Search Results for: 1938
Lot Number: 40
| Date: 1938, Dec 23 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Belgium Description: Christmas and New Year Air France publicity greetings card, Brussels to Elisabethville, 30/12 arrival ds on front. Franked 1F, although the card enjoyed a reduced tariff, against the normal 3F. Verso shows a design of aircraft/birds in arrowhead formation. Scarce. |
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Lot Number: 85
| Date: 1938, Feb 21 Est. price: £85.00 Category: Flying Boats Description: DOUBLE FIRST FLIGHT, IAW Eastbound service CE1, carried all the way by flying boats 'CENTURION' AND 'COOLANGATTA', from Southampton to Calcutta, bs 1/3, being the F/F to carry E.A.M.S Stage 2 mail from UK to India, and the F/F to connect with TATA Sons first Karachi-Madras service, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, SIGNED BY PILOT CAPT. G.U.ALLEN commander of 'Centurion'. Also an informative newspaper cutting showing Capt. Allen at the controls during final trials at Hythe. A super flying boat cover with lots of history and in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 86
| Date: 1938, Feb 21 Est. price: £85.00 Category: Flying Boats Description: FIRST EXPERIMENTAL FLIGHT SOUTHAMPTON TO ALEXANDRIA, bs 28/1, and MAIDEN SERVICE FLIGHT BY 'CASSIOPEIA', on IAW southbound service AS 417, plain cover correctly rated 3d , large black flying boat cachet, ms 'Per Flying Boat 'Cassiopeia to Alexandria', SIGNED BY PILOT Capt. Griffith Powell. Also a superb original and unused B&W Tuck's photo card, and two informative newspaper cuttings and a head and shoulders picture of Capt. Powell. A super flying boat item in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 122
| Date: 1938, Jan 31 Est. price: £50.00 Category: GB External Description: FDI GB 2d and 3d definitves on attractive Philatelic Magazine registered (label London EC 20) airmail cover, flown London to Transvaal, S. Africa, black framed 'First Day Cover' hs. Uncommon item in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 123
| Date: 1938, Apr 12 Est. price: £50.00 Category: GB External Description: IMPERIAL AIRWAYS TEST LETTER, London to Khartoum bs 15/4, from the Traffic Manager Imperial AW London to the Traffic Manager Imperial AW Khartoum, carried on the FIRST SERVICE ON NEW ACCELERATED SOUTHAMPTON-DURBAN SERVICE DS83, flown by Ceres to Wadi Halfa, then by Canopus to Khartoum. Plain cover, franked 1 1/2d, typed "First regular accelerated service, Summer 1938". See Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways African Route 1931-1939, P Wingent, p149, pub 1991. Scarce. |
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Lot Number: 124
| Date: 1938, Jul 27 Est. price: £30.00 Category: GB External Description: Imperial Airways, F/F Third Stage EAMS, London to Norfolk Island, 7/9 arrival ds front, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, large black framed 'Empire Air Mail Scheme' cachet. |
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Lot Number: 125
| Date: 1938, Jul 27 Est. price: £30.00 Category: GB External Description: Imperial Airways, F/F Third Stage EAMS, London to Samoa, Apia 30/8 arrival cdss' front and verso, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, large purple framed 'Empire Air Mail Scheme' cachet. |
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Lot Number: 126
| Date: 1938, Aug 8 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB External Description: Five view colour letter card showing views of New Brighton franked 1 1/2d, canc Wallasey cds, red 'Postage due paid 3d' and 3d NZ postage due stamp with black framed PO reminder verso. The letter was double weight but only pre-paid for 1/2oz, and charged 3d Postage Due in Auckland. Slight non invasive top edge damage. |
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Lot Number: 127
| Date: 1938, Aug 16 Est. price: £30.00 Category: GB External Description: Queen Mary airmail cover GB to USA, Maidenhead to Fort Worth, Texas, bs 24/8, and forwarded to Lake Taho, arrival ds on front. Airmail etiquette cover franked 5d, carried from Southampton to New York by sea (QUEEN MARY) then flown by US internal air service to destination, ms "Via SS Queen Mary C.W.S./Sailing Aug 17th. Uncommon with good routing. |
