Search Results for: First flight
Lot Number: 355
| Date: Photographs Est. price: £20.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Capetown Clipper, the Boeing A314 flying boat which carried the FAM 22 first flight covers, moored at Bermuda. Lovely coloured photocard, 17x9cm, with clear map of FAM routes, 17x11cm. Both mountd on album leaf. See scan. |
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Lot Number: 275
| Date: 1938, Jul 22 Est. price: £100.00 Category: South Africa Description: SOUTH AFRICA to NEW ZEALAND, JOANNESBURG to CARTERTON, BY IMPERIAL AIRWAYS AFRICA northbound service DN 112 which left Jo'burg 24 July and arrived on 'Corsair' at Alexandria 27 July, then transferred to IMPERIAL AIRWAYS Sydney Eastbound SE1 which left Alexandria 29/7 and carried on 'Capella' all the way to Sydney 6/8, and on by sea to Carterton, delivered 18/8 cds.Plain cover FRANKED 1 1/2d. SERVICE DN 112 carried the first African mail to Alexandria for Eastern destinations under the third stage of the EAMS. SERVICE SE1 carried the first mail to Australia, NZ, and British territories in SW Pacific under Stage 3 of EAMS. Super double EAMS first flight cover and a sophisticated item for the exhibit, ex Ted Proud archive.. |
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Lot Number: 276
| Date: 1939, Aug 21 Est. price: £20.00 Category: South Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Johannesburg to Loanda, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, violet straight line 'First Flight - West Coast' cachet. Image. |
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Lot Number: 277
| Date: 1939, Aug 21 Est. price: £20.00 Category: South Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Johannesburg to Mossamedes, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, violet straight line 'First Flight - West Coast' cachet. Image. |
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Lot Number: 256
| Date: 1935, Jun 4 Est. price: £250.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: RARE Imperial Airways and/Athens-Warsaw three airline cover, Egypt to Romania, CAIRO to BUCHAREST, bs 4/6, carried first on IAW northbound service AN 242 by Hannibal to Alexandria then by Satyrus to Athens, bs 4/6; then ? inaugural TRANSFER to airline SHCA (Sociיtי Hellenique des Communications Aיriennes) for carriage to Salonica, then TRANSFERRED again to the Polish airline LOT for carriage to Bucharest, arriving 5/6. Anhoury corner cover, franked 42 mls Egyptain stamps, canc 'Cairo/....ovement Etranger/3 Jun 35' cds, fine strike red framed 'First Flight/June 4th 1935/ by/Imperial Airways and/Athens-Warsaw Air Line/Egypt-Bulgaria-Roumania & Poland'. Returned, arriving Cairo 20/6. Unlisted and not seen by us before!. |
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Lot Number: 232
| Date: 1934, Mar 7 Est. price: £-15.00 Category: Nyasaland Description: The Nyasaland Feeder Service, Limbe to Cape Town, bs 'Houses of Parliament/12 Mar 34/Parlementshuis', via Salisbury 8/3, Wyndham 1d PSC uprated to 3 1/2d addressed to the House of Assembly, Cape Town, super strike three line 'First Flight/Regular Air Mail Service/Nyasaland-Southern Rhodesia'. Francis Field authentication hs verso |
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Lot Number: 233
| Date: 1935, Aug 5 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Nyasaland Description: F/F Blantyre to Beira, black boxed "First Flight Regular Air Mail Service Nyasaland-Mozambique", bs 5/8, souvenir "Leopard" cover issued by the Blantyre Publishing Company, correctly rated 4d, Rhodesia and Nyasaland Airways. |
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Lot Number: 255
| Date: 1934, Jul 30 Est. price: £40.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings Description: Scarce First Flight, Kenya to Madagascar, NAIROBI to TANANARIVE, bs 4/8. Posted Nairobi 30/7 for carriage on the IMPERIAL AIRWAYS AFRICA SOUTHBOUND SERVICE AS178, departed 31/78 on 'Helena' and arrived Broken Hill 1/8 where it was transferred to the REGIE MALGACHE FIRST FLIGHT TO TANANARIVE flown by Lefevre and Assolant, arriving 4/8. Plain TUNSTALL cover, FRANKED S2.10 for the new air rate . Super item, ex the Ted Proud collection.. Some smudging along lower front edge from over inking of overlying cover. Hence reduced estimate. Would normally realise c £80. |
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Lot Number: 191
