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Lot Number: 451
| Date: 1932, Jan 28 Est. price: £30.00 Category: South Africa Description: Imperial Airways twice interrupted flight first flight, Cape Town to Athens, 13/2 arrival ds, Springbok cover franked 1/-, carried on first regular flight Cape Town-London. The City of Basra was damaged at take of at Salisbury. Mail was transferred to City of Delhi which had to make an emergency landing due to bad weather near Broken Hill. Mail was transferred to City of Baghdad and arrived in Athens 9 days later than scheduled. |
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Lot Number: 452
| Date: 1934, Mar 6 Est. price: £225.00 Category: South Africa Description: The Visit of HRH Prince George to Southern Africa, first acceptance of mail from South Africa to Nyasaland, bs Limbe 9/3, for carriage on the F/F R.A.N.A. Southern Rhodesia-Nyasaland service, Imperial Airways blue winged logo corner cover franked 4d x2 +1d South Africa stamps canc with special postmark of the PO attached to the Royal Train used by HRH Prince George during his visit to Southern Africa, also black two line 'S.Rhodesia/Nyasaland' and violet st. line 'First Official Air Mail' hand stamps. The flight was not announced outside Nyasaland and S. Rhodesia and even then only seven days notice was given"....."The most desirable F/F's are those posted on the Royal Train while it was in Basutoland and in the Union". See South African Air Mails, Morton D.G., 2005, p25. A rare cover in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 453
| Date: 1934, Mar 8 Est. price: £30.00 Category: South Africa Description: Royal Tour, HRH Prince George, carried from Royal Train to Cape Town, bs 9/3, registered Klondyke (hs) cover franked 7d canc special RT crested postmark tying black/orange airmail etiquette.. |
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Lot Number: 454
| Date: 1934, Jun 19 Est. price: £25.00 Category: South Africa Description: S Africa to USA, PRETORIA to NEW YORK, by Union Airways to Johannesburg, departing on 20/6 on Imperial Airways Africa northbound service AN172 and carried, in succession, by Artemis, Atlanta, Hanno, Sylvanus, Satyrus and finally Heracles, arriving London 28/6 where the grey blue/black airmail etiquette was cancelled by a red London double bar Jusqua hs. On by sea, delivered 7/7 private dated receiver. Plain cover, typed 'Air Mail', RATED 1/3d. Ex Proud collection. |
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Lot Number: 455
| Date: 1934, Aug 17 Est. price: £20.00 Category: South Africa Description: S Africa to USA, DURBAN to NEW YORK, by Union Airways to Johannesburg, departing on 22/8 on Imperial Airways Africa northbound service AN181 and carried, in succession, by Artemis, Hadrian, Scipio, Sylvanus and finally Heracles, arriving London 30/8 where the grey blue/black airmail etiquette was cancelled by a red London double bar Jusqua hs. On by sea , delivered 8/9 private dated receiver. Plain cover, typed 'Per Imperial Airways', RATED 11d. Ex Proud collection. |
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Lot Number: 456
| Date: 1939, Jun 7 Est. price: £250.00 Category: South Africa Description: Empire Airmail Scheme Extension from South Africa to Kuwait, F/F Johannesburg to Kuwait, bs 14/6, via Basrah 13/6, plaincover franked 1 1/2d can Johannesburg cds tying blue/white airmail etiquette, black framed 'Par Avion/Jusqu'a (ms) Basra', Francis Field authentication hs verso. The first mails to arrive in Iraq without surcharge from South Africa can be identified by the backstamp '13 Jun 39', ref DSG Morton, South African Airmails, 2005, p74. A great item in fine condition. Image. |
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Lot Number: 457
| Date: 1939, Aug 21 Est. price: £20.00 Category: South Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Cape Town to Outjo, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, violet straight line 'First Flight - West Coast' cachet. Image. |
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Lot Number: 458
| Date: 1939, Aug 21 Est. price: £20.00 Category: South Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Johannesburg to Lobito, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, violet straight line 'First Flight - West Coast' cachet. Image. |
