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October 2015 Volume 86, No. 10 Whole No. 1024

October’s Featured Article — ‘Unpublished’ Rate to Lebanon Confirmed: Route, 50¢ Rate are Not And Three Rates on One Cover! Zeppelins & Ask for our Free Price List of Worldwide Flight covers and stamps. The following is a small sampling – full list on Website!

United States 1899 Prof. G. A. Kelly balloon advertising ...... $375.00 1929 (August 5) Unusual Round-the-World Flight cover with addi - tional franking applied for second leg of journey. Cover first sent from South Orange, NJ Aug. 5 and 1c +5c applied. Friedrichshafen back - stamp Aug. 8 Then 2 x 30c postage applied, tied by Los Angeles 26 cancel. Fascinating item! Rapp Certificate...... $800.00 Germany / Luxembourg 1931 Bremen Catapult (K59 LX $1500) ...... $1,000.00 Netherlands / Belgium 1937 Flight Crash to Monaco ...... $750.00 New Guinea 1939 (Mar 13) C46-48,C51-54 on four covers, stamped "First Day of Issue," 1 cover registered. T.N.G - Austria, addressed to Garden City, NY ...... $225.00 Newfoundland 1932 DO - X to England ...... $350.00 Nicaragua / US 1933 Chicago flight with dual franking Scott C18 S.245B . . $1,200.00 Norway 1936 8th North America flight. Commercial metered airmail cover from Raakvaag Canning Co. Fold creases, one vertical and one hori - zontal. Berlin backstamp, addressed to New York, NY. S.437 E200 ...... $125.00 Peru 1928 (Oct 22) Scadta flight cover to Colombia. First flight Peru - Ecuador - Colombia. VF condition...... $450.00 Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com

OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 397 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal — ARTICLES — Letters to ‘Unpublished’ Rate to Lebanon Confirmed: Route, 50¢ Rate are Not and Three Rates on One Cover! ...... 402 the Editor Bob Wilcsek The ‘LATI Substitute’ Service of Pan American Airways, Part 2 ...... 409 John Wilson Imperial Airways First Trans-North Atlantic Airmail Flight (But Not for Air- mail from Germany) ...... 420 Jim Graue Hermanos Means Brothers The First Dual Service Postal Issue: The May 1918 Jenny ...... 409 I was enjoying the August, 2015 Airpost Journal and noticed in Joe Kirker John Wilson's interesting article "More than Just a Cover" something that Civil Airmail through Lagos, Nigeria ...... 427 might be a bit confusing. The first sentence of the fourth paragraph reads John Wilson "Hermanos (Hermann) Kalwil was shown arriving in with One Sunday in May ...... 430 his wife . . ." Don Lussky The way this is worded it might suggest to some that the word — COLUMNS and FEATURES — "Hermanos" translates as "Hermann" rather than it being the Spanish Letters to the Editor ...... 399 word that translates as "Brothers" which my guess is the name of the President’s Message ...... 400 family company in (Kalwil Brothers). Treasure Hunting the CAM Covers ...... 415 Thanks for your excellent work as the editor of the APJ. — NEWS — Jim Hester News of the Shows ...... 401 AAMS #6938 2015 AAMS Election Progress Report ...... 426 Special AAMS Awards for 2015: A Second Look ...... 433 Dole Cover Listed in AAMC I’ve never seen a cover from the Dole race (article in August 2015 — DEPARTMENTS – APJ ), but I remembered seeing a listing in the AAMC . I got out Volume 4 APJ Ads ...... 440 Membership Report ...... 439 For more than half a century . . . Editor and Advertising Since 1939, first day cover hobbyists have been build - Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 ing collections with Artcraft covers, the world’s most vcanfi[email protected] honored cachet. It’s no wonder as every Artcraft Staff Writers and Columnists cachet is a distinctively designed work of art that is Joe Kirker Alan Warren engraved by master craftsmen on quality envelopes. Chris Hargreaves Bob Wilcsek Lee Downer Artcraft Engravings are available for all U.S. and U.N. Copyright 2015 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - new issues; they are sold at stamp shops throughout lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. or f on Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send the country or can be ordered direct. te ti s ri a ce m ri address changes to American Air Mail Society, 7 First St., Westfield NY 14787. Domestic sub - W or p nf d scription rate $30 per year; $5 per copy. THE WASHINGTON PRESS i an Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and Publishers FLORHAM PARK, NJ 07932 do not necessarily represent those of the society. Running an ad does not endorse the advertiser.

PAGE 398 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 399 dramatically, to one or two a month, down from the mid-April to mid- President’s June rush of 10. APS Stampshow is usually mid-August and one of the only shows between mid-July and BALPEX in early September. The Jim Graue Message August APS Stampshow used to be anywhere, but in recent years it appears to be stabilized in a cycle that includes Hartford (Connecticut), of the 5th edition and there it was on page 1546: T.O. #1057. Portland (Oregon), Grand Rapids (Michigan), Sacramento (California), Somehow they got the date goofed up, but so did the cover pic - Richmond (Virginia), Columbus (Ohio) and Milwaukee (Wisconsin), all tured in the APJ . So I guess there's more than one in existence. of which have proven to be successful sites. Don Lussky September through mid-November are followed by the Thanks - giving – Christmas – New Year holiday season. The only WSP stamp show is FLOREX, early December in Orlando, Florida (fine weather and vacation spot). Then nothing until late January at San Diego. News of the Shows

Next year – 2016 – the U.S. hosts its once-a-decade FIP World Philatelic Exhibition, this time in New York City on May 28 – June 4. Most, if not all, WSP shows usually held in May or June will take a bye so as to not conflict with New York 2016. APS Stampshow will be August 4-7 in Portland, Oregon (any further from New York and you will be swimming in the Pacific!). New York 2016 promises to be a tremendous event, but it will The AAMS election is under way now. Have you voted and not be a cheap date. Many will choose to pass New York because cost sent your ballot to Allen Klein? I am very sorry that we did not have will be decisive. It is not an easy choice. We are sharing space with Met - more interest in the election. When the slate has no contested positions, ropolitan Air Post Society (MAPS) and the Crash & Wreck Mail Society. there is not a great deal of incentive to vote, as the final results are a fore - We hope that proves beneficial to all and serves as a prime meeting spot gone conclusion. However, write-ins are welcome, if for only identifying for airmail / aeropostal history collectors. those who may have an interest in stepping up two years from now. So, * * * please vote! Work on more sections of the American Air Mail Catalogue contin - * * * ues. Have you sent scans of the covers you have so we can see when we Mid-summer is always an interesting time for stamp collecting. get enough to finish a section? We especially need (1) Trans-Ocean For most, outdoor activities increase and gets a rest. That Flights and (2) Crash Covers. All other areas are welcome, but our main depends, of course, on where one lives. For those in the east and mid- push is the aforementioned two. If you have any questions about exactly west, refuge from the combination of high temperatures and high what is needed, please let us know by email so we are sure to get the humidity can be found in one’s air-conditioned stamp den. For the right images for our next AAMC sections. mountain west and west coast, it is time for outdoor activities, yard work * * * and vacations. As we move into the fall season, remember that your aero collec - After mid-June, the number of WSP national stamp shows falls tion awaits your attention! PAGE 400 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 401 David Crotty Trans-Atlantic Air Mail Services 1928-1945 Also: AAMS Medal of Excellence August E. Kalohn III A. C. Roessler Illustrated for Airship, Blimp, Dirigible and Zeppelin, 1923-1943 Silver Robert Ogrodnik First Polish Airmail Issue After World War II

