of routes increased, London to Edinburgh, plain cover franked 2 1/2d, cancelled Edinburgh 1 Feb 1950 applied on arrival, ms 'Airway Letter Service', verso red boxed "Kensington Air/Station/1 Feb 1950/London (ms) 5d." Last flight before the introduction of air letter stamps. Scarce.

Lot# 344 - 14/02/1951 Estimate: £40 BEA , first Lands End-Scilly Isles letter with 6d BEA stamp bearing Lands End hs, plain "Valentine's Day" cover franked 2 1/2d canc 'St Mary's/14 FE 51/Isles of Scilly' applied on arrival. Lot# 345 - 01/09/1954 Estimate: £15 BEA, London to Glasgow, printed "Increase in Airway Letter Rate/ 1 Sept 1954/To be Posted on Arrival" cover franked 2 1/2d on arrival canc 'Glasgow/1.30pm/ 1 Sep 54' cds, also green/white FDI BEA 9d tied by violet framed 'Waterloo Air terminal/London to Kirkwall' hand stamp.

Lot# 346 - 01/10/1975 Estimate: £5 Loganair Ltd BN 2A Islander Delivery flight, Bembridge to Glasgow, souvenir cover, POA.

Lot# 347 - 06/01/1976 Estimate: £5 Dan Air F/F Cardiff-Leeds, souvenir company cover, POA, airport depart hs, Dan Air.

Lot# 348 - 01/05/1929 Germany Estimate: £25 DLH First Airmail Night Flight, Berlin to London, no arrival ds, franked 1926 5pf, 10pfx2 airs, canc Berlin C/L2/ 1.5.29, black/grey printed souvenir cover, bilingual airmail etiquette. Michel #29.4, val 150u, 1995.

Lot# 349 - 16/11/1929 Estimate: £500 Albrecht and von Schroeder, rare test flight Berlin to Tenerife. A breakdown forced the aircraft to return to Berlin from Seville, where it was preparing to continue its flight to Tenerife. Held over for the second attempt which was made on the 5 December when the plane, which had originally departed from Berlin, took off from Seville en route to Tenerife. Plain cover addressed to Flugcapitan Albrecht, Hotel Martinau, Puerto Crtuz, Tenerife, franked 25pf canc 'Berlin C/16.11.29/L2' cds, also verso, ms "Mit Probflug Berlin-Tenerife 16.11.29". Francis Field authentication hs verso, also "1st trial flight Belin-Tenerife to develop air route to South America addressed to pilot of machine" in hand of Francis Field. Both pilots were killed when the return flight crashed on 19 December. A truly scarce item in fine condition.

Lot# 350 - 01/12/1931 Estimate: £15 Germany to Paraguay, Aeropostale cover pre-printed in Germany (this one with C.G.A. printed in red) postmarked Hamburg December 1st, 1931 with transit b/s Strasbourg December 2nd and Marseille December 3 with Paraguay arrival b/s December 19th (town illegible but addressed to Concepcion). Lot# 351 - 16/05/1932 Estimate: £25 Sabena F/F Berlin to Antwerp, b/s 17/5, plain cover franked 45pf, green oval "1e Vol Anvers-Berlin/16 Mai 1932" flight cachet, black/dark blue bilingual airmail etiquette.

Lot# 352 - 27/07/1934 Estimate: £18 Deutsche Lufthansa South Atlantic Airmail service, Berlin to Rio de Janero, no arrival ds, attractive and uncommon blue/yellow/grey 'Zeppelin-Hamburg-Amerika Line/Deutsche Lufthansa/Syndicato Condor' envelope, franked 5pf postage and 150 pf airmail, fine strike red circular "Deutsche Luftpost/Europa-Sud Amerika" flight cachet.

Lot# 353 - 07/03/1935 Estimate: £35 First OFFICIAL Germany acceptance for the Belgian Congo via the regular Sabena route, Berlin to Leopoldville, bs 13/3 via Paris 7/3, air cover franked 45pfg, canc Berlin C/L2 cds, blue three line "1er Vol/Service Aerien/Belgique Congo" cachet. See German PO Communique No20, p179 which states that the first German 'official' mail for the Reggie Francaise route left Germany on 28/2, while the first 'official' mail for the Sabena route left on 7/3, which was actually the date of the second Sabena flight.

Lot# 354 - 06/02/1936 Estimate: £40 Lufthansa/Condor/LAB, souvenir brown/cream PPC from the Winter Olympics at Garmisch 6-16 February 1936, Garmisch to Buenos Aires, 12/2 arrival ds on front, franked 71pf, sent on the opening day of the games.

Lot# 355 - 28/11/1939 Estimate: £40 Germany to USA, flown by Pan Am, early WWII uncensored printed company airmail cover, Munich to New York, franked 65rpf, canc Munich/28/11/39 cds, typed "Luftpost (Via Italien - crossed out)/Nordamerika", ms "4g". Correctly rated for 4g Germany to USA by Pan Am via Lisbon, 40rpf/5g air fee + 25rpf/20g surface (see Beith p39). In the early months of the war, Sep 1939-cApril 40, mail from Germany, sent via Rome for carriage by Pan Am from Lisbon to north America, was usually uncensored and, if there was evidence of German censorship, it usually passed through Bermuda unopened. A nice example of the German/British censor arrangements in the early part of the war, and of the much lower Pan Am rate. Also a nice collateral LATI item, being an airmail cover to the USA routed through Rome, but carried by Pan Am.

Lot# 356 - 04/04/1941 Estimate: £40 WWII dual censored airmail, Vienna to San Francisco, bs 8/5, via New York 5/7, imprint etiquette registered (label) cover franked 95pf, canc Wien cds, sealed black/buff Geoffnet 'Eagle' code e (Frankfurt) censor tape, tied red OKW (e) censor mark, also scarce red straight line '19092' Bermuda Registered Interception Number'. Lot# 357 - 05/05/1955 Estimate: £25 Germany acceptance for first KLM flight, Amsterdam to Kaboul, Afghanistan, b/s 11/5, airmail cover franked 75rpf canc Berlin cds, violet flight cachet, orange/pale blue/white etiquette, KLM.

Lot# 358 - 03/05/1939 Gold Coast Estimate: £55 Elders Colonial Airways, first regular flight Takoradi to Lagos to Takoradi, bs 4/5, etiquette airmail cover franked 3d, canc Accra 2 May cds, typed "Per inaugural flight Takoradi-Lagos air mail", ex McCaig #796, illustrated p115 West African Airmails, The McCaig and Porter Collections, Priddy, B., West Africa Study Circle, 2002. Francis Field authentication hs verso, also "1st flight regular service/Lagos-Takoradi /3 May 1939" written in hand of Francis Field.

Lot# 359 - 06/09/1943 Estimate: £60 World War II censored airmail cover, Tamale to Springfield, Mass, no arrival ds, franked 4/-, fine strike red two line "Via Air Mail/Pan American", sealed Gold Coast grey/black PC90 0035 censor tape. Carried by the Pan Am North Atlantic airmail service, see Boyle p719.

Lot# 360 - 03/10/1957 Estimate: £20 Flown stampless printed OHMS/Post Office Gold Coast cover, Accra to Manitoba, ms received 11/10 verso, red "Official Paid/3 Oct 57/Accra Gold Coast" cds, boxed violet two line 'By Airmail/Par Avion' hs, also oval violet "General Post Office/Chief Accountant" hs with crown inside over signed by the Chief Accountant. Gold Coast became Ghana on 1/3/57. Unusual airmail item.

Lot# 361 - 02/04/1929 Greece Estimate: £40 Imperial Airways F/F Athens to Karachi, bs 6/4, carried on the inaugural England-India service, plain cover franked 25d canc fine strike large circular violet dated special F/F flight cachet (Goddard 36A), also Athens Airmail (Goddard P1) dated 1/4/29, violet framed 'Par Avion' hs (Goddard C3).

Lot# 362 - 12/04/1929 Estimate: £55 Athens-London, 15/4 Sutton Coldfield arrival ds, carried on the return of Imperial Airways F/F Croydon-Karachi, Drossos corner cover franked 1927 4D & 10D tied by fine strike of special depart cancellation, uncommon large square red Croydon-Karachi 'Aeroplane/Train/Flying Boat' flight cachet x2, one tied by Athens 11 APR 29 cds. Nice item in superb condition. Francis Field authentication hs verso. Lot# 363 - 22/04/1930 Estimate: £180 Aero Espresso Italiana S.A., first direct flight from Mytilene to Syra, bs 25/4, plian cover franked 1926 Aropolis 3d air and 50, 20 ordinary, canc Mytilene 22/4 cds, black framed bingual Par Avion hs. Only 10 flown.

Lot# 364 - 02/08/1930 Estimate: £40 Imperial Airways F/F Athens to Vienna , bs 3/8, plain registered (hs) cover franked 8dr, canc Athens 2/8 cds, red two line "By Imperial Airways/…..Air Mail" flight cachet, black framed "Par Avion/Jusqu'a (ms WIEN)", ms First Airmail/Athens-Vienna". This cover is also a F/F of the accelerated India-England service, when the rail section of the European section was reduced to just between Salonika and Uskub. An interesting item in fine condition.

Lot# 365 - 04/03/1931 Estimate: £30 Greece acceptance, cover flown Athens to Khartoum, bs 7/3, and on to Juba, 19/3, carried on Imperial Airways F/Croydon/Mwanza, official souvenir blue map cover, franked 86d, violet winged "Greece-Sudan" inauguration cachet.

Lot# 366 - 11/11/1931 Estimate: £40 First acceptance for USA from Crete, Crete to Oregon, bs Portland 29/11, via Brindisi 12/11, 'Amb Brindisi-Bologna, TPO 12/11, 'Turin Ferr. America' 14/11, & Chicago 27/11 transit cds's, flown on Imperial Airways F/F Mirabella Bay (Crete) to Brindisi, Drossos registered (label) cover franked 1927 10lx3, 1d & 5d, black framed "Par Avion/Jusqu'a (ms) Brindisi" hs tying purple framed "First Airmail/Mirabella Bay (Crete)-Brindisi/England-Africa Line" flight cachet. Great routing.

Lot# 367 - 06/08/1932 Estimate: £70 Athens to Zanzibar, bs 13/8, Athens, canc Field type P11 postmark, blue three line "First Airmail Greece-Zanzibar/By Imperial Airways & Nairobi-Dares salaam/Feeder Service", red boxed Athens airmail cachet (Field type C2), Drossos cover with Francis Field authentication hs verso. One of 74 items intended to be flown to Zanzibar by the first Wilson Airways Coastal Service but, due to a delay to the commencement of the service, was flown by Imperial Airways flight AS 75 to Dodoma, and then sent by train and steamer to Zanzibar. A similar cover was illustrated in the June 2002 edition of the Imperial Airways Gazette and described as a "very rare item and, as far as is known, not seen previously by anyone in the (Imperial Airways Study) group.

Lot# 368 - 12/12/1933 Estimate: £65 Imperial Airways/ITCA, F/F Athens to Singapore, no arrival ds (see Goddard p85), red/white/blue 'Speedbird' souvenir cover franked 38d, canc Athens cds, violet framed Greek/English 'Par Avion' hs. Only 50 flown. Lot# 369 - 10/12/1934 Estimate: £70 Imperial Airways, Athens to Darwin, bs 19/12, carried on F/F London-Singapore extension to Australia, red/white/blue kangaroo official souvenir cover, franked 1933 Air Government issue 10d x2 (cat Sg £23 used) and 5d, 1927 2d verso, all canc Athens cds, fine strike official blue/white Greece-Australia flight cachet. Nice item.

Lot# 370 - 29/08/1926 Guatemala Estimate: £45 F/F Guatemala City to Santa Rosa, violet three line flight cachet, blue circular 29/8 arrival ds on front, Alex Cohen corner cover franked 1.5P.

Lot# 371 - 31/08/1926 Estimate: £40 F/F Santa Rosa Guaretala City, bs 31/8, red three line flight cachet, grey/green cover franked 1.5P.

Lot# 372 - 10/06/1930 Estimate: £40 F/F Guatemala City to Puerto Barrios, bs 10/6, Almacen Gran Hotel corner cover franked 10c inc 6c air (6c airmail+3c postage+ 1c tax), violet framed flight cachet. Uncommon.

Lot# 373 - 26/06/1930 Estimate: £18 Compania Nacional de Aviacion, F/F Jalapa to Guatemala City, bs 10/7, black double framed cachet, airmail cover franked 10c inc 6c air (6c airmail+3c postage+ 1c tax).

Lot# 374 - 28/06/1930 Estimate: £20 Compania Nacional de Aviacion, F/F Quezaltenango to Guatemala City to , bs 29/6, Co de Trans Latino-Americ corner cover franked 10c inc 6c air (6c airmail+3c postage+ 1c tax), typed 'Correo Aereo', black double framed flight cachet.

Lot# 375 - 12/07/1927 Haiti Estimate: £12 Experimental Flight, Port au Prince to Jeremie, blue " Poste Haiti Avion" airplane cachet, blue double circle "Premier vol Port au Prince Jeremie" cachet, b/s, (Muller#8). Lot# 376 - 21/02/1928 Estimate: £13 West Indian Aerial Express, F/F Port au Prince to Santiago de Cuba (Cuba) blue circular Avion, rectangular 'West Indian Aerial Express Inauguration, Dominica - Cuba - Puerto Rico - Haiti' and rectangular 'Primer Viaje Aereo/Cuba. Haiti-Santo Domingo-Pto Rico/Aeroplano Santa Maria' cachets, b/s, special printed cover signed by pilot B L Rowe.

Lot# 377 - 09/01/1929 Estimate: £9 F/F FAM 6 Port au Prince to Havana, red double ring Premier Vol and red circular Avion cachets, b/s, official cover with printed route map verso, Pan Am,

Lot# 378 - 07/03/1930 Estimate: £25 New York Rio and Buenos Aires Airline, F/F Port au Prince to Antigua, bs St Johns 8/3, blue double circle "Premier Vol NYRBA" cachet, plain cover,

Lot# 379 - 07/03/1930 Estimate: £25 New York Rio and Buenos Aires Airline, NYRBA, first southbound dispatch, Port au Prince to San Juan, bs 7/3, printed souvenir airmail cover with map of route, franked 50c air, blue double circle "Premier Vol NYRBA" cachet, blue two line "Par Avion/ Via Nybraline" hs.

Lot# 380 - 07/03/1930 Estimate: £20 New York Rio and Buenos Aires Airline, NYRBA, first southbound dispatch, Port au Prince to St John's, bs 8/3, plain cover franked 25c, blue double circle "Premier Vol NYRBA" cachet.

Lot# 381 - 01/03/1939 Estimate: £5 Haiti to London, franked 100c canc Port au Prince cds ? 1st March, flown as far as New York where postmark cancelled by purple Varrick St. double bar Jusqu'a.

Lot# 382 - 22/05/1949 Helicopter Estimate: £12 Sweden special helicopter postal flight, Bromma to Linderangen-Stockholm, blue cream souvenir card franked 10o, commemorating 'A.B.Transport 1924-1949' and 'Finlandsflyget 1924-1949', fine strike red 4 line flight cachet.

Lot# 383 - 24/09/1951 Estimate: £5 Belgian Philatelic Congress special helicopter flight, Antwerp to Turnhout, Turnhout Helipost arrival ds on front, attractive multicoloured souvenir cover franked 1.75F+25, canc special congress depart postmark, black framed flight cachet. Lot# 384 - 01/06/1952 Estimate: £20 France, special Council of Europe helicopter flight, Strasbourg to Luxembourg, 1/6 arrival ds on front, special card, franked Council of Europe 30F, canc special Strasbourg Expo cds, red framed souvenir flight cachet. Scarce.

Lot# 385 - 28/05/1960 Estimate: £20 Liechtenstein, 30th anniversary airpost, special flight Vaduz-Zurich, arrival ds on front, souvenir cover with imprinted black/yellow commemorative vignette, franked set of 4 of 30th anniversary of First Air Stamps.

Lot# 386 - 21/07/1966 Estimate: £6 Poland, helicopter service special Katowice Stadium flight from Katowice to Warsaw, arrival date on front, franked Poland 2.5ZL, special flight cachet tying multicoloured 'Helicopter' vignette, on souvenir cover.

Lot# 387 - 13/08/1967 Estimate: £10 Canadian Centennial 'Copter' Project, special cover with printed "This Mail Carried Aboard/The Canadian Centennial Copter", franked 8c canc 100 Mile House, BC cds, purple maple leaf flight cachet and verso two black hs's '100 Years/1867-1967' and 'Four Horse Stage Coach'.

Lot# 388 - 25/08/1934 Hong Kong Estimate: £30 Hong Kong to England, no arrival ds, The East Lancashire Regiment cover with blue embossed "Spectamur Agendo" coat of arms on flap, franked 136c, blue/pale blue airmail etiquette, ms 'By Air Mail'.

Lot# 389 - 27/03/1936 Estimate: £40 Imperial Airways, first acceptance of mail for Australia, bs Brisbane 2/4, for carriage on the 1st dispatch of the Hong Kong-Penang Feeder service, plain cover correctly rated 80c, framed violet "First through flight/Hong Kong-Penang-London/27th March 1936" cachet, ms "First Flight Hong Kong/Australia, flown to Penang to connect with IAW flight #IE429 to Australia, see Wingent p166. Nice item. Lot# 390 - 14/06/1938 Estimate: £75 Inauguration of EAC service, Hong Kong to Kumming, bs 16/6, Eurasia Aircraft Corp. The service was not approved by the British authorities so it was stopped after a few flights. See details and illustration of a similar cover, D Crewe, p74.

Lot# 391 - 02/09/1938 Estimate: £45 Empire Airmail Scheme extended to Hong Kong, F/F at "All Up" rate, HK to England, n o arrival ds, franked 15c, typed "First ALL UP Flight - Hong KOng to England - Sept. 2, 1938", Imperial Airways.

Lot# 392 - 03/07/1977 Estimate: £5 SAA B747SP, F/F Hong Kong-Johannesburg, official souvenir cover, b/s, recent but uncommon.

Lot# 393 - 07/03/1984 Estimate: £8 FDI 'Aviation in Hong Kong' official souvenir cover franked FDI set of 4, canc Hong Kong/7 Mr 84' cds.

Lot# 394 - 23/11/1931 Hungary Estimate: £15 F/F or special flight, Szekesfeher to Siofok, bs 24/11, plain cover franked 24H, canc Szekesfeher/1931 Nov 23/A2A, Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 395 - 17/10/1932 Estimate: £20 Early airmail, Hungary to Paraguay, airmail etiquette cover franked 11F 4p, canc Blatonboglar cds, addressed to The President of Paraguay, bs 5/11, via Buenos Aires 31/10 transit cds, likely Air France to Dakar, 'Aviso to natal, then CGA to Buenos Aires. Uncommon origin and destination.

Lot# 396 - 24/06/1933 Estimate: £6 WIPA F/F Budapest-Vienna, Wien/Flugpost arrival ds on front, franked 1933 airs to 72f, souvenir PC. Lot# 397 - 22/08/1937 Estimate: £10 F/F, Budapst to Szolnok, 22/8 arrival ds on front, airmail etiquette cover franked 10F, special dated depart cancellation, special orange and green vignettes.

Lot# 398 - 09/03/1941 Estimate: £40 Hungary to Argentina, rare uncensored airmail etiquette cover flown by LATI, Budapest to Buenos Aires, bs 27/4/41, also black '25/27' in circle postmans arrival mark, franked 3P 70c, canc Legiposta/Budapest 9/3/41 cds (stamps verso). Carried by Ala Littoria to Rome, then LATI from Rome to Rio, then Syndicato Condor to Buenos Aires, thus avoiding British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service. Hungarian censorship was applied selectively from June 1940, then to all mail from June 1941. Mail from Hungary has been recorded as received in US without censorship, as late as June 41 ( Boyle p474). Transit mail through Italy, particularly if carried by an Italian airline en route to a neutral country was not always censored. No information on LATI rates to South America is availble at present. Due to rough opening, 2cm tapering to 1cm of the front lh edge of this cover is missing, but this has not affected the stamps, postmarks, etc. The envelope still has its original contents. A rare and important LATI i

Lot# 399 - 15/10/1941 Estimate: £65 Hungary to Argentina, flown by LATI, scarce double rate uncensored airmail consular cover, Budapest to Buenos Aires, bs 7/11/41, franked 7P 10c, canc Legiposta/Budapest 15/10/41 cds. Carried by Ala Littoria to Rome, then LATI from Rome to Rio de Janero, then Syndicato Condor to Buenos Aires, thus avoiding British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service. Hungarian censorship was applied selectively from June 1940, then to all mail from June 1941. Mail from Hungary has been recorded as received in US without censorship, as late as June 41 ( Boyle p474). Transit mail through Italy, particularly if carried by an Italian airline en route to a neutral country was not always censored. Information on LATI rates to South America is currently unavailble. Lot# 400 - 03/07/1929 Iceland Estimate: £100 F/F Reykjavik to Reydarfjardar, bs Akureyri 3/7, registered (label) cover franked 10a and 50a (Stanley Gibbons numbers 156 and 157 - adhesives alone catalogue £92), black/pale green bilingual airmail etiquette. SG 157 was used on 3/7 for the opening of the Reykjavik to Reydarfjardar line, see Sanabria, Iceland #2. Small, faint, non invasive discolouration on bottom edge - does not detract. Nice item.£100.00

Lot# 401 - 28/06/1930 Estimate: £45 Special flight to celebrate the Icelandic parliament's 1000th year, Thingvallavatn to Reykjavik, bs 28/6, plain cover franked 10a, 25, and 10a air (Stanley Gibbons numbers 161, 164 and 173 - adhesives alone catalogue £46), special postmark, black/pale blue airmail etiquette.£45.00

Lot# 402 - 30/10/1930 Estimate: £45 F/F DyrafJordur to Reykjavik, bs 30/10, K.A.Hansen cover franked 10a x2 (Stanley Gibbons number 156), black/pale blue airmail etiquette. Held for the flight on 39th October, see Muller. Hansen was an influential Icelandic aerophilatelist. Lot# 403 - 12/10/1950 Estimate: £13 Registered (label) air cover, Reykjavik to England, no arrival ds, franked FDI Views set of 8, inc 60a green.

Lot# 404 - 15/05/1970 Estimate: £5 Loftleida F/F Reykjavik-New York, souvenir cover, flight cachet, b/s.