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Lot Number: 459
| Date: 1939, Dec 22 Est. price: £12.00 Category: South Africa Description: Pretoria to Amsterdam 31/12, attractive Voortrekker 'Lugpos' souvenir cover 19x14cm, franked bilingual pair of the Voortrekker Centenary, and Memorial Fund sets (12 stamps) |
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Lot Number: 460
| Date: 1942, May 22 Est. price: £30.00 Category: South Africa Description: WWII censored cover, East London to New York, commercial airmail etiquette corner cover correctly rated for the 4/- South Africa-US rate. sealed red/cream South Africa bilingual OBC censor tape. |
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Lot Number: 461
| Date: 1942, Oct 28 Est. price: £50.00 Category: South Africa Description: Double rate WWII censored cover, Cape Town to Buenos Aires, 20 Nov 1942 Natal transit cds, plain cover franked 8/- (5/- (sg38, cat £35 used), 2/6d and 6d, canc Cape Town cds, sealed red/cream South Africa bilingual OBC censor tape tied by magenta 'coat of arms' /A' , typed 'By Air Mail'. Correctly rated for 2x the 4/- South Africa-US rate. Small non invasive top rh corner nibble, does not detract. See image. |
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Lot Number: 462
| Date: 1943, Oct 2 Est. price: £40.00 Category: South Africa Description: WWII dual censored cover, Durban to Buenos Aires, bs 2/4/43, plain cover franked 4/- (1/- block of 4), canc Durban cds, fine strike black framed 'Air Mail' hs. sealed red/cream South Africa bilingual OBC censor tape tied by violet 'coat of arms' /C' , and US EB Examiner 14021 (San Juan) censor tape. Correctly rated 4/- for the Africa-US rate. Image. |
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Lot Number: 463
| Date: 1944, Nov 11 Est. price: £100.00 Category: South Africa Description: Scarce triple rated WWII censored cover, Johannesburg to San Francisco, plain cover franked 10/- + 6d, canc Johannesburg cds, typed 'By Air Mail', sealed US EB 30280 (Miami) censor tape. Correctly rated for 3x the 3/6d South Africa-US rate, which had been reduced from 4/-per 1/2oz on 28 August 1944. |
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Lot Number: 464
| Date: 1954, Nov 7 Est. price: £25.00 Category: South Africa Description: Central African Airways, first direct airmail, Durban to Ndola, N Rhodesia, bs 7/11, attractive blue/dark blue/white souvenir cover, franked 3d, multicoloured CAA propaganda vignette verso. |
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Lot Number: 465
| Date: 1931, Aug 1 Est. price: £18.00 Category: South West Africa Description: SWAA, Provisional Internal Air Services, F/F Grootfontain to Omaruru, bs 1/8, reg (label) cover franked 10d and 2d, black circular 'Lugpos/Grootfontein/Air Mail' cachet. |
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Lot Number: 466
| Date: 1931, Aug 5 Est. price: £20.00 Category: South West Africa Description: SWA to USA, carried on SWWA Airways first provisional internal (Southern) service, Windhoek to Keetmanshoop, bs 12/8, then on to California, bs 12/9 via New York 8/9, airmail etiquette cover, franked 15d , canc Windhoek cds and small metal die Lugpos/Air Mail. Good routing. |
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Lot Number: 467
| Date: 1931, Aug 6 Est. price: £18.00 Category: South West Africa Description: SWAA first provisional internal service, Keetmanshoop to Mariental bs 6/8, special violet cachet, Robertson 5pfg PSC. |
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Lot Number: 468
| Date: 1931, Aug 11 Est. price: £25.00 Category: South West Africa Description: South West Africa provisional internal air service/ F/F coastal service from Windhoek to Walvis Bay, bs 11/8, South West African Airways (Pty) Ltd company cover, franked SWA 1d & 10d air. Carried to Dessau, Germany bs 1/9 by sea ms 'Per S.S. Waug....'.The cover is addressed to Junkers Flugzeugwerk, Dessau, Germany who tendered successfully to deliver this service. SWA Airways was formed by the the Junkers company and the Junkers A50 machines sent to operate this service. Nice item. |
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Lot Number: 469
