AAMS EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT APJ ADS BUY SELL WANT LISTS RATES: AEROGRAMMES - Have duplicates to FOUR CENTS PER WORD per insertion. exchange or sell. These include the scarce •\IIinimum charge one dollar. Remittance South African and Korean military sheets . must accompany order and copy. The Richard P. Heffner, 2012 Spring Street, AIRPOST JOURNAL. 350 No. Deere Park West Lawn, Penna. *372 Drive, Highland Park, Ill. EXCHANGE WANTED - Postally us2d 6 3/4 AIRMAIL ENVELOPES, Barber Pole Aerograms UN. M.L Position Blocks. 1st design, 24 lb. Parchment Stock, 100% Rag day. Dr. Keller., Sr., Hilton, N. Y. *371 Content. Prices and Samples Ten Cents. Milton Ehrlich, 34-15A 31st Ave., Long Is­ OFFERING St. Lawrence Seaway land City 6, N. Y. Member A.A.M.S. 372 Souvenir Wooden Money (2). Want Plate Block Be Champion, or three 4c Commem. YOU OWE it to yourself to join Airmails Plates. John Kitchen, Route 6, 'Voodstock, Exclusively. No cash fees for next sixty Ontario, Canada. *371 days. Join now. Airmails Exclusively, ---· ·----------------- 1757 Henderson St., Chicago 13, 11. *371 50-4c U.S. Mint Comm. will bring you regular 200 kit of Phila-Tex cellulose ace­ FOREIGN Used Airmail Stamp, Single3 tate for making your own mounts. Ar­ and Complete sets on and off covers, better, 5319 N. Bernard, Chicago 25, Ill. Want list filled, Price list free. H/R Stamp Co., Box 89-N Long Beach, N. Y. *3'/2 ANTARCTIC Covers: Exchange ship for ship, base for base, flown cover for flown SCOTT #369 - 2c Lincoln 1909, bluish oa­ cover. Bill S9hneider, Metuchen, New per, very fine to superb. Used $11 00, Mint Jersey. $13.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. Wm. Rice, 87 Washington Ave., Kingston 57, N. Y. JET 1st Flights to swap. Need airm'1il FDC, Pioneer and Historical flights. 1st and last day rate changes. Pesin, 1580 AAMS EXCHANGE ADS Lemoine Ave., Ft. Lee, N. J. WANTED TO BUY: Foreign first day cov­ HA VE a lot of fine foreign mint air­ ers. Write before sending. Walter Brooke, mail sets to trade for mint sets need or Boyertown, Pa. *371 used airs. Arnold V. Larson, Twisp, Wash. Route No. 1. WANTED - Covers flown on NB-36H which carried atomic reactor on on flights AUTOGIRO Covers, photos, clippings. In­ flown between June 1955 and January terested in purchasing same for a special­ 1956. Edmond C. Brown, 120 Kenilworth ized collection. Bill Schneider, Metuchen, Place, Brooklyn 10, New York. New Jersey. WANTED FOR TRADE ~ Covers carried on nucle3.r sub "Seawolf" on first record NEEDED: 1960. Deds: L. A., Winnsboro, submerged trip of sixty days. Contact l'Tew Iberia, Corona, Ida Grove, Edgemer-2, Fort Madison, Carrolton, Des Moines, "'· Edmond C. Browne, 120 Kenilworth Place, Milford, Marshalltown, Flora, Montreal. Brooklyn 10, New York. S. Reinhard, 333 N. Columbus, Freep:>rt, EXCHANGE Airmail crash covers for N. Y. "Central Pacific Cocoanut Plantations, Ltd., Mail Boat Service Christmas Island" Interested FLOWN Airmail Covers, Neth­ covers and stamps. H. E. Gerrish, 21 Gray erlands, Curacao, Suriname Dutch Indies? Street, Hartford 5, Conn. *372 Buy or exchange used airs Europe, South America. S. A. Keizer, 84 Lawrence Ave­ AVIATION Photos. Interested in exchang­ nue, Brooklyn 30, N. Y. ing avi'1tion photos. Pilots,. planes, auto­ -------------- •'iros, helicopters and dirigibles. Bill SCADTA Consular Overprints. Contact