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Lot 729
First flights & commercial flights
Australia, 1935 Air mail cover sent from Sydney to - Townsville First Flight Cover. sent to Mr. H.N. Eustis, Post Restante. TOWNSVILLE.
Lot 730
First flights & commercial flights
South Africa 1933 JUL.7 Karachi to Calcutta First Extension Flight Cover with Karachi to Calcutta boxed cachet as last leg on a Registered cover originally posted from Cape town 4d & 1d. Air and 3d pictorials tied by 'House of parliament June 20 1933' cds. arrival cds on back.
The first flight by the Indian Trans-Continental Airways was from Karachi to Calcutta via Jodhpur, Delhi, Cawnpore, Allahabad and Asansol. Mail for this flight had left Croydon on 1 July 1933 and, at Cairo, connected with the incoming flight from South Africa, South West Africa and Rhodesia. The mails were transferred to the Imperial Airways airliner Hanno (a Handley Page HP42 G-AAUD) which left for Karachi via Bahrain and Sharjah on 5 July. There the flight was continued by the Indian Trans-Continental airliner Arethusa (an Armstrong Whitworth AW15 Atalanta VT-AEF).
Lot 731
First flights & commercial flights
Barbados 1930 (Apri 8), NYRBA first flight Barbados to St Thomas, Virgin Islands,Stationery envelope of Gittens bearing 1/- and 1d tied by 'Barbados/8 Apr 30/GPO', Carried by NYRBA to St Thomas, US airmail service to New York, and by sea to England.
Lot 732
First flights & commercial flights
South Africa 1918, 'MAKE YOU SIXPENCE FLY' aerial first flight postcard to Observatory.
1918 (OCT.7.) AERIAL POST CARD addressed locally to Observatory with 'crested flying wings' MAKE YOUR SIXPENCE FLY inscription bearing 1/2d green 'head' adhesive tied by AERIAL POST/SOUTH AFRICA cds. Some edge crumpling at right but a scarce first flight card with small message reading 'The war will soon be over'.
Lot 733
First flights & commercial flights
NEW ZEALAND 1934, lot of 4 diff covers, illustrated Airmail cover, Air Travel NZ Ltd, Hokitika to Okuru 31/12/1934, Cat 114b, dampness faults. 1934 illustrated Airmail cover, Air Travel NZ Ltd, Okuru to Haast 31/12/1934, Cat 114c, spots. 1934 illustrated Airmail cover, Air Travel NZ Ltd, Haast to Hokitika 31/12/1934, Cat 114e, 73 flown, 1934 Health, dampness faults. 1934 illustrated Airmail cover, Air Travel NZ Ltd, Okuru to Hokitika 31/12/1934, Cat 114e, 73 flown, 1934 Health, dampness faults
Lot 734
First flights & commercial flights
INDIA, Covers sent by air, the 1920s to '30s, from India to England, with circular in black "BY AIR", also one cover sent in 1875, Cover sent to Manchester from London in 1909, Cover sent from Nederlands to London with "Postage Due" stamp, Cover sent in 1932, from Italy to London with three postage stamps on reverse.
PALESTINE, 1931 Oct. 23, Cover sent from Haifa to Croydon, "1st Flight: Official Mail", Label white on blue "By Air Mail", in red ink handwritten "1st Flight Haifa-England".
Lot 736
Rocket Mail.
AUSTRIA, Notverordnungsrakete N3 from Schmiedl, sent from Pernegg, dated 10.04.1935, cachet in red, originals signed by Schmiedl, 80 flown items are known.
Letter from Stephen H. Smith to Lady Ezra, concerning the First Rocket Mail Experiment at Havana, Cuba, which failed.
Lot 738
First flights & commercial flights
SYRIA GRAND LIBAN 1924, 10th November, Syria (Grand Liban) "Military Airmail" pictured card with flags, sent from Military Post Office 606 to Baghdad. Cachet in violet " Courrier par Avion" , with four stamps "Gd Liban" 2, 3, 5 and 10 Piastres.
Lot 739
Rocket Mail.
BELGIUM, 1936 Rocket Mail "ALBERTINE R.V.8 ST.1. No 18. Cover Knock, Roberti Signature.
Lot 740
Rocket Mail.
BELGIUM, 1936 Rocket Mail P.31 "BARBARA" ST.1. No 14. Cover Knock, Signed by Roberti.