Single Frame Competition Gold Norris R. Dyer Newfoundland’s Surcharged Air Mail Stamps Also: BNAPS Award Figure 1 Silver 36¢ cover to Beirut posted January 21, 1941 at 1:30pm, then Robert B. Pildes, MD Palestine Emergency Deliveries, Inc. reposted on the same day at 70¢, 6pm, after being returned for 9¢ postage due (would have made 45¢ rate). ‘Unpublished’ Rate to Lebanon Confirmed: Route, 50¢ Rate are Not APS STAMPSHOW 2015 Grand Rapids, Michigan August 20-23, 2015

World Series of Philately Prix d’Honneur Allen Don Jones Establishing the United States Transcontinental Air Mail Service, May 15, 1918 – June 30, 1924 George W. Struble SCADTA Mail from and to Switzerlan d George W. Struble Development of Swiss Airmail up to 1939

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Figure 2 Posted Boston December 24, 1940. Backstamped Beyrouth 10 Feb 41. Both South African and Egyptian censorship markings present. Figure 1, reverse

PAGE 402 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 403 Figure 3 (Suffet) And Three Rates on One Cover! Figure 4 Enlarged franking matrix Bob Wilcsek years, an unloved and forgotten item among many companions. Background In April 1999, Art Groten’s prized exhibit and collection of Pales - About 15 years ago I acquired the cover in Figure 1 because it tine came to auction in a Nutmeg sale. I acquired the cover in Figure 2 carried the trans-Pacific rate of 70¢ to the unusual destination of Beirut, because it went through South Africa (censor tape) and was addressed to Lebanon (“Syria”) in early 1941. Frankly, I wasn’t overly excited about it Beirut, but I was unfamiliar with the rate of 50¢. Groten claims the rate of because it has a messy look and is a business-sized envelope that doesn’t 50¢ was correct for American mail carried on the British “Horseshoe fit well into albums. Route” to Lebanon (surface to Durban, South Africa, then onward by air I liked the wonderful markings on it: the Hong Kong hand - by BOAC). Due to his expertise I never questioned the rate description, stamps, (purple, triangular) and the circular “AV2” marking both on the which states “ . . . very few covers known . . . franked at the little known front, and the Singapore “Little numbers and letters in circles.” On the 50¢ rate.” reverse are informative Hong Kong routing stamps (January 31, 1941), Rate Discussion Baghdad (February 26, 1941) and finally a Beyrouth receiving stamp of I then wrote an article for the Airpost Journal, “American Horse - March 3, 1941. The route it took is beyond dispute and I liked that shoe Mail” (August 2003) in which I illustrated the Figure 2 cover. I sub - absolute documentation enough to purchase it. I placed it into my collec - sequently received a comment from Stephen Roth about it. In the ensu - tion of loose, oversized covers, where it disappeared for a number of ing correspondence Roth produced another similar cover (Figure 3), this one posted in December 1940 from New York to Beirut, franked with PAGE 404 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 405 45¢, to the same addressee as the cover in Figure 2. This third cover has (“Grand Central”) from the original postmark (“Station F”). Grand Cen - an airmail endorsement and Egyptian censorship only. Owner Stephen tral was a primary depot for outgoing international mail. Suffet included a write-up, stating it was the “only known example” of So there it is: three rates on one cover to an obscure destination. the 45¢ rate. I then remembered I had a similar item, looked through my The requested 45¢ rate is legitimate and mutually confirmed by this collection and “rediscovered” the Figure 1 cover. Surprisingly, I then cover and the one Suffet owns (Figure 3). The three rates present on Fig - realized all three covers are to the same addressee. ure 1 are the old 36¢ rate, the new unpublished and requested 45¢ rate, But wait, there’s a LOT more. The cover in Figure 1 is not just a and the 70¢ trans-Pacific rate that carried the cover to destination. This simple 70¢ rate cover to Lebanon. Very careful examination of the cover tatty, messy cover now becomes a real treasure, confirming the “unpub - showed it was posted from New York twice on the same day. It was first lished” 45¢ rate to destination on this date. posted on January 21, 1941 at 1:30 p.m. (cancellation on 6¢ and 10¢ prex - I asked Suffet about this “unpublished rate” protocol (with some ies). The franking on this first attempt is only of the top row of four stamps, amounting to 36¢ total. This is the correct rate at the time as given by the bible for such matters, U.S. International Postal Rates, 1872- 1996 by Anthony S. Wawrukiewicz and Henry W. Beecher (W&B). W&B say the 36¢ rate was effective on May 23, 1939. No end- date is given for this rate, probably because the exact day it ended was unknown to the authors. Suffet, however, states in his Figure 3 cover skepticism) and he could not provide “proof” of either the 45¢ rate or the write-up that the U.S. Postal Bulletin reported this rate ceased on June 14, 50¢ rate, even though he was certain they were valid rates. My personal 1940 to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Trans-Jordan. The next rate thinking is that these rates were for transitory service by routes that were in W&B for U.S. dispatches to Lebanon (Syria) by air begins on Novem - deemed temporary and might not still be in use by the time they ber 1, 1940 at 70¢. appeared in a postal bulletin. There must have been frequent (weekly or The plot now thickens. Returning to the Figure 1 cover and look - perhaps even daily) communication with local mail clerks to keep them ing at it very closely, one sees that it was returned to sender after the first abreast of such developments, and hence the existence of “unpublished” posting for an additional 9¢ postage (left side of cover above air label, rates. The South African censorship nails the route of the 50¢ cover; it purple handstamp scratched through with pencil), “Returned For Addi - went through Durban. tional Postage/ Postage Due 9 cents.” Added to the original 36¢ the total is 45¢. This clearly confirms a correct air rate to Beirut on January 21, Route Discussion 1941 (date of posting) as 45¢. There was enough time remaining in the Suffet suggests that the 45¢ mail (Figure 3 cover) traveled day for the sender to add additional franking to the letter and resend it through the Soviet Union. This is very unlikely as no markings indicate However, there is still more. Once the cover was presented to the such a route. While the 45¢ rate to the eastern Mediterranean, USSR and postal clerk, it seems a conversation ensued and it was decided to send western Asia can be found, claiming this rate was used to send mail the cover in the other direction, west by Pan Am’s trans- Pacific route for through the Soviet Union creates more problems than I am willing to 70¢ instead of the original trans-Atlantic route. The franking was then embrace. brought up to 70¢ with the addition of the four stamps at the bottom The 45¢ rate comes from the trans-Atlantic rate of 30¢ + 15¢ for right of the cover (20¢ + 10¢ + 2 x 2¢ = 34¢). These were placed slightly onward air transmission to destination. This rate is listed for mail to over the original franking and cancel and the “9¢ postage due” marking Crete and the USSR in this time period. However, once in , this was struck out. mail would have had to go in one of two directions, and either would The added stamps were canceled again in New York, but the have resulted in highly visible markings on the cover. One choice was to time slug is updated to 6 p.m. from 1:30 p.m. on January 21, 1941. Note go through the UK and onward by BOAC, who flew a regular service to that the additional franking was added at a different postal station Stockholm. The problem is this mail would have absolutely been opened PAGE 406 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 407 for censorship in the UK. The only other choice is that it went onward by Horseshoe route.” German air services from Lisbon to destination. We again have to ask, This presents a problem, because this cover, franked at 50¢, was would Germany forward such mail without censorship? No. There is just posted on December 24, 1940. The cover franked at 45¢ was posted no evidence for this route that I can see. December 3, 1940 to the same address. Since the cover in Figure 1 clearly The first censorship of this cover was at Cairo. Therein lies what required a 45¢ rate on January 21, 1941, a 50¢ rate sandwiched between I believe to be the answer: it was sent surface, most likely directly to two legitimate 45¢ rate covers in a six-week period is highly question - Egypt for onward transport. It could have gone the entire distance by able. surface, a distinct possibility given 53 days in transit from the U.S. to Was there really a 50¢ rate or was the 5¢ UPU rate mistakenly Syria. Had it gone through Durban, it would have received South added to the correct 45¢ rate? We see a 5¢ UPU surface rate frequently, African censorship, similar to the Figure 2 cover. and erroneously, added to overseas airmail and U.S. Zeppelin covers of Now the 50¢ rate may be in trouble. that era in the belief that the air rates were surcharges to a surface fee of The Figure 2 cover acquired from Groten’s collection is 5¢. The 50¢ cover was posted in Boston while the 45¢ covers were from addressed to the same individual in Syria, Bayard Dodge, but is franked New York. It could be that the Boston clerks interpreted the rate informa - at 50¢. It was posted from Boston December 24, 1940, censored in South tion differently than their NY counterparts. Africa, has additional Egyptian and Syrian (French) censor markings and If anyone has additional documentation of the 50¢ rate to Syria a Beyrouth receiving stamp of February 10, 1941. What is most interest - in this time frame, please share it with us. Or, if anyone has additional Bayard Dodge covers, please share them with us! Rate tables consulted besides W&B are Prexie Postal History , pub - lished by the La Posta Monograph Series (Vol. 2), edited by Richard W. Helbock, 1988.

