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[C.] A. M. BREAK-UP I am breaking up my quadruplicate collection of (C. )A.M.'s. Realize th~ impossibility of getting ~ copies of every (C.)A.M. Many desirable items are duplicated. Since I am a collector. not a dealer. few copies of some of these n1·e available. What do you need ? 2S10f, cat. 2.00 ...... $ .SO 30W4 ...... LOO 2Nl I, cat. .40 . . • . • ...... 20 32E2 (Vancouver) ...... SS 4S3, cat. 1.50 . . . . . • ...... • . • .60 33WP4, cat. 3.00 ••• ...... 2.10 4N4, cat.. 40 . . . . • . • . . . . • . • . . • . .20 33E4, cat. .SO • . • . • ...... 20 8Nl2, cat.. 7S . •...... •. . . . .lS 33ESA, cat. . 50 . . . • . • ...... 20 SSl 3, cat. 1.50 . . . . • ...... SS 33E5Af, cat. 2.SO • . . . • ...... L 7 S 8Sl3f, cat. 5.00 ••...... 1.8S 33W 4A, cat.. SO . • ...... 20 8SIS, cat. L75 ...... •• . •. .••7S 33WS, cat.• SO . • • • . • ...... 20 8Nl6a, cat. 1.00 ...... • • . . . . .20 33W5f, cat. LOO • . • . • • ...... 4.0 9W21, cat. 2.00 ...... • ...... SO 33ESP . cat. 7.SO . • • • • • • ...... 3.9S 11E7, cat. 1.2S ...... 4S 33ESP f, cat. 10.00 •.•.•• ...... S.70 McKeesport to Washington ...... 2.00 33Nl 9f, cat. 1.50 • . • . . • ...... 75 l 1S6, cat. 7S ...... 30 33W31, cat. LOO • . .. . • ...... 7S 20Wl3 and 20El3, both for...... 30 34N24, cat. 3.50 • • •. • ...... 2.45 20El S and 20El Sf, both for...... 40 34N24f, cat. 3.SO .••••.•...... 2.45 2 1S6 (S diff. cachets) ...... 7S 34N2S, cat. 2.50 ... • ••.•. • ..... l!.45 22S4, cat. 3.7S . . •...... • . .. . . 2.00 22N7 and 22N7a, both for ...... 35 Tacoma (N) coast r oute, 5-9-34 . . 15.00 2 581 fa, cat. 2.50 . . . • . . . . . • . . . . L50 Davenport, Rock Island. Ne wa r k P . 28E 5f, cat. LSO . . . . . • . • ...... 65 0., Dallas to Oklahoma City (dire ct) , 28E 5f (waterstained) ...... 75 and o t her s at hand. Ag ain, wbat do 29Wlf, cat. 1.SO ...... 90 you need. 29E 5. cat. . SO • ...... • . . . . .20 30Sl fa, cat. . 7S ...... • . 35 Check or M.O. with order---you may se 30N7fa, cat. L50 ...... • ...... 95 turn covers in 5 days. if unsatisfactory. PERHAM C. NAHL 6043A Harwood Ave., OAKLAND, CALIF. A.A.M.S.218; W .C.A.Jl.S.:!1 Airport Dedication Covers \lTDAT and WHY
nature of the event and connect it with by the cover. and the more attractive tn~ form of same the better. lioweve1-, col MAURICE S. PETTY lectors al·e ju.st as zealous in obtaining covers irom a dedication where no such cover marking is used, provided there was ACK IN 1927, 1928, and early 1929, an authentic, bona fide dedication or when air .mail cover collectin& formal opening of an airport held. Cot 13 really began to .. come into its own". lectora are almost unanimous in prefer due to there not being enough current ring covers without any markings to ohicial flights, etc., to keep collectors covers bearing markings placed thereon occupied, the semi-official or unofficial ah· by private individuals, whether collectors mail covers attained great popularity, or not. The ideal dedication cover is one though a few had gone out prior to that on which advance publicity was sufficient, tin1e. · Collectors began maHing ail' covers the cachet sponsored by a Chamber ol' to commemorate or mark all kinds of Commerce or responsible body and of an aeronautic events such as airpol't dedica attractive design and placed on air mu.ti tions. air shows, races, tours, important cover only. Every single cover maile
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regret greatly having passed up the The Standard Airpost Catalogue listings opportunities I have had of securing of ah.~port dedication covers is a special covers at little or no cost those whicn. ized one and lists what is known by the are now unobtainable simply because they editors to exist. That no one person could were not addressed to me. possibly obtain an absolutely complete collection of all varieties is a f oregone A fairly large collection of past covers conclusion. 'Ve deplore the existence o1 can still be obtained for small expenditure the many minor varieties of some covers and there are plenw of elusive items "CO as much as anyone. but have no choice give anyone the "spirit of the chase" but to face what exists. Further, it is my which constitu~es the main fun. There is opinion (and I have no quarrel with any ... no time like the present to begin a co! one who disagrees) that one variety of' lection of these interesting covers. My a cover ft:om each event would make a card index of' prices realized at all auction satisfactory collect•on for the average dedi sales over a pedod of several years, shows cation cover collector. Too, I realize that r irport dedication covers as a whole (bar you readers are not interested in opinion!-5. ring a few rare exceptions) sell for as The catalougue has continued listing of large percentage of catalogue prices aa all items listed in previous Dworak cat.. any of the other popular brands of coverl!I. alogues until satistactory evidence of their As in other allie<.i branches of philately, erroneous inclusion is obtained, at which we have collectors who have the tendency time they must be deleted. Every doubt to ocnsider solely value or what their ful one has been under investigation ano. covers are worth. even to the extent or in some cases it seems almost an im occasionally suppressing news in an at possibility to get authentic data, for we tempt to gain monopoly on an event or need facts and not opinions, and then cover. Happily this is not great. A col· they must be weighed and viewed 'from lector should not spend on his hobby any all possible angles. I believe collectors more than he is willing to lose undel' the of airport dedication covers ca.n be reason~ heading of pleasure. If his hob by should ably assured that the 1935 edition of the bring financial return or gain. he is that Standard Catalogue will have been au much to the good. But expenditures thenticated to the extent as to make un should only be for the sake of pleasut·e necessary any future changes~ except in derived. clusion of additiona1 items . Greater DETROIT Airports
same design as the rubber stamp cachet. by W. T. WYNN, Jr. JOHN S. HAGGERTY FIELD, located Vice President, Detroit Air at Ford Road and Wyoming Avenue in Mail Society Dearborn, Michigan, was dedicated April 8, 19 30. The field is about six miles west of Detroit, near the boundary be GROSSE ILE NA VA L RESERVE tween Detroit and· Dearborn, about one BASE, located on Grosse Ile about mile from the Rouge Plant of the Ford eighteen miles south west of Detroit was Motor Co. Mr. Leonard Flo leased the dedicated September 7, 192 9. This is the field and is using it as a private field home of the Naval Reserve as well as the for passengers and flying lessons. Mr. Detroit Aircraft Corporation. The first Flo is a pilot of several first flights on all metal dirigible, the Z M C-2 was built A.M. 10 in 1926. Three types of cachets here by the Detroit ·Aircraft Corporation were used on covers at the dedication. for the Navy Department A few covers A printed cachet signed by Flo, a type were mailed with a typewritten cachet by written cachet signed by Major Clyde the postmaster. Ford, and a typewritten cachet signed by THE DETROIT CITY AIRPORT, locat R. F. Macdonald, Secretary of the Board ed at Gratiot Avenue and Connors Avenue, of Commerce, were those used. There about five miles from downtown Detroit, were very few covers of any of these was dedicated with an Air Show, AprU tpyes. 5, 1930. The show extended from April SCHLEE-BROCK airport located at 5th to the 12th with a different colored John R and 16 Mile Road, about 16 cachet each day. The dedication lasted miles north of Detroit, was dedicated one day only. The port is used by the May 11, 1930. The field is used as a American Airlines as well as several other private port for Commercial and Training companies. At present all of Detroit air flying. A few covers received a type mail and regular passenger planes use written cachet and were autographed by this port. At the time of writing there Mr. Schlee. He took the covers to are more than thirty departures and Dtroit to the office of his company but arrivals on regular runs each day by the the postoffice being closed the covers American Airlines. A much heavier were mailed the next day from his office schedule is planned for· the summer. These covers are very scarce. There are eight mail flights by American BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN airport was Airlines out of the port. A clerk is on dedicated June 29, 1930. The field is no duty at all times in the field post office. longer in operation but was located just The field is well equipped and well light east of Woodward Ave. between 14 and ed. The cachet by T. A. C. for the dedi 15 Mile roads. Sixteen covers were sign cation was magenta and was applied to ed by the Assistant Postmaster. 2000 covers, About 100 covers were WAYNE COUNTY airport, one of the printed with a smaller size cachet, the first airports in the country to receive the [ 4 ] JULY 1934
