Search Results for: 1939
Lot Number: 26
| Date: 1939, Apr 1 Est. price: £18.00 Category: Algeria Description: Air France publicity card used with special postmark for the Algerian Commercial Fair, issued for use with reduced postage during the Christmas and New Year period, but used outside this period. |
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Lot Number: 64
| Date: 1939, Aug 21 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Bechuanaland Description: Palapye, Bechuanaland to Loanda, Angola, bs 22/8, SAA new West Coast service, Bechuanaland 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: 65
| Date: 1939, Aug 21 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Bechuanaland Description: West Coast extension of the Kalahari Desert Feeder Service, Maun, Bechuanaland to Portiguese West Africa, Lobito, bs 22/8, airmail etiquette cover franked 1 1/2d per 1/2oz EAMS rate, 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. Few tone spots front and verso. See scan. |
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Lot Number: 73
| Date: 1939, May 23 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Belgium Description: Belgium acceptance for Pan American F/F Marseille, bs 24/5 to New York, bs 27/5, plain cover franked 75c postage and 5F air surcharge, fine strike red flight cachet . |
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Lot Number: 93
| Date: 1939, May 22 Est. price: £15.00 Category: Channel Islands Description: First flight Guernsey to Southampton, special 'Martin' souvenir cover franked 1 1/2d, canc 22 MY 39.. |
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Lot Number: 130
| Date: 1939, Mar 14 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Flying Boats Description: Airmail cover Germany to Brindisi 13/3 where it was transferred to Imperial Airways flight DS 178 for carriage all the to Durban by flying boat 'CLIO' to Durban, then on to Johannesburg. |
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Lot Number: 131
| Date: 1939, May 26 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Flying Boats Description: F/F FAM 18 Southern North Atlantic route, Horta-New York, bs 27/5, blue cachet, b/s, uncommon cream/grey black souvenir cover with attractive picture of flying boat in flight, Pan Am. |
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Lot Number: 175
| Date: 1939, Jun 22 Est. price: £50.00 Category: GB External Description: Pan Am 'Yankee Cipper' F/F England to Canada, bs Shediac 1/7, Montreal 2/7, elegant uncommon registered (label) souvenir 'Long May They Reign' cover triple 'THREE REIGN' franking inc KGV 10d, KGVI 2 1/2d and KEVIII set of 4, An unusual and attractive item. |
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Lot Number: 176
| Date: 1939, Aug 5 Est. price: £30.00 Category: GB External Description: F/F IAW London to New York, bs 6/8, franked 1/3d, SCARCE PAN AM SOUVENIR COVER celebrating the British Imperial Airways first flight. Closed 1cm top edge nick, see scan. Does not detract, see scan. |
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Lot Number: 205
| Date: 1939, Nov 11 Est. price: £20.00 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: 209
| Date: 1939, Apr 13 Est. price: £10.00 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: 291
| Date: 1939, Jan 21 Est. price: £75.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: Madagascar to France, BETROKA TO MULHOUSE, bs 1/2. Imprint etiquette cover slightly over franked 13F 90c (correct rate 13F50 - 1.50F ordinary up to 20gm + 4x3F per 5gm air), fine strikes of SCARCE UNDATED boxed 'BM' hs's indicating posting in a BOX on a PO lorry and carriage by road to Tananarive where it was transferred to the SERVICE DE LA AERONAUTIQUE CIDILE and flown all the way by air to Paris bs 25/1. In 1936 "sections d?aviation populaire" (SAP), were created by the Popular Front to popularize flight training for young people with the aim of training more crew for French military aviation. Uncommon origin, scarce postal marks and good routing. A nice item. |
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Lot Number: 292
| Date: 1939, Apr 11 Est. price: £60.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: France to Afghanistan, VERSAILLES to KABUL, bs 8/5, carried on Air France Far East service weekly which left Paris on 12/4 arriving to Karachi 15/4 boxed 'Karachi/Cancelled' hs, via Marseille-Gare 11/4, and on by surface to Kabul b/s 5/5. Franked 6F50 for F1.50 UPU and F5 air fee. |
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Lot Number: 301
| Date: 1939, Oct 17 Est. price: £45.00 Category: Singapore Description: WWII censored cover, Singapore to Karachi, airmail etiquette cover correctly rated 55c for BOAC Singapore-Karachi-Cairo-Durban-London (Horseshoe) service, canc Singapore cds, violet framed Singapore 'Passed by Censor/A' hs, opened by Karachi censor and sealed India red/brown OBC /Crown censor tape tied by black Karachi triangular 'Passed By Censor B 31 with crown' censor mark. |
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Lot Number: 309
| 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: 310
| Date: 1939, Aug 21 Est. price: £18.00 Category: South Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Cape Town 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: 318
| Date: 1939, Aug 21 Est. price: £25.00 Category: South West Africa Description: West Coast extension of the South Africa Airways new Kalahari West Coast service, Windhoek, SWA to Luanda, Angola, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d per 1/2oz EAMS rate. Only three flights on this service before war broke out when service was abandoned due to lack of support. Scarce item in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 319
| Date: 1939, Aug 25 Est. price: £25.00 Category: South West Africa Description: First return SAA new West Coast service, South to South West Africa and Angola, also a further extension of the Kalahari Service, Outjo to Cape Town, bs 26/8, 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.Narrow strip former mounting tape centre top edge verso, does not detract. Scarce. |
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Lot Number: 334
| 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: 335
| 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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Lot Number: 371
| Date: 1939, Jul 23 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Zanzibar Description: Zanzibar to Switzerland, bs Zurich 12/8, Union Castle Line cover embossed on flap, franked 30c, ms ''By Air Mail'. |
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