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Airpost Journal THE AIRPOST JOURNAL JANUARY 1936 -* ·1936 Edition 4J50 Pages 1400 lllu_stral:rons tvery Air Stamp Properly Priced_ Essential· fOr \ Collector &_Dealer Cloth Bound $1.50 Deluxe - .• 2.50' -- Most: Complete Stock of Al R MAIL STAMPS in t:he World · EFFICIENT NEW ISSUE SERVICE · Lowast Possible Pri.ces '• . I ·. ' Nicola·s-· Sanabria, Inc. ·11. Eas~ 42nd Str~et + New YoricCit:y CABLE ADDRESS: . NICSAN," NE-W' YORK ' • ' :>.. 16~ Air ·.Mail Special Delivery ·Will Be Issued In Bi~Color--On Sale February 10 ORECAST and planned as early as July. 1935. the United States 16-cent Air.r= Mail-Special Delivery stamp issued for the initial time at the Chicago Con­ vention of the American Air Mail Society on August 30, 1934, will now be re-issued in red and blue. Readers will recall. that the basic suggestion for the design of this stamp, which has been widely acclaimed as one of the most beautiful produced by the department in recent years, was pre­ pared in conference at the White House by President Roosevelt. Below we reproduce the text of the Postmaster, Washington, D. C.. covering announcement prepared by the Informa­ the value of the stamps required for tion Service of 'the Post Office Depart­ .affixing. Personal checks or other post­ ment for release Friday, January 10: age stamps will not be accepted in pay­ "Postmaster General James A. Farley ment. In order to receive the February announced last night that a new issue 10 postmark, covers must reach the Post­ of the 16-cent Air Mail-Special Delivery master, Washington, D. C., before the postage stamp, printed in bi-color, will close of business on that date. be released by the Post Office Department For the benefit of collectors desiring to replace the stamp now being usea, selected stamps for philatellc use, the new which is printed· entirely in blue ink. stamp will also be placed on sale at 'the Philatelic Agency of the Post Office De­ The new bi-colored 16-cent Air Mail­ partment on February 10. but the Agency Special Delivery stamp will be placed on will not prepare covers for mailing . on first-day sale at the Washington, D. C. that date." post office on February 10, 1936 and it This stamp, whtch is being issued 111 will be placed on general sale at post such a form as to make it readily dis­ offices throughout the country on Febru­ cernable from all other current stamps, ary 11 or as soon thereafter as distribu­ will undoubtedly present the most at-· tion will permit. tractive ·appearance of any of our cur­ This new issue of the 16-cent stamp rent series and collectors are anxiously will be 84/100 by 1 44/100 inches in size, awaiting the initiin. day of sale, Februar:y- arranged horizontally, and will be identi­ 10. 1936. cal in design with the present 16-cent Air Mail-Special Delivery stamp, which was issued by the Post Office Department CACHET FOR C.A.M, on August 31, 1934. It will, however, be INAUGURAL ANNIVERSARY printed in two colors, the border in red and the central aesign, which is a re­ '"'h Anniversary •CAM's 6 and 7. To production of the Great s'eal of the be m;iiled from each point. Send six air United States, in blue. covers. by February 6th to Earl J. Wil­ This change in color is being made in son. 1717 No. Park Ave.. Chicago, Ill. order that the stamp will be more dis­ tinctive than heretqfore, also more easily recognized by postal employees, THIS MONTH'S COVER thereby contributmg to a more prompt • and expeditious-· handling of all Air Mail­ The design for this month's cover Special Delivery mail matter. is adapted from the current Austrian Stamp collectors desiring first-day can­ 50 groschen airpost stamp, executed celatiims on February 10 may send a lim­ by G. Jung. The Winter scene de­ ited number of addressed covers, •not to picted is of Stuben -On the Arlberg exceed a total of 10, wHh cash or postal (Voralberg) Austria. money order remittan.ce payable to the e OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE • AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY Tl-I~ AIRPOST JOURNAL • JANUARY. 