Search Results for: 1940
Lot Number: 95
| Date: 1940, Apr 30 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Australia Description: Wartime airmail, first regular Sydney-Auckland airmail, bs Christcurch 3/5, carried "per flying boats "Aotearoa" and "Awarua", blue/grey TEAL souvenir cover, correctly franked 5d for air to NZ, canc Adelaide cds. When Italy entered the war in June 1940 this service became the first leg of the 'all air' Pacific Clipper Service to GB via Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York and Lisbon. Image. |
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Lot Number: 96
| Date: 1940, May 1 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Australia Description: First regular Sydney-Auckland airmail, bs Auckland 2/5, blue/cream 'First Flight Regular Service/Australia-New Zealand' souvenir cover franked 5d, TEAL. |
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Lot Number: 97
| Date: 1940, Nov 1 Est. price: £35.00 Category: Australia Description: Butler Air Transport, F/F Bega to Sydney, bs,, following suspension of service by Adastra Airways. plain cover franked 5d ,Butler Air Transport hs, typed 'First Flight Sydney - Bega -Butler Air Transport/per Gannet Monoplane/VH UVU', |
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Lot Number: 133
| Date: 1940, Feb 08 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Belgium Description: First connection between the Sabena internal service to Usumbura, and the Kikwit-Tshikapa service, Brussels to Costermansville, bs 18/2, black three line flight cachet '1e Courrier Aerien Belgi-/que Costermansville/Sabena', Van Reet printed souvenir cover franked 3F + 35 verso. |
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Lot Number: 138
| Date: 1940, Dec 28 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Bolivia Description: Bolivia to Portugal, flown by LATI, scarce uncensored WWII registered (hs) airmail cover, Cochabamba to Lisbon, bs Lisboa 8.1.41, franked verso 14B5, canc large purple framed 'Correos de Bolivia/Cochabamba' dated hs, grey/blue 'Per Via Aerea' envelope with outline of plane, typed 'Via Condor-Lati'. Correctly rated for LATI to Europe - Beith's cover was franked 14B 10c (see page 25). Carried by LAB Condor to Rio, by LATI all the way to Seville, then air shuttle to Lisbon. No Bermuda censor and franking confirms not flown by PAA. Nice item. |
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Lot Number: 185
| Date: 1940, Jul 15 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Canton Description: Pan Am pioneer Trans-Pacific service FAM 19 F/F Canton Island to Auckland, bs 18/7, official red flight cachet. |
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Lot Number: 186
| Date: 1940, Jul 15 Est. price: £9.00 Category: Canton Description: Pan Am pioneer Trans-Pacific service FAM 19 F/F Canton Island to Honolulu, bs 122/7, official red flight cachet. |
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Lot Number: 187
| Date: 1940, Jul 15 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Canton Description: Pan Am pioneer Trans-Pacific service FAM 19 F/F Canton Island to Noumea, bs 16/7, official red flight cachet. |
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Lot Number: 227
| Date: 1940, Jun 2 Est. price: £30.00 Category: France Description: WWII censored airmail Toulouse to Jadotville, Belgian Congo, bs 28/6.via Marseille Gare Avion 5/6 and Elizabethville 27/6, franked 2F50 overseas postage and 9F air, canc Toulouse cds, sealed plain brown censor tape tied by black 'Censure Congo Belgique' censor mark. Interesting wartime item with good routing. Image. |
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Lot Number: 286
| Date: 1940, May 31 Est. price: £40.00 Category: GB External Description: World War II, London to New York, no arrival ds, carried on BOAC first regular service Heston to Lisbon, cover embossed 'Stanley Gibbons/London' on flap, franked 1/3d, typed 'First British War Time/Service to Lisbon connecting/with the Pan American Airways/Trans-Atlantic Service', airmail etiquette. |
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Lot Number: 287
| Date: 1940, Jun 3 Est. price: £75.00 Category: GB External Description: London to New York, no arrival ds, carried on BOAC first regular service Heston to Lisbon, franked 1/3d, fine large black on pale blue label "First Air Mail/England-Lisbon/Connecting with Pan American Airways Trans-Atlantic Service". As illustrated p192 Bergier. A Phillips, Newpot, authentication hs verso. Image. |
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Lot Number: 342
| Date: 1940, May 14 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Gold Coast Description: Early WWII airmail cover posted in Accra on May 15, 1940 to England, franked 1/3d verso, red hexagonal 'Passed by Censor/6/Gold Coast' censor mark. Correctly rated 1/3d for carriage by BOAC via Khartoum and Cairo, or Aeromaritime/Air France via Dakar and Paris. Both these services terminated when Italy entered the war in June 1940. |
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Lot Number: 436
| Date: 1940, Jul 15 Est. price: £75.00 Category: Netherlands East Indies Description: High frank dual censored registered (label) WWII Javasche Bank airmail etiquette cover NEI to Australia, bs Sydney, bs 24/7, franked 65c canc Soerbaja cds, sealed NEI B&W 'Door Censuur Geopend' censor tape and Australian red/cream 'Opened By Censor' tape tied by blue 'Passed By Censor/S,30' censor mark, also well preserved 'KAS' bank seal verso. |
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Lot Number: 512
| Date: 1940, Apr 26 Est. price: £10.00 Category: New Zealand Description: Auckland-Sydney, bs 30/4,carried on the inaugural flight by flying boat "Aotearoa", large rect. cachet, souvenir cover with imprint photo of plane, TEAW. Service suspended in June 1940 when Italy joined the war. |
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Lot Number: 513
| Date: 1940, Jul 19 Est. price: £10.00 Category: New Zealand Description: F/F, Auckland to Los Angeles, 24/7, violet boxed cachet, b/s, Pan Am |
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Lot Number: 514
| Date: 1940, Jul 19 Est. price: £8.00 Category: New Zealand Description: Reopening Pan Am trans-Pacific Auckland-San Francisco service, Auckland to Canton Island, 20/7 arrival ds on front, B&W PPC showing City Hall, Cape Town, franked 11d, nice strike violet framed 'New Zealand-USA/ir Mail Service/via New Caledonia, Canton Island and Hawaii'. |
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Lot Number: 578
| Date: 1940, Dec 30 Est. price: £15.00 Category: Singapore Description: Censored Singapore to UK etiquette airmail, correctly rated 55c for 1/2oz, fine strike triangular 'Passed For Transmission/74' censor mark. Some rough opening verso only, see scan. |
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