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IRM71N HEIJIAN~ Inc. 2 WEST 46th STREET A NEW YORK 36, N.Y. A Non-Profit Corporation Incorporated 1944 Organized 1923 Under the Laws of Ohio OIJBNAL PRESIDENT ---Nrr Robert W. Murch 9560 Litzinger Road St. Louis 24, Mo. Official Publication of the AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY SECRETARY Ruth T. Smith Ferndale & Emerson Sts. Volume 31 No. l Issue No. 354 Philadelf)hia 11, Pa. TREASURER John J. Smith Contents for October, 1959 Ferndale & Emerson Sts. Philadelphia 11, Pa. Articles Lincoln Beachey ...... 3 VICE-PRESIDENTS Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr. New 15c Air Mail Stamp ...... 4 Louise S. Hoffman Armed Forces Day Helicopter Flight ...... 10 Florence L. Kleinert Dr. Southgate Leigh, Jr. Airmail Historical Side Lights ...... 12 EDITOR - Other Publications Air Mail Interruption Cover ...... 18 L. B. Gatchell Jobn Wise Balloon Cover ...... 21 ATTORNEY A Flying Saucer Cover ...... 22 George D. Kingdom U. S. Government Operated Air DIRECTOR OF Service ...... 24 FOREIGN RELATIONS Notes On Canadian Air Mails ...... 29 Dr. Max Kronstein 20th Anniversary Of Manned Rocket AUCTION MANAGER Flight ...... 31 Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. Regular Features DIRECTORS Alton J. Blank Official Section ...... 5 Herbert Brandner Tips By Julius ...... 6 George S. Chapman A.A.M.S. Chap.ter News ...... 15 Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. F.A.M. Notes ...... 20 Lester S. Manning Emmett Peter, Jr. The Philatelic Story Of Flight 32 Dr. Tomas Terry Earl H. Wellman ADVANCE BULLETIN SERVICE EDITOR Herbert Brandner Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr. 4038 Forest Ave. 350 No. Deere Park Drive, Hil:'hland Park, Ill. Brookfield, Ill. ASSISTANT EDITORS SALES MANAGER Robert W. Murch Herman Kleinert Ernest A. Kehr L. B. Gatchell 213 Virginia Ave. DEPARTMENT AND ASSOC[ATE EDITORS Fullerton, Pa. R. Lee Black, N. Pelletier, Florence L. Klein­ ert. Dr. Max Kronstein, Thomas J. O'Sullivan, MEMBERSHIP DUES Richard L. Singley, William R. Ware, Sol Whit­ $4.00 PER YEAR man, Julius Weiss, ;rames Wotherspoon, John Dues include subscription to Watson, William T. Flynn, Frank Blumenthal, THE AIRPOST JOURNAL. Ap­ Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr., J. S. Langabeer. plicants must furnish two ref­ Published monthly at Albion, Erie Co., Pa., U.S.A. erences, philatelic preferred. At Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office least one must reside in Appli­ at Albion, Pa., February 10, 1932, under. cants h_ome town. Applicants the Act of March 3, 1879. under 21 years must be guar­ The AIBPOST JOURNAL is not conducted for anteed by Parent or Guardian profit. The Editor, and all others, serve without Membership may be terminated compensation. Receipts from advertising, sub­ by the Society in accordance scriptions and contributions are applied to the with its By-Laws. betterment of the magazine and the promotion Correspondence concerning sub­ of aero-philately. scriptions, back numbers and The Editor and Officers of The American Air bound volumes, address changes Mail Society assume no responsibility for the and other matters and all re­ accuracy of statements made by contributors. mittances should be sent to the Every effort is made to insure correctness of '.l're~surer. All general commun- all articles. 1cat10ns and advertising should Subscription Rates: $4.00 per year, 35c per copy. be sent to the Editor. Advertising Rate Card available from the Editor OC'I10BER, 1959 PAGE 1 President,s Corner To the Members of the American Air Mail Society: In 1923 when your society was founded the world was witnessing the advent of the 'Aviation Age'. Today, in 1959, we are witnessing the advent of the 'Space Age'. Our hobby and our society have kept pace with these achievements and as your new president I am proud to represent such a group of sincere collectors who have collectively contributed so much to the field of philately. The American Air Mail Society has published catalogs and handbooks that are authoritative in our field. Our Airpost Journal ranks high on the list of the world's philatelic periodicals and is a reference work of aerophilatelic knowledge. You, as an active member, can help further the interests of our hobby by re­ cruiting new members, exhibiting and discussing air mails at every opportunity, and by contributing informative articles on any phase of aerophilately to the Airpost Journal. The affairs of the Society are in excellent shape, your Publications Committee is planning new handbooks and catalog supplements and we enjoy cordial relations with the United States Post Office Department and tihe United Nations Postal Ad­ ministration. You are urged to buy your copy of the 1959 AAMS 'American Air Mail Cata­ log' so our publication fund can be directed to new catalogs. Your officers need your cooperation and suggestions if our Society is to continue to grow. As we enter the 'Space Age' there are no limits or 1bounds to the pleasure and interest to be found in collecting the postal souvenirs of man's conquest of time and space. Good collecting to all of you! -Bob Murch, President.

