Search Results for: 1941
Lot Number: 86
| Date: 1941, Aug 12 Est. price: £23.00 Category: Brazil Description: LATI Brazil to Germnay, censored blue/grey propanganda envelope with white gull wing imprint, franked 6600R, sealed German cencor tape verso, also German censor marks on front. Attractive item. |
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Lot Number: 218
| Date: 1941, Sep 1 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Railway Air Services, inauguration of new service from Liverpool to Belfast, plain cover franked 5 1/2d to include air fee of 3d and inland postage of 2 1/2d, censored under wartime restrictions. Airmail from Northern Ireland gave no advantage over surface mail. Ironed vertical crease. |
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Lot Number: 234
| Date: 1941, Jan 8 Est. price: £55.00 Category: Germany Description: Germany to USA, flown by LATI, rare double rate censored WWII imprint etiquette airmail cover, Berlin to New York, uncommon red Berlin 8 1 41 455rpf machine cancel, typed "Mit Luftpost uber Sudamerika", ms "8g", sealed black/white German OKW censor tape, code e Frankfurt, also small German framed number censor marks. Correctly rated 450rpf for double rate Germany to USA via LATI (2x 215rpf air fee + 25rpf basic, see Beith p38). Flown Rome to Brazil by LATI, FAM 6 to Buenos Aires, then Panagra Pacific coast route to USA (see ?Pacific route endorsement below etiquette) and on to Cristobal for exchange of airlines, FAM 8 to Brownsville, then CAM 22 and internal airline to final destination. An expensive, but effective, method of sending Axis airmail to USA to avoid British censorship in Bermuda (FAM 18) and Jamaica (FAM 5). A superb exhibit item in particularly fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 244
| Date: 1941, Mar 26 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Hawaii Description: Johnston Island, Hawaii to Colarado Springs, airmail "Transpacific Airmal "cover with imprint Hawaii Coat of Arms, franked 30c, violet "Fee Claimed/Colo Springs, CO" |
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Lot Number: 262
| Date: 1941, Sep 4 Est. price: £75.00 Category: India Description: WWII high franked censored airmail from Bombay to Johannesburg, carried from Bombay to Karachi by Indian National Airways and from Karachi to Johannesburg by BOAC over the emergency Horseshoe Flying Boat Route established after Italy entered the War in June 1940. Airmail etiquette commercial corner cover, 23x17cm, franked 8R 14annas 6 p(KGVI 14 As x10 + 2As 6p), sealed red/white India OBC sensor tape tied by India black triangular censor mark. Correctly franked annas for inclusive x9 weight franking. Some top edge crumple, see scan.. |
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Lot Number: 263
| Date: 1941, Oct 21 Est. price: £35.00 Category: India Description: WWII censored airmail from Bombay to Johannesburg, carried from Bombay to Karachi by Indian National Airways and from Karachi to Johannesburg by BOAC over the emergency Horseshoe Flying Boat Route established after Italy entered the War in June 1940. Airmail etiquette commercial corner cover, 23x12cm, franked 2R 24 annas, India black triangular censor mark, 'Written in English' hs. |
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Lot Number: 264
| Date: 1941, Nov 8 Est. price: £60.00 Category: India Description: WWII high franked censored airmail from Bombay to Johannesburg, carried from Bombay to Karachi by Indian National Airways and from Karachi to Johannesburg by BOAC over the emergency Horseshoe Flying Boat Route established after Italy entered the War in June 1940. Airmail etiquette commercial corner cover, 24x11cm, sealed red/white ISouth Africa censor tape, black India triangular censor mark, red 'Written in English' hs, franked 7R (KGVI 2Rx3 and 1R) + 14 annas. Correctly franked 112 annas for inclusive x7 weight franking. |
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Lot Number: 291
| Date: 1941, Feb 24 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Italy Description: Rare Italy to New York, double rate cover carried by LATI to Recife, then by ship to New York, censored airmail etiquette cover franked 8L on front, canc Salerno cds, with additional 9.5L verso, canc small remnants of rare three black "Par Avion Jusqu'a Recife" hs's, ms "Via Lati/Via Rio de Janeiro", ms '6g', sealed black/white Italian censor tape tied by violet circular Salerno censor marks. The "Par Avion Jusqu'a Recife" hs was used on Italian mail to indicate airmail to Recife, then ship to USA. An extremely scarce LATI item, and definitely one for the exhibit. |
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Lot Number: 354
| Date: 1941, Nov 11 Est. price: £8.00 Category: New Zealand Description: First inclusion of Fiji in FAM 19 service, Auckland to Suva, airmail cover franked 1/3d, official cachet. |
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Lot Number: 421
| Date: 1941, May 10 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Singapore Description: F/F Pan Am FAM 14 extension Singapore to San Francisco, bs, censored airmail cover, 21x11cm, franked 1$50, fine F/F cachet. |
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Lot Number: 489
| Date: 1941, Feb 1 Est. price: £8.00 Category: United States Description: First clipper airmail flight NY to Bolama, PWA, bs. |
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Lot Number: 490
| Date: 1941, Jun 4 Est. price: £30.00 Category: United States Description: Airmail addressed to Washington franked 50c air canc fine strike 'USS BLACK HAWK/4 JUN/1941/ASIATIC STATION'', also fine strike framed magenta 'TransPacific/Air-Mail'. Black Hawk was a destroyer tender based at Pearl Harour then Okinawa. |
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Lot Number: 491
| Date: 1941, Jun 21 Est. price: £40.00 Category: United States Description: Underpaid airmail from USN Heavy Cruiser serving in the Pacific theatre in the early years of WWII, franked 20c air canc 'U.S.S'JUN 21/1941/CHICAGO, also 2x10c PD's applied at at Wilmington, and 'Via Trans-Pacific/Air Mail' and 'Postage Due (ms 20) cents' hand stamps. Could have been posted from Canton or Medway, see Boyle p36. |
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Lot Number: 521
| Date: 1941, Oct 2 Est. price: £25.00 Category: World War II Description: Censored WWII airmail, Pacific Clipper services up to the attack on Pearl Harbour, Sydney to New York, imprint etiquette cover. franked 4 x1/- Lyre bird, correctly rated 4/- per 1/2oz for carriage to US, violet diamond Australia 1103 censor mark, black 'California Clipper' hs. Flown by Pan Am FAM19 to San Francisco, then US internal air service to destination. The Pacific Clipper service ceased after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 11/12/41. |
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