printed catalogue
bid form
Notable items
1918 FIRST OFFICIAL AIR MAIL FLIGHT IN CANADA, Montreal to Toronto, bs 24/6 franked 3 x1c each tied with red triangular ‘Inaugural Service/ Via Air Mail/23/6/18’ official flight cachet; 1919 RAILWAY STRIKE MAIL, Birmingham to London, London 3 Oct 1.15am arrival cds verso, franked 2/1 1/2d, ms “By Aeroplane”; 1925 ALAN COBHAM, Anglo Indian Survey Flight, Personal Card addressed to De Haviland works a unique item providing evidence that the route taken on the return flight involved a stop at Karachi; 1932 BARON VERNEITH BRISBANE TO NOUMEA, one of only 8 covers carried on a through flight from Paris-New Caledonia, a recent example sold for $2,013 ad; 1929 IRISH ACCEPTANCE LONDON-BAGHDAD leg of the inaugural IAW service to India; 1934 KIRKWALL TO BASUTOLAND, Highland Airways F/F Kirkwall to Inverness “Orcadian Envelope”, train to London, IAW flight AS 170 to Jo’burg, surface to Maseru, arrival ds on front; 1934 MAC ROBERTSON AIR RACE, CALCUTTA TO RANGOON, purple/black vignette carried by lieut. Hansen , Stephen Smith authentication hs verso; 1936 IMPERIAL AIRWAYS ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA “ATHENA” ACCIDENT cover minor charred lower edge when plane was destroyed by fire at Delhi; 1937 SPECIAL SIGNED ULM CARD flown on two flights – December 1933 Trans-Tasman and the April 1937 Pan Am Flight Hong Kong to San Francisco; 1939 FIRST NEW ZEALAND ACCEPTANCE OF MAIL FOR GREAT BRITAIN VIA SAN FRANCISCO, correctly rated 5d, etiquette cancelled New York jusqu’a, fine strike ‘Ferry Station’ hs, Birmingham arrival ds.