| Date: 1929, Mar 30 Est. price: £55.00 Category: Interruptions and Accidents Description: Interrupted FIRST FLIGHT flight, GB to India, LONDON TO BOMBAY bs 9/4 via Karachi. Carried by Imperial Airways Africa eastbound IE1. Cover posted London 30/3/29 on C.Glasgow, departed Genoa 31/3 on C. Athens and Alexandria 3/4 on C.Jerusalem, departed Baghdad 4/4 but was forced to return by a sandstorm, departed Baghdad again one day late but made up time arriving Karachi 6/4 only 2 hours late, see Wingent, Aircraft Movements n Imperial Airways Eastern Route, 1927-37. Airmail etiquette cover RATED 7 1/2d. |
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Lot Number: 195
| Date: 1937, Feb 5 Est. price: £150.00 Category: Interruptions and Accidents Description: PILOT SIGNED 'CASTOR' Interrupted FIRST FLIGHT flight, SOUTHAMPTON TO ALEXANDRIA bs 10/2. Carried by IMPERIAL AIRWAYS AFRICA EASTBOUND SERVICE IE 521. Cover posted London 5/2/37, departed Southampton 6/2 on 'CASTOR' but returned after 10 mins with oiled up spark plug; unable to depart next day due to gales. She then encountered bad weather in the Rhone valley which required a deviation to Hourtin and again at Marseilles from where she departed 2 days late, arriving Alexandria 1 day late, see Wingent p191. plain cover franked KE VIII 1/2d, 1d, 2 1/2d, typed ''1st Regular Flying Boat/Service by Castor', and signed by the pilot commander H.W.C.ALGER. Also original unused Tuck's B&W PPC of 'Castor' taking off. SCARCE item in exhibition condition |
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Lot Number: 185
| Date: 1935, Nov 1 Est. price: £30.00 Category: India Description: TATA, F/F Trivandrum to Bombay, bs 2/11, plain cover franked 2 annas canc special boxed postmark with monoplane 'First Flight/Trivandrum-Bombay/1 Nov 1935'. |
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Lot Number: 156
| Date: 1948, Feb 16 Est. price: £85.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Signed BEA All-Up service, Stornoway to Inverness, bs 16/2, red/white "First Flight/Inverness-Stornoway/16 Feb 1948" imprint corner cover with red st. line 'Inverness-Stornoway' imprint, Believed only 25 flown. Signed by pilot Captain E. Starling. |
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Lot Number: 143
| Date: 1934, May 29 Est. price: £65.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Orcadian envelope Type 1 'First Air Mail From/the Orkney Islands' advertising envelope produced by the Orcadian Newspaper flown on the Highland Airways first flight from Kirkwall to Inverness, and onward to London, franked 1 1/2d, good strike Kirkwall/12.15pm/29 MY/1934. Image. |
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Lot Number: 149
| 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 Glasgow to London, plain cover, franked 1 1/2d, addressed to the Company offices, and bearing the Company's official green framed two line "Railway Air Services Ltd/Airway Terminus, Victoria,SW!/2 Dec 1935" receiving cachet. Signed by pilot Capt E.F.Finnegan. |
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Lot Number: 146
| Date: 1934, Nov 1 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Railway Air Service, new timetable, Liverpool replaces Manchester and Birmingham, first direct flight Liverpool to Belfast, airmail etiquette cover posted on arrival, franked 1 1/2d canc Belfast/1 Nov/34 cds, also fine boxed purple 'Railway Air Service 3d paid' and 'Liverpool, Lime St' and 'First Flight' cachets applied in Liverpool. This was the first time that Liverpool was put into regular aerial communication with Scotland and Ireland. |
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Lot Number: 145
| Date: 1934, Aug 20 Est. price: £75.00 Category: GB Internal Description: Railway Air Service, a rare first flight, Douglas to Birmingham via Manchester, bs Birmingham 21 Aug 34, flown to Manchester on the first day of the service, then by rail to Birmingham, an official cover franked KGV 1 1/2d and postmarked 'Douglas Isle of Man/ 10am/20 Aug 1934', typed "By Air from Isle of Man to Birmingham". According to Redgrove, p61, flown Douglas-Manchester covers are very rare due to an error made by RAS officials at Douglas, who posted the bulk of the souvenir mail after the plane had left for Manchester. These bear a 4pm postmark. Only a handful were posted in time for the flight - these are postmarked 10am. Only 10 such are known and even fewer have back stamps. |
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Lot Number: 102
| Date: 1933, Apr 26 Est. price: £100.00 Category: GB External Description: LONDON to KHARTOUM, carried on the first ACCELERATION of LONDON-CAPE TOWN SERVICE, reduced from 11 to 10 days when Cairo-Khartoum leg flown in one day. Imprinted etiquette cover correctly rated 5d, canc London/Air Mail/26 Apr 33 cds, bs Khartoum 30/4, typed "First Flight, Accelerated Service". Carried on IAW frica southbound service AS 113 from Paris to Brindisi by rail, to Alexandria by Sylvanus, and to Khartoum by Hadrian. Scarce item, not listed by Morton, 2005. Francis Field authentication hs verso. |