ing about this cover is the rate of 50¢. Groten’s write up, which I clipped from the auction catalog and illustrate above, states, “There are very few covers known franked at the little-known 50¢ rate to the Mideast via the

Figure 1 Wanted: Articles for APJ — German service Belgium to Argentina, last flight of service L481. Surface Fr. 1.75 + air fee Fr. 17 = Fr. 18.75 NOW! PAGE 408 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 409 Figure 3

Figure 2 Belgian acceptance for P.A.A. service to Argentina via New York in October 1939. Surface Fr. 1.75 + air fee Fr. 11 = Fr. 12.75

In summary, the three covers in this sequence correspondence are: • December 3, 1940 posted in NY at 45¢: 53 days in transit • December 24, 1940 posted in Boston at 50¢: 45 days in transit • January 21, 1941 posted in NY at 36¢/45¢/70¢ consecutive rates: 41 days in transit (Trans-Pacific route) Figure 4

Acknowledgements: The Figure 7 illustration was repeated as Figure 8. The correct Special thanks to Stephen Suffet for generous help in allowing figure appears here and this is the correct description: An example of a me to share his cover and for critical review, and to Art Groten and Chicago First Day of Issue cover that was held for the inaugural flight Stephen Roth for help in trying to answer these questions. (7E3). The ‘LATI Substitute’ Service of Correction to Article in August Airpost Journal My apologies to Jamie O’Bannon for a mistake in his “CAM 6 Pan American Airways and CAM 7 First Covers” article (August 2015 APJ ). Part 2: War in Europe PAGE 410 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 411 Ralph Bruehl in Buenos Aires, the recipient (helpfully) annotated the John Wilson covers with the date of receipt, the date of reply and often the method of The airmail services between Germany and [1] return carriage. started in 1934 had, by 1939, developed into a fast and efficient method of communicating between two continents. A letter leaving Frankfurt could arrive in in three days and in Buenos Aires in four, using intermediate stops at Bathurst in the Gambia and Natal in . With the onset of war in Europe, the use of a British Colony as a transit point could not continue and flights to South America ended in August 1939, the last southbound flight, L481 [1] leaving Frankfurt on August 24, arriving in Rio de Janeiro on the 26th and Buenos Aires on the 27th. The next flight, scheduled for departure from Frankfurt on August 31, was canceled. The Pan American service from Belgium to South America via Lisbon is shown by Major [2] as starting on February 8, 1940, but the cover in Figure 2 is clearly dated October 18, 1939, predating this record. Two covers from the “Bruehl” correspondence illustrate the ces - sation of the German service to Argentina. Written from Hamburg to 1

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Figure 5 Germany to Argentina route via New York after closure of Lufthansa service. Surface 25 Rpf. + air fee 95 Rpf. = 120 Rpf.