Lot# 405 - 07/04/1971 Estimate: £7 BEA, F/F Reykjavik to London, bs, official souvenir cover franked 4K x2.

Lot# 406 - 14/02/1927 India Estimate: £60 Stack and Leete mail delivery, Karachi-Lahore-Delhi-Karachi, round trip, brown/cream 1anna PSE tied by violet boxed cachet "Air mails of India/By Light Aeroplane/ with Messrs Stack and Leete" cachet, also Karachi 14 Feb cds, b/s Lahore 17/2 and 'RAF Display/Lahore 17/2 ' cds's, and Karachi 19/2 cds.

Lot# 407 - 01/07/1927 Estimate: £35 Second Calcutta Flight by 'Moth' plane, attractive red/buff printed souvenir cover with printed red six line 'King's Cup' cachet and small black 'Butterfly' cachet, franked 1a, canc Calcutta, also bs Calcutta 2/7, verso signed Stephen Smith, and Francis Field authentication hs. On 20 June 1927 at 4.45pm, the De Havilland DH60 Moth, which won the King’s Cup in 1926 and which had been flown by Neville Stack from London to arrived at Calcutta Race Course, piloted by Flight Lieutenant W H Vetch. The object of the flight from Karachi was to survey for suitable landing grounds for use on flights between Karachi, Delhi and Calcutta. While in Calcutta, two souvenir mail flights were made by permission of the Postal Authorities, ref 27-65, Indian Air Mails, Brown J, 1995.

Lot# 408 - 04/05/1928 Estimate: £50 Bombay to London, no arrival ds, flown by the Marseilles to London Air Service, buff cover franked 5 anna, circular "By Air" cachet, two dark blue/white airmail etiquettes rated scarce by Mair, fine strike red straight line "Marseilles-London Air Service". If not the first, then likely the second flight by this route. The postage rate is too low for carriage also by the Basrah-Cairo service, so likely by sea to Marseilles. An uncommon item in fine condition.

Lot# 409 - 14/06/1929 Estimate: £60 Alcock & Brown commemorative flight, flown at Dum Dum airport, red/blue/cream souvenir cover franked 1 anna, canc Dum Dum cds, inscribed blue framed "First Successfull Trans-Atlantic Flight...... " cachet , boxed purple "Tenth Anniversary/Flown at/Dum Dum Air Port" cachet , signed Stephen Smith 14/6/29 and 14/6/ Park Street/Calcutta/ 14 Jun 29 ds verso. Francis Field authentication hs verso. Nice item in fine condition. Lot# 410 - 29/12/1929 Estimate: £25 India State Air Service/Imperial AW F/F Delhi-London, carried 1st return of Delhi-Karachi service, then Imperial AW to London, nice strike black 'Air Mail/Delhi-Karachi/First Flight' rectangular boxed flight cachet, 1929 etiquette rated scarce by Mair, lain cover franked 10 annas to include the extra air fee of 2 annas.

Lot# 411 - 30/12/1929 Estimate: £40 Indian State Air Service, F/F Hyderabad to Karachi, bs 3/12, carried on the Indian Air Service F/F Karachi-Delhi, plain cover franked 3 anna, black boxed "Air Mail/Delhi-Karachi/First Flight" cachet, 1929 etiquette rated very scarce by Mair. Small mail from Hyderabad. Map of route included with this item.

Lot# 412 - 13/04/1931 Estimate: £45 First experimental flight England-Australia, India-Australia leg of Imperial Airways, Calcutta to Darwin, bs 25/4, registered (label) cover franked 1R 1anna, canc Calcutta cds, ms endorsement "Calcutta to Port Darwin", dark blue/white etiquette, Imperial AW.Slight mottling near centre top edge. See scan.

Lot# 413 - 14/10/1932 Estimate: £30 TATA & Sons Ltd, F/F Karachi-Madras, bs 16/10 carried on inaugural Karachi to Madras service, black boxed ' Karachi-Madras/15 Oct 32/First Airmail' flight cachet on front, special TATA souvenir cover with red rays and Union Jack, franked 3 annas 3p, canc Karachi Air cds. Signed Stephen Smith verso.

Lot# 414 - 08/07/1933 Estimate: £25 England-India extension from Karachi to Calcutta by India Trans-Continental Airways, New Delhi to Cawnpore, bs 8/7, carried from Karachi to Calcutta via Jodhpur, Delhi, Cawnpore, Allahabad and Asansol, plain cover franked 3 annas 6p, also black boxed 'Karachi-Calcutta/8 JUL 33/First Airmail' cachets front and verso.

Lot# 415 - 10/07/1933 Estimate: £20 Imperial Airways/Indian Trans-Continental Airways, F/F Calcutta to Karachi, b/s 12/7, black boxed "Calcutta-Karachi/11 Jly 33/First Airmail" cachet, official red/white/blue cover franked 3a 3p.

Lot# 416 - 11/07/1933 Estimate: £35 Allahabad-Cawnpore, bs Jul 11th, carried on first return of ITCA Trans Indian flight from Calcutta via Asansol, Allahabad, Cawnpore, Delhi and Jodhpur to Karachi, plain buff cover franked 3A 3p, canc black boxed "Calcutta-Karachi/11 Jly 33/First Airmail" cachet, also Allahabad GPO cds on front, dark blue/white airmail etiquette rated scarce by Mair, Imperial Airways/ITCA. A map of the route accompanies this item. Lot# 417 - 04/12/1934 Estimate: £20 F/F Lahore to Karachi, bs 5/12, airmail etiquette cover franked 2 annas, black boxed "Lahore-Karachi/ 4 Dec.34/ First Airmail" cachet, etiquette cancelled framed "Karachi/Cancelled/5DEc 34" Jusqu'a (McQueen p 76), violet straight line "First Flight Karachi-Lahore", Indian National Airways.

Lot# 418 - 06/12/1934 Estimate: £45 India National Airways, F/F Multan to Lahore, bs 7/12, black boxed "Karachi-Lahore/7 Dec 34/First Airmail" cachet, "First Flight Karachi-Lahore" hs, b/s, par avion etiquette cover franked 2 Anna, canc black framed '7 Dec 34/Multan' postmark, signed by the pilot P.D.Sharma.

Lot# 419 - 25/02/1935 Estimate: £18 Calcutta to Bombay, bs 26/2, plain cover franked 2 annas with red boxed "Demonstration Flight/ First Direct Airmail Calcutta to Bombay" cachet, typed "Demonstration Flight: Calcutta - Bomaby".

Lot# 420 - 24/12/1936 Estimate: £8 TATA special Christmas flight, Colombo-Trichinopoly, bs 24/12, purple circular cachet, b/s, blue/pale blue TATA souvenir "map" cover.

Lot# 421 - 05/04/1937 Estimate: £12 Army HQ Simla to London, no arrival ds, imprint etiquette OHMS registered (label) cover, 27x12 cm, franked 1R, 3anna x3, 1/2anna 'Service' stamps, violet ' Officer Supervisor, Q.M.G. Branch' hs with facsimile signature, two wax seals verso.£12.00

Lot# 422 - 11/12/1942 Estimate: £60 World War II dual censored commercial air cover, Ahmednagar Camp to New Jersey, no arrival ds, pale green/green envelope with crown over 'FVS' logo on flap, franked 2R 11 1/2a, ms endorsement "Via-India-Lagos-USA", sealed black/white PC90 Indian censor tape tied by black hexagonal DHB (Bombay) censor mark, also purple st. line DHB/22 (Bombay) and Military censor marks, ms Air Mail cancelled by fine strike purple framed four bar Jusqua applied on arrival in New York, see McQueen p89. Correct rate for Pan Am South Transatlantic route for carriage by BOAC to Lagos via Persian Gulf, Cairo and Khartoum, then Pan Am FAM22 to Miami, and OAT to New York, or BOAC to Lisbon,see Boyle p791-5. Ahmednagar Camp was a POW internment camp during WWII.

Lot# 423 - 01/07/1947 Estimate: £3.5 Pan Am, FAM 18 first extension to Calcutta, and first around the world service by a single airline, Calcutta to New York, souvenir cover franked 1R 2a, cachet, no b/s. Lot# 424 - 13/09/1959 Estimate: £3.5 Pondichery to Rome, b/s, blue/grey aerogramme with imprint 50Np, canc Pondochery cds.

Lot# 425 - 06/10/1962 Estimate: £5 F/F inauguration of Southern route, Calcutta-Tokyo, b/s, illustrated souvenir cover, JAL.

Lot# 426 - 06/10/1962 Estimate: £3.5 F/F, Calcutta-Tokyo , cachet, b/s, souvenir cover, JAL.

Lot# 427 - 06/04/1965 Estimate: £2.5 Qantas F/F Delhi-Vienna, souvenir cover, bs.

Lot# 428 - 04/12/1968 Estimate: £8 Thai Airways International, Caravelle Jet, F/F Calcutta-Kathmandu, arrival ds on front, official souvenir cover.

Lot# 429 - 06/04/1925 Iran Estimate: £45 F/F Tehran to Khankin (Baghdad), 6/4 arrival ds on front, Schafer B&W printed souvenir cover franked 20Ch, canc Tehran cds. Uncommon.

Lot# 430 - 20/04/1928 Estimate: £18 Junkers Luftverkehr Persien, F/F Tehran-Bouchir, dated Bouchir arrival cachet on front, souvenir cover franked 14ch, black framed "Premier Courrier Aerien/Teheran-Bouchir" flight cachet. Lot# 431 - 09/05/1929 Estimate: £15 Junkers Luftverkehr Persien F/F Teheran (Iran) to Meched (Iran), plain cover franked 6ch, canc Tehran 9.V 29 cds, red flight cachet in French and Arabic. Muller Iran #'s 29. Ironed horizontal crease, barely visible from front.

Lot# 432 - 18/08/1945 Estimate: £50 World War II dual censored flown registered (label) cover,Tehran to New York, via Baghdad 4/3 and Miami 16/3, franked 36R, sealed by red on white Arabian text censor tape tied by Anglo-Soviet-Persian censor mark in Russian crylic text front and verso, also residue of small violet single ring censor mark, dark blue/white airmail etiquette, uncommon large grey/black "By Pan American Air mail/Service" label, ms "By Pan American Air Mail Service". 1.2 cm trim rh edge away from stamps and markings, hardly detracts.

Lot# 433 - 01/05/1948 Estimate: £5 Iran-Australia-USA Trans Pacific registered (ms) commercial air cover, Abadan to Connecticut, USA, bs 24/5, via Sydney 17/5 and San Francisco 22/5 arrival ds, franked16R (verso) canc cds illegible, sender's address on flap. Please note the date of postage is illegible.

Lot# 434 - 29/07/1923 Iraq Estimate: £150 Early acceptance of mail for USA for carriage on the RAF Cairo-Baghdad Airmail Service, Baghdad to the Bank of Italy, San Francisco, b/s, via Cairo 29/7, and New York ,oval transit ds, registered (label) cover rated12 annas (3a + 6a special air mail + 3a registration), date of postage illegible, typed "By Air Mail", black/grey green Iraq airmail etiquette RQ-A-1a, rated rare by Mair. A scarce acceptance for this pioneer service.

Lot# 435 - 03/03/1928 Estimate: £35 Underpaid airmail cover from Basrah to Cardiff, UK, plain cover franked 6 annas canc Basrah cds, GB 5d postage due canc Cardiff 12 Mar 28 cds on front, fine strike large blue two line "Basrah-Cairo/Air Mail" hs, also black 'T' and '5d I.S.*/N' underpaid hand stamps.

Lot# 436 - 04/04/1929 Estimate: £40 First regular service to India, Baghdad to Karachi, bs 6/4, franked 4 1/2a canc Baghdad cds, purple scalloped cachet "First Flight/By Imperial Airways/Baghdad-Karachi/4th April 1929", black/yellow airmail etiquette, Imperial Airways.

Lot# 437 - 08/04/1929 Estimate: £40 Imperial Airways, F/F Baghdad to England, registeed (label) cover franked 12annas, canc Baghdad cds, bs London '14 AP 29' hooded registered cds, carried by "The City of Baghdad". Rated 110 units by Newall, p108, registered covers are even scarcer. Lot# 438 - 17/05/1955 Estimate: £55 SAS 'Mail War' F/F DC6 Stockholm to Baghdad, bs 18/5, printed souvenir cover, franked 65o. These covers were made by the Danish Philatelic Club and showed, as a special imprint, the head of an Arab. The Iraqui authorities confiscated all the mail and only after lengthy negotiations and after the 'portrait' had been obliterated by a black colour was the mail returned. This is the first known "Mail War" case after World War II which explains the unusually high price for this item.

Lot# 439 - 21/10/1924 Ireland Estimate: £100 Ireland to Egypt, early airmail cover from Port Laoise, Ireland, to Alexandria, violet oval "Anglo Egyptian Bank/Correspondence/Oct 30 1924/Alexandria Egypt" dated receiver, plain cover franked 10d (4x 1922 Provisional Government of Ireland opts SG 4a, canc Port Laoise cds, tying dark blue/black bilingual Irish/English P.25 airmail etiquette, typed "Via London-Cairo Airmail". Flown on the London-Paris Friday air service to connect at Marseilles with the weekly P&O service to the Far East, see Proud Postal History of British Air Mails, p246. Nice item

Lot# 440 - 29/09/1928 Estimate: £15 Experimental airmail, Belfast to Liverpool by flying boat, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 2 1/2d, violet "By Flying Boat" hs, dark blue/black airmail etiquette. Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 441 - 26/08/1929 Estimate: £50 Experimental flight Galway to London, red oval cachet, green straight line "1st Galway-London" cachet, buff cover franked 20a, canc Galway cds, Irish Airways Ltd. Francis Field authentication hs verso. Signed by pilot Col. Charles F. Russell.

Lot# 442 - 27/12/1929 Estimate: £90 Dublin to Delhi, bs 7/1, first acceptance Irish mail for IAW extension of the Indian route to Jodhpur and Delhi, plain cover, franked Irish 10d canc Baile Atha Cliath cds's, ms "First Despatch on Karach - Delhi/Extension", black/blue 1926 P25 etiquette rated rare by Mair. See illustration Newall pp 305..

Lot# 443 - 02/04/1931 Estimate: £275 Scarce acceptance of mail from Ireland for Australia, for carriage on the Imperial Airways First Experimental Extension London-India to Australia service, Dublin to Darwin, bs 25/4, Smye cover franked 1/6 1/2d, canc Baile Atha Ciath cds, dark blue/black airmail etiquette. The plane (City of Cairo) made forced landing near Kupang on 19/4, mail carried to Darwin by Kingsford Smith, and on to Melbourne by Qantas. Signed by the pilot Sir Charles KIngsford Smith. A superb item in fine condition.

Lot# 444 - 20/10/1932 Estimate: £20 Special flight, Dublin to Berlin, official green oval flight cachet, green 'First Flight' cachet, red Berlin C2 receiving cachet, bs 'Berlin C/22.10.32/L2', 1928 etiquette rated scarce by Mair, plain cover franked 6d, canc Dublin cds. Lot# 445 - 06/12/1933 Estimate: £145 Dublin to Singapore, bs 19/12, first acceptance Irish mail for Imperial Airways extension of the Indian route to Singapore, oficial red/blue speedbird Smye cover, franked Irish 2 1/2d and 9d, canc London-Holyhead TPO/Night Up cds. Verso a GB 1/2d stamp canc Lee on Solent (Smye's home town) and ms "Certified flown (under cover) on 1st return flight" written, and signed, Capt T.A.Smye, 11/1/34. Wingent confirms that the retun flight arrived Croydon 10/1/34, so this item appears to be a genuine 'flown each way' cover, and thus very scarce. The condition is superb.

Lot# 446 - 31/07/1934 Estimate: £15 Airmail cover from Cobh to Copenhagen, Denmark at 5½d rate (Stanley Gibbons numbers 71, 72 & 74 x 2), adhesives tied by double ring cds, Copenhagen receiver of 1 August reverse. A nice fine clean commercial flown item.

Lot# 447 - 30/06/1939 Estimate: £6 F/F FAM 18, Foynes to New York, cachet, etiquette, b/s, air cover, Pan Am

Lot# 448 - 30/06/1939 Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 18, Foynes to Shediac, cachet, b/s, printed souvenir cover, Pan Am

Lot# 449 - 06/08/1939 Estimate: £9 Imperial Airways, F/F North Atlantic Service, Shannon to Montreal, bs 6/8, official violet diamond cachet, official pale blue/black/pale grey souvenir cover franked 1/3d.

Lot# 450 - 24/10/1945 Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 24, Shannon-Gander, verso blue rectangular hs certifying service rendered, arrival date and name of plane, blue specially printed company cover, American Overseas Airlines,

Lot# 451 - 20/11/1945 Estimate: £8 F/F FAM 24, Shannon-Chicago, verso blue rectangular hs certifying service rendered, arrival date and name of plane, blue specially printed company cover, American Overseas Airlines, Lot# 452 - 01/02/1950 Estimate: £45 BEA Air Letter Service, network of routes increased, Belfast to London, plain cover franked 2 1/2d, cancelled Kensington 1 Feb 1950 applied on arrival, typed 'Airway Letter Service/Belfast-London', verso vioilet three line "BEA/1 Feb 1950/Belfast (ms) 5d." Last flight before the introduction of air letter stamps. Scarce.

Lot# 453 - 12/03/1951 Estimate: £12 F/F Irish Sea Night mail, Belfast to Manchester, framed airport 13 Mar 1951 arrival ds on front, boxed violet rectangular 'Irish Sea Night Air Mail Services' flight cachet, BEA.

Lot# 454 - 12/05/1951 Estimate: £12 First 'All Up' mail, Dublin to Britain, no arrival ds, blue/cream souvenir cover with Irish harp, franked 2 1/2d.

Lot# 455 - 07/02/1964 Estimate: £8 Red/green Aer Lingus corner cover, 21x10cm, Dublin to Quebec, no arrival ds, red machine franked 1/3d, Dublin depart cds and , red "Fly Aer Lingus" B707 logo cachet, see p17 Barberis G.

Lot# 456 - 10/07/1929 Italy Estimate: £35 Pathfinder flight, a red/green/cream cover produced in Italy to welcome the arrival of William and Yancey in their Bellanca monoplane “The Pathfinder” after their flight from Old Orchard Beach, Maine to Rome, franked 75c, canc Roma Aeroporo/10.7.29 cds with purple two line "Arrival-day of Pathfinder/a. Aeroporto del Littorio" cachet, sent to Venice bs 12/7.

Lot# 457 - 06/06/1932 Estimate: £125 First Meeting of the Conference of Transoceanic Aviators, special flight from Venice to Rome, 'Roma Ferrovia/Posta Aerera/2.6.32' arrival ds on front, commemorative B7W PPC showing General Balbo going ashore, franked 70c, green framed special commemorative cachet. Nice item.

Lot# 458 - 31/03/1933 Estimate: £40 Scarce acceptance from Italy Aeropostale service to South America, pre-printed airmail envelope postmarked Milan March 31, 1933 and arrival b/s Buenos Aires April 4th. Franking includes two copies of scarce C8 (one has a tiny corner perf defect). Rare Italian acceptance by Aeropostale to South America. Some rough opening on rh side. Lot# 459 - 13/02/1940 Estimate: £12 Registered (label) Embassy cover, San Remo to Madrid, bs, Casino Municipale corner cover franked 2.25c, black/white airmail etiquette, fine strike purple "Embajada" hs on front.

Lot# 460 - 28/06/1940 Estimate: £35 Italy to Brazil, flown by LATI, uncensored registered (label) airmail cover, Rome to Rio de Janero, bs 6/7/40, franked 12.50L canc Roma Centro 28/6/40 cds. Correctly rated for 5g registered Italy to Brazil by LATI, 9.75L/5g air fee + 1.25L/20g surface + 1.5L registration, see Beith p39. Carried by LATI all the way from Rome to Rio de Janero de Janero, thus avoiding the British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service. Italian censorship markings on LATI covers are quite rare (Beith p48). Scarce item.

Lot# 461 - 27/05/1968 Estimate: £2.5 F/F Rome-Vienna, special arrival cachet ds on front.

Lot# 462 - 19/10/1976 Estimate: £5 World Philatelic Expo, Milan, souvenir air letter imprinted with special Expo 200L stamp, canc commemorative Expo postmark.

Lot# 463 - 10/12/1930 Jamaica Estimate: £25 Pan Am FAM 5 F/F twice weekly jamaica-Cuba express service, Kingston to Cuba, bs Miranda Oriente 10/2, plain cover franked KGV 9d canc Kingtn cds, large violet circular Type 5s Kingston cachet, b/s, violet on light blue etiq rated very scarce by Mair.

Lot# 464 - 01/06/1939 Estimate: £30 First acceptance of mail from Jamaica for the 'All Air' service to Europe, for carriage on the F/F FAM 18 Southern( North) Atlantic route, New York-Marseilles, registered (label) cover franked Jamaica 2/3d, canc weak Kingston, Jamaica registered oval postmark, official oval blue "First Transatlantic/Air Mail/Jamaica to Europe/June 1 1939" cachet tying blue/dark blue airmail etiquette. Jamaica dispatches were not accepted until June 1st.

Lot# 465 - 09/10/1941 Estimate: £30 WWII censored air cover flown "All the Way By Air" from Kingston to GB, no arrival ds, airmail cover franked 2 x 1/- (one has perf defects on rh side) + 2d, canc Kingston/Jamaica cds, sealed red/white Jamaica censor tape, also violet '12' in circle Jamaica censor mark. Correctly rated for air to US, air in US to New York, Pan Am FAM 18 to Lisbon, and European airline to GB. WWII censored airmail from Jamaica is uncommon. Lot# 466 - 05/09/1946 Estimate: £100 British South American Airways, first flight, Jamaica to London via Bermuda, no arrival ds, Air Letter 6d rate, square purple cachet "Air Mail/First Flight/Jamaica/London-via Bermuda/Sep 5, 1940/via Speedman", also ms '11/12' suggesting only 12 flown. This cover is Illustrated on p22, Beith R.

Lot# 467 - 05/09/1946 Estimate: £60 BSAA, Britsh South American Airways, first direct Jamaica-London service via Bermuda, air letter franked 6d, postmarked Mandevile cds, 60% strike violet boxed 'Air Mail/First Flight/Jamaica-London-via Bermuda/Via Speed man' cachet. Believed only 12 flown. See p22, Beith R.

