Search Results for: 1933
Lot Number: 3
| Date: 1933, May 27 Est. price: £75.00 Category: Airship Description: Graf Zeppelin Italian flight, drop at Barcelona, card franked 3l Italian Mail Special Issue, canc Roma/Posta Aerea Zeppelin special hs, also 25c ordinary, dark blue special flight hs, blue/cream Posta Aerea Zeppelin etiquette, verso Roma/Posta Aerea/29.5.33 Crociera Zeppelin 1933-XI machine cancel. |
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Lot Number: 4
| Date: 1933, May 29 Est. price: £75.00 Category: Airship Description: Graf Zeppelin Italy flight, registered (label) 30 PSC canc Roma Ferrovia/29.5.33 with additional Fascist March 5c x3, 15cx2, and 3L Zepellin stamp canc Italy receiving mark. |
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Lot Number: 11
| Date: 1933, Jul 5 Est. price: £125.00 Category: Alex Newall personal collection Description: First acceptance of IRAQI mail for Imperial Airways/ITCA route extension to Calcutta, BASRA - KARACHI 8 Jly 33 hs - CALCUTTA, bs 10 Jul 33. Registered (label) souvenir cover, Imperial Airways Ltd red cachet 'Extension of England-India Air Service', franked 38 fls. Reference # 33.13d5, Alexander Newall, 'British External Airmails Until 1934', 2nd edition 1996. |
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Lot Number: 25
| Date: 1933, Feb 4 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Australia Description: First acceptance of Australian mail for PNG for carriage over the the Papua and New Guinea Air Service, Melbourne-Brisbane-Port Moresby-Salamau, registered label cover franked Australia 3d air, 3d and 2d, canc Public Offices Victoria 1 Feb, Melbourne 1/2, Edie Creek PNG 13/2 and bs Salamau 16/2. Carried to Port Moresby on the mail boat Macdui' which left Brisbane on 4/2, then flown by Orme Denny in a Guinea Airways Junkers F13 to Salamau and on to Wau and Bulolo. Great routing, AAMC P56. |
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Lot Number: 26
| Date: 1933, Feb 04 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Australia Description: Guinea Airways, 1st all air carriage of mail from Brisbane to Salamaua, bs 10/2, registered (label) cover franked 9d, typed "First Mail from Australia via Air Mail to Salamaua". Some faint cover discolouation, see scan. |
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Lot Number: 27
| Date: 1933, May 24 Est. price: £70.00 Category: Australia Description: NEA inaugural flight Grafton to Sydney posted on arrival in Sydney on 24/5/1933. SIGNED by the pilot K.A.Virtue and one of ONLY 20 covers carried. AAMC 309. |
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Lot Number: 28
| Date: 1933, May 25 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Australia Description: WR Carpenter Airlines, F/F Australia to New Guinea, bs Rabaul 1/6, airmail etiquette cover franked 5d Australia stamp, also New Guinea 2d, 3d, 5d & 6d air stamps canc Rabaul 3/6. |
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Lot Number: 29
| Date: 1933, Dec 3 Est. price: £450.00 Category: Australia Description: Souvenir card signed by Ulm and flown on two flights - his trans Tasman flight of December 1933 & the Jan 1937 special Sydney to Port Moresby return flight by Lt.O ,Mant, violet 33 cachets. Reflown by AVRO 642 which left Sydney 1st 1 December 1936 for New Guinea postmarked Post Moresby 30th December 1936. Signed on the front by C.T.P. Ulm, G.U.Allan, Mrs Ulm, N.Rogers Ulm's secretary, R.O,Mant who was the pilot ,and Helen Mant, the pilot's wife who signed the cover on the reverse. AAMC 348 and 655b |
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Lot Number: 30
| Date: 1933, Dec 3 Est. price: £250.00 Category: Australia Description: Souvenir card signed by Ulm and flown on two flights - his trans Tasman flight of December 1933 with violet 1933 cachets, and the April 1935 first passenger carrying flight Brisbane-Singapore . SIGNED BY C.T.P. Ulm. AAMC #'s 348 and 496c. |
