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ROOM 708 TEL.: JU 2-2393 THE AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY -tk~IBPOST A Non-Profit Corporation Incorporated 1944 "~;f011BNAL Organized 1923 Under the Laws of Ohio PRESIDENT Official Publ1cation of the John J. Smith AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY Ferndale & Emerson Sts. Philadelphia 11, Pa. Volume 29 No. 4 Issue No. 333 SECRETARY-TREASURER Ruth T. Smith CONTENTS For January, 1958 Ferndale & Emerson Sts. Philadelphia 11, Pa. Articles SAL.-:s MANAGER A New Look for Paraguay's Herman Kleinert 1 Postal Services ...... 98 213 Virginia Ave. 1 , 50c Zeppelin Stamp Almost Wasn't! .... 106 Fullerton, Pa. 1 , American Blimp Celebrates 40th VICE-PRESIDENTS 1 Birthday ...... 115 Bernard Davis Notes on Newfoundland Envelope 118 Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr. A Group of Old Timers 122 Florence L. Kleinert Robert W. Murch Bermuda's First Airmail Fell From Dirigible ...... 126 EDITOR - Other Publications L. B. Gatchell Regular Features . Just A Minute ...... 100 ATTORNEY George D. Kingdom i Airs of l:he Month 102 C.A.M. Cover Notes 104 DIRECTOR OF Tips by Julius 109 FOREIGN RELATIONS Dr. Max Kronstein Airport Dedication Covers 114 Aero Postal Stationery Notes 119 AUCTION MANAGER Official Section 124 Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. News of the Airlines ..... 127 DIRECTORS Alton J. Blank EDITOR Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. .Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr. Louise S. Hoffman 350 No. Deere Park Drive, Highland Park, Ill. Ernest A. Kehr Dr. Southgate Leigh ASSISTANT EDITORS Lester S. Manning Robert W. Murch Dr. Tomas Terry Ernest A. Kehr L. B. Gatchell Earl S. Wellman BUSINESS MANAGER Grace P. Conrath ADVANCE BULLETIN SERVICE 1133 Kerry Lane, Erie, Pa. Herbert Brandner DEPARTMENT AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS 4038 Forest Ave. R. Lee Black, Alton J. Blank, Florence L. Klein Brookfield, Ill. ert, Dr. Max Kronstein, Thomas J. O'Sullivan, Richard L. Singley, William R. Ware, Sol Whit man, Julius Weiss, James Wotherspoon, John MEMBERSHIP DUES Watson, William T. Wynn, Frank Blumenthal $4.00 PER YEAR Samuel S. Goldsticker, .Jr., .T.S. Langabeer, N. Dues include subscription to C. Pelletier. THE AIRPOST JOURNAL. Ap plicants must furnish two ref Pubiished monthly at Albion, Erie Co., Pa.,U.S.A. erences, philatelic preferred. At li:ntered as second-class matter at the Post Office least one must reside in Appli at Albion, Pa., February 10, 1932, under cant's home town. Applicants the Act of March 3, 1879. under 21 years must be guar The AIRPOST JOURNAL is not conducted for anteed by Parent or Guardian. profit. The Editor, Business Manager, and all Membership may be terminated others serve without compensation. Receipts by the Society in accordance from advertising, subscriptions and contribu with its By-Laws. tions are applied to the betterment of the magazine and the promotion of aero-philately. Correspondence concerning ad vertising, subscriptions, back The Editor and Officers of The American Air numbers and bound volumes, Mail Society assume no responsibility for the address changes and other mat accuracy of statements made by contributors. ters and all remittances should Every effort is mane to insure correctness of be sent to the Business Mana all articles. ger. All general editorial copy Subscription Rates: $4.00 per year, 35c per copy. and communications should be Advertising Rate Card available from sent to the Editor. Business Manager JANUARY, 1958 PAGE 97 A "New Look" For Paraguay's Postal Services By GULLIVER (Courtesy of Unesco) The Republic of Paraguay in cen • him, and quickly started tackling the tral South America is a small coun 5,000 ,bags of backlog. try by Western Hemisphere stand ards. With a land surface about One of the first problems he tried equal to that of the United Kingdom, to solve was the rationalization of the it is only a quarter of the size of Ven postal tariffs in relation to the routes ezuela and less than one-thirtieth of and prevcailing obligations ,within that of Brazil. But 1by its unique the Universal ,Postal Union conven geographical 1position in the heart of tions. A thorough study of eac:h rec the continent, squeezed in between ommended route for 1corre'spondence Argentina, Boiivia and Brazil, Para was the next item on his agenda. guay is destined to play a key part Only a few airlines touching doiwn in the Latin American airline system in Asuncion carried 1correspondence and, consequently, in its postal ser at that time. Now all of them do, for vices as well. the Government is particularly con cerned 1with the significance of Para The Paraguayan authorities real guay in the future devel-Opment of ized this 1back in 1953 •when they de air routes in :South America. Para cided to reorganize the country's guayan airports are bound to play an postal services. At that time more increasingly important part with the than '5,000 bags of old parcel post development of the rich inland area were stacked in the mail 1warehouses, of Brazil and the construction of and the Baraguayan Trea,sury was Brasilia, the new capital of that coun losing •huge sums of money because try whose inauguration has been an the tariffs had been established with nounced for '119518. out sufficient 1planning. The airmail Another important item on Dr. Ar services ,were another source of wast ciniegas' >agenda was the training of age of Goverrnnent money, com ,personnel. "In service" training was plaints were numerous and delays started a1most from the first day of had become a routine. The rules for his arrival; but there has alSo lbeen despatches, certified correspondence training abroad. The Postal School, and control of parcel posts were still set up in 19516, is directed by Senor those of the Argentine Postal Code of D. Bareto, 1Who has studied postal ad 11890, though that country had long ministration in Colombia on a U. N. since ceased to apply them. Technical Assistance fellowsihip. These :were the reasons wihich Today Dr. Avciniegas has almost caused the >Paraguayan Government completed his task. The reoriganiza to set up a reorganizing committee tion of the postal service, now on its and request aid from the UN Techni last lap, is confined to