| Date: 1931, Dec 19 Est. price: £15.00 Category: South West Africa Description: SWAA F/F, Marienthal to Uppington, bs 20/12, J Robertson cover franked 4d, canc violet 'Lugpos/Marienthal/Air Mail' cachet, black/orange airmails etiquette. |
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Lot Number: 470
| Date: 1938, Nov 5 Est. price: £35.00 Category: South West Africa Description: Kalahari Feeder service, F/F Windhoek to Maun, bs 5/11, plain cover franked SWA 1d canc Windhoek cds. No cachets were applied to this mail. |
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Lot Number: 471
| Date: 1939, Aug 22 Est. price: £20.00 Category: South West Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Outjo to Loanda, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, violet straight line 'First Flight - West Coast' cachet. Image. |
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Lot Number: 472
| Date: 1939, Aug 22 Est. price: £18.00 Category: South West Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Outjo to Lobito, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, violet straight line 'First Flight - West Coast' cachet. Image. |
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Lot Number: 473
| Date: 1939, Aug 22 Est. price: £18.00 Category: South West Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Windhoek to Loanda, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, violet straight line 'First Flight - West Coast' cachet. Image. |
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Lot Number: 474
| Date: 1939, Aug 22 Est. price: £18.00 Category: South West Africa Description: New link with Angola, Cape Town-Windhoek-Loanda Direct Service, F/F Windhoek to Mossamedes, bs 22/8, plain cover franked 1 1/2d, violet straight line 'First Flight - West Coast' cachet. Image. |
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Lot Number: 475
| Date: 1939, Aug 25 Est. price: £35.00 Category: South West Africa Description: First return SAA new West Coast service, South to South West Africa and Angola, also a further extension of the Kalahari Service, Outjo to Windhoek, bs 25/8, violet straight line "First Flight West Coast" cachet.. Only three flights on this service before war broke out when service was abandoned due to lack of support.Narrow strip former mounting tape centre top edge verso, does not detract. Scarce. |
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Lot Number: 476
| Date: 1931, Dec 19 Est. price: £16.00 Category: Southern Rhodesia Description: Imperial Airways experimental flight, Bulawayo to Johannesburg, bs 21/12, violet straight line "Experimental Flight" hs, orange, blue/cream Springbok souvenir cover franked 5d, Imperial Airways. |
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Lot Number: 477
| Date: 1934, Mar 9 Est. price: £20.00 Category: Southern Rhodesia Description: RANA, F/F Salisbury to Limbe, Nyasaland, bs 9/3, via Blantyre 9/3, plain etiquette cover franked 4d, violet straight line "First Official Air Mail" and black two line "S Rhodesia Nyasaland" cachets. Very fine. |
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Lot Number: 478
| Date: 1935, May 18 Est. price: £75.00 Category: Southern Rhodesia Description: Imperial Airways first direct flight from Southern Rhodesia to Northern Rhodesia, Bulawayo to Lusaka, bs 19/5, Godfrey airmail etiquette cover, franked 5d, canc Bulawayo cds, typed "First Mail Bag/Bulawayo/Lusaka'. Francis Field authentication hs verso. |
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Lot Number: 479
| Date: 1935, Oct 5 Est. price: £85.00 Category: Southern Rhodesia Description: Rhodesia and Nyasaland Airways, carried to England, Ibstock 18/10 arrval ds on the front on the first internal flight, Umtali to Salisbury on Salisbury-Beira route, b/s 5/10, Wyndham cover franked 6d, canc Umtali cds, etiquette, typed 'First Air Mail Flight/Umtali to England'. At Salisbury it would have connected with Flight No AN 280 on the 9th arriving at Croydon on the 17th. Only 15 flown from Umtali to Salisbury. Francis Field authentication hs verso. A superb item in fine condition. |
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Lot Number: 480