Schneider, Metuchen, New Jersey. wanted with collectors interested in these items. Exchange, sell, buy. Write to Or­ PRIVATE Collector wants Pigeon Post jan Luning, Odengatan 11, Stockholm 0, material. What have you? Harl2y, 1102 Sweden. Trum'1nsburg Road, Ithaca, N. Y. FAMOUS Planes, Famous Pilots, willing WANTED - Airport dedication covers. to exchange photographs. Bill Schneider, Send for want list of such covers. Wm. Metuchen, New Jersey. T. Wynn, Jr., 13537 Rockdale, Detroit 23, Mich. WANTED - Japanese Occupation in mint & used stamps or Postal Stationery or any KLM FLIGHTS to Las Palmas, Casablan­ related matter. Will exchange USA, UN, ca, Conakry or Accra for two 4c Pl. # Canada FDC or stamps. Yand L. Chung, blocks. Also Austria, France, S.A.S., etc. 611 Shipley St., Wilmington 1, Delaware, V. R. Wailly, Box 26, Roxbury 19, Mass. USA. WANT - Scott's International Air Pest FDCs Belgium & Sabena flights available. Albums, new and used, Part II & III. Send want list. Exchange FAM and U.S. What do you need? Samuel Feinberg, 79 jets. Want crash covers. Walter Raes, East Alvord St., Springfield 8, M'1SS. 12109 T2hoe Ave., Hawthorne, Calif. THE AIRPOST JOURNAL AIRPORT Pictures. Interested in ex­ WANTED - First and special flight covers changing C.A.M. airport photos, 1926 to and stamps from the world, to the Olym­ 1938, for m y collection. Bill Schneider, pic Games. What do you want? Werner Metuchen, New Jersey. Raab, Meiningen/ Thur. DDR P.O. Box 181, West Germany. WILL EXCHANGE other materials for "Europa" items of 1956 and 1957. Dmyt­ ro Bykovetz, Jr., P .O. Box 2913, Philadel­ STARTLED STORK! phia 26, Pa., U.S.A. In the little Dutch town of Best re­ "SEADRAGON"-First submerged North­ west Passage covers to exchange for Arc­ cently a solitary stork sat on the church tic and Antarctic covers. Bill Schneider, tower; apparently it had missed the an­ Metuchen, New Jersey. nual stork migration to the sunny south. TRADE - Socked-on-the-Nose U.S. Air Mails. Brown C. Tucker, Box 675, Mur­ Compassionate citizens of Best took ray, Ky. pity on their feathered friend and took it ----- to Schipol Airport, Amsterdam. From ANTARCTIC Covers, Photos, and Clip­ pings. Interested in purchasing these there a KLM airliner conveyed the stork items for a specialized collection. Bill to Kano in Nigeria, where, no doubt, it Schneider, Metuchen, New Jersey. waited for the arrival of the 'main VIGNETTES Wanted 1909 - 1914 mint and stream' which it overtook somewhere en on card or cover of Italy, France, Ger­ many, U.S.A., etc. Cash or exchange. route. Dalwick, Dixholme, Churt, Surrey, Eng­ land. The handout does not reveal how the good citizens of Best found out where WANT Boy Scout covers. Exchange CAMs, FAMs, Miscellaneous Covers Air Events. the stork wanted to go, or whether it Orian E. Green, 555 W. Drayton Ave., wanted to go at all. Ferndale 20, Mich. WANTED - By private collector of an­ tiquities, letters prior to 1700. HARLEY, 1102 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, N . Y. WANTED - Germany and China Special­ ized material; Old State, Occup., Local, Postal Card. Will exchange USA, UN, HARRIS Canada First Day Covers or purchase out­ right. Yand L . Chung, 611 Shipley St., Wilmington 1, Delaware. U.S. A. CRASH COVERS. Have a few duplicates to exchange; please send your list. Bill Schneider, Metuchen ,New Jersey. CATALOG .............. WOULD