The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1907 (Sep 7) Stampless Daily Graphic balloon postcard addressed to Bombay, flown in the "Mammoth" balloon from London to Sweden and thrown overboard at Tosse, where the card was posted. Handstamped with a "TOSSE" c.d.s and boxed "T", boxed "POSTAGE DUE / ONE...
Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
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Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
We are delighted to announce our Spring Auction which includes:
INDIA exceptional AIR MAILS
BUSHIRE a fine collection of stamps & covers.
CYPRUS the important William Frew collection.
GB the Michael Goodman collections of London & Middlesex plus other fine stamps & postal history.
KUT George VI; Gilbert & Ellice Islands; Italy; GB Postal Stationery featuring Registration Envelopes; China 1894 set on cover; India KGV 1 anna collection and Antarctic.
Viewing of most lots at London Stampex 18th / 21st February or by appointment at our offices or ak for scans.
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Lot #1144 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
Lot #1145 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Feb 18) Allahabad First Aerial Post cover to Austria, franked QV 2a6p tied by the special pictorial Aerial Post cancel in magenta, backstamped at Allahabad (Feb 18) and upon arrival at Zipf (Mar 10). A scarce destination for a cover flown at Allahabad....
Lot #1146 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Feb 18) Allahabad First Aerial Post cover to Hamburg, franked QV 2a6p tied by the special pictorial Aerial Post cancel in magenta, backstamped at Allahabad (Feb 18) and Bombay. A scarce destination for a cover flown at Allahabad. Photo on Page 145.
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Lot #1147 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Feb 18) Allahabad First Aerial Post cover to Amballa, franked KEVII 1/2a tied by the special pictorial Aerial Post cancel in magenta, backstamped at Allahabad (Feb. 18) and Amballa (Feb. 20). A barely noticeable vertical crease, otherwise superb with a...
Lot #1148 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Feb 18) Allahabad First Aerial Post, reverse portion only of a registered envelope bearing KEVII 2a and 3p (2) tied by the special pictorial Aerial Post cancel in magenta with a second strike below, an Allahabad registration label applied and Allahabad...
Lot #1149 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Feb 18) Allahabad First Aerial Post cover, addressed by Capt. Walter Windham to "E. Perrin Esq., R. Aero Club, Piccadilly, London" bearing KEVII 3p (2) and 1/2a each tied by the special pictorial Aerial Post cancel in magenta, backstamped at Allahabad (Feb...
Lot #1150 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Feb 18) Allahabad First Aerial Post, first type postcard, 160x127mm, depicting Pequet in his biplane with his imitation signature above and the printed heading "FIRST "AERIAL POST", FEBRUARY 18 £11", posted to Meerut with KEVII 1/2a tied by the special...
Lot #1151 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Feb 18) Allahabad First Aerial Post, second type postcard, 152x115mm, depicting Pequet in his biplane with his imitation signature above and the printed heading "FIRST "AERIAL POST", ALLAHABAD, FEBRUARY 18, 1911", posted to Calcutta with KEVII 1/2a tied by...
Lot #1152 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Feb 18) Allahabad First Aerial Post, KEVII 1£4a Postcard bearing proof strikes of the special pictorial Aerial Post cancel in black and the Allahabad c.d.s, the reverse inscribed and signed "With the promoters compliments, W. Windham. The only ones in...
Lot #1153 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Feb 18) Allahabad First Aerial Post, cover bearing KEVII 1/2a cancelled to order by the special pictorial Aerial Post cancel in black, with an Allahabad c.d.s below, signed "Capt W. Wyndhams Compts". Worn at the edges with several small tears, a larger one...
Lot #1154 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Feb 18) Allahabad First Aerial post, picture postcard registered to Budge-Budge, franked on the picture side by KEVII 1a pair tied by the special pictorial Aerial Post cancel in black, the reverse bearing an Allahabad registration label, datestamps of...
Lot #1155 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Sep 9) First UK Aerial Post, violet £privileged mail£ postcard with printed "Souvenir of the First United Kingdom £Aerial Post£. With the compliments of the Founder", signed W. Windham, addressed to his wife in India with KEVII 1/2d and KGV 1/2d each tied...