Lot# 468 - 13/12/1969 Estimate: £30 F/F FAM 33, Kingston to Baltimore, violet boxed cachet, b/s, airmail cover, Eastern Airlines, 26 flown. Fine and very scarce, cat $90 AAMC

Lot# 469 - 13/12/1969 Estimate: £20 First flight, Montego Bay to Philadelphia airport, cachet, b/s, Eastern Airlines, 68 flown

Lot# 470 - 09/03/1931 Kenya Estimate: £18 Imperial Airways inaugural England-Africa service, F/F Kampala (Port Bell) to Mwanza, bs 16/3, via Kisumu 10/3, carried on the inaugural London to East Africa service, official blue/white "map" cover, franked 30c, Imperial Airways. Unloaded at Kisumu by mistake and completed journey on second southwards flight.162 flown Kampala to Kisumu. Typed up on album leaf with map of route.

Lot# 471 - 10/03/1931 Estimate: £8 Imperial Airways F/F Kisumu to London, Imperial Airways/Airways House/London receiver verso, flown on first return Engand-East Africa service, official blue/white 'map' cover, franked 60c. Lot# 472 - 22/10/1931 Estimate: £40 Tanganyika Govt regular feeder service, first return flight, Mombasa to Dar es Salaam, bs 23/10, registered (label) airmail cover addressed to C.R.Cota, King's African Rifles, franked 65c, canc Mombasa cds, typed "Feeder Service/To The Imperial Airways" and "Fist Air Mail/Dar es Salaam-Zanzibar-Tanga-Mombasa/By Government Aeroplane", blue/white airmail etiquette.

Lot# 473 - 12/12/1931 Estimate: £15 Christmas proving flight, Kisumu to Cape Town, bs 1/12, via Joburg 21/12, Springbok cover, Imperial Airways.

Lot# 474 - 01/01/1943 Estimate: £20 WWII censored cover to Southern Rhodesia, franked 1/- KUT and South Africa 3d KUT optd x3, magenta signed East Africa Command "Passed/By Military/Censor/E.A. No I/32" censor mark.

Lot# 475 - 19/12/1974 Estimate: £55 SAS DC8, first non stop flight, Nairobi to Copenhagen, bs Copenhagen Airport (Kastrup ) PO 23/12, dark blue/grey company cover, 10x21cm, franked 150c, tied red SAS Dispatch Office 'SAS' / Nairobi 19/12/74 machine cancel, typed "First Flight Mail/DC8-62 SK964A/19 Dec". See #1673, and illustration of almost identical cover, in First Flight Covers Of SAS Scandnavian Airlines 1951-1984, Hanns Proksch 1985. Only 5 covers carried. Superb item in pristine condition. Lot# 476 - 02/06/1953 Kuwait Estimate: £20 Air letter unused, pale blue/maroon, imprint GB QEII 6d opt. Kuwait 6 annas, imprint 1953 Coronation logo.

Lot# 477 - 02/06/1953 Estimate: £15 Air letter unused, pale blue/maroon, imprint GB QEII 6d opt. Kuwait 6 annas, imprint 1953 Coronation logo.

Lot# 478 - 25/07/1960 Estimate: £5 Commercial Gharabally Ltd imprint etiquette air cover flown to Scotland, no arrival ds, franked 3x20c Sheikh Abdullad, canc Kuwait cds. Lot# 479 - 06/10/1962 Estimate: £9 JAL F/F Southern Route Kuwait-Tokyo, b/s, souvenir cover.

Lot# 480 - 07/03/1937 Liberia Estimate: £15 Aeromaritime F/F, Monrovia to Dakar, b/s Mar 7cds, plain cover, 10x22 cm, franked 1936 air 1c x3, 2c x2, 4c and 19c other vals, canc Monrovia/ 6 III 37/Liberia cds, ms "Erste vlucht du/Fransche Airmail/Africa-Europe".

Lot# 481 - 08/01/1938 Estimate: £75 Air France/Aeromaritime, Liberia-Jamaica, registered cover from Monrovia (Liberia) postmarked January 8, 1938 to Kingston (Jamaica) with arrival b/s of January 25. Typed instructions “Via Paris-Liverpool”. Franked on both sides of the cover with Scott nos. 271 (2), 274 ( pair), C3B (single and pair), C3C (pair), C3D (2 singles and 2 pairs), likely Monrovia to Dakar by Aéromaritime, Dakar to France by Air France, then by air to England, and England (Liverpool) by ship to Jamaica.

Lot# 482 - 15/04/1938 Estimate: £55 Air France/Aeromaritime, Liberia-Jamaica, registered cover from Monrovia (Liberia) postmarked Monrovia, date illegible, but typed date of April 15, 1938, transit b/s London April 23, ms arrival b/s (in pencil May 10, 1938). Typed instruction “Via Dakar-Paris”. Franked with Scott nos. C3A and C3E (2 pairs), likely Monrovia to Dakar by Aéromaritime, Dakar to France by Air France, then by air to England, and England (Liverpool) by ship to Jamaica.

Lot# 483 - 17/08/1948 Estimate: £30 Liberian International Airways, F/F Monrovia to New York, airmail cover franked 25cand 50c airs, no arrival ds, large black boxed flight cachet.

Lot# 484 - 03/12/1935 Libya Estimate: £60 Scarce, Ala Littoria SA, F/F Tripoli to Wadi Halfa, Sudan, bs 5/1/36, via Cairo 2/1/36, pale grey/light blue edge 'Africa Oriental/Via Ala Littoria' airmail cover, franked 125cc, canc Posta Aerea/Tripoli Idroscao cds. S Bayer authentication hs verso. Only 10-20 flown on this leg, Longhi # 35ZFe Lot# 485 - 01/09/1946 Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 27, Washington to Tripoli, b/s, TWA. Sender's address on flap neatly excised. 118 flown.

Lot# 486 - 01/11/1958 Estimate: £15 KLM F/F Tripoli to Amsterdam, bs 6/11, blue/brown/white souvenir cover, franked 15mls. Scarce

Lot# 487 - 25/08/1936 Lundy Island Estimate: £100 Incoming to Lundy Island from the Netherlands, red/blue/cream KLM company cover franked 7 1/2 cent, canc Rotterdam cds. On arrival in UK cover flown from the North Devon Aerodrome, Braunton to Lundy, on arrival correctly rated 1/2d Puffin local stamp canc Aug 5 36 black rectangular hs, and 2nd issue Lundy Atlantic Coast Air Services 1/2d air stamp, canc violet boxed ' 6 Aug 1936/Barnstaple/Lundy Island' air cancellation. This is a nice exhibit item for the Lundy or Netherland specialist with the following unusual features - 1.Uncommon origin/destination, and 2. Correctly rated and genuinely flown into Lundy by private air post, operating quite independantly of GBPO.

Lot# 488 - 13/05/1937 Estimate: £25 Flown cover, Newport to Lundy Island, franked FDI Coronation 1 1/2d, correctly rated Lundy 1/2d puffin tied by black framed 'Lundy My 14' arrival ds, and 2nd issue Lundy Atlantic Coast Air Services 1/2d air stamp, canc blue boxed ' 14 May 1937/Barnstaple/Lundy Island' air cancellation. Correctly rated and genuinely flown into Lundy from Barnstaple by a private air post, operating quite independently of the GB Post Office.

Lot# 489 - 25/04/1939 Estimate: £35 Cover flown on first day of 6th issue 1d black, from Newport to Lundy Island, carried from Barnstaple airport by Lundy and Atlantic Coasts Air Lines Ltd, plain cover franked GB KGVI 1 1/2d, canc Newport cds, Lundy 1d black canc blue circular 'LACAL' hs, also local 1/2d Puffin canc green framed 'Lundy Lights and Leads' arrival ds, and Lundy/ 25 Apr 1939 postmark.

Lot# 490 - 07/11/1950 Estimate: £85 Devon Air Travel, F/F Chivenor, North Devon to Lundy Island, and FDC Lundy 1/2d Puffin stamp opt "By Air", cover franked GVI 1d postmarked Barnstaple/7 Nov 1950 machine cancel, blue two line "Lundy Air Post", flight cachet with blue framed map of route between Chivenor and Lundy and blue five line "Resumption of/Air transport/Between Lundy/and Chivenor, North Devon" below, also blue straight line 'First Day Cover' hs, and 1/2d Puffin air stamp tied by blue framed "Lundy Air Post/8 Nov 1950/Lundy Air Post" cachet. Signed by the pilot J.L.L.Drabble. A lovely item.

Lot# 491 - 01/02/1951 Estimate: £65 Double flown airmail cover, Lands End to Scilly Islands, and Barnstaple to Lundy Island, Francis Field cover franked 2 1/2d canc 'St Mary's/1 FE 51/Scilly Islands' applied on arrival, BEA green/white 6d 'Lands End' air letter stamp, verso Lundy 2p Puffin canc black framed "Lundy Air Post/23 Feb 1951/Lundy Air Post" hs. Nice item in fine condition. Lot# 492 - 01/01/1954 Estimate: £30 Jubilee Year, souvenir FDC franked FDI commemorative air set of 6.

Lot# 493 - 02/02/1940 Malaya Estimate: £40 WWI airmail cover to England, no arrival ds, franked 55c, black three line "Passed/For/Transmission" censor mark, verso uncommon 1c Malaya Patriotic Fund "He Will Thank You" vignette. 55c is the correct rate for carriage by BOAC to London.

Lot# 494 - 21/05/1955 Estimate: £15 Diamond Jubilee of Sultan of Johor, special Qantas flight, Johor to Sydney, cream/red/blue souvenir cover franked 10c. Covers were not back stamped.

Lot# 495 - 10/09/1963 Estimate: £20 Malaysian Airways, F/F Kuala Lumpur to Jesselton, b/s 10/9, attractive red/blue/black 'map' souvenir cover.

Lot# 496 - 04/03/1930 Malaya Johore Estimate: £60 Johore acceptance for carriage on the first KNILM regular service from Singapore to Palembang, bs 5/3, franked Johore 12c, 25c canc Johore 1 Mar 1930 cds, plain registered (hs) cover, violet two line "By Registered Air Mail/Singapore-Palembang", large black/pale blue etiquette, small mail from Johore. Francis Field authentication hs verso. A ten page article on Malayan Airmails is included with this lot.

Lot# 497 - 28/06/1937 Malaya Straits Settlements Estimate: £20 Wearne's Air Services, first internal airmail, Penang to Kuala Lumpur, bs 28/6, printed blue/grey souvenir company cover franked Straits Settlementts Coronation 8c, canc Singapore cds. Scarcer leg. Lot# 498 - 14/12/1934 Malaya/Straits Settlements Estimate: £30 Imperial AW/Qantas, F/F Singapore to Sydney, bs 21/12, carried on the first regular weekly service UK-Australia, red/white/blue 'Kangaroo over map of Australia' souvenir cover, franked Straits Settlements 25c, imprint etiquette,

Lot# 499 - 23/05/1928 Malta Estimate: £435 Malta to India, a likely first ever and possibly the only Malta accceptance for Allahabad, bs 11/6, via Alexandria 28/5, Cairo 28/5 and Karachi 7/6, registered (label) cover franked 4 1/2d plus the KGV red/violet 6d opt 'Air Mail' special airmail stamp (a 1928 Malta Govt. Post Office Notice reqired the air mail fee of 6d to be denoted by this special stamp), ms 'Per Air Mail', blue/white airmail etiquette, 'Registered' hs. The Malta Study Circle Paper #29, p9, reports that this service was run by Imperial Airways, and that mail had to leave by sea until 19th July 1931. It also refers to an acceptance from Malta for Allabahad dated 23 May 1928. A rare item in fine condition.

Lot# 500 - 09/05/1929 Estimate: £385 Possibly the earliest recorded acceptance of airmail from Malta to Australia. Forbes Bentley corner cover, franked Malta 6d air mail opt + 1 1/2d Postage and Revenue opt, postmarked Valetta, bs Brisbane 10/6, pale blue/white etiquette. Carried by sea from Malta-Suda Bay (Crete), Imperial Airways service IW7 to Karachi, sea to Perth to connect with the Australian airmail service from Perth to Adelaide. The Malta Government Notice of 26 April 1929 notified that, as of May 9, 1929, mails for Australia would be accepted for carriage by the Perth-Adelaide service. This item is the earliest acceptance for Australia known to us. A superb item in fine condition.

Lot# 501 - 03/07/1931 Estimate: £150 First official acceptance of mail from Malta for carriage over the Imperial Airways London-Mwanza route, Valletta to Uganda, bs Kampala 11/7, registered (label) Forbes Bently corner cover correctly rated 4 1/2d normal postage + 7d airmail, canc violet circular Air Mail/3 JUl 1931/ Malta cds, white on pale blue etiquette. Scarce item, only 10 flown.

Lot# 502 - 20/08/1931 Estimate: £150 Flown cover from Valetta to New Jersey, USA, inscribed "F/F Air Mail flight from Malta to London", with violet circular cachet "Air Mail Malta/25 Aug 1931" and Valetta cds, boxed violet Jusqu'a cachet " By Air To Genoa Only", cachet verso

Lot# 503 - 01/01/1935 Estimate: £55 Imperial Airways first duplicate eastbound service from London to Calcutta, flight # IE 302, see Wingent p131. Inward airmail cover from London to Malta, bs Valletta 5/1, via Rome, Posta Aerea/Roma Ferro via transit cds, addressed to a crew member of HMS 'Ramillies'. HMS Ramillies was a Revenge-class battleship, launched in 1916. She was sent to support the British presence in Palestine in 1929, was on convoy escort duty from Alexandria to Malta during October/November 1940 and, in late November 1940, joined the Mediterranean fleet to form part of the escort for four merchant ships bound for Malta with much needed supplies. She later saw active service in the Indian Ocean, the Far East and the North Atlantic and, on 6 June 1944, she provided fire support for the Normandy Landings. A super exhibit item. Lot# 504 - 14/07/1938 Estimate: £45 Valletta to Budapest, bs17/7, via Amb Bologna ….16/7 TPO, registered (label) printed red/white/blue Kirpo & Sons cover with company dark blue/white label on the flap, franked KGV 6d & KGVI 1d, both canc 'Air Mail/Malta' cds, black framed jusqu'a "Par Avion/Jusqu'a ROMA". Scarce routing.

Lot# 505 - 01/11/1953 Estimate: £6 Reg (Birkirkara label) commercial air cover, Birkirkara to Vienna, via Geneva 32/11, franked 5 1/2d front and 8 1/2d verso. Uncommon origin. Some top lh corner flap damage verso. Please note day of Malta posting is illegible.

Lot# 506 - 26/10/1956 Estimate: £18 Reg (Birkirkara label) commercial air cover, Birkirkara to Vienna, bs 30/10, via Geneva 28/10, franked 7d front and 7d verso. Uncommon origin.

Lot# 507 - 27/06/1938 Martinique Estimate: £40 Acceptance for Martinique for carriage by Pan Am from New York 2/6 to Fort de France 9/6, via Miami 3/6, Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands 7/6 and San Juan 8/6. Red/grey imprint etiquette registered (label) airmail cover franked 5F &3F air, canc hexagonal marseiile/27-6-38 ds, carried by sea from Cherbourg to New York. Great routing, ex Bergier, author "Relations Aeropostales Entre L'Europe et L'Amerique du Nord 1919-1945".

Lot# 508 - 25/08/1943 Estimate: £25 World War II double censored airmail cover, Fort de France to Philadelphia, USA, franked 8f, rh sealed brown censor tape tied by pointed oval "Ouvert Par l'Autorite Militaire" censor mark, and lh sealed by B&W US EB 4192 (Miami) censor tape, also 'Censore Militaire/2/Martinique' toothed circle censor mark verso.

Lot# 509 - 31/01/1934 Mauritania Estimate: £40 Air France within Africa service, cover postmarked Atar (Mauritania) January 31, 1934 addressed to an interpreter (Air France employed ?) in Port-Etienne (Mauritania) with arrival b/s February 10th and transit b/s in Saint-Louis (Senégal) of February 9th. Atar is located in the interior of Mauritania just west of Port-Etienne. Since it was sent by airmail it travelled all the way south-west to Saint-Louis by land and then was sent by air from Saint-Louis to Port-Etienne, two consecutive stops on the Dakar-Casablanca line. Scott 27, 32 and 40 (2). Lot# 510 - 01/10/1928 Mexico Estimate: £15 Inaugural service, Mexico City to Nuevo Laredo, bs 2/20, purple cachet, red/white/green blue etiquette.

Lot# 511 - 07/03/1929 Estimate: £100 Scarce emergency pre-inaugural US dispatch, 7/10, to re-establish the air service between Mexico and the US, Richmond to Mexico City, 9/3 arrival ds on front, purple Mexico-Matamoros inaugural flight cachet, red/white/green etiquette. No advance notice given of this flight, so these covers are 'very rare' (ref American AMC Vol 1, 1998).

Lot# 512 - 09/03/1929 Estimate: £10 F/F FAM 8, Mexico City to Brownsville, purple cachet, b/s New York 11/3, airmail cover, Pan Am

Lot# 513 - 09/03/1929 Estimate: £40 US dispatch, San Antonio to Mexico City, bs 14/3 Servicio Aereo, and on to Bahamas, bs Nassau, purple Mexico-Matamoros inaugural flight cachet, Walter Hess cover franked 2 + 5c air.

Lot# 514 - 14/12/1929 Estimate: £85 Semana Aerea Mexico DF, plain cover franked 20c Plane Over Plaza 1929, canc special 'Semana Aerea/14 Dec 1929/Mexico DF' postmark, fine strike purple 'Semana Aerea/Mexico, DF' cachet, and onward to Brooklyn, New York. A rare item, Muller #47, 7500Ff.

Lot# 515 - 05/12/1931 Estimate: £75 San Salvador acceptance for carriage in the F/F Habana-Merida-Payo Obispo service, purple "Habana-Merida-Payo Obispo" flight cachet, bs San Salvador 7/12. Very scarce.

Lot# 516 - 03/02/1966 Estimate: £5 Mexicana F/F Cozumel-Miami, bs 7/2, large purple flight cachet, air cover.

Lot# 517 - 15/12/1966 Estimate: £3.5 Mexicana F/F Puerto Vallarta-Los Angeles, bs 15/12, special depart cancellation, large blue flight cachet, air cover. Lot# 518 - 23/09/1920 Morocco Estimate: £40 Cover postmarked Casablanca September 23, 1920 to Paris (no b/s), early airmail label tied by Casablanca cds, franked Scott 51 and 52 used before airmail stamps were issued in Morocco. Latécoère airmail covers of 1919 are exceptionally rare and those of 1920 are scarce. Ironed vertical crease, does not detract.

Lot# 519 - 15/12/1922 Estimate: £18 Cover postmarked from Casablanca December 15, 1922 to Paris (no b/s), attractive red bordered Lingnes Aerienne Latécoère airmail cover with various route and rates printed verso, franked Scott C5.

Lot# 520 - 28/05/1923 Estimate: £20 Cover postmarked Casablanca August 11, 1925 to St-Gervais (France) with faint August 15 (?), 1925 b/s. Circular military handstamp “T.O.M. [Théatre des operations militaries] Service Automobile Casablanca”. Unusual airmail label. Scott C3. Faint vertical crease and nibbled rh edge.

Lot# 521 - 15/01/1926 Estimate: £25 Military flown mail MOROCCO-FRANCE, cover with Postes aux Armées postmark (January 15, 1926) to Paris (no b/s). This cover was likely carried by military airplane since it has the handstamp “A.F. Aviation miitaire – Escadrille” and “Courrier par avion” which is not seen on mail from the military sent by the usual Latécoère service. Very beautiful calligraphy. One corner missing and another bent. A little worn but rare usage.

Lot# 522 - 24/05/1928 Estimate: £25 Compagnie Générale Aéropostale (CGA) service from Toulouse and Marseille to Casablanca (Morocco) and Dakar (Senégal), Marrakech to Paris, no arrival ds, via Casablanca 25/5 transit cds, registered (Marrakech label) cover from a soldier serving with the 'Regiment de Tirailleurs Marocains', franked 80c air x3 Scott C6, canc Marrakech cds, large blue handstamp of 62e regiment de tirailleurs marocains. Tirailleurs was a term used by the French as a classification for infantry recruited in the various French colonial territories, particularly Algria and Senegal. Nice item.

Lot# 523 - 03/11/1929 Estimate: £25 Compagnie Générale Aéropostale (CGA), early internal airmail from Casablanca to Tangier, bs 3/11, plain cover franked 75c Scott C2 + C3. Likely flown from Casablanca to Rabat and then by surface to Tangier since this city was not a stop on the airmail route. An uncommon early internal airmail in particularly fine condition. Lot# 524 - 22/06/1933 Mozambique Estimate: £20 Early airmail to Wigtownshire, Scotland, ms arrival dated 10/7 verso, Savoy Hotel, Biera envelope, franked Mozambique Company 1e40c and 40c, canc Biera cds, ms 'By Air Mail'. Also contains the original enclosure on printed Savoy Hotel notepaper re sending PEA stamps to addressee.

Lot# 525 - 06/06/1937 Estimate: £50 Inauguration of IAW Flying Boat Service, first acceptance of northbound mails from Portuguese East Africa, Beira Marques to Inhambane, bs12/6, Tunstall cover franked 1.21f , pale blue/white airmail etiquette, Imperial Airways. Small mail.

Lot# 526 - 12/06/1937 Estimate: £75 First southbound flying boat service from Portuguese East Africa, Beira to Lourenco Marques, bs 12/6, Imperial Airways winged logo company cover addressed to J.Robertson, franked 1E60c. Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 527 - 19/07/1937 Estimate: £65 South Africa Airways, Beira to Durban, 20/7 arrival ds on front, blue/grey Imperial Airways with winged logo embossed on front, franked 3E50 canc Correo Aereo Beira cds, red 'Por Aviao' hs, white/blue M/13 etiquette.This cover was carried on the first return of the first regular Beira to Johannesburg mail only feeder service which connected at Durban with the Imperial Airways Southampton-Durban flying boat service to expedite the mail to England. See Airmails of Portuguese East Africa, Stern M.F., Airpost Journal, Nov 1968, p152.

