Search Results for: 1938
Lot Number: 63
| Date: 1938, May 30 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Australia Description: WR Carpenter Airlines, first official flight Australia-New Guinea-Australia, Brisbane to Rabaul, bs 1/6, plain cover franked 5d, canc ydney 30/5. |
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Lot Number: 107
| Date: 1938, Mar 3 Est. price: £15.00 Category: Egypt Description: Alexandria to Copenhagen, bs 7/3, grey imprint airmail cover franked 50ml inc 22,4,6,7,8,and 9ml vals of 1933 air set |
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Lot Number: 125
| Date: 1938, Jul 24 Est. price: £20.00 Category: France Description: La Baule Aviation Day, also F/F Belli-Ile to La Baule, souvenir PPC franked70c, canc Le Palais/Morbihan cds, two 'Club Jean Mermoz' tied by special cachet. Attractive item. |
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Lot Number: 151
| Date: 1938, Jul 30 Est. price: £8.00 Category: French Indochina Description: Air France F/F Hanoi to Saigon, bs 30/7, blue/grey Air France company cover franked 11c, canc Hanoi cds, blue framed six line flight cachet. |
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Lot Number: 184
| Date: 1938, May 27 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB External Description: London to Rio de Janero, bs 16/4, imprint etiquette cover correctly rated 3/6d (1/- x3 + 6d), canc London cds, fine strike 'Deutsche Luftpost/Europe-Sud Amerika hs, Day and date of arrival confirms DLH seaplane service # L339, plane 'Zyklon'. Image. |
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Lot Number: 185
| Date: 1938, Jul 23 Est. price: £30.00 Category: GB External Description: Imperial Airways F/F Third Stage EAMS, London to Cook Islands, bs Rarotonga 29/8, typed "First Flight/to/Cook Islands/at/1 1/2d Rate" |
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Lot Number: 186
| Date: 1938, Jul 27 Est. price: £30.00 Category: GB External Description: F/F Third Stage EAMS England to Papua, NG, Port Moresby, bs 10/8, via Townsville, 8/8, typed endorsement "First Flight/to/Papua/at/1 1/2d rate, franked 1 1/2d. |
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Lot Number: 187
| Date: 1938, Oct 27 Est. price: £40.00 Category: GB External Description: First acceptance for Lisbon, bs 31/10, via Stuttgart and German service, airmail etiquette cover, franked 4d, , Imperial Airways |
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Lot Number: 188
| Date: 1938, Dec 6 Est. price: £16.00 Category: GB External Description: London to Buenos Aires, bs 11/12, 'Leyland' airmail corner cover, correctly rated 4/- with mixed franking KGV 9d x5 + KGVI 3d, red circular German 'Europa-Sud Amerika' flight cachet on front. |
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Lot Number: 244
| Date: 1938, Oct 3 Est. price: £15.00 Category: GB Internal Description: North Eastern Airways, F/F Newcastle to London, 'clock' receiver, cover franked 1 1/2d, Newcastle-London company vignette tied by green double ring 'Croydon/North Eastern Airways Ltd' cachet. |
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Lot Number: 337
| Date: 1938, Jan 11 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Malaya Description: Penang to London by KLM (Dutch) airline, commercial airmail etiquette cover franked 60c inclusive rate, Straits Settlements 30c x2, canc Penang cds. |
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Lot Number: 355
| Date: 1938, May 12 Est. price: £75.00 Category: Newfoundland Description: Superb pre WWII trans Pacific registered (hs) airmail cover franked FDI 1937 Royal Family Coronation set of 4, St John's Newfoundand to Australia bs Coraki NSW 15/6, via Halifax NS 17/5, Levis & Campbelltown RPO 18/5, New York/Regn Div/19/5, San Francisco 20/5 and GPO Sydney/NSW 14/6. Exceptional routing - without doubt one for the exhibit. |
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Lot Number: 366
| Date: 1938, May 30 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Papua and New Guinea Description: WR Carpenter Airlines,Salamaua to Sydney, bs 6/6, carried on 1st oficial airmail service between Australia-Papua and New Guinea, reg (hs) cover franked 6d & 2d with biplane and Air Mail, postmarked Salamaua 4/6, large three line "New Guinea-Australia/Air Mail Service/Inaugural Flight" cachet. |
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Lot Number: 401
