Est. price: £40.00
Category: GB Internal
Description: Stamp Collecting Aerial souvenir card (facsimile of Mulready envelope) flown by Hugh Vallency from Marquise to Lympne, verso verso APO S.20 (France) dispatch cds and violet '7029' CENSOR MARK. Scarce, Newall 18.07.
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Est. price: £40.00
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Description: Stamp Collecting Aerial souvenir card (facsimile of Mulready envelope) flown by Hugh Vallency from Marquise to Lympne, verso Le Peletier (France) dispatch cds and violet '7029' censor cachet. Scarce, Newall 18.07.
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Est. price: £60.00
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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/11.15am/29 MY/1934. Image.
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Est. price: £45.00
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Description: Cover flown on Zucker's first trial rocket flight on the Sussex Downs, bearing blue 1934 Apex vignette overprinted red for the rocket post, hand stamped with the trial firing cachet in black , red machine postmark Brighton 6 June 1934. Signed by Gerhard Zucker.
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Est. price: £125.00
Category: GB Internal
Description: Railway Air Service, an exceedingly rare first flight cover to Cowes Isle of Wight cancelled with the Douglas Isle of Man 10am postmark, Flown on the first stage to Manchester where the flight was terminated due to weather conditions, then forwarded by surface receiving theCowes 21 Aug backstamp. Franked with a KG V 1½d photogravure on its day of issue. Making it a double first (See Redgrove p61)
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Est. price: £15.00
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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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Est. price: £25.00
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Description: Highland Airways F/F Wick to Kirkwall, three line arrival confirmation date stamp and departure post mark both tying special red/blue vignette, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, canc Wick cds. Most unusual for vignette to be cancelled by depart and arrival marks. Image.
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Est. price: £25.00
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Description: RAS covers (2) commemorating the end of RAS Railex. A reg (label) cover Liverpool-Glasow franked 4 1/2d and an ordinary cover London-Glasgow, franked 1 1/2d both posted on 3/2/36, the last date before the termination of the RAS Railex service. Both addressed to the noted aviation collector, Dr G Joseph, Glasgow. The rules applying at that time stated that registered covers had to be sent by the fastest route, so it is likely that the registered cover was flown.Neither cover went by Railex.
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Est. price: £25.00
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Description: North Eastern Airways, F/F Bradford to London, two Croydon circular receivers, one purple and one blue, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, Bradford-London company vignette tied by the blue Croydon receiver, 'North Eastern Airways Ltd'. More difficult to find. Image..
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Est. price: £45.00
Category: GB Internal
Description: WARTIME SERVICES TO IRELAND. On 13th September 1939 all airmail services were suspended due to the declaration of war. On 1st August 1941 RAS opened a mail carrying service between Belfast and Liverpool with the addition of a 3d air fee. Hence the inclusive charge of 5 1/2d on this cover from sent from Ballymena to Hampshire. Few such items survived - it was wartime and there were no distinguishing marks. See Railway Air Services, John Stroud, p 72,73.
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Est. price: £45.00
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Description: BEA All-Up service, Stornaway to Inverness, bs 16/2, cover franked 2 1/2d, blue "16 February 1948/First All-Up Strornaway-Inverness"black two line "First Flight/Stornaway-Inverness/16-2-48" with BEA logo flight cachet. Believed only 25 flown.
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Est. price: £55.00
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Description: Railway Strike Mail, cover fown fom Manchester to Honily, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 2 1/2d canc Manchester cds '8/Jne.1955'. Scarce, ex Stratton. The route is confirmed in Francis Field's hand verso. Also included is a 350 word article 'Railway Strike 1955' with info on the four emergency mail routes and a map reprinted from 'The Aero Field'.
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Est. price: £60.00
Category: GB Internal
Description: Railway Strike Mail, cover fown fom Linton on Ouse to Northolt to Honiley, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 2 1/2d canc Ilkley/9 Jne 1955/ Yorkshire'. Rarely seen, ex Stratton. Addressed to Francis Field, endorsed 'Recd 11/6/55' on front, and verso 'Probably flown from Linton on Ouse on june 10th when 6 bags were carried to Honily' in his hand.
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Est. price: £55.00
Category: GB Internal
Description: Railway Strike Mail, cover fown fom Linton on Ouse to Northolt, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 2 1/2d canc Brighouse/11 Jne.1955/ Yorkshire'.Scarce, ex Stratton. The route is confirmed in Francis Field's hand verso. Also included is a 350 word article 'Railway Strike 1955' with info on the four emergency mail routes and a map reprinted from 'The Aero Field'.
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