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Lot Number: 95
| Date: 1931, Dec 9 Est. price: £15.00 Category: GB External Description: Imperial Airways, London to Kimberley, bs 21/12, via Jo'burg 21/12, carried on First Christmas Flight, scarce Roessler green "London to Cape/Air Mail/First Flight" envelope, ref ROE.FF5, illustrated p91 Newton. Image. |
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Lot Number: 79
| Date: 1937, Jun 6 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Flying Boats Description: Imperial Airways, first northbound all flying boat service AN 453, Durban to Portuguese East Africa, bs Beira 6/6 tying triangular Company de Mocambique 30c. Souvenir cover printed 'First Flight/Seaplane Service Between/Durban-England' franked 6d. |
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Lot Number: 84
| Date: 1937, Jul 1 Est. price: £100.00 Category: Flying Boats Description: DOUBLE FIRST FLIGHT, carried all the way by FLYING BOAT 'CORSAIR' from Durban to Southampton, bs Reading 13/7, FIRST MAIL from S. AFRICA UNDER E.M.A.S, and the first service to carry mail from the WILSON AIRWAYS FIRST HIGHLANDS FEEDER SERVICE, franked 1 1/2d, large black flying boat cachet, Signed retrospectively by Capt E.S.Alcock, the commander of flying boat 'Courtier' on IAW Africa northbound service DN1 which had carried the last surcharge mail from S.Africa and had also collected the mal from Wilson AW first Nairobi-Kisumu Shuttle Service en route. ONLY 12 FLOWN. Also newspaper cutting showing head and shoulders picture of Capt. Alcock. A super flying boat cover with lots of history and in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 85
| Date: 1938, Feb 21 Est. price: £85.00 Category: Flying Boats Description: DOUBLE FIRST FLIGHT, IAW Eastbound service CE1, carried all the way by flying boats 'CENTURION' AND 'COOLANGATTA', from Southampton to Calcutta, bs 1/3, being the F/F to carry E.A.M.S Stage 2 mail from UK to India, and the F/F to connect with TATA Sons first Karachi-Madras service, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, SIGNED BY PILOT CAPT. G.U.ALLEN commander of 'Centurion'. Also an informative newspaper cutting showing Capt. Allen at the controls during final trials at Hythe. A super flying boat cover with lots of history and in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 66
| Date: 1935, Aug 23 Est. price: £40.00 Category: Egypt Description: MISR Airwork, F/F new daily service, Egypt to Cyprus, CAIRO to NICOSIA, bs 24/8, printed 'First Flight Cairo-Larnaca' cover franked 9ml, see Sears p64. |
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Lot Number: 63
| Date: 1940, Sep 14 Est. price: £150.00 Category: Canton Description: Canton Island to New Caledonia, bs Noumea 15/9, a Clara Adam's self addressed letter carried on the Canton-Noumea leg of the FIRST PAYING PASSENGER FLIGHT FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW ZEALAND, airmail cover franked 10c. Posted by Clara Adams, the well known 'First Flighter' who was a passenger and addressed this cover to herself ,c/o Pan Am, Noumea, and posted it when the plane stopped at Canton. A nice piece of aerophilatelic history and SIGNED, 'CLARA ADAMS/ROUND TRIP PASSENGER'. |
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Lot Number: 56
| Date: 1928, Sep 22 Est. price: £15.00 Category: Canada Description: First flight Montreal to Toronto, franked 2c, black framed three line 'This mail was Carried By/Postal Aeroplane'. Francis Field authentication hs verso. |
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Lot Number: 31
| Date: 1933, Dec 1 Est. price: £225.00 Category: Basutoland Description: Basutoland to Singapore, bs 19/12, carried on the first flight of the imperial Airways extension from Rangoon to Singapore via Cairo, Wyndham registered (hs) cover franked FDI of the 1933 KGV 1d,3d,6d,1/-, canc Maseru/1 DEC/33 cds returned to Cape Town 'House of Parliament/23 MAR 34' cds verso. Also original certificate of posting. A superb item in fine condition.A superb item in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 20
| Date: 1934, Dec 7 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Australia Description: First flight Brisbane to London souvenir cover rated 1/6d. |
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Lot Number: 390
| Date: Reference material Est. price: £12.00 Category: Reference Material Description: BEA, First Flight Covers and Airway Letter Labels, Catalogue and Price List, 1953-1970, covering 222 flights, 12 label issues, and changes in letter rates, 8pp. |
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