THANKS TO- OLD-TIME PILOT ASKED T10 OPEN EDMONTON SHOW Robert W. Murch for first flight jet cover, St. Louis to New York; Thomas A. The woman who flew the first airmail Matthews for a Jupiter Balloon First Day from Calgary to Edmonton has been ask­ souvenir book; Ken Tallmadge for a ed to open the 1959 Edmonton Exhibi­ newspaper story of first balloon flight tion. from St. Louis; John Watson for first day Exhibition officials have tracked down covers Australian stamps and aero­ Katherine Stinson, now living in Santa gramme, and first flight jet cover, Syd­ Fe, New Mexico, whose 1918 airmail ney to San Francisco; James Langabeer, special flight will be honored with the for first days of New Zealand Red Cross Golden Anniversary of Flight in Canada and Self-Government stamps; Haitian this year. Philatelic Agency first day cover and Miss Stinson, now known as Mrs. mint copies of Lincoln stamps overprint­ Michael Otero, took 259 letters on her ed: (How did they know our Lincoln­ epic flight in a single-seat biplane. iana interest?); George W. Angers for (AAMC Canada No. 7.) Jack Knight autographed 1923 flight cov­ Mrs. Otero flew in W estem Canada er, other covers and historical clippings; as early as 1912 and in the Calgary area Dr. James J. Matejka, Jr., for first day between 1916 and 1920. Pan American Games cover. -From Calgary Herald, May 29, 1959. PAGE 2 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL LINCOLN BEACHEY NEDERLAND Our cover this month shows the re­ doubtable Lincoln Beachey, early exhi­ ...... Ill. -~--. bition .flyer, at the controls of one of the ...... ~ •&\1-- early aeroplanes he flew between 1911, ·---·-·-­...... when he first learned to fly, and Maroh ... _ 1919 KLM···-- 19s9 14, 1915, when he was killed flying a -- German Taube monoplane. Althouglh this flying career spanned only four years, Beachey achieved a reputation as an aerial daredevil that remains unsur­ passed almost ififty years later. Arthur Mix, mechanician and associate of Beach­ ey, had this to say about :him in an ar­ ticle for the "U. S. Air Services" pub­ lis.hed in -January, 1929: SPECIAL DUTCH POSTAGE "'Dhe people of the Pacific Coast were STAMPS TO MARK the first to see Beachey make 1those long KLM'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY dives and land in front of grandstands Tlhe Netherlands Post Office will issue filled with gasping spectators. Rain, two special postage stamps to commem­ shine 'Or wind made no difference to him. orate rthe fortieth anniversary of KLM Nothing lbotlhered him excepting people, Royal Dutch Airlines as the world's old­ wires and poles in the city streets in est airline. which he took off and landed. Because These stamps were designed and en­ ihe was Beache.y and could do anything, graved by the Dutch artist, E. Thorn people thought he should do just ·that, Leeson. The 12 cent stamp shows the and ~ey got so they knew that he would silhouette of a jet ·airliner against a back­ begin to do it at exactly 3 o'clock, as ground of white lines depicting part of advertised. tlhe map of the world, and underneath "Among the many remarkable exhibi­ "1919 KLM 1959". In the 30 cent value tions by Beachey were his death--defying an aircraft appears on a plain back­ flights inside the Machinery Hall, at San ground including the dates 1919-1959 Francisco, in the spring of 1914, and and the I@,M emblem. over vhe brink of Niagara Falls down The 12 cent stamp is executed in red into that mist-filled chasm, on under the and 1blue, while the colors of ·the 30 cent 'bridge and into t!hat mighty gorge, with stamp are green and -blue. not a chance to land safe within those Both stamps will be on sale at Dutch vertical walls. post offices from October 5 to 31, 1959, "At Indianapolis, during ithe summer and after November 14 for as long as the of that year, ·he executed one loop over stocks last. They will remain valid for one in which he was on the outside, then postage until December 31, 1960. one more inside loop, known to us as a triple reverse. This was done without LIST OF GERMAN ROCKET MAILS t!he use of the horizontal stabilizer in the AVAILABLE rear. A straight ·bar was used to hold Dr. Max Kronstein tells us that W. elevators at the rear. At the Brockton, Sieger's catalogue of German Rocket Massachusetts, fair he deliberately Mails issued as a part of his German Air­ wrecked his machine, in 1914, rbecause post Catalogue, has now been published the crowd rushed on the race course separately . .It is called "Deutscher Rake­ where he was preparing to land from an tenpost Katalog'', has 19 pages and is upside down flight. He raced many sold at DM 1.50 ( 38c), available from times against Oldfield, flying two and the Sieger-Verlag, Lordh/Wue]_'lttemberg, rthree feet ,~bove Barney's head around Westem Germany. It was reviewed by the course.· him in -the July, 1959 issue, page 275. OCTOBER, 1959 PAGE 3 New 15c Air Mail Stamp The new 15-cent international air mail tions of the 15-cent international air mail stamp, intended primarily for use on stamp may send addressed envelopes, to­ mail matter to Europe and the Middle gether with remittance to cover the cost East, features a drawing of the Statue of ·the stamps to be affixed, to the Post­ of Liberty, with the slogan "LIBERTY master, New York, New York. A close­ FOR ALL" immediately above, in tili.e fiHing enclosure of postal card thickness left portion of the stamp. Tohe lettering should be placed in each envelope and "U S AIR MAIL" and the denomination the flap either turned in or sealed. En­ "15c" are arranged in tili.e right portion velopes submitted Should be of ordinary of ·the design, with a Jet airplane sil­ letter size and each must be properly houette superimposed over the "U". addressed. An envelope must not be sent The Statue of .11iberty, the slogan for return of first-day covers. The out­ "LIBERTY FOR .A,{~L", and the airplane side envelope to the Postmaster should silhouette will be printed in black, and be endorsed "First Day Covers 15-cent the lettering "U S AIR MAJL", "15c'', Air Mail Stamp." Orders for covers must and t!he lines forming the border lines not include requests for uncancelled will be printed in orange. stamps. The stamp, 0.84 by 1.44 inches in di­ mension, will he arranged horizontally, printed on the Giori press, and issued in sheets of fifty. The 15-cent international air mail stamp and the I 0-cent and 25-cent now being prepared will replace the interna­ tional air mail series of the same denom­ The stamp was designed by Herb Lu­ inations issued in 1947. :balin. Mr. Lubalin, a graduate of the Cooper Union, has received many awards from ·the New York Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, A.LG.A., and AIR POST NEW ISSUES DMAA exhibitions. A recent one-man show of his work was held at the Am­ erican Institute of Graphic Arts. The lettering was the work of John OF THE ENTIRE Pistilli, and t!he drawing of the Statue of Liberty was done by Joseph Lomber­ dero, prominent illustrator. On November 20, 1959, the stamp will WORLD be placed on first-day sale in New York, New York, in conjunction with the Am­ erican Stamp Dealers Association Nation­ al Postage Stamp Show. The designs for the IO-cent interna­ PAMPHLET UPON REQUEST tional air mail stamps featuring the Lib­ erty Bell and the head of Abraiham Lin­ coln to be printed in two colors, are be­ ing prepared by the same artists working under the direction of William H. Buck­ Nicolas Sanabria Co. Inc. ley, an artist member of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. Tihe date, A . MEDAWAR, PRESIDENT place of issuance, design detai!ls and color 521 Fifth Ave., New York 17, N. Y. combinations of these two stamps will be announced shortly. Collectors desiring first-day cancella- PAGE 4 1'HE AIRPOST JOURNAL OFFICIAL SECTION AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY MONTHLY REPORT . From the Secretary Ruth T. Smith, Ferndale & Emerson Sts., Philadelphia 11, Pa. October 1, 1959 NEW MEMBERS 4648 DeWitt, Omar L., 1704 55th Place, La Grange, Ill. 4649 Carah, John J., (Capt.) - 146 E. Palfrey Dr., San Antonio 10, Tex. 4650 Woodard, Betty (Miss), 545 Superior South, Salem, Oregon 4651 Pappenheimer, Ralph, 1047 Barry Lane, Cincinnati 29, Ohio 4652 Dumont-Fouya, Andre, 38 Ave. G. Clemenceau, LePerreux, s/Marne, Seine, France 4653 Abbott, Arnold w., (Dr.), 703 E. Harvard Place, Ontario, Calif. 