Search Results for: 1940
Lot Number: 35
| 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: 56
| Date: 1940, Feb 08 Est. price: £20.00 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: 80
| 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: 81
| 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: 82
| Date: 1940, Jul 22 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Canton Description: F/F FAM 19, Canton Island to Honolulu, cachet, b/s, Pan Am. |
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Lot Number: 90
| 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: 140
| Date: 1940, May 31 Est. price: £50.00 Category: GB External Description: World War II, London to New York carried on F/F BOAC from England to link up with the Pan Am trans Atlantic clipper service from Lisbon on 4/6/40 to NY. Flown in a De Haviland plane 'Fingal' (Frobisher Class), and signed by the pilot Commander O.P.Jones.. |
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Lot Number: 141
| 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: 177
| 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: 232
| 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: 296
| 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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