Lot# 528 - 19/07/1937 Estimate: £125 South Africa Airways, Laurenco Marques to Durban, bs 20/7, Robertson cover with black/grey blue postage due label type M-13 tied by a special "Posta AereaMozambique/19-7-37/ Laurenco Marques" postmark, also a 'T/3d' in black oval hs which has been crossed out. This cover was carried on the first return of the first regular Laurenco Marques to Johannesburg mail only feeder service which connected at Durban with the Imperial Airways Southampton-Durban flying boat service to expedite the mail to England. Covers posted at Laurenco Marques and carried on the first return flight are the most interesting because they bear no postage stamps. The airmail fee (1F50 in the case of this cover) being indicated in ms in the space provided in the label. See Airmails of Portuguese East Africa, Stern M.F., Airpost Journal, Nov 1968, p152. Lot# 529 - 01/01/1952 Muscat and Oman Estimate: £40 KGVI 6d air letter, franked 6d opt '6 annas', unused. Lot# 530 - 02/06/1953 Estimate: £40 Air letter unused, pale blue/maroon, imprint GB QEII 6d opt. 6 annas, imprint 1953 Coronation logo.

Lot# 531 - 08/08/1923 Netherlands East Indies Estimate: £25 KNILM, Weltevreden to Bandoeing regular service flight, bs large circular Bandoeing/8.8.23/Vliegpost arrival ds, plain cover franked 1922 12 1/2c on 22 1/2c orange, canc large circular Weltevredin/8.8.23/Vliegpost cds, ms 'Vliegpost, black boxed "A 20" hs.

Lot# 532 - 09/08/1933 Estimate: £15 Sumatra to Switzerland, early printed commercial flown cover Medan to La Tour de PeiLZ, bs 16/8, franked 65c, bilngual airmail etiquette. Uncommon origin/destination.

Lot# 533 - 26/12/1933 Estimate: £5 KLM special Pelikaan New Year flight Batavia to Amsterdam, bs 31/12, plain cover franked 12 1/2c canc Pemalbang cds, and special Pelikaan stamp canc Pelikaan/27.12.33/Bandoeng.

Lot# 534 - 09/01/1937 Estimate: £8 KNILM F/F Batavia to Tarakan, bs 9/1, imprint etiquette airmail cover, franked 22 1/2c, violet cicular flight cachet.

Lot# 535 - 11/01/1937 Estimate: £6 KNILM F/F Takaran to Batavia, b/s11/1, violet cachet front and verso, plain cover. Lot# 536 - 20/08/1940 Estimate: £20 KNILM, Batavia to Amboina, bs 22/8, carried on the F/F of the Batavia-Mankowari service, franked 17 1/2c, purple triangular flight cachet, red/white blue "Groote Oost" souvenir cover. Scarce.

Lot# 537 - 23/08/1940 Estimate: £15 KNILM, Banda/Neira to Batavia, bs 26/8, carried on the F/F of the Batavia-Mankowari service, franked 17 1/2c, purple triangular flight cachet, red/white blue "Groote Oost" souvenir cover. Scarce.

Lot# 538 - 22/12/1940 Estimate: £12 World War II censored printed Ned-Ind.Ruid Kruis (Red Cross) grey imprint etiquette air cover to Geneva, franked 35c canc Batavia Centrum cds, sealed NEI black/brown Door Censur Geopend censor tape, tied NEI Red Cross hs's front and verso.

Lot# 539 - 10/05/1941 Estimate: £75 WWII heavily dual censored cover flown by air 'All the Way' from Batavia to England, no arrival ds, imprint etiquette airmail cover franked 1G85 canc Batavia/10.5.41 cds, sealed black/brown 'Door Censuur Geopend/Di Boeka Oleh Censurr' NEI censor tape tied by black 'Censuur' in circle on front and red 'DEV/24' in circle NEI censor marks front and verso, also red 'Ec.C' censor mark, and resealed with B&W GB PC90 OBE 2216 censor tape. Also, and importantly, a small violet "KNILM/ Trans *****8/PAA to USA and onward transmission" hs, and fine strike larger violet "KNILM to Manila/P.A.A. to U.S.A. & onward air transmission" hs. Carried by KNILM to Manila, Pan Am FAM 14 to San Francisco, US internal air service to New ork, Pan Am FAM18 to Lisbon, and European air service to England. A well documented WWII item in fine condition. Lot# 540 - 18/07/1940 New Caledonia Estimate: £6 F/F FAM 19, New Caledonia to Auckland, cachet, b/s, Pan Am

Lot# 541 - 21/07/1940 Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 19 Noumea to Canton Island, green cachet, cachet ds, b/s, air cover, Pan Am Lot# 542 - 21/07/1940 Estimate: £8 Pan Am, F/F FAM 19, Noumea to Los Angeles, green cachet, b/s, air cover.

Lot# 543 - 21/07/1940 Estimate: £16 Scarcer Crosby cacheted Pan Am Trans-Pacific F/F FAM 19, Noumea to Honolulu, b/s, fine black Crosby cachet, official flight cachet, airmail cover. Popular with collectors, but not easy to find.

Lot# 544 - 06/11/1930 New Zealand Estimate: £30 Air Travel, inauguration of Daily Service, Christchurch to Dunedin, bs 6/11, blue/white souvenir cover with map of route, NZAMS Expert Committee expertisation hs verso. Few faint tone spots verso, otherwise fine.

Lot# 545 - 06/02/1931 Estimate: £125 Hawkes Bay Earthquake Emergency Flight from Hastings, plain cover franked 1d, canc 'Hastings/6 Feb 31', fine strike "Emergency Earthquake Air Mail" hs, signed by the pilot C.M.Duthie.

Lot# 546 - 28/03/1931 Estimate: £35 Kaitaia Aero Club and Air Survey Transport Co, Auckland to Kaitaia, special green/cream printed cover, posted on arrival, 'Kaitaia Aero Club' and 'Air Survey Transport Co' hs's on front, signed by the pilot, FD Mill, POA, NZAMS Expert Committee expertisation hs verso.

Lot# 547 - 11/11/1931 Estimate: £60 Christmas Airmail by ANA Sydney-London flight, Highfield to London, no arrival ds, franked 1931 Airs set and 2d Health, canc Highfield 11/11/1931 cds, large red boxed 'New Zealand-Australia-London' light cachet verso, ms 'Via Sydney to London', black/ green blue etiquette rated very scarce by Mair. Delayed by crashed at Alor Star, arrived London 16/12.

Lot# 548 - 12/11/1931 Estimate: £40 Special survey flight Invercargill to Auckland, Wellington to New Plymouth leg, bs 12/11, franked 5d inc 4d air stamp, no b/s, Air Travel Ltd, signed by MC Mcgregor, pilot. Lot# 549 - 24/12/1931 Estimate: £20 NZ Air League, First New Zealand Official Christmas Air Mail, Wellington to Blenheim, bs 24/12, franked 3d air, large green flight cachet verso, printed orange/cream souvenir air cover.

Lot# 550 - 20/01/1932 Estimate: £10 West Coast (South Island) survey flight, Wellington to Westport, 5d opt air stamp, cachet, b/s 20/1, Air Travel Ltd

Lot# 551 - 16/03/1932 Estimate: £15 Danneverke-Wellington Survey Flight, bs 16/3, plain cover franked 4d air stamp, red flight cachet, Air Travel Ltd.

Lot# 552 - 30/04/1932 Estimate: £8 Auckland -North Auckland and Return survey flight, Dargaville to Russell, 3d air stamp, cachet, b/s, Air Travel Ltd

Lot# 553 - 28/09/1932 Estimate: £12 Special Survey Hotitika-Okuru and Return, Hokitika to Waiho Gorge, franked 5d air stamp, cachet, b/s 28/9, Westland Aero Club

Lot# 554 - 28/09/1932 Estimate: £9 Special Survey Hotitika-Okuru and Return, Palmerston North to Waiho Gorge, b/s, franked 4d air stamp, cachet, Westland Aero Club.

Lot# 555 - 09/11/1933 Estimate: £650 First acceptance of New Zealand overseas airmails using New Zealand airmail stamps and to be dispatched by overseas airmail services, New Zealand to India, bs Calcutta 6/12, plain cover with black/ green blue etiquette rated very scarce by Mair, franked 2d ordinary + unique first day usage 1931 set complete 3d, 4d, 7d, canc 'Highfield/9 Nov 33/NZ' cds, typed "Via Australian/ Air Mail/Services" and "First Day of Issue", black/grey-green 'Air Mail Society of New Zealand' label on front, and bear signature of Stephen Smith verso. The official first day of issue was Nov 10th, but at High field, a suburb of Timaru, a small number of stamps was sold in error on Nov 9th. Nice clear Highfield cancels, seldom seen reg FDC, standard FDC Cats $1750. These covers are not only aerophilatelically scarce, but also unique as a 'Day of Issue' item (see Walker DA, p95). Odd spots, see scan. Lot# 556 - 12/12/1933 Estimate: £30 New Zealand acceptance for Africa, Auckland to Nairobi, bs 20/1, carried of the F/F special airmail Auckland to Invercargill, bs 12/12, then by sea to India, franked 5d air, violet boxed cachet "By Air mail/Auckland/Invercargill/Faith in Australia", printed black/white souvenir cover with CTP Ulm inset, and addressed to H Tunstall.

Lot# 557 - 17/02/1934 Estimate: £6 CP Ulm, First official mail, New Zealand to Australia, bs 17/2, plain airmail etiquette cover franked 7d "Trans Tasman" opt, official violet cachet.

Lot# 558 - 17/02/1934 Estimate: £30 New Zealand acceptance for Africa, Auckland to Nairobi, no arival ds, carried on CP Ulm, First official mail, New Zealand to Australia, bs Sydney 17/2 , franked 7d "Trans Tasman" opt, special "First tans Tasman" cachet, Kiwi cover addressed to H Tunstall.

Lot# 559 - 29/03/1934 Estimate: £14 Sixth Trans Tasman crossing of VH-USU Southern Cross, Kaita to Sydney, bs 29/3, franked 7d air canc Dunedin 22 Mar 34 cds, fine strike black Kaita dated 29 March souvenir cachet, attractive blue cream souvenir cover with map and list of crossings franked 7d air.

Lot# 560 - 14/04/1934 Estimate: £15 Kaitaia-Sydney Trans Tasman Flight VH-UXX, Kaitaia to Sydney, bs 14/4, buff/dark blue souvenir 'maps of Australia & New Zealand souvenir cover, franked 7d air, violet circular 'April' flight cachet, blue/white etiquette.

Lot# 561 - 02/07/1934 Estimate: £20 Kaitaia-Sydney Return Trans Tasman Flight, Kaitaia-Sydney 2/7 and on to Port Moresby 26/7, franked SG 7d air + 6d ordinary canc Kaitaia 2/7 cds, violet NZ-Australia flight and Australia-PNG cachets, red/buff aboriginee cover, pilot GU Alan.

Lot# 562 - 16/04/1935 Estimate: £12 East Coast AW, F/F Gisborne to Napier, b/s 16/4, orange/mauve/cream 'Maori' souvenir cover, franked 3d. Lot# 563 - 16/03/1936 Estimate: £5 Union Airways, F/F Palmerston North to Dunedin, bs 16/3, franked 2x 1d air.

Lot# 564 - 16/03/1936 Estimate: £8 Union AW/Cook Strait Aw, F/F Nelson to Blenheim, bs 16/3, plain cover franked 2d, flight cachet.

Lot# 565 - 28/12/1937 Estimate: £18 Capt. Musik "Samoan Clipper", Auckland to San Francisco, bs 6/1/38, franked 2/- x2 and 6d, red boxed flight cachet, par avion etiquette, attractive printed red/white/blue "South Seas First Flight/United States:New Zealand/Airmail Service/Hawaiian Islands: Fiji Islands" souvenir cover, Pan Am.

Lot# 566 - 31/12/1937 Estimate: £16 Capt. Musik"Samoan Clipper", cover flown Auckland to Pago Pago, b/s 1/1/38, on experimental flight and service from New Zealand to USA, red boxed rectangular cachet "New Zealand-USA First Air Mail December 1937", printed black/white 'First/ Trans-Pacific Airmail Service/Auckland, NZ to London/via Tutuila, Kingman Reef, Honolulu and San Francisco' souvenir cover, franked 6d, Pan AM

Lot# 567 - 11/02/1938 Estimate: £50 New Zealand to India, Napier to Sind, bs Karachi 25/2, airmail etiquette cover franked 1/-, partial strike 'Cancelled/Karachi/...38' receiver. Carried by Imperial Airways on the last flight before the introduction of the new Australia service timetable, consequent upon the introduction of stage 2 of the Empire Air Mail Service. Nice one for the exhibit.

Lot# 568 - 26/07/1938 Estimate: £12 NZ acceptance for inauguration EAMS Australia-England, no arrival ds, registered cover franked 6d, canc Dunedin cds.

Lot# 569 - 27/04/1940 Estimate: £30 Auckland-London, carried on the inaugural flight flying boat "Aotearoa" from Auckland to Sydney, then Qantas/BOAC to London, no arrival ds, large framed cachet, souvenir cover with imprint photo of plane. Service suspended in June 1940 when Italy joined the war. Lot# 570 - 19/07/1940 Estimate: £8 Trans pacific airmail, Pan Am F/F Auckland to Los Angeles, purple cachet, b/s, air cover, Pan Am

Lot# 571 - 07/07/1941 Estimate: £75 Air all the way two ocean airmail from New Zealand to England, World War II censored Trans-Pacific airmail, NZ to Scotland, bs Greenock 26/7, "Military Camp/Everyman's Hut. Papakura' corner cover franked 5/9d, canc Papakura Military Camp cds, airmail etiquette, ms "Via Pacific Air Mail", sealed B&W NZ censor tape, tied by purple NZ censor mark. Correctly rated for air across the Pacific, air across the US and air across the Atlantic, see Boyle p877.

Lot# 572 - 17/10/1941 Estimate: £50 Air all the way two ocean airmail from New Zealand to England, World War II censored Trans-Pacific airmail, NZ to Scotland, no arrival ds, plain imprint etiquette cover franked 5/9d, canc Dunedin cds, airmail etiquette, ms "Via Pacific Air Mail", sealed B&W NZ censor tape, tied by purple NZ censor mark. Correctly rated for air across the Pacific, air across the US and air across the Atlantic, see Boyle p877.

Lot# 573 - 13/10/1953 Estimate: £4 Christchurch Air Race, Special Flight, Christchurch to Amsterdam, b/s, souvenir cover, KLM

Lot# 574 - 06/03/1964 Estimate: £15 50th Anniversary of 1st Timaru-Chrstchurch flight, attractive souvenir cover, postmarked Timaru, bs Christchurch 6/3.

Lot# 575 - 28/03/1921 Newfoundland Estimate: £35 Cotton flight, F/F St John's to Fogo, bs 28/3, 1cx3 Caribou, canc St Johns 10/3, violet st. line "Air Post" cachet, ms 'Per Aerial Mail/Via Botwood', AAMC FF6.

Lot# 576 - 27/03/1923 Estimate: £45 Cotton flight, St Johns to St Anthony, bs April 4, 1923, plain cover franked 5c Cupid, canc St John's/ Feb 10, 1923 cds, violet straight line "Per Aerial Mail" hs, typed 'Per Aerial Mail', ref #FF-25b, AAMC 1997.

Lot# 577 - 29/01/1931 Estimate: £8 Sullivan flight, F/F St Johns to Hampden, boxed blue Hampden 9/2 arrival ds cachet on front and verso, violet circular flight cachet, plain cover, franked 15c and 50c air, AAMC FF-37. Lot# 578 - 13/02/1931 Estimate: £12 F/F, St John's to St Anthony, rectangular bs dated 13/2, D/R St John's-St Anhony flight cachet, two line red "By Air Mail To St Anthony".

Lot# 579 - 23/08/1931 Estimate: £35 F/F St John's to North Sydney, bs 23/8, souvenir cover with large black circular printed cachet, franked 1931 50c air (SG 193, cat £55.00 used).

Lot# 580 - 22/06/1939 Estimate: £15 Pan Am, F/F Transatlantic Service, St Johns to England, bs Liverpool 30/6, attractive red/white blue 'Sportsman's Paradise' souvenir airmail cover with printed details of route, franked 15c.

Lot# 581 - 24/06/1939 Estimate: £125 St. Johns to Cape Town, bs 6/7, first accceptance of mail for South Africa for carriage on the Pan Am FAM 18 F/F Botwood-England, then OATon Imperial Airways flying boat service DS 210 to Durban. Also the first "All Air" flight from Newfoundland to South Africa. Uncommon red/white/blue Transatlantic souvenir airmail cover, franked 30c, bs 29/6, typed "Via Southampton". Scarce item in fine condition.

Lot# 582 - 03/08/1939 Estimate: £15 Imperial Airways F/F Transatlantic Service, St Johns to New York, bs 6/8, attractive red/white blue 'Sportsman's Paradise' souvenir airmail cover with printed details of route, franked 15c.

Lot# 583 - 10/08/1939 Estimate: £10 Imperial Airways F/F Transatlantic Service, Botwood to England, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 30c, typed "Per First Flight Imperial Airways".

Lot# 584 - 10/08/1939 Estimate: £12 Imperial Airways F/F Transatlantic Service, Botwood to Foynes, bs 11/8, attractive airmail cover franked 30c, typed "Botwood to Foynes/First Flight via Caribou".

Lot# 585 - 13/08/1942 Estimate: £85 Scarce RAF Ferry Command/Transport WWII airmail, Gander to West Hartlepool, no arrival ds,Royal Air Force Ferry Command/British Air Ministry/New Foundland imprint etiquette corner cover franked 5c Newfoundland stamps, canc black Gander Aug 13, 42 cds, ms "By RAFFC AIr Mail, sealed Newfoundland civilian censor closure label (British type),"P.C.90 OBE DC/49" with morse code for "V" at the bottom. The sender was Monica Swinburne,S/O WAAF 927. The only RAFFC covers from Newfoundland recorded so far have been from this sender to her mother in West Hartlepool. Lot# 586 - 01/01/1947 Estimate: £2.5 Pan Am FAM 18, first direct flight Gander to New York, cachet, bs, airmail cover.

Lot# 587 - 15/05/1929 Nicaragua Estimate: £40 Pan Am FAM 5, F/F Managua (Nicaragua) to Miami, no arrival b/s, printed W.J.Swinson airmail cover, franked 36c, large black special flight (Managua) cachet. Signed in ink by pilot C.D. Swinson. Muller #4, 2000 Ff.

Lot# 588 - 20/11/1943 Estimate: £2.5 F/F Managua to San Salvador, green cachet, cachet ds, b/s, sp cover, TACA

Lot# 589 - 16/12/1946 Estimate: £-2.5 F/F FAM 5 Managua to Houston, cachet, b/s, Pan Am

Lot# 590 - 14/02/1936 Nigeria Estimate: £40 First airmail service outside Nigeria, Uzuako to London, bs SuttonColdfield 28/2, via Enugu 14/2, plain cover franked 6d, ms 'By First Air', airmail etiquette. Carried by train to Kano to join the inaugural flight of Imperial Airways's Kano-Khartoum feeder service, then on to London by flight AN317 Imperial AW Africa service. Uncommon origin, great routing, nice item.

Lot# 591 - 21/10/1936 Estimate: £12 Inaugural West African Khartoum-Lagos Feeder Service, F/F Kano to Oshogbo, bs 22/10, attractive Philatelic magazine cover franked 2d, black four line "Air Mail/First Despatch/Lagos-London/29-10-36". Typed up on album page with map of route.

Lot# 592 - 21/10/1936 Estimate: £12 Inauguration of Elder Demster Lines, Kaduna to Lagos, bs 22/10, carried on the inaugural Khartoum-Kano-Lagos Feeder Service, attractive red/white blue Philatelic Magazine cover franked 2d. Typed up on album page with map of route. Lot# 593 - 29/10/1936 Estimate: £12 Inaugural West African Lagos-Khartoum Feeder Service, also Imperial Airways F/F Lagos to London, F/F Kaduna to Maiduguri, bs 30/10, attractive Philatelic magazine cover franked 2d, black four line "Air Mail/First Despatch/Lagos-London/29-10-36". Typed up on album page with map of route.

Lot# 594 - 13/08/1937 Estimate: £60 Elders Colonial Airways, experimental survey flight, Lagos to Accra, bs 13/7, pale grey airmail etiquette cover, franked 6d, canc Lagos cds, typed "First (Experimental) Inter-Colonial Air Mail/Lagos-Accra". Official mail, but the flight was not advertised, so only a small mail was carried (ref Porter). Ex Colin McCaig, #780, illustrated p99,West African Airmails, The McCaig and Porter Collections, Priddy, B., West Africa Study Circle, 2002.

Lot# 595 - 10/12/1941 Estimate: £150 American Air mail Service, First Flight Nigeria to England via the all air Pan Am FAM 22 West Africa-Brazil-Miami-Lagos-Bathurst service, Lagos to Bournemouth, imprint etiquette cover, correctly rated 5/- for Gold Coast-UK mail, ms "Air Mail/via USA", sealed black/white Nigeria censor tape, tied by Nigeria red pentagonal 'Censor/12 censor mark, also red Nigeria 'L/7' in triangle censor mark. Carried by Pan Am 'all the way', first E-W on the new FAM 22 service, then W-E to Lisbon on FAM 18, then BOAC/KLM to London. Crossed the Atlantic twice by air. Service discontinued in March 1942. Similar cover illustrated p131, West African Airmails, The McCaig and Porter Collections, Priddy, B., West Africa Study Circle, 2002. Part of flap has been neatly excised verso, not visible from front. Superb wartime item.

Lot# 596 - 14/12/1941 Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 22 Lagos to Miami, cachet, b/s, air cover, Pan Am

Lot# 597 - 14/12/1941 Estimate: £5 Pan Am clipper service to Africa, F/F FAM 22 Lagos to Belem, airmail cover franked 1/-,6d, 'First Airmail/USA-Nigeria' cachet, b/s. This strategically important service, linking Africa and the USA, opened just at the critical time when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and the USA went to war.

Lot# 598 - 16/01/1943 Estimate: £425 WWII censored military aircraft crash on the Air Transport Command route carrying mails from British West African Colonies. Plain airmail etiquette cover, 35% charred, addressed to Glasgow, no arrival marks, franked Nigeria KGVI 1/3, canc "Buea-Cameroons/16 Jan 43/Under British Mandate", ms "By Air Mail", red Nigeria half circle censor mark. Cachets were not applied to mails recovered on this service to ensure that no information might leak through to the enemy. Unlisted in Nierinck, but a letter from Francis Field, dated 7/7/52, accompanies this lot. It guarantees this cover to be "a genuine accident mail souvenir which was was involved in an RAF plane crash over North Africa when most of the mail was burned beyond recognition". This cover is ex McCaig and is illustrated in West African Airmails, The McCaig and Porter Collections, Priddy, B., West Africa Study Circle, 2002, pp 154,155. A truly rare and historical WWII item. Lot# 599 - 15/04/1955 Estimate: £5 Air Afrique/Sabena printed company airmail cover, mixed franking Nigeria 2/6d & Gold Coast 3d, canc Minaquilah/Lloyd Trieste, posted on board Lloyd Triestino vessel to Paris. Unusual.

