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Lot Number: 576 Click for full-size views	Date: Vignettes, etiquettes, labels Est. price: £10.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Imperial Airways vignette, 'Send your letters by airmail to Africa and India'
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Lot Number: 577 Click for full-size views	Date: Vignettes, etiquettes, labels Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Imperial Airways, large baggage label, 14x8cm.
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Lot Number: 493 Click for full-size views	Date: Airlines Est. price: £25.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Imperial Airways, B&W photocard showing early biplane on tarmac with legend"Linge Imperial - Service Paris-London", used.
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Lot Number: 550 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Imperial Airways/BOAC Short Empire Flying Boat 'CassiopG-ADUX on the 'Cassiopeia' on the water. Original B&W photograph, 10x15cm.
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Lot Number: 549 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Imperial Airways Short S23 Empire Flying Boat, G-AETY, 'Clio'. Converted to a military role for coastal reconnaissance by RAF, crashed. Isle of Islay Aug 1941.
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Lot Number: 548 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Imperial Airways Short S.23 "C" Class flying boat "Cameronian" (G-AEUE) on the water, serviced the Empire Routes. Original B&W photograph, 10x15cm.
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Lot Number: 546 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Flying Boat Imperial Airways Short S-30 flying boat 'Champion', serviced the Empire routes, original B&W photograph, 10x15cm.
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Lot Number: 544 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Flying Boat Imperial Airways Short Mayo Composite, Mercury. Upper Machine, original B&W photograph, 10x15cm.
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Lot Number: 543 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Flying Boat Imperial Airways Short Mayo Composite, Mercury. Lower machine, original B&W photograph, 10x15cm.
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Lot Number: 542 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Flying Boat Imperial Airways Short Mayo Composite, Mercury + Maia. Original B&W photograph, 10x15cm.
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Lot Number: 545 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Flying Boat Imperial Airways Short S-30 'Australia', G-AFCZ, TEAL c1937/BOAC c1940. Original B&W photograph, 10x15cm.
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Lot Number: 539 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Flying Boat Imperial Airways C Class 'Clyde', Trans-Atlantic route and refuelling services. Original B&W photograph, 10x15cm.
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Lot Number: 541 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Flying Boat Imperial Airways Short Empire 'Challenger', G-ADVD, crashed din Mozambique harbour 1939. Original B&W photograph, 10x15cm.
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Lot Number: 540 Click for full-size views	Date: Plane Est. price: £18.00 Category: Aviation Postal History Description: Flying Boat Imperial Airways 'Cambria', 1937 Trans-Atlantic survey flight, Asia, Australia routes. Original B&W photograph, 10x15cm.
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Lot Number: 445 Click for full-size views	Date: 1931, Dec 12 Est. price: £40.00 Category: Sudan Description: SCARCE F/F Wadi Halfa to Mbeya 7/1/32, via Moshi 18/12 and Dar es Salaam 23/12, carried on the Imperial Airways experimental extension to Cape Town in order to place and test aircraft over the new southern part of the route in preparation for the opening of regular services which commenced in January 1932, blue/orange/cream Springbok souvenir cover franked 2P10ml, canc Sudan Air Mail/Wadi Halfa cds, black Halfa to-Cape Town 'biplane' cachet. Flown as far as Moshi, then onward by surface, small mail.
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Lot Number: 442 Click for full-size views	Date: 1931, Mar 12 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Sudan Description: F/F Juba to Athens, bs 13/3, carried on return of inaugural London to East Africa service, black "Juba to London" cachet and violet Athens "plane" reception cachet on front, blue map cover, Imperial Airways.
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Lot Number: 443 Click for full-size views	Date: 1931, Mar 12 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Sudan Description: F/F Khartoum to London, carried on return of inaugural London to East Africa service, violet Khartoum -London biplane cachet, official blue map cover franked 2P 10ml., Imperial Airways. Ironed vertical crease.
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Lot Number: 441 Click for full-size views	Date: 1931, Mar 12 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Sudan Description: Cover flown F/F WadI Halfa to Mwanza, bs Kisumu 10/3, Roessler airmail cover franked 2p 10ml, black 'First Flight/Halfa to Mwanza' biplane cachet, Imperial Airways. Francis Field authentication hs verso.