4654 Harmer, Cyril H. C., c/o H. R. Harmer, Ltd., 41 New Bond St., London Wl, Eng- land J-4655 Baylis, Charles P., 5542 East River Rd., Grand Island, N. Y. 4656 Crumrine, Arthur M., 101;2 W. College Ave., Apt. 4, Westerville, Ohio 4657 Hoffman, Richard A., 4 Veterans Ave., Worcester 3, Mass. 4658 Russell, C. D., P. 0. Box 414, Bakersfield, Ca).if. 4659 McGaw, Stephen H., 3806 Estes Ave., Nashville 12, Tenn. NEW APPLICATIONS Hoysradt, George F., Box 189, Radnor Inn, Radnor, Pa. Pharm. Chemist. Age: 30. U20 UC GF CAM FAM lD By: R. T. Smith Hatay, Francisco, c/o Argo of Colombia, Air Box 4696, Bogota, Colombia. Dealer. Age: 63. . . By: R. T. Smith Miller, Grace (Mrs.), Hardin, Illinois. Housewife. Age: Legal. AM AU·GF CAM FAM lD By: R. W. Murch Elby, K., Box 2785, Jacksonville 3, Florida. Postal Clerk. Age: Legal. AM AU U20 UC PC HC FF GF FAM CF lD By: R. T. Smith Walker, \Villiam S., 610 Lynch Bldg., ·Jacksonville 2, Fla. Lawyer. Age: 41. PC HC PB GF CAM FAM RP DC Z lD . By: G. D. Kingdom Yoshihuzi, S., Kougimachi 28, Kanazawa, Japan. Teacher. Age: 31. AM AU UC PC HC PA PB FF GF CAM FAM OP CC OF DC Z CF lD APS PIX X By: R. T. Smith Walker, Will, 110 E. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee 2, Wisc. tnsurance. Age: 43. AU PC HC DC lD X By: H. D. Westbrooks Phillips, Charles R., III, 3359B Lexington Ave., Fort Dix, N. J. Student. Age: 10 FF CAM RP lD X By: H. Brandner Haney, Robert, 2801 Harrison, Kansas City 9, Mo. Postal Clerk. Age: 34. AM U20 UC PC HC FF GF CAM FAM OF DC lD X By: R. T. Smith Speer, Marvin M. (Dr.), 2118 Lennox Rd., Cleveland Hgts, Ohio. Dentist. Age: 27. By: H. D. Westbrooks Sandholm, Hans H., 299 Webster Ave., Brooklyn 30, N. Y. Banker. Age: 30. AM AU U20 UC FF GF CAM FAM DC CF lD By: P. C. Nahl Gross, Philip, 982 Leggett Ave., New York 55, N. Y. Salesman. Age: 42. AM AS SC PC FF OF Z lD APS By: R. T. Smith Viglietta, Richard, 5 W. 63rd St., Rm. 1240, New York 23, N. Y. Transportation. Age: 31. AM AU FF Z CF lD X By: R. T. Smith CHANGE OF ADDRESS Tucker, Brown C., Box 1230, College Station, Murray, Ky. Bush, Joseph F., 4601 N. E. 3rd Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Carney, Robert, 510 Chestnut St., Erie, Pa. Lidman, David, 390 West End Ave., New York 24, N. Y. Koehler, Charles, 17543 Vine St., Fontana, Calif. Haring, Robert, 242 Hardenburgh Ave., Demarest, N. J. Enright, Ernest J., Inst. of Business Admin., Univ. of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey Seper, Victor, Jr., 6410 S. Rockwell, Chicago 29, Ill. Firtick, John J., P. 0. Box 510, Niles, Ohio Kertes, Ferdinand, P. 0. Box 10353, St. Petersburg 33, Fla. Little, Richard F., 2714 Tolosa Dr., Dallas 28, Texas Krauss, Alfred N., Cornell Univ. Medical College, 1300 York Ave., N. Y. 21, N. Y. Wagg, J. W. Bruce, 3226 -14th St. NW., Calgary, Alb., Canada DECEASED 3275 Hitchins, Clayton, Hamden, Conn. 2476 McCracken, Earl, Rolla, Mo. OC'DOBER, 1959 PAGE 5 TIPS BY JULIUS By JULIUS WEISS 3417 E. 147fh St., Cleveland. Ohio The Instituto Hondureno de Cultura • Pure Jets". 11hese may be used for all Interamerican has mailed out the orders Delta jet firsts. Sept. 18 the first from of Lincoln souvenir sheets and the offi- New York to Atlanta took place. The cial sheets of t!he same order to collectors next is to take place October 15 (flight who had placed orders with them. 804) from Miami to Chicago. November The Bi-National center enclosed a 15 flight 822 will go from Dallas, Texas sheet telling a:bout the delay, which says to New Orleans, Louisiana. Later on, in part, "This experience has proved em- December l, flight 811 will fly from De­ harrassing to the staff of the Instituto, troit to Miami. and it thas been d~cided that no new Collectors can send blank envelopes or orders will be accepted. Again, we the special envelopes to the postmasters would like to express our apology for of these cities for these Delta flights. the very long delay." We do hope that BOAC still has a fla:t fee of 42c per the Instituto will not stop the fine ser- cover on various legs of its Comet 4 runs. vice they have given collectors. The is- The latest will be the flight from Lon­ sues of this country have been ALL airs don to Australia soon to take place. in recent years . Recently a set of airs BOAC envelopes are a bit oversize and was issued to commemorate the Bi-Na- do not mount too well in the usual stand­ tional Center in Tegucigalpa (this is the ard envelope mounting. We do not at­ first stamp issued to commemorate any tempt to obtain ALL legs as we desire Bi-Nl!ltional center). The Instituto dis- only the key points. ~osed ?f the stamps, first day covers with A special cancel was used by the Swiss fme dispatch. The group does muoh to Postoffice to frank mail from National bring a better understanding between the Philatelic Exhibit ( NABAG) held in St. peoples of Honduras and of t!he United Gall, Switzerland, Aug. 21, 1959. On States. At the center many U.S.A. pub- Aug. 29 an official balloon-mail flight lications can be found, with data per- was launched as an added feature of the taining to schools in our country as well ei&iibit. Mail was marked "Offizieller as various lectures about life in America. Balloon-Postflug" or "official balloon air- Almost daily a first flight takes to the mail", and was cancelled in black with air. Many readers inquire if they should the handstamp of the exhibit in blue as obtain all first flights. We'd say this is well as backstamped. Stamp dealers in your choice. We do not attempt to ob- the USA will have the items, thanks to tain all first flights. We enjoy the jet the Swiss philatelic agency here. firsts over the great oceans (the first air We have been in contact with the lines to make the crossings). To obtain Ministry of Communications in Seoul, all the first crossings by all lines would Korea. We have noted the fantastic be quite a feat, and therefore we do not prices for some of the material of Ko­ attempt it. rea souvenir sheets. We are told that one Delta is going all out on its first DC-8 stamp plus one sheet may be obtained at pure jet flights. Special envelopes have face (plus return postage) from Seoul. been printed and they may be obtained We are glad to know that collectors get by writing Delta Air Lines, Atlanta Air- a crack at these sheets. port, Atlanta, Georgia. Send stamped June 15 when Braniff flew a first Elec­ addressed envelopes for return of the ca- tra-turbo-prop job from Dallas to New cheted envelopes. You may also obtain York, the press and radio made fine cov­ t!he envelopes gratis from any Delta tick- emge. Also a hostess, Chadotte Kiper, et office. The envelopes are red-white- welcomed passengers aboard while be­ blue with Delta emblem reading, "First ing garbed in the hostess dress of many Flight - Delta Royal Jet Service - Doug- years ago. History is on the march with las DC-8 powered by Pratt & Whitney Braniff. PAGE 6 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Bmational Center in Honduras - Stamp issued October 2, 1958 Sahena's firsit to Tanger (May 2 ) which was recently mentioned in this column had an official printed cachet by Sabena consisting of a black and red picture of a camel and a native of Tan­ ger. The flight of June 12 to Gla·sgow JET FLIGHTS from Bruxelles also had a special printed Sa:bena envelope. • ARCTIC Envelopes printed at Koln fo r "LU­ POSTA" show a balloon "Clouth VIII" io. flight plus the emblem of Luposta • ANTARCTIC (airship, jet and rocket in flight). Today we salute AAMS member, Ray­ • TRANS-POLAR mond Thill, 29, Rue J. P. Bausdh at Ru­ melange, Luxembourg. Mr. Thill has FLIGHTS done much for the airmail world. He pablishes the Luxembourg catalogue (airmail), a true historical work. Fur­ - At Moderate Prices ther, Mr. Thill ofifers fine Ii tings of Lux­ embourg first flights. Many are rather elusive in the USA. He also lists foreign jets from various parts of Europe. His ASK FOR A SELECTION TODAY Zeppelin items include many of the scarce flight which the lighter-than-air bags WALTER R. GUTHRIE undertook. TJiese catalogue lists are ex­ cellent reference material and best of all, P. 0. BOX 390 _£ they are free. Merely send him two in­ TUCSON, ARIZONA ternational reply coupons and a k for the listings Julius mentioned in the A.irpost Journal. He will reply promptly. OCTOBER, 1959 PAGE 7 ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER lDih AT 2 P. M. I will sell ai my 62nd Auction The Splendid Collection Of MINT AIR POST STAMPS Formed by the late DWIGHT JAMES BAUM