Lot# 600 - 17/01/1961 Estimate: £4 KLM 1st flight Lagos-Amsterdam, franked 6d, violet two line 'Lagos-Amsterdam' and boxed green 'Amsterdam-Lagos' flight cachets.

Lot# 601 - 25/09/1968 Norfolk Is Estimate: £5 21st anniversary F/F, Norfolk Is to Sydney, cachet, b/s, Qantas

Lot# 602 - 25/09/1968 Estimate: £5 21st anniversary F/F, Norfolk Is to Sydney, cachet, b/s, Qantas

Lot# 603 - 25/09/1968 Estimate: £3.5 Norfolk Is to Sydney, b/s, 21st anniversary Qantas souvenir cover franked FDI 7c and 5c commem. air stamps, Qantas.

Lot# 604 - 14/10/1947 Norfolk Island Estimate: £125 Qantas Lancastrian F/F Norfolk Island to Australia, bs Sydney 15/10, brown/lime green vignette, signed by pilot Capt L R Ambrose.

Lot# 605 - 28/01/1932 Northern Rhodesia Estimate: £18 F/F Mpika to Keetmanshoop 8/2, via Kimberley 2/2, carried on the first regular flight from London to Cape Town, plain cover franked KGV 2d, 3d, Imperial Airways. Flight interrupted at Broken Hill. Lot# 606 - 28/01/1932 Estimate: £35 F/F Mpika to London, 17/2 Anglesey arrival ds on front, carried on the first regular flight from Cape Town to London, Springbok souvenir cover franked KGV 6d, 2d x2, Imperial Airways. Flight interrupted at Broken Hill.

Lot# 607 - 28/01/1932 Estimate: £18 Imperial Airways F/F Mpika to Cape Town, b/s 2/2, carried on first regular flight from London-Cape Town, fine strike violet three line cachet 'By Imperial Airways/First Flight/Mpika to Cape Town', Springbok cover franked KGV 1d, 2d x2.

Lot# 608 - 29/01/1932 Estimate: £85 Scarce accelerated emergency mail, Imperial Airways inaugural Cape Town-London service, carried by 'City of Baghdad' from Broken Hill to Nairobi 3/2 transit cds verso, where it waited for the second Cape Town-London flight for OAT to Alexandria, bs 13/2, orange/white Springbok souvenir cover franked KGV 2d, 3d, 4d, canc Broken Hill 29 Jan 1932 cds. The flight from Cape Town was interrupted twice, first when a wheel was damaged on take off from Salisbury, and again when bad weather forced the plane to land in a swamp near Broken Hill, ref Ni 320129 and 320129B. The 'City of Baghdad' waited at Broken Hill until February 2nd, when it took off via Mpika, Dodoma, and Moshi, arriving Nairobi 3/2. This accelerated emergency mail, back stamped between February 2nd and 4th is of considerable rarity, and of unusual interest to aerophilatelists. Lot# 609 - 01/06/1934 Norway Estimate: £65 Norway acceptance for KLM F/F 7th GB Inland Airmail Service, Amsterdam-Liverpool, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 22 ore, canc Oslo 31/5 cds, ms "Mes 1ste Flyvepost 1 Juni 1934/Oslo-Amsterdam-Liverpool", black/pale blue airmail etiquette. Scarce.

Lot# 610 - 21/06/1937 Estimate: £25 F/F Oslo to Stockholm, bs 22/6, red/cream souvenir cover franked 22 oro, black framed 'Oslo-Stockholm' flight cachet, airmail etiquette.

Lot# 611 - 01/06/1939 Estimate: £30 F/F Kristansand to Amsterdam, bs Rotterdam 1/5, plain cover ranked 22 ore, canc Kristiansand cds, green framed 'Oslo-Amsterdam' flight cachet , airmail etiquette cover, DNL/KLM.

Lot# 612 - 07/04/1946 Estimate: £12 F/F FAM 24, Oslo to Copenhagen, bs 7/4, official red/cream souvenir cover franked 35 ore, American Overseas Airlines. Lot# 613 - 07/04/1946 Estimate: £10 F/F FAM 24, Oslo to New York, bs 8/4, official red/cream souvenir cover franked 115 ore American Overseas Airlines,

Lot# 614 - 07/04/1946 Estimate: £10 F/F FAM 24, Oslo to Stockholm, no arrival ds, official red/cream souvenir cover franked 35 ore American Overseas Airlines,

Lot# 615 - 23/05/1953 Estimate: £10 Special flight, Oslo-Thule-Anchorage-Tokyo, 25/5 arrival ds on front, souvenir card, red flight cachet.

Lot# 616 - 08/10/1956 Estimate: £20 Norway acceptance for Linz 20/10/56 Balloon Flight, souvenir card franked 30o, canc Oslo cds, Tulln 20/10 arrival ds on front.

Lot# 617 - 05/10/1979 Estimate: £20 Norwex 80 FDC franked FDI Arctic Aviation & Polar Maps min sheet of 4.

Lot# 618 - 21/01/1932 Nyasaland Estimate: £55 First acceptance of mail from Nyasaland for London, via Salisbury, bs 27/1, for carriage on Imperial Airways inaugural Cape Town-London service, Tunstall cover franked 1/- canc Limbe cds, violet one line "First Official Air Mail" flight cachet. Sent by rail to Salisbury via Beira, then IAW to London. The flight was INTERRUPTED twice. First the City of Basra was damaged at take of at Salisbury and mail transferred to the City of Delhi which, in turn, had to make an emergency landing due to bad weather near Broken Hill, when mail was transferred once more, this time to the City of Baghdad on Feb 6th, ref Ni 320129 and 320129B. Lot# 619 - 03/03/1957 Pakistan Estimate: £5 BOAC F/F Britannia Turbo-Prop, Karachi to Sydney, bs, official cover.

Lot# 620 - 30/10/1959 Estimate: £8 F/F Karachi to Sydney, b/s, official cover, Qantas

Lot# 621 - 16/06/1961 Estimate: £3 Pakistan International Airlines, F/F Karachi-New York, typed endorsement, special dated 'Karachi-New York/July 16 1961' machine cancellation.

Lot# 622 - 15/10/1962 Estimate: £3.5 30 th anniversary Karachi - Bombay, b/s, long souvenir cover, Air India

Lot# 623 - 02/12/1969 Estimate: £8 50th anniversary 1st aeroplane flight 'England-Australia', souvenir cover franked FDI special Anniv stamp.

Lot# 624 - 09/01/1928 Panama Estimate: £8 Cover flown Panama to Canal Zone, franked FDI Lindbergh 2c and 5c blue, issued to honour Lindbergh's arrival in Panama, both stamps canc special red commem cachet.

Lot# 625 - 09/02/1929 Estimate: £6 Inaugural FAM 5, Colon to Miami, franked 2c National + 25c air,canc Agencia Postal Colon cds, bs New York 15/2, violet two line 'Panamerican Airways Inc/Primer Vuelo' flight cachet, printed cover addressed to JT Trippe, Pan Am AW Inc, New York. Because USPOD had not authorised Panama mail it was neither backstamped at Miami, nor forwarded from there by domestic airmail. This notwithstanding, such mail is an imprtant part of FAM 5's inaugural history. Lot# 626 - 24/05/1929 Estimate: £50 PANAGRA F/F Colon to Guayaquil (Ecuador), bs25/5, plain cover franked 12c canc Colon double ring cds, purple framed 'Panama-Ecuador' flight cachet. Only 73 pieces carried.

Lot# 627 - 24/05/1929 Estimate: £20 PANAGRA F/F Colon to Lima (Peru), bs 27/5, red/cream 2c PSE with additional 20c, canc 'Republica de Panama/Agencia Postal de Colon' double ring cds, purple framed 'Panama-Peru' flight cachet. 162 pieces carried from Colon.

Lot# 628 - 24/05/1929 Estimate: £12 PANAGRA F/F Panama City to Mollendo (Peru), bs 27/5, red/cream 2c PSE with additional 20c, magenta framed 'Panama-Peru flight cachet.

Lot# 629 - 08/10/1929 Estimate: £15 Pan Am F/F FAM 9 Colon to Buenos Aires, "Colon-Argentina" cachet, b/s 19/10, violet boxed "Correo Aereo" hs, Mizrah cover, uncommon. Francis Field authentication hs verso.

Lot# 630 - 08/10/1929 Estimate: £30 Pan Am/PANAGRA F/F Panama City to Buenos Aires, bs 14/10, black/white Mizrah ,Primer Correo Aereo' cover franked 50 c, violet framed 'Panama-Argentina' flight cachet. Flown Pan Am to Cristobal, then Panagra to BA.

Lot# 631 - 29/11/1931 Estimate: £20 F/F Boscas del Toro to Colon, violet double circle "Agencia Postal-Colon" and "Primer Correo Aereo Nacional" arrival ds's, Roessler large check airmail cover,

Lot# 632 - 20/06/1947 Estimate: £8 F/F Panama to Lima , purple "Tocumen-Lima" cachet, b/s, Peruvian International Airways

Lot# 633 - 01/07/1934 Papua New Guinea Estimate: £12 F/F New Guinea to Australia, Namatana 6/6, via 3/7 and Lae 30/7 to Sydney 1/8, airmail etiquette cover franked New Guinea 4d and 2d x2 Bird of Paradise stamps, purple hexagonal" New Guinea July 1934 F/F Official Air Mail" cachet, typed endorsement " per Faith in Australia ex Lae, TNG". Lot# 634 - 26/07/1934 Estimate: £25 Ulm and Allan's return flight in "Faith in Australia," flown from Port Moresby to Sydney 1/8, attractive red/blue/pale blue souvenir cover with decorative border and inset picture of Commander CTP Ulm, franked 5d and 3d Papua air stamps, violet octagonal flight cachet.

Lot# 635 - 27/10/1936 Estimate: £55 Guinea Airways Lockheed Electra special flight to the Melbourne Cup, Port Moresby to Australia, bs Brisbane 29 OC 36, airmail etiquette cover franked Papua 6d air, canc Port Moresby/Papua cds, typed "Per Airmail/Papua to Melbourne Cup 1936".

Lot# 636 - 03/06/1938 Estimate: £50 WR Carpenter Airlines, first official flight Wau 3/6 -Salamau 3/6 to Sydney 5/6, and return Sydney 7/6 to Wau 9/6, plain cover, 20x10cm franked 1/2d PNG stamps and 5d Australia stamps for the return, fine strike violet st. Line "W.R.Carpenter & Co. Ltd." hs verso. F/F covers from Wau are uncommon.

Lot# 637 - 17/01/1947 Estimate: £70 Qantas return flight Rabaul to Sydney,18 Jan 47 arrival ds on front, blue 'Rabaul-Sydney' vignette, signed by the pilot Capt JA Bonnington.

Lot# 638 - 01/01/1929 Paraguay Estimate: £60 First acceptance of mail for Gral Alvear(Argentina) from Asuncion, carried on Compagnie Aeroposta Argentina F/F Asuncion to Buenos Aires, bs Buenos Aires 2/1 and Gen Alvear 3/1, registered (label) cover addressed to a Notary (Escribano) franked $1.50 postage, $1.00 reg, and $5.65 airmail, carried by rail from BA to destination. Cover flown by Ficarelli. Gral Alvear was 240km South of Buenos Aires. Non philatelic and uncommon destination

Lot# 639 - 04/02/1929 Estimate: £25 Compagnie Aeroposta Argentina, Asuncion to Buenos Aires, bs 4/2, early commercial corner cover franked $5.35 inc $2.85 airmail opt with 'full stop' instead of 'colon' variety, carried on the C.A.A. Asuncion-Buenos Aires service, fine strike blue boxed "Correo Aereo/ Rep del Paraguay" cachet used before airmail envelopes were introduced in 1930.

Lot# 640 - 27/02/1929 Estimate: £100 First acceptance of mail for England, Asuncion to London, bs 11/3, for carriage on the inaugural Compagnie Aeroposta Argentina Asuncion-Toulouse service, registered (label) cover franked $14.70 ($2.50 postage, $2.00 regn, $10.20 airmail), violet "Via Aerea" cachet, flown on the new CGA overseas service from Paraguay to Argentina then "accelerated" by the "plane-ship-plane route via the South Atlantic, arriving in Toulouse on 9th March. Scarce item in fine condition. Lot# 641 - 06/06/1929 Estimate: £20 Asuncion to Buenos Aires, bs 7/6, flown on the Compagnie Aeroposta Argentina Asuncion-Buenos Aires service, registered (label) overpaid cover franked $1.50 postage, $1.00 registration and $3.40 airmail instead of $2.85, canc violet red 'Sco Aereo Postal/6Jun 29/Paraguay' cds, violet 'Certificados Exterior/Asuncion' clock face ds verso. The Feb 26, 1929 $3.40 issued to pay the airmail rate to Europe was used instead of $2.85.

Lot# 642 - 21/10/1929 Estimate: £20 CAA/GGA, early flown cover, Asuncion to Montevideo, no arrival ds, plain cover, franked 1929 $4.75/$4 air, canc Sco Aereo Postal/21 Oct 29/Paraguay', verso fine strike violet boxed "Correo Aereo/ Rep del Paraguay" cachet used before airmail envelopes were introduced in 1930. Flown Asuncion-Buenos Aiures by Compagnie Aeroposta Argentina, and BA-Monte Video by Compagnie Generale Aeropostale. Uruguay is a more unusual destination.

Lot# 643 - 28/11/1929 Estimate: £25 Asuncion to Basel, Switzerland, no arrival ds, blue/grey Aeroposta Argentina airmail cover rated 34P40 for 11g weight, air fee paid with an unseparated pair of 17P on 5P postage stamps. It is unusual to find pairs like this. Also violet boxed "Correo Aereo/ Rep del Paraguay" cachet used before airmail envelopes were introduced in 1930. Flown on the new CGA overseas service from Paraguay to Argentina then "accelerated" by the "plane-ship-plane route via the South Atlantic to Toulouse, then OAT to destination.

Lot# 644 - 08/06/1930 Estimate: £100 First acceptance of mail for England for carriage on Compagnie Aeropostale Argentina's first attempt, by Mermoz, at crossing the South Atlantic by air from Natal to Dakar, Asuncion to London, bs 19/6, Aeroposta Argentina / Via Aerea/ Sobretasa Aerea envelope franked $12, canc special green circular 'Mermoz' cachet dated 8 Junio 1930. Scarce pioneer South Atlantic item i fine condition, catalogued 1000Ff, Collot et Cornu, 1990

Lot# 645 - 09/06/1930 Estimate: £50 Asuncion to Basle, Switzerland, bs 20/5, via Lyon Gare 20/5, flown on the Compagnie Aeroposta Argentina Asuncion-Toulouse service, registered (label) 'Parque Hotel' cover franked $1 postage, $2.50 registration and $34 airmail, vanc violet 'Scio Aereo Postal/9 May 29/Paraguay' cdcs, fine strike violet boxed "Correo Aereo/ Rep del Paraguay" cachet used before airmail envelopes were introduced in 1930, flown CGA from Paraguay to Argentina then "accelerated" by the "plane-ship-plane route via the South Atlantic. Nice item in fine condition.

Lot# 646 - 12/06/1930 Estimate: £12 1928, 70 centavos unaddressed red/yellow postal card, with added 10c 'Correo Aereo' opts x4 and 1929 95c red air, all tied by three fine strikes violet oval "Premier Vuelo Official/Via Panagra/Paraguay a N. America" cachets. Uncommon. Lot# 647 - 25/12/1930 Estimate: £10 Asuncion to Paris, no arrival ds, triple rated blue/grey CGA - Aeroposta Argentina SA envelope franked 10P20 (3x 3P40) .

Lot# 648 - 26/07/1933 Estimate: £12 Registered pre-printed Condor-Zeppelin cover postmarked Asuncion (Paraguay) July 26, 1933 addressed to Lorch (Germany) with arrival b/s August 8th and transit b/s Paris August 7th and Stuttgart August 8th. Interesting use of a Zeppelin envelope for a cover with obviously travelled by Aeropostale. Nice clean cover with attractive franking including C49 (2 copies) and C58 (5 copies).

Lot# 649 - 11/04/1934 Estimate: £30 Paraguay to Yugoslavia, registered cover postmarked Asuncion (Paraguay) April 11, 1934 addressed to Dubrovnic (Yugoslavia) with arrival b/s April 24 and transit b/s Paris April 23. Attractive franking (but some stamps with faults). A little soiled and worn but a very rare destination for an Aeropostale cover.

Lot# 650 - 17/08/1939 Estimate: £45 Registered cover from Asuncion with Correo Aereo postmark of August 17, 1939 to Rio de Janeiro with arrival b/s of August 21. Boxed cachet of sender Paraguay President Josef Estigarribia. Great franking which takes up most of the front of the cover: Scott 324, 336, 346, C22 (block of 4), C59, C62, C63 and C73 (pair). Nice item.

Lot# 651 - 08/10/1941 Estimate: £9 Paraguay to Brazil, Panair Do Brasil uncensored WWII plain cover, Asuncion to Porte Alegre, bs 15/10, franked 7P, canc Correo Aereo/Asuncion Paraguay/8-10-41' cds. LATI and Air France carried mail from Paraguay to Europe until July 1940, and LATI until December 1940, via Pan Am/ Panair Do Brasil to Rio de Janero. A useful LATI collateral item.

Lot# 652 - 25/02/1928 Peru Estimate: £30 Lt James Doolittle, Curtis Airplane Co, South American Sales Flight , Lima to La Paz, bs 26/2, green "Shield" Buenos Aires/Montevideo flight cachet, green boxed "Correo Aereo" hs, addressed to Curtis Airplane Co, Uruguay, US Souvenir Historical Flight. Francis Field authentication hand stamp verso. Lot# 653 - 14/09/1928 Estimate: £55 Peruvian Airways Corporation return of the first proving flight, Paita-Lima, bs 15/3, violet "Sevicio Aereo" cachet. Flown by Dan Tobin of the Huff Daland Dusters Co. Peruvian Airways Corporation, described by Moll p40. A scarce cover.

Lot# 654 - 02/03/1929 Estimate: £55 F/F Chiclayo to Lima to Callao, red oval b/s 4/3, franked Sc 245 (3),C2,RA11(2) tied by oval "Chiclayo/Mar 2 1929/Correos Telegrafos/ Expedientes y Certificados" ds and undated oval "Chiclayo-Peru" hs, Mu #16. B.B.Joffe hs verso.

Lot# 655 - 25/11/1942 Estimate: £8 World War II censored registered (label) airmail cover, Ayacucho to Philadelphia, bs 6/12, Miami 4/12 transit, sealed US EB 4562 (Miami) censor tape.

Lot# 656 - 20/06/1948 Estimate: £3.5 F/F FAM 34 Lima to Guayaquil (Ecuador), purple cachet, b/s, air cover, Braniff

Lot# 657 - 12/03/1935 Philippines Estimate: £15 F/F Manila to Sourabaya (Java), "Via Flying Boats/Netherlands/Royal Naval Air Force" cachet, b/s.

Lot# 658 - 02/12/1935 Estimate: £3.5 F/F FAM 14, Manila to Guam,cachet, b/s, air cover, 10x24cm, Pan Am

Lot# 659 - 28/04/1937 Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 14, Manila to Hong Kong, violet cachet, arival ds on front, Pan Am

Lot# 660 - 28/04/1937 Estimate: £6 Pan Am clipper F/F Manila to Macao, bs 28/4, unusual and striking black/white souvenir cover, few faint tone streaks, see scan. Lot# 661 - 01/12/1975 Estimate: £6 50th Anniversary 1st inter island pioneer airmail service, Manila-Kalibo, bs 4/12.

Lot# 662 - 03/04/1923 Poland Estimate: £35 Emergency 'Ambulance' flight over Warsaw, plain cover franked 100m, black five line "flight over Warsaw" flight cachet.

Lot# 663 - 07/08/1923 Estimate: £85 Aerolloyd, F/F Krakow to Warswa, bs 7/8, plain cover franked 3000M, ms 'Par Avion', red framed 'Arrived by ir Mail' hs (in Polish).

Lot# 664 - 22/08/1925 Estimate: £35 Aerolloyd/Aeroflot, Lwow to Warsaw, bs 22/8, 5G airmail 'LOPP' PSC with additional 15G x2, faint strike red two line "Poczta Lotnicza/Posta Aerienne" front and verso, and red framed 'airmail' hs verso.

Lot# 665 - 07/01/1929 Estimate: £35 LOT, F/F Katowice to Warsaw, bs 8/1, plain cover franked 10G air, red three line F/F flight cachet.

Lot# 666 - 21/07/1930 Estimate: £75 CIDNA, F/F Warsaw to Berlin, fine strike red framed 'Mit Luftpost/Lufpostamt Breslau 1', plain cover franked 10G and 20G airs, violet F/F flight cachet. Lot# 667 - 17/06/1939 Estimate: £25 LOT, F/F Gdynia to Venice, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 35G,violet flight cachet.

Lot# 668 - 17/06/1939 Estimate: £12 LOT, F/F Warsaw to Krakow, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 10G, black flight cachet "20 lecie polskie komunikacj lotniczej" (20th anniversary of Polish air communication).

Lot# 669 - 03/06/1958 Estimate: £5 FF Poznan to Warsaw - first call at Poznan, blue F/F cachet, b/s, British European Airways.

Lot# 670 - 17/07/1972 Estimate: £3.5 LOT F/F IL-62 Charter Flight, Warsaw to Montreal, 17/7 arrival ds on front, attractive red/white/blue souvenir cover.

Lot# 671 - 03/02/1936 Portugal Estimate: £18 Crilly Airways F/F Lisbon to London, no arrival ds, official illustrated souvenir cover, showing map of route and Air Liner "Lisboa", 22x10cm .

Lot# 672 - 22/05/1939 Estimate: £15 F/F FAM 18 Southern North Atlantic route, Lisbon to Marseille, bs 22/5, attractive and uncommon grey/pale grey souvenir cover franked $1.75 x2, blue flight cachets verso, Pan Am.