internal ques cal Assistance Administration in giv tions. The draft Postal Code is ex ing a "New Look" to the country's pected to be completed any day now, :postal services. And that was how and a 1postal map of Paraguay with Dr. iRoberto Arciniegas, a Colombian indications of all the country's post specialist, arrived in Ascuncion, capi offices and recommended routes is tal of Paraguay. being prepared with the assistance of Dr. Arciniegias is a man of endless a Unesco expert, 1Dr. Ji'. Sevillano. patience 1with long years of experi Plans have ibeen drawn up for the ence behind him in directing his use of national airlines for mail de country's postal and telecommunica livery within the country. And a tion services. He 1was not discour new salary scale has been prepared, aged by the Herculean tasks facing which provides for more efficiency, HAGE 98 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL better working conditions, iand faster tor boat •were irregular. Authoriza ipromotion prospects within t:ie postal Lion was made by the airline and services. permission w as granted •by the Gov Today, an airmail letter arriving in ernment to carry mail to this mine. Asuncion is delivered in its 1P ost Of On August 17th, 1926, Capt. 1F. J. fice box in the Central Postal Build Stevenson and two passengers flew ing two hours after the plane has to the mine with a supply of the landed. There is no longer any back Company's air stamps. The mine log in parcel posts, and for mor e manager, a stamp cohlector, realized than a year no·w there have been no that this outgoing mail .w ould 'be a complaints about air shipments sent first Hight, collected the mail from albroad. Accounting 'books are kept his mine personnel and added 1;2 let up-to-date, and courteous attention is ters to his wife, a total of 3!6 covers. given to the public from 7 a. m. A request was then made to St even through to 8 p. m. on working days, son always co-operative with stamp and up to 11 a. m. on holidays. There collectors, to autograph the letters, is satisfaction on both ·sides of the proving that they had 'been carried .counter and, in many ways, the post by him f.rom Cryderman. "Steve" al services of P araguay are now rat took this mail into the mine office ed among the best in South America. and using red ink, wrote the follow ing on the upper left h and corner of A. Note for Canadian• Aero each envelope: "First Air M.ail from Cryderman Mine to Sioux .Lo-Oikout, Philately F. J. Stevenson, Pilot." On the same by Narcisse A. Pelletier afte1·noon at Sioux Lookout the let-. ters were rubber stamped on iboth Canadian cover #83 - Cryderman face and 1back .by the Company agent to Sioux Lookout. Inform ation for preceding delive·ry to the post oftfice. this cover was found in an article of 193 1 lby W. R. P aton, co-author in Stevenson ·was well known as an the Canadian section of the American air mail and 1bush pilot. He died from Airmail Catalogue. a flying .accident at Le 1Pas on th;- From his notes •we find th at the follawing year, and became the first Cryderman mine manager had re Canadian recipient of the !Harmon. quested Patricia Airways and 1Explor Trophy awarded posthumously in .ation Limited to fly mail to their 1927. A native of Winnipeg, the Ste property. This was necessary 'because venson Air Field has b een named in the 20 mile over-water trips by mo- his honor.
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This 1business of editing the Air.post • hope he comes through 1With more. Journal is no picnic. And 1by no P.ropa,ganda leaflets 'got a shot in the stretch Qf th e imagination can the arm through the iwriteup of our friend, Auckland, in E ngland. Harry editor rea ch into a pile of articles and Gordon feeds us jet flight 'artides of come up w ith a varied assortment, uncommon interest. And now Sana and still have enou.gh left over for bria gives us a m onthly n eMT issue the next couple of issues. It's always column. just about touch-and-go to ihave These are all new names. Look at enoug,h interesting material to fill the the masthead for some of the faitih printer's dummy. After all we do use ful old timers - still w riting after years and years. It's in their iblood. discreti-on and do not always print Once you author something that 'gets everything submitted to us, for one in to ·print, the ibug gets you a nd yau reason or a n oth er. keep on turning it out. Before 1we "demanded" this editor A nd that's w hy 1We w rote this col ship, we talked to many pe01Jle a n d umn. Let the epidemk of aero.plfilat asked their ·cooperation in va
ARGENTINE Paris & Moscow; 2.35.K, to Near East. 1 Peso 'blue, issued Nov. 6 to publi Stamps are large in format and show cize ' Letter Week" shows three sty transport planes. (Nos. 48-4·9) lized birds. (No. 82). DOMINICAN R·EPUBLIC BRAZIL Second basic ~port stamps and U.N. D ay Commemorative, released sheets iwere released iwith app ropri Oct. 24, portrays 'Brazilian soldier ate surcharge honoring Lord Baden stationed in Near East. Value 3.30C. Powell, founder of Boy Scouts. (Nos. (No. 127) 128-1'30 & .131-134).
COLOMBIA ECUADOR Centenary of St. Vincent de Paul Colorful set of t'.'lree s:iow coats of Society is remembered by 5c red arms of cantons in the province of brown, showing St. Paul surrounded Carchi. Released Nov. 16. GNo. 396- by chi1dren. Issued Nov. 1'8 . (No. 3'98 ) 349) GUAT£MALA CUBA Four stamps were issue:l on Octo Set of two (1·2c & ·3oc) commemor ber 29, each iwith surtax of lQ ates centenary of N~rll\al School. ·Re (equals US $1) in aid of hig;hway to - leased Nov. 19. CNo. 196-197) Esquipulas. The famous Sanctuary CZ-ECHOSLOV AKIA of this town \s shown on first two 75h .pu'blicizes special flights to values· tte secob4 aiso has a crucifix.