With the exception of a very few stamps, the collection is complete up to 1940. In addition to complete mint sets of all countries, it includes most of the rarities as well.

Most of the stamps were purchased at the time of issue. All were duly authenticated before being placed in the Baum albums, This is of con­ siderable importance in the case of the overprints of Nicaragua and other countries. Material from the Baum sale can be used for comparison purposes. All Stamps from his collection and the "Other properties" also included in this sale are of course guaranteed.

Highlights of the Baum Air Mail Sale are: Bolivia; complete, China, Sinkiang Ex Dr. Chow, Brazil; fine lot. Italy and Colonies; complete, including the rare Balbo stamps, Ile De France, Honduras; 1st issue 10 Values, Mexico University, Amelia Earhart and others. New Foundiand; De Pinedo, Colombia, New Guinea; complete. Nicaragua; splendid lot, Philippines; Madrid - Manilla complete. Uruguay, Venezuela and other fine stamps from "A to Z".

Additional properties in this sale include, fine lot of Zeppelin Covers, many Air Mail collections and wholesale lots, mint and used, U.S. and For­ eign

Rocket Stamps and Covers included. Fine Aerogrammes and collections there of.

Also non Airmail material too varied to describe.

CATALOGUE ON REQUEST REFERENCE PLEASE

LOTS ON VIEW BY APPOINTMENT

John w. Nicklin Pioneer Of Aerophilately 110 WEST 42ND ST., NEW YORK 36, N. Y.

PAGE 8 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL 1953 1940 1929 7 Hours 14 Hours 48 Hours First transcontinental passenger service, tri-motor plane by day, train by nig ht, ten stops.

A MAP THAT IS SHRINKING- BY THE HOUR

The Twentieth Century Fund says, "This map . . . is dramatic evidetnce of :the 'shrinking' of the world. The United States, measured in travel time, is now actually far smaller than were :the :thir.teen colonies from which the Union grew. In 1929 :the flight from New York to Los Angeles took 48 hours and required ten stops, with passengers traveling by air during day hours and by train during the night. The same trip today takes 5 hours, night or day.'' Reproduced through the kindness of Vance, Sanders & Company, Inc., Boston, Mass.

A NEW REPORT ON THE HILLIG Harbor Grace, June 24 or 25, after they TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT had flown there from Liberty. The New­ OF JUNE 1931 foundland authorities would not let the AAMS member Frank Karlson of Lib­ covers ·be flown and they went across erty, New York reports the existence of the Atlantic by ship and were post­ two unusual Transatlantic air mail covers marked Copenhagen, Denmark on July not mentioned in the American Air Mail 3, 1931. Catalogue. "However, Mr. Hillig kept two of the The Trans-Oceanic Section duly list~ covers in his coat pocket and they flew Hillig Atlantic Flight covers, June 19, to Germany with him. He had them 1931, as # 1140, as being forwarded by postmarked' at Copenhagen on June 27, boat mail. The rest of the story is as 1931 - six days prior to the. other cov- follows: ers". "Mr. Hillig was a resident of Liberty, Member Karlson has in his collection New York, and took off on the first leg today both varieties of cover, the steam­ of the flight from the local golf course. er mail dispatch and the cover that ac­ He had with him a number of covers tually flew the Atlantic with aviator Hil­ prepared by my father for Mr. Hillig. lig. The actual overseas hop was started from -R. W. Murch Armed Forces Day Special Helicopter Flight To St. Louis

by Robert Murch . I

St. Louis" first helicopter air mail be­ • postal operation. In time of war or na­ tween the Main Post Office and Lambert tional emergency, this unit would be­ Municipal Airport was flown by the Ar­ come the nucleus of a much expanded my Saturday, May 16, 1959, during the Army Postal Unit numbering as high as annual Armed Forces Day observance. 2,000 men. The H-34 helicopter flown by Captain Due to the prompt publicity efforts of Carl R. Anderson and Chief Warrant Of­ the U.S. Army and the American Air ficer Richard E. Glasgow, Army Trans­ Mail Society approximately 10,100 let­ portation Supply and Maintenance Com­ ters were carried on the first mail dis­ mand, 12th ·and Spruce Sts., St. Louis, patch through the St. Louis Post Office. made four round trips during the day, Postal officials established a special one at 11 a.m., 12 noon, 1 and 4 p.m. It day air mail service for the flight and landed in the Plaza area between 17th the helicopter pilot was sworn in as a and 18th streets on Market. The flight special air mail pilot for the service, a was made in approximately eight min­ procedure harking back to the pioneer utes one way, as compared to 45 min .. air mail routes of the 1911 era when one utes by a motor vehicle. day services were authorized for special The helicopter delivered the mail to aerial mail. the Air Mail Facility at Lambert Muni­ The first dispatch carried 10,000 cov­ cipal Airport and returned with incom­ ers from the lawn of the St. Louis main ing mail. post office to Lambert Field Air Port. A All such mail was placed aboard thei blue cachet was applied and part of the helicopter by members of the 317th Ar­ mail cargo consisted of a giant air mail my Reserve Base Post Office and de­ postcard addressed to The President of livered through regular postal channels. the United States, The White House, These Army Reservists performed these Washington, D. C. duties in army uniform under the com­ On hand to load' out the mail cargo mand of Captain Joseph B. Dierkes. The on Armed Forces Day was Commander 317th Anny Reserve Base Post Office is Robert W. Murch, Vice-President AAMS, a small Army Reserve unit which trains and Director of the Naval Reserve Offi­ at the Main Post Office in all phases of cer's School of St. Louis, a unit of the

PAGElO THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Army, Pos:I: Office, and American Air Mail Society cooperate :l:o dispatch giant air mail greeting to the president of the United States. Vice-President Rober! W. Murch, AAMS. Commander, USNR, righ:I: foreground, helps load ou:I: 10,000 first flight covers via army helicopter.