PAGE 412 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 413 The cover in Figure 3 was carried on the L481 last German flight, Treasure Hunting for arriving in Buenos Aires on August 27, 1939, and endorsed as delivered on the 28th. Replying on August 30/31, the sender was clearly in some CAM Covers difficulty and initially wrote that he was sending the reply “via Ilse, Djursholm-Ekeby, Sweden,” but then changed his mind or sent a second reply by the Conte Grande , a ship of the Italia Line operating between Genoa and South America. Lee Downer A second cover (Figure 4) from Hamburg to Ralph Bruehl was received on April 30 1940, and the reply sent on May 7, endorsed “Con - A pair of recent articles [4] [5] covering this interesting period have been dor-Lati,” showing the restoration of the all-air service between Argenti - published and it is not necessary to repeat their contents here. na and Germany. Suffice to say that with the declaration of war on Germany by Clearly, with the close business and other connections between England and France, the period from the end of August 1939 to the end Germany and her sphere of influence in South America, mail could not of December 1939 is one in which the German Reichspostministerium had simply stop. The period of transition from peace to war can be illustrated to employ considerable ingenuity in order to provide a service to and by the study of mail carried between the end of the Lufthansa service in from South America. A further difficulty for Germany was the imposi - August and the start of the Italian LATI service on December 21, 1939 [3]. tion of mail interception and examination by the Allies (but not Ameri - ca). Until the last flight of the German Lufthansa service, they had Future AAMS Meeting Sites enjoyed an uninterrupted route to South America but this was now, potentially, at an end. Or was it? 2016 World Exhibition* A new Luftpostliste came into force on October 7, 1939, which, surprisingly, still offered the Lufthansa and French services to South New York, New York May 28 - June 4, 2016 America, even though they were not available for German mails. In fact, the Reichspost began using an all-air route to South America via New CHICAGOPEX York, previously ignored by them, employing the Pan American Clipper Itasca, Illinois November 19-21, 2016

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PAGE 414 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 415 service from Lisbon. [5] Wilson, J, “The Germany to South America service in transition to Covers from mid-October began to carry the endorsements, “Mit War.” ( Air Mail News , Journal of the British Air Mail Society, November Luftpost nach Nord Amerika ü ab. New York,” and using new postage 2013) rates. Although obviously in use, the new all-air route did not appear in official documentation until the Luftpostliste of November 15, 1939 [Appendix 1]. Neither the German nor the French direct services to South America appeared in this nor in any subsequent lists. In this same list an extension to the existing lower cost sea-air route via New York was introduced to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Brazil, countries that had previously only been served via the Lufthansa/Air France all-air routes. Note the appearance in this list, and for the first time, a footnote relating to a new service “Berlin-München-Rom-Lissabon-Pernambuco (Recife)-Bahia-Rio de Janeiro” (i.e. LATI) reading “Eröffnung wird noch bekannt gegeben” (Opening to be announced). Figure 3 References [1] Graue, James W. and Duggan, John, Deutsche Lufthansa, South Atlantic Airmail Service 1934-1939, (Zeppelin Study Group, Ickenham, Hitting Pay Dirt 2000). My wife thinks I’m nuts when I go through the house yelling [2] Major, Walter, La Poste Aérienne Belge, 1919-1999 , (Privately pub - “Eureka” after discovering an unlisted or exceedingly rare classic CAM lished, 2001). cover; it happened this month. Panning for gold nuggets must have been [3] Beith, Richard, The Italian South Atlantic Air Mail Service 1939-1941, a long, tedious process, a bit like going through eBay listings while (Chester, Richard Beith Associates, 1993) squatting in a stream of cold mountain water. Every once in a while (a [4] Graue, James W, “German Transatlantic Airmail September 1939 to long while), perseverance pays off. December 1941,” ( Airpost Journal , April 2007). Three decades ago, when I was first introduced to airmail covers, I collected everything: CAMs, FAMs, Pioneers, U.S. Governmentals, ded - ications and even some FDCs. It didn’t take long to realize I had to spe -

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PAGE 416 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 417 PAGE 418 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 419 cialize, or there would not be enough room in my office to store, let alone afford, the objects of my hobby. I settled on classic CAMs, mainly because I could find enough of them bearing autographs of the coura - geous, some say foolhardy, pilots that actually flew them. With the help of some AAMS “hall of famers,” I set off on my quest. About three years into it, I stumbled upon an auction catalogue that listed a matched pair of CAM 10 covers, 10N12 and 10S12, posted September 27, 1926, from Macon for the actual first flight of the reorga - nized route. The inaugural flights were planned for September 15, but the Macon airfield was not ready; mail was dropped in bags from the southbound flight and either put on a train or driven out. Few collectors managed to get covers prepared for the delayed flights, so the amount of philatelic mail carried was low. Seeing the AAMC value, indicating scarcity, I decided to bid, aggressively, I thought. Sadly, I didn’t win the lot, but naively felt sure Figure 1, front that I would find one or both of the covers in due time. Almost 30 years later, I finally saw that precious flash in the eBay pan. Someone was Lived” modification (Type 2a) to the official cachet for the April 15, 1926, offering a nice 10N12 cover (Figure 1) with correct Atlanta backstamp. inaugural, the official handstamps issued from the Post Office Depart - AAMC The starting bid was $3.00. I was not going to lose this one, happily win - ment were withdrawn, presumably not to be used. However, the ning it for a little less than $50. I am still convinced that these Macon cov - states that the Springfield Postmaster sent at least one cover using the ers are among the half dozen rarest of all the classic CAMs. The real Type 2 to himself (Figure 3). point is that there are more of these gems out there, so don’t give up. From the Test Flight CAM 2 covers, it is clear that William Con - A few weeks later, I noticed another CAM 10 cover, listed as a kling, PM, was an opportunist in creating unique covers. Was I shown Miami dispatched 10N4. The scanned image was clear enough to show the only example or was this a previously unknown cover? In my opin - two different color cachets on the front; one in magenta and one in black. ion, I think that there may be more of these gems in circulation. If you Whipping out my handy 5th Edition AAMC , I found that this variety find one of these platinum-grade nuggets in your hoard, don’t hesitate to was unlisted. Yahoo! Another great find, this one starting at the lofty shout “Eureka,” even though you might startle your wife and dog. price of one cent. I paid a very modest price for it, knowing that I had acquired another treasure to justify all those hours of hunting. Imperial Airways First Trans-North After further research, I discovered that I was not the first to find one. The variety was added in the new 7th Edition as CAM 10N4b (Fig - Atlantic Airmail Flight ure 2). It took 89 years to dig one up, reassuring the treasure hunter that (But Not for Airmail from Germany) there is still rich ore in the mountains of covers out there. As an object lesson, at any inaugural terminal where there were two or more colored Jim Graue ink pads used by the clerks processing thousands of collector covers, there is a good chance that a few covers will be graced with more than Introduction one cachet color. The focus of the British during the late-1920s – mid-1940s The last find is not mine, but recently I was shown a scan of a “Development Period” of international and intercontinental aviation was real rarity, only discussed in the AAMC notes for CAM 2. When the Imperial Airways “Empire Services” to Africa, the Middle East, India Springfield, Illinois, post office got permission to use the “Where Lincoln and the Far East, including Australia and New Zealand. Insofar as the PAGE 420 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 421 Atlantic was concerned, France (CGA / Aeropostale / Air France), Ger - converted to tankers, one out of Ireland and two out of Newfoundland. many (Deutsche Lufthansa, Luftschiffbau Zeppelin / Deutsche Zeppelin The vast majority of the airmail carried on the first Imperial Air - Reederei) and, later, (LATI) were the players in the south. Germany ways trans-North Atlantic flights (westbound and eastbound) was collec - (Deutsche Lufthansa, Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei) took the initiative in tor mail originating in Great Britain or the United States. No airmail was the North Atlantic in 1936, but was stifled by Pan American Airways and accepted from Europe, but that does not mean nobody attempted to get major political interests in 1937 and 1938. Pan American finally opened unauthorized airmail on the flight(s). A German Attempt for British Acceptance The illustrated cover was very clear in its intended routing: By first British transatlantic airmail With this clear direction neatly and prominently typed at upper left, the cover was posted as registered express (special delivery) at Hamburg- Lokstedt 1 on August 3, 1939 (-19 = 1900 hours = 7 p.m.), more than ample time to connect with the Imperial flight scheduled for departure on August 5.

