Search Results for: BEA
Lot Number: 580
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £30.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Air France Christmas/New Year reduced rate 'Air France/dans tous les ciels' greetings postcard franked 8c and flown Hanoi to Paris, bs 11/1, via Marseille 10/1, and bearing the text (in French) " to benefit from the reduced rate this postcard must consist only of wishes, congratulations, thanks, compliments or condolences expressed in five words or less". |
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Lot Number: 567
| Date: Photographs Est. price: £30.00 Category: Ephemera Description: 'Colombia' Transatlantic Flight, 9/10/1930, two original photographs, 10x15cm, taken by local photographer, 'Errol Boyd in business suit standing by plane on the beach at Treso' , and 'On the wing refuelling the plane@. |
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Lot Number: 629
| Date: Timetables, brochures Est. price: £12.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA and Associated Companies, booklet containing route maps to and from London for 26 cities, 20pp, 18x20cm, pub circa 1952. |
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Lot Number: 589
| Date: Picture postcards Est. price: £30.00 Category: Ephemera Description: B.S.A.A. timetables for S. American (East & West Coast) and Carbbean Services (C 36 cities), and including route map, 8pp, 21x8cm, valid from April 1948. |
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Lot Number: 543
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £16.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA 'Sovereign Service', three dinner menus and one 'In-flight Shop' brochure. Image. |
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Lot Number: 546
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA worldwide services route atlas, beautifully illustrated in colour, 8pp, 18x26cm, c1960. |
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Lot Number: 564
| Date: Photographs Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA Douglas Airliner on tarmac, original B&W archve photograph, 25x20cm. Image. |
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Lot Number: 537
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA Channel Island summer services 1952, timetable for all services to and from Jersey, Guernsey, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow airports, 12 pages, 21x9cm.Image |
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Lot Number: 540
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA international coloured route maps for domestic and international services, 17 pages, 20x18. Image. |
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Lot Number: 541
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA international summer timetable April to October 1972 giving passenger service details including arrival and departure times and type of aircraft used for some 60 destinations, 50 pages, 20x11cm. Image |
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Lot Number: 539
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA early single/double decker airport bus, reg SME531, original black and white photograph c 1953, 15x10cm. Image. |
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Lot Number: 538
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA early single decker airport bus, reg J257, original black and white photograph c 1953, 15x10cm. Image. |
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Lot Number: 542
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA passenger tickets and baggage checks (2) for flight from London to Brussels and return, January 1953, and London to Amsterdam and return April 1958 . Image |
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Lot Number: 631
| Date: Timetables, brochures Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA Scottish Winter Services, timetable, list of fares and map of routes, October 1953, 8 pages, 20x10 cm. Image. |
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Lot Number: 630
| Date: Timetables, brochures Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA Inter Britain Winter Timetable and Fares including Channel Islands and Republic of Ireland services January to March 1972, 50 pages, 20 x11cm. Image. |
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Lot Number: 632
| Date: Timetables, brochures Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA timetable April 1954 containing aircraft types, international and domestic fares, schedule of approximately 40 Domestic and International Air Services, 45 pages, 22x18 cm |
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Lot Number: 547
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £16.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA, Dress and Deportment Manuals for Stewards, and Stewardesses, each 12pp and 15x10cm. |
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Lot Number: 545
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA Viscount Cabin Crew Check List and Drills, 2pp. |
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Lot Number: 536
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA Birmingham/Paris/Birmingham 1964, airport service charge ticket, passenger service charge ticket, baggage labels for both flights, passenger's receipt and passenger ticket and baggage check. All nicely displayed on album leaf. See image. |
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Lot Number: 544
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA 'Trident' Silver Jubilee in flight magazine, 40pp, Summer 1971. Image. |