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Lot Number: 31
| Date: 1933, Dec 3 Est. price: £250.00 Category: Australia Description: Souvenir card signed by Ulm and flown on two flights - his trans Tasman flight of December 1933 with violet 1933 cachets, and the March 1936 Qantas Australia to Hong Kong flight, bs 31 MR 36. SIGNED BY C.T.P. Ulm. AAMC #'s 348 and 594c |
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Lot Number: 32
| Date: 1933, Dec 3 Est. price: £185.00 Category: Australia Description: Souvenir card signed by Ulm and flown on two flights - his trans Tasman flight of December 1933 with violet 1933 cachets, and the November 1934 special flight in 'Faith in Australia' with the Duke of Gloucester rom Sydney to Croft's Harbour. bs 29/11. SIGNED by pilots C.T.P. Ulm, G.U.Allan, R.N.Boulton and B.Shell, and Ulm's secretary E.Rogers. AAMC #'s 348 and 468. |
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Lot Number: 62
| Date: 1933, Dec 1 Est. price: £150.00 Category: Basutoland Description: Basutoland to Singapore, bs 19/12, carried on the first flight of the imperial Airways extension from Rangoon to Singapore via Cairo, Wyndham registered (hs) cover franked FDI of the 1933 KGV 1d,3d,6d,1/-, canc Maseru/1 DEC/33 cds returned to Cape Town 'House of Parliament/23 MAR 34' cds verso. Also original certificate of posting. A superb item in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 102
| Date: 1933, Aug 25 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Canada Description: Vanouver-Quebec-Hawkes Transcontinental flight, plain cover franked uncancelled 6c addressed to Quebec, 'Air Mail' hs, ms 'By Courtesy of Capt Hawkes/First Trans Canada Flight'. Not postmarked or sined by Hawkes. Ref 3343, AMC&NF. |
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Lot Number: 112
| Date: 1933, Dec 1 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Egypt Description: 1933 Egypt International Aviation 13ml and 15ml on official 'Congress de a Federation Aeronautique cover, canc special Congress postmark, also 50% strike large oval official on Congress cachet. |
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Lot Number: 129
| Date: 1933, Oct 27 Est. price: £35.00 Category: Flying boat flights Description: LAOS to France, VIENTIAN TO BORDEAUX by weekly Air Orient flight which left Saigon 5/11 and arrived Marseilles 14/11 (b/s) and delivered 16/11 (b/s). Fokker F VIIb planes between Saigon and Karachi, Farman 303 planes between Karachi and Damascus, bus/car to Beyrouth, and CAMS FLYING BOATS Beyrouth to Marseille. The CAMS 53 was a transport flying boat built in France in the late 1920s, operated by Aeropostale, Air Orient and Air Union. Blue border imprint etiquette cover franked 36c for 6c colonial rate and 30c air fee. |
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Lot Number: 207
| Date: 1933, Apr 12 Est. price: £60.00 Category: GB Internal Description: GWR Unofficial Airmail, Cardiff -Teignmouth, black/green prepaid newspaper parcel stamp cancelled purple double line square cachet "Cardiff General, GWR 12 Apr 1933", POA Teignmouth 12.15pm/12 Apr/1933 cds. Redgrove's type A2, see p10, Great Western Air Service. |
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Lot Number: 208
| Date: 1933, May 15 Est. price: £30.00 Category: GB Internal Description: F/F Great Western Railway daily air service, Plymouth to Birmingham, 22/5 arrival cds, plain cover franked GWR 3d Airway label tied green 'Plymouth North Road/15 May 1933/GWR' canc, small mail. Faint non invasive vertical crease, see scan. |
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Lot Number: 209
| Date: 1933, Sep 3 Est. price: £65.00 Category: GB Internal Description: International Airlines/Western Air Express, Plymouth to London. Scarce late usage of short lived service, plain cover franked 1 1/2d cancelled on arrival in London 3 Sep 33, black/yellow 'IA/Western Air Express' stamp tied by purple oval "International Airlines/3 Sep 1933/Plymouth" cachet. "This service was poorly advertised and short lived. Relatively few covers were carried and none are common. Covers exist carried on 24, 25 and 26 August and 1 Sept, 1933. Covers carried on other dates may exist but I have not seen any". See Redgrove p18.See 351/88/g, p154, British Air Mails, N.C.Baldwyn. |