Navy' - Ready Reserve. GRAHAME-WHJT.E, EARLY The reh1m flight from Lambert Field BRITISH PILOT, DIES to the Post Office consisted of approxi­ An Associaited Press dispatch from mately 100 cover.s as time did not per­ London says that Claude Grahame­ mit handling of a large di ·patch from the W.hite, Britain's first qualified British aviator and air mail pilot, died on August AMF Facility. The rehlrn covers have a 19th in Nice, France. He would have green cachet. been 80 two days later. Grahame-White founded Hendon air­ port, near London, in 1910 and sold it AIRMAIL STAMPS OF THE WORLD to the British government for 2lh mil­ Mint and Used Sets and Singles lion dollars. He won the Gordon Ben­ SUMMER DISCOUNT SALE nett air force in the United States in free catalogue 1910 in a Bleriot monoplane, averaging NORMANDY ..STAMP STUDIO, INC. Box 1111 Studio City, Calif. 6 miles an 1hour. In World War I, he Member ASDA and Leading Philatelic flew on bhe first British air raid in his­ Societies tory, against t,he city of Zeebrugge. OCTOBER, 1959 PAGE 11 Airmail Historical Side Lights by John Harley

( Editor's Nate: Newcomers to our • plain that they are merely sticks of hobby will do well to read this interest- wood, bone, plastic or metal in various ing chronicle. And old-timers, too, will designs, used to stir the vile mixture of benefit from it!) liquors used in alcoholic beverages. My Why collect airmails? Or for ~hat mat- collecting mania for these novelties is Hm­ ter, regular or commemorative issues, ited to two considerations: American or Foreign, or Match covers? a. The stick must have upon it the Is it because they are pretty bits of name of the establishment where used. paper? If so, there are niany bits of non- b. It must have been obtained by my­ postal paper, printed by various meth- self at that establishment. I wouldn't ods that offer more bea1.1:ty of color and give a used 3c stamp with a crease and design. half the perfs missing for a carload of Or is it because they are such a won- others. derful investment? If you are kidding Tihe personal memories and associa­ yourself with that thought, suffice it to tions that come with each give these say there are many methods by which inanimate sticks a value to me. I can no capital can be more rapidly and surely longer travel physically, and I rarely look increased than with stamps. at this display but that I do not relive Or are you merely ·inflicted with the "the time when I got that one." bug of "Stampitis" --:-, that is, just finding So too is it with my airmail collection; bits of paper you do/,not have and stick- from seeing these bits of paper I am ing them into a book? If so, I could sug- carried back along the years of aviation gest an institution where the inmates progress and even before the word avia­ have a wonderful time cutting out paper ti.on was known. dolls. Aviation is comparatively new, as it I'll confess I became infected with was not until 1903 that the first suc­ stampitis some years ago but I am cer- cessful heavier-than-air flying machine tain a complete cure would have been was built. Before that? Oh, man fooled effected in a short time if this stamp around with balloons rbut they never am­ interest had not introduced me to the ounted to much. airmail issues. I have no defense to of- It appears that when the Creator made fer except .that I have learned more man ihe endowed him with the ability to about man's attempts to conquer the air talk, a gift of questionable value, not filian might have occurred by any other bestowed upon any other creature. But media. And yet I have been ·involved he did not give him the ability to fly with various phases of aviation since like the birds and bees, and man always 1916 when as a daring young man I wanted what he does not have: the abil­ first learned to handle these early ex- ity to fly. This urge appears to have amples of the flying trapeze. been prevalent from the beginning of Perhaps my outlook is narrow, but to time. be worthwhile there must be some deep- For generations it was only a wish, seated satisfaction to hold interest in any and man being unable to fly himself, en­ hobby for a lengthy period. dowed his gods with this wanted ability. To disgress, and perhaps clarify this ~hose wiho remember their Greek and thinking: For many years my work has Roman mythology recall Mercury and taken me from east to west, from north Hermes, the winged messenger of the to south, and being one of those disso- gods who flew between the heavens and lute individuls who enjoy a fluid apper- earth with messages from the gods to tif, I found myseif collecting drink sticks. mankind. One might consider Mercury Recognizing that the great majority of as the first aerial postman. Mythology Airpost Journal readers will have no con- tells of winged horses and cihariots, all ception of what these are, I can only ex- being the dreams of man deprived of his PAGE 12 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL r

desire for personal flight. winged messengers of the sky carried Later man became more intelligent. plans of aid?" It was the exchange of He no longer believed in those old fables battle plans by carrier pigeons between of winged gods, and he developed him­ Brutus and his besieged a;rmies and Cas­ self a new religion by whioh he person­ sius in Macedonia .that defeated An­ ally could look forward to the achieve­ thony's effort. ment of flight ability. He peopled his We find records of mail-carrying heavens with angels equipped with pigeons all llhrough the centuries. In the bright and shiny wings and added the 15th century the siege of Leydon in Hol­ theory that if he did not get caught steal­ land by ·the Spanish was defeated by ing his neighbor's goat, running off with use of pigeon posts. The French used his neighbor's wife, or coveting his pigeons in 1870 as the only method of stamp collection, when ihe died he would obtaining messages from outside Paris go to glory and be rewa;rded with his while the German armies surrounded the own wings. So finally he would achieve city. ,Jt is curious about llhe siege of the long-sought goal and thereafter he Paris mails. While reams have been would flit from cloud to cloud twanging written about the 'Balloon Po!>tes', data upon a harp. of every description giving names of bal­ If you do not believe this, go and have loons, pilot's names, what was carried, another look at the stained glass windows wihere it went, and with today's collect­ in llhe church and read some of the ors seeking covers from those flights, so promises held fol.'th for the righteous. little has been written or said about the Now even dreams of the future are not messages going into Paris by birds. satisfactory ·to all; there ai:e always a At the tum of llhe centuiry another of­ few adventurous individuals who must ficial pigeon post was in active use be­ try to do things thems.elves. So we find tween New Zealand and ·the Great Bar­ the history of man spotted w1th attempts rier islands. In both World Wars the to make himself copies of the bird's pigeon was a regular part of army com­ wings, or building kites to be drawn by munications, and it has only •been re­ birds. Man ihad no sooner discovered the cently ~hat the Un1ted States Army an­ power of the paddle wheel than he tried nounced termination of its pigeon corp to make it work on a flying machine, and the disposal of the last several thous­ with the only results being a few broken and oar!!'ier pigeons. necks. So there is really nothing new about Man's first conquest of the air came in carrying messages through llhe air. Actu­ sending his communications through the ally such carrying of messages is only an­ skies, using birds to do what the could teda.ted by the use of man himself as not do himself. courier. In the .homes of ancient Rome dove Man's first personal conquest of the cotes on the roof were common. Trav~ air, the actual transportation of himself, elers of that era •took with them doves came wihen the lifting power of hot air or carrier pigeons, by which they could or gas was discovered and he made his send messages home from distant places. first balloon. · Even before that time, Hebrew and Just when llhat was, we do not know. Arabian history tell of Noah taking doves Chinese history tells of a balloon flown into the ark, · and sending them out with around 1200 at the coronation of an em­ messages. peror. So you see, carrying messages by air In the 1700s a number of adventurers is not as new as some folk think, as for were building balloons and giving dem­ centuries sending messages by birds was onstrations throughout Europe. In 1782 the only conquest of the air achieved by our ambassador to France, Ben Franklin, man. witnessed one of these balloon flights Pliny, Roman historian of the 1st cen­ and wrote at length on llhe wonders of tury, writing of the siege of Modena the invention. Writing to Washington, by Anthony, asked, "What profited An­ the explained the tremendous military thony by ·his siege of Modena while the value that would accrue to a nation wit}i OCTOBER, 1959 PAGE 13 maybe 5000 such balloons each capable pilots. of carrying an armed man behind an Curiously the first official postage enemy's lines. Largely due to Frank­ stamp in the world to carry a picture of lin's interest, Jean Pierre Blanchard of a plane was not an airmail stamp at all. France brought his balloon to America 11his was the 20c Parcel Post stamp is­ and on Jan. 9, 1783 from the yard of sued by Uncle Sam in 1912. The 1918 the old Walnut Street prison in Phila­ U.S. 24c airmail stamp was the first of­ delphia he made his 45th ascension and ficial stamp ever issued to carry mail on gave America its first glimpse of air a regular scheduled air flight. But, as travel. Both Martha and George Wash­ you think of that narrow angle of collect­ ington were present to see the flight. In ing remember that 75 years earlier, free case of his descent amongst str:angers, lance balloonists were issuing and using Blanchard carried a letter from Wash­ stamps to adve11tise and identify air mes­ ington asking that all assistance be given sages carried by themselves. the aeronaut. There is a price to be paid for every­ In the 1800s carrying letters by bal­ thing and. the development of flig!ht ~ loon was a regular stunt in this country no exception. and Europe. Who did it first we will To return to Greek mythology: we never know, but the first government op­ find the story of Dadelus and his son erated air-flights, the Paris Balloon imprisoned on an island. D a d e l u s Postes, the later Zepp flights and our made himself wings of bee's wax and own experiments in carrying mail with bird feathers, learned to fly with them, the Los Angeles and Shenandoah are but;_ then made a pair for his son so they an outgrowth of these early balloon op­ could escape from their prison. erations. Warning the boy not to fly too high It was only fifty-six years ago that the for fear the heat of the sun would melt Wri~ht Brothers developed the first suc­ the wax, they took off. But the son, like cessful man-carrying heaviercthan-air ma­ a lot of smart alecs, ignored his flight in­ chine. The first practical use made to structor's advice, flew too high, The wax --demonstrate its possibilities was the car­ melted and he fell into the sea, so pro­ rying of airmail. Since then progress has viding us wiijh the story of the first aer­ been· rapid and stamps used for airmail ial crash. by various countries are legion. We have been crashing ever since and The issue of airmail stamps from whiah a few examples of mail salvaged from_ our hobby has found a new angle is -the such crashes should be part of every air­ outgrowth of all this background, but it mail collection. But do i;iot stop with ob­ is not the intention of the writer to at­ taining a nice clean cover, franked with tempt any description of the stamps in­ a well-centered stamp, lightly tied on. volved. Find out tl1e story behind the crash cov­ Of particular interest to the student of er. 11he plane, the pilot, day or night, air mail !history, the first government­ the cause, and all other information pos­ operated flight in Great Britain was sible. made at -the coronation of King George My own prize cover is charred from V, Sept. 11, 1911.- For this flight from fire, discolored from soaking in water Windsor to London a special cachet was and snow after months being lost in the used, 1but no stamp was issued for such mountains. The stamp is missing and use. only a cancellation mark remains to show The first official carrying of mail by where it had been. This, together with air in U.S.A. was by Earl Ovington on several newspaper accounts of t!he Sept. 23, 1911. ~his from Garden City plane's loss and finding, completes the Estates to Mineola, L. I. picture. My wife, that oracle of all The first official airmail stamp issued things, seeing ·the item when I first ob­ in the world was by the Italians in tained irt, remarked: "and you paid good March 1917, an overprint of a regular money for that dirty-looking thing?" But issue. The flight, from Turin to Rome, don't laugh, I have shown it at several was made by Italian military planes and exhibitions and the judges knew no more PAGE 14 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL about it, history, scarceness or value, show. Send to Mrs. Oetjen, Secretary, rthan to my wife. To me, t!hat cover, for a special cover for twenty cents. whether 311: value le or $100, represents a phase of airmail history, a part of the Springfield Air Mail Society, #10 price paid so that recently an army jet George Angers, Secretary, reports their tanker could fly non~stop over 10,000 Annual Dinner meeting was held at the miles. Springfield Country Club in June with .In ·this writer's opinion, true collecting members and wives present. of airmail hi&tory is exemplified by ma­ For August, ~here was "An Outing terial that is pa11t of history itself, wheth­ with Golf", at the Springfield Country er official or semi-official stamps were Club. used, whet!her carried on governmental Election of officers was the im~ soheduled flight or by some barnstormer portant event at the Hollis H. Root's now gone to his eternal wings. home in Montgomery, Mass. If your own conception of collecting includes seeking knowledge beyond the Charles F. Durant Air Mail Society, facts of what kind of paper was used, the #28 number of perfs around the edge or the color of the stamp, then you .too have October 6th meeting will feature "A Club Auction". progressed beyond the state of stampitis and your hobby :has become a source of The Reading Stamp Cluib has invited information and pleasure- and a constant -this chapter's members to be their guests challenge. for the Harry Weiss "Special Lab Show" The only trouble is that you have on November 17th in Reading, Pa. now reached the stage where you will Their Christmas Party will take place never get over it. on December 15th at the Y.M.C.A. Cen­ tre Square, Allentown, Pa. The J'ack Knight Air Mail Society, Chapter Ne-.vs #23 By Florence Kleinert 213 Virginie Avenue, FUilerton, Pa. Dr. James J. Matejka, Jr., is President - for this chapter and · for "COMPEX" Stamp shows, new officers, picnics, held at the LaSalle HOt:el, August 26th banquets, special exhiibits and auctions to 30th, during the Pan American Games make ~he highlights for this column. in Chicago. The Metropolitan Air Mail Cover There were 1200 frames in the stamp Club. #31 eldhibit from 14 Ohicago clubs and for­ eign governments, with a bourse of 37 Harold J. Frankel, Publicity Chair­ dealers. man, sends an announcement that their On August 27th, First Day ceremonies first fall meeting was held on September were held for the ten cent air mail Pan 11th at the Happiness Exchange Bldg., American Games stamp. 226 W. 42nd St., New York City. Air mail collectors are invited to attend their Dr. Matejka received the Grand Award interesting meetings and auctions. at the 1959 Canadian Philatelic Society's Show for his "Alaskan Collection". Suburbi!lri Collectors Club, #30 This chapter has been invited to cele-. Mrs. Howard H. Oetjen, 13 E. Hickory, brate the 25th anniversary of ·the Elm­ Hinsdale, Ill., the secretary, reports on hurst Philatelic Society to be held in "Their Stamp Exhibition" at the Hins­ Mexico City in July, 1960. dale Community House on November Write to Earl H. Wellman, 3532 Oak 21-22. Ave., Brookfield, Ill., about the Mexico Send for a prospectus from Herbert trip to have your name on their list. It Brandner, Box 177, Brookfield, Ill. A will be a wonderful trip. special cachet on the obsolete seven-cent Best wishes to the chapters for the air mail envelope will be used at the fall season. OCTOBER, 1959 PAGE 15. BUYING - SELLING ALWAYS INTERESTED! NOT A MUSEUM! It is impossibl;t'c;- stay in the "-~t~mp business without buying Because we are not running a museum, hut wish to sell the .•• it goes without saying. Hence, having serviced covers since stamps and covers that we have acquired over the years, you 1926, we are always interested in continuing to stock stamps and will always find us anxious to he of any possible philatelic covers to maintain "The Department Store of Philately". assistance to you.