Airpost Journal Procedures and Deadlines Deadline Deadline for the receipt of articles, letters, advertising and news is the first of the month preceding the month of publication. For Figure 1, reverse example, we need everything for the November issue by October 1, everything for the December issue by November 1, everything for the North Atlantic service in May 1939. At the last minute before the onset of January issue by December 1 and so on. war, Imperial Airways finally made its move in the North Atlantic. The preferred method of receiving copy is via an email It was too little too late, as Pan Am, having successfully blocked attachment. Please send as an MS Word document. We also welcome Deutsche Lufthansa, had locked up its position as sole provider of North compact disks (CDs). Hard copy is acceptable but must be rekeyed so Atlantic air service for mail and passengers. Nevertheless, Imperial electronic submission is preferred. decided to give it a shot. All submissions are subject to editing for length, clarity and content. Inaugural Flight by Imperial Airways Illustrations The first trans-North Atlantic airmail flight by Imperial Airways The most effective way to transmit illustrations is electronical - was the westbound flight of the Short S.30 Empire flying boat Caribou (G- ly. They should be TIF or JPEG, preferably scanned at 300 dpi but no AFCV) on August 5-6, 1939. J. C. Kelly Rogers was the pilot. Flight route: less than 150 dpi. They can be sent on CD and we can retrieve copy Southampton – Foynes – Botwood – Montreal – New York. and illustrations from electronic copy if provided the correct routing. This S.30 was one of four modified for in-flight refueling and Questions can be directed to editor Vickie Canfield Peters by extra fuel tanks for trans-Atlantic service. Once airborne, it could take on emailing vcanfi[email protected] or by writing to her at 11911 E. Con - additional fuel to a total weight of 53,000 pounds (24,000 kg), giving it a nor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. The telephone number is 509-991- range of more than 2,500 miles (4,000 km). The extra fuel reduced the 5376. payload to 4,270 pounds (1,940 kg) against the 6,250 pounds (2,830 kg) of Your attention to, and compliance with, these procedures and the standard craft. Refueling was by Handley Page Harrow bombers PAGE 422 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 423 The cover was franked with RM 2.00, a generous amount that left 95 Rpf as an airmail surcharge (25 Rpf international letter + 30 Rpf registration + 50 Rpf international express + 95 Rpf airmail = RM 2.00). The sender’s provision of 95 Rpf for the trans-Atlantic airmail service was a shot in the dark. As German airmail was not invited, no Reichspost bulletin provided rate information or posting instructions. The airmail surcharge for airmail to North America via LZ-129 Hinden - burg in 1936-1937 was 50 Rpf ; for the contemporary Pan American Clip - per service from Marseille via Lisbon to New York, it was 40 Rpf. Per - haps 95 Rpf would be enough incentive to gain acceptance.

Treatment The wishes and hopes of the sender went unfulfilled. In spite of being sent as registered express airmail, with all of the urgency and importance that such a sending implies, not to mention a generous Figure 2 Inverted block posted during the 16-cent rate period. It was allowance for an airmail surcharge, the British were having none of it. enough postage to pay for 14 ounces and still have an extra two cents. No Imperial Airways service for this item, period. Send it on the next ship. did gain was New York Foreign and New York Registry (Reg’y. Div.) The airmail etiquette form printed on the envelope was struck postmarks and three delivery attempts, the first on August 10 at 8:15 out with an obliterator and the letter was sent by ship to New York, p.m., the second on August 11 at 11:50 a.m. and the third not clearly arriving there on August 10 and at Grand Central Annex at 7:30 p.m. on dated or timed (but one might reasonably presume August 12, a Satur - that date. This was four days after the arrival of the Caribou , leaving no day). Each attempt was duly noted by the carrier in penciled manuscript question that the letter from Germany was taken to New York by sea, not by air. Once in New York, however, what the registration and express

Figure 1 Figure 3 Block of 4 of the new Jenny on May 15 Inaugural flight cover pay - One of two known July 15 first trips with blocks of the new 16- ing the rate not exceeding four ounces. cent airmail issue. This is ample postage for nine ounces.