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Lot Number: 444 Click for full-size views	Date: 1931, Mar 13 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Sudan Description: First acceptance of mail from Sudan for USA for carriage on Imperial Airways inaugural East Africa-England service, Juba to London, Imperial Airways House London arrival verso, and on to Appleton, WIsc bs 29/3, black "First Flight/Juba to London" biplane F/F cachet, Roessler yellow/olive "London to Cape/Air Mail/First Flight" envelope, ref ROE.FF5, illustrated p91 Newton, franked 2P 15ml. Scarce final destination since only 154 were flown to London.
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Lot Number: 434 Click for full-size views	Date: 1934, Aug 1 Est. price: £45.00 Category: Southern Rhodesia Description: First dispatch of mail from S. Rhodesia to Portuguese East Africa, Bulawayo to Tananarive b/s 4/8, Imperial Airways 'winged logo' cover, franked 1/3d, typed "Via Broken Hill". Carried by Imperial AW to Broken Hill, then by LeFevre and Assolant on the new Franco-Belgian 'Broken Hill-Madagascar' service. For good references see Morton 2005.
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Lot Number: 427 Click for full-size views	Date: 1931, Dec 19 Est. price: £15.00 Category: South West Africa Description: F/F Windhoek to Kimberley 20/12, (SWA feeder link) then on to Cape Town, having connected with the IAW London-Cape Town Christmas experimental flight, reg cover, South West African/Imperial Airways. Non invasive ironed vertical crease. Image.
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Lot Number: 429 Click for full-size views	Date: 1936, Mar 28 Est. price: £20.00 Category: South West Africa Description: Windhoek to Bloemfontein, airmail etiquette cover franked 1 1/2 pair SWA opts, canc small Windhoek Air Mail cds. This flight connected with the last through service by Imperial Airways to Cape Town from London. On April 1st this section was taken over by SA Airways, ref Stern flight 129.
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Lot Number: 412 Click for full-size views	Date: 1932, Jan 27 Est. price: £12.00 Category: South Africa Description: Interrupted flight Kimberley to Mbeya, bs 6/2, carried on first regular flight Cape Town-London, left Cape Town January 27 but forced down at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia, delayed 7 days, Springbok cover, Imperial Airways.
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Lot Number: 402 Click for full-size views	Date: 1934, Dec 14 Est. price: £100.00 Category: Singapore Description: Imperial Airways/Qantas, signed F/F Singapore to Perth, bs 21/12, a fine and cover carried on first regular weekly service UK-Australia, correctly franked Straits Settlements 25c, etiquette cover, ms '1st Air Mail/Singapore-Australia/16.12.34', signed verso by V. Gory Wilson, Imperial Airways chief pilot based at Singapore.
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Lot Number: 401 Click for full-size views	Date: 1934, Oct 20 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Singapore Description: Singapore to London, 30/10 arrival ds on front, imprint etiquette cover franked Straits 40c, ms 'Via Imperial Airways, carried on Imperial Airways Far Eastern service #290 by Arethusa to Johdpur, Hanno to Sharjah, Satyrus to Brindisi and heracles to London.
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Lot Number: 400 Click for full-size views	Date: 1934, Apr 1 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Singapore Description: Singapore to London, 30/10 arrival ds on front, imprint etiquette cover franked Straits 43c, ms 'Imperial Airways, carried on Imperial Airways Far Eastern service #261 by Aurora to Calcutta, Hannibal tocairo, Sylvanus to Athens and Horatius to London. Addressed to Air Vice Marshal Sir Norman Duckworth Kerr MacEwen, CB, CMG, DSO (1881 - 1953)
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Lot Number: 403 Click for full-size views	Date: 1936, Nov 28 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Singapore Description: Singapore to Toronto, Canada, dark blue/white 'Canada National Railways' corner imprint cover franked 25c per 1/2oz UK & Empire rate, blue/white airmail etiquette cancelled red double bar Jusqu'a applied in London, typed 'By Imperial Airways/Singapore-London'.
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Lot Number: 393 Click for full-size views	Date: 1937, May 19 Est. price: £250.00 Category: Scarce/Unusual Routing Description: RARE pre WWII airmail, St Helena to England, via South Africa, carried all the way by Cassiopia from Durban to Southampton 3/7 on Imperial Airways Africa northbound service AN 459, oval registered Barnes 5/7 arrival ds, registered (label) cover franked 1/- for 2d Imperial, 3d registration, 6d air fee, and 1d excess?. This service carried the last surcharged mail from East Africa, N&S Rhodesia and Nyasaland, before introduction of Empire Airmail Scheme, see Wingent p123. Super item in fine condition, see scan.