| Date: 1938, Jun 3 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Spain Description: Censored Spanish Civil War airmail, Palma Majorca to England, no arrival ds, commercial corner cover franked 2P35, fine strike red uncommon "Par Avion Jusqu'a Roma" applied in Palma, red two line "Censura Militar/Palma de Mallorca" censor mark, violet "Saludo a Franco/Arriba Espana" propaganda hs. Great Britain had no official postal relationship with the Nationalist (Franco) government and, hence, with Palma de Mallorca. But those in the know used the Italian Ala Littoria seaplane Cadiz-Mellila-Mallorca-Rome airmail route serving Nationalist areas of Spain. |
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Lot Number: 481
| Date: 1941, Mar 04 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Spain Description: Spain to Uruguay, flown by LATI, a scarce censored WWII grey/pale brown airmail envelope with winged logo, Villa Franca to Montevideo, b/s 15/7/41, franked 7P canc Aracina/Huelva 4/3/41 cds Spanish purple boxed "Censura Gubernativa/Madrid" censor mark on departure. Military censorship of the mails was still the rule in Spain for some years after the end of the Civil War. Correctly rated for carriage by LATI from Spain to South America. Carried by LATI all the way from Rome to Buenos Aires thus avoiding British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service (the LATI service was extended from Rio de Janero to BA in July 1941), and by Condor or Panagra to Montevideo. A scarce LATI item, |
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Lot Number: 482
| Date: 1948, Nov 9 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Spain Description: First flight airmail cover Barcelona to Boston bs. |
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Lot Number: 483
| Date: 1926, Jan 15 Est. price: £325.00 Category: Sudan Description: Return of RAF test flight from Khartoum to Abu Suwer, 17 Jan 1926 arrival hs on front, signed by pilot V.C.Stonar, plain cover, violet three line "By Return of/Special Flight/Cairo to Khartoum" and violet "Khartoum 15/1/25" hs's. This flight was undertaken by RAF Squadron No. 47 as a test of the Fairey IIID aircraft equipped with the Napier Lion engine, and as a prelude to the Cairo-Cape Town flight planned for later in the year. Little is known about this flight, and only 35 covers were carried on the return flight. A 200 word account by Bill Coley can be found in Air Mail News, No 158, p129. |
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Lot Number: 484
| Date: 1931, Mar 12 Est. price: £16.00 Category: Sudan Description: Cover flown WadI Halfa to Mwanza 16/3, on F/F Croydon/Mwanza, b/s, official map cover franked 2P 10ml, 'First Flight/Halfa to Mwanza' biplane cachet, Imperial Airways, |
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Lot Number: 485
| Date: 1938, Jul 1 Est. price: £50.00 Category: Sudan Description: 1 July 1938: Sudan to Cyprus, KHARTOUM to NICOSIA. By Imperial Airways once weekly northbound Kisumu Terminal Service KN53 Clio which flew to Cairo bs 2/7, then by sea (375 miles) to Nicosia bs 7/7. Attractive trilingual blue/white etiquette cover franked 30 mil for air rate, block of six 5mm /2 1/2P opt's, all with missing second 'm' in 'milliemmes'. Interesting! |
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Lot Number: 486
| Date: 1929, Mar 16 Est. price: £8.00 Category: Sweden Description: Early airmail Malmo to Berlin, bs 16/3, fine Malmo/16 Mrs 1929/Luftpost cds and red framed 'Berlin Zentralflughafen' arrival hs on front. |
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Lot Number: 487
| Date: 1933, Mar 20 Est. price: £7.00 Category: Sweden Description: Stockholm to Berlin, red dr Berlin C2 arrval hs on front, printd commercial cover frankked 25o. |
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Lot Number: 488
| Date: 1946, Mar 1 Est. price: £30.00 Category: Sweden Description: ABA F/F passenger and mail service, Stockholm to Dublin, bs 4/3, 20 ore PSC with additional 10 ore with very fine strike red triangular 'First Flight/Premier Vol/Forsta Flyg' cachet. Uncommon. |
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Lot Number: 489
| Date: 1968, Jun 05 Est. price: £5.00 Category: Sweden Description: SAS Trans Asian Express, F/F Stockholm-Djakarta, cachet, b/s, long souvenir cover. |
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Lot Number: 490
| Date: 1947, Jul 26 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Syria Description: First clipper flight airmail cover Damascus to NY bs. |