LIKE to trade for Airport Dedi­ cations. Have lots of F. Flites, D eds, Aus­ HUNDREDS OF tralian F.D.C. covers to trade for w hat I need. Answer all mail. Joh n Slavin, 23 PRICE CHANG~S! · Orford, Lowell, Mass. 160 PAGES • NEARLY 2000 ILLUSTRATIONS PHILATELIC Exhibition and . Convention Seals and Cachets. Will purchase. C. F. Brand new edition of America's most widely used Sponholz, R. 2, H artland, Wis. AAMS 4244. U. S. & B.N.A. catalog - containing hundreds of important price changes - published . by · WANTED -W ashington, Jefferson , Frank­ world's largest stamp firm. Complete illustrated. lin and Lincoln CREDO FDC with corres­ ponding stamps of Liberty series on same listing of all major U. S. issues, U. S. Posses­ covers. Purchase or trade. Ferris D . sions and British North America. Also specialties, White, 10340 S. E . Harrison St., Portland 16, Oregon. Confederate States, United Nations, "Ameri­ cana" PLUS U. S. Stamp Identifier - compre­ WANT Boy Scout Jamboree & Camporee hensive illustrated booklet. Tells you how Covers from Israel. (FLOWN). Have oth­ to distinguish between rare and common er Scout Covers for exchange. Chester Ernest Lee, 6933 L a Jolla Blvd., La Jolla, "look-alike " stamps. All California. this and more . in our BIG interesting catalog. "'ANTED - Zeppelin Catapult and rocket mail covers in exchange for Chilean air mail stamps and souvenir proof sheet. Al­ fredo Saavedra M - (4767), Gay # 2145, Santiago, Chile. *372 APRIL, 1961 PAGE 169 The American Air Mail Society A Non-Profit Corporation Incorporated 1944 Organized 1923 Under the Laws of Ohio PRESIDENT Official Publication of the Robert W. Murch 9560 Litzinger Road AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY St. Louis 24, Mo. SECRETARY VOL. 32 No. 7 ISSUE NO. 371 Ruth T. Smith 102 Arbor Road Riverton, New Jersey TREASURER Contents .................. for April, 1961 John J. Smith 102 Arbor Road James K. Allen, Lincoln's First Riverton, New Jersey Aeronaut ... 171 VICE-PRESIDENTS How Does a First Flight Cover Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr. Louise S. Hoffman Come About? .... 174 Florence L. Kleinert Paginas de la Historia Aero Postal Dr. Southgate Leigh, Jr. de Cuba. ...... 177 EDITOR - Other Publications Foreign Pioneer Airpost Flights L. B. Gatchell 1909-1914 181 ATTORNEY Official Section ..... 184 George D. Kingdom Latin American Pioneers in Aviation .. 185 DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN RELATIONS Balloon Post of the Siege of Paris, Dr. Max Kronstein 1870-71 ....... ··········· 187 AUCTION MANAGER Legal Footnotes to History ... 190 Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. The Philatelic Story of Flight ............. 192 DIRECTORS Alton J. Blank Air Mail Stamps of Brazil: Their Herbert Brandner History 196 Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. Lester S. Manning Donald E. Dickason Auction' ..... 198 Emmett Peter, Jr. Dr. Tomas Terry Earl H. Wellman Horace D. Westbrooks EDITOR ADVANCE BULLETIN SERVICE Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr. Herbert Brandner 350 No. Deere Park Drive, Highland Park, lli. 4038 Forest Ave., Brookfield, Ill. ASSISTANT EDITORS SALES MANAGER Robert w. Murch Herman Kleinert Ernest A. Kehr L. B. Gatchell 213 Virginia Ave., Fullerton, Pa. DEPARTMENT AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS MEMBERSHIP DUES R.