PAGE 102 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Third value portray;s "iEcce Hommo" THE "OLD BUS" GETS A NEW and last the Archbishop of Guate HOME mala. (Nos. 248-251) By John Watson IRAN Two stamps of same desig:n were The money required to build a released on Oct. 24 in honor of U.N. permanent "Hom.e" for Sir Charles DAY Values lOR & 2QR. (No. 83-84) Kingsford Smith's "Old Bus" h.as IRELAND been .fully srubscrilbed, yes, over-sUib Father Luke Wadding is portrayed scribed. The fund opened on Sept. on 1/ 3 air rate adhesive issued Nov. 16 last and closed on Nov. 1. Atlantic 25. (No. 9) Union Oil Co. and Fokker .gave 5,000 LAOS pounds each, and a trem~ndous a·m The new BUDDHAS set consists of ount came from ·s·chool chiltj.ren. The rf.our values beautifully recess "Old Bus" was 1brought from Sydney printed !by the PTT at Paris. Denom to Brislbane by R.A.A.F. semi-trail inations: l'OK, Monk collectin:g alms: ers, over the New England Highway; 15K Two monks meditating in a official stops were made at 37 cities ·boat; l8K, ":Serenity" - portrait of and towns, rbut there also were many smiling Buddha, and ·24K, "The Stir unofficial stops on the road to allo.w :mp Cup" . .Released Nov. 19. CNos. s•Chool children to see the aircraft. 30-33) The kids really lapped it up as they LIBERIA were seeing for the first time the Antoinette Tubman Child Welfare aircraft that really made history long Foundation is publicized by 15
NEWS- • E. Booth and handled only 262 pcs Although we
Admiral Jesse G. Johmion, past • "I left with the models and :ac president of the A.AJM.S. has told us quainted the Acting Postmaster Gen the following story related to him .by eral, Joseph A. O'Mahoriey, now Sen Roy North, postmaster of Washing ator, of the decision of the President. ton, D. C. As the Department had already writ "In 1933 the Post Office Department ten the German :Postal Administra had agreed with the German Postal tion advising them of the proposed Administration to issue a stamp com issuance, ·I ·believe that Mr. O'iMalhon memorating the visit of the Zeppelin oy called the Secretary of State Cor from the hangar at Friedrkihshafen, dell Hull to explain the circum Germany to the Century of Progress stances. Hull advised that it would in Chkago. be somewhat of a breach of diplom acy if we did not issue the stamp. "As I recall, three models were pre When suJbsequently informed of this, pared /by the Bureau of Engraving President Roosevelt said, "Well, go ·and Printing for an opinion as to the ahead and issue the stamp." most appropriate design !by President "Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of 'Franklin D. Roosevelt. I had the the Graf Zeppelin, visited the Post task of carrying them to the White O:Dfiice Department on several occa House. After a ·few minutes, I was sions. The l\i[ost I1nportant Cities of Germany For our Auctions we are open to receive rarities of the whole world, specialized and general collections. Our Commission is Only 15 Pct. Our catalogues are well known throughout the world and have the most widespread circulation. We can, therefore, guarantee the best results. Limit Prices Are Fixed under Mutual Agreement We are also buyers of rarities of the whale world, special collections, but only in first-class condition. Free Payment to Countries of the World EDGAR MOHRMANN Licensed ~4 uctioneer HAMBURG 1, GERMANY, SPEERSORT 6 Cable Address: EDMORO HAMBURG The Leading Auction House on the European Continent with u1orld reputation. How Rare Is the U.S. No. C-16 ab JANUAHY, 19158 PAGE 109 magazines in England, USA, Mid France is to issue a high va1ue 1,- !East, and Australia, etc., pi:cking up 000 franc airmail on Jan. 11, which our idea and publishing it. We hope will show the "Lark"-Alouette Heli to tell :the story of the Mid-East sou copter. Price of the EIDC will run venir sheets (Air-mail) 1which now a:bout $3.25 ibut •will be a nice item.. flood the market at fantastic prices We can now mention that we can O!b in USA. More ·about this next time. tain FDC from France and !French [!.\/fail •from the ·Swedish - 'Finish - colonies along with the important jet Swiss E:xipedition to North-East Land fl1gh.ts and first .flights from France. comes through rwith •a p 11wple cancel To readers interested in obtaining shorwing North-East Land and can this material, merely send us a celled :LongyeaDbyen (Svalbard). This stamped self-addressed envelope. cachet shows a man plus the words American Antarctic covers are now "International Geophysical Year". We coming back. The various stations understand much of it is flown. have various dates. The latest is East Germany will soon issue a set from Pole Station, Antarctica dated of airmails showing modern plane March 1, 1957. Most of our Antarctic and ·containing 7 values. The first covers are sent via airmail (6c rate) two values were issued in December; to fit into our airpost collection. the other values will come early in One of the hard spots to obtain on 1958. cover is Northerm RJhodesia. We lb.ave Oct. 7 (West) Germany Lufthansa just seen some covers posted at Kit flew a first to YOUR CHANCE to obtain the stamps, covers, seals, albums, supplements, catalogs or supplies you need to enjoy your hobby is offered in Harrislbuug, Penna. Regardless of wthere you live, we can ship your needs. We pay all postaige on orders of $2:00 or more in U.S.A. COVER ALBUMS 300 AUCTIONS! We carry the complete line of Cover Albums and May;be 300 mail auction sales do not sound like we1oome your order for any of those which you much, but for a quarter of a century we have may find suited 'best to your needs. One thin,g held a mail sale at least once each month. Dur a'bout philately: every taste is different and one ing that time the number of 5c 1'847s alone would man's meat is another man's poison. A great have made a magnificent collection if all sold to many collectors liike the tyipe of alibums which one person and mounted in one collection (!which Elbe offers and we always carry a full Elbe they were notD. stock on hand for prompt shirpment. T':1e point is this: a tremendously large variety Another style of cover a1'bum which has proven of fine philatelic material is offered every month very popular is the flip-style which permits and is sold to mail buyers, scattered all over the instant display of up to 100 covers in crystal world. like pockets. No mounting, no pasting, no slot ting, no handling: just insect your cover in the Whether you are interested in buying or in sell pocket! Known as the Allsyte Cover Alb'll!lll ing, we will gladly handle your inquiry. (•by White iA:ce) we think you will like this al bum for your standard size first days or first flights. Price only $8.25 each with a dust case CATALOGUES available, to match, at $1.75 extra. Yes, your 1958 Scott Catalogues are all on hand. Whether you want the new U. S. Specialized ($4.0C}) or the Combined (Whole world $10.00), ON APPROVAL? separate Volumes I (US, BC, SIA, CA $5.) or The stamps, seals and covers in this varied stock Vol II (Europe, Asia, etc $6.) we can send your of ours can be obtained on approval, 'by sending order promptly. your AAMS number. We do not wish to convey \Ve also carry a large line of other '.books and the impression that any item you may want may } cat;.ilogs including the !Minkus line complete be found here any day you want it! Far from ms $3.00 and the Vols. I, II, III combined into it: the world is too large for anyone to tackle 2 vokmes $15.90). Send your orders and in such an order. But, over the years, you are very quiries today and let Long help you with your likely to encounter your needs if you keep your contacts with Long! collection. Your Complete Satisfaction Always Assured When you Deal with Long! Life Member: 1111 ~ MA\RIK.IE'lr S'lr o' AAMS APS IEILMER Ro IL In the 1ast few years the American • In an· •article in the same magazine, Dirigi"lble, primarily the Blimp, has Julliot pointed out that these first made great rprogres·s again and its American Navy :Blimp type airships long endurance flights in 1957 are ·were !built during the same period of well remembered. !But little attention the war. IHe said the German Zeppe has been pointed to the fact that lins had not proven a ,great success, that year is the 40th anniversary of because tl:iey :were .primarily a weap the American Blimp. on of ·attack and too vulnerable. The In the "Scientific American" of Oc new blimps were primarily scout tober 6, 1917, it iwas reported that the cruisers over halfuor and ooast lines U.S. Navy Department had aiccepted and had distinct advantages over air the first of two "huge" Bli.mip type planes or seaplanes. "Its pilot is the non-rigid dirigibles 1built for coast complete master .of its speed and di and hal'bor patrol by an American rection. He can remain stationary for constructor. hours at a time in still air and he can According to Hugh Allen, "The attain a speed of 4'5 miles an hour Story of the Non Rigid Airship" (A;k under the same conditions. •When the ron, 1943) the U.S. Navy made its wind blows the big b11Jg •becomes part first contracts for a total of 1·6 blimps of it, and moves at the same speed. in February'1917, nine of them to be If the pilot wishes to change his built by Goodyear - as the "Sci course from that of the !Wind, he op entific American" reported, lby "a ens the gas cocks and seeks a lower well-known concern of Akron, Ohio". stratum of air or throws out sand or T 0his contemporary magazine gives water ballast until 'he rises to a high interesting details to the history of er stratll!ffi, where he can ·again pur the first blimps. The Allen 'book had sue his course at will with his pow reported that the first ships had to erful eight cylinder power plant. You be erected in Chicago, since the air cannot do this with an aeroplane; ship dock at Wingfoot Lake was not you are either rising or falling, and ready. .A!fteriwards they had to •be de at the same time maintaining a h:Lgh livered to Akron. Allen names the speed. constructors of the first blimps the "The dirigi'ble is no car for a stu engineers and balloonists, R. H. Up dent. For instance, y;ou mig.ht be fly son and R. A. D. Preston. ing serenely along in the sun and Early magazine reports indkate suddenly the sun slips behind a cloud. that they had the expert cooperation You find yourself falling rapidly. The of ·a French aeronaut, Henri Julliot, cooler air has caused the gas in the who had designed many British and envelope to contra·ct. Then again, in French lighter than air ail'craft for eXiperiments I have found that in the coast and hanbor rpatrols in this per sun-lighted air you ·can cause the dir iod of development. Julliot arrived in igi1ble to drop suddenly by simply the United States iwith his own staff placing a leaf on tJhe top of it. Then •as a nucleus, including six girls with still, at night, when the air is cool, a special training in iballoon maillU - the ascent or descent of the balloon facture; wifuin four montJhs the first can be controlled 'by the direction of Blimp was completed and passed its a powerful searchlight uipon the ibag". acceptance test, an eight hour flight These descriptions 1which the "de over one of the lar,gest cities in the signer of the United States Navy's U.S.A. first ,Blimp ty;pe dirig~ble"-that is JANUARY, 1958 P.A!GE 115 how it was h1troduced to his read was on "Steiermark-Cir-ouit" (July 5, ers - .gave, make it no sur:prise :vhen 1957), carrying collectors mail ~640 1216 years later Allen calls these first pieces, 5·28 pieces, 981 ipieces, 1.5'3·2 ships small, slow, lac-king range and pieces respectively). Special caichets having many shortcomings. were used for ea•ch flig.ht. But they started to rapidly devel 'So the Amerircan blimp is very op training personnel and collect much alive at this 40th Anniversary e:>Qp erience. It was a year· later !When and is still an important. part of Am the new C type ships w e:re 1built; erican A eronautics. L11ese could make 60 miles an ihour and were faster than all airships ex CORRECTION, S'l·L VOUS PLAIT! cep ~ the Zeppelin. After the first world war came a period of rigid air In the October, 1957 issue of the ship construction in the USA, during APJ, mention w as made that the cor which the development of the 1blimp rect firs day of issue .for Lithuanian continued. !Men like Captain C. E. Ro air mails, Scott #1-4, Sanaibria #1-4, sendahl and the constructor, Karl might well b e September 20, 11921 in Arnstein, continued to keep the prog ·stead of th e recorded October 5, 192·1 r ess alive. The second world •war .sa;w date. the ,blimp a8 one of America s most W·hen the Airpost Journal was op successful weap.ons over the ocean. ened im the shadow of the Eiffel Tow And now - 40 years after the first er by 1AAMS mem'ber Frank Muller Americ.an blimp - this 1blimp has of P aris, France he was quick to set survived all ofoer ·dirigiJbles over the the record straight by referring to his world. own excellent catalog, "Catalog of the It is more than a coincidence th at Air Letters of the Entire World", just this year an American blimp has Paris, 1950 w hich lists these air maH become Gercrnany's first Post War stamps, #1-4, as 1be\ng flown on Au civili'an airshiip, the "Underiber:g