Search Results for: 1940
Lot Number: 37
| 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: 38
| Date: 1940, Oct 23 Est. price: £55.00 Category: Australia Description: Wartime airmail, 'air all the way' Australia to Canada, Pacific Clipper services up to the attack on Pearl Harbour, Double Bay/NSW to Ottawa, censored imprint etiquette air cover franked 2/-, 1/6d and 5d, canc double Bay cds, ms NZ-USA-Canada, violet two line 'California Clipper' hs, sealed red/white Australian OBC censor tape, violet two line 'Passed By/Censor/S.103 (Sydney) hs. Correctly rated 3/11d for the Pacific 'all air' service to CANADA, carried by TEAL to New Zealand, Pan Am FAM19 to San Francisco, then US/Canadian internal air service to Ottawa (Boyle p860). This service opened on 3/7/40 when Italy entered the war and closed Mediterranean section of the long established Empire (Kangaroo) route through Europe and across the Indian Ocean. The Pacific Clipper service ceased after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 11/12/41. |
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Lot Number: 84
| Date: 1940, Sep 11 Est. price: £18.00 Category: Brazil Description: Brazil to Germany, no arrival ds, flown by LATI, uncensored WWII cover franked 5400R, canc Sao Paulo cds, fine strike violet underlined "via L.A.T.I." directional handstamp, typed 'via Aerea L.A.T.I./via Roma'. |
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Lot Number: 85
| Date: 1940, Nov 6 Est. price: £15.00 Category: Brazil Description: Panair Do Brasil, F/F from Rio de Janero to Governador Valladares, bs 8/11, blue/cream Panair Do Brasil company corner cover franked 1200RS, official violet circular flight cachet. Uncommon. |
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Lot Number: 132
| Date: 1940, Apr 28 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Costa Rica Description: Acceptance for Costa Rica for carriage on the KLM/Pan Am Amsterda-Lisbon-New York service, then US internal airlines to San Jose, bs 13/5, registered (label) first flight souvenir cover franked 15c. |
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Lot Number: 137
| Date: 1940, Dec 9 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Egypt Description: Greece Expeditionary Force, censored On Active Service Free Christmas Air Mail, stampless, fine strike FPO/171/9 DE 40, addressed to Scotland, signed over Unit Censor hs. |
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Lot Number: 290
| Date: 1940, Mar 13 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Italy Description: LATI southbound flight, Rome to Rio de Janeiro, bs 18/4, registered (hs) cover franked surface L1.25, air L9,75, registration L1.50. Note Ala Littoria airmail etiquette still in use. |
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Lot Number: 312
| Date: 1940, Apr 10 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Malaya Description: WWII censored cover, Singapore to UK, plain cover correctly rated 55c for postage on the BOAC Singapore-London service from Sep 39 to May 41, Singapore cds, red straight line 'By Air Mail' hs, black 'Passed For Transmission Singapore 14' triangular censor mark. |
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Lot Number: 313
| Date: 1940, May 3 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Malaya Description: NOT FLOWN, WWII censored commercial cover, Malacca to Trichinopoly, S. India, correctly rated 8c for surface transport, violet 'Passed /By Censor/Singapore' censor mark, and verso red/brown/white undenominated 'Malaya Patriotic Fund' label with horizontal crease. |
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Lot Number: 318
| Date: 1940, Apr 1 Est. price: £85.00 Category: Mozambique Description: BOAC first flight Lourenco Marques to Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, bs 8/4, censored Netto PSC franked 1E55 canc Lourenco Marques hexagon ds, violet framed Tanganyika 'Passed/By Censor/No 6' hs. Scarce F/F, only 27 flown. |
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Lot Number: 352
| Date: 1940, Jan 12 Est. price: £15.00 Category: New Zealand Description: New schedule of airmail charges, NZ to London, via Empire Air Service, bs 5/2, registered red/black/grey' Empire Air Mai lService/New Zealand', correctly rated 1/6d + 4d registration, canc W ellington cds, sealed NZ censor tape tied by PBC NZ 26 censor mark. The new schedule reduced the srface rate, but the airmail rate remained the same. Small opening tear on flap. |
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Lot Number: 353
| Date: 1940, Jul 19 Est. price: £8.00 Category: New Zealand Description: F/F, Auckland to Honolulu, violet boxed cachet, b/s, Pan Am |
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Lot Number: 488
| Date: 1940, Jul 12 Est. price: £8.00 Category: United States Description: Pan Am F/F FAM 19, Los Angeles to Honolulu, b/s,blue cachet, uncommon printed "First Flight/Los Angeles to Canton Island/South Pacific Air Mail Route" souvenir cover. |
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