A-1-A rating by the government, Is located at Middle Belt and Goddard Roads about 15 miles west of Detroit. It was dedicated September 4, 1980. The field Is one mile square, and has a large hangar as well as the hangar of the 107th Michigan National Guard. The only In ternational measured speed course In the United States is located at this field. Roscoe Turner, who expects to run speed tests this summer, Is making this his home port. Lowell Bayles, who held the un offoclal speed record, was killed here a few years ago while trying to make a new record. About thirty fliers keep their planes here and there are several pilots using the field for sight seeing as well as commercial flights. Miss Mar garet Spitz, the youngest holder of a transport license, was trained and flies out of this field. She le known as Wayne County's Flying Sheriff. Radio, weather service, as well as the best of lighting Is provided. ·'I'he Air Mall field post office was located at this port before It was moved to the Detroit City Airport At one . time the night mall flights and inall flown during stormy weather was brought In at this port rather than to attempt W. T. Wynn, Jr., Cachet Director of landing at the city port. The post office Detroit Airmail Society, banding Grat· and all mall flights have been discon iot Airport dedication covers to Mrs. tinued and moved to the city Airport. Gladys Hartune, who flew them from The Wayne port Is truly the pilot's Gratiot Airport to Detroit Airmail dream of a landing field. A large square Field._ purple cachet, sponsored by Thompson Arenautical Corporation, was applied to 400 covers. A few covers were malled BURNS AIRPORT located on Plymouth without a cachet but are autographed by Road and Telegraph Road, about 12 Charles Kellogg, the Postmaster of miles northwest of Detroit, was dedicated Detroit. · November 5, 1983 with an air circus and KOHLER MARINE BASE was dedicated show. This is tlie home of the Burne May 14, 1982. The base Is located on Flyers Inc. and it has been used or a the Detroit River about three miles from number of years as a private field for downtown Detroit, this being the closest special flights. Mr. Claude Wright, man airport to the business district of De ager of the field, and Mies Rose Devilo, troit. It Is used as a Base for the am a parachute jumjer autographed the. phibian planes between Det1·olt and Mil covers which had a five line blue cachet waukee. The flt-et mall out of the base on them. Lese than l 00 covers were was flown April 9, 1938 when Kohler malled. changed Its operations from their winter base at the City Port, to the base at the rlvex:._ A concrete ramp extends out Into Perham C. Nahl Will Dlepooe Of the river for the ships to run up on. The base Is capable of being used for Fine Colletlon of C.A.M.'a water landing only. The ticket office and waiting room Is located on Jefferson Perham C. Nahl, •Oakland, California, Avenue. 896 covers were malled with well known collector of Contract Air Mall round magenta cachet sponsored by the covers le breaking up hs quadruplicate Kohler Avletlon Corporation. collection of these fine covers and offer ing a number of Items for sale in this GRATIOT AIRPORT, located at Gratiot Issue of the JOURNAL. Many of the rare and the lO Y2 mile road, which Is one of and seldom offered points are Included the oldest in Michigan, wes dedicated and It Is a splendid opportunity for col ?oiay 21, 1933. As the old Packard field lectors to fill in their blank spaces. Mr. it was used by numerous barnstorming Nahl le one of the early members of the pilots. The Hartung Aircraft Coroporatlon A. A. M. S., holding number 218. operates the field with a field and ground flying school. Aviation Post No. 267 or the American Legion held an air show and air races on the day of the dedica First Flight Athena tion. Mrs. Gladys Hartung, flew 441 To Drama, Greece covers malled for the dedication to the city airport and turned them over to the • clerk on duty at the air mail field post We wish to acknowledge with thanks office where postmarked. A ten lln... a cover from the first air mall flight be square green cachet and a two line red tween Athens and Drama, Greece, sent cachet was used on a ll the covers malled. through the courtesy of P. Drossos. Officers of the Detroit Air Mall Society The date of .the flight was May 26th cooperating with the Legion and the and the cover bears a circular cachet In Hartung Corporation arranged for the purple, showing an aeroplane In flight handling of the cachet and malling of the over the mountains. Greek wording ap cove:ra. pears around the tnslde of the circle. [ 5 I SUNNYVALE u. s. Nava I Air Station Dedication April 12, 1933
was served and we wandered about ··~o by JAMES W. GREEN take In the sights". Cachet Director Sunnyvale Now that we have the story of the Commissioning or Dedication of the Air Chamber of Commerce Station, let us get an idea as to· its location. Picture with me, if you will, this west~ ern state of ours, with a coast line of NITED STATES Navail Air Station some one thousand miles, and this coast U between Sunnyvale, Calif. and Moun line broken a little way above its half tain View Calif. became an official part of way 'point by the Golden Gate. This is the United States Navy at 11 :35 A. M. the entrance to San Francisco Bay, who$
the first to take to the air in a flying tor, applied it to 1678 covers. Two dif machine. ferent cachets were sponsored by the San Yes, this location . of the Air Station is Jose Chamber . of Commerce and both connected in a close way with the early were applied to 1678 covers by Cachet history of our State. Legend tells us that Director, D. H. Jacobs. Still another was even before 1579, when the Bay was firs~ sponsored by the San Francisco Junior discovered, enterprising Chinese wishing i.., Chamber of Commerce and applied by expand their bueines•, sailed eastward and Cahcet Director, John D. Long, to 468 landed, cautiously peering over the mouh· covers postmarked at San Francisco. This tain peaks saw nothing but Indians, seani· cachet . waa also applied to the back of ily clad. They turned back and after due many covers bearing the Sunnyvale and conference decided this was no place for San Jose cachets, all of which were post a laundry, and sailed home discouraged. marked at Sunnyvale. Capt. H. E. Shoe Then, there is the true story of the later maker, U . S. N., who was field commander, days when the faithful Fathers set up and Is known to have signed and mailed about down this coast a string of Missions and twenty covers without any cachet, and up and down the roads that now pass the they are postmarked at Mountain View Station, worth its five million dollars, through which office he was in the habit these peoples passed. But another day of sending his naval mall. was coming-For, through the Golden Gate, ships of all kinds came, and acrosb the plains covered wagons came and as the Fathers had brought a new way or living, so this influx brought other ideas as to living and settlement of this West CRASH ern land, for gold had been found. Along with the peoples who came with this gola rush were those who soon made up their COVER NEWS . minds that there were other ways to make as much out of life, and· as a result other vocations were tried and so we have to day the State, and $his part particularly, By FRANK A . COSTANZO as we now see it, developed to a great extent, and with the hope and promise of Crash CovP.r new• •hould he sent direct still greater things. to Frank A. Costanzo, Box No. · 32, For the air mall cover collectors, th·., Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce spon Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. sored a cachet showing Uncle Sam and the Bear and the writer, as Cachet Dh·ec- Again we are happy to report that no ~ir mail plane mishaps have occurred during the month just gone bv. Several of the planes had forced landings with little damage but as these are of such a minor nature, they wlll not be listed either In thi• column or in the Standard Airpost Catalog. THANX to the many faithful co-operators who have been of much assistance to me In ll'iltherlng · crash data and clipplnll's. Due to the nature of this column, the, help of every collector is needP.d. whether crash collector or not, as mishaps occu'r in all section• of the nation and onlv clo•e co-operation on the part of all collectors and readers will enable me to covPr them with the data so necessary to crash and accident cover collectors. EXHIBIT AT CONVENTION With Convention time drawing near I PincP.rely hope th~t cra•h collectors will hP.j;!'in to R"room their eollectionA to ent~r them In the fine and outetandlnl( exhihit to be held at the 1934 1mm1RI AAMS Convention whlr.h will be held In Chicago. Cra•h covers always have heen dl•plaved at formPr exhibit• and It i• hoped thnt more collectors wlll enter thi• yeRr with more f'Xhlblts then ever • Come on one •nil all. lei's make th~ cra•h rover ex hlhit the n"Ost outstanding exhibit at the 1984 event!
Lt. Com. MyrO!l Walker receivinir Plan now to attend the annual Conventlo'l order• from Rear Admiral Lawe, •nd Exhibition of the American Air Mall Commandant of the 12th Naval Sociew to be held at Chlcairo. the World's District. Fair City, August SO, Sl and September 1. [ 7 ] Pan~Amerlcan Airways Airport at Miami, Florida.
