| Lot# | Category | Description | |
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| 1 |
airship |
10/10/1924 ZR3 delivery flight, Germany to US, bs 15/10, franked 1924 airs 10, 20x2, 50pf, canc Friedrichshafen dr. cds, oval flight ZR3 confirmation cachet, black/green "Mit Luftpost" vignette, uncommon attractive souvenir cover "Mit Luftschiff ZR III ab Friedrichshafen" in red."From Editor, The Airpost Stamp, George H Jaeger, Libau, Latvia" with inset picture of Zeppelin flying past Statue of Liberty. A neat hand drawn map of the route accompanies this item. |
Price: £45.00 |
| 2 |
airship |
11/10/1928 First Trans-Atlantic crossing of the Graf Zeppelin to Lakehurst, New York bs 16/10, oval blue flight cachet, commercial corner cover franked 2Rm x2 Zeppelin control pair stamps (Stanley Gibbons number 444 - adhesives alone catalogues £94), tied Fried. cds. Si 21A. A neat hand drawn map of the route accompanies this item. |
Price: £55.00 |
| 3 |
airship |
28/10/1928 Return flight "Graf Zeppelin" USA to Germany, b/s Friedrichshafen 1/11, US 2c PSC with additional $1 and 3c (one blunt corner perf), magenta US flight confirmation cachet. A neat hand drawn map of the route accompanies this item. |
Price: £40.00 |
| 4 |
airship |
25/03/1929 Graf Zeppelin Orient flight over the Near East, Friedrichshafen to Er Ramle, card franked 1926 1M and black air stamp, official red flight cachet, red/white "Mit Luftschiff/LZ 127" vignette on front. |
Price: £75.00 |
| 5 |
airship |
15/05/1929 Graf Zeppelin interrupted America flight, landing in Cuers, plain cover franked 4m (Stanley Gibbons number 445 catalogue £32), On Board 16/5/29 cancel, arrived in New York August 5th, circular blue flight confirmation cachet, red st. line interruption confirmation cachet. A neat hand drawn map of the route accompanies this item. |
Price: £75.00 |
| 6 |
airship |
16/08/1929 Graf Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen to Tokyo, red/cream souvenir cover printed "Friedrichshafen (Bodensee) -Tokyo", franked 4m (Stanley Gibbons number 445 catalogue £32), on board 16/8/29 cancel, arrived in Tokyo 19 Aug 1929 arrival ds on front, red circular flight confirmation cachet, blue/white airmail etiquette. |
Price: £80.00 |
| 7 |
airship |
23/08/1929 LZ 127, Round the World flight, Tokyo to Los Angeles, bs Aug 26 1929, printed souvenir cover 'Via Graf Zeppelin - Around the World Flight', franked 12 Yen, red circular Japan flight confirmation cachet. Scarce item in fine condition. |
Price: £450.00 |
| 8 |
airship |
26/08/1929 LZ 127, Round the World flight, Los Angeles to Friedrichshafen, bs 4/9, buff card franked 90c, large violet flight confirmation cachet, Si 29B (85 Euro). |
Price: £50.00 |
| 9 |
airship |
02/11/1929 Swiss flight, bordpost card dropped at St. Gallen, 2/11arrival ds on front, franked 1923 25c and 50c air, red dr. "Zeppelinpost/Schweizer"" cachet, on sepia scenic PPC. |
Price: £30.00 |
| 10 |
airship |
28/05/1930 Europe-Pan America Round Flight, Brazilian dispatch, Rio to Friedrichshafen 6/6 to New York 18/6, card franked 10,000r special Zeppelin Brazil stamp + 300r canc black 28 May Recife cachet, violet diamond US flight cachet, typed "Via Graf Zeppelin/from Pernambuco to Friedrichshafen". |
Price: £60.00 |
| 11 |
airship |
28/03/1931 Hungary Round Flight, printed souvenir card, franking inc. 1P Zeppelin stamp canc Budapest cds, also Budapest arrival ds, blue flight cachet, Sieger 102Aa (150 Euro). |
Price: £30.00 |
| 12 |
airship |
08/08/1931 First South America Flight, Germany to Pernambuco, arrival ds on front tying green Pernambuco fight confirmation cachet, Eckener souvenir PC frnked 2Rm (Stanley Gibbons number 447 catalogue £47), On Board cancellation 31/8, red "bis Pernambuco" hs, dark blue/white "Mit Zeppelin/LZ 127" etiquette. Si 124Bb. |
Price: £185.00 |
| 13 |
airship |
