Search Results for: 1941
Lot Number: 89
| Date: 1941, Feb 3 Est. price: £100.00 Category: Flying Boats Description: AMERICAN EXPORT AIRLINES SURVEY FLIGHT, New York to Cristobal, bs 5/2, via Nassau bs 3/2 and Kingston 4/2, company cover, 23x10cm, with red/blue corner logo, MIXED franking with US stamp 3/2, Bahamas stamps 4/2 and Jamaica stamp 4/2. Also picture of the AEA Consolidated 28-4 flying boat ' Transatlantic' which carried the cover, in flight. Mounted on album leaf, SCARCE item. |
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Lot Number: 152
| Date: 1941, Sep 1 Est. price: £45.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Railway Air Services F/F wartime airmail service, Belfast to Liverpool, for the carriage of surcharged mail. Etiquette cover franked 3d canc Caernarvon 31 Aug 1941 cds, large red 'RAS/1 September 1941' cachet.. Sent by rail to Speke airport and flown in a Dragon Rapide DH 89 G-AFFF by a pilot released from the RAF. The service qualified for an Air Ministry subsidy and the GPO bore the cost less the amount of the subsidy and revenue from passengers who were carried subject to space allowed by the mail. See Railway Air Services, John Stroud, 1987. |
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Lot Number: 153
| Date: 1941, Sep 1 Est. price: £12.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Railway Air Services, inauguration of a 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. |
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Lot Number: 186
| Date: 1941, Oct 10 Est. price: £40.00 Category: India Description: India censored WWII registered airmail cover, 22x11cm, Bombay to Johannesburg via the Horseshoe Route, high 1R + 2R x3 sealed India censor tape tied by Bombay censor mark, large violet 'Free /VRY/1' and red straight line 'Written in English' hs's. Image. |
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Lot Number: 208
| Date: 1941, Jun 19 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Netherlands East Indies Description: Horseshoe Route World War II censored air cover to Manchester, no arrival ds, franked 55c canc Batavia cds, typed 'Per Luchtposts Via Durban', sealed brown "Door Censur Geopend" NEI censor tape tied by black circle "Censur 20/6/41"censor mark, also red oval 'Ec.C' NEI censor mark and Egypt black censor hs Likely KLM to Cairo then BOAC over the "Horseshoe" route, see Boyle p 820-828. Non invasive ironed vertical crease, see scan. |
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Lot Number: 209
| Date: 1941, Oct 11 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Netherlands East Indies Description: World War II dual censored Macassar to London, registered (label) cover franked G1.15 typed 'I.W. to Durban', sealed brown NEI censor tape, tied by large red circular 'Deviezen/Censur' censor marks front and verso, and Bermuda B&W OBE 978, flown KNILM to Manila/Sydney/Singapore, then Pan Am to San Francisco, US internal air service to New York, FAM 18 to Lisbon, and KLM/BOAC to England. This "two ocean" mail was suspended after Pearl Harbour on Dec 1941, see Boyle p 820-828. |
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Lot Number: 267
| Date: 1941, Jun 5 Est. price: £35.00 Category: Singapore Description: WWI censored airmail, Indian Section Base Office No 4, Singapore to UK, airmail etiquette cover franked 55c, correctly rated for the BOAC Singapore-Cairo-Durban-London (Horseshoe) route, fine strikes purple triangular Base PO 'Passed By Censor No 3465' censor marks front and verso. |
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Lot Number: 298
| Date: 1941, Nov 5 Est. price: £10.00 Category: United States Description: F/F FAM 19 Los Angeles to Suva, bs 9/11, cover 10x23cm franked 40c air, cachet, Pan Am |
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Lot Number: 299
| Date: 1941, Nov 5 Est. price: £10.00 Category: United States Description: F/F FAM 19 San Francisco to Suva, bs 9/11, cover 10x23cm franked 40c air, cachet, Pan Am |
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Lot Number: 300
| Date: 1941, Nov 5 Est. price: £10.00 Category: United States Description: F/F FAM 19 San Pedro to Suva, bs 9/11, cover 10x23cm franked 40c air, cachet, Pan Am |
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