PAGE 424 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 425 as “not registered (at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel), left notice.” At this delivery upon arrival. point, delivery attempts, at least those considered worthy of note on the Patrons did not have the option of using the built-in, 10-cent spe - cover, ceased and the letter was simply held for the next 25 days before cial delivery cost for other services, such as registration (also 10 cents) or finally being returned to the sender. for added weight above one ounce. Oddly enough, the special delivery During the 25 days this letter was inactive, the world did not fee was only paid once, regardless of the mailing weight, but 24 cents wait. The German Wehrmacht struck Poland on September 1, Great was charged for every additional ounce. Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3 and World The post office, inadvertently or otherwise, then pulled a "fast War II was under way. On September 6, the U.S. Post Office in New York one." When the airmail rate was decreased to 16 cents, effective July 15, awakened, rediscovered the letter, marked it Return to Sender and sent it 1918, that built-in excess and profit was eliminated. The second Jenny back across the Atlantic and into the hands of a British censor. Originally (Scott C2) was issued to comply with the new rate: 16 cents for one ounce posted in Germany on August 3, it was returned in a changed world. or less with (again) mandatory special delivery, but each added ounce Allowing for the usual Atlantic transit time, it would probably have would be only six cents. arrived at Southampton on or about September 12. Viewing several overweight covers from each rate period pre - The actual date is not important. The letter was again in the sents some rather startling observations as to services received. Bearing a hands of the British, but now a war adversary of Germany, its destina - block of the new Jenny issue, the May 15 inaugural flight example in Fig - tion, and therefore subject to censorship. One can only speculate on what ure 1 shows a payment of 96 cents, correct for weight not a British censor might think could possibly be worthy of attention in a exceeding four ounces. Again, the credit to special delivery letter sent by the sender to himself at a New York hotel on August 3, six would be paid once at 10 cents. The cover in Figure 2 is also weeks earlier. Nevertheless, in due course (no rush for censoring), the franked with a block of the inaugural Jenny but was posted fol - letter was opened, examined and passed. It finally arrived at its origin lowing the rate reduction in mid-July. Again we have 96 cents post office, Hamburg-Lokstedt, on October 5, 1939, for return to its postage, but, rather amazingly, that is ample payment for the sender/addressee. first ounce at 16 cents (including the special delivery fee), plus 13 (yes, 13!) added ounces, with two cents left over (96 minus Conclusion 16 minus 78 = 2). While not making the requested Imperial Airways first trans- The 16-cent rate period ended in mid-December 1918 when North Atlantic airmail flight, this cover had an entirely unexpected jour - the mandatory special delivery fee was eliminated. Those desiring ney and experience, one that perhaps makes its story of even greater that service had to pay for it. A mailing posted with 96 cents postage was interest, certainly different, and maybe even unique. ample for 16 ounces (16 x 6). The C2 block on cover in Figure 3, one of only two known blocks, posted July 15, has ample payment for nine The First Dual Service Postal Issue: ounces: 16 cents for the first ounce and 6 x 8 ounces additional, totaling 64 cents. These are interesting reductions from the inaugural The May 1918 Jenny rate of 24 cents per each ounce.

Joe Kirker 2015 AAMS Election The first postal issue of the United States with a mandatory Nominations for AAMS Officers and Directors charge for dual services is the 1918 Jenny airmail (Scott C3), issued in May. This may also be true for any worldwide postal issue, at least up to for 2016 – 2017 1918. Designed to pay the inaugural rate of 24 cents or fraction thereof, President James W. Graue the postage paid for the newly established airmail service plus special Vice President Samuel J. Pezzillo PAGE 426 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 427 Secretary William Fort III 3540 Stone Canyon Avenue Treasurer Stephen Reinhard Sherman Oaks CA 91403 Directors (4 to be elected) David S. Ball Please vote promptly! Ballots must be received by October 20, 2015. David E. Crotty No ballot? Lost it? You didn’t receive it? The gremlin took it? No problem, just send an email to the editor and you will receive a replace - ment. Key to Abbreviations Used to Designate Specialities of New Members AM - Airpost stamps, mint GL - Glider Flights AU - Airpost stamps, used RP - Rocket Posts AS - Semi-official stamps NAW - National Air Mail Week SC - SCADTA CC - Crash Covers JF - Jet Flights OF - Transocean Flights HF - Helicopter Flights DC - Dedication Covers PC - Pioneer Covers Z - Zeppelin covers HC - Historical Flight Covers CF - Canadian Flight covers SF - Supersonic Flights 1D - First Flight Covers PA - Pilot Autographs PIX - Photos and assoc. materials PB - Paris Balloon posts ASTRO - EL Etiquettes and Labels BC - Balloon Covers (not from Paris) APS - Aeropostal Stationery CL Lindberghiana FF - Foreign Flights AE - Amelia Earhart GF - Governmental Flights AL - Aerophilatelic Literature FAM - FAM covers FFUS - First flights by U.S. airlines Steve Tucker Patrick A. Walters 2015 Election Calendar The Airpost Journal is October 20 Deadline for receipt of ballots November 1 Final election results due from Board of Elections December Election results published in December 2015 APJ YOUR magazine. We welcome letters to the editor, book reviews, The official ballot for the 2015 AAMS election of officers and announcements of aerophilatelic events and articles . . . directors to serve the two-year 2016 – 2017 term was enclosed with the September 2015 issue of the Airpost Journal. Ballots include space for a lots of articles. write-in vote for each position. Completed ballots must be mailed to: We have a byline waiting for you! Allen Klein

PAGE 428 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 429 through the Lagos post office. This paragraph confirms that it was BOAC and not ATC that carried the mail all the way from China and intermediate countries to Lagos for transfer to the ATC trans-Atlantic service. The same paragraph goes on to say: Except for the ATC, no transport service was available at Lagos for car - riage of these mails to South and North America.

Civil Airmail through Lagos, Nigeria

John Wilson

Following an article [1] that discussed civil airmail carriage from China in World War 2, it has become apparent that there is a misunder - standing in the way that such mail was flown. A mistaken belief that United States Air Transport Command (USATC) carried all airmail along the route from China through India, the Middle East and West Africa is This does not prove ATC handled all the airmail. This refers contradicted by the evidence, not only of the Chinese Post Office routing only to airmail to the Americas. Other airlines were carrying mail to, instructions but also by documentary records of USATC itself. from and through Lagos, including BOAC’s Boeing 314s back to Europe, In the History of the Air Transport Command in Central Africa and and Sabena between South Africa and Gold Coast, with connections to the Middle East. Part II. 30 June 1942 to 14 December 1943 , now available as the French services restored when Senegal declared for the Free French. a free-to download resource on the website of the West Africa Study Cir - In fact, the Belgian Congo Ordonnance 484/PT dated January 1, 1942, cle [2], we read the following: gives four tables for postage: one for carriage by BOAC, one by PAA, one The situation at Lagos, Nigeria, however, was different. West-bound by South African Airways and a fourth limited French air service via International Air Mails were originally carried from Lagos by PAA. Since the Brazzaville and Beirut. The only countries not served by BOAC are discontinuance of PAA, such mails were regularly handled by ATC for haul to North, Middle and South America, exactly as stated by the official histo - destination or to the nearest transfer point. Except for a very small part of the ry. weekly shipments, the mail from Lagos did not originate there but in post offices This is a section of the rate table. of other cities in Africa and Asia, including Johannesburg, Leopoldville, Khar - BOAC, of course, was carrying the civil on this route toum, Cairo, Beirut, Chungking, Kunming and Calcutta. The sacks and packets since the days of Imperial Airways. It was only the closure of the were picked up along the line by the British Overseas Airways Corporation in Mediterranean route when Italy entered the war that the mail from regular commercial services and brought to the terminus at Lagos for transfer China, India and the Middle East was diverted to the trans-Africa route to Lagos. From there, mail to the Americas was carried initially (from PAGE 430 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 431 Don Lussky