ON APPROVAL: SO, WE ARE ALWAYS BUYING: ActuaHy, a large part of our stock can he sent to Your collection may he shipped, with your in· yon "on approval" (on your request). Whatever structions attached, and without any previous your field may he, we shall he glad to try to correspondence on the subject. make up selections according to your wants and If you wish to sell, either quote your price or tastes. True, we may not he of help in some ask for our best cash offer, as you prefer. highly specialized fields and in the case of re­ If you wish to sell via our monthly auctions, cent flight material, we have not been keeping instruct us to handle on 20 % commission basis up our stock. We do have many of the pre· in the next sale to he sent to press. 1935 airmail covers, and we also have many of the 1935-1959 first day covers.

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PAGE 16 THE AIROST JOURNAL OC'DOBER, 1959 PAGE 17 Air Mail Interruption (Crash) Events DAMAGED IN 'HANDLING IN THE POSTAL SERVICE By R. Lee Black, Department Edi:t'or

Collectors of salvaged mail from ak- • tention again, and postmasters should im- plane, train, steamship and other trans- mediately secure a supply of .these portation services have noticed that such stamps for use on damaged mail matter mail since about January 31, 1956 is in lieu of Stamp 1300-41." handstamped with the a!bove cachet in Sincerely yours, red. Before that date various types of Xenophon P. Smith, Librarian cachets were used. They were made on Post Office Department Library ~he spot where investigation and pro- It will be noted that the use of the cessing of the mail was had and made cadhet "damaged in handling in the up from local mbber type available. postal service" was not made mandatory That accounted for the wide variety of by tJhese orders. A few postmasters or­ cachets applied to salvaged mail from dered the prepared cachet and applied airplane, train and shipwrecks. it. Edwin D. J. Fletcher of Hollywood, Noting that the same caohet was be- California, has a train wreck cover and ing used caused rthis writer to investi- an airmail cover bearing the cachet dated gate through the postoffice department. back in February, 1954. A letter from Zenophon P. Smith, Li- However, a letter from E. D. Wads­ ibrarian of the Post Ofice at Washington, worth, Director of Division of Air Trans­ D. C. is quoted in part: portation Service, Washington, D. C. We quote two notices which appeared writes under date of Feb. 15, 1956, that in rthe Postal Bulletin of 1953 concerning "Instructions were issued to all re- the issuance and use of the rubber stamp gional Transportation Managers under -"Damaged in Handling in the Postal date of January 31, 1956, that a stand- Service.'' ard endorsement reading 'Damaged in No. 19657 - July 28, 1953 Handling in ·the Postal Service" would "The Bureau of Facilities, Division of be used on all air mail damaged in Equipment and Supplies, advises that a and aircraft accident, and that no en- supply of the rubber stamp, 'Damaged in dorsement would be used. In cases of handling in the postal service,' is now in delay by reason of an accident where stock and will be furnished to post of- mail is not damaged, no endorsement fices in tihe future as a regular item of will be made". supply. Thus it will be seen that it has been "The new stamp will serve as an all- made mandatory for all Regional Trans­ purpose rubber stamp for endorsing mail portation offices to use the endorsement. matter that may become damaged in the The regulation does not seem to apply course of handling locally or in transit.'' to postmasters themselves. This is indi­ No. 19677 - October 6, 1953 cated by the fact that the salvaged mail "In the Postal Bulletin of July 28, from the Electra dunking in the East 1953, under the above caption, post- River of the LaGuardia airport on Feb­ masters were informed that a new rubber ruary 3, 1959 was endorsed '"J1his matter stamp designated as Stock Item 1300- was recovered following a recent airplane 222, "Damaged in Handling in the Post- crash. New York Post Office". Mail al Service" was available for endorsing from that wreck was evidently salvaged mail matter that becomes damaged in and processed by bhe New York post­ the course of handling locally or in master instead of the inspectors of the transit. Regional Transportation Service. This is "The Bureau of Facilities, Division of the only damaged mail which has not Supplies, advises that postmasters gen- been endorsed by the cachet at the erally are not requisitioning the new heading of this article whidh has come rubber stamp from their designated sup- to our attention thus far. ply offices. '11he matter is brought to at- The fact that salvaged mail is now so PAGE 18 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL endorsed presents a problem of identifi­ Kessler l:o Publish Aerogramme cation of salvaged mail from a given Catalogue crash because the cachet does not state Readers will note from Fred W. Kess­ where or when the crash occurred. If ler's advertisement on the issue's back the date marking is not legible the iden­ cover ·that he is announcing the forth­ tification becomes difficult. If the en­ coming publication of an up-to-date dosures are intact wrnh the envelope and catalogue of aerogrammes. This will un­ bear dates ·then it can be tied up. More­ questionably be a most useful help to .;over, delayed, undamaged mail is not collectors of this material, and we look endorsed, but we have known of in­ forward to using it when it is published. shmces where such delayed mail was ac­ He has sent us a proof of the United companied by a mimeo of explanation. States section. The format is pleasing, If possible, collectors should save the the illustrations very fine and the paper contents along with the damaged cover a 70 pound coated enamel which pro­ so that the date of the crash can be tied vides clearer impressions of cuts. up wtih jjhe cover. Prior to January 31, This ambitious project thad been con­ 1956 most all cachets disclosed the place sidered by him for a long time, and we and date of accident and no difficulty are glad to see it coming to fruition. was encountered in identifying the sal­ Readers may wonder why, when our vaged piece. Such old cachets gave a Society has pU!blished a similar work, · variety and spice to collecting. Now, and is shortly to publish a supplement to bring it up to date, we welcome the cachets are all alike and this variety another catalogue. It is one of the is missing. For instance, there are six policies of the American Air Mail Society known· cadhets applied to salvaged from to enccmrage any reliable publication the Gillette, ~yomfo.g, crash of Febru­ that will benefit our hobby; with so ary 26, 1954, and seven from the Moose many of our own members on the · edi~ torial staff of l!his new venture, we are Jaw, Sas]<. incident . of April 8, 1954. certain that the project will be infor­ Collectors will now miss those varieties mative, well-written, and worthy of a and types of cachets. place in one's philatelic library. Mr. Kessler tells us that the work will have more than 600 illustrations,· LONG'S HANDBOOK that it will have a loose leaf style of -Free for !:he Asking binding to provide for supplements which will appear at least once a year, AAMS Life Member and dealer Elmer that all' aerogrammes will be illustrated, R. Long 1has just sent us a copy of his and that surdharges and watermarks will new 1960 Collectors' Handbook. It's his be shown. Semi-private issues will be in 43rd edition. It's a handy pocket dheck a separate section; all military aero­ list of U.S. stamps, which he prices for grammes will be listed. The editorial board !has m e m b e r s from several sale, and includes many other items of countries, which insures inclusion of all philatelic interest, including such things varieties and sub-varieties. as albums, catalogues, foreign packets of We understand that the material has stamps and Christmas seals. He offers been written and edited, and that the text will shortly be type set. The publi­ readers of the Airpost Journal a copy of cation date and price will be announced this Handbook without charge. You'll later. find his address in his two-page ad at Fred Kessler has long been one of jjhe the center of this issue. Incidently, he's leading dealers in aerophilatelic material. had this center spread in the A.P.J. with­ He has been instrumental in helping to form many well-known collections. For out interruption for somewhere around years his new issue service has had many twe1'1!ty years and is one of our oldest subscribers, and he has contributed many advertisers. scholarly articles to philatelic publications. OC'l'10BER, 1959 PAGE 19 F. A. M. N 0 T E S by Frank H. Blumenthal - 3040 Idaho Ave., N. W. Washington 16, D.C. Pan American Airways has pushed Prior service to Asuncion had been only part of its long transpacific F.A.M. 14 from Miami, many years ago before the route deeper into the Far East. On June lapse of a bilaterial agreement only re­ 1 the flight from San Francisco to Sin­ cently renewed. The first flight left gapore was extended to Jakarta, the capi­ New York on July 20, stopping at Cara­ tal of Java in Indonesia, two hours' fly­ cas before proceeding to Asuncion and ing time south of the old terminus of finally to Buenos Aires. The use of jet Singapore. At present this segment is equipment made possible a 15-hour being flown once a week. flight between the two terminal points The Jakarta extension provided a large as compared with 26 hours usually re­ number of first flight dispatches. San quired by piston planes. The return Francisco accounted for 1532 covers flight left Buenos Aires July 21. from the post office and 3628 from the The large quantities of covers dis­ airm_::i:il field, the June 1 postmark being patched to Asuncion were as follows: applied at 10 and 11 p.m., respectively. 1974 from Post Office, 4691 from AMF, Honolulu dispatches, June 2 at 11 a.m., and 3570 from United Nations. numbered 1268, while Wake Island sent 1168 covers on June 3 at 5 p.m. (One The New York post office applied day was "lost" when the International an attractive cachet in blue, the AMF Date Line was crossed.) A similarly in red; but since the same cachet was large quantity of letters was mailed from applied by Asuncion for the return flight, Guam the same day at 8 p.m. Manila with the legend only slightly changed (June 4), Saigon (the 4th), and Sin­ and in Spanish, it may be assumed that gapore (the 5th) also dispatched covers the air line supplied all cachets and hence handled for collectors by the airline. they possibly may not be considered These were backstamped at Jakarta on official. Caracas and Buenos Aires used the 5th. The four American post offices the same cachet. The latter two cities' applied a black cachet showing a map dispatches to New York and vice versa of the route, identical except for the are not listable under FA.Ms in view name of the dispatching offiice. Manila, of prior service, and covers addressed Saigon and Singapore applied a red ca­ to Asuncion from these two cities may chet showing a Javanese woman dancer, not have been flown there, or vice versa. appropriately worded as to the point of Quantities from New York to Caracas origin. This cachet presumably was and Buenos Aires were 1477 and 1997 furnished by the airline and may not be from Post Office, 1265 and 2998 from considered official. However, Saigon AMF, and 2720 and 3655 from U.N. added a box cachet in red which is ~ ~ ~ probably official. The flight officers Boston to Paris service by jet plane out of San Francisco were Captain G. w~s started by Pan American on June 1 Purton and First Officer E. Vita. without advance notice. The airline sent For the return flight from Jakarta on ~bout 1000 covers for resale to philatel­ June 5, the airline kindly serviced covers ists and these were quickly sold out. sent in by collectors. Covers to all seven (Your editor has not seen one and would cities on this return journey received the like to have one.-Advt.) These are of same red cachet showing the dancer, purely historical interest and not listable changed to indicate the points served. under FAMs. Backstamps, not found on all covers, Likewise not listable are the covers were dated the 5th and 6th. carried by Northwest Airlines on its ~ ~ ~ first jet service from New York to Tokyo When Pan American inaugurated jet in early June, via Anchorage. Most plane service to South America, a ldstable covers were mailed from the Air Mail F.A.M. first flight was involved in the Field and hence the post office dis­ New York to Asuncion, Paraguay, leg. patches are considered the scarcest. PAGE 20 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL ~~ ' •1Nr T n 0: T.:i." < • _ _ -, Al t .:i. - -

American Air Mail Society I f / / General Delivery \ \ ' u. s. Post Office \\\tM~t:,so11 II - Henderson. New York ~ ' ~~,...,,....,~ .... On August 17, 1959 the Post Office ern day delivery time of 141h hours. The D epartment issued the John Wise Jupi­ present day Postmaster at Henderson, ter Balloon stamp at Lafayette, Indiana. New York advises that John Wise's bal­ This stamp commemorates a valiant 1859 loon landed on bhe family farm back in attempt to carry air mail to New York '59, an event the family still talks about! City but fickle winds ended the aerial voyage .35 miles south of Lafayette and T·hus, this July 1 John Wise IOOth an­ the mail pouch went by train. Only one niversary cover is the perfect companion of these Jupiter covers is known to col­ piece for your album alongside the J upi­ lectors and is in tlhe collection of AAMS ter first day cover of August 17, 1959. member Tom Matthews of Springfield, While the two hundred covers last Ohio. they will be distributed in the following John Wise's greatest flight of record, manner: which also carried letters and newspapers One cover free to each new member in a sealed pouch of the U. S. Express joining the American Air Mail Society Co., covered 1200 miles in twenty hours. after October 1, 1959. This flight took place 48 days EARLIER than ithe Jupiter flight! One cover free to each AAMS member sponsoring a new member after October On July l, 1859 Jdhn Wise's balloon l, 1959. Atlantic flew from St. Louis, Missouri to Henderson, New York averaging sixty One cover will be sent to any collector miles an ·hour in th"* upper jet stream. donating $2.00 to ·the American Air Mail Society Publication Fund, a non-profit To commemorate this epic aerial flight fund devoted to the publishing of air the American Air Mail Society on July l, mail catalogs and handbooks. 1959 dispatched 200 specially prepared Membership applications can be ob­ John Wise covers over the regular air tained from the AAMS President, Robert mail routes from St. Louis to Henderson, W. Murch, 9560 Litzinger Rd., St. Louis New York. Such air mail covers are post­ 24, Mo. (Mark your requests "John marked St. Louis Air Mail Field 6 : 30 "\iVise Balloon Cover") This offer is lim­ pm. July 1 with Henderson, N. Y. ar­ ited to the supply available, first come, rival backstamp of July 2, 1959, a mod­ first served. OC'IlOBER, 1959 PAGE 21 A Flying Saucer Cover by Harry A. Gordon

If you thought that you would never been several attempts in France to build see tl1e day when -uc.:h a cover would be uch a machine. A mock-up model was shown in -the pages of the APJ, well, to­ built there but never really completed . day is the day. And here it is! _ o kid­ In Canada A VRO's Project "Y" after dinl!! several years went to the U.S. for fur­ fo the annals of a iation we find in ther development. In Britain one of the the many pages of ail.I three volumes of fi nest airplane firms responsible for the American Air .Ytail Cata]oaue refer­ building such fine aircraft as the giant ences to the many means of air trans­ "Princess" typ e flying boats and the jet portation that man has created ince he plu. rocket SR-53 machines, revealed to found out soon enouah that he could the public on June 80 their SR N-1 neither arow his own winers nor fly with "Hovercraft'', dubbed at once in all three wings feathered by birds. W e find cov ­ countriPs as the first Flying Saucer. Ac­ ers carried thru the air by pigeon, bal­ tually it seems to be more like an egg­ loon, airship, dirigible, zeppelin, aero­ cup on a saucer. It fli es by a new meth­ plane, helicopter, autogiro, rocket, jet od, several feet above the surface of plane, missile and at long last, by "Fly­ '.Srouncl or water. The New York Times ing Saucer". For years this has been but pictured it flying pa t tl1e Queen 1ary, a science-H ction dream and while we do enrnute t t ) New York. not hold as proven flying aucers fl own \Veighincr four tons, it ha been flown here from other plan ts as yet, there have b~ 1 it" te.t p:lot, Lt. Cmdr. Peter Lamb.