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Lot Number: 395 Click for full-size views	Date: 1937, Oct 22 Est. price: £60.00 Category: Scarce/Unusual Routing Description: Iraq to Zanzibar, BAGHDAD to KARBALA, posted 22/10, carried Imperial Airways eastbound service IE 593 on 'Hannibal' which left Baghdad bs 23/10 arriving Alexandria bs 24/10, then transferred to Imperial Airways Africa southbound service DS34 on 'Camilla' arriving Dar es Salaam 28/10.Printed cover franked 45mils. 3mm lh edge trim, see scan. First southbound service by 'Camilla'. Arrived Alex two days late, see Wingent p134.
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Lot Number: 390 Click for full-size views	Date: 1934, Feb 5 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Scarce/Unusual Routing Description: Netherlands to South West Africa, AMSTERDAM to OMAURU, by KLM? to Cairo bs 10/2, then by Imperial Airways Africa southbound service AS154 via Khartoum on Hanno to Johannesburg on Amalthea 16/2. Transferred South West Africa Airways arriving Windhoek bs 18/2 and on to Omaruru bs 20/2. Printed commercial cover Franked G1.45.
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Lot Number: 389 Click for full-size views	Date: 1933, OCT 18 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Scarce/Unusual Routing Description: Tanganyika to Germany, MOSHI to HAMBURG by Imperial Airways Africa Northbound service AN137 leaving Moshi 20 October (bs) on Hannibal arriving on Hengist at Brindisi 27 October (b/s) where carriage by air was terminated and airmail etiquette cancelled by fine Brindisi framed black cross Jusqu'a, and on to Hamburg by rail. Nice printed 'Palm Court Hotel' cover franked 75c for air rate. At Brindisi carriage by air was cancelled with Brindisi violet framed 'By Air to/Brindisi' Jusqu'a, also etiquette cancelled by a Brindisi black cross Jusqu'a. On by train to Paris and delivered to Liginiac bs 19/10.
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Lot Number: 388 Click for full-size views	Date: 1933, May 1 Est. price: £200.00 Category: Scarce/Unusual Routing Description: MAURITIUS to FRANCE, bs Paris 3/6, via Nairobi bs 25/5 and Brindisi bs TPO 2/3. Registered label Messageries Maritimes cover franked 79c canc fine strikes 'Registered/1 MY 33/GPO Mauritius' oval ds, blue/black airmail etiquette annulled at Brindisi, fine red 'Bernardin De St Pierre' hs. Sailed from Mauritius on the Messageries Maritimes 'Bernardin-De-Saint-Pierre', arriving MOMBASA 24/5, then by Wilson AW (or ?train) to Nairobi 25/5, where transferred to IMPERIAL AIRWAYS Africa northbound service AN116 for carriage on Andromeda to Entebbe, on Horsa to Cairo, and on Sylvanus to Brindisi. An original sepia PPC of 'Bernadine-De-Saint-Peirre' is included. A superb exhibit item.
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Lot Number: 381 Click for full-size views	Date: 1932, May 2 Est. price: £45.00 Category: Scarce/Unusual Routing Description: Commercial airmail, Egypt To France, CAIRO TO TOULOUSE, by Imperial Airways Africa northbound service AN60 which left Cairo 5/5 on City of Arundel, and arrived Brindisi bs 6/5 on Scipio flying boat, then on by surface to Toulouse, A Metropolitan Hotel, Cairo cover, airmail etiquette annulled with black cross Jusqu'a applied at Brindisi. RATED 33 mils ( 20 mils ordinary and 13 mils air fee, 2ml,4ml,27ml). This was the first Africa northbound service to carry passengers.
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Lot Number: 391 Click for full-size views	Date: 1936, Feb 14 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Scarce/Unusual Routing Description: First airmail service outside Nigeria, Uzuako to London, bs SuttonColdfield 28/2, via Enugu 14/2, plain cover franked 6d, ms 'By First Air', airmail etiquette. Carried by train to Kano to join the inaugural flight of Imperial Airways's Kano-Khartoum feeder service (Daedelus), then on to London by flight AN317 Imperial AW Africa service (Horsa to Athens, FLYING BOAT Satyrus to Brindisi, Horatius to London). Uncommon origin, great routing, nice item.
