Auction 321 - 332 Europe & Overseas Great Britain & British Commonwealth - Day 3

1941/1943, Pan American Airways, study presented upon exhibition pages, detailing the routes and rates during WWII, comprising seven covers, all with censor markings, origins from Kenya, Gold Coast, Barbados, Peru, Madagascar, noted 1941 First Flight cover sent from Gold Coast to Gloucester, England carried via USA, with violet cachet "First Flight / Regular Air Mail Service / Gold Coast-USA" and rather nicely a letter which contains the quote; "it may seem there is now an air mail service via America......this mail is closing today", study includes three on the westbound route (two Foreign Air Mail 22 - FAM 22, one the "O" service), two eastbound using FAM 22, also 1942 Kenya to Bermuda carried on a combination of Imperial Airways and Pan American Airways, a fascinating group, scarce and beautifully mounted.