PAGE 22 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL The principle of flight is a new one, as importance from and to Lisbon. Thirty­ the machine rides on a cushion of air. eight, surprisingly enough, are listed. In flown covers signed by the pilot we How many are there in your collection? have seen: l, Cowes to Eastney on June The last title covers special air mail 22, 1959. This was a "demonstration for postmarks of New ealand, and is in part the combined services" and was the first a history of flights . made there. cover flown over land from one place to another. 2, July 12, 1959, Cowes to DEAll. EDITOR: Portsmouth. Flown with "officials of In the August Journal, page 293, you Glenn Martin Aircraft Company as pas­ wrote about a specihl catalogue section sengers". This was flown over water. for jet airmail. Since you thoughtfully 3, July 15, 1959 from Cowes to Ryde. invited opinion, here's mine. All 3 covers were postmarked July 16 I do believe and ihope fo see a special at Cowes. section devoted to pure jet,s and prop The writer would like to know if any­ jets. Pure jets, anyhow. Even though one got a first fl!ght cover of June 8th. this would in most instances 'l:\1:1plicate After all, there was plenty of room on existing CAMs, because jets are ''a.n en­ this 30 feet long by 25 feet wide pol­ tirely different form of travel, anct be­ ished aluminum disc that skims a few cause of the special interest they have, feet above the surface of land or sea. they should merit special consideration,. Make it a ff:'w hundred feet long and it For instance, if rockets were used ovet · can carry a regiment! existing CAM routes, I'm sure they would be listed separately, as now, in a rocket catalogue. Jets are as different BOOK REVIEWS - from piston aircraft as are rockets. Those Mystifying Hieroglyphics, However, I would strongly stress ·this compiled by John C. W. Field, point: Let's keep the junk or souvenir pp 19 - Price 40c variety of covers out of our listings. Only The Lisbon Story, by N. C. Baldwin, that material flown in actual mail sacks pp 10 - Price 30c by the U.S. Post Office and available to Air Mail Cancellations of New Zeal­ all collectors should ever be listed in an and, by R. M. Startup, pp 4 - airmail catalogue. Price 15c Then there is the matter of the recent The three titles above are publications Post Office Missile mail. To me it is in of Francis J. Field, Ltd., Sutton Coldfield, the same category as the original Farley Warwickshire, England. Postage is extra stamp issues. I hope this freak cover for each booklet. Dollar (currency) pay­ will not be listed. ment is requested and no International -Ronald E. Boughton Reply Coupon or personal check for small amounts is desired. AUGUST COVER IS 10.ENTIFIED The first title is a .revision of the same booklet that appeared in 1952. It Both George Angers and Earl H. Well­ is a big help to those who are curious man were able to identify the balloon, about oriental and amharic cancellations race on last month's (August) cover. and cachets. The countries dealt with This was t11e Gordon Bennett Cup Race include China, Ethiopia, Japan, Korea, held at Stuttgart, Germany in October, Manchukuo, Mongolia, Persia and Thai­ 1912. The gentleman under the arrow land. Calendars, numeral translations, is Brig. Genl (Retired) Frank P. Lahm, symbols, and a bit of history go to make who won the first Bennett Cup Race in it easy to determine Western equivalents 1906. He was also the first U.S. Army of markings. Truly interesting. aeroplane pilot. He retired in 1941. "The Lisbon Story" and "Air Mail The 1912 race was won by a French­ Cancellations of New Zealand" are re­ man, Maurice Bienaime. His balloon, prints from "The Aero Field" magazine, the "Picardie" traveled 2220 kilometers also published by Field. The former is in 46 hours and landed in Ajasens on a history of and a check list for flights of October 12th. OC'DOBER, 1959 PAGE 23 .HISTORY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OPERATED AIR MAIL SERVICE 1918-1228 b y K A R L B. W E B E R

OTHER NOTABLE FLIGHTS UNDER GOVERNMENT AUSPICES CHAPTER XVIII Although the efforts of the Post. partment in 1913 to carry mail at the Office Department were mostly con­ Helena, Montana Air meet between centrated in developing certain es­ September 22nd and September 219th talblished rouarture of the cause of her d'ailure t-0 make a non­ steamship, appeared out of the mist stop flight from Chicago to the Met­ astern -and flew -at a •good speed ai a ropolis, Miss •Stinson 1broke two Am- high eleV

A pilot-signed first flight cover is al~ - • Service north of Port Arthur, where ways a pleasure to own because the men . HS2L aircraft were being used on fire who flew Canada's early airmail were patrol. In the fall of 1928 he joined invariably bush pilots - men of high in- Ca-f!adian Trans-Continental Airways telligence, quick thinking, with a love Limited in Quebec, and in ,the win~er for adventure. Some were lo t, but no flew in. the bush" north of St. John, New other type of man could have survived Brunswick. The spring of 1929 saw him flights in the early planes, in winter or with the Rimouski air mail service. Dur­ summer, over the vast northern sections of ing that s~er this service was taken Canada. Our story is about \V. H. Ir- over by Canadian Airways Ltd. On July vine, who has been credited in the Amer- 1st, Bill Irvine made two first flights ican Air Mail Catalogue with nine first with mail from MQncton to Sydney and mail flights in Canada. return. In December he · was made su- William Herbert Irvine learned to fly perintendent of one of the early air mail .in the R.C.A.F. as a cadet or Provincial services from a base in ~ncton, where, Pilot Officer during summer vacations on December 9th, an ex~rin1ental air when attending the University of New mail service was inauguratei! between Brunswick. He received his wings and Montreal, Quebec, Moncton and St. John. obtained his commission in 1926. Dur- The service produced 12 cachett first ing his term of duty with the RCAF he flight covers, with pilot Irvine mabng managed to take an instructor's course the St. John to Moncton flight. ( ~­ at Camp Bordon, and also did seaplane ers of part 2 of AAMC should add num­ flying in Vancouver. He later flew on her 232, the following flight: Moncton fire patrol operations in Manitoba from to St. John.) L ac du Bonnet and over the Rockies from High River, Alberta. In the following spring he became After his resignation from the air force superintendant of the Toronto-Detroit in 1928 he became an officer in charge night run and about three months later of a base in the Ontario Provincial Air was sent to Montreal as Assistant Man­ ager, Eastern Lines, at the head office of Canadian Airways Ltd. At this time the 1930 "depression" hit North America, and Irvine found himself back in Monc­ ton when most of the eastern air mail contracts were cancelled. He then mov­ ed to the Western Lines and for a time flew the night mail from Winnipeg to Moose Jaw, and occasionally relieved the sections of Moose Jaw to Lethbridge and Lethbridge to Edmonton. When ad­ ditional contracts were cancelled he found himself again in eastern Canada bush where he eventually got back on the Rimouski mail run in the summer and on the north shore mail run: Que~ bes, Seven Islands, Natashquan and An­ ticosti Island. That wint€r, on December 14th and 15th, 1933, Irvine is recorded in the AAMS catalogue as having made six first High ts with mail from Seven Islands - Natashquan - Havre St. Pierre and return. OC'DOBER, 1959 PAGE 29 lrvine later·went back to flying in the North Ont¥io bush for Dominion Sky­ When was The Very First Air Mail? ways Lt~L - That meant flying out of Noranda and Oskeaneo into the Chibou­ Hardly a month elap es without some gamou mmmg country. The route new report of a bygone air mail system braught associations with miners and that operated years before the Paris Bal­ prospectors. A mining fever struck him, loon Post of 1870-71 went into opera­ and after staking what appeared to be tion. some rather good claims, he got out of The present candidate for the Very aviation. The d ain1s failed to show the First Air Mail dates back to the year original promise so Irvine went back to 1632 and was duly recorded by a re­ flying with the Laurentian Air Services markable English tra eler of his day, in Ottawa. William Lithgow, who visited the famous Two years later, February 1st, 1939, kingdoms of Europe, Asia, and Africa he joined the Department of Transport during a nineteen yea tour. His obser­ as Assistant Inspector of Airways in vations are to be found in an obscure Montreal, and 8 years later became Dis­ book he titled "The Total Discourse of trict Superintendent of Airways in Monc­ Rare Adventures'', published in London, ton. Irvine is at present Regional Con­ 1632, and currently valued at $90.00 a troller, Civil Aviation in Vancouver, copy by rare book dealers. and has now completed over twenty In his visit to Aleppo and Baghdad, years' service with the Canadian De­ page 202, Lithgow writes, "At Aleppo partmei;it of Transport. there are pigeons brought up here as af­ ter an incredible manner, who fly be­ PANAGRA'S 30TH ANNIVERSARY tween Aleppo and Babylon, being thirty IN CHILE dayes journey distant in fourty-eight On July 21, 1959 Pan-American Grace houres, carrying letters and news which Airways Inc. had crossed the Cordillera are tied about their necks, to Merchants mountain ranges from Santiago to Buen­ of both Townes, who only are employed os Aires 26,830 times. The date also in the time of hasty and needfull intend­ marked the 30th anniversary of PAN­ ernents; their education to this tractable AGRA service in Chile and the Santiago expedition is admirable. I have often airlines office dispatched souvenir envel­ seen the flights and arrivals in the time opes which received a special Santiago of my wintering at Aleppo. . . . " cancellation of July 21 , 1959 reading 30 Can any reader of the Air Post Jour­ ANOS DE SERVICE PANAGRA EN nal come up with an air mail route ear­ CHILE 21 DE JULIO 1959. lier than 1632? -R. W. Murch -R. W. Murch PAGE 30 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL The 20th Anniversary of the First Manned Rocket Airplane Flight by Dr. Max Kronsiein