Luft gust 2, 1921 from Kaunas to !Memel, schif f D-LAVO" . It is stationed at Riga, and Tal'linn. Stuttgart-Echterdingen, the same ·Mr. 1Muller's catalog of flown cov town that figured in the history of ers of the world is the most complete the earliest Zeppelins earlier in the and i-nteresting listing of special and centur y. first flight covers of the ENTIRE A few m onths a.go ·blim p partici WORLD th at we have ever seen and p ated in an Austrian sport event and we are h appy to correct our ortginal made flights b etween Vien na and finding on this first issue of Lithu Krems (J une 29 19'57) Vienna and anian airs. The Muller cataU.og can [,inz (J une 30, 1957), Vienn a an d ibe obtained from AAMS member Feldkirchen-Graz (J uly 4, 1·957 ) an A total of 3312 letters iwas carried According to Dr. James J. Matejka, on this fli.g;ht. 100 were [ranked with Jr. the diamond sha'Ped marking on · the "Columbia", - a 3•6 cent cariJbou the cover designates that this cover starrn'P of Newfoundland 1with a 50 was counted. As only ·a certain nrum cent overprint. A second group used :ber ·of covers was to be carried from regular postage to the value of 5·0 Harbour Grace and the ibulk from St. cents. T:he cover illustrated is from Jo'hn's, these were coruflted in order to hold down the wetght for· the a third group showing one of aibout plane. This mar.king ha,s been seen 20 cover.s ipostmarked from Haribour only on supplementary maH rfrom Gr.ace, tfran:ked iwith 4 or 5 cents Har:b:our Grace. stam'Ps. Dalwick and Hamner's "New When the Bellanca monoplane "Co foundland Airmails" has this to say: lumbia", renamed "'Dhe llVIaple Leaf", "What aip:pears to ibe a supplementary left Hal'lbour Gmce on October 9th, mail of covers is franked with either 1930, its pilot, J. Errol 1Boyd, beoome the first Canadian pilot to success 4 or 5 cents. Why this group, which fully fly the Atlantic to 1England. IHis obviously does not comiply with spe navigator iwas iLieut. HaTry P. Con cial regulations, was ex•cepted is not nor, U.S.N. After a flight of 2650 clear but the fact remains that these miles and albout 24 ihours later the covers were delivered on arrival aircr·aft was foreed do.wn on ia ibeac.h some miles from Land's End in .Corn without any surtax." This -cover miay .wall, at the south west tip of Eng give a part answer. It \had 1been iad land. After refueling :they took off dressed -by the navi.gator to a friend and rea·ched Croydon "Airdrome" at in England. The Post Of.fice mtght 3: 15 p.m. on the fallowing day. (See not 'have wisihed to refuse such a re also A :P.J., September, 1195'7 issue, quest 1by the navigator. The pilot's page 3·8·3 in regard to stamps on this stgnature in blue ink is also shown. mail.) PAGE 118 THIE AIRPOST JOURN~ ::;;• § =- = A;ieE.,R·9 z= - ~-=--=• POSTAL STATIONERY NOTES By SOL WHITMAN 1462 Taylor Ave., Bronx 60, N. Y • Interesting items seen at the recent • been given but it is believed it will A.S.D.A. Show in New York: in one be issued early this year. of the dealer's frames a reversed die CAYMAN ISLANDS cut of U. S. #LS-1. In another booth In our July column mention was we were shown an illustration of made of a planned issue of aero the United 'Nations #I.JS 2 reversed grammes. Now the Crown Agents, in cut. This variety was unknown un their November Bulletin confirms til now. Mr. A. Terins mentioned a this report, mentioning that three U. N. sheet that only had the over aerogrammes have been ordered. lay without any additional printing, The values are to be - 21hd, 6d, with stamp, border, etc. missing. and 9d. bearing reproductions of A few dealers had the new Ghana their current stamps. sheet overprinted on Gold Coast ECUADOR #LS 5. CB!lve overlay on white pa Thanks to Cesar Fuetues of Quito, ;perl. This will 'be listed as #I.JS 2. we have 1been informed that three This may be the London printing or aerogramrnes were issued early in dered rfrom the Crown Agents earlier November. The values are 60 cen this summer. Referred to this item tavos for inland service, 1.40 Suer~ in the November column. for American countries, and the third NEW ISSUES sheet, value unknown, for other for ANGOLA ei!gn countries. The printing was T·wo new sheets, the permanent done by Harrison and Sons of Lon values of 1•$00 and 1·$·50 have recently don, on blue paper watermarked "Im ly arrived. The 1$00 value is printed perial Air Mail." A total of .100,000 in ·black on yellow and shows the sheets was printed but we do not post office building in Mocamedes. know hoW many of each value. The border is made up of overlapping The printing on the 60 centavos red and ·green squares. The baok has sheet. is in dark blue. !At the upper Angola SisaJl plants printed in dark left are the words "Correo Aero" on brown with space for sender's name a •blue ri!bbon and underneath "Par and address. A vion I Aerograma" in two lines. The 1$50 value, printed in black on The modified Coronation style form 1b1J.rue illustrates the C.T.T. Building in has two sealirng .flaps at the top and Carmona. This sheet also contains a ri:giht side of the sheet. The mailing j)ancy border in red and green. The instructions are in Spanish on the 'back has tobacco plants printed en back. ti First Flight Covers - Sydney to Sydney, Australia and then on to your address for only $1.00 Each Owing to the postponement of the Fkst "Around the World" \Service until early in rn5·8, WP. are now able to SUipply and service to and f.or Cover Cohlectors our wellknown high-grade embossed covers for this historic fligJ"it . .. Orders should not be delayed as the d'light is likely to .be made early in 1958 without all01Wing us sufficient time to m·ake any further advertising announcement. ALSO AVAILABLE In addition to the above you can also receive all .future issues of AustraHa and her Territories and: - Australian Antarctic Territory (.Marwson, Davis and ilVIacquarie Is land). These covers •have the new ·21- stamp on them and are can celled' at the base w'hel'e mailed with the " offidal" Pe.rnguin pictorial postma PAG'.E ·1'23 OFFICIAL SECTION AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY MONTHLY REPORT . From the Secretary Ruih T. Smith, Ferndale 8z Emerson, Philadelphia 11. Pa. J:ANUARY 1st, 1958 NEW MEMBERS 4440 Wenk, Dan J ., 734 Holly Place, West Covina, Calif. 4441 Clark, W. Brant, 1151 Roycott Way, San Jose 25, Calif. 