Lot# 673 - 26/05/1939 Estimate: £75 Rare acceptance of mail from Portugal for Bermuda for carriage over the Pan Am Southern Route, airmail etiquette, Lisbon to Hamilton, bs 31 May 35, via New York, May 27, airmail etiquette cover franked 5E75, canc Lisbon 26 May 39, square blue FAM 18 type F18c cachet, black four line "Pan American Airways/First Transatlantic Airmail/Southern Route/via Bermuda, Azores and Portugal", ms 'Lisbon/Bermuda'. Lot# 674 - 30/07/1940 Estimate: £15 Lisbon to London, 7 Aug 40 arrival oval regn. ds on frontregistered (hs) cover franked 5.46E, canc Lisbon cds, no arrival ds, blue/white M 511 airmail etiquette, sealed GB PC90 OBE 714 censor tape. Carried on the new the new England-Portugal Air Service which opened on 7 June 1940.

Lot# 675 - 06/02/1941 Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 18, alternative westbound service, Lisbon to San Juan, via Lisbon-Bolama-POS, cachet, b/s, Pan Am.

Lot# 676 - 07/12/1962 Estimate: £2.5 TAP F/F Porto Santo to Santa Maria, Azores b/s, cachet, souvenir cover.

Lot# 677 - 17/06/1966 Estimate: £3.5 TAP F/F Lisbon to Rio de Janero, b/s, cachet, souvenir cover.

Lot# 678 - 20/06/1966 Estimate: £3.5 TAP F/F Lisbon to New York, b/s, cachet, souvenir cover.

Lot# 679 - 01/04/1971 Estimate: £5 TAP F/F Lisbon to Montreal, b/s, cachet, souvenir cover. Lot# 680 - 05/04/1971 Estimate: £5 Transportes Aereos Portugueses (TAP), F/F Portugal to Azores, souvenir cover postmarked Lisbon, cachet, b/s Ponta Delgada 5/4.

Lot# 681 - 31/03/1972 Estimate: £3 Transportes Aereos Portugueses (TAP), F/F Lisbon to New York, souvenir cover, cachet, b/s.

Lot# 682 - 19/04/1999 Estimate: £15 75th anniversary Beires & Pais flight from Portugal to Macao, FD franked FDI 140$ x2 miniature sheet.

Lot# 683 - 14/08/1927 Recovered/Interrupted Mail Estimate: £125 Kohl, Loose & von Hunefeld, attempted trans-Atlantic flight from Dessau in Junkers plane 'Bremen' und 'Europa'. After 2500 miles the flight was aborted and they returned to Germany. Printed registered (label) souvenir corner cover 'Erste Luftpost/Dessau-New York', red boxed 'Zuruck/Flug nicht durchgefuhrt' and 'Befrdert durch Luftpost/mit .....Junkers W.33' cachets, correctly rated 25Rm, canc Dessau 14/8, b/s Norderney 4/10. 1926 airs 1Rm x1, 2Rm x2 and 3Rm x6 make up the 25Rm franking, total SG cat £550 used. A scarce trans-Atlantic pioneer cover with impressive franking, and in fine condition.

Lot# 684 - 14/06/1929 Estimate: £245 Old Orchard to Paris flight, crashed at Mimizan, cover franked 2c with Old Orchard cancellation of June 13, boxed violet three line "First French Transatlantic Flight/Assolant-Lefevre-Lotti/Old Orchard-Paris" cachet, and signed by all three pilots, Comillas 14/6 arrival cds and French 2c postage due stamp, tied by Bourget June 16 arrivl cds, both on the front, Ni 290614. Scarce pioneer trans Atlantic item in superb condition.

Lot# 685 - 01/10/1937 Estimate: £220 Imperial Airways "Courtier" Short S23 flying boat, crashed Phleron Bay, Greece, plain cover from Rangoon, addressed to Anne Arbor, USA, typed 'Imperial Airways/Rangoon-London/London-New York/New York-Anne Arbor', violet boxed "Damaged By/Sea Water" cachet on front, Type 'd' applied to mail to England, also scarce purple type 'm' cachet "Timbre poste perdue/en transit/Postage stamps lost/in transit, and verso flap sealed with black/brown EIIR "Found open or damaged" tape. Super item.

Lot# 686 - 02/05/1953 Estimate: £250 BOAC COMET Jet Liner DH 106 crash on take off from Dum Dum airfield, Calcutta, on a flight from Singapore to London, registered (label) cover, franked red Malaya meter mark, also 'Malacca/30 Apr 53' cds front and verso and 'Singapore/30 Apr 53' verso, large violet framed 'Air Mailo/par Avion' hs, violet Type b cachet "SALVAGED M***/Comet Crash, Near Gal*****/2nd. MAY 1953" ('G' instead of 'C' in Calcutta)" Ni 530502b. Lot# 687 - 08/04/1968 Estimate: £125 BOAC Boeing 707 crash at London Heathrow airport, en route from London to Australia, via Zurich, plain cover addressed to Auckland, New Zealand, stamp/s washed off, postmarked Ashington/Northumberland/ 6 APR 1968, very fine strike green cachet applied to mail to New Zealand "Salvaged from Aircraft/Accident London 8-4-68", Ni680408b. A 125 word type written text giving details of this crash accompanies this item.

Lot# 688 - 10/09/1928 Romania Estimate: £50 Early airmail, Romania to United States, registered cover franked 1928 King Michael set of 8, and 1928 air set of 3, canc nice srikes of red oval Bucharest/Par Avion postmark, addressed to Milwaukee, USA, b/s Milwaukee/Wisc 23/9, red rectangular framed'Recomandat' hs, black/salmon four line airmail etiquette rated rare by Mair. Nice item in very fine condition.

Lot# 689 - 12/11/1933 Estimate: £20 Romania to Belgian Congo, Bucharest to Boma, bs 11/12, unflown registered (label) cover, franked 26 Lei (1931 2l, 3l and 20l airs + 2x50b ordinary, canc 'Bucurest Prezentate' cds and correctly franked for a double weight surface cover to the Congo. The November 1933 UPU surface rate was 10Lei for the first 29gm, then 6 Lei for each subsequent 20gm, or part thereof, and the foreign registration rate was 10 Lei.. Although not flown, this is an an unusual origin/destinationcombinationn, andwouldd make a nice collateral item.

Lot# 690 - 30/04/1971 Estimate: £5 F/F FAM 18, Bucharest to New York, fficial red cachet, special ds, b/s, Pan Am

Lot# 691 - 07/05/1947 Russia Estimate: £20 Aeroflot/American Overseas Airlines, Moscow to Canada, bs Toronto 22/5, via Montreal 21/5, plain registered (label) cover franked 2R 30k, large circular violet "National Revenue Postal Branch/Duty Free/21.5.1947/Duty Free/Montreal" hs on front. Aeroflot to Stockholm, AOS FAM24 to New York, internal air service to Montreal. Nice early 'Post War Bridging the Atlantic' item.

Lot# 692 - 27/05/1958 Estimate: £7 Leningrad to the Belgian Congo, registered (hs) illustrated 40k PSE with attractive franking of additional 2R20 addressed to Luluabourg, bs 3/6, boxed violet ornate 'Par Avion' hs. Scarce origin/destination air cover. Lot# 693 - 14/01/1963 Estimate: £5 Trans Pacific registered (Moscou 34 hs) etiquette air cover addressed (bilingual) to The Australian Board of Missions, Westgate, NSW, bs 29/1, via Sydney 25/1, franked 28k canc Moscow cds.

Lot# 694 - 16/11/1935 San Marino Estimate: £145 Air France/Air Afrique, San Marino to Elisabethville, bs 28/11, via Pescra-Milano TPO 18/11, Ventimiglia 19/11, and Marseilles 20/11, rare and likely first acceptance for carriage to the Belgian Congo on the Air France/Air Afrique Paris-Marseilles-Algeria-Leopoldville extension to Elisabethville, a Victor Nawratil registered (label) imprint etiquette cover franked 3.70L, 85 1/2c, canc san Marino 16/11 cds, ms's "Per Posta Aerea Belga/Bruxelles-Marsiglia-Congo" and"Via Marsiglia (Marseille)". Carried by the second Air France/Air Afrique Marseilles-Algeria-Elisabethville flight but, knowing Nawratil, this is almost certainly a first acceptance from San Marino for the extended route. Ex Clowes.

Lot# 695 - 29/03/1967 Estimate: £8 San Marino acceptance for Lufthansa F/F Frankfurt-Bogota, registered (label) airmail cover franked L21 San Marino stamps, no arrival ds.

Lot# 696 - 04/09/1972 Estimate: £8 San Marino acceptance for Lufthansa, special Olympic flight, Munich to Sydney, cachet, b/s.

Lot# 697 - 25/11/1926 Ship to Shore Estimate: £140 Sir Alan Cobham demonstration flight from SS Homeric at sea to Battery Point, New York City, flown and initialled by Sir Allan Cobham, printed souvenir cover bears cachet "First Air Mail to arrive in New York from the East". Illustrated p 1545 AAMC. Scarce item in fine condition.

Lot# 698 - 20/08/1927 Estimate: £30 Schildauer's attempted ship to shore flight from Staten Island to SS Leviathan, franked 12c canc NY duplex, typed 'Via Air Mail/to SS Leviathan', verso black "Air Mail Flight Failed To/SS Leviathan" cachet. Lot# 699 - 22/07/1929 Estimate: £45 First German North Atlantic Catapult Flight, SS Bremen into New York, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen printed cover franked 75pfg canc Deutsch-Amerika Seapost on board Bremen twin circle hs, fine red “Schnelidampfer/ Bremen/ Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen ” flight cachet.

Lot# 700 - 02/08/1929 Estimate: £30 Cover flown from SS Bremen into Bremerhaven, franked 75pfg canc on board Bremen twin circle hs, fine red “Katapultflig vom D Bremen des Norddeutschen Lloyd nach Bremen 2/8/29” flight cachet and fine red framed 'Mit Katapultflug' hs.

Lot# 701 - 30/05/1930 Estimate: £50 Austria acceptance German North Atlantic Catapult service, Vienna- New York, bs 6/6, franked 2S air, blue three line "Mit Katapultflug/vom D.Bremen/nsch New York" cachet, red “Deutscher Katapultflug/ D, Bremen/Southampton/6/6/1930" flight cachet and red “Mit Katapultflug" hs, black/blue grey etiquette. Flight K25 Graue and Leder.

Lot# 702 - 20/05/1931 Estimate: £485 Danzig acceptance for German North Atlantic Catapult Service to New York, bs 27/5, registered (label) cover franked 1928 20pf x4, 25pf and 35pf x3 (Stanley Gibbons numbers 213, 214, and 216. Stamps alone catalogue £234), canc 'Danzig/20.5.31/Luftpost' dr oval ds, red “Deutscher Schleuderflug/27. Mai 1931/ Dampfer 'Europa'-New York” flight cachet, red "Mit Luftpost/zum D. 'Bremen'/Befordert" Koln-Cherbourg supplementary flight cachet, and 'Mit Vorausflug nach New York' directional cachet. Only 5 flown from Danzig. A rare item in fine condition.

Lot# 703 - 09/06/1935 Estimate: £45 Spanish acceptance for carriage by German North Atlantic catapult, Barcelona to Brazil, bs 11/6, franked Spanish 4Px2 and 80c, uncommon black/red/grey imprinted "Por Avion Aleman Via Sevilla" blue/black/grey envelope with momoplane and Zeppelin against rays of sun in bottom lh corner, frame omitted with blue printed labels, see Frost E2b (cover alone catalogued $80 on catapult flight).

Lot# 704 - 13/06/1925 South Africa Estimate: £20 Late, if not the last flight, Govt. Experimental Airmail Cape Town to Pretoria, no arrival ds, 1d PSC with additional 1d ordinary and 1d air stamp, canc ape Town 13 Jun 25 cds, violet dr "SA Air Mail/SA Lugpos/13 Jun 1925" cachet. Service terminated on June 15th. Lot# 705 - 27/01/1932 Estimate: £18 Imperial Airways/SWAA, Victoria West to Windhoek, double F/F cover carried by IAW from Victoria West-Kimberley, bs 27/1, on F/F Cape Town-London service, then by SWAA on the F/F Kimberley-Windhoek Feeder Service. Souvenir Springbok cover franked 4d air. Typed up on album leaf with map of route.

Lot# 706 - 08/03/1934 Estimate: £175 Acceptance of mail from the Royal Train for the F/F RANA from Southern Rhodesia to Nyasaland, bs 'Blantyre 9 Mar 34 3pm' and 'Limbe 9 Mar 34 4.30pm', Bechuanaland PC franked 4 1/2d South Africa stamps, canc black oval bilingual 'Royal Tour HRH Prince George/6-II 34/South Africa" postmark, black/dark blue airmail etiquette tied by violet two line "All The Way/First Officia Air Mail" and black two line "S.Rhodesia/Nyasaland" cachets. Scarce item in pristine condition.

Lot# 707 - 04/07/1937 Estimate: £30 Imperial Airways, F/F First Stage EAMS, Pretoria to London, no arrival ds, plain etiquette cover, 22x10cm, franked 1 1/d, typed bilingual endorsement "Inauguration Flight/of the Three Half-Pence/Air Mail Service/1st July 1937". Typed up on album leaf with unused blue/white vignette showing an Imperial Airways Flying Boat and "1937 All Empire Mails By Air".

Lot# 708 - 21/08/1939 Estimate: £20 SAA new West Coast service, South to South West Africa and Angola,Johannesburg to Outjo, SWA, bs 22/8, violet straight line "First Flight West Coast" cachet. Only three flights on this service before war broke out when service was abandoned due to lack of support. Narrow strip former mounting tape centre top edge verso, does not detract. Scarce.

Lot# 709 - 23/02/1969 Estimate: £20 SAA F/F B707 Jo'burg to New York, b/s 24/2, special postmark.

Lot# 710 - 23/03/1976 Estimate: £5 SAA B747SP, Word Record Flight, Seattle to cape Town, official souvenir cover, b/s, recent but uncommon.

Lot# 711 - 08/03/1934 Southern Rhodesia Estimate: £15 RANA, F/F Salisbury to Blantyre, bs 9/3, plain cover etiquette franked 4d, violet straight line "First Official Air Mail" and black two line "S Rhodesia Nyasaland" cachets. Typed up on album page with map of route. Lot# 712 - 05/12/1934 Estimate: £125 Southern Rhodesia to Australia, first acceptance of mail from Southern Rhodesia for carriage on Imperial Airways inaugural extension of the London-Singapore service to Australia, Salisbury to Sydney, bs 21/12, via Cairo 10/12, plain airmail etiquette cover franked 1/8d, canc Salisbury cds, ms 'First Direct Air Mail S. Rhodesia to Australia'. Scarce acceptance, great routing.

Lot# 713 - 03/10/1935 Estimate: £30 Rhodesia and Nyasaland Airways, F/F internal flight, Salisbury to Umtali, bs 3/10, on Salisbury-Beira route, b/s 5/10, Wyndham cover franked 4d, canc Salisbury cds, etiquette, typed 'First Air Mail Flight/Salisbury to Umtali'.

Lot# 714 - 21/09/1949 Estimate: £6 Airmail etiquette cover flown Southern Rhodesia to Czechoslovakia, franked KGV 1/-, cacnc Salisbury cds, bs Prague 29/9 arrival cds. Uncommon destination.

Lot# 715 - 07/06/1930 Spain Estimate: £30 Spain to Argentina, pre-printed Aeropostale cover postmarked Barcelona June 7, 1930 to Cordoba (Argentina), bs Buenos Aires 16/6. Franked with Sc. 338, 341 and 342 (2). Aeropostale covers from Spain to South America are surprisingly scarce.

Lot# 716 - 01/04/1935 Estimate: £40 Acceptance from Spain for Argentina, pre-printed Spanish Air France registered cover postmarked Cadiz April 1, 1935 addressed to Buenos Aires with arrival b/s April 11th. Large "Viva Cristo Rey" sticker on back. It is known that mail left Paris on April 6th to be carried on all-air service using the Santos Dumont (flight 15A) but known examples of that mail have an arrival b/s in Buenos Aires of April 9th. It is possible that this cover was flown to Dakar but arrived too late for the Santos Dumont flight and put on board the usual aviso instead. In other words, there may have been two sets of mail for that date, the mail gathered in Paris for a direct Toulouse/Marseille - Dakar- Natal flight,and the mail picked up on the way which followed the usual plane-aviso scenario. Collot and Cornu do not expand on this possibility.

Lot# 717 - 03/12/1935 Estimate: £75 Acceptance from Spain for Argentina, very scarce pre-printed Aeropostale Spanish envelope “Por Avion Par Avion Via Aeropostale” postmarked Bilbao (Spain) December 3, 1935 with transit b/s Buenos Aires December 14 and arrival b/s Comodoro Rivadavia December 20th. The cover travelled by surface mail from Buenos Aires to Comodoro. Scarce acceptance Spanish flight and rare Aeropostale envelope especially since Air France had taken over Aeropostale the previous year. Lot# 718 - 10/03/1938 Estimate: £20 Civil war cover, Las Palmas, Canary Islands to New York via Germany, registered airmail cover franked 2P canc black framed /certificado/10 Mar 38/Las Palmas', bs New York 21/3, vi Frankfurt 13/3, violet two line "Censura Militar Las Palmas" censor mark verso. Flown DLH from Canary Islands to Germany, then likely OAT to Cherbourg and sea to New York by Europa/Bremen.

Lot# 719 - 10/12/1938 Estimate: £18 Spanish Civil war cover, Las Palmas, Canary Islands to England, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 1P50 canc black 'Por Via Aerea/10 Dec 38/Las Pamas' postmark, violet two line "Censura Militar/Las Palmas" censor mark, red framed and blue framed "Correo Aereo" hs's.

Lot# 720 - 11/09/1940 Estimate: £55 Spain to Uruguay, flown by LATI, a rare uncensored WWII censored Uruguay Consular airmail corner cover, Madrid to Montevideo, b/s, franked 6P 70c, canc Madrid 11 Sep 40 hexagonal ds, uncommon boxed "Correspondencia/Official/Franquicia/Panamerica" hs's front and verso, and large Uruguay Consulate in Spain cachets front and verso. Correctly rated for carrige by LATI from Spain to South America. Carried by LATI all the way from Rome to Rio de Janero, then Syndicato Condor to Buenos Aires, thus avoiding the British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service, and by Condor or Panagra to Montevideo. Neat non invasive 5mm trims on right and left sides, increasing to 1cm bottom rh corner, and verso neatly consisits of top and bottom flaps held by residue of wax seal.

Lot# 721 - 07/12/1940 Estimate: £30 LATI, Spain to Argentina, censored single rate WWII registered airmail cover, Malaga to Cordoba, black '686' in diamond Cordoba postmans mark, franked 7P 30c canc Malaga/7/12/40 hexagonal ds, via Sevillle 8/12, typed "Republica Argentina", uncommon purple Spanish unframed censor mark #404, see Stitch&Stitch p200. Military censorship of the mails was still the rule in Spain for some years after the end of the Civil War. Correctly rated for 5g registered Spain to Argentina by LATI, 6P/5g air fee + 30c/20g surface + 1P registration. Carried by LATI all the way from Rome to Rio de Janero, then Syndicato Condor to Buenos Aires, thus avoiding the British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service. Flap missing, non invasive top edge tear, barely visible from front. Lot# 722 - 15/11/1935 Spanish Morocco Estimate: £125 Air France/Air Afrique, Tetuan to Elisabethville, bs 28/11, via Alicante TPO 17.11, Madrid 17/11 and Marseilles 18/11, rare and likely first Spanish Morocco acceptance for carriage to the Belgian Congo on the Air France/Air Afrique Paris-Marseilles-Algeria-Leopoldville extension to Elisabethville, a Victor Nawratil cover franked 4PF, canc Certificado/15 Nov 35/Protect Espanol/Tetuan boxed registration ds, ms's "Correo Aereo (Marseille crossed out) Oran-Congo Belge" and"Via (Bruxelles Belgium crossed out) Oran". A complex and ambitious intended routing, even for the experienced Nawratil. The ms 'Via Bruxelles' was inapproptriate; there was no air route to Oran; and the first new Sabena service to Elisabethville had left before this cover reached Marseilles, so it was carried by the second Air France/Air Afrique Marseilles-Algeria-Elisabethville flight. This notwithstanding, and knowing Nawratil, this is almost certainly a first acceptance from Spanish Morocco for the extended route. Ex Clowes. Lot# 723 - 10/04/1955 Estimate: £20 Spanish Morocco acceptance for Vienna-Zurich balloon post, franked 2Pts, canc Tetuan 17 Mar cds.

Lot# 724 - 15/01/1926 Sudan Estimate: £425 Return of RAF test flight from Khartoum to Abu Suwer, 17 Jan 1926 arrival hs on front, signed by pilot V.C.Stonar, plain cover, violet three line "By Return of/Special Flight/Cairo to Khartoum" and violet "Khartoum 15/1/25" hs's. This flight was undertaken by RAF Squadron No. 47 as a test of the Fairey IIID aircraft equiped with the Napier Lion engine, and as a prelude to the Cairo-Cape Town flight planned for later in the year. Little is known about this flight, and only 35 covers were carried on the return flight. Francis Field authentication hs verso. A 200 word account by Bill Coley, Air Mail News, N0 158, p129 accompanies this historical item.

Lot# 725 - 10/03/1931 Estimate: £100 Imperial Airways, scarce F/F Khartoum to Luxor, bs 14/3, carried on return of inaugural London to East Africa service, plain airmail etiquette civer franked 2P, black Juba-London biplane cachet. By far the scarcest leg of the 1931 London-Mwanza-London service.

Lot# 726 - 13/03/1931 Estimate: £20 First acceptance of mail for the US from Sudan, New Jersey, no arrival ds, carried from Mwanza-London on return of the inaugural London to East Africa service, black/green blue etiquette cancelled by red double bar Jusqu'a applied in London, attractive yellow/olive Roessler ROE-FF% F/F " Giraffe" cover, franked 2P 'Air Mail' opt,10ml 'Air Mail' opt, 5ml, canc Sudan Air Mail/Wadi Halfa cds, violet Halfa to-London 'biplane' cachet, Imperial Airways.