My post office in Naperville is one of only four in Illinois manned on Sunday. (The other three are in Chicago.) For five hours you can do business with a human instead of using a credit card with a machine. Back in 1938, before plastic and computers, there was one Sun - day in May that post offices around the nation opened for business. That business was airmail. Then the Post Office Department cooperated with collectors and announced new airmail routes and prepared cachets for the event. That was a time when newspapers had philatelic columns and airplanes were still an exciting novelty. It was depression times, when a three-cent stamp was all that was necessary on most mail, but for three cents more it could be flown to its destination. late 1941) by Pan American Airways special mission flights from Lagos, C23, the red, white and blue eagle stamp, designed by Franklin then from June 1942 by Pan American Airways (Africa) to Fisherman’s D. Roosevelt, was issued on Saturday, May 14, 1938, in two cities: Day - Lake for connection to the Clippers. Finally, after the military takeover of ton, Ohio, home of the Wright brothers, and St. Petersburg, Florida, site PAA (Africa) in late 1942 by USATC, to Accra for the trans-Atlantic hop of the AAMS 1938 convention. Back then postmasters were political to Miami. appointees. When Washington designated May 15 to 21 as National Air It should be noted that USATC was carrying all the military mail Mail Week, Postmaster General Farley asked them to do all possible to to and from APO addresses, but civil airmail on the route from China promote the service and many jumped at the opportunity. through India was carried by BOAC throughout the war. One small This was a time when Sunday business was frowned upon. You anomaly, yet to be fully investigated, is the situation regarding civil air - had restaurants, gas stations and pool halls open, but most families only mail from Iran via Baghdad. It seems, from cover evidence, that there visited churches. It was a time before malls were developed and down - was no civil airmail service out of Teheran despite covers bearing labels towns were quiet on Sundays (if you did business with Sears or Mont - saying “By Pan American Service.” There is yet more to be discovered. gomery Ward on Sunday it was through their catalog). Thursday, May 19 was designated "Special Flights Day.” To References allow patrons to prepare covers for the event, postmasters throughout [1] Wilson, J. “When FAM-22 is Not Enough,” Airpost Journal , the country opened their offices for an hour or so on Sunday to sell the June 2015). new . It turned out to be a great success, with more airmail [2] www.wasc.org.uk flown May 19 than ever before in history. Here’s the text of the announcement issued by Second Assistant Postmaster General Harllee Branch regarding National Air Mail Week: One Sunday in May CACHET FOR COVERS MAILED ON MAY 15, AT NEW YORK, N.Y., PHILADELPHIA, PA., AND WASHINGTON, D.C. ANNIVERSARY OF THE INAUGURATION OF SCHEDULED AIR MAIL SERVICE Have a question, concern or comment? “A number of philatelists have urged that official cachets be pro - Write a Letter to the Editor! vided for New York, Philadelphia and Washington for use mail