4442 Sleyzak, Steve M., Sr., 2423 Blott St., SE., Warren, Ohio 4443 McVinnie, Thomas P., 63 Allen St., Johnson City, N. Y. 4444 Steig, Michael, 51 Hamilton Place, New York 31, N. Y. 4445 Trowles, V. A., 11 St. David St., Toronto 2, Ontario, Canada NEW LIFE MEMBER #86 Beadles, Elmer. (Dr.), Ashland, Illinois REINSTATEMENTS 2298 Clark, Joseph C., 1203 Union Ave., Natrona, Pa. 3991 Arobogast, Karl F., .fr., 271 N. Maple Ave., Kingston, Pa. NEW APPLICATIONS Millington, .John W., Oneco, Florida, Age 34, Lineman By Ruth T. Smith Mittman, Earl, 2128 Whistler Ave., Baltimore 30, Md., Age 31, Cutter U20 UC HC GF CAM FAM OF DC Z By Ruth T. Smith Robbins, Arnold, 71-60 252nd St., Bellerose 26, N. Y., Age 26, Salesman FF GF CAM FAM OF DC ID X By Ruth T. Smith Grissmann, Carl, 2817 61st St., Des Moines 10, Iowa, Age 53, Manager FF RP Z By R. Lee Black Borkstrom, Eric I., 153 Priscilla St., Bridgeport 10, Conn., Age 41, Engineer AM U20 UC PC HC PA PB FF GF CAM FAM RP CC OF Z ID X By Ruth T. Smith McAdams, John C., PO Box 178, West Memphis, Arkansas, Age 34, Insurance AM AU U20 UC HC CAM FAM DC ID x By Jesse Johnson Young, Henry K., Box 1•587, Grand Central Sta., New York 17, N.Y., Age39, Advertising AM AU AS SC U20 UC APS By Ruth T. Smith Hagler, Carl W., 2015 Grove Ave., Quincy, Illinois, Age 45, Physician By Ruth T. Smith Turman, George, 405 \Y. Blackhawk. Chicago 10, Ill., Age 30, Physician AM AU PC HC EL FF GF CAM FAM CC OF APS PIX X By Grace Conrath Webb, Reginald M., 829 Main St., Greenport, L.I., New York, Age 53, Title Exam. AM AU-on cover-high values, GF RP OF Z PIX By Ruth T. Smith Boffin, E. J., 3501 Anderson Ave. SE., Albuquerque, N. M .. Age 60, Jobber AM CC AS PC HC PA CF PIX-Canadian Air Services X By John J. Smith NEW ADDRESSES Gellion, F. J., % Messrs, Frazar & Hansen, Ltd., 301 Clay St., San Fran., Calif, Ferguson, Norman E., 909 N. 35th St., Fort Smith, Arkansas Gordon, Edward, 6129 Medford Ct., Orlando, Flordia Austed, George D., 220 Orizaba Ave. San Fran., 12, Calif. Bach, Andrew, 459 Fairview Ave., Brooklyn 37, N. Y. Dold, Roy F., 2 Oak Lane SW., Glen Burnie, Maryland Ellison, W. R. % Cleveland Motor Co., Longmont, Colo. Epps, William P., Sr., 68-65B - 136th St., Flushing 67, N. Y. Futterman, Melvin M., 4940 Brester Drive, Tarzana, Calif Hendriks, Hubert, ';5 Rue General Ruquoy, Brussels, Belgium Spiegelberg. Joseph H., 3501 Minnesota Ave., SE., Wassington 19, D. C. Stone, Howard .T., 601 \Y. 190th St., New York 40, N. Y. Tyler, Dorothy D., (Mrs.), Warwick Hotel, Main Blvd., & Hermann Ave., Houston Tex. Valier, Robert, Box 6217, West Palm Beach, Florida Weiner, Martin, 446 E. 5lst St., Brooklyn 3, N. Y. Gutierrez, Pauline IMrs.), N #266, Vedado, Havana, Cuba PAGE 1124 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL . A. A. M. S. GIVES LUNCHEON FOR FELLERS When ~O'bert E. F ellers retired f:om his job as Director of the Division of Philately of th(~ Post Office Department 'back in November, many of his fe1lo~ members of the A.A ..M.S . entertained him at a luncheon in New York. In appreciation of his ma:1y years of service to his hobby, ihe ,was presented with a ·beauti1ful wrist watch. This picture of the presentation shows BOlb in the center receiving his gift from George W. Angers, one of the founders of the A.A.M.S. and a former president, as Pr2sidenl John Smith gives beaming approval. Available - from AAMS CONVENTIONS U. S. 4c Airmail Stamp - (set of 3 card- - different cachets) can celled 3 days .of Con ven ti on at P nila J.elp hia, showing reg ular F.D.-machine cancel 9/ 3/ 54 a nd hand cancel 9 .1 4 .and 915 Conv. Stat...... 50c U.S. 4c Airmail 'Stamn -- (cacheted card) scar ce cancellation of American ·Air Maif Society Station on First Day - 9/ 3/ 54 ... . 25·c U. N. •Brochure (7x~}1h) containing information relative to U.N. Air ·mail stamps .and including MINT IMPRINT BLOOK of 6 of 4c Air Mail stamp and 4c Airmail Postal CaTd with -F.D. cancel - Issued during AAiMS Convention 'May 27 , 1957 1.00 U.N. 4c Airmail stamp - F .D. cancel 5/ 27 / 57 - .with special AAM"S cachet, and 4c Airmail P·ostal C ar d. ·F.D. can cel 5/ 27 / 57 - with pecial AAMS ca~het ...... 50c set of 2 U.N. Program for 'First Day Ceremonies of United Nations 4c Airmaii Stamp and .Postal card - with First Day Cancel of 4·c stamp (SCARCE) ...... 1.00 Write to: Mrs. Ruth T. Smith, Sec'y SWc Ferndale & Emerson S ts. , Philadelphia 11 , P2. JANUA·RY, 1958 PAGE 125 Bermuda's First Airmail Fell from Dirigible Under this title, the special "Avia-• the United ,States. (This is the Air- tion Week Edition of the Bermuda mail Z-504 in the Catalogue.) Royal Gazette reminds of the airmail The planned second :flight to !Ber flights of the US Airship Los An muda had to be delayed ·because of geles to Bermula in 1925. structural defects and poor flying The American Airmail Catalogue, conditions and did not take place Vol. I, 1950 lists these airmails on until April 21, 1925. page 930 as No. Z-504, 505 and 506, and it is interesting to add a few On that day the airship left Lake facts found in this recent Bermuda hurst at 3:17 pm. with 50 men on report. board, all US Navy and Army offi The 600 foot helium dirigirble left cers undergoing dirigirble training, as Lakehurst on Friday, February 21, well as Mr. P. E. D. Na·gle of the U.S, 19i25 at 3:20 pm. for the flight to Ber Department of Commerce as the only muda, scheduled to arrive there the civilian passenger. Throughout ·the next morning for mooring on the U. entire 660 aeronautical miles from S.S. Patoka. The airship was under Lakehurst to Bermuda the airs1Mp en the command .of Caiptain George W. countered strong head winds up rto Steele, Jr. and carried 17 officers, ll 45 mph., hut it arrived safely over chief petty officers and seven ratings Daniel's Head, Bermula, at 2:30 am. of the US Navy. Making good time on April 21, 1'925. at an average speed of a1bout 60 m.p Again the Patoka was not yet ready h., it picked up Gibbs Hill light at to receive the airship and the Los 2 :123 am. and loomed over the islands Angeles cruised for 5 hours before it at 4:30 am., long before the prepara could land at Shelly Bay. Because of tions for its landing had 'been com the heavy sea the small reception pleted. boats were tossing around like corks, At 6:30 am. the USS Patoka with as the airship dropped the