Search Results for: Signed
Lot Number: 641
| Date: Various other Est. price: £18.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Northeast Airline, 30x21cm display mounted on card showing 1970 F/F Newcastle-London signed by the pilot; passenger ticket and baggage check (Specimen); original B&W photograph, 7x11cm, of NEA Vickers Viscount on the tarmac; and unused colour PPC of NEA Trident in flight. NEA was operational from November 1, 1970 until it became part of the British Airways group in July 1973. |
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Lot Number: 646
| Date: Various other Est. price: £18.00 Category: Ephemera Description: UK Airgraph Form Type 2 unused, Also a Kodak microfilmed letter. Letters were written on special forms designed to work with the processing equipment. They were then photographed and the negatives were sent by air to the destination where they were printed and delivered. |
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Lot Number: 647
| Date: Various other Est. price: £10.00 Category: Ephemera Description: UK Airgraph Form Type 3 with 'Date Stamp' circle at top right., unused. Letters had to be written on special forms designed to work with the processing equipment, and the maximum length of a message was only a few hundred words ( detailed instructions verso).. The form was not to be folded, and had to be handed in at a post office, and then handled first by censors, then by sorters |
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Lot Number: 554
| Date: Other collateral items Est. price: £18.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Imperial Airways Ltd receipt stamped IAW Air Terminus for postal order received, and covering letter on IAW black embossed headed note paper signed by E. Dolby (Air Mail Section) whose name oftern appears on IAW test letter. A nice memorabilia item. Image. |
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Lot Number: 526
| Date: Documents, literature Est. price: £18.00 Category: Ephemera Description: Imperial Airways, Karachi Airport, a letter written on red on cream headed company notepaper, signed by the Managing Manager and dated 11 July, 1933, sent on the first regular Calcutta-London service as a souvenir of its inauguration. Mild horizontal and vertical (2) folds, otherwise fine. See image. |
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Lot Number: 523
| Date: Documents, literature Est. price: £30.00 Category: Ephemera Description: A letter written on Imperial Airways headed blue/red/ notepaper from Airways House, Lower Regent Street, London, dated April 1931 sent by the first Air Mail service from England to Australia as a souvenir of its inauguration, and signed by the Managing Director. Uncommon colours, very fine. |
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Lot Number: 522
| Date: 1944, Feb 14 Est. price: £25.00 Category: World War II Description: Scarce 'NAVAL ISSUE' air letter from RN barracks, Colombo, Ceylon to England, franked 3d canc 'PO Maritime/Mail, red boxed censor hs signed by censor. |
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Lot Number: 516
| Date: 1928, Sep 7 Est. price: £25.00 Category: United States Internal Description: Reopening of Lands Downe Air Field, airmail cover franked 5c canc Youngstown cds, and on to Detroit 8/9, fine strike circular magenta commemorative cachet, signed by Clifford Ball. The airport was dedicated as Lansds Downe Field in late October 1926 and was named after Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansds Downe commander of the US Navy airship USS Shenandoah. It was the first airport in Youngstown and the first in the region to see airmail service. |
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Lot Number: 483
| Date: 1935, Apr 16 Est. price: £60.00 Category: United States Description: Pacific Survey Flight from San Francisco to Hawaii and Return by Pan Am, long 6c postal stationery envelope with machine cancellation, on reverse arrival datestamp of April 17, 6c affixed and tied by Honolulu cancellation of April 22 and a further 6c added upon arrival and tied by San Francisco cancellation of April 23, both outward (red) and return (blue) cachets below and signed by the pilot 'Edwin Musick', fine and scarce as only a few carried on the round trip (AAMC 1230). |
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Lot Number: 430
| Date: 1937, Nov 16 Est. price: £145.00 Category: South Africa Description: Clouston & Kirby Green record flight Cape Town - London, cover franked South Africa 1d canc Cape Town 16 Nov 37 cds, also GB 1 1/2d's on front and verso canc London and Newport confirming return to GB, and a large rubber "Cape Town Municipal Air-Port/ Wingfield/ 16 Nov 1937" cds and blue/black "Cape Town - London Record Flight by F/O AE Clouston and Mrs Kirby Green November, 1937" labels on front and back. Signed A.E. Clouston and Betty Kirby Green. Scarce, VF. |
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Lot Number: 407