11/10/1931 Meningen flight, canc Friedrichshafen, dropped Meningen b/s, oval red confirmation cachet. |
Price: £55.00 |
| 14 |
airship |
20/03/1932 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano/Syndicato Condor/Graf Zeppelin, 2nd S. American flight, Cochabamba to Friedrichshafen 13/4, and on to Berlin 13/4, plain cover franked 1.75B, canc Cochabamba cds, blue/white 'Correo Aerea' airmail etiquette, nice strike red circular "Luftpost Befordert/Luftpostampt/Berlin C2" arrival hs. Carried by LAB from Cochabamba to Puerto Suarez, Condor from Corumba -Campo Grande-Tres Lagadas Rio-Bahia-Recife, Graf Zeppelin to Friedrichshafen. |
Price: £50.00 |
| 15 |
airship |
01/05/1932 Lloyd Aereo Boliviano/Syndicato Condor/Graf Zeppelin, 4th S. American flight, Cochabamba to Friedrichshafen 10/5, and on to Berlin 10/5, plain cover franked 1.75B, canc Cochabamba cds, blue/white 'Correo Aerea' airmail etiquette, nice strike red circular "Luftpost Befordert/Luftpostampt/Berlin C2" arrival hs. Carried by LAB from Cochabamba to Puerto Suarez, Condor from Corumba -Campo Grande-Tres Lagadas Rio-Bahia-Recife, Graf Zeppelin to Friedrichshafen. This was the last flight SA zeppelin flight when permission was given for Bolivian material to be carried using Bolivian stamps for postage. |
Price: £50.00 |
| 16 |
airship |
27/10/1934 Eleventh South America Flight, Berlin to Montevideo, bs 2/11, Banco Aleman Transatlantico imprint airmail cover, uncommon red Berlin NW 475 pf meter frank, fine strike red circular "Deutsche Luftpost/Europa-Sud Amerika" flight cachet, fair strike purple 'Condor Zeppelin' hs verso. |
Price: £50.00 |
| 17 |
airship |
19/06/1936 Third North America Flight, Frankfurt to New York, no arrival ds, imprint airmail etiquette cover franked 75pf, ms '5 gm', canc Heilbronn/17.6.36 cds, red double ring 'Europa-NordAmerika cachet, typed "mit Luftschiff/ab Frankfurt/19.Juni". |
Price: £15.00 |
| 18 |
airship |
07/10/1936 Airship, Eighth North America flight of the Hindenburg, Frankfurt-Lakehurst, no arrival ds, On Board postmark, red flight confirmation cachet, attractive B&W PPC, franked 65pf showing L129 Hindenburg leaving hangar in Rhein-Main near Frankfurt. |
Price: £25.00 |
| 19 |
1935 nov. 13 |
13/11/1935 Rare Andorra acceptance for the Belgian Congo, for carriage on the extension of the regular Congo service to Elisabethville, Andorra la Vieja to Elisabethville, ?21/11, via Seo de Urgo 14/11, Calaf 14/11 and Marseilles 14/11, Victor Nawratil registered (label) etiquette cover, franked Spanish PO Andorra 4P SG24, cat £28 used (scarce on cover), canc Certificado/13 Nov 35/Andora Lavieja boxed registration ds, ms "Correo Aereo Par Avion/Bruxelles-Marseille-Congo Belge". One of the six believed to have been accepted at Andorra for thew service to Elisabethville by Sxabena. A scarce item in superb condition. |
Price: £150.00 |
| 20 |
1926 oct. 11 |
08/03/1928 Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, Buenos Aires to Montevideo, bs 8/3, blue/black/orange PPC commemorating opening of the regular South America/-Europe service from Buenos Aires, showing winged postman and "Servicio Aeropostal………1 de Marzo de 1928", franked 5c and 25c airs (airmail rate 5c per gram), canc 'Via Aerea/29 Feb 28/Buenos Aires' carried on Buenos Aires-Montevideo leg of the second flight. |
Price: £20.00 |
| 21 |
1926 oct. 11 |
17/05/1928 F/F from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, bs 17/5, by Aeroposta Argentina, registered (label) cover franked 5c postage, 20c registration and 25c airmail (airmail rate 5c per gram), canc 'Via Aerea/17 May 28/Buenos Aires, ms 'Via Aerea'. Prior to the opening of the Buenos Aires-Asuncion service Aeroposta Argentina began this service between Buenos Aires and Montevideo, across the River Plate. Scarce. |
Price: £75.00 |
| 22 |
1926 oct. 11 |
