VIA AIR MAIL Five Dollar Bargains Royce A

I VIA AIR MAIL Five Dollar Bargains Royce A . W ight 21l covers, all with different AIR MAIL announces his return to the United FIELD cancellations (first flights CAM, States and the resumption of his air events, etc.) . • • • . • . • . • • $S.OO mail activities. 40 diff. first flight CAM covers $5.00 I have just prepared a price list (prices. Incidentally are, in gener a l, 40 different first night flight and the lowest I've ever quoted) contain change of schedule covers . $5.00 ing a few hundred of the 1,00 1 bargains 60 air covers, all with commemor I have to offer . A post-card request ative stamps (Hawaii, Ericsson. will bring you this Edison, etc.) . $5.00 PRICE UST 23 80 air mail covers • . • . • . $5.00 With one of the finest stocks in t ha Or, the above 240 covers . .. .•. $20.00 country of C.A.M.'a, F .A.M.'s, Zepp elines, Canada, Mexico. etc. I feel emi... Want to exchanl'e: nently Qualified to serve :v.ou. For In I collect (C.)A.M.'s only. Need rari stance, do you need any of the following ties on all flights, CAM items where CAM- 3S7, 6E2, 7W2, 10N6, 12N4c, regular POD cachet was inadvertent!Y l 5N2. 18E4f, SON4 (price nine cent s) not used on covers. unlisted varieties, FAM-Seattle - Victoria, Tela-Cristobal. etc. What have you, and what do you St. Kitts-St. Johns, etc.. etc. need? Welcome correspondence on cata ZEPPELIN - Tokio - Lakehurst ( World logue listings, new varieties. Flight), Lakehurst - Lakehurst ( Pan. On new routes. I need: Mandan, Bis Am. Fl.) marck. Newark PO., Minneapolis, Cin It will pay you to get in touch with cinnati, Davenport. Rock Island, Knox me, not only from a fina ncial vi.ewp.>int.. ville (E). Billings (W), and others. but a lso in order to secure t he maximum Have Tacoma (N), May 9, Roanoke (E) number of your wants with. the mini July 19, and other rarities. mum time and bother. Yo u r want list will receive prompt attention. A pprov als will be sent, on reQue st, to clients PERHAM C. NAl-I L known to me, and t o o thers furnishing 6043D Harwood Ave., Oakland, Calif. references. A.A.M.S. 218 w.c.A.M.S. 21 P.S.: Did you see my advertisement on ROYCE A. WIGHT the back cover of the September H a r vard Bul:: iness School AIRPOST JOURNAL ? Soldiers Field Station, Bos ton, Masa New British Inland Airmail 1uu11111111111nn1111111111111u1u111uu1uuu1u111nuu111111111111u11111111111111111111111uu1u11111uu11'ft RAILWAY AIR SERVICES FIRST AIR MAIL IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 116 Staiies:-Glasgow, Belfast . Douglas, Man chester, Birmingham, London: Liverpool, Cardiff. Teig nmoutb, Plymouth: Bristol, Southampton & Cowes. All on the SUPERB SPECIAL SOUVENIR COVERS iss ued b y the RAILWAY AIR SERVICES If these covers w ere sent singly by Collectors they would cost $1 eacb , b u t through mailing Quantities our ·price is SET $20 or FROM toe EACH II for $1 20 for S3 30 for $6 Mint St amps and Dollar Notes accept ed First Day Cover of the New lV2d British SW.mp, flown FIRST FLIGHT Cardiff-Liverpool, with the New Air Mail Label ...• 25c each Previous British Inland Airmails from 50c to $250 Write for priced Cheek List of t hese Ear ly British CAM's POND o!c SABELLI TRANS-·ATLANTIC HISTORIC FIRST AIR MAIL U . S. A.- lRF.LAND. May 14-15. Superb covers, duly postmarked & signed. $50 BUMPER PACKETS-a cheap way to obtain good foreign cover s. FIRST FLIGHTS • •• .. ... •.••.•. ~ variet ies $1. 10 for $ 2. 25 for $ 5. F LOWN COVERS --•. .•.••-Ii varieties 25c 10 for 50c 25 for $2. AIR LABELS --. .. .. ....... • 5 varie ties lOc 10 for 25c 25 for 50c A. PHILLIPS Air MAil Speclallat Established 1896 FOUR Ir. FIVE DOCK ST. Newport Mon ENGLAND FIRST CONTRACT AIR MAIL FLIGHT by a private concern. C.A.M. 6 inaujlUral by the Ford Motor Co~ Detroit-Cbicairo Cleveland; February 15, · 1926. Insets: Cachets used on first flight mall. -Don Smith Photo. ''CAM''· What It Is • And What· It Means by Editor-of-the-Month the Post Office Dep:irtmcnt and the oper ator (contractor) performed Hatisfactory CHARLES G. RIESS service over his ro 1Jt~ . Sueh routes oper ating under a certificate of ciperation we1·e dc::signated, "AM" or '"Air Mail" routes and were no longer known or referred to a"B TRICTLY DEFINED. the word. "CAM" "CAM" routes. Under the term• of this as used in the field of aero-philately, bill a route to be designated II• an AM § Is an abbreviation of the first letters route must. first have had operated · s:itis of the three words for which It stands, factorily as a CAM route. New routes in namely: "Contract Air Mail". However. In augurated after the pabsage oc this