| Date: 1929, Aug 02 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Ship to Shore Description: German North Atlantic Catapult Flight, Bremen-England, no arrival ds, red framed flight cachet, plain cover franked Germany 25pf x3 (one has a corner fault). Signed by the captain L. Ziegenbein. |
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Lot Number: 383
| Date: 1937, Oct 31 Est. price: £150.00 Category: Papua and New Guinea Description: Guinea Airways Junkers Seaplane VH-UNM, F/F Lake Kutubu to Port Moresby, plain cover franked 2d, canc Port Moresby cds, typed 'First Flight Lake Kutubu to Port Moresby via Kikori', delayed arrival at Port Moresby endorsed by Ivan Champion, Asst District Commissioner, signed by the pilot Aubrey Koch, only 17 covers carried, AAMC P121 $600. A scarce item in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 387
| Date: 1972, Jul 29 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Papua and New Guinea Description: Missionary Air Fellowship, Bougainville Air Services, Kieta corner cover, Kieta to Tinputz, POA 29 JY 72 cds, signed by the pilot. |
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Lot Number: 385
| Date: 1957, Jun 10 Est. price: £22.00 Category: Papua and New Guinea Description: Catalina Flying Boat Service, missionary cover addressed to Buin, franked 4d, weak POA 'Buin/New Guinea/10 JE 57' cds, with manuscript 'Per M.R. Catalina Service/Teopasina-Buin' at left. and signed by the pilot Captain Meredith/F.P. Catalina. Buin and Teopasina are towns on Bougainville Island, in eastern Papua New Guinea. |
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Lot Number: 382
| Date: 1936, Oct 27 Est. price: £35.00 Category: Papua and New Guinea Description: Guinea Airways Lockheed Electra flight, Port Moresby to Melbourne bs 30/10, registered (label) cover franked 1916 1d, 2 1/2d x2 and 1930 3d air. Signed by the pilot Tommy O'Dea. Nice item. |
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Lot Number: 377
| Date: 1938, May 22 Est. price: £275.00 Category: Nyasaland Description: First Nyasaland/Northern Rhodesia/Air Mail Service -23rd May 1938, via the inaugural Chileka-Lilongwe-Fort Jamieson service. Plain cover franked 1d canc Blantyre 22 May 38 cds 38 and flown to Lilongwe bs 23/5. Prior to this inauguration, the route had only been flown by the RAF on the 5th of June 1933 on their return from Air Week in Nyasaland. This inaugural flight was made by a DH Dragon Rapide piloted by R.A.Bourlay. It was an 'All-Up' flight without any extra fee and no cachets or airmail labels were used. Such covers can only be proved by the date of the Blantyre post mark 22nd May and the Lilongwe back stamp for the 23rd May. A superb item signed by the pilot, in excellent condition and with particularly clear postal markings. |
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Lot Number: 363
| Date: 1935, Jul 22 Est. price: £150.00 Category: Newfoundland Description: Thor Solberg, Cartwright to Norway, bs Bergen 16/VIII/35, plain cover franked 5c, canc Cartwright Jul/22/35. One of a small number mailed unofficially from Cartwright, and signed by the pilot Thor Solberg. 1cm non invasive closed top edge tear, see scan. |
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Lot Number: 358
| Date: 1930, Nov 18 Est. price: £50.00 Category: Newfoundland Description: North Sydney, NS (Nov 11 cds) - Stephenville Crossing (Nov 12 blue framed PO date stamp) to St John's, bs 19/1, plain cover franked 5c air, signed by the pilot Arthur Sullivan. |
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Lot Number: 325
| Date: 1931, Mar 10 Est. price: £40.00 Category: New Zealand Description: Gisborne Air Transport Ltd, F/F Hastings to Gisborne service, special printed envelope franked 2d, posted on arrival and cancelled Hastings 10 MR 31 cds. signed by the pilot W.H.Lett. NZAMS Expertisation cachet verso. |
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Lot Number: 326
| Date: 1931, Apr 08 Est. price: £12.00 Category: New Zealand Description: Air Survey and Transport Co Ltd, Kaitaia Aero Club F/F Auckland to Kaitaia, POA, Kaitaia 24/3 arrival ds on front, printed souvenir cover, signed by pilot FD Mill, Air Mail Society of NZ Expert Committee Authentication hs verso. |
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Lot Number: 292
| Date: 1954, Jan 23 Est. price: £60.00 Category: Jamaica Description: Rare pilot signed F/F BOAC non stop Stratocruiser service, Montego Bay to New York, attractive red/white/blue embossed souvenir cover franked 8d Jamaica stamps canc Montego Bay cds, and US 10c tied by New York cds to confirm arrival. Scarce item in superb condition. |
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Lot Number: 251
| Date: 1932, Jan 17 Est. price: £275.00 Category: India Description: Imperial Airways, Calcutta to Cape Town, bs 2/2, first acceptance of mail from India to South Africa, for carriage on IAW westbound service from Karachi-Cairo (transit cds verso), then from Cairo on F/F Imperial Airways Regular Service from London to Cape Town. Aerophilatelic Philatelic Club of Calcutta cover franked 13 1/2A, canc Intally, Calcutta cds. SIGNED BY PILOT R.F. CASPAREUTHUS, the pilot of the Johannesburg-Cape Town leg. Super item. |