Airports of MIAMI
CATION which when takes place Mr. Duntin has promised t.o · give me By . R. W. SPEAKMAN plenty of time to get out notices. I Cachet Director, Miami Chamber now hold about 400 covers for this of Commerce event. THIS BA.SE IS THE LARGEST AIR TERMINAL IN THE WORLD and wh en t hey do DEDICATE rr I WILL try to give a·, brief resume WILL BE TALK OF AIR CIRCLES of Aviation History In the Greater Miami ALL OVER THE WORLD as they Area. The Airports are operated as are planning on making it one big follows: event. Owned by Pan American Airways. 1 Navy Airport •••.••• • •. Government 2 Dirigible Base ..• , .•.•.. Government 18 Chapman Field •. • • ..•.• • U S. Army, 3 Municipal Dirigible Hangar .... Owned Earl S. Hoage, C; 0 . by City leased by Goodyear for their NOTE: Curtis Wright Hangar at Muni blimps. cipal Airport is leased by Mr. Earl 4 Municipal Airport ..•• City of Miami Meyers. Coast Guard has leased the Muni 6 All American Airport Operated by cipal H a ng ar. The Coast Guard also Karl Voelter. operates from a Base running parallel to 6 N. W. 64th St. Flying Field .•• •• . Do Dinner Key Base, Commander C. C. von not know who operates. Paulsen In command. 7 P an American Airport-36th St. .• •• Now I will resume with some of the .... Leased by Eastern Air Transport Early Air Hstory of this area: 8 Viking Seaplane Base . • • • Operated by Lloyd Fayles. Mr. Glen H . Curtiss of Hammondsport, 9 Causeway Flying Base ..••••.•. Chalk N. Y. noted Pioneer · Flier and builder of Flying Service. the earliest Bi-Planes, is one of Miami's .o Curtis Wright Base ••• • •• Operated by greatest Aviation Enthusiasts and at the Mrs. Robert Moore. early date of 1916 established at Miami 11 Coral Gables Field ...... Could not Bnach the First Flying School in t his area. locate Owner, Not Used. This, we might say, was the beginning of 12 Pan American International Sea- A vlatlon In Miami. p lane Base. This base Is the new July 27th, 1928 Mr. Curtis presented Airport just finished and has had an 160 acres of land to the City of Miami to informal opening but not a DEDI- be used as a Municipal Airport.' This [ 8 1 JULY 1934
Airport was the First Airport in Miami Goodrich, 3rd V. P,; C. D. Leffler, Treas· and was finished and Dedicated on Jan. urer; A. H. Heermance, Sect. and Ass't. 7th and 8th, 1929. Air Mail was Cacheted Treasurer. Mr. Heermanee was made to commemorate this event and about Aviation Director for the City of MIAMI 100 covers were mailed on the first day, on Feb. lat, 19 28, about the same number the second day. In 1930 the Naval Reserve Aviation Cachet was purple first day, and Green Base was established and in 1931 during se~ond day. This Airport was increased the Air Races this Navy Base was Dedi In size by a later donation nnd is one cated. A cachet was used on Air Mail half mile wide and three quarter mile 691 covers mailed .Jan. 8, green cachet. Jong. Jan. 9th 670 covers received a violet cachet, .Jan. 10 762 covers received a It seems that at this time Miami "sure red cachet. The Races were held over nuf" became Air minded because the Pan for a fourth day and about 30 covers American Airport was finished at this were mailed, no cachet. Rame time and was Dedicated on Jan. 9th, The Navy Dirigible Base was erected in 1929. Covers received Cachet in Blue but 1930 I believe but not completed until I can find no record of the number of late in 1931 so in Jan. 1932 during the Air covers. Races this Drigible Base was Dedicated On Dec. 17 1928 the City Commis•ioners and 1593 covers received a green and of Mi11mi •ecured a Dirigible Hangar violet cachet for first day Jan 7th, 1932. '"hich had heen used by the Navy at Key On Jan. 8th 1438 covers received a green West and had it erected near Opalocka, and red cachet, on .Jan. 9th 1412 covers this being completed at the time of received a green and blue cachet, these Miamrs ~econd Air Meet so on the First were also stamped EXTRA DAY and Day of the races a formal Dedication of date • the Dirigible Airport took place. This On August 18th 1931 Chapman Field was announced about three days before which served as a base during the World the races. A special Cachet was used War was reopened by Capt. Earl S. Hoag for Air Mail to commemorate this Event who was sent here as Commanding Offi and a separate cachet for the Air Races. cer, No Dedication. '169 eovers r,eceived the Dedication CRCh~t. I believe thMe covers also received the Air Race cachet. The Pnn Am 0 rican Airways firqt uc::ed thPir 3~th 8t. Ba•P. on Sept. 15th, 1921! A Pioneer Airport pn
gallon gasoline tank, and an office. periment and remained in use but l!l In the course of construction 1,000 months. In that period of time, ~ trees were removed and many of the fatalities occurred. The first accident holes were hastily filled leaving the run occurred when Walter H. Stevens, a ways very bull).py. The hangars meas famous flier of those days, landed a ured 66xl40 feet and were sufficient in heavy Martin Bomber from Belmont size for the number of planes using the Park December 2nd to test the field A field. small group of boys rushed across the The first mail plane to use the field field and one of them was instantly killed was one piloted by Walter H. Steven• when he ran into the propellor. Stevens coming in from Washington, D. C. on was absolved of the blame. December 6th. It carried 13 pouches and In February 1920, Harry C. Sherlock made the trip in 2 hours. was killed as his plane struck a smoK,. The first all air trip from Chicago was stack while circling the field preparing made in February 1920. The flight took to make a landing. 7 hours, 45 minutes in three stages with A week later, Clarence Stapleton wa~ Pilot Stevens flying the last lap from killed before thousands of people in a Bellefonte, Pa. to Newark at a 158 mile stunting plane piloted by Frederick A. an hour clip. Robinson. who was seriously injured. Officially, the opening day of the field Other crashes followed until it was de was on September 13, 1918, a great day cided to move the service to Hazelhurs< for Newarkers. Each letter was stampe Dedication and Unofficial Air Mail Covers Maurice S. Petty News of future and past events under cation that I learn of, if not in time for next JOURNAL. There is no obligation. this section should be sent direct to except also to send in a notice of definite Mr. Petty, 507 Quackenhos St., N. W., date of every one you may hear of, so the Washington, D. C. others may benefit. This is restdcted to readers of the AlRPOST JOURNAL du" to work involved) and to Airport Dedi cations only. definite dates only. · NNOUNCEMENT: Now that the 1934 IDAHO FALLS IDAHO, dedication post Catalogue Supplement is being dis· poned to later. Covers to CofC.... Mr. A tributed it is time to state that the Knigdom in Linns says Horace Wilson, Airpost Dedication Section in the 198:> :Mentor, Ohio, is holding covers for an air catalogue will be entirely re-written to in port dedication there... Send some covers clude pertinent Information concerning to John D. Long, 3826 Fulton St. San each field listed. A definite statement of Franciseo> for events there. policy for items to be listed or omitted .. Past dedicationsirpost. . . .. ~ will be published here after being decided PAST DEDICATIONS. Harry Sweet reports upon by personal conference between Randsburg, Cal. both dates. April 28-29, editors and publishers in August. To aid '"ith typed cached signed by Postmaster.. in this, a letter is urgently solicted from Sunbury, Pa. Sept 1. 2, 3, 1928. Have every dedication collector as to his ideas just seen covers of first with eight line for future listings. Particularly, the ques printed c2.chet Same reads "Derlieation of tion of private markings on covers; and Sunbury. Pa., Afr Port," etc. Have heard the matter of multiple days, both past and of 2.nother Rix line printecl one reading future, also Re-dedications. Your opinions "Orerit Air Meet and Flying Circus. etc. must be sent in AT ONCE and the maior but have not seen it. Fat· cataloguing, ity opinion will guide us. Our file is now would like to see both covers any or all en,pty and nothing written in the past dates, al;:;:o to have any inf'ormation on will be considered, only that received them ... Pittsburrth. Kans. Atkinson Mun1- after you read th1s. so every 011e write. ripal Air-port, May 8. blue printed cachet Sorry, letters cannot be acknowledged by Legion on 158 covers, other• without but everyone will be considered. it... Tulsa, Tex. ( 6 miles fro"l Wink, Tex.) STILL ANOTHER: In a monthly publica Municipa} Airport M~v 20th. no cover• tion, future dedications news cannot be known ... Ontario. Ca. CofC writes event of disseminated in time to be of use, and It April 29 was not in any sense an airport is not always possible to Issue an AAMS dedication ... Mr. C. L. McCoy submits Bulletin fo1• one item. Hence as soon as Mver of Bates field, Mobile, 11-8-29 with this is read, every reader of the JOURNAL pictorial cleaication sticker. CofC has no who will send me " supply of addressed records of it and orivinal addressee is post cards will be notified within 24 hours now unknown there. Who has a cov~r ot of the definite date of any airport dedl- 9th and data on the sticker. Mr. McCoy [10] JULY 1934 also reports both dates without cachet ..• sense an airport dedication ... A number of (;entel", Tex. reported dedicated May 20 first flight unofficial cachets from Chicago, with printed cachet, not yet seen ... New Cincinnati, Portland, etc. For news item York City dedicated Seaplane Base at 155th our thanks to Leo August, O. V. Austin, St. and Hudson River, with no advance John Curry, Rev. Thos. Brewster, Judge notice except newspapers of that day. 21' B. S. DeBoice, E. M. Brower, C. E. Carl covers mailed with nice printed cachet, 20 son, Malcolm Dickson, R. M. Collins. Frank with five line typed cachet signed by Costanzo, Milton Ehrlich, John Fitzgeral THIS MONTH we present the Arport Ded ication Number. Dllring the past six years covt::J."~ IJ.