bill gene·ral, the word "CAM" • usua lly refers were still designated a. CAM l'outes. One to anything concerning covers, flights, by one the CAM routes gradually changed routes, operators, pilots, etc., pertaining over to AM routes r.u the CAM ro•tte con to the contract air mail servke or routes tracts expired 'lr were 04; !erwise ~atfs ... within the borders of the United States factorlly termintte<l. A• hoth CAM and of American and also iesignates that AM routes were in ~per ..tt ion at tbe •nme branch of aero-philately dealin;! with the time such routes inst;acl of being refened collecting of first flight United States con to a~ either CAM or AM routes gradualh• tract air mail rout.c <?OVt!re. became known as "DomPstit.~ Routes. " With the passage of the McNary-Watres ·\fter ·the w!i,ole•ale cancellation of do· Air Mall Bill m 1930, CAM route operators, mestic air · maU" contracf!! on February 19, after serving out their contracts for a given J !184 (Star rotite& . :--ierv ieed by oit·11la1"~~ length of time under the terms of th!• excepted as, they · ;tre neit~c1· CAM nor A 'M bill, did not receive tenewals of their rOl.tes) the Mel.Pila.- Blac:< A!r Mail Rill original contracts or new c•mtracta for any was passed wherehy new ct>ntrncts were given period of time hut in place· were is awarded for th:> temporary ooeration of Rued a "Certificate of Operation" whereby tht• various domestk air rpa il route • for they were permitted to tranSP'lrt air mall a pt·riod of one yenr and such route:. over an indefinite perio l of time as long d, , ,.i~mated not as CA:lt, but as AM routes. a~ such riervice was <l ~eme<l necesgary by ' '- !ille It Is true that st am1>B tell vai1ed VOL. VI. NO. I. ISSUE; 54 IOc per Copy [ 3 ] THE AIRPOST JOURNAL and interesting storied af well as recot·ding and more attractive and enticing to stamp the historical, economi·.:, religiouH, political collectors until today many stamp c<•llector• vnrl other changes of the various countries, have also become CAM cover collectors if the collector <Jf stam.i;>s hM but the and not a few stamp collectors huve given ili.1:-tfdnation. romanc~ and :-i.pa1·k of under.. up stamp collecting entirely and gone over standing with .vhlch to appreciate th" to the collecting of CAM and other type• meaning and significance oi these t~ny bits of air mail covers; the writer of this article of colored paper. it nevi!rthcle:1s remaintt being one of t.he latter. for the air mail r.over collee.tor to en~oy to an even grem:e~· and fulle1 extent not Many colletors Interested in CAM cover only the stories of tho stamps on hi• air collecting naturally ask, "What covers mail covers, but also the interesting Ptories should I collect" and other similar ques of the air mail cov""" themselves. The tion•. The answer to this question as well CA.M cover collector collects not only as others depends to a great extent. mainly stamps, interesting a~ they nevertheless are, upon the collector nim!H!lf, who has the but also the proof thnt the stamp• have right to collect how and what he wants. actually served a legitin1Rte postal use for As each collector's likes and dislikes differ, which they were inten<i.eJ &!:' is evidenced it is impossible to establish any one set by the various cancellationc;, bo.ckstamps, method of collecting CAM w•·ers that will first flight cachets and other informative fit each and every individual's taste. How postal markings generally found on CAM ever, first flight CAM cover collecting may covers. These various postal markings not generally be divided into four nui.jor and infrequently record very unusual and two minor groups, namel::r: thrlllinl? anecdotes that one's senHe of RP• preciation might consider as being In tune 1. Directional covcl"age. with the infinite long after they have ap 2. Point coverage. parently become almost forgotten history 3. Point-to-point covet"'l.¥.e. but also record and portray ~'tep hy step. 4. Terminal-to-terminal cJverage. the gradual development and expansion of 5. Specialized coverage. the CAM service as well as aviation in 6. Absolute coverar:e. general. The greatest percenta;re of CAM cover When CAM routes were first inaugurated collectors today are to be da•sed under in the early months of 192~. llOt many the first group of directional coverage. By collectors had the foresight or interest to directional coverage is •neaut at least one gc after the collecting of air mail .:overs cover via each first flight In each direction carried on the first flights of these es:rly from each point on a ronte.

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