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Lot Number: 236
| Date: 1964, Jul 7 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Gilbert and Ellis Islands Description: F/F Funafuti to Adelaide, bs 10/7, official souvenir cover, Fiji Airways, pilot signed |
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Lot Number: 215
| Date: 1935, Jan 31 Est. price: £20.00 Category: GB Internal Description: F/F eleventh GB Inland Airmail Service, Liverpool to Douglas, official company purple "1 Feb 1935" arrival cachet applied to covers flown to the island and countersigned by WJ Mason, Company Station Superintendent, company envelope specially printed for the occasion, Blackpool and West Coast Air Services. |
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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: 210
| Date: 1934, May 8 Est. price: £25.00 Category: GB Internal Description: UK Autogiro flight 1934, souvenir card with label and red Expo cachet, signed by passenger verso. Also blue and purple Expo vignettes in blocks of 4. Mounted on album leaf. Image. |
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Lot Number: 186
| Date: 1934, Oct 20 Est. price: £160.00 Category: GB External Description: Mac Robertson Race, London to Melbourne, franked gb 1 1/2d canc Mildenhall/18 Oct cds, confirmatory Melbourne arrival mark cds on front tying Australia GV 2d, violet eight line "England-Ausralia/Air Races......" flight cachet, carried by McGregor and Walker in Miles Hawk Major, ZK-ADJ, signed by both pilots. |
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Lot Number: 196
| Date: 1937, Oct 3 Est. price: £15.00 Category: GB External Description: Sabena/DLH, F/F London-Brussels-Munich, attractive souvenir PC franked 1 1/2d, signed by the pilot. |
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Lot Number: 149
| Date: 1966, Mar 6 Est. price: £6.00 Category: French Poynesia Description: Polynesian Airlines Ltd F/F Papeete to Rarotonga bs 8/3, pilot signed |
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Lot Number: 150
| Date: 1966, Mar 7 Est. price: £6.00 Category: French Poynesia Description: Polynesian Airlines Ltd F/F Papeete to Aitutaki bs 8/3, pilot signed |
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Lot Number: 137
| Date: 1940, Dec 9 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Egypt Description: Greece Expeditionary Force, censored On Active Service Free Christmas Air Mail, stampless, fine strike FPO/171/9 DE 40, addressed to Scotland, signed over Unit Censor hs. |
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Lot Number: 98
| Date: 1929, Mar 13 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Canada Description: Fort Mc Murray-Fort Good Hope, special flight authorised by the Post Office Department, Resolution to Fort Mc Murray, bs 20/3, underpaid imprint 'via airmail' corner cover, franked 2c, canc Resolution cds, verso Canada 1c and 5c Postage Dues canc 'PM/Mar 26/1926' in circle hs. Signed by the pilot C.H. (Punch) Dickens. Some mild toning, see scan. |
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Lot Number: 82
| Date: 1933, Oct 24 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Brazil Description: Opening up the Amazon, Panair F/F Manaos to Belem, purple winged flight cachet, printed red/white/blue Panair Do Brasil corner cover, with winged PAA logo on flap, franked 1100R, signed by the pilot Capt. E La Porte. A nice. |
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Lot Number: 40
| Date: 1943, Dec 24 Est. price: £55.00 Category: Australia Description: Qantas Christmas 'parachute mail to Mornington Island by 'Coolangatta', Qantas company cover postmarked Sydney Air 24/12/46, endorsed on arrival at Mornington Island by JB McCarthy, Missionary in Charge, green/black/white commemorative vignette dated 1943, signed by the pilot Capt K G Caldwell. |
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Lot Number: 31
| Date: 1935, Aug 17 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Australia Description: Australian Transcontinental Airways, F/F Adelaide-Darwin, bs 20/, franked Australia 3d air & 2d, canc Adelaide 17/8 cds, typed "By Aust.Transcontinental Airways Ltd/First Adelaide-Darwin Service", signed by pilot.. |
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Lot Number: 42
| Date: 1945, Oct 4 Est. price: £65.00 Category: Australia Description: Qantas first Australia-Singapore civil air service after cessation of WWII by flying boat 'Coriolanus', company cover franked 2 1/2d, postmarked Sydney 4 Oct 45, b/s, 4pm 8.10.45, signed by the pilot Capt K G Caldwell. |
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Lot Number: 8
| Date: 1934, May 5 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Airship Description: USS Macon (ZR5), ms 'USS Macon "Passed", canc Naranja, FL, signed by PM. |
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