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Lot Number: 210
| Date: 1933, Nov 25 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Provincial Airways Ltd, inauguration of the third GB Internal Airmail Service, " West Country Air Service", London to Plymouth, 3d orange bi-coloured vignette tied by Southampton 25 Nov 1933 machine cancel applied on arrival, framed "First Flight" cachet, plain cover. The service operated for six days only. Francis Field authentication hs verso. |
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Lot Number: 248
| Date: 1933, Jun 5 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Greece Description: Athens to New York, carried on the Aero Espresso Italiana service to Brindisi 3/6 where it would have completed the air stage of its journey, signified by a red framed Jusqu'a 'Par Avion/JUSQU'A (ms) Brindisi', then likely surface to the North America sorting office in Turin, then on to Genoa for dispatch by ship to New York, printed cover, 'imprime' hs, franked the printed matter rate of 1dr60l surface and 3dr air surcharge. Interesting cover elegantly presented on album leaf. Image. |
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Lot Number: 265
| Date: 1933, Jul 1 Est. price: £18.00 Category: India Description: England-India extension from Karachi to Calcutta, London to Allahabad, bs 8/7, red/white/blue souvenir cover, IAW/ITCA' |
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Lot Number: 266
| Date: 1933, Jul 1 Est. price: £18.00 Category: India Description: F/F Imperial Airways/ Indian Trans-Continental Airways GB to India, London to Calcutta, bs Cooinoor 10/7, uncommon destination. |
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Lot Number: 267
| Date: 1933, Jul 1 Est. price: £30.00 Category: India Description: IAW connects with ITCA, LONDON to DELHI, 8/7 arrival ds on front and verso, carried on F/F Karachi to Calcutta Extension, B&W PC franked 4d (postcard rate), Imperial Airways/Indian Trans-Continental Airways. Airmail PC's are much scarcer than letters. |
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Lot Number: 268
| Date: 1933, Jul 4 Est. price: £65.00 Category: India Description: F/F India Transcontinental Airways, return flight, Calcutta to Allahabad, bs 11/7, red/white/blue souvenir cover franked 3a 3p, black framed 'Calcutta-Karachi/11 Jul.33/First Airmail' cachet verso. Only 4 flown, Newall 33.13Ae1. |
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Lot Number: 269
| Date: 1933, Jul 10 Est. price: £25.00 Category: India Description: F/F Calcutta to London flown IW 223, the first westbound service after extension of route from Karachi to Calcutta (see Wingent), black boxed Calcutta-Karachi cachet (verso), official three colour souvenir map cover, India Trans-Continental Airways/Imperial Airways, closed non invasie rh edge tear, see scan.non small mail. |
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Lot Number: 270
| Date: 1933, Sep 30 Est. price: £75.00 Category: India Description: F/F extension of air service to Rangoon, b/s, 9 pies PSC with additional 1 anna, canc Calcutta cds, large Stephen Smith authentication hs verso. |
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Lot Number: 289
| Date: 1933, Aug 29 Est. price: £40.00 Category: Interruptions and Accidents Description: South Africa to Germany. By flight leaving 30 August, Imperial Airways Africa Northbound service AN130 which arrived Athens 7 September. On by Lufthansa, delivered 9 September (firms chop). Franked 6d for air rate. DELAY. Service AN 130 delayed one day at Athens . It was flown by service AN 130, operated by the HP42 Horsa, which departed Khartoum 06.00 on 5 Sept. and arrived Cairo 6th where the service was taken over by the Short Kent Sylvanus which departed Alexandria to schedule on the 7th and should have arrived Brindisi the same day. However, she made an unscheduled overnight stop at Athens (reason unknown) and so did not reach Brindisi until the 8th. |