Lot# 727 - 13/03/1931 Estimate: £20 Imperial Airways England-East Africa service, F/F Assuan to Alexandria, bs Cairo 14/3, souvenir blue/white 'map' cover franked 2P, violet "First Flight/Halfa to London" biplane flight cachet.. Typed up on album page with map of route and picture (not photo) of 'City of Wellington'.

Lot# 728 - 11/12/1933 Estimate: £100 First acceptance of mail from Sudan, Wadi Halfa to Singapore, no arrival ds, Cairo 12 Dec 33 transit cds verso, souvenir London/Singapore/Rangoon red/blue speedbird cover franked 10ml. Flown by Imperial AW service AN144 to Cairo to connect with the F/F of the IAW/ITCA extension to Singapore flight IE246, see Wingnt p112. Scarce item. Lot# 729 - 16/02/1936 Estimate: £18 Imperial Airways, first northbound feeder service to carry mail, El Fasher to London, and on to Kirkwall, no arrival ds, plain airmail etiquette cover franked 2 1/2 mls.

Lot# 730 - 24/12/1930 Tanganyika Estimate: £40 Return of the First Direct Internal Flight, registered cover with Tanga regn label, Tanga to Dar es Salaam, bs 26/12, boxed violet "Par Avion/By Airmail/ Tanganyka Territory" hs (P 9 McQueen), violet ms/typed endorsement ms "Direct" typed "By First Air Mail Tanga to Dar esSalaam. Tanganyka Territtory", franked pair Tanganyika 1927 50c, Tanganyka Govt Air Service. Only 50 flown in total (Colley p47).

Lot# 731 - 21/10/1931 Estimate: £55 Tanganyika Government Feeder Service, Mombassa to Dar es Salaam, bs 23/10, registered (label) Cota cover addressed to HQ, Kings African Rifles, franked 65c, typed endorsement "First Air Mail/ Dar es Salaam-Zanzibar-Tanga-Mombassa/By Tanganyika Government Aeroplane", white/blue etiquette. Carried on return of first regular feeder service to connect with IAW at Kisumu via rail Mombassa-Nairobi, then by Wilson AW from Nairobi-Kisumu. Small mail.

Lot# 732 - 25/01/1932 Estimate: £85 Imperial Airways emergency flight, Dodoma to Sinkat, bs 12/2, special flight by City of Baghdad dropping/collecting mail from Broken Hill and intermediates as far as Nairobi only. Cover flown Moshi-Nairobi on the emergency service, and then on to Khartoum on the second Cape-London service. Souvenir Springbok cover cancelled Dodoma 25/1, Nairobi 3/2, and Sinkat 12/2. Francis Field authentication hs verso. Super item

Lot# 733 - 26/01/1936 Estimate: £9 Wilson Airways, Uplands to Lindi, carried on F/F new Dar es Salaam to Lindi service, plain Tunstall cover franked 35c canc Uplands 26 Jan 36 cds, bs Dar es Salaam 28/1 and Lindi 29/1 cds's.

Lot# 734 - 19/11/1931 Tasmania Estimate: £225 Hobart to England, bs 16/12, carried on the first All Australian Airmail to England, registered (label) red/blue/cream 'Southern Cross' souvenir cover franked 1931 Air 'OS' opt x3 (SG 139a Cat £55 each used), canc 'Registered/19 Nov 31/Hobart' cds, special framed violet "winged" flight cachet. Plane crashed at Alor Star, then carried by Kingsford Smith to London. Attractive item in fine condition, from uncommon destination and with exceptional franking.

Lot# 735 - 21/05/1925 United States Estimate: £50 The Trans Polar Flight Expedition In commemoration of Emundsen's-Ellsworth Polar Flight, small-sized card postmarked Apr 9, 1924 was sent from ?Hoyyokeim tying 2c Harding to Christiana, Norway headquarters of the Trans Polar Flight Expedition. The reverse has provision for a message sent from "North Pole Mail", and for the address as well as the name of the sender. This card was returned to Springfield, Mass and bears Norwegian 5o and 25o stamps. Lot# 736 - 04/06/1927 Estimate: £2147 First non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Germany, New York to Berlin 6/6 arrival ds on front tying Germany 25 pf stamp, Charles Albert Co corner cover postmarked Hempstead, New York, June 4th 1927, typed "Via Air Mail/Bellanca Plane/Columbia”. Of the mail carried from New York only ten remain, as the German postal authorities refused to accept it and most of it was destroyed. A truly rare item.

Lot# 737 - 13/01/1928 Estimate: £40 Northern Trans Atlantic accelerated airmail from Pao Alto, California to Budapest, bs 29/1, via San Francisco 13/1 and Varrick Street, New York/17/1, plain cover franked 3c Harding and 10c air, canc Pao Alto Jan 13 1928, red straight line "Via Air Mail" hs, flown US internal trans continental service to New York, then surface to London, then London to Continental Europe by air, likely London-Zurich on the Swiss Express, then connecting airline to Budapest. Flown by the United States Air Mail Service in conjunction with the London to Continental Europe air mail service, as per the June 1927 supplement, US Postal Guides and Supplements. An early airmail from the US to an uncommon destination.

Lot# 738 - 13/06/1929 Estimate: £200 Assolant, Lefevre and Lotti, the first successful French non-stop transatlantic flight, Old Orchard, Maine to Comillas, Spain in Bernard 191 G.R. Oiseau Canari (Yellow Bird) monoplane, 3418 miles in 30 hours setting transatlantic flight records for both speed and distance, achieved despite the added weight of a stowaway which forced them to dump fuel, and change their original destination from Le Bourget airport, Paris, to Comillas, Spain. Plain cover fanked 2c US, tied 'Old Orchard/June 13/1929/9am/Maine' machine cancel, Commillas/Santander/14 Jun 29 arrival ds on front, typed "Via Yellow Bird". AAMC TO1019, also ref Ni 290614 because flight interrupted in Spain. An historical pioneer transatlantic flight. A hand drawn map 19x11cm accompanies this item.

Lot# 739 - 17/08/1929 Estimate: £90 Hydroplane from SS Karlsruhe at sea to speed delivery of mail, plain cover franked 9c, canc New ork/Aug 17 1929 duplex, flown from ship to Galway, and then flown on to London. Printed label with picture of SS Karlsruhe in flight towards white cliffs of Dover and printed inscription "Airmail-Karlsruhe-Galway", also typed "S.S. Karlsruhe/Via Airmail/Galway-London-Berlin/First Flight Galway-London".

Lot# 740 - 05/02/1931 Estimate: £150 Mildred Bruce Solo Round the World Flight, a New York City "Welcomes Mrs. Bruce" cover carried by Mrs Bruce on her return from USA to France by sea, and on her final leg by air when she flew from Paris to London accompanied by an aerial escort including Amy Johnson, Winifred Spooner and others, and also signed by Mrs Bruce announcing her arrival in Croydon on 20-2-31. Francis Field authentication hs verso. A 300 word text describing her round the world flight accompanies the item.

Lot# 741 - 17/02/1931 Estimate: £55 Rare acceptance of mail from United States for Sudan for carriage on the Imperial Airways/Qantas England to Australia service, Seattle to Khartoum, bs 13/3, airmail etiquette cover franked 10c air, 5c ordinary, canc Seattle Feb 17 cds, typed "Imperial Airways/Fist Flight/London to Africa". Intended for 1st flight departing London 28/2 and arriving Khartoum 7/3, but caught the 2nd flight which left London on 3/3. Nevertheless a rare item as only 4 caught the 1st flight.

Lot# 742 - 21/06/1931 Estimate: £435 Post and Gatty Round the World flight in "Winnie Mae", cancelled Mineola, New York, June 21, Berlin Jun 24, and Mineola Jul 1 return arrival ds, all cancellations are on the front of the cover, also two magenta Russian hand stamped seals. Signed by Post and Gatty. A superb item in pristine condition. Lot# 743 - 10/06/1933 Estimate: £40 Boyd and Lyon non stop flight in "Colombia", New York -Haiti-New York, franked US 8c air cancelled New York Jun 10 cds, also franked Haiti 10c, cancelled Port au Prince 6 Jul cds, official red six line cachet, 69 carried. AAMC T/O 1178, signed by both pilots J Errol Boyd and Robert G Lyon. Fine item

Lot# 744 - 15/05/1934 Estimate: £435 Pond and Sabelli attempted flight, New York to Rome, carried all the way to Rome, where Roma Aeroporto Littoria 11/6 arrival ds was applied. However, due to engine trouble aviators forced to land in Ireland where Leact Ui Concubair 15/5 transit cds was applied. Other cancellations include Brooklyn N.Y, Oct 17, 1933 and Brooklyn N.Y, May 13, 1934, Signed by both pilots, Lt C.Sabelli and Capt. George Pond. Scarce trans-oceanic record flight item. A hand drawn map 15x8cm accompanies this item.

Lot# 745 - 27/06/1934 Estimate: £45 North Atlantic Flight by the Adamowicz brothers, New York to Warsaw, bs Warsaw July 2 tying Poland 5gr stamp, pre-printed envelope showing a map of the route, franked 2c US canc City Hall/New York Jun 27 1934, signed by both pilots Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz. The plane was a Bellanca “Warsaw” and flew from New York to Harbour Grace (Newfoundland) on June 28. On June 29, they crossed the North Atlantic from Newfoundland to Caen (France) and then on to Paris on July 1st and to Warsaw on July 2nd. Muller #398, and AAMC Trans-Oceanic record flights #1211.

Lot# 746 - 16/08/1935 Estimate: £75 Solberg amphibian flight, New York to Bergen, Norway, red/white/blue souvenir cover with icture of plane, cancelled on arrival in Bergen, franked 7 ore Norway stamp canc 'Bergen/16 VIII 35' machine cancel, signed by Thor Solberg.

Lot# 747 - 05/10/1935 Estimate: £80 Pan American survey flight, San Francisco to Guam and return, fine strikes green East and violet West bound cachets, all appropriate departure and arrival postmarks, scarce round trip. Scarce item in superb condition.

Lot# 748 - 05/10/1936 Estimate: £75 Fort Worth, Texas to England, no arrival ds, carried trans Atlantic on the 10th Hindenburg North America flight from Lakehurst to Frankfurt Maine, bs 'Flug-und Luftichiffhafen/ Rhein-Main/12.10.36', 12.10.36, red/white/blue airmail etiquette 'Expres' cover addressed to Francis Field, franked US 25c air x3, canc Fort Worth Oct 5 , black three line "Fort Worth Frontier Centennial" cachet. Typed "Air Mail via China Clipper/ leaving San Francisco, Calif, USA, Oct 7, 1936/ for Manila, P.I, and points beyond". This is a Francis Field cover, so there may be more to it than meets the eye.

Lot# 749 - 14/10/1936 Estimate: £300 Round trip public relations VIP flight, San Francisco to Manila and return, to promote Pan Am's first trans Pacific passenger flight on October 21st. Printed Carter souvenir cover, franked, cancelled and backstamped for each outward leg San Francisco-Honolulu, Honolulu-Guam, Guam-Manila, and each return leg Manila-Guam, Guam-Honolulu, Honolulu-San Francisco. Scarce item in superb condition. Single leg unprinted public relations VIP flight Carter covers are currently retailing at $500USD. Lot# 750 - 16/03/1938 Estimate: £35 F/F FAM 17, Baltimore to Hamilton, Bermuda, bs 16/3, plain cove franked 10c air, large violet flight cachet, signed by the pilot Capt. R.O.D.Sullivan.

Lot# 751 - 20/05/1939 Estimate: £40 Double Pan Am F/F FAM 18 Southern( North) Atlantic route, New York-Marseilles, bs 22/5, and return from Marseilles to New York, bs 25/7, airmail cover, 20x11cm, franked US 30c air, canc New York 20 May 1939 cds, blue framed "United Sates f America/First Flight FAM 18/Trans-Atlantic Service", then refranked 15F French stamps canc Paris 24/5/39 cds, and returned by registered (label) mail on F/F FAM 18 Marseilles-New York, red framed "1er Service Postal Aerien/France-Etats Unis".

Lot# 752 - 20/05/1939 Estimate: £70 First acceptance of mail for India for carriage to Europe on the F/F Pan Am FAM18 Southern North Atlantic route, New York to Marseiiles, bs 22/5, then OAT to India by Imperial Airways Eastbound Southampton-Sydney service SE 129 which left Marseilles on 22/5 and arrived Calcutta 25/5, then surface to Vandiperiyar (1150 miles SW Calcutta) arrival ds 31 May 1939. Plain airmail etiquette cover, franked 50c air, official blue F/F FAM18 fight cachet, black straight line "Via Thru Airmail to (India)". Also franked India 9 1/2 anna, canc Surianwan 24/6 for return to UK, and black/white 'India-England' label. Nice exhibit item in pristine condition.

Lot# 753 - 24/06/1939 Estimate: £195 First acceptance of mail for Hong Kong for carriage on F/F Pan Am Northern Trans-Atlantic route from New York to London, then OAT to Hong Kong by Imperial Airways Eastbound Southampton-Sydney service SE 146, framed 'American Consulate General /Hong Kong' receiver dated Jul 7- 1939, attractive registered (hs) red/white/blue eagle and stars airmail cover, franked 50c & 30c airs, official red FAM18 fight cachet, typed "New York to London via Northern Route" and "London to Hong Kong via Imperial Airways Route". Nice exhibit item in pristine condition.

Lot# 754 - 09/08/1939 Estimate: £100 First Eastward 'All the Way by Air' around the world dispatch, New York to New York, via Imperial Airways inaugural transatlantic air service New York (Aug 9, depart cds) to Southampton, London (Aug 12th machine depart cancel front and verso) to Hong Kong by Imperial Airways Eastbound service SE 165, Hong Kong to New York, Sept 12 arrival cds verso via Pan Am Pacific service to San Francisco and US transcontinental service to New York. Grey/blue Imperial Airways "Transatlantic/First regular service between Great Britain, Eire, Newfoundland, Canada and USA" souvenir cover franked US 30 air stamp canc New York Aug 9 1939 cds, GB 1 1/2d tied Aug 12th machine cancel, Hong Kong $2.80 canc Victoria 30 Aug 39 cds, and verso US 2c canc Broolyn Sep 12th cds. Superb item in pristine condition.

Lot# 755 - 11/02/1941 Estimate: £75 Airmail cover to member of ship's crew, Englewood, NJ to Lisbon, 21/2 whre it languished until 'ms' 11/8/41, airmail cover franked US 30c air, and onward for eventual return to sender via Elisabethville (Congo) 9/9, Lobito (Angola) 15/9, Cape Town 7/10 where it was sealed with South Africa red/buff censor tape, and evetually to Washington, USA 7/11 and returned to sender. Sent on a 9 moth tour due to insufficient addressee details. The most likely name of the vessel is 'Lobito, hence the mistaken mailing to Angola. The 'Lobito' was a small, old vessel registered with the Colonia Companhania de Navegacao, based in LIsbon. A superb item. Lot# 756 - 01/10/1942 Estimate: £35 "Air Mail Service Not Available", censored WWII air mail from USA to Switzerland, plain cover franked 30c air, tying par avion etiquette cancelled Easton PA/Oct ** 1942 ds, violet two line "Return to Sender/No Service Available", sealed black/white OBE 3432 Bermuda censor. This letter eventually arrived back in USA 9 months later, bs New York/Jul 7/1943 cds. Nice WWII trans Atlantic item. day of postage not legible.

Lot# 757 - 01/07/1924 United States Internal Estimate: £20 F/F Transcontinental Airmail Route involving night flying, flown westbound New York 1/7, to San Francisco, no arrival ds (usually bs only at Cleveland, Chicago, Cheyenne, SLC and Reno), Philadelphia Ironworks corner cover correctly franked 24c three zone rate, franked C4&5, magenta four line boxed cachet "Via Air Mail/On first trip through schedule/involving night flying on Trans-/continental Air Mail Route". Ironed vertical crease 3cm from rh edge.

Lot# 758 - 01/07/1924 Estimate: £30 F/F Transcontinental Airmail Route involving night flying, flown eastbound San Francisco 1/7 to New York, no arrival ds (usually bs only at Cleveland, Chicago, Cheyenne, SLC and Reno), correct 24c three zone rate, franked C6, magenta four line boxed cachet "Via Air Mail/On first trip through schedule/involving night flying on Trans-/continental Air Mail Route".

Lot# 759 - 05/09/1925 Estimate: £15 FAM 3 intended acceleration of mail to Honduras by overtaking mail at Pilottown, New Orleans to Tela, bs 5/9, franked 2c, canc Sep 5th, 11.30 am, violet oval "Via Hydroplane Mail/New Orleans-Pilottown, LA/Too Late", also bears 'First Flight' cachet in error.

Lot# 760 - 01/04/1931 Estimate: £15 St. James Chalevoix, Mich, Emergency Air Mail Flight, air cover franked 5c, canc St James cds, blue oval flight cachet. Please note, the exact day of postage is illegible.

Lot# 761 - 19/02/1934 Estimate: £20 F/F US Army Emergency Flight, Route 3, Chicago to Dallas, 20/2 arrival ds on front, ms 'First Flight by Army Plane/on Route 3 to Dallas, Texas'.

Lot# 762 - 19/02/1934 Estimate: £20 F/F US Army Emergency Flight, Route19, Miami to New York, ms 'First Flight /Army Emergency Air Mail Service'. Lot# 763 - Ephemera-Documents & Literature Estimate: £20 1937 Civil Air Transport Services (Cmnd 5524) re the development of British air services to South America by British Airways, original, 4pp, in fine condition.

Lot# 764 - Estimate: £6 ABC of British Airports, details, layout, airline usage,etc, of all the 50 or so listed regularly in the statistical bulletins of the Ministry of Transport, profusely illustrated, 18x24cm, 40pp, pub 1960.

Lot# 765 - Estimate: £5 BEA Introduces New Service from London-Geneva, letter from Sales Manager, 19th May, 1947.

Lot# 766 - Estimate: £5 BOAC's first direct London and Geneva service, passengers and mail arriving by coach, with waiting Viking aeroplane in background. B&W picture (not photo with technical details verso.), source unknown, 21x20cm

Lot# 767 - Estimate: £2.5 British European Airways, letter to customer from Mail Superintendant, written on company HQ, Regent Srtreet, grey/maroon headed notepaper, 12x20cm, and dated 11/11/49.

Lot# 768 - Estimate: £35 Imperial Airways, Karachi Airport, a letter written on red on cream headed company notepaper with speedbird logo, signed by G.E.Woods Humphrey, Managing Director, and dated 11 July, 1933, sent on the first regular weekly British Air Mail Service between Calcutta and London service, as a souvenir of its inauguration. Very fine. Lot# 769 - Estimate: £5 Morton Air Services formed in 1945 by Captain Olley and TWMorton, 4000 words article, A4

Lot# 770 - Estimate: £5 Panagra airmail stationary, green/grey airmail envelope with 'Par Avion - Panagra' in red, flown from Santiago (13/11/1935) to New York, no arrival ds.

Lot# 771 - Estimate: £20 Panagra airmail stationary, used green/cream folded letter sheet , 24x20cm, bearing legend "Two sheets and an envelope weigh 4 grms", with its original 14/12/1950 airmail envelope flown from Santiago to Trinidad, bs 22/12. Uncommon.

Lot# 772 - Estimate: £6 Souvenir red/white blue envelope commemorating the opening of the first regular weekly airmail service between London and Calcutta, Imperial AW and India Trans-Continental AW, fine unused.

Lot# 773 - Ephemera-Newspaper cuttings Estimate: £5 Assolant and Lefevre's failed long distance record attempt from Oran to Akyab, announcement of departure (from Paris correspondent, 4/10/1933, 90 words) and of forced landing in India (from Karachi correspondent, 6/10/1933, 100 words), two original newspaper cuttings from The Times

Lot# 774 - Estimate: £4 European Air Mails 1932, Resumption of Night Service to Holland, details including posting times, original newspaper cutting, The Times, April 29th 1932, 200 words Lot# 775 - Estimate: £20 Original press cutting, c300 words, illus, and map, mounted on album leaf, Dec 30, 1933, source unknown, detailing crash of IAW "Apollo" at Ruysselede, Belgium, inc list of previous casualties to British owned liners.

Lot# 776 - Estimate: £5 Photocopy of 700 word article from East African Standard, Jan 11, 1930, detailing Mittelholzer's flight from Europe to Nairobi, and his passenger Baron Rothschild's safari plans

Lot# 777 - Estimate: £3 Report of first non stop formation flight by RAF from England to Gibraltar, original newspaper cutting, The Times, Sep 10, 1935, 400 words.

Lot# 778 - Estimate: £3 Report on the commissioning, and also a short specification, of the Saunders Roe Cloud for LOT, for the Prague-Zagreb-Susuak run, an original newspaper cutting from The Times, 21/5/1936, c 100 words.

Lot# 779 - Estimate: £20 Sheila Scott, original newspaper cutting, 150 words , Aug 5th, 1971, with head and shoulders picture, reporting the end of her 34,000 mile flight on which she became the first woman to fly solo over the North Pole.

Lot# 780 - Estimate: £3.5 Special cachet for United Airlines, commemorating 25 years service on the Pacific coast, original newspaper cutting, 175 words.

Lot# 781 - Estimate: £10 WWII official GPO notice re availability of Airgraph service to British Forces in North Africa and HM Ships in that area, and air letter (not airgraph) service to West African Force and HM Ships in that area, original newspaper cutting, 4x4". Precursors of the Airgraph service were the cessation of flights across Europe to Cairo and the Middle East after the fall off France in 1940, and the entry of Italy into the war and, with the onset of the 'Blitz' in late 1940 and early 1941, the need to expedite the carriage of mail to boost the morale of troops serving in ME and India.

Lot# 782 - Estimate: £10 WWII official GPO notice re availability of Airgraph service to British Forces in North Africa and HM Ships in that area, and air letter (not airgraph) service to West African Force and HM Ships in that area, original newspaper cutting, 4x4". Precursors of the Airgraph service were the cessation of flights across Europe to Cairo and the Middle East after the fall off France in 1940, and the entry of Italy into the war and, with the onset of the 'Blitz' in late 1940 and early 1941, the need to expedite the carriage of mail to boost the morale of troops serving in ME and India.

Lot# 783 - Ephemera-Other collateral items Estimate: £25 1932 Australian National Airways, All-Australian Air Mail "Xmas Greetings/by First All-Australian/Air Mail" green/pale green/red souvenir envelope, unused. Lot# 784 - Estimate: £30 British Airways, unused blue/cream souvenir envelope commemorating the "First Flight of Unsurcharged Mail" from London to Lisbon. An uncommon item in fine condition.