PAGE 432 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 433 Stephen Reinhard Allen Klein Kent Kobersteen AAMS Honorary Life Membership AAMS President’s Award Awarded by unanimous action of the AAMS Board of Direc - Awarded at the discretion of the Society President in recogni - tors in recognition of outstanding and exemplary long-term service to tion of service and support to the Society and to the enhancement of the Society in critical leadership positions that have contributed great - aerophilately through positive and exemplary leadership, teamwork ly to its recognition, strength and viability in providing member ser - and participation pursuant to the AAMS Mission Statement. . vices, Society stability and international enhancement of aerophilately. handed back to senders at windows after cachet has been impressed, as dispatched on May 15, the 20th anniversary of the inauguration of sched - the cachet and postmark of the 15th will be an indication that the cover uled air mail service. was actually flown.” “The postmasters at New York, Philadelphia and Washington have previously been authorized to use private cachets such as will be used by many other offices all over the country during National Air Mail Special AAMS Awards for 2015: Week. Such private cachets are not authorized for philatelic purposes, but rather to enable those cities which desired to give official recognition A Second Look to National Air Mail Week a means of providing their citizens with a Jim Graue souvenir of the occasion. It was desired to keep official cachets, com - All major awards by AAMS for 2015 were published in the July memorating the occasion, to a minimum. However, in view of the 2015 issue of the Airpost Journal, pages 303-304. Three are shown as requests of philatelists, we are arranging for the postmasters at New Special Awards. In the event these escaped your notice, I encourage you York, Philadelphia and Washington to affix on air mail covers dis - to read these citations. patched on that day, the special cachets which will be used by those Our Special Awards really are “special” and merit special atten - offices during National Air Mail Week. tion. “The postmaster at Washington is establishing a special station AAMS Honorary Life Membership is very rarely given. AAMS at a large plane which is being exhibited at the corner of Fourteenth records only six prior recipients. Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The new airmail stamp will be sold at * * * this station on Sunday, May 15, and covers will be postmarked and AAMS Awards Guidelines: Honorary Life Membership stamped with the cachet. Honorary Life Membership is awarded to members only. “The postmaster at Philadelphia will affix cachets on May 15 at a Honorees are elected by the AAMS Board of Directors. Consider - special window in the General Post office where the new air mail stamp ation will be given to the recommendations of the AAMS Awards Com - will be on sale. mittee. “The postmaster at New York will also make arrangements for Honorary membership awards are made very rarely, usually for first-day sale of the new air mail stamp May 15 and arrange for covers to unusual circumstances, as a President's Award may be used for most be stamped with the special cachet that day. special recognition needs. “Covers should be forwarded to the postmasters at offices from Honorary Members and Honorary Life Members enjoy all the which covers are desired in sufficient time for cachet impressions to be benefits of membership including voting rights and receipt of the Air - affixed prior to May 15.” post Journal. The final paragraph reads: As of 1999: Honorary Member Colonel Henry Hartsfield “All covers bearing the cachet and postmarked May 15 must be Honorary Life Member Frank Blumenthal dispatched by air mail. Covers bearing local addresses will be dispatched Ronald E. G. Davies by air to nearest stop point and returned. Positively no covers will be PAGE 434 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 435 Philip Silver James T. DeVoss American American Air MailJ ohSn Jo. Smcitih ety All of the above are now deceased. Herman Herst Air Mail Society The HonorarMy eLmifbee Mrshemipb aenrsdh Sipu bgsracrnitpetdio tnos Steve Reinhard this yAeanrn uisa lt hmee fimrbste rssihnicpe dtuhes g fuorid neelwin em sehmobwenrs ,a wbohviceh w inacsl uwdreistt ae ns uibns 1cr9i9p 9-. Dedicated to the research, study, documentation and Stteivoen itso t thhee o Anilryp ocsutr Jroeunrtn mal eims $b3e0r dhomldeinstgi ct,h $is4 0h oCnaonra.d a , $ 5 0 M e x i c o a n d preservation of aerophilately worldwide through education, A partial and very $co60n dweonrsldedw isduem. mary of Steve’s service to All foreign dues include first-class airmail shipment. study, research and services. AAMS and to philately worldwide is included in the AAMS 2015 Elec - tion information in the September 2015 issue, so it need not be repeated Organized in 1923, Incorporated in 1944 as a non-profit corporation of here. A strong case can be madPeu tbhlaicta Stitoenve is the most deserving recipi - the state of Ohio ent ever of thisM hoonntohrl.y G Oivffeicni aclo Piuncbildiceantito wn:i tAhi rtphoes 2t 5Jothu rannanl iversary of his IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit organization APS affiliate #77 seErdviitcoer a asn Ad AAMdvSe trrteisaisnugr: eVr,i cthkeie c Citaantifoienl dr ePaedtes:rs, 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036 ([email protected]) PRESIDENT: Jim Graue, 11911 East Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036 * * * ([email protected]) In addition, two Purebsliidcaetnito’ns sA Cwoamrdms iwtteeere given. VICE PRESIDENT: David E. Crotty, Ph.D., PO Box 16115, Ludlow KY ChairmAanA: MJimS G Arawuea, r1d19s1 G1 Euaisdt eCloinnneosr: R Poraeds, iVdaellneytf’osr Ad wWaAr 9d 9036 41016-0115 ([email protected] ) (zepPkaret@segnmteadil .bcoym th) e President of AAMS, in his/her sole discretion, in recognition of services to the American Air Mail Society. SECRETARY: Dr. Robert Dille, 335 Merkle Drive, Norman OK 73069- A President's AwarMd emmabye rb eS egrivviecens to any member deemed to 6429 ([email protected]) merit special recognition. TREASURER: Stephen Reinhard, P.O. Box 110, Mineola NY 11501 AuctionA Mt tahnea ginecr:eDptoino nL uosfs kthy,i s1 3a3w2 aNr.d W ineb 1st9e9r9 S,t .o, nNea pseurcvhil laew ILa r6d05 w63 as ([email protected]) made. Multiple President's Awards were given in 2002 and 2003. To mPauinbtlaicinat tihone sh Sigahle st Manadnaargde or:f Grerceogg Sncihtimonid itn, 1te9n7d8 eFdo xin B guirvroinwg Cthoius rat,ward, IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: Mark Banchik, P.O. Box 2125, Great it isN setreonnaghl yW rIe 5c4o9m56m (egnsdchemd itdhta7t@ onnelwy .orrn.ceo Pmr)esident's Award per year be Neck NY 11022 ([email protected]) given. DIRECTORS AT LARGE: MerchaPnrdesiside eSnatl ePsh Mil MancaCgaert: y J.L. Johnson, Jr., 248 Shore Ave., Eastern Kent Kobersteen Steve Tucker Point, Groton1 C99T9 0634D0 o(fna mLu1s4s@kty vcconnect.net) David Ball Pat Walters HistoriPanre: sLidene nLtu Aklelnesn. K46l0e1in South Pacific Highway, #2, Phoenix OR ADVISORY EXECUTIVE BOARD (Past Presidents): 97535 2002 Johnathan L. Johnson, Jr. Cheryl Ganz Jonathan L. Johnson, Jr. Stephen Reinhard Robert B. Spooner A.D. Jones Kendall C. Sanford Allen Klein Membership Secretary: GJuedori gWe aKsh. Siniogrtoasn, 7 First St., Westfield NY 14787 Derrick Pillage Greg Schmidt Mark Banchik (j.washington652@0g0m3 ail.cDoomn)ald Allen Jones Samuel J. Pezzillo Andrew McFarlane Stephen Reinhard LEGAL COUNSEL: Webmaster: David CrottCyh (ewryebl [email protected]) Robert J. Horn, Jackson Lewis LLP, 10701 Parkridge Blvd., Suite Greg Schmidt 300, Reston VA 20191 ([email protected]) Convention CoordinatoJra: mKens WSa.n Gforradu, e613 Championship Drive, Oxford CT 06478-3128 ([email protected]) Application for Membership President Sam Pezzillo Applicant to provide two references, philatelic preferred. 2004 ARdicvhaanrcde K B.u Mlleatliontt Service PAGE 436 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 437 President Derrick Pillage 2005 William Drummond AAMS Membership Report merited special recognition of the AAMS President’s Award. My greatest President Jim Graue thanks to both for their support, counsel and friendship. 2015 Allen Klein Kent Kobersteen A few additional words about these two outstanding AAMS members is in order.

Allen Klein was AAMS President in 2002-2003. His greater con - tribution has been his consistent willingness to do virtually anything asked of him by way of service to the Society, giving unselfishly of his time, talent and abilities to enhance AAMS and aerophilately. Always available for consultation, he served many years as Society legal counsel and more recently has chaired the Nominations and Election Commit - tees. Allen has built and exhibited special collections of the U.S. air - ships, including an unmatched exhibit of Shenandoah featuring many unique items. An attorney in Los Angeles, now “of counsel” at age 90, Allen represented many Hollywood stars over the years and can recite fasci - nating stories about his work with them.

Kent Kobersteen served AAMS three terms as a director, 2010- 2015. He is the ultimate team player, always providing strong, thought - ful, consistent and timely support to the AAMS leadership team. Instant - ly responsive to any communication, he always came forward with solu - tion alternatives rather than just problems. One can only wish for more directors cast in his mold. Kent has served as chair of the AAMS Litera - Introduce a friend ture Awards Committee for several years. Kent may be best known in AAMS for his outstanding exem - to the wonderful world of plary exhibit of the U.S. Beacon airmail issue, which earned numerous awards. Now retired, but still called on frequently for “special assign - Aerophilately . . . ments,” Kent was the Photography Editor for The National Geographic for many years, a magazine especially noteworthy for its outstanding pho - give a membership to the tography. American Air Mail Society! It was a special privilege to honor both Allen and Kent with the PAGE 438 AIRPOST JOURNAL OCTOBER 2015 PAGE 439 AAMS EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT American Air Mail Catalogue, APJ ADS BUY — SELL — WANT LIST 7th Edition, Volume One, now available!

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