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Signed Covers raf catalogueRAFC03 Rare and Unusual SIGNED COVERS 1973 Goodwood Air Show cover, signed by Douglas Bader, Johnnie Johnson, Dennis David, Frank Carey, Ludwik Martel, Alec Ingle, John Booth and one other. We guess they are all Battle of Britain pilots. RYB008E £300 £75 per month for 4 months RYB008F £75 1998 Opening of the Battle of RYB008G £75 Britain Suite at the Royal Star and 1970 30th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Garter Home, signed by at least cover, signed by pilots Alan Deere, Bertie 20 Battle of Britain pilots. The Wootten and Desmond Sheen. Supplied with an covers do have a list inside, but original typed letter from Rembrandt Philatelics this will need checking. saying these 300 specials were done by Group Captain Randle RYB016A £300 OFFER £250 1980 Battle of Britain 40th anniversary cover, signed by Bob Stanford Tuck, Douglas Bader, Johnnie Johnson, John Cunningham and James Lacey. A great group of signatures and one of the last chances to get them all together. £50 per month for RYB008H £200 5 months Early RAF cover marking the 1969 Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, signed by we think RYH003N £150 14 pilots and 2 Military medal winners. 1971 RAF Fylingdales cover, Includes Alan Deere, Peter Townsend, signed by Sir Arthur Geoffrey Page and Dennis David, but has no Harris and General Josef list so research needed but a fantastic cover. Kammhuber (who set up the German Night Fighters). This is £40 per month for 5 months a Rossbach cover, so details are printed on the back in German and two extra photographs inside, No 16 of only 21 covers. £30 per month for 5 months RYD019D £75 1998 55th Anniversary of the Dambusters, signed by three members of the crew who took part: Squadron Leader George L Johnson, Flight Lieutenant George A Chalmers and Flight Lieutenant Edward C Johnson. Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF 1 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] RYD004M £300 £60 per month for 5 months 1978 American Commercial Aviation Cover, signed by Chuck Yeager (the first man to break the speed of sound), Jimmy Doolittle RYD003G £225 General Karl Donitz, signed 1943 1896 - 1993 (led Occupied Nations FDC, commander of the German the famous raid on Japan) and Bill Dana 1930 - 2014, Test pilot who Navy and after the death of Hitler became Germany flew the X-15 and helped with development for the space shuttle. Head of State. £45 per month for 5 months RYM006D £200 £50 per month for 4 months Mountbatten of Burma, signed letter of thanks written while on his Honeymoon in Paris on 31st July 1922. Sent to Petty Officer Shrives and is supplied with the original envelope, mentions he has heard from ‘old Flotilla Mates’. RYD032A £100 1994 Isle of Man 50th Anniversary RYD028D £1500 of D-Day, signed by six men who Rare were there and have added their Page taken from an autograph book role, Beachmaster Edward Gueritz, signed by wartime leaders Lord Hugh Piper Bill Millin, Peter Ayerst, Dowding (1882 - 1970) and Viscount General John Mogg, Bill Reid VC Portal of Hungerford. Lord Dowding and Charles Widdows. was in charge of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and Viscount £50 per month Portal Bomber Command. Two very rare for 2 months and connected signatures together. £150 per month for 10 months RYK002 £100 1998 Cover marking the opening of the Battle of Britain Suite at the Star and Garter Home, signed by the Duke of Kent who officially opened it. £20 per month for 5 months RYJ015K £45 Benham 1994 D Day Landings 50th Anniversary cover produced for the Daily Express. Flown in the special 50th Anniversary Want to spread the payments on these amazing covers? Don’t Fly-past and signed by World War II Ace Johnnie forget to ask about Flexi Pay! Call 01303 278137 for full details. Johnson, who flew missions on D-Day. 2 Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF RAF01 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] RYO002A £50 Hans Von Ohain (1911 - 1998), German Inventor of the First Jet Engine. Signed Insert card for the 40th Anniversary of the Jet Engine insert card. Not the unusual sort of RYP001A £995 thing we would offer, but this is a Sir Keith Park, signed Combats in the Air report, from 1918 when he was very rare signature and could be put commander of 48 Squadron, details a Fokker Biplane shot down by a Bristol with a Sir Frank Whittle Fighter while returning to base after a bombing raid. Sir Keith went on to organize the Dunkirk evacuation, the Defence of London during the Battle of Britain and the Defence of Malta £99.50 per month for 10 months RYT019G £75 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain cover, signed by fighter pilots Peter Townsend 1914 - 1995 (maybe better remembered for his relationship with Princess Margaret) Trevor Gray and Alan Deere 1917 - 1995 RYR022R £45 2000 Benham