Search Results for: 1943
Lot Number: 192
| Date: 1943, Jun 1 Est. price: £85.00 Category: China Description: An example of the use of the Horseshoe Route and the American-African Air Ferry Servce to carry a letter from China to the USA, Chungking to Philadelphia, missionary cover franked $11.60 canc Chungking cds, blue/black airmail etiquette tied by Chungking cds, sealed Lagos B&W PC90/OBE censor tape, typed 'By BOAC to Lagos, Nigeria/Thence by P.A.A. to destination'. The cover is correctly rated for carriage 'All the Way By Air' likely CNAC to Calcutta, then BOAC to Lagos via Alexandria and Khartoum, then transfer to American-African Ferry Service to Miami and onward by US internal air service to Philadelphia. This route operate from 1/6/43 to 15/3/1944, see Boyle pp766,767. |
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Lot Number: 195
| Date: 1943, Nov 9 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Colombia Description: Dual censored WWII airmail from Colombia to England, franked 85 1/2c canc Correo Aereo/Cali cds, type 'Transatlantico', sealed US New York EB 5688 and Bermuda OBE 709 censor tapes. |
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Lot Number: 236
| Date: 1943, Jun 28 Est. price: £30.00 Category: French Cameroons Description: Free French Africa in World War II, dual censored cover from Yaounde to Edinburgh, franked 11f, sealed Cameroon censor tape tied by pointed oval ‘Ouvert Par L’Autorite Militaire’ censor Mark, also Nigeria violet triangle sensor Mark and black circular ‘Territoire du Cameroun Controle’ hs, ms ‘Via Lagos’. Likely flown BOAC or Sabena to Lagos, then BOAC West Coast route to England via at Lisbon. Between August 1940 and the summer of 1943 , the heart of Free France was located, not in London, but in Chad, Cameroon, or Oubangui-Chari (modern-day Central African Republic). |
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Lot Number: 237
| Date: 1943, Jul 17 Est. price: £12.00 Category: French Cameroons Description: Douala to Conkary, 28/7 arrival cds on front, imprint etiquette cover franked 4f50, 'Je Fais La/Guerre' hs on front and 'Un Seul/But/La/Victoire (one goal victory) hs verso. Likely carried by Sabena from Leopoldville to Lagos, then BOAC or sea to UK. Between August 1940 and the summer of 1943 , the heart of Free France was located, not in London, but in Chad, Cameroon, or Oubangui-Chari (modern-day Central African Republic). |
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Lot Number: 239
| Date: 1943, Dec 22 Est. price: £35.00 Category: French Reunion Description: Free French Forces Aeriennes Francaises Libres, F/F Reunion to Madagascar, carried on the reopening of the Reunion-Madagascar-Algeria service, registered (label) cover mail franked 6F, red framed ‘Forces Francaises Combat antes/Reunion-Madagascar/ 20 December 1943’, black circular ‘Controle Postale’ censor mark. |
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Lot Number: 426
| Date: 1943, Aug 25 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Martinique Description: World War II double censored airmail cover, Fort de France to Philadelphia, USA, franked 8f, rh sealed brown censor tape tied by pointed oval "Ouvert Par l'Autorite Militaire" censor mark, and lh sealed by B&W US EB 4192 (Miami) censor tape, also 'Censore Militaire/2/Martinique' toothed circle censor mark verso. |
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Lot Number: 430
| Date: 1943, Jun 14 Est. price: £15.00 Category: Mexico Description: Pan Am F/F FAM 5, Merida to New Orleans, bs 14/6 'Buy War Savings Stamps and Bonds machine cancel, Compania Mexicana de Aviacion, SA corner cover, franked 20c, canc Merida cds, sealed US (New York, Philatelic) censor tape tying red/white/blue PAA airmail etiquette. An uncommon cover with an uncommon censor seal |
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