Search Results for: WWII
Lot Number: 634
| Date: Various other Est. price: £18.00 Category: Ephemera Description: GB WWII, an original Illustrated airgraph form Christmas Greetings Royal Ar Force Middle East 1943. The forms were free of charge from Post Offices. Indeed, anyone could produce their own forms, if they complied with the size and layout of the official issues. Such private forms were rare, as paper and printing ink were scarce. Troops overseas were issued forms free, how many depending on the command in which they served, and conditions at the time. has middle halfway horizontal crease, see image. |
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Lot Number: 521
| Date: 1941, Oct 2 Est. price: £25.00 Category: World War II Description: Censored WWII airmail, Pacific Clipper services up to the attack on Pearl Harbour, Sydney to New York, imprint etiquette cover. franked 4 x1/- Lyre bird, correctly rated 4/- per 1/2oz for carriage to US, violet diamond Australia 1103 censor mark, black 'California Clipper' hs. Flown by Pan Am FAM19 to San Francisco, then US internal air service to destination. The Pacific Clipper service ceased after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 11/12/41. |
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Lot Number: 491
| Date: 1941, Jun 21 Est. price: £40.00 Category: United States Description: Underpaid airmail from USN Heavy Cruiser serving in the Pacific theatre in the early years of WWII, franked 20c air canc 'U.S.S'JUN 21/1941/CHICAGO, also 2x10c PD's applied at at Wilmington, and 'Via Trans-Pacific/Air Mail' and 'Postage Due (ms 20) cents' hand stamps. Could have been posted from Canton or Medway, see Boyle p36. |
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Lot Number: 492
| Date: 1942, Sep 4 Est. price: £70.00 Category: United States Description: WWII censored registered airmail, New York to Luanda, Angola, bs 13/10, via Miami 6/9, Leopoldville 2/10, and Boma 7/10, cover 22x10cm metre franked $1.35, typed 'Via Clipper', sealed B&W EB 4054 (Miami) censor tape. Uncommon destination, superb routing. |
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Lot Number: 400
| Date: 1937, May 19 Est. price: £350.00 Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings 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: 312
| Date: 1940, Apr 10 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Malaya Description: WWII censored cover, Singapore to UK, plain cover correctly rated 55c for postage on the BOAC Singapore-London service from Sep 39 to May 41, Singapore cds, red straight line 'By Air Mail' hs, black 'Passed For Transmission Singapore 14' triangular censor mark. |
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Lot Number: 313
| Date: 1940, May 3 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Malaya Description: NOT FLOWN, WWII censored commercial cover, Malacca to Trichinopoly, S. India, correctly rated 8c for surface transport, violet 'Passed /By Censor/Singapore' censor mark, and verso red/brown/white undenominated 'Malaya Patriotic Fund' label with horizontal crease. |
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Lot Number: 263
| Date: 1941, Oct 21 Est. price: £35.00 Category: India Description: WWII censored airmail from Bombay to Johannesburg, carried from Bombay to Karachi by Indian National Airways and from Karachi to Johannesburg by BOAC over the emergency Horseshoe Flying Boat Route established after Italy entered the War in June 1940. Airmail etiquette commercial corner cover, 23x12cm, franked 2R 24 annas, India black triangular censor mark, 'Written in English' hs. |
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Lot Number: 264
| Date: 1941, Nov 8 Est. price: £60.00 Category: India Description: WWII high franked censored airmail from Bombay to Johannesburg, carried from Bombay to Karachi by Indian National Airways and from Karachi to Johannesburg by BOAC over the emergency Horseshoe Flying Boat Route established after Italy entered the War in June 1940. Airmail etiquette commercial corner cover, 24x11cm, sealed red/white ISouth Africa censor tape, black India triangular censor mark, red 'Written in English' hs, franked 7R (KGVI 2Rx3 and 1R) + 14 annas. Correctly franked 112 annas for inclusive x7 weight franking. |
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Lot Number: 262
