Search Results for: 1935
Lot Number: 33
| Date: 1935, Oct 7 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Australia Description: Holymans Airways Ltd, F/F Sydney to Canberra to Townsville, bs 7/10, plain cover franked 3d air + 2d, typed "First Flight/ Sydney to Canberra". |
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Lot Number: 97
| Date: 1935, May 13 Est. price: £45.00 Category: French Cameroons Description: Trans Saharan Airmail, Douala (Cameroon) to Marseille, bs 24/5/35 Gare Avion, via Cotonau (Dahomey) 17/5, Compagnie Francaise de l'Afrique Occidentale printed cover franked 1 F50 postage + 3F air surcharge, green blue/black airmail etiquette, ms ?Via Cotonau?. Flown from Cotonau to Niamey by Compagnie Generale Transsahararienne, then by Air Afrique to Algiers, then Air France to Marseille. An interesting cover in fine condition and with good routing. |
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Lot Number: 128
| Date: 1935, Nov 8 Est. price: £75.00 Category: GB External Description: England to Dominican Republic, London to Santo Domingo bs 22/11, via New York 19/11 and Miami 20/11, registered (label) airmail cover franked 1/6d, canc Registered Ludgate Circus oval ds, typed '.Registered/Airmail Per SS Deutschland'. Remnants of wax seal verso. closed top edge tear barely visible from front, see image.The SS Deutschland was a peacetime German ocean Liner. Sunk in 1945 following a British air attack. An interesting cover, full of history, and with superb routing. Image. |
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Lot Number: 157
| Date: 1935, Mar 25 Est. price: £45.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Accelerated service from Shetlands, first acceptance from Lerwick for the Kirkwall-Inverness airmail service, Highland AW. Printed Patrick cover as illustrated Beith p9. First official airmail to make use of steamer, rail and air services. |
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Lot Number: 158
| Date: 1935, Jul 5 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Scarce Leonard's 'Orkney/Inverness/Air Mail' envelope, posted Kirkwall 5/7/35 franked 1 1/2d SJ, a bit crumpled verso. See image. |
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Lot Number: 159
| Date: 1935, Jul 13 Est. price: £85.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Rare ''Tait" cover printed by J.& W. Tait (Kirkwall) to promote both the new Orkney-Inverness air service, and their firm. A buff/green/grey cover with monoplane in flight, posted from Kirkwall 28/8/35, franked 1 1/2d, addressed to Aberdeen. J&W Tait are still in business in Kirkwall as the largest car franchise, agricultural machinery and product dealer in the north of Scotland. A truly scarce item. Two faint ironed vertical folds, see image. |
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Lot Number: 181
| Date: 1935, Apr 22 Est. price: £50.00 Category: Hawaii Description: First round trip Pan American Survey Flight, Honolulu to San Francisco return leg, printed company cover franked US 9c canc Honolulu depart cds San Francisco 23 Apr 1935 arrival cds, fine strike official F/F cachet. Piloted by Edwin Musik and carrying ROD Sullivan, Fred Noonan and Victor Wright. Nice item. |
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Lot Number: 197
| Date: 1935, Feb 25 Est. price: £20.00 Category: India Description: Bombay to Tatanagar, bs 25/2, plain cover franked 2 annas, tied rectangular ' Use the Air Mail/24-Feb-35/Nagpur' advert as canceller, red boxed "Demonstration Flight/ First Direct Airmail/Bombay-Calcutta/25thvFebruary 1935'. Uncommon destination. |
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Lot Number: 198
| Date: 1935, Feb 26 Est. price: £20.00 Category: India Description: Nagpur to Bombay, bs 26/2, plain cover franked 3 annas, tied rectangular ' Use the Air Mail/24-Feb-35/Nagpur' advert as canceller, red boxed "Demonstration Flight/ First Direct Airmail/Calcutta-Bombay/26thFebruary 1935'. Uncommon destination. |
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Lot Number: 199
| Date: 1935, Oct 29 Est. price: £25.00 Category: India Description: TATA Bombay-Trivandrum, bs 29/11, plain cover, franked 1 anna canc Bombay cds, red framed 'Demonstration Flight/First Direct Air Mail/Bombay-Trivandrum/29 October 1935'. Ref 35-70, Brown J, Indian Air Mails, 1995. Scarce item, only 50 flown. |
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Lot Number: 217
| Date: 1935, Nov 13 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Madagascar Description: Tananarive to Fort Archimbault, via Fort Lamy (Chad) 18/11 transit cds, carried on last AIR AFRIQUE test flight before opening of the new Madagascar-Algeria service via Elisabethville, #91 Saulgrin p169. A Nawratil cover FRANKED 6F25 |
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Lot Number: 252
| Date: 1935, Aug 5 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Nyasaland Description: F/F Blantyre to Beira, black boxed "First Flight Regular Air Mail Service Nyasaland-Mozambique", bs 5/8, souvenir "Leopard" cover issued by the Blantyre Publishing Company, correctly rated 4d, Rhodesia and Nyasaland Airways. |
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Lot Number: 257
| Date: 1935, Jun 14 Est. price: £50.00 Category: Recovered/Salvaged Mail Description: Attempted flight of the "Francesco De Pinedo" from New York to Rome, Alfred and George de Monteverde. Postmarked at City Hall Annex, New York, on June 14, 1922, and at Brooklyn, June 22. Boxed cachet at lower left notes flight attempt. Notary Public seal at lower left. American Air Mail Catalog / Trans-Oceanic Record Flights 1237. |
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Lot Number: 294
| Date: 1935, Nov 27 Est. price: £18.00 Category: Singapore Description: Singapore to UK, airmail etiquette cover embossed 'Municipal Commission' in red on flap, correctly rated, franked 25c Silver Jubilee. Rate changed to 25c per 1/2oz from November 1934. |
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Lot Number: 321
| Date: 1935, Aug 5 Est. price: £25.00 Category: United States Description: San Francisco to Denmark, San Francisco to Copenhagen, bs 16/8, airmail etiquette cover written and signed by Axel Michelson, Captain of the US ocean freighter S.S. 'Calmar' franked 11c, canc San Francisco Ferry Annex, Flown US internal air service to New York, then surface to Europe. |
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Lot Number: 322
| Date: 1935, Oct 5 Est. price: £125.00 Category: United States Description: Pan American survey flight, San Francisco to Guam and return, East and West bound cachets, all appropriate departure and arrival postmarks, scarce round trip. Scarce item in fine condition. |
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