Detail : Lot 257

Lot No: 257
Date: 1937, Apr 29
Est. price: £75.00
Category: Scarce and Unusual Routings
Covers with flight, route, and postage details (ex Proud archives) supplemented with data from Wingent's monographs on IAW Aircraft Movements 1927-1939.

Description: Austria to Egypt, VIENNA to ALEXANDRIA, bs 2/5. By DLH to Athens where transferred to Imperial Airways Africa FIRST ACCELERATED southbound service AS 444 on flying boat Cassiopeia arriving Alexandria 2/5. Attractive pale blue PSE with dark blue border all round (not picked up in scan), franked 80G1K 16 ore. See Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways African Route 1931-1939, P Wingent, pub 1991. .Difficult to find.

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(Scarce and Unusual Routings) Austria to Egypt, VIENNA to ALEXANDRIA, bs 2/5. By DLH to Athens where transferred to Imperial Airways Africa FIRST ACCELERATED southbound service AS 444 on flying boat Cassiopeia arriving Alexandria 2/5. Attractive pale blue PSE with dark blue border all round (not picked up in scan), franked 80G1K 16 ore. See Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways African Route 1931-1939, P Wingent, pub 1991. .Difficult to find.
(Scarce and Unusual Routings) Austria to Egypt, VIENNA to ALEXANDRIA, bs 2/5. By DLH to Athens where transferred to Imperial Airways Africa FIRST ACCELERATED southbound service AS 444 on flying boat Cassiopeia arriving Alexandria 2/5. Attractive pale blue PSE with dark blue border all round (not picked up in scan), franked 80G1K 16 ore. See Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways African Route 1931-1939, P Wingent, pub 1991. .Difficult to find.