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Lot Number: 561
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £50.00 Category: Ephemera Description: The London International Air Post Exhibition 1934, invitation card for the opening of the exhibition by the marquess of Londonderry, Secretary of State forAair on Monday the 7th of May 1934. It bears the Apex commemorative postmark and the yellow cache used on the first day of the exhibition. |
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Lot Number: 532
| Date: Newspaper cuttings Est. price: £6.00 Category: Ephemera Description: On July 14, 1938, Hughes completed a record around the world flight in just 91 hours (3 days, 19 hours, 17 minutes), beating the previous record set in 1933 by Wiley Post by almost four days. A large original cutting from the Daily Telegraph newspaper detailing Hughes record flight , including map of the route taken, and the flight diary, c1000 words.. |
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Lot Number: 548
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: BEA, Terminal House, Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1, blue/cream headed notepaper, 25x20cm, |
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Lot Number: 569
| Date: Photographs Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: DH Comet 106, BEAG-APMB, original photograph, 9x14cm, published by the Real Photographs Co Ltdt, c1960. It was the very first jet aircraft to enter service with BEA which later went on to become the European division of British Airways. |
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Lot Number: 369
| Date: 1925, Oct 27 Est. price: £175.00 Category: Nigeria Description: RAF Experimental flight, Cairo to Kano, POA Nov 3rd, Kano dr. cds, plain cover addressed to Brig. General R. Ridgeway, C.B. and bearing ordinary Nigeria 1d and 1/2d stamps. No special cancellations or cachets were used but Squadron Leader, later Air Marshall, Arthur Coningham, put his initials 'AC' in bottom lh corner. Unfortunately a previous owner has tried to erase these on in this particular cover and only barely visible remnants remain. This notwithstanding it is a scarce item and bears a Francis Field authentication hs verso. |
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Lot Number: 357
| Date: 1929, Jun 14 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Newfoundland Description: Commemoration First transatlantic Airmail June 14, 1919, cover bearing a 15c stamp tied with a a fine strike of the special commemorative cachet used for that one day only and in St. John's. |
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Lot Number: 287
| Date: 1947, Sep 28 Est. price: £15.00 Category: Ireland Description: F/F All Up Service between N. Ireland and Great Britain, Belfast to Liverpool, BEA ?All-up Service? cover. |
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Lot Number: 286
| Date: 1947, Feb 17 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Ireland Description: BEA first day of the reduction of the airmail fee from 3d to 2d for the Liverpool-Belfast service, Londonderry to Sutton Coldfield, no arrival ds, plain cover with airmail etiquette, franked 2d air and 2 1/2d ordinary, canc Londonderry 15 Feb 1947, |
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Lot Number: 272
| Date: 1932, Sep 16 Est. price: £100.00 Category: Interruptions and Accidents Description: Interrupted flight, South Africa To USA, DURBAN TO NEW YORK, Imperial Airways Africa northbound service AN79 left Jo'burg one day late on 8/9 and arrived London 19/9, and then on by sea to New York 28/9 (dated private arrival hs). A further day was lost at Beaufort West because of very bad weather but the City of Jodhpur had made up time when it arrived at Kisumu and thereafter, by only making a 'one night stop' (at Broken Hill) instead of the normal two (by overflying Salisbury and Mbeya), the schedule was regained and the cover arrived in London on schedule. Capt Wilson flew Jo'burg to Broken Hill then Capt Caspareuthus took over to Kisumu (ref The Cape Argus, date unknown). Corner cover RATED 2/6 (6d, 1/- x2), airmail etiquette annulled by red double bar Jusqu'a applied in London. One other cover is known. |
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Lot Number: 269
| Date: 1931, Jul 20 Est. price: £65.00 Category: Interruptions and Accidents Description: Interrupted flight, Kenya To France, NAIROBI TO SAINT MARS DE CUTAIS by Imperial Airways Africa northbound service AN20 which left Kisumu 22 July, arriving Athens 26 July (b/s), then on by surface, delivered 31 July Saint Mars de Cutais (b/s). Plain etiquette cover RATED 75c (5c, 10c,20c x3), bears a rare Type 13 Kenya/Uganda instructional handstamp 'Air Fee Prepaid/To Europe' (Colley reports only ever having seen one, used in 1947, p65). Flight interrupted because the mail for Europe had to be sorted again in Athens as well as Alexandria. Thereafter, for all future flights, it was arranged that all correspondence for Europe would be in a direct mail for Athens. One other cover is known. Athens. A copy of an explanatory letter from PO included with this item. No other mail is known. |
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Lot Number: 235
| Date: 1958, Nov 12 Est. price: £6.00 Category: Germany Description: BEA F/F Super One-Eleven, Munich to London, suvenir card, |
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Lot Number: 220
| Date: 1948, Jun 1 Est. price: £15.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Inauguration first helicopter-operated public mail service, Beccles to Peterborough, bs, printed souvenir cover, BEA, scarce leg. |