22/03/1929 Aeroposta Argentina, Ficarelli F/F Buenos Aires-Asuncion, bs 22/3, registered (label) 1928 blue/cream 12c airmail PSE (H&G #2) with additional 5c postage, 20c regn, and15c airmail stamps (the postcard airmail rate was the same as the airmail rate), large black 'Via Aerea' hs. |
Price: £45.00 |
| 23 |
1926 oct. 11 |
03/09/1929 Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, Guillaumet F/F Buenos Aires to Santiago, bs 3/9, plain cover franked 5c posatge + 15c airmail, canc Via Aerera/Buenos Aires cds, boxed green "Premier, Courrier Aerienne/Argentie-Chile" cachet verso, Francis Field authentication hs verso. |
Price: £65.00 |
| 24 |
1926 oct. 11 |
11/10/1929 Panagra, first acceptance for Canada via Cristobal, carried on F/F FAM 9 Extension Buenos Aires to Cristobal, Buenos Aires to Toronto, no arrival ds, plain cover franked 112c postage, 85c airmail canc "Buenos Aires via Aerea" cds. Most covers were flown to USA and South America. Only 19 flown to Cristobal, not known how many were carried to Canada. Immaculate and scarce. |
Price: £125.00 |
| 25 |
1926 oct. 11 |
13/12/1929 Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, Buenos Aires to Copenhagen, bs 26/12, 1928 blue/cream registered (label) 12c airmail PSE (H&G #2) with additional 12c postage and 12 regn and 1928 90c air (airmail rate to Europe 18c per gram), canc 'Via Aerea/4 Apr 28', carried on the South America/-Europe service. Note use of Argentina's first airmail stamps to pay the 18c rate (x5) to Europe via West Africa. CGA to Natal then by fast 'Aviso' from Natal-Dakar, then flown Dakar-Toulouse by Aéropostale. Uncommon destination. |
Price: £20.00 |
| 26 |
1926 oct. 11 |
19/02/1930 NYRBA F/F, Buenos Aires to Miami, no arrival ds, pale blue/grey NYRBA in arrow company cover and printed "Via NYRBA Aerea", addressed to addressed to Miss Eva Grooch (the pilot's sister), franked 10c, 15c airs, canc Aeropostale BA cds, framed Nyrba/Argentina-Estados Unidos flight cachet. Signed by the pilot, WS Grooch. Grooch piloted the plane to Santos where it was damaged whilst landing in heavy seas in the dark. |
Price: £85.00 |
| 27 |
1926 oct. 11 |
06/06/1930 Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, Buenos Aires to Holland, Paris/Gare du Nord 18/6 transit cds, blue/grey CGA company cover franked $1.58 inc $1.44 airmail (airmail rate to Europe 18c per gram), canc Buenos Aires cds, carried on the South America/-Europe service. Note use of Argentina's first airmail stamps to pay the 18c rate (x8) to Europe via West Africa. CGA to Natal then by fast 'Aviso' from Natal-Dakar, then flown Dakar-Toulouse by Aéropostale. |
Price: £10.00 |
| 28 |
1926 oct. 11 |
25/07/1930 Cover postmarked Buenos Aires July 25, 1930 to London (England) with no arrival b/s but with a Paris transit b/s August 8th. Small loss of paper top left corner. |
Price: £5.00 |
| 29 |
1926 oct. 11 |
09/09/1931 Registered pre-printed Aeropostale envelope postmarked Buenos Aires September 9, 1931 (the flight left on September 12) addressed to The Hague (Netherlands) with arrival b/s September 21 and transit b/s Paris September 20th. Cover sent by a stamp dealer with EXCEPTIONAL FRANKING consisting of Scott C30, C31, C32, C33 and C34, that is the complete set of airmail stamps overprinted “6 September 1930-1931” for the first anniversary of the 1930 Revolution. This set is catalogued £100 + used (much more on cover). |
Price: £75.00 |
| 30 |
1926 oct. 11 |
01/10/1931 Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, Buenos Aires to Paris (address is faint, but legible), no arrival ds, blue/grey CGA company cover franked 82c inc 90c (12c postage, 72c airmail), canc Buenos Aires cds, carried on the South America/-Europe service. 72c Anniversary of the Revolution air used to pay the 18c rate (x4) to Europe via West Africa. CGA to Natal then by fast 'Aviso' from Natal-Dakar, then flown Dakar-Toulouse by Aéropostale. Some flap damage. |