Guernsey 60th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Medal cover signed by seven pilots, who took part in the battle. RYW008D £495 £49.50 per month for 10 months 1972 Farnborough Air Show Cover, signed Sir Frank Whittle (British Inventor of the Jet Engine) and Eric Warsitz (German Jet Test pilot) RYT021B £85 RYW008H £300 1965 Battle of Britain cover, signed by: OFFER £250 Peter Twiss 1921 -2011 40th Anniversary of the Test pilot and holder of First Jet Flight cover, the Air Speed Record signed by the German Paddy Barthropp 1921 - 2008, BOB inventor Hans Von and Test pilot plus POW Escaper Ohain and the test pilot Erich Warsitz. Tony Iveson 1919 - 2013, Fighter and As an extra bonus Lancaster pilot, sunk the Tirpitz the insert card is also Neville Duke 1922 - 2007, Ace and signed by Ohain. Test pilot plus holder of the Air Speed Record www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 RYS006A £75 Tom Sopwith (English aviation pioneer and yachtsman), Duncan Simpson (English test pilot), and Tony Theobald (cover artist) signed 1976 Tom Sopwith Historic Aviators cover. RYB025T £75 RYB025W £100 £25 per month for 4 months 1977 Red Baron cover 1972 Dambusters cover, signed by Leonard signed by Adolf Cheshire VC and Paul Tibbets. Galland, Saburo Sakai and Ferdinand ‘Freddie’ West VC. RYB025Z £125 £25 per month for 5 months 1965 Battle of Britain cover, signed by eight pilots who took part Dennis David, Frank Carey, I Cosby, Ludwik Martel, Peter Ayerst, George Darley and Archie Winskill. RYG036B £35 1978 Historic Aviators Ginger RYB026E £150 £30 per month for 5 months Lacey cover, which he has signed, 1965 Battle of Britain cover, signed by eleven plus German Knights Cross pilots who took part Dennis David, Peter Bomber pilot Walter Storp. Ayerst, Harold Bird Wilson, Z Wroblewski, Double flown and postmarked to Archie Winskill, R James, Frank Carey, Alex mark the 4th Anniversary of the Ingle, Jack Unwinn Man and Tony Russell. Battle of Britain. Multi - Signed Special Unusual 1983 United Nations cover featuring Westminster Abbey, signed by: RYY001A £750 £75 per month for 10 months Fred Oliv (1922 - 2004) Co-pilot on the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Flight Chuck Yeager The first man to break the speed of sound Tex Hill (1915 - 2007) American World War II Ace Chuck Lindberg (1920 - 2007) Raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi Hugo Broch German Ace Pilot The final three were all U-Boat Commanders; Leonard Cheshire Eric Topp (1914 - 2005), Helmut Witte (1915 - 2005) (1917 - 1992) Winner of the Victoria Cross and Hans Gunther Lange (1916 - 2014) 4 Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF RAF01 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] Want to spread the payments on these amazing covers? Don’t forget to ask about Flexi Pay! Call 01303 278137 for full details. RYH003M £150 1972 RAF Topcliffe cover signed by: Arthur Harris RYB013 £100 £50 per month for 2 months (Commander-in-Chief of Jean Batten (New Zealand aviation pioneer Bomber Command) Hajo and record breaker) and Tom Sopwith (English Herrmann (high ranking aviation pioneer and yachtsman) signed 1976 Jean and influential member Batten Historic Aviators cover. of the Luftwaffe). £50 per month for 3 months RYS007D £100 £50 per month for 2 months Bob Stanford- Tuck (29 aerial victories), Denis Smallwood (senior RAF commander), Bill RYD003N £200 £50 per month for 4 months Bedford (pioneered the V/STOL aircraft.), plus 3 General Karl Dönitz signed 1971 RAF Squadron signed 1973 RAF Squadron 204 cover, masterminded the German submarine 605 cover. ‘wolf pack’ strategy and after the death of Hitler Dönitz was made Head of State and Supreme Commander of the German Armed Forces. 01303 278137 EMAIL: [email protected] RYW003AD £500 £100 per month for 5 months Barnes Wallis, Bob Stanford-Tuck (29 aerial victories), £100 per month for RYW003A £400 and Neville Duke (most successful Western Allied ace 4 months in the Mediterranean Theatre with 27 kills) signed 1976 Barnes Wallis signed 1976 Historic Aviators Series Historic Aviators Series cover. cover, best known for inventing the bouncing bomb. WE RUN REGULAR THEMATIC EMAILS WITH EXCLUSIVE OFFERS VISIT WWW.BUCKINGHAMCOVERS.COM/FAMILY TO ENSURE YOU’RE NOT MISSING OUT www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 RYW003C £450 £50 per month for 9 months Barnes Wallis and Air Commodore Robert Carter (Bomber Command) signed 1972 RAF Topcliffe cover. RYW008 £400 £50 per month for 8 months Sir Frank Whittle signed 1971 cover marking the 30th Anniversary of the first jet taking off, he invented he turbojet engine. £179 per month for 5 months RYH008K £895 1972 Farnborough Airshow Hand Rossbach cover, signed by Sir Frank Whittle (1907 - 1996) British Jet Inventor, Hans Von Ohain (1911 - 1998) German Jet Inventor and Eric Warsitz (1906 - 1983) German Jet Test Pilot.
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