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Lot Number: 387
| Date: 1933, Apr 18 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Scarce/Unusual Routing Description: Algeria to Switzerland, ALGER to ZURICH, via Marseille-Gare, bs 19/4 ,attractive 'Hotel Restaurant de L'Oasis cover franked 3F25, airmail etiquette annulled with black cross Marseille Jusqua, onward by surface. Ironed vertical crease and closed flap tear, see scan. |
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Lot Number: 388
| Date: 1933, May 1 Est. price: £200.00 Category: Scarce/Unusual Routing Description: MAURITIUS to FRANCE, bs Paris 3/6, via Nairobi bs 25/5 and Brindisi bs TPO 2/3. Registered label Messageries Maritimes cover franked 79c canc fine strikes 'Registered/1 MY 33/GPO Mauritius' oval ds, blue/black airmail etiquette annulled at Brindisi, fine red 'Bernardin De St Pierre' hs. Sailed from Mauritius on the Messageries Maritimes 'Bernardin-De-Saint-Pierre', arriving MOMBASA 24/5, then by Wilson AW (or ?train) to Nairobi 25/5, where transferred to IMPERIAL AIRWAYS Africa northbound service AN116 for carriage on Andromeda to Entebbe, on Horsa to Cairo, and on Sylvanus to Brindisi. An original sepia PPC of 'Bernadine-De-Saint-Peirre' is included. A superb exhibit item. |
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Lot Number: 389
| Date: 1933, OCT 18 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Scarce/Unusual Routing Description: Tanganyika to Germany, MOSHI to HAMBURG by Imperial Airways Africa Northbound service AN137 leaving Moshi 20 October (bs) on Hannibal arriving on Hengist at Brindisi 27 October (b/s) where carriage by air was terminated and airmail etiquette cancelled by fine Brindisi framed black cross Jusqu'a, and on to Hamburg by rail. Nice printed 'Palm Court Hotel' cover franked 75c for air rate. At Brindisi carriage by air was cancelled with Brindisi violet framed 'By Air to/Brindisi' Jusqu'a, also etiquette cancelled by a Brindisi black cross Jusqu'a. On by train to Paris and delivered to Liginiac bs 19/10. |
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Lot Number: 414
| Date: 1933, Sep 13 Est. price: £75.00 Category: South Africa Description: First South Africa acceptance for extension of Empire Airmail Service to Burma, Cape Town to Rangoon, bs 1/10, franked 1/- and 4d airs, Wyndham cover with purple House of Assembly/Cape Town logo on flap, Imperial Aw/ITCA. Only few pieces of mail were prepared for this service. |
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Lot Number: 447
| Date: 1933, Apr 29 Est. price: £40.00 Category: Sudan Description: OMDURMAN to ATABARA, 30/4 arrival ds on front, first IAW northbound African service (#AN 112) by 'Amalthea' and the first Armstrong Whitworth Atlanta landplane to operate through Juba. 10ml PSE with additional 25ml. Uncommon internal flight. See Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways African Route 1931-1939, P Wingent, pub 1991. |
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Lot Number: 465
| Date: 1933, Sep 18 Est. price: £25.00 Category: United States Description: WA Films Incorporated, Hollywood, flown by airmail Special Delivery to Curacao, 24/9 and on to Riohacha, Colombia, 7/10, via Barranquilla 2/10, underpaid airmail cover, 24x10cm, franked 60c and 20c Special Delivery stamp, canc Los Angeles cds, violet 'Returned For Postage' and 'Postage Due (ms 7) cent' handstamps. WA Films was incorporated in New York in 1925 and, in 1930, produced, among others, 'Africa Speaks' which was filmed on location in the Belgian Congo. Interesting item |
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