Search Results for: 1938
Lot Number: 34
| Date: 1938, May 30 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Australia Description: WR Carpenter Airlines first official flight from Sydney to Raboul, bs 1/6, and return 3/6 to Sydney, bs 5/6, imprint airmail etiquette cover franked 5d Australia and 5d x2 New Guinea stamps. |
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Lot Number: 55
| Date: 1938, Feb 23 Est. price: £15.00 Category: Belgium Description: Federation de la Petite Aviation Belge, special flight Belgium-Congo, Brussels to Coquilhatville, souvenir card franked 3F30 Belgium stamps canc Brussels cds, and 3F30 Congo stamps canc Coquilhatville cds. |
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Lot Number: 79
| Date: 1938, Aug 3 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Canada Description: F/F Halifax to Bangor, bs 5/8, airmaikl cover franked 6c. |
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Lot Number: 130
| Date: 1938, Feb 20 Est. price: £45.00 Category: GB External Description: F/F Second Stage EAMS, London to Dubai, 15/3 arrival cds on front, GV 1 1/2d PSE, large blue "Mails for India" map EAMS cachet, GV 1 1/2d PSE, Imperial Airways. Scarce destination. |
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Lot Number: 131
| Date: 1938, Feb 20 Est. price: £40.00 Category: GB External Description: F/F second stage of the Empire Airmail Service, England to Bombay, bs 1/3, and on to Rangoon bs 7/3, registered cover posted from the British Industries Fair, franked 4 1/2d to include registration fee of 3d, " First 'All Up'/Empire Air Mail Scheme to India". Nice item - scarce. |
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Lot Number: 132
| Date: 1938, Feb 22 Est. price: £40.00 Category: GB External Description: F/F Second Stage EAMS, F/F London to Cairo, bs 25/2, test cover addressed to The Secretary, ITCA Ltd, Imperial Airways Ltd, Marine Airport, Ras el Tin, franked 1 1/2d, typed "First air-borne mail/without surcharge'. |
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Lot Number: 133
| Date: 1938, Jul 25 Est. price: £22.00 Category: GB External Description: Imperial Airways F/F Third Stage EAMS England to Australia, London to Sydney, no arrival ds, plain cover with large red flight cachet commemorating the First Empire C Class Flying Boat Service/England to Australia. |
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Lot Number: 134
| Date: 1938, Jul 27 Est. price: £25.00 Category: GB External Description: F/F Third Stage Empire Air Mail Scheme, London to Nauru, 25/8 arrival confirmation ds on front, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, "First Flight/to/Nauru/at/1 1/2d Rate", Imperial Airways. |
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Lot Number: 135
| Date: 1938, Jul 27 Est. price: £50.00 Category: GB External Description: F/F Third Stage Empire Air Mail Scheme, London to New Hebrides, 23/9 arrival confirmation ds on front, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, large black framed 'Empire Air Mail Scheme' cachet, Imperial Airways. |
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Lot Number: 136
| Date: 1938, Jul 27 Est. price: £25.00 Category: GB External Description: Imperial Airways, F/F Third Stage EAMS, London to Norfolk Island, 7/9 arrival ds front and verso, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, typed "First Flight/to/Nauru/at/1 1/2d All Up Rate". |
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Lot Number: 137
| Date: 1938, Sep 1 Est. price: £50.00 Category: GB External Description: Imperial Airways Scarce F/F Third Stage EAMS England to Hong Kong, bs 10/9, plain cover franked 1 1/2d. |
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Lot Number: 164
| Date: 1938, Oct 2 Est. price: £25.00 Category: GB Internal Description: North Eastern Airways, F/F Newcastle to Bradford, private 3/10 arrival ds, two line 'Leeds-Bradford Airport/Yeadon' receiver, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, Newcastle-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: 165
| Date: 1938, Oct 3 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB Internal Description: North Eastern Airways, F/F Leeds to London, two blue Croydon circular receivers, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, Leeds-London company vignette tied by the blue Croydon receiver, 'North Eastern Airways Ltd'. Image.. |
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Lot Number: 176
| Date: 1938, Mar 23 Est. price: £350.00 Category: Gold Coast Description: Crash cover en route from Gold Coast to London rescued from the Air France Dewoitine 388 which crashed in the Pyrenees on its way from Dakar to Paris, Ni380323. This cover is interesting, not only due to its intrinsic value as a crash cover, but also because it is a scarce example of the use of an alternative route for airmail from the Gold Coast to England. Plain registered (label) envelope franked 1/- plus ANO (likely 6d) which has been washed of, cancelled scarce 'Lagoon Road-Sekondi' cds, violet 'Correspondence Avion/Retardee et Deteriore/Par Suite L'Aident Gerien/Survenue Le' accident cachet, French 'Postes et Telegraphs' labels round the edges and few pale burn marks. Also a 'Too Late' annotation, hence the blank blue/white registration label. Likely a 'one off' Gold Coast or British West Africa item, hence the high estimate. |
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Lot Number: 220
| Date: 1938, Nov 18 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Madagascar Description: Official Government correspondence, Tananarive to Marseille bs 23/11, 'Gouvernemnt General de Madagascar' printed cover, no postage, fine strike red framed 'Dispense de/L'Affranchisement' (Postage Exempt) hs, fine strike large blue circular Government hs's front and verso. |
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Lot Number: 244
| Date: 1938, Aug 4 Est. price: £25.00 Category: New Zealand Description: First mail from New Zealand to England dispatched under Stage 3 of the Empire Air Mail Scheme and first thrice weekly service from Australia, Wanganui to England, no arrival ds, printed souvenir 'Empire Air Mail Service' corner cover franked 1 1/2d canc Wanganui /4 Aug/1938 cds. Departed from NZ by sea on 4 Aug aboard the SS Waganella to Sydney from where it departed on 9 Aug in flying boat Coriolanus to Southampton. Although 26 July was the official start of Stage 3 EAMS, acceptances from New Zealand were held back for the flight that left on 9 August to ensure that the first EAMS mail did not overtake the last sea-mail service. |
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Lot Number: 282
| Date: 1938, May 2 Est. price: £50.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: Madagascar to France, MUTSAMUDU TO PARIS, carried by train, postal van and river barge to the Madagascar port of Majunga bs 5/5 cds via Fomboni 2/5 transit cds, then by a Messageries Maritimes paquebot ' to Dar es Salaam where transferred to the IMPERIAL AIRWAYS AFRICA NORTHBOUND FLYING BOAT SERVICE likely DN91 which left Dar es Salaam 13/5 , flown all the way on 'Capella' arriving Marseille one day late on 18/5. Orange border Air France cover FRANKED 65c ordinary and 2F air surcharge. Great aerophilatelic item, scarce origin, likely road,rail, river, sea and air journey. |
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