·om these events have proven both numt::rous and interesting. Collectors who loliow airport dedications are second only, in number, to the ranks of the C.A.lv1. cover collectors, who, it is granted, make up the greatest body of our present-day c..1rpost specialists. MAURICE S. PETTY of Washington, D.C., served as associate editor of this special issue. ln !vu-. .t'etty, collector::; have a The chan1pion and a souJ"ce of intormation who is con1paraole, in the use of the ,l!;nglish AIRPOST JOURNAL language, to Mr. Webster, of dictionaq iame. Aside from keeping a comprehensive ld~ of UaLa on airporc dedication and un- 01i.icial 'Cover::; aUtiOJuteJy current during Official Publicatlon of the American the past several years, Maurice has abo Air Mail Society. Published Monthly written regular columns for· The A1RPOST ut Alhic;»n, Pennsylvania, U. 5. A. JOURNAL, together with two or three other philatelic magazines. He has served Entered as second-class matter, February as an otticer in various \Vashington phila 10, 1932, at the post office at Albion, telic societies and is a director of the Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. American Afr :Mail Society. His woJ:k as airport dedication cover section editor of the Standard Airpost Catalogue is. with WALTER J. CONRATH out aouot, one of l..he n1ost thorough list Managing Editor ings ever published. Through his home Ohice he has cleared and disseminated more advance and p_ast cover information than DEPARTMENT EDITORS any professional or non-professional we can ( C.) A.M.'s ...... Charles· G. Riess name. All this is done through apprecia Airs of t!he Month ...... tion of the hobby and good fellowship...... Alton J. Blank There is no remuneration other than the congenial friendships formed through the Dedications & Unofficials pursuit of the joys of the hobby...... Maurice S. Petty COOPERATORS like Petty are an asset Crash Cover News .. F. A. Costanzo to the hobby. When a new airpost col Canada ...... w. R. Patton· lector writes us and inquires just what Pacific Coast Notes .. Fred H.W1!de benefit he will derive through membership in The American Air Mail Society we like to point to these feliow-members and ex. All editorial copy, advertising, new and plain· the great good they have accomplish renewal subscriptions should be sent ed and are accompllshing. It is quite natur direct to the publication office at al to note that these men are, have been, Albion, Penn'a. or shortly will be officers of the Society. The AIRPOST JOURNAL is not con NOT CONTENT with the work he is doing ducted for profit. The managing edi for the members of the Society, Maurice tor, all department editors, feature Petty announces in this issue a new service on tiash news of airport dedications ex writers and contributors serve gratis clusively for readers of The AIRPOST and without compensation of any kind. JOURNAL. This will be handled through All receipts from advertising, subscrip the use of postal cards, as described else tions and contributions are applied di where, and will only include the short rectly to the betterment of the maga notice events which could not be handled zine and the promotion of aero-philately. conveniently by the A.A.M.S. Advance In formation Bulletin, or any other publica SUBSCRIPTION RATES tion. This is a step forward and we are happy to have the announcement for this United States ...... $1.00 per year special issue. Canada and Foreign .... $1.50 per year Single Copies· ...... lOc e&ch ANOTHER "break" this month for the Back Numbers ...... •. lSc each dedication collector, and, incidentally all U. S. airmail cover collector::;. is the re ADVERTISING RATES duction of the domestic air mail rate to six cents, which became effective July 1st. One inch, per issue .....•...... $ 1.00 While this will decrease the finani:ial bur Quarter Page, per issue ...... $ 3.25 den and increase the joys for most of us, Half Pa.J!'e. DP.r istme $ 6.00 it will undoubtedly cause additional wpr Full Page, per issue ..•...... $10.00 ries for the rate-change chroniclers, who Front Inside or Back Cover Pages now have a lot more ground to cover than (when avail<.hle) ...... $12.00 in the past. Interested advertisers may apply for contract rate for soace used every issue WINDING UP our work for the present issu·e. we have a word from our good The Airpost Journal is published on the friend August Dietz, Jr., business manager first of the month. Advertising copy and airpost editor of "Stamp and Cover must be received by .the 20th of each Collecting" (Richmond, Va.) : "It is need month, to days before publication date. less for me to tell you how much I thor oughly enjoy your magazine every month . . in fact, I read every line on every [12] JULY 1934 page every month." The same is true• of 30, 31, and September 1 at the World's us with reference to Mr. Dietz' well-bal Fair City. An unusual alrpost exhibition is a.nced monthly. The varied features are also promised, which will make the affair always interesting and carry enough of doubly inviting for all persons intersted true Southern romance to make them ad in air mail. Complete details and an (litionally refreshing. nouncements of the Convention and Exhi CONVENTION plans are rapidly being bition will be published in our August formulated by the Chicago committee and issue. A sheet of the special vignettes Is a record meeting of members of the Society sued for the gathering is included in this and their friends is p1·omised for August issue of The JOURNAL. AIRS OF THE MONTH • • • By ALTON J. BLANK DENMARK-Five tall slender stamps, beau tifully engraved comprise the new set fl·om All data on New Issues of Air Mail this country. As a common design all show an airplane in flight over the towers Stamps shodd be sent direct to Editor of Copenhagen, "The City of Beautiful Alton .I. Blank, 1850 Burnett Avenue, Towers." The word "Luftpost" is at the to'p of the stamp and the countl'y's name East Cleveland, Ohio. at the base. In a crest undel· a c1•own appears the value. The stamps are: 10 ore orange, 15 ore carmine. 20 ore blue-green. 50 ore deep green, and 1 Kr. light brown. OINCIDENT with the change of do mestic air mail rates to six centa DUTCH INDIES-My question about the C on the first of July came the new proposed 30c stamp has been fully answer air mail stamp. It was released for first ed by a report from the Dutch postal de day cover fans in Washington, D. C. '.l'he partment which states that this is entirely stamp is the same design as the newb a bogus product. obsolete eight cents and the former five cents. That is the winged globe in front GUATEMALA-Several sheets of the Q0.05 of rays of light. The color is orange of a on Q0.1 fi Pesos black stamp have been shade reminiscent of the 19 lR stamp of found bearing the Perkins Bacon & Co. the same denomination. It is printed on imprint on the base instead of that of the rotary press. Envelopes of the same Waterlow and Sons. Evidentally someone denomination and color were to be re slipped in a few of the 1926 printing done leased the same time but I have not seen by the former company so that we have any to date. a_ new variety. Denmark's new set is decidedly attrac ITALIAN COLONIES-A set of six stamps tive. Italy is still turning out new de has been issued along with the set of the signs but in the same high values. There's mother country in honor of the Inter a scandal in Costa Rica. national Football Games held in Rome. A large stadium with domes of houses and a CHILE-Still keeping up the high standard tall minaret in the background comprises of design, a third value of the permanent the design of the 50c yellow brown, the series comes in the form of a ten pesos 7fic red violet, and the 15L carmine red. stamp. red-brown in color. The stamp The 5L dark brown, the lOL red orange, shows a plane in flight under a rainbow. and the 25L green show an athlete catching .a football in front of ruined columns. A current philatelic publication chroni· cles a five pesos olive-green and black All are inscxibed "Campionati Mondlali stamp on watermarked paper bearing the Di Calcio", "Posta Aerea", the fasces and "Correo Aereo" surcharge in blue. Why "R.R. Coloniale Italiane." this stamp should come out after the per manent one listed last month is difficult to ITALY--Last minute word comes from explain. Unless perchance it had a sho1-t the Unione Filatelica Nazionale that a set life just before it was succeeded by the has been planned for the return flight of new stamp, Readers will remember that the aviators Sabelli and Pond. Details are Scott's No. 60 fi bears the surcharge in lacking as to design or denomination. The blue but on the unwatermarked stamp and colors of the Football set listed last month 632 is in black on the watermarked are: 50c carmine, 75c blue gray, 5L plus variety. 