1936. VOL. VII. NO. 4 • ISSUE 69 lOc PER COPY 3 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Bolorfuf anJ !JnteJzeJlin9 SWISS AIR COVERS r:-·- - - - ~----;=::t,,. ll4 iu·~:._;_ -- ' . , ?:UlUCH-K'!1~8TOUlf l ~ - -- ' ' • ! e A BRIGHT CROSS-SECTION of Swiss Air Covers . Left Side, top to bot­ tom: A Gordon Bennett postma rk of 1932. A 1933 Zeppelin card posted from Switzerland on the Sa;irbrucken roundflight. A card flown from Bern to Burgdorf in 1913. bear ing special 50c red vignette. Basel-Zurich 1926 Exhibition flight. with block of vignettes. Right. top to bottom : A 1930 Zurich-Sudan Mittelholzer card. 1924 cover Laufen-Grenchen with a s.et of air stamps ;ind green semi-officil'l. A 1933 cover, Zurich-Mi!an-Arosa, car­ ried by glider across the Alos. I 4 .A Summary of SWISS ~ir Mails These special flights. mails and stamps by FRANCIS J. FIELD were associated principally with the Sutton Coldfield, England town of Basle. Laufen. Solothurn. Aarau, Berne and Burgdorf. Leaflets advertis­ ing Flying Meetings and other items of HE MOUNTAINOUS character of public interest were also dropped over T Switzerland precludes its use as an towns by aviators during this period. international airways centre. but its air mail story is more varied and of great­ Great War Period er length than that of many countries During the Great War period the avi· more favorably situated. ators of the Swiss Army were mobilized and mails exist bearing various types of . Gordon Bennett Balloon Race the air corps postmarks and vignettes. The Gordon Bennett Balloon Race was At the instigation of the Allies. leaflets instituted in 1906 and in 1908 the race in German were printed ln Zurich and was won by the Swiss balloon "Helvetia" dropped over the German trenches from piloted by Col. Schaeck which landed in Allied aeroplanes with the object of fos­ Norway after having been 74 hours in the tering discontent among the German air and covering a journey of 750 miles. troops. This broke the previous duration record. Air Stamp Issues The race starts from the country In 1919 an official air stamp was issued whose representative won the previous by overprinting the current 50c. to cover year's race, and the 1909 contest there­ the, airpost rates on the first regular fore started from Zurich on October 3rd. air ioute between Zurich and Lausanne There were seventeen competitors and and when this rate was reduced to 30c., the race was won by the Aero Club of the current stamp of that denomination America: There is no record of mail was similarly overprinted. The latter is having been carried by competitors but extremely rare oh flown covers. to commemorate the first start from In 1923 a series of 10 specially designed SWitzerlan.d a special vignette was pro­ stamps appeared in readiness for the duced. seasonal flying post operations that open­ Switzerland was again the venue for ed a few days later. The airways had the start of the race in 1922 and 1932. by this time extended to link up with the On the former occasion a special com­ principal European routes, "mostly memorative postmark was employed and through South Germany. From this year, on the latter. vignettes, special cards and too. until about 1927. there was ·a series commemorative postmarks are known, as of Air Meetings, with which special and well as souvenir cards actually flown commemorative fights were associated. from Basie to Ebrach (Germany} by the Usually the postal authorities co-oper­ Swiss balloon piloted by C. Burki. ated by permitting the use of special postmarks but the organizers were re­ Zeppelin "Deutschland" sponsible for the semi-afficial stamps that, in several instances, prepaid the In July 1911 the Zeppelin "Deutsch­ land" made a flight over Switzerland and special. fees. special carcjs were issued. These were Towards the end of this period, the dropped over Zurich and after flight, success of the organizatiohs, laudable passed through the post in the ordinary though they were at first, lead to the misuse of postal privileges with the re­ way, bearing the Zurich postmark of sult that the authorities issued instructions July 20th. -that semi-official stamps bearing face Exhibition Flights and Meetings value could not be permitted in future. In 1913 exhibition flights and meetings Swiss Mails Accepted for Transit Over of aeroplanes were more frequent and Colombian Airways successful · than in any other country of One of the first countries to develop the world. due to a large extent, no air· mails was Colombia .(South America}. doubt, to the influx of tourists. From The operating company (Scadta) issued March to August in that year there was a special air stamI> to prepay the air fee a succession of achievements, and mails which ·was used in addition to the na­ consisting of letters and cards bearing tional franking. They not only catered special semi-official stamps were carried for Colombian internal mails but" opened on nearly every flight. The most famous agencies in many other countries includ­ of contemporary. Swiss pilots, Oscar ing Switzerland with the object of in­ Bider, carried the majority of the mails. ducing other nationalities to . take ad- 5 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL vantage of the Colombian air services "Lufthansa" services to South America, £or correspondence addressed to inland the Dutch "K.L.M." service to the East towns on arrival of the mails at Bar­ Indies, and Imperial AirW(ays services to ranquilla.
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