Price: £5.00 |
| 31 |
1926 oct. 11 |
07/04/1932 PANAGRA, unusual West coast airmail, Buenos Aires (Oliva) to North Dakota, bs 7/4, via Cristobal 10/4 and tlanta 12/4, registered (label) cover franked 5c postage, 5c regn, $1.70 airmail, large red "Oliva" hs, ms 'Via Aerea/Certificada', great routing.. It is unusual to find mail sent by the West coast route from Buenos Aires from the late 1931 onwards. |
Price: £30.00 |
| 32 |
1926 oct. 11 |
19/11/1932 Compagnie Generale Aeropostale, Buenos Aires to Prague, Czechoslovakia, bs 30/11, Erwin Schnabel printed red 'Via Aerea' reghistered (label) cover franked $2.33 inc $1.98 airmail (11 x18 =198), canc Via Aerea/Buenos Aires cds, typed 'Via Aerea/Certificado'. Franked with the 2P Anniversary of the Revolution which is scarce on cover. CGA to Natal then by fast 'Aviso' from Natal-Dakar, then flown Dakar-Toulouse by Aéropostale. Letter weighed 12g x8 =216. Uncommon destination. |
Price: £20.00 |
| 33 |
1926 oct. 11 |
13/01/1934 South Atlantic airmail. Registered (label) imprint etiquette commercial air cover from Buenos Aires to Vienna, bs 22/1, also Wien Flugpost 22/1 and WienTelegraphenamt 22/1 cds's, franked 2.35P. Flight dates suggest air by CGA to Natal, then "Aviso" to Dakar, then air AF/DLH. |
Price: £5.00 |
| 34 |
1926 oct. 11 |
26/02/1938 PANAGRA East coast service, Los Cocos to Jamaica, no arrival ds, via Buenos Aires, 26/2, attractive red/dark blue/pale blue "Via Panagra o Panair/Pan American Airways System" cover, franked 1.45P. Uncommon origin/destination. |
Price: £12.00 |
| 35 |
1926 oct. 11 |
14/11/1940 Argentina to Spain, flown by LATI, a scarce censored WWII registered (label) airmail cover, Buenos Aires to Barcelona, franked 1P 15c, canc Buenos Aires, 14 Nov 40 cds, typed 'Via Condor LATI', green boxed Spanish Barcelona Censurado censor mark verso. Air France stopped its South Atlantic service in July 1940. Pan Am Southern trans Atlantic flights only bypassed the UK Bermuda censor between March and September 1940, so not flown by Pan Am. Carried by Syndicato Condor to Rio, then by LATI all the way to Seville thus avoiding the British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service. The LATI rate to Spain likely to have been less than that to Germany/Italy (1P 45c) since Rome is 1000 miles beyond Seville, and Germany some 500-700 miles beyond that. But, at present, there are too few Argentina-Spain covers known, to be certain. Slight rough opening along rh edge. A truly scarce LATI item. |
Price: £45.00 |
| 36 |
1926 oct. 11 |
11/12/1940 Argentina to Denmark, flown by LATI, scarce censored WWII airmail cover, Buenos Aires to Copenhagen, franked 1P 20c, canc Buenos Aires, 11 Dec 40 cds, sealed German black/white OKW censor seal, code e (Frankfurt). Under franked by 20c, the correct rated for LATI to Europe was 0.20P basic + 1.25P air fee, see Beith p41. No Bermuda censor and franking confirms not flown by Pan Am. Carried by Syndicato Condor to Rio, then by LATI all the way to Rome thus avoiding the British censorship on the Pan Am North Atlantic service. No Danish censor because Denmark was under German occupation at that time. |
Price: £40.00 |
| 37 |
1926 oct. 11 |
28/11/1941 Panagra/North Atlantic Air Service, Buenos Aires to England, no arrival ds, censored airmail cover franked 1.70P, ms "Via New York/via North Atlantic Air Service/Panagra Exclusivamente", sealed British Caribbean OBE #1850 censor tape. |
Price: £10.00 |
| 38 |
1926 oct. 11 |