2.50L dark olive, and lOL plus 5L violet black. The first shows a plane over a COSTA RICA-Word comes that the 5 coliseum. the second an athlete kicking a ~a~mos value of the new air post seriPo. football, the third an under view of the surcharged "Oficial" has been cornered by stadium that one gets coming up through some dealer who Is selling the item at five one of the ramps, and the fourth a plane times face. Efforts are being made to over a judges stand. have the value re-issued by the American Benk Note Company which supplied the JAPAN-A translation of the inscription on adhesives. Continued on Page 25) [13) • Why Busy Professional Men Find Time to Collect Airport Dedication Covers By Rev. D. A. Kearns-Preston, Pastor tract his attention and relax his mind First Presbyterian Church when business hours are over. I have chosen the collection of airport dedications Tolono, Illinois covers because ·to me they present in a tangible way the picture of the develop While I have a fairly complete collec ment .of a great new field of transporta tion. Each new airport means another tion of dedication covers, they are by no community receiving the benefits of aerial means my most cherished possessions. But transportation. A good collection of air they create an interest and possess a port dedication covers tells the story of the value, otherwise they would not be col development of aviation better than any lected. Their existence in such larg~ num thing else. bers is indicative of their popularity. One reason for this, no doubt, is that One other reason I have for collecting they are the most easily <;>htained t:t;irough airport dedication covers is that I have the voluntary and gratuitous service of a young son who today is not in the least those benevolent collectors who are ever interested in airport covers, but who ready to serve their fellows as "a labo1· forty years from now will find great in of love.'' They deserve our gratitude ex terest and a valubale source of historical pressed in words and deeds. Those who information in the collection I am making, are limited in finances, as most of us are besides the fact that it will in that course of time take on a very substantial mon .. these days, find the dedication cover an etary value. inexpensive item, except a few rariUe::i, that furnishes a very attractive and in teresting collection. They also furnish the added value and interest of a his By Joseph F. Ulman, M. D., torical record of the advancement and Philadelphia, Pa. changes ever taking place in air mail. It is well to note that a dedication cover should always be an air mail cover. To say "Why busy professional men An ordinary cover is of little or no worth. find interest in the collecting of airport A cachet is very desirable. It establishes dedication covers," is rather hard to its identity ·and adds to its attractiveness answer for on the whole the mental activi ti-es of most professional men call for a and value. relaxation of some kind. UsU.ally it is Dedications should be public property. some form of mental activity such as a Any one who willmgly attempts to with game of cards, checkers, chess, paintings, hold the announcement of a dedication in photography, sculpture, reading or the order to speculate, becomes an exploiter like, while others go into physical exer of his fellow collectors. Such an act is cise for that relaxation. unethical, and unworthy of patronage. The individual commercializing a hobby To me the collecting of airport dedi thereby deprives himself of the pleasure cation covers has been a sourc~ of much that the hobby furnishes. He is not a happiness and pleasure in i:i_a ditiot\ to the hobbyist, but a barterer. He gets in order relaxation, and. corresponr-liT\g •vith men to gain. The hobbyist pursues in order interested in the same hobbv I feel that to possess, and offtimes there is more the friendship that has rleveloped well re plesaure in the pursuit than in the pos pays me for the interest taken. session. We are only grown up children. I can spend as little or as long a time We like to play with our hobby, whether whenever I find the opportunity. without it be a hobby-horse, a stamp or a cover. inflicting punishment on my professional Personally, I find pleasurable relaxation work, to gather and file the covers I have from professional pressure and routin~ received. or to look up noti('es ~T\d send that is entertaining and instructive. away for Rome futur~ evenh. Thi:m thP While these covers are unofficial, they surprises that come fro...., the 'l.rrival of are very popular and are recognized as a long sent cover with th., r"rhet tellit\g an important branch of the hobby as the story. and perhaps some autographs add demands for them testify. ed. to increaRe th~ pleasu1·"!. Men are · but children of a large growth and you can alway~ answer that PO"'""' in which By BenJ-..min S. De Boice, Judge; that ever-famous savinf! i~ "Make me a child again just for to-night". Proba~e Court Sangamon County Sprine-field, Illinois It revives history and geography and tells of the ever changing r,onditions of the country, and above all, it keeps one I am asked why a busy professional out of the dull rut of monotony. I have man finds or takes time to collect air a very Young grandson and so he and I port dedication covers. I guess the best gather in the covers with zest and pleasure explanation that can be advanced in answer and some day I hope he will take up the to that question is that the busier a man reins of his Grand Dad to enjoy the is with his business or profession the fruits of my labor of pleasure and to ex more essential.._-it is that he have some plore the new unknown yet to bud forth other interest in life which serves to de- in a glory unequalled by the past. [14) Mrs. Roosevelt Dedicates Douglas International Airport BY JOHN A. CURRY, EDITOR, Mrs. Roosevelt whacked the bottle Douirlas Dc.ily Dispatch, against the Ir on flagpole. There was no Douglas, Arizona. result. She banged it again and yet no result. The men were breaking out In goose-pimples of aggravation and wanted OUGLAS, ARIZONA ...• this city to help the "First Lady" break that ()· clai~s an outstanding airport. It bottle. But they hadn't reckoned with claims the only international air Mrs. Roosevelt. She smiled as she said port on the American con'tinent. It "That's a contrary bottle." And then claims the only airport to have been offi she leaned over slightly and with a cially dedicated by the wife of a Pres whack that carried the bottle through a ident of the United States. large arc to strike squarely upon the On June 5. 1933, Mrs. Franklin D. pole she smiled as the fizz water made ltb Roosevelt, coming from Washington, D. appearance through the silk. "That's bet C. stopped here for the purpose of dedi ter," remarked Mrs. Roosevelt, as she cating the airport. A crowd of more smiled and the throng applauded. As than 2500, with the 25th Regiment Mil she lifted the bottle the first time and · itary Band from Fort Huachuca greeted b'!fore she· hit the flagpole at a ll, she the First Lady when her plane sat down rem arked "I christen this the Douglas here shortly before 4 p. m. June 6 •. International Airport." . Mrs. L. J. Tuttle, wife of the mayor, Going from the christening, she was was chairman. Mrs. Greenaway flew to esocrted by John A. Curry to the super Douglas from her home at Tucson to intendent's office, where she signed the meet the distinguished lady, bringing five certificates which Mr. Curry had Mrs. Roosevelt's son, Elliott with her. prepared ,a facsimile of the signature of Mrs. Roosevelt thrilled the crowd with a which appears here. She signed her name seven-minute address and then mingled " Ann Eleanor Roosevelt." One of those with the crowd and greatly endeared her certificates now graces the wall of the self to the people of Douglas. superintendent's building at the airport and the others are prized souvenirs of When Mrs. Roosevelt had concluded her address to the people gathered around the speaker's stand, she was Invited to "break the champagne bottle against the I herob;y oortJ.t;y I dollioa tecl flagpole." That was before the repeal of the Intemational airport at the prohibition act and there had to be diplomacy. That was met by a woman. DoU8las, .Arizona, June i;, 1933 Mrs. J. L. Hastings, who had been the principal aid of Mrs. Tuttle in mak ing plans for the welcome of Mrs. Roosevelt and t he dedication of the air f2n.q Ua44~ port, had procured a bottle of highly charged mineral water and incased it in a silken wrapper. She did too good a job. There was something of a cushion for the bottle and that caused trouble. [15 J . THE AIRPOST JOURNAL the the First Lady and the dedication of the local port. The Douglas International Airport lies against the International Boundary, and is located on a tract of 660 acres. The c. A. M. s. improved landing field occupies about one third the total area and now has one paved runway and a $30,000 hangar. It is on the Transcontinental lighted air By CHARLES' G. RIESS way from Atlanta to Los Angeles and the field rating AlE. The American Information concerning C.A.M.'s S;hould Airlines has a radio station with con be sent direct to the editor of section~ stant service and there is a resident P. O. Box 11, Albany, N. Y. custodian. The field has modern servfr~e equipment for planes and a mehanic. The title to the land reposes in DDITIONAL new contract air mail Cochise County, which contributes to its routes now "in operation to those support from public funds. It is now an A. listed in the June Airnost Journal all-weather, safe field, and has been c...re as follows: visited by many fell known aviators and AM3 J<'argo, N. D. to Seattle, Wash.-- air-travellers, . including Will Rogers, 1,274 miles-sel'vice inaugurated May 26, Amelia Earhart. Gladys O'Donnell, Louise 1934 except fo1• Missoula, Mont. and Thaden and others. V¥enatchee, Wash. which two points were The people of Douglas developed their given inaugural service on May 28, 1934. airmindedness because of the interest Contractor*. taken for many years in this location for AM 5 Newark, N. J. to New Orleans, an airport by Capt. Jack Frye, now vice La. Service between Atlanta, Ga. and president of T. W. A. He helped in New Orleans, La. inaugurated May 28, terest the city in creating such a field 1934 thereby completing service for en· when he was interested in the old Stand tire route. ard Airlines, absorbed by ·western Air and then by the present Amedan Air· AM 8 Chicago, Ill. to New Orleans, lines. La.-903 miles-service inaugurated June 3, 19 34. Stop at Peoria, Ill. to be made When the airport was dedicated by only if airport is in proper condition. Mrs. Roosevelt, John A. Cuny, who had Contractor-Pacific Seaboard Airlines, Inc. much to do with the plans for the dedi cation, with the cooperation of the AM 10 Chicago, Ill. to Jacksonville, Fla. Chamber of Commerce and Mines, ar H25 miles-service inaugurated June 1. ranged for a cachet of the occasion and 1934. Contractor~Eastern Air Lines, Inc. it was applied to 150 covers, only two "*AM 12 Salt Lake City, Utah to days notice of the event left no time for Seattle, Wash. Pendleton, Ore. embraced outside collectors to send in their own as stop on this route June 2, 1934. Spur covers • This cachet was square, printed route operated from Pendleton to Spokane, in blue, plus a facsimile of the dedica Wash. via Pasco, Wash. tion certificate signed by Mrs. Roose AM 15 Amarillo, Texas to Brownsville, velt, printed in red. Te:x.