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Lot Number: 368 Click for full-size views	Date: 1932, Jan 26 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Recovered/Salvaged Mail Description: SWA Airways Windhoek to Kimberley, connecting with the first Imperial Airways Cape Town to Croydon service, Springbok cover franked 4d, canc 'Windhoek-Kimberley/ First Air Mail/26.1.32' also small metal die 'Air Mail' ds applied at Windhoek., The 'City of Basra' was damaged at take off at Salisbury and mail was transferred to 'City of Delhi', which then had to make an emergency landing due to bad weather near Broken Hill. Mail was then transferred to City of Baghdad, and arrived in London 9 days later than scheduled, ref Ni 320129 and 320129B.
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Lot Number: 367 Click for full-size views	Date: 1936, Sep 23 Est. price: £200.00 Category: Recovered Interrupted Mail Description: Imperial Airways England-Australia "Athena" accident, etiquette airmail cover England to Sydney, Australia, franked 1/3d, charred edges, with printed form on GPO, Sydney headed notepaper, from J.S.Duncan, Deputy Director, Posts and Telegraphs, Sydney, dated 8th October "I regret that this article addressed to you was damaged when the airliner 'Athena' was destroyed by fire at Delhi, India", This latter date is incorrect (Type J), and was later corrected (Type K), Nierink and Sanford # 360929.
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Lot Number: 339 Click for full-size views	Date: 1936, Oct 28 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Nigeria Description: West African Feeder Service , F/F Lagos-Kaduna, bs, attractive Philatelic magazine cover, Imperial Airways.
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Lot Number: 338 Click for full-size views	Date: 1936, Oct 28 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Nigeria Description: West African Feeder Service , F/F Kano-Kaduna, bs, attractive Philatelic magazine cover, Imperial Airways.
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Lot Number: 342 Click for full-size views	Date: 1936, Oct 29 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Nigeria Description: West African Feeder Service , F/F Lagos-Kano, bs, attractive Philatelic magazine cover, Imperial Airways.
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Lot Number: 340 Click for full-size views	Date: 1936, Oct 28 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Nigeria Description: West African Feeder Service , F/F Oshogbo-Minna, bs, attractive Philatelic magazine cover, Imperial Airways.
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Lot Number: 341 Click for full-size views	Date: 1936, Oct 28 Est. price: £6.00 Category: Nigeria Description: West African Feeder Service extended from Lagos, F/F Minna-Kano, bs, carried on the inaugural Kano-Lagos extension, attractive Philatelic magazine cover, Imperial Airways.
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Lot Number: 326 Click for full-size views	Date: 1935, Jan 23 Est. price: £10.00 Category: New Zealand Description: New Zealand acceptance for Holland, 11/2 via Paris 11/2, Wellington to Rotterdam carried on flight IW 309 Imperial Airways Far Eastern service, buff airmail etiquettte cover franked 1/5d, canc Wellington cds.
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Lot Number: 301 Click for full-size views	Date: 1931, Jul 3 Est. price: £60.00 Category: Malta Description: First acceptance of Malta airmail for the Belgian Congo, Valletta to Leopoldville, 9/8, via Aba 11/7, Buta 18/7 and Stanleyville 22/7, Forbes Bentley corner cover franked 9 1/2, all stamps canc ,Air Mail/3 Jul/1931' cds, also Valletta Jy 3 31 cds. Likely by sea to Cairo, then Imperial Airways England-Africa service No AS19 from Alexandria to Juba, then 150km by road from Juba-Aba, then 800km by rail to Stanleyville, and finally downstream by river to Leopoldville. A scarce item with great routing and in fine condition.
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Lot Number: 298 Click for full-size views	Date: 1931, Oct 21 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Kenya Description: Tanganyika Govt regular feeder service, first return flight, Mombasa to Dar es Salaam, bs 23/10, registered (label) airmail cover addressed to C.R.Cota, King's African Rifles, franked 65c, canc Mombasa cds, typed "Feeder Service/To The Imperial Airways" and "Fist Air Mail/Dar es Salaam-Zanzibar-Tanga-Mombasa/By Government Aeroplane", blue/white airmail etiquette.