Lot #1156 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Sep 9) First UK Aerial Post, red envelope franked KEVII 1d to India, flown from Hendon to Windsor, cancelled by the special London Aerial Post c.d.s code 3, backstamped upon arrival at Imphal (Oct. 5). The enclosed letter on red Aerial Post notepaper...
Lot #1157 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Sep 13) First UK Aerial Post, brown postcard to Bombay with printed message of thanks from the organising Committee, bearing KGV 1/2d pair tied by the London Aerial Post c.d.s code 3, with "SEA POST OFFICE / C / BOMBAY-ADEN" arrival c.d.s (Oct. 1) alongside...
Lot #1158 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Sep 13) First UK Aerial Post, brown postcard flown from London to Windsor bearing KEVII 1/2d and KGV 1/2d both tied by the London Aerial Post c.d.s, addressed to Pathankot and redirected to Ferozopore, with five India datestamps on the front including...
Lot #1159 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1911 (Sep 13) First UK Aerial Post emergency printing envelope in dark brown with enclosed letter, addressed to the Lt. Governors Camp at Naini Tal and redirected to Ranikhet, bearing KGV 1d tied by the London Aerial post c.d.s code 3. Backstamped at Talli-Tal (...
Lot #1160 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1913 Aerial Exhibition at the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, printed card, "GREAT AERIAL EXHIBITION 8th JANUARY 1913. BY Messrs G. Verminck & M. Pourpe. A Souvenir from 20,000 feet ABOVE CALCUTTA. PRICE Re. 1". A small number of these cards were flown by...
Lot #1161 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1913 Aerial Exhibition at the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, printed card, "GREAT AERIAL EXHIBITION 8th JANUARY 1913. BY Messrs G. Verminck & M. Pourpe. A Souvenir from 20,000 feet ABOVE CALCUTTA. PRICE Re. 1". A small number of these cards were flown by...
Lot #1162 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1918 (Dec 13) Great Britain to India First Through Aerial Mail, cover flown from Martlesham to Karachi in the RAF Handley Page aircraft "Old Carthusian". Endorsed "BY 1st aeroplane, UK to India" with India 2a6p cancelled upon arrival at Karachi (17 Jan. 19, a...
Lot #1163 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1919 (Jan 12) Persia 2ch postal stationery postcard written at Bandar Abbas and despatched from there to Karachi on the "Old Carthusian", on the final leg of its flight from G.B to India. Franked by India 1a tied by Bandar Abbas c.d.s, endorsed "By aeroplane...
Lot #1164 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1919 (Jan 9) Stampless cover from Baghdad signed "F.S Maxwell Lt." and addressed to Lt. Eric Thorpe, R.A.F, G.P.O, Delhi, subsequently redirected back to Baghdad with "F.P.O 55" c.d.s and the violet cachet "POSTAL SERVICE M.E.F / AERIAL POST-BAGHDAD-DELHI / PER...
Lot #1165 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1919 (Nov 12) England to Australia Air Race, cover carried by Capt. Ross Smith and Lt. Keith Smith on their record breaking flight from Hounslow to Darwin, via France, Italy, Crete, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Persia, India, Burma, Thailand and Singapore, addressed to "...
Lot #1166 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1919 Stampless O.A.S cover to Sydney, flown from Baghdad to Delhi by the experimental Handley Page flight piloted by Brig.-Gen. MacEwen, Major Maclaren and Gp.-Capt. Halley, then transferred at Delhi to the Ross Smith flight from England, the blue "First Aerial...
Lot #1167 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1919 (Nov 23) Cover to Victoria endorsed "Bandar Abbas 23-11-19 (Per kind favour of Capt Ross Smith in his competition flight)" and signed "F.P Ford Lt., 120 Infy" with crest of the 120 Rajputana Infantry on the flap. Franked India 1/2a and 1a and bearing the...
Lot #1168 - INDIA - AIR MAILS collection
The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1919 (Nov 8) Cover to Karachi with India 2a6p tied by Bandar Abbas c.d.s, handstamped with the violet cachets "PAR POSTE D£AIR / PAR FAVEUR DE / M. POULET" and "BY AERIAL POST THRO / M. POULET", this second cachet also appearing on the enclosed note. Backstamped...
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