Search Results for: 1929
Lot Number: 27
| Date: 1929, Aug 7 Est. price: £45.00 Category: Airship Description: Aug 7, 1926, Round the World Flight, Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen, bs 10/8, PPC franked 53c, canc New York Aug 6 cds, large violet US confirmation cachet. |
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Lot Number: 34
| Date: 1929, May 9 Est. price: £65.00 Category: Australia Description: First dispatch from Malta to connect with the Australian airmail service between Perth (Western Australia) and Adelaide (South Australia), registered airmail etiquette cover, franked Malta 6d air mail fee, 1/2d Empire Letter Rate & 3d registration fee, canc Reg.Malta oval ds, bs Perth 4 Jun 29, Brisbane 10 Jun 20 & Woolloongabba 10 Jun 29. The Malta Government Notice of 26 April 1929 notified that, as of May 9, 1929, mails for Australia would be accepted for carriage by the Perth-Adelaide service. . |
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Lot Number: 35
| Date: 1929, Jun 2 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Australia Description: F/F Adelaide to Perth, no arrival ds, franked 4 1/2d, canc Forrest cds, Whellams 'By Air Mail Only' sounenir cover, Western Australian AW. No b/s's were applied to ordinary covers, see Eus 136. |
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Lot Number: 111
| Date: 1929, Nov 2 Est. price: £40.00 Category: France Description: Early airmail, France to Syria, MARSEILLE TO ANTIOCHE, leaving Marseille Gare bs 2/11 and carried by A.U.L.O. (Air Union-Lignes D'Orient) by air to Beirut bs 5/11 and car to Damascus, then on by surface to Antioche bs 7/11 (formerly in Syria now in Turkey). Printed corner cover, franked F5.00 Merson + 25c colonial, red/black airmail etiquette, RATED F5.50 ( 5F/10g up to 12/12/29 + 50c ordinary). An early airmail to an uncommon destination. |
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Lot Number: 160
| Date: 1929, Mar 30 Est. price: £75.00 Category: GB External Description: F/F London to Karachi, addressed c/o The Khangin Oil Co Ltd, Naft Kanch (Iraq), bs 6/4, via Baghdad 5/4, franked 6d canc Birmingham cds, fine strike red three line "First Direct Service/ London Indian Air mail/ 30 March 1929" cachet. Underpaid, 'Tax Due/Baghdad'. tombstone hs tying stamps and cachet, ms '1/2oz' and ms '-/2/-'. The air fee was increased from 3d to 4d on 30/3/29, the postage fee was 2 1/2d, so this cover was 1/2d underpaid. According to Newall only two covers were carried from London to Baghdad, see p293. A nice 'F/F'/'underpaid' combination. |
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Lot Number: 282
| Date: 1929, Aug 17 Est. price: £70.00 Category: Greece Description: Aero Espresso Italiana, Patras to USA, bs New York 29/8 carried on F/F revised route Patras to Brindisi, bs 20/8 via Turin 22/8, registerd (abel) cover franked 13Dr (5Dr surface, 8 Dr AEI air surcharge (3D printd matter + 5Dr reg). Turin was distribution centre for USA-Italy mail, from where it would have been forwarded to Genoa to await carriage to USA by ship. Nice item with good routing. Written up and displayed on album page. |
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Lot Number: 283
| Date: 1929, Nov 22 Est. price: £16.00 Category: Greece Description: F/F Athens to Patras, 22/9 bs and arrival ds on front, Drossos cover franked 1926 3d air and 40l ordinary, violet framed Athens departure hs, Aero Espresso Italiana S.A. |
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Lot Number: 294
| Date: 1929, Jan 15 Est. price: £285.00 Category: India Description: GERMAN WORLD FLIGHT - CALCUTTA TO AKYAB; Feb. 1929 ?BARON VON KOENIG/BOY PILOT? PC to Calcutta franked India KGV ½a tied by Calcutta d.s., straight line 'Akyab, 5-2-29 confirmatory arrival hs, framed ?DELAYED BY/UNFAVOURABLE/WEATHER. LEFT/?5th? FEBRUARY? with a total of 41 covers flown. Rare. Signed (not facsimile) Stephen Smith 11/2/29. |
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Lot Number: 315
| Date: 1929, Apr 4 Est. price: £60.00 Category: Iraq Description: Imperial Airways England-India via Baghdad, first regular service Baghdad to Karachi, bs 6/4, plain cover franked 4 1/2a canc. Baghdad cds, scarce purple oval cachet "Airmail/England-India Route/Baghdad/April 3, 1929/First Flight". |