It was on June 25, 1939 that the Hein- • that Dr. A. M. Lippisch took an active kel H.E. 176 with Erich Warsitz as the part in this development and that men test pilot, the first manned rocket plane, like Rudolf Opitz and Mano Ziegler and took off. others 'have flown this plane successfully. This was before World War II. The One type.of this plane was the "ME 163 plane was constructed by Ernst Heinkel, B lntercepter," another the "ME 163 - whose early catapult developments are 1 Komet". The earliest reports about this well known to collectors. plane came £mm British aerial photos In his memoirs (published under the taken over P~nemunde. Today it is title "Stormy Life" with Jurgen Thor­ known that ma~ of these planes were wald as editor bv E. P. Dutton and Co., under development flights at Zwischen- New York) he refers to the fact that the ahn also. \ rocket propulsion unit of this first rocket Flown souvenir c~ers are not known plane had been a development by Dr. from any of these eally rocket plane Wernher Braun. Ernst Udet, at that flights, which took -i>laCi: just two dec­ time in charge of the technical division ades ago. Later on Augus 27, 1939, still of the German Luftwaffe, arranged for a before the start of the . S · nd World flight demonstration of this first rocket War, the Heinke! group pe med the plane by its test pilot for the military First Jet Flight with the H.E. 1 , again leaders of the Third Reich. These men with Ernst Warsitz as the test pilo This were completely indifferent to the new flight - at least in Germany - is r er­ development. red to as the "First Jet Plane Flight The matter was kept so secret, that the World". This event, too, has its even today it 'is still not possible to lo­ twentieth anniver8"lry this year. cate any photos or films of this pioneer Another early jet plane flight is known rocket plane. Neither official nor private to have taken place on December 5, 1941 pictures are available at this time, the when an Italian plane made a successful Twentieth Anniversary of the First Man­ flight from Milano to Rome, Italy. ned Rocket Plane. An "artist's sketch" of this plane has recently been published A recent German aviation magazine in the German aviation magazine "Flug­ article lists May 14, 1941 as the date of welt", which also showed a photo of a the first British Jet flight, when the "rocket assisted take-off" of an earlier first flight of .the Gloster Whittle E 28-29 bomber, the Heinkel He 111 P, and re­ took place. ferred to the rockets as "Walter-rockets". From March, 1937 experiments are re­ October 1, 1942 has been reported as ported with a propeller plane, the Heink­ the date of the first flight of the Ameri­ e! 112, carrying an additional fluid fuel can Bell P 59 A-J etplane. rocket. In flight the regular motor was These anniversaries make us under­ turned off, and by the use of the rocket stand, that ever our "newest" accomp­ the plane's speed increased in seconds lishments in aviation have their own his­ from 180 to 250 miles per hour. In the torical background which, while only summer of the same year the start of decades back, is not made known to the plane by the rocket itself has also most of us. been reported. These can be seen as fore-runners of the first special manned rocket plane flight of the H.E. 176. During the II World War, another rocket plane was developed iby the Mes­ serschmitt Works, known as the "Peene­ munde 30" or the ME 163. Pictures of this plane are available and it is known OCTOBER, 1959 PAGE 31 THE PHILATELIC STORY OF FLIGHT by Frank R. Gracey

No. 5 In the year 1060 it is said that the monk, William of Malmesbury, England, made wings fo, 1himself, and then, in the presence of a great crowd of onlookers, jumped from. i .high tower. He fell, but he lived to tell how it feels to soar tfurough the air like a bfrd, for his only injury was a broken leg. In t)ie reign of one of the emperors Comenus in the twelfth century, it is said that a. Saracen tried to fly around the ·hippodrome at Constantinople. Mounting a tow,..r, he spread out his arms, and the rods attached to them, and jumped. He <>ashed to i'he ground so badly injured that he soon died. (Copyright, 1929, McClure Newspaper Syndicate, from "Conquest of the Air" by Nicholas Afonsky. ) / I G ·C (I G Y) M I S S I L E M A I L Cairried by NRS ROCKET "SKUA" Gull

Limited Issue (2000 miniature sheets) bi-colored red and blue Rocket stamps with Antarctic Scene and Rocket overhead of the NederL Ruimtevaart Studio, Pioneers in Rocketry for 30 years. All prior NRS issues are listed in the Rocket catalog. Older NRS items supplied at new issue rates have realized at recent auctions $10 to $25. We can offer at new issue rates as long as our supply lasts: Miniature Sheet of four, perforated, with NRS Rocket cachet ...... $2.00 Ditto, Miniature Sheet of four, Imperforate ...... $2.00 Single on flown cover w. cachet and Dutch postage ...... $2.25 Ditto, on Dutch Airletter sheet, rare ...... $5.50 RARE VARIETY: (Only error of printing of any NRS issue) Perforated, Miniature Sheet of four with INVERTED Rocket ...... $7 .50 Single w. Inverted Rocket on flown cover ...... $8.50 CASH WITH ORDER BELHAM EXCHANGE P. 0. Box 119 Ridgewood 27, N. Y. AAMS EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT APJ ADS BUY SELL - WANT LISTS RATES: JETS, US, UN Foreign 35c up. Also FAM, FOUR CENTS PER WORD per insertion. CAM, Foreign Flights. Aerogrammes on .Vfinimum charge one dollar. Remittance approval. Vic Wailly, Box 26A, Roxbury must accompany order and copy. The 19, Mass. *258 AIRPOST JOURNAL. 350 No. 'Deere Park Drive, Highland Park, Ill. NEW BRUNSWICK Air Mail Field Post­ m3.rks wanted on cover. Also information FOR SALE: Historical North and South about AMF operation. Exchange or buy Pole Expedition Flight covers, US, United scarce AMF covers. Perham C. Nahl, Nations, Foreign dispatches. List lOc. Also: 2014A Lincoln, Evanston, Illinois. *355 Rockets, Balloons, Semi-official Airs, Pio­ neers, Zeppelins etc. Belham Exchange, HAVE ALL U.S. Commercial Jet Airmail Box 119, Ridgewood, 27, N. Y. *354 first flight covers. Exchange for mint U.S. airmail postage, or cash. Doc Rieger, 5323 ARTCRAFT Engraved First Day Covers. Baccich St., New Orleans 22, La. Request illustrated folder on our Envel­ ope and Cover Club Plan. LINCOLN FOR VOL. 2 of AAMC give three le blue CLUB Box 211A, Chatham, N. J. *355 1851 very fine, or purchase. Henry Du­ pont, 22, av. de la Liberation, Le Coteau, FIRST DAY Issue. Seven-cent commem­ Loire, France. orative airmail stamp honoring the ad­ mission of Hawaii into the Union. $2. per WANTED To Buy ·- South Africa MLS dczen. Write: Crafts of Hawaii, Inc., De­ #3 and #4 with red "Gifts and Comforts partment LL, 1145 Bishop St., Honolulu 13, J<'und" imprint and any airletter card Hawaii. with A.P.O. 44 postmark. AAMS #4480. J. M. Weinstein, PO Box 419, Pretoria, 75% OFF Scott Catalog. Airmail stamps, South Africa. singles and complete sets, some on cover, price IL t issued 6 times $1.00 per year de­ SOUTH AFRICAN military letter cards cuctible from first order of $25.00. Harry and S.A.A.F. Korean aerogrammes offered Reichenthal, Box 876-G, Miami Beach 39, in exchange for similar airmail stationery. Florida. *356 AAlVIS #4480. J. M. Weinstein, PO Box 419, Pretoria, South Africa. BUY Worldwide airmail issues at face! Directory listing complete instructions, NEWS clippings of Toronto - New York, $1.00. Bedard Publications, Box 637-K April 18, 1950. Jet cover in exchange. Detroit 31, Michigan. 363 John H. Schoumaker, 503 East 26th, Ta­ coma 2, ·wash. AAMS EXCHANGE ADS SCADTA and Consular Overprints. Also covers. Exchange wanted. Please inform what you have and want. Orjan Luning, AIR-LETTER Sheets for exchange. Mint Odengatan 11, Stockholm 0, Sweden. ana used. Will Clarke, 8 Kintyre Ave., Toronto, Canada. Member #3852. *354 WANTED: Pigeon carried communications to illustrate history of flight. John Har­ GARDEN Estates card or cover wanted. Of­ ley, 1102 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, New ter· pioneer autographs, Zeppelins or Ex­ York. position slogans. Roy Votaw, 5806 Twin Gardens, Carmichael, Calif. 'V ANTED: Lithuanian stamps, covers, cards, coins, medals, revenues. Worcester postmarked envelopes before 1880. Wor­ FIRST FIJIGHTS: Dedications and foreign cester precancels. Foreign silver $ size

FOR EXCHANGE - 3000 Airport Dedica­ SEND 100 to 1,000 well-mixed AIRMAILS. tion covers, listed by AAMS catalogue Receive equal quantity and quality. No numbers. Will exchange for dedications I junk, NO catalog basis! Satisfaction guar­ need or for US plate blocks. C. L. McCoy, anteed. SUPER - EXCHANGE, Cranford, Horatio, Ark. New Jersey, U.S.A. OCTOBER, 1959 ANNOUNCING The Publication of an Entirely New, Complete and Independent CATALOGUE OF AEROGRAMMES listing, illustrating and pricing all aerogrammes of the world from the earliest forerunners up to date of publication SPECIAL FEATURES Over 600 illustrations All watermarks illustrated Loose leaf binding for easy All Semi-privately issued aer­ addition of supplements ogrammes listed in separ­ All aerogrammes illustrated ate section Additional separate illustra­ All military aerogrammes tion of all surcharges listed Many overlay designs illus- Printed on high grade, 70 lb. trated coated paper Supplements will be issued at least once a year and will include all up-to-date price changes. EDITORS The Board of Editors consists of the following prominent philatelists: S.D.BARFOOT CARLOS LENZE DR. K. BLUMEL THOMAS A. MATTHEWS R. J. G. COLLINS A.H.De OLIVEIRA,MARQUES DR. ENZO DIENA RAFAEL ORIOL JUAN DOMINGO CARL A. PIHL FRANCES J. FIELD EMMETT PETER, JR. I. H. C. GODFREY F.A. SENECAL WALTER R. GUTHRIE RICHARD L. SINGLEY JONAS HALLGRIMSSON AUGUSTE WERY F. W. KESSLER SO~WHITMAN B. M. KOSTENKO M. ZEM PUBLICATION DATE will be announced soon. The manu­ script has been completed and over 600 cuts have already been made. . PRICE to be announced. It is the aim of the editors to publish the most comprehensive catalogue on this subject, and it will be sold at a .very nominal price in order to bring it within the reach of every ·collector. F. W. K E S S L E R 500 FIFTH A VENUE NEW YORK 36, N. Y.