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Lot Number: 128
| Date: 1938, Oct 23 Est. price: £35.00 Category: GB External Description: London to Uruguay, bs Montevideo 28/10, 'Marine' Insurance company cover, 10x20cm, correctly rated 4/- (2/6d sea horse, 1/- and 6d, for 'All Air' carriage by DLH South Atlantic air service, fine strike red circular 'Deutsche Luftpost/Europa-Sudamerika' hs. Image. |
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Lot Number: 129
| Date: 1938, Dec 9 Est. price: £30.00 Category: GB External Description: London to St Petersburg, Florida, bs 12/12, carried by SS QUEEN MARY to New York, then US internal air service to Florida, plain cover franked 5d, ms 'By Air Mail from New York', tied airmail etiquette, see scan. |
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Lot Number: 151
| Date: 1938, Oct 3 Est. price: £25.00 Category: GB Internal Description: North Eastern Airways, F/F Perth to Bradford, private 3/10 arrival ds, two line 'Leeds-Bradford Airport/Yeadon' receiver, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, Perth-London company vignette tied by black double ring company cachet 'North Eastern Airways Ltd'. More difficult to find. Image. |
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Lot Number: 240
| Date: 1938, May 22 Est. price: £45.00 Category: Recovered/Salvaged Description: DHL flight 175, Junkers 52 seaplane 'Guaracy' en route Europe to South America crashed in rough seas en route from Rio to Santos, airmail cover addressed to Porto Allegre, stamps washed off, 'Paulo' residual postmark, verso green label cancelled Porto Alegre cds tied by good strike 'ACCIDENTE/DE AVIO' special cachet. Ni 380522a. Has been accidentally cut in two, but is complete nevertheless, see scan. Particularly scarce with green label and special cachet. |
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Lot Number: 241
| Date: 1938, Dec 31 Est. price: £385.00 Category: Recovered/Salvaged Description: RARE PILOT SIGNED, Short S23 Empire flying boat CALYPSO made forced landing in English Channel, Cover date stamped Pretoria 19 December 1938, flown by S.A. Airways Coast Service to Durban to connect with IAW service DN 156 (departed 25/12). After making an overnight stop at St. Nazaire, she was flying to Southampton on 31/12 (one day late) when she experienced engine trouble and was forced to land in the Channel near Alderney. She was towed to Cherbourg by the Swedish motor tanker Rigel, arriving at 06.00 on 1/1/39. Mails and passengers were flown to London by an Imperial AW plane, arriving the same morning, but two days late. COVER SIGNED BY PILOT Comdr. G.S .BROWN/31/12/38, Ref #381231, Sandford £250/300. Only a few covers are known, so a pilot signed example is likely to be RARE. Also newspaper cuttings and pictures also accompany this item. See scans |
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Lot Number: 275
| Date: 1938, Jul 22 Est. price: £100.00 Category: South Africa Description: SOUTH AFRICA to NEW ZEALAND, JOANNESBURG to CARTERTON, BY IMPERIAL AIRWAYS AFRICA northbound service DN 112 which left Jo'burg 24 July and arrived on 'Corsair' at Alexandria 27 July, then transferred to IMPERIAL AIRWAYS Sydney Eastbound SE1 which left Alexandria 29/7 and carried on 'Capella' all the way to Sydney 6/8, and on by sea to Carterton, delivered 18/8 cds.Plain cover FRANKED 1 1/2d. SERVICE DN 112 carried the first African mail to Alexandria for Eastern destinations under the third stage of the EAMS. SERVICE SE1 carried the first mail to Australia, NZ, and British territories in SW Pacific under Stage 3 of EAMS. Super double EAMS first flight cover and a sophisticated item for the exhibit, ex Ted Proud archive.. |
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Lot Number: 302
| Date: 1938, Jan 19 Est. price: £15.00 Category: United States Internal Description: Underpaid special delivery Dallas to Hollywood, bs LA 20/1, cover franked 16c inc 10c special delivery, tied red/white/blue TWA etiquette, also franked 3c x2 postage dues canc Los Angeles, andviolet straight line 'Postage Due 6 Cents' hs.Attractive item, see scan. |
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