| Date: 1938, Jan 18 Est. price: £35.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: Belgian Congo to Hungary, BOMA to BUDAPEST. Sabena all the way, through service from Boma arriving Russell's 20/1 via Leopoldville bs 20/1, then transferred 25/1 to local Sabena Brussels-Budapest service arriving bs 25/1, Legiposta/Budapest 73 cds. Airmail etiquette cover F6 for F2.0 UPU plus F3.50 air fee. |
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Lot Number: 402
| Date: 1938, Mar 15 Est. price: £35.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: AMSTERDAM to ZANZIBAR. By KLM to Alexandria bs 18/3, where transferred to Imperial Airways Durban southbound flying boat service DS75 (Castor) arriving Dar es Salaam/Mombasa 17/3. Transferred to Wilson Airways arriving Zanzibar 21/3. Bilingual etiquette cover, typed 'Via A'dam-Alexandrie/Alexandrie-Durban', franked G1.25. |
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Lot Number: 403
| Date: 1938, Apr 21 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: Tanganyika to Czechoslovakia, USUNGU to BILINA. By road (600 miles) to Dar es Salam, transferred to Imperial Airways Durban northbound flying boat service DN86 (Ceres) which left Dar es Salaam 25/4 April, arrived Athens bs 28/4, and on by rail/air to destination. Plain cover, ms 'Air Mail', Greek currency mark, franked 150c. Uncommon origin/destination combination. |
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Lot Number: 404
| Date: 1938, Jun 6 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: USA to Egypt, NEW YORK to CAIRO. By sea to UK, then by Imperial Airways Durban southbound flying boat service DS101 ?Corsair? leaving Southampton 15/6, arriving Alexandria 16/6, delivered Cairo 17/6 (ms). Airmail cover, Par Avion etiquette ms 'From London', franked 17cts for 5c UPU and double air fee of 12c. |
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Lot Number: 405
| Date: 1938, Dec 10 Est. price: £100.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: Airmail Saudi Arabia to South Africa, MEDINA to DURBAN. Likely c800 miles (4 days) by sea from Yanbu to Port Taufiq bs 9.15am 13/12, then 200 miles by rail to Alexandria bs 7.30pm 13/12. Transferred to Imperial Airways Durban southbound all-flying boat service DS153 on 'Cameron' which departed one day late on 17/12 and arrived Durban one day late on 20/12. Imperial Airways imprint etiquette cover and winged logo cover, pink/black Arabic/French text rated RARE by Mair, sealed with narrow white strip along lh edge, franked 1934 5g x5, and 1/2g, and 1938 1/8g canc Medina cds, date illegible. Ex Ted Proud collection. |
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Lot Number: 427
| Date: 1938, Mar 1 Est. price: £50.00 Category: Singapore Description: First return flight New Empire Air Mail Scheme, Singapore to Burma, bs Tharrawaddy 4/3, airmail etiquette cover correctly rated 8c, typed 'First Flight/Empire Air Mail Scheme/Straits Settlements to/Burma/2nd March 1938'. |
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Lot Number: 470
| Date: 1938, Nov 5 Est. price: £35.00 Category: South West Africa Description: Kalahari Feeder service, F/F Windhoek to Maun, bs 5/11, plain cover franked SWA 1d canc Windhoek cds. No cachets were applied to this mail. |
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Lot Number: 480
| Date: 1938, Jun 3 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Spain Description: Censored Spanish Civil War airmail, Palma Majorca to England, no arrival ds, commercial corner cover franked 2P35, fine strike red uncommon "Par Avion Jusqu'a Roma" applied in Palma, red two line "Censura Militar/Palma de Mallorca" censor mark, violet "Saludo a Franco/Arriba Espana" propaganda hs. Great Britain had no official postal relationship with the Nationalist (Franco) government and, hence, with Palma de Mallorca. But those in the know used the Italian Ala Littoria seaplane Cadiz-Mellila-Mallorca-Rome airmail route serving Nationalist areas of Spain. |
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Lot Number: 485
| Date: 1938, Jul 1 Est. price: £50.00 Category: Sudan Description: 1 July 1938: Sudan to Cyprus, KHARTOUM to NICOSIA. By Imperial Airways once weekly northbound Kisumu Terminal Service KN53 Clio which flew to Cairo bs 2/7, then by sea (375 miles) to Nicosia bs 7/7. Attractive trilingual blue/white etiquette cover franked 30 mil for air rate, block of six 5mm /2 1/2P opt's, all with missing second 'm' in 'milliemmes'. Interesting! |
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Lot Number: 506
| Date: 1938, Mar 16 Est. price: £5.00 Category: United States Description: F/F FAM 17, inward to Hamilton from Baltimore(US), b/s, cachet, Pan Am |
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