-1.114 miles (total). Amarillo to Forth Worth to Galveston--"228 miles. Service inaugurated June L 1934. Con Plan now to attend the annual Convention tractors-Long & Harman, Inc. and Exhibition of the American Air Mail AM 16 Chicago, Ill. to Pembina. N. D. Socielloy to be held at Chicago, the World's -780 miles-service inaugurated June I, Fair City, August 30, 31 and September 1. 1934. Contractor-Hanfords Tri State Airlines, Inc. '•AM 17 Cheyenne, ·wyo. to Pueblo, Colo. Service between Denver and COVER SERVICE Pueblo, Colo. inaugurated June l, 1934 How about getting on my Cover thereby completing service for entire Service? A REAL SERVICE.. Tust ask route. me to prove this and will be mighty AM 21 Boston, Mass. to Cleveland, pleased to send you particulars. AND. Ohio-approximately 612 miles-service. my clients get more covers addressed inaugurated June 10~ 1934. Contractor* direct to points flown to, than from AM 22 Cleveland. Ohio to Nashville, any other service. Is that worth while? Tenn.--approximately 4 70 miles-service W. R. PATTON inaugurated June 10. 1934. Contractor* Box 2384 Winnipeg, Man. AM 23 Newark, N .•T .. to Fort Worth, Tex.-appl'oxirnately 1,4 6 0 miles-service inaugurated June 10, 1934. Service be tween Nashville and Newark to be in -AUTOGRAPHED BY PILOT- augurated July 1, 1934. Stops at Char lottesville, Lynchburg. Roanoke and Bris car1 B. Ei••lson, J. D. Hill, Wm. S. tol, Va. Knoxville, Tenn. and Texarkana, Brock, Norman W. Potter, Ira F. Biffle. Ark. deferred pending airports at these Chas. W. Holman, W. C. Hopson, Chas. points being placed in satisfactory_ con~ H. Shield, Jr., Leo J. McGinn. Paul dition. Baltimore: Md. while listed on the Scott··-such signatures on the proper schedule of this route will apparently not first flight covers are highly interesting receive immediate service with no rea ... -all these and many others-What do son stated why service is being withheld. you need? Contractor* F.DGAR C, CANTRELL AM 25 Washington, D. C. to Chicago, 210 Glenwood Court, San Antonio, Texas Ill.-apprmdmately 679 miles-service in augurated June 10, 1934. No service [16] JULY 1934 .civen to Huntington, W. Va. until air condition ... Hartford, Conn. receives ser port is in satisfactory condition. Con vice from Newark via A .M.18 but does tracto1·• · not dispatch· northward to Boston via thla AM 27 Boston, Mass. to Bangor, Me. route. Also Providence. R. I . Is not and Burlington, Vt.-410 miles (total). shown as a stop on this route. Boston to Bangor 215 miles ; Boston to Effective July 1, 1934 the air mall Burlington 195 miles. Service inaugurat· rate is reduced from eight cents to six ed June 25, 1934 between Boston an6 cents. New six cent stamps and stamped Burlington and on June 26, 1984 betwe.-11 air mail envelopes are in preparation and Boston and Bangor. Contractor--National will no doubt be available after July lat Airways, Inc. or shortly thereafter. New six cent air AM 28 Cheyenne, Wyo. to Billings, mail stamp will be of the same design as Mont.-406 miles - •ervlce lnauguta•e [17] THE AIRPOST JOURNAL 9rder and will be so listed in the C.A.M. A.M.25 it is not to be overlooked that section of the catalogue. Many· collectors, when Huntington is given service that re except point-to-point collectors, missed received covers of addition for this point out on the received covers at these two will be in order as w The Air Porta already established or under construction are Halifax, N. S. Saint John, Cambridge, and Blissville, N. B. Meganttic, Bishopton, and St. Hubert (Montreal) in P. Q Ottawa, North Bay, Trenton, Camp Borden, Petewawa, Diver Lake ,Gillees, Reay, South River, Lake of Two Rivers, Ramore, Tudhope. Parquls Junction, Kapuskasing, Vermilion Bay, Lowther, Savant Lake, Hearst, Kablng, Nagogamie, · Pagua, Nakina, Wagaming, Tashota, Lamoune, Allenwater, Sunstrum, Amesdale. Sioux Lookout, Kowkaah, Na All Information concerninir Canadian kima and Kenora all in Ontario. Winnipeg, Air Mail should be sent direct to Whitemouth, Lac du Bonnet and Caddy Editor W. R. Patton, Box 2384, Lake in Manitoba. Ladder Lake. Sask. Coleman and Cooking L Lake ,in Alberta. Winnipesr, Mz.nitoba, Canada. Cranbrook, Yahk. Rock Creek, Salmo and Hope in B. C. These points mentioned WILL NOT be points of call when the WINNIPEG-CHICAGO AIRMAIL Trans.Canada Service is statred, except In SZt F1~TOFFICIAU'l.tCiHT 8~VAl.•PRJHC£ Al.8ll0' [19] THE AIRPOST JOURNAL ls yet in its infacny. as few collected or states the first issue was 220 stamps, and bothered to study them, until 1926 or in the second issue was on Aug. 15th 1829. most cases. much later. Therore, we re !\!hough this information is Official it Is veat. Mr. Morgan has got together a very not correct. The writer having bought creditable book. The writer differs with nearly 700 before Aug. 15th 1929 would 'dr. Morgan in the following points with tend to prove the· information in the the reasons attached thereto, but on the catalogue to be incorrect. The second uther hand, Mr. Morgan received his in issue. was of an earlier date, or else more formation from reliable sources, so can than 220 were printed in the first issue. not be blamed for these errors. The Yukon Airways issue is given as Mr. Morgan lists five different of the 12,000. We are unable to agree with this Laurentide Air Services Ltd. We consider statement which ~-ras given by the Com there should only be four as the green pany. We know for certain that two .,!though actually two issues, yet cannot dealers handled over 8,000 of these stampo be told apart unless one has full books of and considering that well over 4,000 book, or rather one should say the covers. were used on mail, this means that the ·rhe first izreen booklet was printed on number would be nearer 20,000 stamps. 'he front cover only, the second on the In the Maritime & Newfoundland Air back cover. Actually this is only a differ ways we note Mr. Morgan lists only the ence of opinion as to whether this is two Official stamps, and the first issue of what issues ·or not. although it is unfair to say one might call the regular issue. We 'Mr. Morgan is wrong. know the Company issued four different In the Patricia Airways Ltd. the issues, but we agree with Mr. Morgan th·1::. Author states mail was carried from Feb. one wonders how many of the others came Ith. Also in The Western Canada Ah··· to be issued. Probably our guess would ways from Mar. 4th. In both these cases be the same as Mr. Morgan's that some the word letters would have really been body got the original plates, and naturally the correct word to use, as neither of these to make. money, issued or had printed, CompanieR had Government permission to the many other variefies. Some peopie call these · stunt varieties "wallpaper" ~arry mail on these dates. Certainly they ..:arried letters but on the same principie which is rather a good name, at that. as a farmer going to Town picked u1, In the Canadian Airways Ltd. we are mail on the way. The farmer In this pleased to see that Mr. Morgan has told case (And this also applies to both Air the actual truth regarding the Company's ways) is not f'.arrying mail. he is carry "Special Airmail Service" stamp. This ing letters. There iR a real distinction label is nothing but junk and it is un between the two words. fortunate that many stamp papers, most In the Cherry Red Airline Mr. Morgan of whom should have known better. should have the nerve to even mention these, e"'( cept to write them up as fakes or wa li p aper. As we can only find four points c.f' di<; HAVE YOU READ agreement with Mr. Morgan in his hook, the reader must agree that it is an e"- cellent book, well written, aw' one ihott should be in the hands of all intere"ted in "The Philatelist"? Canadian Semi-Official stamps. NOTE) Since writing the above we find Monthly illustrated magazine edited the Western CanaO.a Airwavs carried le-t and printed in Boston with nationally ters from Red Lake to the Rolling Pot 1.nge known staff of contributing editors. PoRt Office for the first time on lJQC. 25th Articles covering the departmental 192 6. f1elrl of nhilatelv each month. Sub scription Price 25c the year. Money refunded if not pleased. UNITED STATES PRICE LIST lncludee also 1omf! inlereslin(il: special llO'P.r11o rsf mint British Coloni~ ind foreign 11irmail" .an1l ~cunmP,m· ...•...... 1934 •>rativP.a. 44 pages. ~hnicf' material. h11.rit::iiu prir""' Phil"teli City ...... •...... Statl! ...... WORLD COVER SERVICE Bowerston, Ohio Box 3. [20] JULY 1934 Yentna, May 3, signed by H. W. Nagley. PACIFIC COAST Yentna-Talkeetna, May S, bkst, Talkeetna May 4. Eagle-Fairbanks, May 18, bkst. NOTES May 19. Many thanks, A. E. Koestler. YAKIMA. The Yakima Valley Aero Assn, says their airport was dedicated By FRED H. WILDE around 1929. Will probably hold a btg All news of Pacific Coast aerial events alrmeet this summer or fall. &bould be aent to Fred H. Wilde, 917 COLFAX, Wash'n, and ONTARIO, Ore., N. Burris Ave., Compton, California, are expecting to dedicate upon comple as early as possible. tion of their airports. If not gone by now, better send covers to C of C, and Commercial Club, respectively, Reported LASKA. All emergency contracts by C. J. Frear. are concluded for the season, the TWA Inc. 11 hours 81 min. was the A. mails now being carried by auto, time consumed on this F.F., which went steamer, the Alaska R. R. and dog sleds, unannounced, out of Los Angeles to the one exception being Star route No. Newark, on Sunday, May 18. Averaging 78182, from Fairbanks, Nenana, Tolovana, 227 m.p.h., this was 1 hr. 23 min. faster Hot Springs, Ruby, Kokrines, Nulato and than the previous record, made by the Nome, which may be used by the P.M's same company, Feb. 19, the last air at any time, for letter mail only. A. E. mail transcontinental prior to Army ser Koestler reports different contracts are let vice airmail. Pilot Jack Frye stated ""' in Alaska, and the set-up for obtaining had to ascend to 16!100 ft. a large part these emergency items will have to be of the route. The ship used was a Nortl!