end of a host of .guests on •board, got under her mooring ,wire into the sea at 6:30 way and reached the meeting place am. where it was picked up •by an at Murray's Anchorage an hour later auxiliary launch and finally the while the airship was still circling the shi;p's nose nudged the mooring mast islands. By radio communications and the automatic clamping device and by smoke signals the airship was snapped into position. kept informed of the wind strength and direction. Again Captain George W. Steele, Jr., ,was in ,charge of the airship, When finally the landing prepara whiC'h this time brought five 1bags of tions had •been completed, rain 'be mail. NEWS OF THE _AIRLINES By S. S. GOLDSTICKER, JR . When Delta Airlines ,was asked re- • vice in 1939 ,was sold at ;puiblic auc- cently to send a stewardess iwith a tion by the U.S. General Services "deep Florida tan" as its representa- Administration on October 29, 195'7. tive to a ·Florida sales executive The government acquired the prop meeting in New Yol'k City, iMiami- erty in 1941 when PAA transferred based Miss Ann Alexander drew the operations to LaGuardia Airport; it assignment. She also drew the win- was leased first to Grumman Air ning ticket for a door prize. The craft CoBJ. and then to Republic Av .prize - a seven-day ·all-expense paid iation Co. trip to Miami Beaclh. * * * * Qantas expects to 1be the first car * * * * The specially ,fitted '.British Over rier to use Jets on the North Atlantic seas Airlines' DC-7, which recently route, as they ·&re scheduled to re .carried Queen ili:lizabeth and the ceive Boeing 707s by May, 1959, Duke of Edin1burgh to Otta1Wa, made ahead of other carriers. a routine scheduled round-trip ibe * * * * tween New York City and San Fran Effective January 1st, Northwest cisco on BOAC service while the Orient Airlines and Trans-World Air lines inaugurated . "Around-the 1Royal Party iwas touring Canada and the Eastern United States. World" flights. This is made possible by the extension of TWA's Trans...at * * * * Sabena Airlines has added 11\/Ion lantic. route from. Colomlbo ' (India)· ' treal to its Transatlantic service, as via Bangkok (Siam); to !Manila (Phil" ippines). well as Belgrade and Istail!bul to its Europe-Far East service. * * * * France threatens to •ban Polar flights of ·Pan American Ai:riways and 1958 1958 Trans-World Airlines from landing at points in France on trips from the USED FOREIGN Al RMAI L West Coast of the U.S.A. unless Air France is .given reciprocal rights to PRICE LIST originate fliigihts ·at Los Angeles and San Francisco. Now available, listing approx. 8,- * * * * Scandinavian Airlines System 500 used airs in sufficient quan (SAS) seeks to include San Francisco tity io supply for a reasonable on its Los Angeles-Stockholm flight route. time. We also have an additional * * * * 1,900 in insufficient· quantity to KIM-Royal Dutch Airlines inau- 1gurated service betiween New York list, bu± will send on approval io City and Curacao on October 14th. those we know. Price 25c NO However.. no mail was -carried on the FREE LISTS. Printed in limited in'augural flights in either direction· It is believed tlhat no mail has bee~ quantity, so order at once. carried since. * * * * GEORGE HERZOG, I NC. The ;property originally used !by Pan-American •Ai:riways for its initial 68 Nassau St., N. Y. C. 38, N.Y. Trans-aHantic base for Clipper ser- J ANUARY, 1958 PAGE 127 Davis and Kehr Honored with grave, Kettering, Northants, England, who has contri>buted various articles Important Assignments on tlle subject to The Airpost Journal and who edited the leaflet section of Bernard Davis, Vice President of Volume H of The American Air Mail the A.A.M.S. and Ernest A. Kehr, Di Catalogue, is the general secretary. rector, were signally honored last Information ·on becoming a charter mon1lh by appointments of great im member, and costs and plans for pUlb portance in the philatelic world. lication of a quarterly !bulletin can be Postmaster General Arthur E. Sum had by writing 1Mr. RQlblbs. merfield announced the appointment of Davis to membership on the Post Office Department's seven member Airmail Collection Realizes Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, $26,507 in Harmer Rooke while Carlos A. Cesares iBasavil:baso. president of Eficon, Internationai Sale Centennial Philatelic Exhibition, Ar ,gentina, announced that Kehr has A collection of airmails of the been selected as Commissioner for world, with a few added items, sold the United States and member of the for SZ.6,507 in a sale held Nov. 2·6, 27 internationa!J. jury. and 29 by Harmer, Rooke & Co., Inc., Davis is the Founder and Director 560 fifth Avenue, New York. of the National Philatelic Museum in A record price of $570 was paid for Philadelphia, and Chairman of the the four "Servizio di Stato" sur Stamp Committee of President Eisen charges of Cyrenaica, Eritrea, Italian hower's "People to People" program. Somaliland and Tripolitania. Other He replaces Franklin R. Bruns, Jr., noteworthy prices were: formerly Curator, Division of Phil ately and Postal History, Smithson U. '8. ZeppeHns in o.g. blocks of four ian Institution. (#Cl3-15), $400. Colombia #:Cl un Kehr is equally ·well known in the used, $270. France, the two Ile de stamp world. His stamp column in France surcharges, $50 and $250. the New York Herald Tribune is read Guatemala, an imperf. horizontal pair 'by thousands and his fame as a phil of the 1930 6c rose red {#C7ib), $17,0. atelic writer and world traveler is Honduras #05, the lOc dark blue world-wide. with black overprint, $630. Iceland The exhibition, to be staged in Ar 1933 Hopflug set, #C12-H, $65. gentina next April, to commemorate Italy's BaiJ.bo flight 5.25 -'- 19.75-lire the centenary of the first Ar,gentine without overprint (#C48a), full cata stamps, is 'being jointly sponsored b:v logue of $400. The return flight ov the Argentine philatelic societies and erprint on the Balbo ·5.25 + 44.75- the Ministry of Communications, and lire (Sanabria #54), $400. Italy #COl will 'be the largest and most import full catalogue of $100. Mexico, Am ant Latin American stamp show elia Earhart 20c, $250. The 9-stamp since the 1950 "Efira". Tejeria-Tapachula set (San. 7-15), $915. The University 20-peso of PSYWAR SOCIETY TO 1934, $15i5. SPECIALIZE IN LEAFLETS _ Newfoundland "Columbia" C#C5l, The number of air post collectors $5100. The Newfoundland "La·brador" inter~sted in aerial PPopaganda leaf set of 1933 in imperf. pairs, $580. Nic lets is steadily increasing, and A.A. aragua color chanf(es of 1933 (San. M.S. members RATES: \VANT Catapult or Zeppelin Covers or mint air new issues of the world. THREE CENTS PER WORD per in Will Exchange. Hendriks, 55, rue General sertion. Minimum charge 50 cents. Re Ruquoy - Bruxelles (Belgium). mittance must accompany order and copy. The AIRPOST JOURNAL, APJ Ads., Al WANTED - Copy of "Catalog and His mion, ·Penn'a. tory of Mexican Postal Aviation" pub lished by Walt Conrath in 1941. What lit WANTED - United States covers with erature do you need? Earl H. Wellman fancy cancels before 1877. Fair and Ex Brookfield, Illinois. , ' position advertising covers and postals before 1916. Pictorial advertising covers before 1911. 