Search Results for: 1939
Lot Number: 91
| Date: 1939, Jun 24 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Canada Description: Pan Am FAM 18 F/F Shediac-Foynes, arrival hs 30/6, official black cachet on front, plain cover, attractive franking, nice array of blue/red airmail etiquettes front and verso. Attrctive item. |
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Lot Number: 92
| Date: 1939, Jun 25 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Canada Description: F/F FAM 18 Northern Route, Shediac to Foynes, cachet, bs 28/6, official black flight cachet on front, large violet diamond Ireland arrival cachet verso, Pan Am company cover, 21x10cm, franked 30c. |
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Lot Number: 161
| Date: 1939, Jul 7 Est. price: £12.00 Category: GB External Description: London to San Jose, Costa Rica, bs 16/7, HR Harmer, Bond Street cover correctly rated 9d for 1/2oz surface tpo New York, then OAT to Costa Rica by US airmail service, see Proud p236. |
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Lot Number: 162
| Date: 1939, Aug 4 Est. price: £8.00 Category: GB External Description: Imperial Airways first Northern trans Atlantic flight Southampton to New York, bs 6/8, plain cover franked 1/3d Image. |
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Lot Number: 189
| Date: 1939, Jul 31 Est. price: £350.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Scottish Airways F/F KIrkwall to North Ronaldshay, bs 31/7, RARE Orkney Herald Type I souvenir cover with red plane but with blue fuselage and blue clouds missing, franked 1 1/2d canc Kirkwall cds, yellow/black/white Scottish Airways propaganda label verso. The missing blue fuselage and clouds is a variety, only have been recorded, see Redgrove p134. |
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Lot Number: 207
| Date: 1939, Nov 11 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Gold Coast Description: Early World War II censored registered (label) airmail to England, no arrival ds, correctly rated 1/6d (1/3d for new wartime airmail rate + 3d registration), franked Asamankese cds, red hexagonal boxed "Passed By Censor/Gold Coast/6" censor mark on front. Flown on Elders AW Takoradi-Lagos service, and OAT by BOAC to destination via Khartoum, Cairo and Southampton. Uncommon origin. |
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Lot Number: 210
| Date: 1939, Apr 13 Est. price: £15.00 Category: Greece Description: F/F Athens to Candia (Crete), printed 'EESS Greek Airlines First Flight cover franked 5D, violet boxed flight cachet, b/s, Societie Hellenique de Communications Aeriennes (Greek AL). |
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Lot Number: 382
| Date: 1939, Apr 6 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: Special Delivery airmail, Florida to The Queen Mary', New York, bs 7/4, plain cover franked 6c + 10c Special Delivery, violet 'Special Delivery-Air Mail' hs, cabin number #'B67' added by ship's purser. |
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Lot Number: 409
| Date: 1939, Aug 21 Est. price: £20.00 Category: South Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Cape Town to Lobito, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, violet straight line 'First Flight - West Coast' cachet. Image. |
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Lot Number: 410
| Date: 1939, Aug 21 Est. price: £20.00 Category: South Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Johannesburg to Mossamedes, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, violet straight line 'First Flight - West Coast' cachet. Image. |
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Lot Number: 425
| Date: 1939, Aug 25 Est. price: £15.00 Category: South West Africa Description: Outjo to Windhoek, bs 25/8, new West Coast service, South to South West Africa and Angola, violet straight line "First Flight West Coast" cachet. Only three flights on this service before war broke out when service was abandoned due to lack of support. Scarce. |
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Lot Number: 436
| Date: 1939, Apr 04 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Sweden Description: Misionary mail to the Congo, Gavle to Matadi, bs 28/4, via Leopoldville 26/4, plain etiquette cover franked 70 ore, ms 'Par Avion' and '5g'. |
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Lot Number: 441
| Date: 1939, May 22 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Switzerland Description: Switzerland acceptance for First Regular North Atlantic Service, Marseilles to New York, bs 27/5, viaMarseille-Gare 24/5, imprint 'Mit Luftpost' etiquette cover franked 100c, ms 'First Flight of /the Yankee Clipper/Marseilles-New York/via Lisbon', fine strike official red cachet, uncommon. Image. |
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Lot Number: 442
| Date: 1939, May 24 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Switzerland Description: Switzerland acceptance for First Regular North Atlantic Service, Marseilles to Horta, bs 29/5, via Marseille-Gare 24/5, imprint 'Luftpost' etiquette cover franked 55c canc Geneva cds, typed 'Premier courrier aerien Transatalntique.Marseiile-Acores', fine strike official red cachet on front, black Horta cachet verso, violet straight line 'Par Avion Jusqu'a New York', nice item. Image. |
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