15/05/1946 B.S.A.A. first flight Buenos Aires to London, no arrival ds, airmail registered label (#176909) cover, addressed to Frank Edwards, London, franked 85c, canc Buenos Aires - date unclear, typed "Inauguration de la Linea Buenos Aires-Londres/Per la Compania British American irways Limited". Although the postmark is unclear there is no doubt that this cover is a first flight, being one similar in every way to one sent in a batch sent to Frank Edwards. See cover from the same batch (Reg #176904) illustrated on page 23 of 'British South American Airways 1946-1949, Beith R., 2004. A copy of this illustration is included with this item. |
Price: £75.00 |
| 39 |
1926 oct. 11 |
16/08/1946 First Direct Clipper Flight, Buenos Aires to New York, magenta cachet, b/s, souvenir cover, Pan Am |
Price: £2.50 |
| 40 |
1926 oct. 11 |
12/10/1949 Panagra, celebrating 20 years of service, Argentina USA, Buenos Aires to New York, no arrival ds , airmail cover franked 50c canc celebration "Correo Aereo Buenos Aires-Miami" cds, large red oval souvenir cachet and rec scroll "Pan American/Grace Airways Inc" cachet. Uncommon. |
Price: £20.00 |
| 41 |
1926 oct. 11 |
30/06/1953 Varig, F/F Buenos Aires to Porto Alegre, Rio Grandense, bs, large red flight cachet. |
Price: £10.00 |
| 42 |
1926 oct. 11 |
16/11/1961 First Argentine 'Skylark' glider flight, Buenos Aires to la Plata, commemorative machine cancellation, b/s. |
Price: £10.00 |
| 43 |
1929 apr. 21 |
17/04/1929 F/F Brisbane to Charleville, b/s 17/4, underpaid plain cover franked 4d, black'T' 1d in hexagon hs, ms 'Via Air Mail/Brisbane-Charleville', Qantas. Scarce 'non Davis Bros' cover, cat $200, Australian AMC. |
Price: £85.00 |
| 44 |
1929 apr. 21 |
23/04/1931 Return of the first Imperial Airways experimental flight England-Australia, Melbourne to London, bs Skelmanthorp 15/5 souvenir "All The Way" cover with IAW winged logo and route details, franked 1913 4 1/2d,1/-, 1931 KS 3d, 1929 air, ANA/Qantas/Imperial Airways, uncommon destination. Arrival ds uncommon, usually only applied to registered mail. |
Price: £30.00 |
| 45 |
1929 apr. 21 |
17/11/1931 Quambatook, Victoria to England, bs 16/12, carried on the first All Australian Airmail to England, registered (label) red/blue/cream 'Southern Cross' souvenir cover franked 1931 Kingsford Smith set of 3 (SG 121-123), 3d air (SG 139), 1 1/2d x2, special framed violet "winged" flight cachet. Plane crashed at Alor Star, then carried by Kingsford Smith to London. Attractive item in fine condition, and unusual origin. |
Price: £30.00 |
| 46 |
1929 apr. 21 |
19/04/1937 First acceptance of mail from Australia to Hawaii for carriage via Pan Am F/F FAM 14 Hong Kong, 27/4 transit cds, to Honolulu bs 2/5, airmail etiquette cover franked 3/4d, canc Port Adelaide 19 Apr 37 cds, official purple 'Hong Kong to Honolulu/Received-First Flight-FAM 14" flight cachet. Small mail, carried from Australia to Singapore by Qantas, Singapore to Hong Kong by Imperial Airways, then Hong Kong to San Francisco by Pan Am. Scarce Trans Pacific acceptance in fine condition. |
Price: £250.00 |
| 47 |
1929 apr. 21 |
06/06/1937 Inter City Airways, first Sunday flight, Cobar to Broken Hill, bs 6/6, airmail etiquette cover franked 5d, canc Cobar cds, signed by the pilot H.Boston. |
Price: £30.00 |
| 48 |
1929 apr. 21 |
18/04/1938 F/F Adelaide to Cleve, bs 18/4, plain cover franked 7d, canc Adelaide cds, signed pilot WP Heath. |
Price: £20.00 |
| 49 |
1929 apr. 21 |
28/06/1938 KLM, F/F Gravenhage, Holland to Sydney, Australia, bs 5/7, and return 14/7, KLM blue/orange/cream souvenir cover franked Netherlands 33c + 30c Luchtpostzeigel triangular air stamps and verso 2/1d Australia stamps canc Sydney Air Mail Section 14 Jly 1938, elaborate violet 'Amsterdam-Batavia-Sydney' flight cachet. Eustis #815a. |
Price: £70.00 |
| 50 |
1929 apr. 21 |
26/12/1942 Parachute mail, Sydney to Mornington Island, signed as received by R Braunholz, the missionary in charge, 27/12, large red "parachute" vignette, carried by Qantas flying boat "Coriolanus", and also signed by the pilot, Commander, WH Crowther, Qantas cover with company vignette on flap. |
Price: £65.00 |