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Lot Number: 491
| Date: 1930, Dec 2 Est. price: £150.00 Category: Tanganyika Description: Tanganyika Government Air Service, F/F Korogwe to Dar es Salaam, bs 2/12, registered (label) cover addressed to HQ, King's African Rifles, franked KGV 1/-, canc Korogwe cds, three line "'By/First Air Mail/ms 'Korogwe to DaresSalaam" cacher, and framed 'Par Avion/Tanganyika Territory' hs, P9 McQueen. Francis Field authentication hs verso. 47 flown, see Colley 2nd Ed p40. Scarce item. |
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Lot Number: 492
| Date: 1931, Oct 21 Est. price: £75.00 Category: Tanganyika Description: Tanganyika Government Feeder Service, Dar es Salaam to Mombasa via Tanga and Zanzibar, F/F Dar es Salaam to Tanga, bs 21/10, registered (label) Cota cover addressed to HQ, Kings African Rifles, franked 65c, nice strike oval blue 'Tanganyika Territory/Feeder Service' hs, typed endorsement "First Air Mail/ Dar es Salaam-Zanzibar-Tanga-Mombassa/By Tanganyika Government Aeroplane", blue green/black 'Par Avion/Tanganyika Territory' etiquette. Small mail. |
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Lot Number: 493
| Date: 1931, Nov 5 Est. price: £40.00 Category: Tanganyika Description: Moshi to Nairobi, bs 12/11, via Tanga 9/10, registered (label) airmail cover correctly franked 65c (35c postage air fee + 30c registration), green/black 'Par Avion/Tanganyika Territory etiquette, violet oval 'Tanganyika Government/Feeder Service' hs. Carried by rail to Tanga to catch air service to Mombasa, then train to Nairobi. A nice non philatelic item with great routing. You can track it in Wingent's Africa book. |
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Lot Number: 494
| Date: 1931, Nov 10 Est. price: £50.00 Category: Tanganyika Description: Scarce triple rate Tanga to Mombasa, legal cover, 21x10cm, embossed A&N Clark, Avocate, carried on the 4th flight of the Tanganyika Government's air mail service, triple franked 1S 05 (3x35c), green/black 'Par Avion/Tanganyika Territory etiquette, violet oval 'Tanganyika Government/Feeder Service' hs. |
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Lot Number: 495
| Date: 1932, Jan 22 Est. price: £40.00 Category: Tanganyika Description: Dar es Salaam to England, 2/2 pencil arrival notation verso, carried on last Tanganyika Government flight Dar es Salaam to Mombasa, then by Imperial Airways flight AN46 from Kisumu to London, commercial cover correctly rated 85c (20c feeder service and 65 Kisumu to UK), violet oval 'Feeder Servce' and framed 'By Air Mail' hs's, seee Wingent's Africa handbook.. |
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Lot Number: 496
| Date: 1932, Aug 19 Est. price: £35.00 Category: Tanganyika Description: East African Coastal Feeder Service by Wilson Airways Ltd.. The route was from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam via Mombasa, Kenya and Zanzibar. Return flight Dar es Salaam to Nairobi , bs 20/8, airmail etiquette cover franked 35 cents, boxed Feeder Service' handstamp. Only 29 covers carried from Tanga to Nairobi. |
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Lot Number: 497
| Date: 1931, Feb 10 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Trinidad Description: Completing the Lindberg Circle, F/F FAM 5, Port of Spain to La Guaira, Venezuela, 13/2 arrival ds on front, airmail cover franked 1/1d, Pan Am. |
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Lot Number: 498
| Date: 1944, Dec 14 Est. price: £25.00 Category: Trinidad Description: British West Indian Airways F/F Port of Spain to Kingston, Jamaica, partial strike red circular Kingston/TRI arrival mark verso, registered (label) Salvation Army airmail cover franked 7c, blue framed "First Flight BWI Airways/Trinidad-Jamaica. Not often seen. |
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Lot Number: 499
| Date: 1931, Dec 14 Est. price: £18.00 Category: Uganda Description: Cover flown, Kampala to Cape Town 21/12, on First Christmas Flight, via Johannesburg 21/12, b/s, Springbok cover, Imperial Airways |
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Lot Number: 500
| Date: 1968, Oct 31 Est. price: £10.00 Category: Uganda Description: F/F Entebbe to Bombay, bs, souvenir cover. |
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