• re-modeled, which means a lot m01·.. study for those desiring to get their covers routed correctly next season. He CANADIAN SEMI-OFFICIAL STAMPS will advise of new routings from time to time in the journals. The dog-sled route, Are you interested in these? Better Ruby to Ophir, is discontinued, and dog send in for my latest price list. Just sled mall is now restricted to the Ruby received two large lots of these which Poorman route, No. 78142. Four covers gives me a pretty fair stock. Dealers recently received are as follows ••. Shish will also benefit by getting my latest maref to Nome, April 29. Cancelled in prices. blue .autograptred· by Geo. R. Gosbaw-, W. R. PATTON bkst. Nome May 12. Bears a stamp size Box 2384 Winnipeg, Man. photo of a pair of white fox cubs on face. Talkeentna-Yentna, May 1, bkst. NOW READY FOR MAILING The 1934 Standard Airpost Catalog The new edition, securely bound In heavy paper covers, is in the form of a supplement to the 45!1-page 193"3 book. It lists all changes, additions and corrections to the various sections of the former edition. The C.A.M.. ZEPPELIN and. SCADTA sections have been completely re written and revised. The book contains 220 pages and is completely illustrated with hundreds of new cuts. THE COMPLETE CATALOGUE-1933 Book, plus the 1934 Supplement, pogtpaM •.•.••...••••••••••••..••• , • • • • • • • • $2.00 THE 1934 SUPPLEMENT - securely bound in heavy cover paper, postpaid •. , ....••••••..••...•• , •..••••.•.••..••• $1.00 --Catalogs are now ready for prompt delivery-- DONALD E. DICKASON PUBLISHER THF. BF.RKSHIRF. EXCHANGE WOOSTER, OHIO [Zl) THE Al RPOST JOURNAL rup "Gamma", and carried 355 lbs. of Spring. ASTORIA-no work being done. mail and 85 lbs. of. expi·ess. On the BEND-indications will never be dedicat first leg of the trip, to Kansas City, ed. BURNS-no plans for ded'n. 430 lbs. of mail was aboard. Cost o! operation on the flight was 50e per mile, CHILOQUIN-work stopped. HILLSBORO and revenue for mail was 24e per mile. -wo1•k being held up. ONTARIO-not yet completed, but when such time nears ALASKA. Postal bulletin of May 9 probably arrangements will be made for says "The Supt. of the R.M.S., Seattie, ded'n. Pendleton-you all know the has contracted with the Wein Airways 01 story by now. 7900 covers with ded'n Fairbanks, to make one round trip tligh~. cachet, probably meaning Official cachet route No. 78209, emergency, from Fafr by P. 0. D., which was applied in blue. banks, via Ch·cle, Ft. Yukon, to Beaver Special covers, pdnted by C. of C.. 2200. and back, about May 15, for $174.00, These are very nice covers, the special and P. W. Carlson, of Ophir to trans printing in two colors being arranged so port from May 10 to June 30, two round that the official cachet fitted into the trips not over 600 lbs. each, at $150.0V design very nicely. (Pendleton information per round trip-McGrath-Takotna, anu 1 from C. of C.) PORTLAND-not working 1'akotna-Ophir. Thia information ah on new a. p. yet. Prineville--work will comes too late for even . you editors to act be resumed in near foture, and Com upon it, and it seems that collectors in mercial Club will give a blow-out when terested would necessarily have to sub port ls done. (Bring your own hot-dogs}. scribe to the Postal Bulletin, and get the information personally. EUGENE--uknown when will be. com " A large plane was ready in Seattle completed. EPHRATA-no idea when (account of longshoremen strike). to will be completed. TONASKET-work carry l ¥.. tons of mail to Alaska. Ma11 stopped. MOUNT VERNON-same. DEER .for McGrath-Takotna-Ophir left Seattle on 'PARK-same. YAKIMA-ded'd in 1929 . .May 19, via steamer which should catch No cachet. or airmail letters mailed at 'the second round trip. Collectors who that time. COMAS-.. --no a.p. PORT ·:were fortunate enough to eaten these ANGELES-will not be ded'd soon. items. should have some very interesting QUINCY-work stopped. ELLENSBURG covers soon. same. DAVENPORT - ded. very in A. E. Koestler is conducting an definite. OROVILLE-ded'd two . years Alaska column in W.S.C., ·once a week. ago. NEWPORT · possibly next year. and those interested can obtain some CHEWALAH-no work. going on. COL very useful information therefrom. As FAX-expect completion around July 4. A. E. says "the P.M's up there are good Plans for ded'n uncertain. KETTLE FALLS scouts, and if approached 1·easonably. hope no one gets scalded)-operations on will handle covers correctly; Re saw service with the Aeronautics Division U. S, WILL ISSUE NEW 16-CENT AIR dudng the World War. We are promised MAIL-SPECIAL DELIVERY STAMP a fine exhibition of all that is interesting in airshows on June 17, here. Washington, July 8-Postmaster• General AM-11. On resumed service out of James A. Farley last night approved and Tacoma to Seattle. we are sorry to have sent to the Bureau of Engraving and to advise that the covers flew on the Printing the final model of the new 16- first plane Northwards out of Tacoma, cent combination Air Mail-Special Delivery but went on a plane of AM-12 (old route postage stamp which is soon to be issued AM-5). Due to failure on part of the by the Post Office Department. postal employee to properly hold the The central design on this stamp will pouch for the first AM-11 plane, this be the Official United States Coat of Arms, flight proved a fizzle. While the covers depicting the American eagle with wings represent a resumed flight. they have no spread, Across the top of the stamp are other distinction. WCAS Bulletin. the words "U.S. Postage," while in the AM-1. Resumed service over old AM-18. lower left and right hand corners are Covers were properly taken down to the the denomination numbers "16" between P.O., with full instructions, and again we which is the word "cents." At the left find due to failure somewhere along the of the stamp in vertical formation are the lineJ our covers flew to Oakland on an words "Air Mail" flanked on the opposite AM-11 plane. Had they been properly border by the words "Special Delivery." handled by the POD, we would have had This stamp will be approximately the same " first Oakland received from San size as the current Special Deli very issue. Francisco on AM-1. a service never be The color of the new stamp, which will fore given • WCAS bulletin. he announced following Bureau of En AM-11-Tacoma north first dispatch (which graving and Printing dye tests, will be of we failed to secure) took place on May a most distinctive character, and will be of 9th, 1934 at 5 :40 AM. There were hut such a tint as to enable postal clerks tc. 15 covers dispatched, and they ai-e sub discern instanly that both Air Mail and: ject to proper cataloging. There was no Special Delivery handling are required. AM-11 plane north on the Rt.h. WCAS This will insure all mail hearing the new bulletin. stamp being rushed to the first departing FRESNO. The thoughtful postal em plane for immediate dispatch. Upon ployees here kindly dispatched covers by reaching the airport nearest the addressee, train to facilitate delivery, instead of this Air Mail-Special Delivery mail will giving them airmail service, ain't they the he rushed at once to the person for whom kindest people you ever met? Stamped it is intended, thereby affording patrons of the statement right across the face of the this service a most expeditious and reliable cover so that no mistake might be made means of communication. as to their efficiency. I.AST ARMY SERVICE from Oakland to New York on AM-18 and 17 developed A. A. M. S. Convention and Exhihition a short notice event on which no publicity Chieago, August 3 0, 31 and Septem her 1. was given at the Western terminal. Covers O'..~t, of s~_n Franf'iseo hear a can cel of J\>l"qy 7-11 :30 PM. These covers rote a li•ting in the Fistorical section of the catalo!l'. along with the Glendale I INTERNATIONAL I Newark fliirht by Rickenbacker when the Contracts made the last flight. 2 7 covers were sent out of San Francisco. and ap proximately 100 out of Oakhmd. where a Airpost Catalogue cachet w•s >tppli~d by the Port of Oak INAP RESS Jon<:l. WCAS bulletin, 1984-'35 EDITION AM-11-Portland. A cover at hand from A complete listing (in French) Mcr.amley of Portland. hearing a purple of all the official and semi-official cach 6 t P.nd reading "This letter carri'!d airpost stamps of the world. Com on the first JT>au FIRST FLIGUTS ·Australia to Papua VICTORIA to PAPUA with cachet ...•...... ••.•..• , . . . . • ...... • . • . . .75 N. S. WALES to PAPUA with cachet . . . . . • . . . • ...... • ...... 75 QUEENSLAND. to PAPUA with cachet ...... • • ...... 71:1 All with Aed ·I Stamps. The tbre-. eovers for $2.00 TRANS TASMAN. COVERS ...... •...... 75c to $1.00 each Retail, Air and Wholesale Lists post l'ree. W I L C 0 X. S M I T H & C 0 • , Estahlishsd 51 years.. . Dunedin, New Zealand. 14 Manse Street. [23] American Air Mail Society ORGANIZED 1923 AS THE AERO PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA • PRESIDENT L. B. Gatchell, 35 Chatfield Road, Bronxville, New York VICE PRESIDENTS Walter Bruggmann, Geo. D. Kingdom, Francis B. Leech, Charles G. Riess SECRETARY - TREASURER George W. Angers, 2 9 3 Bridge St., Springfield, Mass. SALES MANAGER H. C. Carpenter, 600 So. Railway Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio ADVANCE BULLETIN SUPERINTENDENT Frank A. Costanzo, P. 0. Box 32, Punxsutawney, Pa. Th~ Advance Bulletin is sent regularly only to those members who are in good standing and provide a supply of self-addressed stamped envelopes in which to mail it Address the Manager. DIRECTORS William R. Alley, H. H. Griffin, Erik Hildesheim, Oscar Mayer. Maurice S. Petty, Richard Singley. William R. Ware EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT Each member is entitled to two 20-word Exchange Notices per year, in the Official Publication, without charge. OFFICIAL PUBLICATION THE AIRPOST JOURNAL • Secretary's Report NEW MFMBERS 1'562 Krinsky, William H., 242 W. 36th St .. New York City. 1563 Greenhalgh, Wm. F., 707 Aubrey Ave., Ardmore, Pa. 1564 McEvoy, F. A., Mt. McGregor .. N. Y. . 