Lot# 785 - Estimate: £10 Great Britain 1923, De La Rue 1d magenta essay for British air stamp, 1d 'Hermes' airmail stamp, block of four imperforate (reprint).

Lot# 786 - Estimate: £150 Justice for Hungary Flight, 1931, souvenir PPC bearing B&W photos and original signatures of each of the pilots - George Endresz and Alexander Wilczek. Scarce item.

Lot# 787 - Estimate: £50 Middle East Forces Cristmas Card 1943, red/cream card "Greetings from His Majesty's Middle East Forces/ Christmas 1943", sent in window envelope postmarked Field POst Office/S6 ***, ms 'On Active Service', vilet 'Passed by Censor/No 4170'. The British Middle East Command, which controlled Allied forces in both Southwest Asia and eastern North Africa. From 1943, most of the action and forces concerned were in the adjoining Mediterranean Theatre.

Lot# 788 - Estimate: £20 PANAGRA, original elaborate certificate with gold scroll issued to passenger to confirm crossing the Equator on Panagra flight from Buenos Aires to Miami 0n 28 August, 1941, 240x320mm.

Lot# 789 - Estimate: £20 PANAGRA, original elaborate certificate with gold scroll issued to passenger to confirm crossing the Equator on Panagra flight from Guayaquil to Panama on 27 November, 1952, 220x290mm. Lot# 790 - Estimate: £60 Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd, retained portion of outward and return day return 7/6d ticket between Portsmouth Airport and Ryde Airport, with Conditions of Issue on inner two pages, green/black, 4pp, 11x12cm. Company formed in 1932, first mail carried 1934.

Lot# 791 - Estimate: £50 Signature of Captain A. S. Wilcockson on card 11x7cm, also "Caledonia, Southampton-new York, July 1937" in the same hand. July 15, 1937 the Imperial Airways' Caledonia, a Short Empire Class flying boat, under the command of Captain A. S. Wilcockson left Foynes for Botwood. It landed July 6, 1937 at 7:36am. This marked the beginning of transatlantic commercial flights.

Lot# 792 - Estimate: £175 Souvenir Pigeongram from the London International Air Post Exhibition, flown dated 7-May-1934.

Lot# 793 - Estimate: £450 Uk 1911 Coronation and Aerial Post, black/scarlet, Hendon invitation card number 496, unused 185x120mm. Central vertical crease, barely visble from front, otherwise fine. £450

Lot# 794 - Estimate: £50 Uruguay, rare early airmail enveope, gerey/pale blue/blue, with "Republica O. del Uruguay - Correo Aereo" text and engraving of airship and flying boat, unused.

Lot# 795 - Ephemera-PO notices Estimate: £30 "Post in the Blue Box", original GB Post Office Notice, August 1934, listing 20 additional special blue Air Mail posting boxes on the East Central District, London, 4pp, black/white/blue/dark blue, very fine. Lot# 796 - Estimate: £5 Christmas Mails for Abroad, 1934, detailing latest dates of dispatch from London for letters and for parcels to 40+ countries

Lot# 797 - Estimate: £5 Ofiicial supplementary notice of latest times of posting for air mail letters in Liverpool, 1 page, 22x14cm, pub.1934. Small lower lh corner nibble.

Lot# 798 - Estimate: £8 Parcel Air Mails, European Countries, Post Office Notice, October 1934, detailing 12 Europe countries covered by the service, also postage rates, latest times of posting and expected day of delivery, blue text on cream paper

Lot# 799 - Estimate: £5 Post Office Dept, Second Assistant Postmaster General, Airmail Service, Washington, Official Business corner card, dated Jun 17th, 1938, annnouncing commencement of four new airmail routes AM39 Phoenix-Las Vegas, AM39 Jacksonville-New Orleans, AM40 Tampa-Tallahassee and AM41 Detroit-Salt Ste, Marie.

Lot# 800 - Estimate: £25 Railway Air Services, 20th August, 1934, "Inland Air Mail Services from Liverpool" Post Office notice, published August 1934, listing towns served, times of posting and delivery, postage charges, blue/cream, 4pp, 24x18cm, original, small non invasive filing hole top lh corner, otherwise fine.

Lot# 801 - Estimate: £25 Railway Air Services, 20th August, 1934, "Inland Air Mail Services from Manchester" Post Office notice, published August 1934, listing towns served, times of posting, postage charges, and information on express and Railex services, blue/cream, 1pp, 24x18cm, original and very fine. Lot# 802 - Estimate: £15 Railway Air Services/Spartan Air Lines Ltd, Jan 20th, 1936, notice of temporary withdrawal of Air Services between London and the Isle of Wight, and intended resumption in the edaly summer, green/cream 1pp, 16x12cm. Scarce.

Lot# 803 - Ephemera-Photographs Estimate: £25 Awarua, at mooring. Delivered to Imperial Airways, London - April 21, 1939 and first flown as G-AFCY,April 20, 1939, and named 'Captain Cook' Earmarked for delivery to Tasman Empire Airways Ltd from outset but began services Southampton-Karachi pending arrival of AW27 fleet for Imperial Airways,July 1939. Departed Southampton on delivery flight to New Zealand - March 15, 1940. Entered onto New Zealand Aircraft Register as ZK-AMC - March 1940 where Registered to Tasman Empire Airways as 'Awarua'. Original 'Real Photographs Co. Ltd' glossy B&W photograph, 15x9cm, c1940.

Lot# 804 - Estimate: £25 British Airways flying boat 'Clare', G-AFCZ, skimming over the sea, original Fleet Street press agency B&W photograph, c1940, 16x12cm.

Lot# 805 - Estimate: £25 DH.14A, a two-seat long-range mail plane registered G-EAPY, was bought by F.S. Cotton who intended to try for the Australian government's £10,000 prize for a flight between England and Australia. His plans were overtaken by events when Keith and Ross Smith won the prize before Cotton was ready. The aircraft did attempt the first flight between London and Cape Town in February 1920, but it only got as far as Italy, where it force-landed near Messina. B&W photograph published by Real Photographs Co Ltd, 14x9cm.

Lot# 806 - Estimate: £25 G-AFCZ AUSTRALIA/CLARE at mooring. Originally allotted to TEAL it never reached New Zealand, being retained by IAL and BOAC. After being out of service for three months to repair it was re-named CLARE. On 3 August 1940 the transatlantic link, which had ceased on the outset of WWII, was resumed in when the camouflaged Short S.30s G-AFCX Clyde and G-AFCZ Clare made six return crossings of the Atlantic with passengers.The first trip was flown by Capt J C Kelly Rogers. The following year the 'Cathay' and 'Clare' maintained the Poole-Foynes shuttle, while the Atlantic crossing was given over to BOAC's newly acquired Boeings. Original 'Real Photographs Co. Ltd' glossy B&W photograph, 15x9cm, c1940.

Lot# 807 - Estimate: £15 Graf Zeppelin, official photocard showing passenger cabin, 9x6cm. Lot# 808 - Estimate: £15 Graf Zeppelin, official photocard showing passenger compartment with dining tables, 9x6cm.

Lot# 809 - Estimate: £20 Heinkel HE 12 (registration D-1717) on board SS Bremen when she departed on her maiden voyage in 1929. The Heinkel HE 12 D-17171 was a pontoon-equipped mail plane designed to be launched by catapult from a liner at sea. B&W reproduction photograph, 15x10cm.

Lot# 810 - Estimate: £15 Junkers 46, D-4291 'Sirus' mailplane converted to seaplane D-UHYL and used on board NDL steam ship 'Bremen'. B&W reproduction photograph, 12x9cm.

Lot# 811 - Estimate: £20 Lloyd Aero Boliviano, close up of Junkers F-13 with, from left to right, Dr. Anibal Pena, Director of LAB, Herman Schroth, chief pilot, and a second pilot Helmers, B&W photograph, 14x8cm, c1930.

Lot# 812 - Estimate: £15 Panagra DC3 NC 25652 on the tarmac at Lima c1938, B&W photograph, 15x10cm.

Lot# 813 - Estimate: £20 Panagra Ford 5-AT Trimotor NC 433H on tarmac at Trujillo. This was introduced with the development of the route to Argentina where a more powerful plane was needed to fly the Andes. B&W photo, 14x5cm, c1929.

Lot# 814 - Estimate: £25 Short S30 C Class flying boat 'Clyde' at mooring. The first Southampton to Karachi service was by G-AFCX Clyde on 3rd July 1939. On 1st November 1939, Imperial Airways ceased to exist with the creation of BOAC, the British Overseas Airways Corporation. The transatlantic link was resumed in 1940, when the darkly painted and camouflaged Short S.30s G-AFCX Clyde and G-AFCZ Clare made six return crossings of the Atlantic with passengers. Original 'Real Photographs Co. Ltd' glossy B&W photograph, 15x9cm, c1940. Lot# 815 - Estimate: £25 Short S30 C Class flying boat 'Golden Hind' at mooring. Impressed into RAF service in 1940(along with its crew, before it could start civilian operation. Returned to BOAC in December 1941 where it was employed on other routes in UK and West Africa until the end of the war, and remained in service with BOAC until retired in 1947. Original 'Real Photographs Co. Ltd' glossy B&W photograph, 15x9cm, c1940.

Lot# 816 - Estimate: £25 Short S-30C Empire Flying Boat 'Awarua'. Registered ZK-AMC - March 1940 to Tasman Empire Airways Ltd. Flew first connecting Horseshoe Route flight Auckland-Sydney - June 11, 1940. Flight crew: Capts J.W. Burgess, K. Brownjohn. Flew its final Sydney-Auckland service - June 12, 1947 having flown over 1,400,000 air miles. Original 'Real Photographs Co. Ltd' glossy B&W photograph, 15x9cm, c1940.

Lot# 817 - Estimate: £15 The eight ton Dornier Wal being launched during trials in late 1932, B&W photograph, 14x8cm.

Lot# 818 - Ephemera-Picture postcards Estimate: £30 1919, attempted non-stop Atlantic crossing, unused original B&W PPC showing Harry Hawker's triumphant return on horseback with police escort. On May 18, 1919 – Harry Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Mackenzie-Grieve attempted a non-stop Atlantic crossing but were forced to ditch their aircraft only 2,253 km (1,400 miles) after leaving Newfoundland. London's Daily Mail newspaper awarded them a prize of £5,000 for their attempt anyway.

Lot# 819 - Estimate: £40 Captain Harry Jone's Bellanca Plane on Old Orchard Beach, Main, original coloured unused PPC, c1929, in fine condition.

Lot# 820 - Estimate: £40 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin portrait, unused 20pf souvenir colour PPC published to mark the 100th birthday of Count Zeppelin and opening of the Konstanz Exhibition.

Lot# 821 - Estimate: £40 First Atlantic Flight, Daily Mail £5,000 consolation prize, original B&W PPC showing front of menu card autographed by Mr and Mrs Hawker, Commander Mackenzie-Grieve et al, mailed from Thurso 25/5/1929 to Francis Field, Sutton Coldfield. On May 18, 1919 – Harry Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Mackenzie-Grieve attempted a non-stop Atlantic crossing but were forced to ditch their aircraft only 2,253 km (1,400 miles) after leaving Newfoundland. London's Daily Mail newspaper awarded them a prize of £5,000 for their attempt anyway. Lot# 822 - Estimate: £30 Harry Hawker, unused original B&W PPC showing head and shoulders picture taken when "Flying at Hendon Series". He soon learned to fly at Brooklands, and managed hangars at Brooklands aerodrome, the hub of British aviation. Having established his name as an aviator, he became chief test pilot for Tom Sopwith. He was killed on 12 July 1921 while climbing out from Hendon Aerodrome while practicing for an airshow.

Lot# 823 - Estimate: £30 Midland and Scottish Air Ferries Ltd Airspeed AS.4 Ferry (G-ACFB), a British three-engined 10-seat biplane airliner built by Airspeed Limited in the 1930's and used on services from Renfrew to Campbeltown, Belfast and Speke, An original unused B&W photocard in fine condition.

Lot# 824 - Estimate: £30 S.S.Bremen, beautiful original Nord Deutcher Lloyd company colour PPC, unused.

Lot# 825 - Estimate: £75 Scarce special postcard issued by Air France for Christmas 1934 showing artist's rendition of an airplane in flight over water. Postmarked Buenos Aires December 22, 1934 and addressed to Paris with no arrival b/s. The stamps where affixed on the picture side of the card. The card is reproduced in Collot and Cornu. Ligne Mermoz. p. 202.

Lot# 826 - Estimate: £30 Short Empire flying boat 'Ceres' G-AEIX about to take off, original B&W Valentine's PPC, unused.

Lot# 827 - Estimate: £75 Special Christmas illustrated Air France post card issued in Uruguay advertising airmail service of 3 days only between South America and Europe (message partially written on the picture side of the card). The Montevideo postmark is illegible but the card is dated December 23, 1939 and addressed to Paris. It probably crossed the South Atlantic on Christmas Day 1939 in the Farman 2200 “Ville de Natal”. Pilot Marcel Reine was accompanied by a crew of 4. Reine and famous Aeropostale pilot Henri Guillaumet were killed some 11 months later when their military plane was shot down over the Mediterranean. Card has faint crease (see scan) but it is much scarcer than the similar Brazilian card advertising the service in two days. World War II began on September 1, 1939, when Germany attacked Poland. Lot# 828 - Estimate: £30 The Bánhidi Gerle 13(Hungarian: "Dove") HA-AAI, original unused B&W photcard, c1933. The Gerle was a two-seat, single-engine sport biplane built in Hungary in the early 1930s,designed by Antal Bánhidi.[3] Bánhidi achieved fame with the Gerle 13 when in 1933 he made a long-distance flight of 12,258 km around the Mediterranean. Later the same year, he flew from Hungary through northern Europe to England and back to Hungary,his route taking him from Debrecen to Rapla, Helsingfors, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Croydon, and then non-stop back to Debrecen.

Lot# 829 - Estimate: £30 The Ju46 D-2244 alongside the steamliner "Europa", original DLH B&W company PPC. In April 1932 the D-2244 was assigned to the steamliner "Europa". It was painted in a red livery so that they could be discovered in case of an emergency landing on sea.

Lot# 830 - Estimate: £30 The NC 9 seaplane in flight, an original unused sepia photocard in fine condition. Manufacture of the "NCs" began in 1918 during WW. The U.S. Navy wanted an aircraft capable of long ocean flights for anti-submarine warfare patrol and, if possible, with the capability to fly across the Atlantic Ocean under their own power to avoid having to be shipped through ocean waters menaced by German submarines. The Navy and Curtiss designed one of the largest biplanes yet produced, and powered by threeengines. Maximum speed was 90 mph with a maximum range of 1,500 miles.

Lot# 831 - Estimate: £30 The Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of White Aviation Ltd 'Puss Moth' 3 seater cabin monolane Air Taxi G-ABIY on tarmac, original guaranteed real B&W photo PPC, unused,.

Lot# 832 - Estimate: £30 Yankee Clipper NC 18603 entering the hangar at Municipal Airport, Baltimore, MD. An original unused B&W photocard in fine condition.

Lot# 833 - Ephemera-Timetables and brochures Estimate: £6 40th Anniversary British Inland Airmail Services, 10pp illustated colour brochure, 10x20cm, pub 1974 by BA and Royal Mail. Lot# 834 - Estimate: £25 Air Lingus Winter Timetable, Oct 6, 1947, inc 15 routes and all stages from Dublin to UK destinations, baggage, fairs and freight, 8x11cm, 16pp, two scratches on front page, otherwise fine, see scan.

Lot# 835 - Estimate: £50 Allied Airways (Gandar Dower) Ltd, original winter 1937 timetable for Aberdeen-Thurso, Orkney-Shetland, and Orkney-Thurso-Inverness services, a wealth of detail inc times, fares, freight, airport surface connections, booking details, route map, etc, orange/black, 6pp, very fine. Scarce item.

Lot# 836 - Estimate: £125 Bouremouth International Aviation Meeting, July 11th to 16th, 1910, black/cream provisional programme and regulations, 14x22cm, 12pp, inc details of, and rules relating to, prizes, and general and special regulations. A truly scarce item in fine condition.

Lot# 837 - Estimate: £60 BSAA timetable to South America, Bermuda, West Indies, including route map, 22x18cm, 4pp, good condition.

Lot# 838 - Estimate: £20 Canadian Pacific Air Lines, red/cream announcement of the new service from Canada to Australia, 13 July 1949, 4pp, 18x26cm, inc route map, schedules, fares, etc.

Lot# 839 - Estimate: £45 Imperial Airways/India Trans-Continental Airways, Abridged Timetable of the New London to Calcutta Air Route, July 1933, 6pp, black on dark blue card, including time table, specimen fares and excess baggage and freight rates. Scarce item in superb condition. Lot# 840 - Estimate: £60 International Airlines Ltd "The Western Air Express", timetable of daily air services between London-Southampton-Portsmouth and Plymouth, and passenger fares, black/yellow, 4pp, 9x16cm, original and fine. Scarce. Not much is known about this very short lived airline. Covers exist on the 24th, 25th and 26th, and 1st September 1933.

Lot# 841 - Estimate: £4 JAL winter timetable, to March 1969, folding gloss card, 23x21cm (2).

Lot# 842 - Estimate: £15 Jersey Airlines brochure advertising day trips to France and other Channel Islands, 6pp, 10x18cm, c1956.

Lot# 843 - Estimate: £40 KLM/British Continental Airways Ltd, Summer 1936 Daily Air Service Timetable, Liverpool-Doncaster-Amsterdam, 1st July to 3rd October. A5, 4pp.

Lot# 844 - Estimate: £40 Northern and Scottish Airways Ltd, red/green December 1935 timetable for air services t and from Renfrew Aerodrome, including Glen Brittle Airport with fares, baggage and freight rates, 4pp, 11x8cm, two neat file holes left hand edge. Mounted on exhibition page. Scarce. Lot# 845 - Estimate: £20 PANAGRA, illustrated colour brochure, 150x90mm, advertising the joys of flying down the East and West coasts of South America with photo of Sikorsky S-42 and views on route, and a representation of a Martin M-130, 6pp, c 1937.

Lot# 846 - Estimate: £50 PANAGRA, timetable of the Northbound and Southbound services from Buenos Aires to San Francisco, and return, and showing times for 15 intermediate stops. Original black on white card, 95x56mm, c 1957.

Lot# 847 - Estimate: £40 Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd, London - IOW Week End Air Service, Oct-Nov-Dec 1934 timetable, also reduced fares, freight rates and booking information, black/pale green, 1pp, 25x15cm, very fine. Company formed in 1932, first mail carried 1934.

Lot# 848 - Estimate: £50 Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd, The Isle of Wight Air Ferry, September timetable (?1933), Portsmouth/Ryde/Shanklin/IOW, also reduced fares, cheap day returns and freight rates, black/pale green, 1pp, 25x15cm, very fine. Company formed in 1932, first mail carried 1934.

Lot# 849 - Estimate: £10 The Europa and Bremen on-board catapult and Llloyd fast steamer service shortens the journey from Europe to North America by 48 hours. B&W reproduction photograph of advertisement, 8x12cm. Lot# 850 - Ephemera-Vignettes, Etiquettes & Labels Estimate: £15 "Transatlantic Service/The Flying Dutchman", red/white/blue KLM baggage label, c1940.

Lot# 851 - Estimate: £40 Australia Herald & Weekly Times brown and buff vignette issued Aug 10th 1920, lightly mounted mint.

Lot# 852 - Estimate: £60 GB 'Apex' International Air Post Exhibition, May 7-12, 1934, set of six each with tab, unmounted mint.

Lot# 853 - Estimate: £12 Imperial Airways black/white/red/blue vignette, 5x8cm, "Fly Europe, Africa, India & The East/In Speed and Comfort", on colour PPC of ? India Government Buildings, unaddressed and no message, but bears Delhi/8 July 33 postmark.

Lot# 854 - Estimate: £15 Imperial Airways Flying Boat, blue/pale blue vignette, 1937, on red/black/cream souvenir cover franked 1 1/2d, postmarked on 1st day of 2nd Annual London Stamp Expo, 16-23 Oct, 1937, also plale gree/green Expo vbignette. Attractive item

Lot# 855 - Estimate: £45 Imperial Airways Ltd, stick on baggage label with original gum, c 1937,14x9cm, attractive red/white/pale blue/dark blue 'Speedbird' logo with 'Imperial Airways' text. Very fine. Lot# 856 - Estimate: £5 NYRBA, B&W proof Buenos Aires cachet, 7x7cm, type 2, American Air Mail Catalogue.

Lot# 857 - Estimate: £20 PANAGRA, unused green/orange cargo label, c1952, 122x70mm, with "Embarque Por Panagra/Carga Aerea/Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc" text and winged company logo, #USP 227, Air Transport Label Catalogue, 1987.

Lot# 858 - Estimate: £40 PANAGRA, unused green/red/blue/yellow/black advertising label, c 1930, 102x146mm, with large red "PANAGRA" text along the bottom, a map of North and South America, and a dotted line from Montevideo to Rio de Janero, #USP 188, Air Transport Label Catalogue, 1987. Rated uncommon. The dotted line indicates use before NYRBA was officially absorbed into Pan American on October 17. 1930, and renamed Panair do Brasil.

Lot# 859 - Estimate: £20 PANAGRA, unused red/light blue/grey/dark blue air transport label, c 1952, 120x67mm, with with representation of DC-7B and and "Pan American/El Inter Americano/Panagra" text and arrow from North to South America, #USP 205, Air Transport Label Catalogue, 1987. Rated uncommon.

Lot# 860 - Estimate: £25 PANAGRA, unused very dark green/white/orange yellow air transport label, c 1967, 89mm diameter, with "PANAGRA" text and map of North and South America, #USP 198, Air Transport Label Catalogue, 1987. Rated scarce. Lot# 861 - Estimate: £30 PANAGRA, white/black/green baggage label with tag, 75x88mm, for passenger Kuthe to Buenos Aires, c1955. Uncommon.

Lot# 862 - Estimate: £30 PANAGRA, white/yellow/green baggage identification card with tag, 80x55mm, with picture of DC6 and "Panagra/La Ruta de El Inter Americano" text, c 1955. Uncommon.

Lot# 863 - Estimate: £15 West Country Air Service of Provincial Airways Ltd, booklet pane of five.