We have attempted to make the content of the website as exhaustive as possible in order to cover as many eventualities or queries as possible. There are a number of questions which tend to recur during every auction and we have attempted to summarize these below: Q. What is a Buy Bid? A. This tends […]
As a postal auction, all our sales have a defined closing date and time (usually 24.00 hours on the closing day). All bids, by whichever method they are transmitted must be received prior to this cut off point. We will entertain bid forms received after the close of sale but only in relation to lots […]
The Collectors Club of Chicago is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of The History of Airmail in Poland and Its Contribution to Airmail Services of Europe (1914-1939) by Dr. Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski. This English edition is accompanied by Synopsis and Table of Contents in Polish and German. The monograph, prefaced by Oxford-based Nobel Prize […]
History of the U.S. Air Transport Command Africa and the Middle East May 1941-July 1944 John Wilson has provided this PDF version of the history compiled at the end of World War II. He has created it directly from microfilm held at the United States Air Force Historical Research Agency. Its three parts are linked […]
The three essential works of reference for determining the route and progress of any cover carried on any specific date on any Imperial Airways service to Africa, India, Australia and beyond, and to those countries en route are “Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways African Route, 1931 to 1939” which gives flight details, identified […]
Subject; Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways Eastern Route, 1937 to 1939. Wingent P, 2005. Contents; Flight details, identified by the official IA service numbers, of every service between the UK and India and Australia during the period Empire flying boats were employed 1937-1939. In addition it contains details of all the Hong Kong feeder services […]
A comprehensive review of the global development of British airmail services up to World War II which draws widely on published research from the aerophilatelic and aviation literature. and original research carried out by the author himself. Each of the 3000 or so documented ‘aerophilatelic ‘events has been given a unique reference number, and valuation […]
Pp 228 pages, A4 format describing wartime airmail routes all over the world. Superb route maps and each route section includes a table of all flights on that route during this period, where known, not just the First Flight. The dates of all intermediate stops are included as well as well as the flight number or […]
Subject: A source book for Aerophilatelists including attempts to start a British South Atlantic Airmail service, a list of the BSAA fleet, BSAA etiquettes & ephemera, instructional hand stamps, postal rates and reproductions of the airline’s timetables. Content: All aspects of BSSA, including air mail routes between the British Isles and South America during World War II, […]
Subject: Flight details, identified by the official IA service numbers, of every service between the UK and India and Australia. from 1927 to 1937 covering more than 1260 mail carrying flights to and from India and beyond from the establishment of the Karachi connection by surface to the Basra-Cairo airmail in 1927, up to February 1937 […]