1565 Quinn, Francis M., .J 732 North Shore Ave., Chicago, Ill. 1566 Snyder.Dr. H. C., 4645 So. Ashland Ave., Chicago, Ill. 1567 Canman, Richa1:d, Suite A1903, 175 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Ill. APPLICATIONS POSTED Pratt, Frank, Frith Lodge, Northwood, Middelsex, England. Retired: Airmail Stamps- Specialize in Colombia Air Mails mint, used and on cover. By Donald -E. Dickason. Hammelman, Henry, Room 406, 1415 K. St., N.W., Washington, D.C. Age 58; Govern ment employee: Airmail stamps, early Gov'ts., Historicals, C.A.M.'s and F.A.M.'s. Sternfelt, Carl W., 5 Howard St.. Arlington, Mass. Age 33: Insurance: Collects every thing airmail stamps and covers. By George W. Angers. RESIGNATION-None CHANGE OF ADDRESS-New Addresses shown below: 468 Bramann, George M .. 1222 Norwood Ave., Niagara Falls, N. Y, .11534 Aspinwall, Francis H., 110 West Walnut St., Rome, N. Y . 233 Ackerman, L. D .. 145 Center St., West. Haven, Conn. DUES DUES am making a special appeal to those who have overlooked the payment of their dues. I wish to call to your attention the fact that the activities of the American Air Mail Society are dependent on the reasonably prompt payment of dues by members for their active continuance. Each member who delays in paying his dues until late makes it more difficult to pattern our activities according to our funds-for we cannot know whether a dek,ying _mem her will or will not eventually p8,y. Remember-It is you1· Society. When you are urged to get members to build up its strength, or to pay your dues. you are merely being asked to do a job for yourself. Convention tim~ is near-by-will you please make it possible for me to make a favorable report at Chicago. I DEPEND ON YOU-DON'T FAIL ME! Respectfully submitted, GEORGE W .. ANGERS, Secretary-Treasurer. [24] JULY 1934 AIRS OF THE MONTH BRITISH INLAND AIRMAIL (Continued from Page 13) SERVICE IS EXTENDED • As forecast by us• in a previous issue the special sheet issued on Postal Day is the British Inland Airmails are making as follows: "In commemoration of the remarkable progress and the leading appointment of the Postal Anniversary, British cities are now connected with April 1934, Department of Communications. splendid services. The use of the High Printed at the Government Printing Bureau. land Airways by the Postmaster General JUGOSLAVIA-The set which was to be for the carriage of airmail without addi ... released t.he 11rst of May was so badly tional charge to the public is an historic lithographed that the postal authorities re event in the annals of the airmail and fused to accept t.he stamps. Consequently the First Flight Covers mark a definite we have to wait a while before adding this step in the use of the airplane as a pub country's name to the list of air mail lic service. H. M. The King has ac stamp issuing countries. quired specimens of the Inland Airmails ·LITHUANIA-Colors of the set described as an addition to his world renowned last month are: 20c orange and black, collection.-A. Phillips. 40c red and blue, 60c violet and black, 1 L black and rose, 3L green and salmon, Buy, Sell or Exchange With Airpost Jour and 5L brown and ultramarine. nal Classified Ads. One Cent per Word. MEXICO--"Stamps" magazine lists a set of eight values for a "Pro-University" issue from this country. Denominations are given as: 20, 30, 50 and 75 centavos and l, 5, 10 and 20 pesos. PARAGUAY-Three values of the 1933 Zeppelin issue have been reported bearing a black overprint consisting of the date "1934". They are 4.50 blue, 9.00 red and 13.50 blue green. It is not known if the rest of the set was so treated. It has been T stated but the report has not been confirm ed that these stamps were affixed to lettero by postal clerks in Ascension and cancelled. There do not seem to be any mint sets RESULTS • • • available. June 23, 1934. PERU-In celebrat10n of the centenary o1 The Airpost Journal Admiral Grau a special set is to be issued. Albion, Pa. While all but one are regular postage Gentlemen: stamps the one we are interested in is for air mail use. It wUI be 35c in value anu As Cachet Director for the Cleve show the Monitor uHuascar." "Servicio land Rocket Society I want to con Aereo" will be .. the Inscription. The set Is gratulate you on th_e fine Journal you being sold' to raise a fund to erect a mon ... have. With the small ad vertisment ument to Admiral Grau. who was born in we had in your lnagazine we received Piura and to improve an avenue in this answers from England, Cuba, Switzet'-. city which bears his name. land and Holland, not to speak of the many from the good old U.S.A. TANNOU TOUVA-Designs on the set listed last month show planes in flight over ALFRED F. STERN, mountains. forests, deserts, valleys, and CACHET DIRECTOR. bullock carts. Cooperators for the month include: D. K. nriev~. C. Vesterholt, M. J. Harris, Unione • Filatelica Na7ionale. P. J. Drosos, H. R. ADVERTISING RATES Stoekle and J. S. Whittlesey. One inch, per issue ...... $ 1.00 Quarter Page, per issue ...... $ 3.25 Half Pa.ee. DP.r is•me $ 6.00 Order a new Airpost Journal Binder. Full Page, per issue ...... $10.00 Capacity 24 issues; attractively bound, Front Inside or . Back Cover Pages stiff blal'!k levant izrain fabrabide and (when available) ... , .....•.. $12.00 gold stamued. Ouens absolutely flat. Price $2.00. The Airpost Journal, Albion, Pennsylvania. • If you sell Airmails you shoul [25] CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING RATES EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT A. A. M. S. Membero are entitled to two le PER WORD - MINIMUM CHARGE ZSc Copy for this section must be received by 20-word ads per year In thla Exchange the 10th of the month. Section, free of charge. WANTED TO EXCHANGE AIRPORT DED FIRST AIR MAIL IN THE WORLD lcatlon covers. Send want list and I will Parls Balloon post 1870. I sell each send you mine. W. T. Wynn, Jr., 745S genuine letter $6.00-postal money order Freda, Dearborn, Mich. A.A.M.S. 1492. ltex or notes with order. Satisfaction assured. Vhalntrler, expert, 37 Rue Fleffe, Bor deaux, France. 6 l-4t EXCHANGE AIRPORT DEDICATION covers. Send list of wants. My list will FAM COVERS EXCHANGED. RAVE touow. Milton l!:hrlich, 14 7 Lefferts, Kew very fine lot. What have you 1 State Gardens, New York. lt wants. L. W. Charlat, 180 Broadway, New York. 48-6t WILL TRADE DEDICATION . COVERS for bureau precancels cat. for cat. or TEN DIFFERENT NAMED VARIETIES dedications I need. What have you to of Iris for $1.00 or will exchange for Air offer 7 Richard E. Brumbaugh, 111 Bell Baggage Labels. Write Fred E. Kaiser, Avenue, Altoona, Penna. A.A.M.S. No. 96S. Somerville, New Jersey. Ru~al No. 1. lt" ltEx. MR. KOOSAKU UCHIDA, o/o K. OGI EXCHANGE MY AIR MAIL COVER HARA 1-Chome Ipuramachi, Nlshlku, collection, about $160.00 catalog value, Nagoya, Japan, wants unused airmail for general stamp collection, same value. stamps, ftight covers, air labels only. lt. Will consider partial erchange for small general collection. What have you 1 A. M. "APEX" LONDON AIRPOST EXHIBITION Hard. 8S3 E . 6th St., Long Beach, souvenir labels, 6 different l&c ;, block of 4 Calif.. ltex• with marginal Imprint 7 6c; 6 different un used Official Photo Cards 76c; same, frank. C.A.M.'S EXCHANGED FOR C.A.M.'S ed with 1924 Wembley Exhibition stamps need. Will exchange covers listed In my and special APEX postmark $2.00. Postage ndvertlsemetn In this l•Jue. Send want list. Sc. Superior Stamp Company, 750 Pros Perham C. Nahl, 6043 Harwood Ave., pect, Cleveland, 0. 1 t• Oakland, California. lt. MR. H. R. HARMER, philatelic auctioneer and expert 0°f London, England, who announce& Jn this laaue of The JOURNAL tbe sale of the famous airmail "''·mo collection formed by Sr. Fernando Ortell'&, Havana, Cuba. Many of the rarest .µrpoats are Included In this auction which will be beld In the latter part of September. [26] NOW T~NE Send for RE ADY NEW CATALOG FOR IMMEDIATE MAILI NG No. 7 .JUST PUilUSHED NEW STAMP ALBU:.\IS! The Standard NEW STOCK BOOKS'' ENGRAVED TITLE SHEETS! (88 Different Countries) Airpost MINT STAMP FILE£" and Many Other New Items \\'ritP. For Catalog NEW COMPLETE CATALOJ ( t 934 Supplement) No. 7 ELBE FILE & BINDER The 19 3 4 Edition consists of 220 pages and brings the CO., Inc. 1933 book up to date. 215 Greene St. :Sew York, :S.Y. ! '------!I Revised and co m p I e t e C. A. M. and Zeppelin sec tions. Hundreds of illus tratioons and price changes. FAMOUS The 1 9 3 4 SUPPLEMENT AVIATORS (lound in heavy cover paper) postpaid We hold an interesting and valuable $ 1. 0 0 stock of Flown Covers. Photograph., Documents. etc. relating to. and signed by, the le.. ding pilots and mail fliero THE 1933 A.A.M.S. EDITION of the world-1903-1933. (Cloth bound) with the 1934 The most complete record of a Supplement-2 books, postpaid pioneer •4eroplane mail ever $ 2. 0 0 publbhed .•• NOW READY FOR IMMEDIATE "THE CORONAT ION AERIAL POST, DELIVERY 1!111" with 25 illustrations and a Foreword by the contemporary British Post • master-Gene1·al. The Price 5 /3 Po~t Free ($1.30) Airpost Journal FRANCIS J. FIELD, Ltd. ALBION PENN' A Sutton Coldfield. ENGLA:SD f";444 ....444;;44444444444;44;wry4444444444444444444444; ~ . ~ • • 0 ff ·1 c 1a I Ai r Sta m p s Great A11etio11 Sale MESSRS. 1-t R. HARMER of LONDON ANNOUNCE BRITAIN'S LARGEST AIRMAIL SALE . consisting of The · Air Mail Collection ·formed by Sr. Fernando Ortega of ·Havana, Cuba. The Collection comprises mint sin~les, used singles and mint blocks of four of the officia·lAir Stamps of the Whole World including many of the rarest items. The Auction will take place about tht> end of Sep tember and fully illustr~ted catalogtu• will be issued approximately a month previous. Catalogue may be obtained from H. R. Harmer, free, or with the list of prices rea·lised 60c. • H. R. HARMER I Philatelic Auctioneer, Expert and Valuer 131 - 134 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON WI, ENGLAND Cables: "Phistamsel, London" ~····v·····._...... _ ...... ~..._