19th Century United States SEND 50-100 your used foreign airmails postal cards wanted. First Flights with m exchange for equal value mint or used Lindbergh CIO stamp and booklets want airs. Arnold Larson, Twisp, Wash. ed. United States used air mails Cl to C31 wanted in quantity. Charles J. Mol CACHETS from Hartland, Wis. New post nar. 1246 Summit Drive, Cleveland 24, office dedication last part of Jan. Air Ohio. 321-12t* covers will receive a heart shaped cachet and will be signed by P. M. Send pre SOURCES OF SUPPLY for Air Mail Col pared covers to C. F. Sponholz, R. 2, Hart lectors! Directory listing 125 Philatelic land, Wis. to assure complete. servicing. Agencies throughout World, $1.00. BED No charge. AAMS .4244. Ex ARD PUBLICATIONS, Box 637-K, Det roit 31, :Mich.. 326-12t" ORGANIZED Exchange - Airs exclusive ly. Tenth year. 10 percent, no cash in RARE Arctic. Antarctic Covers for sale; volved. Sukoenig, 192-08 35 Ave., Flush Exoeditions, Flights, Helicopters, Antarc ing 58, N. Y. · 333-2tx tic - .Jatos (Jet ass.) Send lOc for list of several hundred Polar items. Belham Ex HELICOPTER air mail catalogue & his change, Box 119, Ridgewood 27, N. 1;"~ tx tory of Italy, St. Marin and Trieste of fered for 2 helicopter covers of USA. 33 5 Schenone, Zamenhof 2, Milano (733), Italy. FIRST FLIGHT Covers: Start someone UNITED NATIONS overprinted aid Hun collecting them. 50 different $5. George gary on Dominican Republic souvenir Chapman, 883 Euclid, El Centro, C~~~~ t* sheets traded for other sheets needed 2 Write enclosing duplicate list. Warren: Treicher, New Tripoli Pa. AAMS EXCHANGE ADS WANTED - Antarctic flown covers. Of fers in first place to: Wotherspoon, 14 East FOREIGN· Covers Wanted - First Day - :~a~ St., Broxburn, West Lothian, Scot- First Fhght - Special Events - No Com mercial - in Wholesale Lots. Will ex change US covers. Write. Walter Brooke, RARE Liberian error. Only 3 sheets of 50 known to be issued. Listed only in cer Boyertown, Pa. Ex330-4t tain foreign catalogs. Est. value $350.00. Will accept best exchange offer. William EXCHANGE transoceanic mail from flown, Kucher, 167 Cleveland Ave., Colonia, N. J. attempted or intended flights. Krinsky, 250 E. 96th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Ex330-4t WAN.TED - Air Stationery Aerogrammes Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Canal Zone WANTED - Transoceanic Record and Panama. Will buy for study, what have Zeppelin covers. Please write before· for you? Harold S. Riley, 1600 Emory St., As warding material. Also need copies of bury Park, N. J. Airpost Journals for November, 1934 thru .Tuly, 1936. N. M. Hoffmann, 1482 Antoin WANTED ~ Pioneer, Historical Balloon, ette Ave., Cincinnati 30. Ohio. Rocket, Jet and Polar Flight covers. Will buy or swap for U.S., U. N. or Boy Scout 1 WILL GIVE 8 different first day covers material. 1-'. Hellige, Saco, Maine. or 1000 mixed foreign stamps for 200 large U. S. commemoratives. S Tauber, 708 E WANTED - To buy or swap First Flight Tremont Ave., Bronx, N. Y. 331-2t* Atlanta, Ga. - Macon, Ga .. May 1919 AAM Cat 115. Paul T. Eaton, 1451 Citadel Dr. NE., Atlanta 5, Ga. AIRMAIL SOUVENIRS by Capt. John. Boesman Pocketbook 150 illustrations ab VON GRONAU, DO-X, MacArthur, Math out transatlantics, North Pole, Zep, Co ias, Morrow, Rosillo, International Air lumbia, USA, Holland, etc. $1.75: Aeron Train wanted on cover; offer Exposition autical Historians, Rusthoekstr 21, Schev- slogans, flags, RPOs. Roy Votaw, 5806 eningen, Holland. Ex322-4t Twin Gardens, Carmichael, Calif. EUROPEAN First Flights, .Zepps and Cat SERIOUS Collector wanted to exchange apaults, various stamp collections. Will sell used airmails. Also have Danzig C22-25 or trade for Zepp Mail or stamps. Bush, on reg. cover for best exchange offer. 61 W. 74th St., New York 23, N. Y. Walter R. Anderson, 453 Snyder Ave., San Ex 322-2t Jose 23. Calif JANUARY, 1958 The Caroline Prentice Cron1well Collection CANADA and NEWFOlTNDLAND To Be Sold February 27, 1958 One of the most outstanding auctions of XXth Century Canada and Newfoundland io be held in recent years. Included are many Es says, some of which are unique, Die Proofs, Plate Proofs, complete ~a!s of blocks of four, imperforate- and part perforate blocks of four, ~tc. CANADA includes: -- Large Die Essays of the unissued MacDonald Cartier Commemora tives. 1927 .Canadian Confederation commemorative issue, large Die Proofs, imperf. and imperf. between blocks of four. 1928-29 Pictorial issue, large Die Proofs, imperf. and im9erf. between blocks of four. 1932 Sc imperf. vertically in block of four - Scott $250. 1935 Silver Jubilee set of 6 Die Proofs, imperf. set. Many later Proofs, imperfs, part proofs, etc. NEWFOUNDLAND includes : -- 1910 Guy litho set in o. g. imperf. blocks of four. "- 1S20 Essays and Provisionals including double and inverted sur charges. 1928 Progressive Die Proofs. Sir Humphrey Gilbert set of Die Proofs. 1937 lSc Progressive Die Proofs, probably unique. Wonderful Air Post includes: -- 3 copies of the "'Howker" 3c (one on cov er}, "Pinedo" single and a very fine block of four, "Columbia" block of four, "DO-X" inverted surcharge single and block of four. and many other rare it- ems. Fully illustrated de il:uxe catalogues cost 25c. (free to clients on our regular mailing list) H . R. Harmer, Inc. The World's Leading Stamp Auctioneers Six West 48th Street-New York 36 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL J•ANiUAIRY, 195'8