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Lot Number: 222
| Date: 1951, Mar 13 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB Internal Description: F/F Irish sea night air mail service, Belfast to Manchester, special cachet, arrival cds, franked with BEA 6d letter stamp, plain cover, POA, only 150 flown, Aer Lingus |
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Lot Number: 224
| Date: 1953, Nov 26 Est. price: £10.00 Category: GB Internal Description: London to Birmingham, official cover franked FDI BEA 8d, cachet "By Helicopter Service", POA, BEA. |
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Lot Number: 226
| Date: 1956, Jun 27 Est. price: £25.00 Category: GB Internal Description: BEA airway letter labels, complete set 10d, 1/5d, 2/2d, violet 'boxed 27th June 1956/Renfrew' airport cachet, on plain cover franked 2 1/2d, flown on day of issue from Renfrew-London, POA Hounslow 27/6, see Lister p26. |
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Lot Number: 228
| Date: 1971, Feb 15 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB Internal Description: First decimal day cover franked BEA 18p,21p and26p, canc British European Airways/Edinburgh/15 Feb 1971, flown Edinburgh to London, also bears fine strike "Flown During/15 Feb 1971/Postal Strike" postmark. |
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Lot Number: 216
| Date: 1935, Dec 2 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB Internal Description: F/F New RAS Contract following the expiry of the Hillman AW contract, first flight London to Liverpool, plain cover, franked 1 1/2d, addressed to the Company offices, and bearing the Company's violet framed "Railway Air/ Service/ 2 Dec 1935/Liverpool Lime Street" receiving cachet. Signed by pilot Capt Allen. |
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Lot Number: 227
| Date: 1964, Dec 2 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Cambrian Airways Ltd, first day of service authorised by GPO to use Air Letter labels, Belfast to Liverpool, POA 2 Dec 1964, cover bearing a one shilling Air Letter stamp handstamped with the Cambrian Airways departure cachet in blue. |
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Lot Number: 221
| Date: 1948, Sep 25 Est. price: £30.00 Category: GB Internal Description: BEA Helicopter Mails, souvenir cover from Peterborough to Norwich, franked 2 1/2d flown on the LAST DAY of the Experimental service. |
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Lot Number: 213
| Date: 1934, Dec 1 Est. price: £15.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Highland Airways F/F Kirkwall to Wick, b/s, also three line arrival confirmation cachet tying special red/blue vignette, red/blue/ivory company envelope printed specially for the Dec 1st flights showing outline map North of Scotland and map of route, franked 1 1/2d, canc Kirkwall cds. "Covers bearing the vignette are considerably less common than plain covers" see Redgrove, p43 |
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Lot Number: 223
| Date: 1953, Nov 25 Est. price: £12.00 Category: GB Internal Description: BEA increase air letter rate to 8d, umm set of 3, two original B&W PPC's showing BEA 'Elizabethan' class, and 'Viscount' Discovery class in flight. Also BEA circular 'Silver Wing Service' baggage label. All nicely laid out on a one page display card. |
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Lot Number: 192
| Date: 1936, May 3 Est. price: £100.00 Category: GB External Description: H.L.Brook's "PRAGA BABY" flight envelope bearing GB and SA adhesives and at left the handstamped cachet: "Carried by 36 HP Praga Baby first flight England-Cape Town Ultra Light Planes. In record time of 16 days 20 hrs. Piloted by HL Brook, May 6th-May 23rd 1936." The cover was sent to HL Brook at Newtown house Aerodrome prior to the flight, carried on the flight, and posted on his arrival to the pilot at the municipal airport Cape Town. A very fine example. Currenly retails at £225. |
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Lot Number: 155
| Date: 1918, Dec 10 Est. price: £50.00 Category: GB External Description: Marquise-Lympne, military mail from APO S.20, Mulready facsimile souvenir card carried by Valency from France to England, bears S.20 (Marquis hs and volet framed crown over 'Passed/By/Censor/No/7029' censor mark. A typed text and hand drawn map of the route along which Army HQ 'express' mails were flown are included with this item. |
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Lot Number: 9
| Date: 1934, May 6 Est. price: £35.00 Category: Airship Description: USS Macon (ZR5), blue frame "US Macon/Manoeuvres in Caribbean Sea/Fleet Problem XV" cachet, magenta USSS Dahlgreen canc, M Sussman with Hax Cuts, 30 made. |
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Lot Number: 1
| Date: Est. price: £30.00 Category: Collections Description: British European Airways fifth issue, four official covers bearing the 9d Airway Letter Stamp flown on the first day of issue 1st September 1954, London to Belfast, Belfast to London, Glasgow to London, and London to Glasgow.Image. |
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Lot Number: 2
| Date: Est. price: £40.00 Category: Collections Description: British European Airways, fourth issue, six official covers bearing the 8d Airway Letter Stamp, flown on the first day of issue, 25th of November 1953, London to Glasgow, Glasgow to London, Belfast to Birmingham, Birmingham to Belfast, Belfast to London, and London to Belfast. Image. |
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