SOUTHERN AFRICA Ex-Dealers stock of 215 covers in protectors (priced to sell at £2450) incl. first flights, censored, registered, active service, POW mail, official etc. incl. British Bechuanaland, B.C.A, Nyasaland, Malawi, B.E.A, K.U.T, Northern Rhodesia, Basutoland, Cape of Good Hope, Swaziland etc. Useful lot, viewing recommended.
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Lot #204 - world postal history
AIRMAILS NEAR EAST group of fifteen flown covers, various routes & stages incl. 1920 Karachi - Bombay, 1923 Baghdad - Cairo - Paris, 1926 Cairo - Baghdad - Basra, 1928 Calcutta - Akyab RAF Flying Boat, 1929 Imperial Airways London - Karachi, 1929 London - Basra - Karachi, 1929 Bushire Iran - London etc. (15)
Lot #205 - world postal history
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR LETTERS approx 250 both used & unused, all folded and mostly typed addressed, good variety, generally fine throughout.
Lot #206 - world postal history
BRITISH WEST INDIES 1930-32 first flight covers (4), Grenada 1930 July 20th NYRBA St. Georges - Port of Spain, Jamaica PAA 1930 Dec 10th Kingston - St. Johns Antigua with cachet (circa 36 flown), Montserrat 1932 Feb 23rd RNAS Seaplane flight Plymouth - St. Kitts onto Port of Spain (38 flown), St. Vincent 1932 July 29th Hummingbird flight Kingston - Barbados (98 flown), attractive group.
Lot #207 - world postal history
EUROPE first flight covers (8) ALBANIA 1925 June 1st AAL Red Cross flight Tirana - Scutari special cover (250 flown), ESTONIA 1920 March 12th mostly franked first flight cover incl. new 5 mark Air stamp registered flown Tallin - Helsinki scarce, HOLLAND 1933 June 15th KLM first flight Enschede - London, Croydon (81 flown), ICELAND 1939 July 30th Glider flight Sandskeid - Reykjavik special card posted on arrival & pilot signed,...
Lot #208 - world postal history
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS first flight covers (2) Malaya 1934 Dec 15th Singapore - Perth, Australia pilot signed V. G. Wilson (scarce signature), Malta 1931 July 3rd first acceptance flight Africa by African service Valletta - Dar Es Salaam Via Mwanza.
Lot #209 - world postal history
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS first flight covers, Netherlands 1931 Feb 26th acceptance for London - Mwanza official cover, Italy 1934 Dec 10th Brindisi - Longreach registered cover. Scarce. (2)
Lot #210 - world postal history
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS first flight covers (3), Canada 1939 Montreal - Southampton scarce, official cover withdrawn design with cachet, Gibraltar 1933 June 26th Acceptance for first flight London - Calcutta official cover with cachet & signed Stephen Smith, Hong Kong 1937 Dec 19th Hong Kong - Bangkok .
Lot #211 - world postal history
MARITIME/SHIPPING related collection of 100 covers/cards within a modern album incl. postcard from Major Wright & Co, Elsinore 27th June 1876 giving accounts of ship movements observed to a ship owner in Hartlepool from Kopenhagen, 1900 cover posted Z.A.R per the SS Gironde to Hornsey reverse bears pink postdepartment Z.A. Republiek censor label, RMS Queen Elizabeth 1946 Maiden Voyage, 1939 posted on the high seas/S.S. Monarch of Bermuda...
Lot #212 - world postal history
MEDITERRANEAN MAIL 1828-40 two EL's from Tunis to Genoa by named captains with s/line or three line VIA DI MARE marks, the latter item slit for disinfection (both ex Robertson collection), also 1849 EL Naples - Florence with clear oval VILLA DI MARSIGLIA/PIROSCAFI/MARIA ANTONIETTA ship's h/stamp. Attractive trio. (3)
Lot #213 - world postal history
POSTAL HISTORY ACCUMULATION of covers incl. much WWII censored mail from Italy, USA, GB, Yugoslavia, Spain, Switzerland, Ireland etc. Also interesting Poland, Hungary, Russia, a few Argentina items of stationery etc. Viewing recommended. (86)
Lot #214 - world postal history
QANTAS first flight covers (4) 1947 July 17th official cover Rabaul - Sydney pilot signed, by 3 pilots, another but Hollandia - Lae pilot signed, 1953 Nov 20th official cover Bangkok - Sydney pilot signed.
Lot #215 - world postal history
SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA range of first flight covers (9), Brazil Pansir 1939 Jan 14th Pacos De Caldas - Rio company cover with cachet British Guiana P.A.A 1931 Feb 6th Georgetown - Guayaquil with cachet. Canal Zone Panacra 1929 Oct 8th Cristobal - Buenos Aires pilot signed E. G. Schultz with cachet (143 flown), Columbia Scadta survey flight 1925 Aug 10th Barranquilla - Cristobal with cachet company label (on reverse) scarce, Costa Rica...
Lot #216 - world postal history
WORLD POSTAL HISTORY ACCUMULATION approx. 700 in a box, European & British Commemorative earlier to first flights, Third Reich censored mail, stationery, FDC's etc. Nothing special.
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