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Lot Number: 342
| Date: 1929, Mar 9 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Mexico Description: First flight airmail cover Mexico City to NY bs. |
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Lot Number: 343
| Date: 1929, Jul 12 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Mexico Description: Special flight to commemorate the lfe of the famous Mexican pilot Emilio Carranza, corner cover franked 35 c and a small 'Save the Children' vignette all tied by 'Servicio Aereo/Mexico DF' cds, fine strike large blue commemorative hs. |
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Lot Number: 373
| Date: 1929, Feb 19 Est. price: £125.00 Category: Recovered/Salvaged Mail Description: Costes, Codos and Bellonte, France to Indo-China special flight which left 19/2/29 but a short time later developed engine trouble and had to crash land at Bondy, France. Plain cover franked F10 Merson + 50c canc 'Post Aerienne/France-Indochina 19/2' cds's, also Paris 16/2 cds, red/black etiquette and ms 'Par voie aerienne de France en Indochine'. Mail returned to sender with special three line violet "Raid Interrompu/Par Accident/Retour a l'envoyer" hs, Correctly RATED F10.50 for F10.00 air fee and 50c colonial. Ni 290219a 1 |
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Lot Number: 376
| Date: 1929, Apr 7 Est. price: £50.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: India to Egypt, KARACHI TO ALEXANDRIA, carried on the first flight of the Imperial Airways India service IW1 from Karachi to Croydon. Arrived one day early at Baghdad 8/4 and then made an unscheduled call at Cairo on 9/4. Airmail etiquette cover posted Karachi 3/4, bs Alexandria 9/4, black double ring 'By/Air' hs, RATED 6 annas. |
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Lot Number: 377
| Date: 1929, Aug 11 Est. price: £60.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: Commercial South American "P. A. G. A. I. " airmail Ecuador , Guayaquil, early commercial example of FAM 9 mail flown by Pan American Grace Airways lnc. demonstrated by the very scarce violet boxed ' P.A.G.A.1 cachet, used on genuine commercial mail, first introduced for use on air mail on the 5th of May 1929. Letter from Guayaquil to Cristobal Canal Zone ) by a " SIKORSKY. S. 383. - seaplane, transferred to Steam Ship service from Colon to Southampton, then by railway service to London. Airmail & surface postage, charged at 16 centavos per 10 grams from Ecuador to Cristobal [Canal Zone) to the United Kingdom. |
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Lot Number: 378
| Date: 1929, Aug 15 Est. price: £50.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: HOLLAND VIA AUSTRIA TO TURKEY; Card sent from the CONFERENCE LA HAYE- 1929 to the Dutch Consul in Constantinople, flown on THE FIRST AUTUMN SCHEDULE OF THE C1DNA VIENNA- CONSTANTINOPLE SERVICE, via Vienna 16/8. also undated 'Consulat Des Pays-Bas/ Constantinople' verso. Pink oblong cachet in Dutch & French is a private handstamp used between 1929 - 1930 & not an official cachet of the Dutch Post Office but the private " JUSQU'A " handstamp of the Dutch Air Post Dealer, GAG Tollan. Often seen on Experimental flight Letters & PC's from Holland. Airmail PC rate charged at 7'A cents. Holland - Turkey. |
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Lot Number: 414
| Date: 1929, Jul 22 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Ship to Shore Description: North Atlantic Catapult, Bremen-New York cover, 16/7 On Board cancellation, franked 75pf , oval black first flight/2.7.29, and large boxed red Bremen cachets. Attracive item. |
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Lot Number: 486
| Date: 1929, Mar 16 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Sweden Description: Early airmail Malmo to Berlin, bs 16/3, fine Malmo/16 Mrs 1929/Luftpost cds and red framed 'Berlin Zentralflughafen' arrival hs on front. |
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Lot Number: 501
| Date: 1929, May 21 Est. price: £6.00 Category: United States Description: Pan American Airways, F/F FAM 5 Miami-Belize, bs British Honduras, violet boxed flight cachet 'First Flight/Mami * Central America/FAM Route 5' cachet, airmail cover. |
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