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Lot Number: 292 Click for full-size views	Date: 1943, Feb 6 Est. price: £75.00 Category: Interruptions and Accidents Description: Egypt to France, CAIRO to PARIS, Imperial Airways Africa northbound service AN152 which left 8 February (delayed) and arrived Brindisi 9 February. On by rail, arrived Paris 12 February (b/s), delivered 13 February (b/s). Plain cover franked 57mils for 20mil UPU, 20mil registration, 13 mil air fee, 4 mil excess. DELAY. Cover was carried by service AN 152 which departed Cairo on 8/2 having arrived Cairo to schedule at 11.00 on 6 Feb. in the 1-1P42 Hanno. From there it should have been flown to Alexandria the following morning but instead, it was sent by train b/s Turin TPO 10/34 (reason unknown). The Short Kent flying boat Sylvanus should have departed at 11.00 the same day but instead she left at 08.30 on 8 Feb. (one day late). The reasons for the delays are shown as "miscellaneous" on the I.A. movement chart. The service arrived Croydon at 11.45 on 11 Feb. - still one day behind schedule. Ex Proud.
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Lot Number: 289 Click for full-size views	Date: 1933, Aug 29 Est. price: £40.00 Category: Interruptions and Accidents Description: South Africa to Germany. By flight leaving 30 August, Imperial Airways Africa Northbound service AN130 which arrived Athens 7 September. On by Lufthansa, delivered 9 September (firms chop). Franked 6d for air rate. DELAY. Service AN 130 delayed one day at Athens . It was flown by service AN 130, operated by the HP42 Horsa, which departed Khartoum 06.00 on 5 Sept. and arrived Cairo 6th where the service was taken over by the Short Kent Sylvanus which departed Alexandria to schedule on the 7th and should have arrived Brindisi the same day. However, she made an unscheduled overnight stop at Athens (reason unknown) and so did not reach Brindisi until the 8th.
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Lot Number: 288 Click for full-size views	Date: 1932, Sep 16 Est. price: £60.00 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: 287 Click for full-size views	Date: 1932, Feb 10 Est. price: £65.00 Category: Interruptions and Accidents Description: Interrupted flight, Kenya To Northern Rhodesia, KISUMU TO BROKEN HILL, Imperial Airways Africa southbound service AS49 departed Nairobi 13/2 two days late because the Brindisi flight departed one day late on 6/2 (reason unknown), and the ongoing flight by Short Calcutta 'City of Swanage' suffered a mechanical breakdown causing an unscheduled overnight stop at Malakal thus causing the City of Coventry and the City of Baghdad to arrive two days late at Mbeya and at Broken Hill bs 14/1 respectively. Plain airmail etiquette cover RATED 45c (15c, 30c). One other cover is known.
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Lot Number: 286 Click for full-size views	Date: 1931, Aug 26 Est. price: £75.00 Category: Interruptions and Accidents Description: Interrupted flight, Kenya To UK, JERICHO TO LONDON posted 17/8 then by surface to Kisumu to catch Imperial Airways Africa northbound service AN25 ( 'City of Alexandria') leaving Kisumu 26/8 where mail was transferred to 'City of Glasgow', but engine trouble caused her to remain overnight at Atbara. She departed 29/8, one day late, but flew through to Cairo that day, omitting the overnight stop at Wadi Halfa, and thereby arrived Cairo on schedule on 29/8. The service was then further delayed awaiting the arrival of the India service IW125, which was running one day late. The African and Indian mail departed Alexandria on 31/8 and arrived Croydon one day late on 2/9 (see Post Office Daily List Tuesday, September 1, 1931). Also the first northbound Africa service by Satyrus. Two other covers are known.
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Lot Number: 263 Click for full-size views	Date: 1931, May 1 Est. price: £45.00 Category: India Description: Return First Experimental England-Australia flight, Calcutta to Delhi, special red boxed "First Flight/Australia-England/Delivery/Delhi 4-5-31" arrival cachet on front, red/buff/blue "First Experimental Flight/By Imperial Airways" Kapur souvenir cover, franked 3a, Imperial Airways. Small mail - only 123 were flown from Calcutta to Delhi.
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