| Date: 1941, Sep 4 Est. price: £75.00 Category: India Description: WWII high franked censored airmail from Bombay to Johannesburg, carried from Bombay to Karachi by Indian National Airways and from Karachi to Johannesburg by BOAC over the emergency Horseshoe Flying Boat Route established after Italy entered the War in June 1940. Airmail etiquette commercial corner cover, 23x17cm, franked 8R 14annas 6 p(KGVI 14 As x10 + 2As 6p), sealed red/white India OBC sensor tape tied by India black triangular censor mark. Correctly franked annas for inclusive x9 weight franking. Some top edge crumple, see scan.. |
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Lot Number: 234
| Date: 1941, Jan 8 Est. price: £55.00 Category: Germany Description: Germany to USA, flown by LATI, rare double rate censored WWII imprint etiquette airmail cover, Berlin to New York, uncommon red Berlin 8 1 41 455rpf machine cancel, typed "Mit Luftpost uber Sudamerika", ms "8g", sealed black/white German OKW censor tape, code e Frankfurt, also small German framed number censor marks. Correctly rated 450rpf for double rate Germany to USA via LATI (2x 215rpf air fee + 25rpf basic, see Beith p38). Flown Rome to Brazil by LATI, FAM 6 to Buenos Aires, then Panagra Pacific coast route to USA (see ?Pacific route endorsement below etiquette) and on to Cristobal for exchange of airlines, FAM 8 to Brownsville, then CAM 22 and internal airline to final destination. An expensive, but effective, method of sending Axis airmail to USA to avoid British censorship in Bermuda (FAM 18) and Jamaica (FAM 5). A superb exhibit item in particularly fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 144
| Date: 1939, Dec 28 Est. price: £22.00 Category: French Guinea Description: WWII censored cover, Siguiri to Bikfaya, Lebanon, bs 11/1/40, via Marseille 7/1 and Beyrouth 10/1, blue frame/white imprint etiquette cover franked 5.50F, C/2 in small black circle (Gabon) censor mark. Interestng routing. |
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Lot Number: 139
| Date: 1942, Apr 7 Est. price: £12.00 Category: Egypt Description: Postage prepaid On Active Service WWII censored cover to South Africa, mixed franking with two 3d GB stamps & 4d South Africa stamp, cancelled ?Egypt postage prepaid? to East London, South Africa, ms 'On Active Service', 'Middle East Forces Censor 341' hs. |
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Lot Number: 106
| Date: 1946, Apr 15 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Canada Description: Early post WWII airmail, Canada to the Gold Coast, Montreal to Hohoe, Gold Coast Colony, bs 17/5, registered (hs) cover franked 21c, carried on the first official flight from Montreal to Washington, OAT by US internal airlines to Miami, 17/4, then by surface to GCC. An uncommon destination - interesting and unusual. |
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Lot Number: 87
| Date: 1943, Aug 8 Est. price: £85.00 Category: Brazil Description: Triple censored WWII airmail cover, rated R 5400, from Sao Paulo to the River Plate Committee, Finsbury Circus, London (an undercover address for South American volunteers to British Forces), readdressed to No 8 A.O.S.(Air Observer School), Ancienne Lorette, Quebec, large Jan 7 1944 clock receiver verso. Triple sealed with Brazilian tape tied by framed S.P./442 censor mark, and US EB 2853 (San Juan), and GB OBE 562 PC90 censor tapes. Sent to a Britisher from Brazil, now a leading aircraftman/woman in training in Canada. An absolute goldmine of aerophilatelic, military, political and social history. One of the most exciting covers we have come across. |
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Lot Number: 84
| Date: 1940, Sep 11 Est. price: £18.00 Category: Brazil Description: Brazil to Germany, no arrival ds, flown by LATI, uncensored WWII cover franked 5400R, canc Sao Paulo cds, fine strike violet underlined "via L.A.T.I." directional handstamp, typed 'via Aerea L.A.T.I./via Roma'. |
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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: 35
| Date: 1938, May 30 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Australia Description: WWII precursor, Sydney to New York, sent to USA via the Empire Route to London and and onward transmission across Atlantic by sea, imprint etiquette airmail cover franked 1/7d (overpaid by 1d), canc Air Mail/Sydney/39MY38, etiquette cancelled by red double bar Jusqu'a applied in London to terminate carriage by air. Flown all the way by Short C Class S.30 flying boats, to Singapore by Qantas, and on to London by Imperial Airways. An interesting item, Australian airmail to USA of this period usually went by the Pan Am Trans Pacific route. Some rough opening at top, hardly detracts, see scan. |
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