Auction No. 44
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Lot 547
First flights & commercial flights
British Commonwealth Siam 1930 1st Flight Thailand to India registered and attractively franked with Scott C4,5,7 and cancelled with special postmark. Addressed to and signed on back by Stephen Smith.
Lot 548
Air - Mail
China 1949 inflation airmail cover Shanghai to England. Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Plum Blossoms (Gold Yuan surcharge) Block of 16 100000.00/30000$ blue overprinted stamps (Mi:CN-IM 942, Yt:CN-IM 709, SG:CN-IM 1116), tied by 'Shanghai / 10.5.1949' cds.
Lot 549
First flights & commercial flights
Netherlands 1930, 5th International Congress on Air Navigation held in the Ridderzaal at The Hague Group of 3 airmail covers and 2 air-letters posted from 1 to 6 September 1930. mixed franking w. Carrier Pigeon definitives. Variety of handstamps incl. the special congress postmark.
Lot 550
First flights & commercial flights
Netherlands 1930, nice group of 6 early Netherlands KLM First flight covers to Germany, different cities. 3 of which Express airmail bearing mixed franking, transit and arrival cds reviling few complex routes.
Lot 551
First flights & commercial flights
Belgium 1935 // 1936 by Sabena airmail: FDC 1935 Bruxelles to Lillie , France mixed franking of 1930 airmail 50c. (Sc. 283) and 1935 Charity stamps 35+15 C (Sc. 395) tied by The Brussels International Exposition of 1935 cds. arrival cds. Muller Catalogue N°: 184.
1936 Airmail to Stockhalem bearing mixed franking of 1935 airmail Overprint 1/1.50Fr (Sc 398) and 1936 definitives 10C & 25c. (Sc. 413, 416) arrival cds on back.
Lot 552
Air - Mail
Netherlands, 1929 lot of 8 International Aero-philatelic stationery airmail envelopes.
Lot 553
Air - Mail
Great Britain offices 1930's Lot of 5 covers all addressed to Ezra/Sassoon family in Calcutta and London; Penang and Tangier to Calcutta ; Singapore (x2) and (Port of Spain) Trinidad to London. Nice group of early flights.
Lot 554
First flights & commercial flights
Australia 1931, First flight Australia England - 2 covers:
- KLM, Fokker FVIIA/3m trimotor Registered first flight cover sent from Melbourne, Australia and addressed to London, England cover bearing multi franking of 1931 Kingford Smith's World Flights 6d in a block of 6 plus singular (Mi:AU 112 ; Yt:AU PA3, SG 123) and 3d (Mi. 96; SG 122) all stamps are tied by Register postmark May 22. On the reverse is the cachet for the "Australia-Netherlands Indies Special Air Mail Flight - May 1931 Melbourne to Batavia". This flight left Melbourne on May 27, 1931 and arrived in Batavia on May 27, 1931.
- April 1931 Imperial Airways, First official flight British Commonwealth Australia - England, air letter bearing mixed franking of 1931 Kingford Smith's World Flights 2d, 3d, 6d (SG 121-123) & 1929 Airmail 3d. (Mi:89, SG. 115) both tied by 'Toorak VIC / April 22 1931', On reverse 41/2d in mixed franking (SG 116 & SG 117 x2) also tied by Toorak April 22, also rubber hand stamp in violet commemorating the 'FIRST OFFICIAL AIR MAIL FLIGHT' from Melbourne to London.
Lot 555
First flights & commercial flights
Australia 1929 // 1931, Two early flight covers to Sir David Ezra in Calcutta India.
- 1929 (Jul 11) Sydney to Calcutta Airmail cover bearing mixed franking of 3d (Mi:89, SG 115) vertical pair plus 1½ d (Mi: 71XCI, SG. 96a) arrival cds on reverse.
- April 1931 (Apr. 22) Imperial Airways, First official flight British Commonwealth Australia - England, air letter bearing mixed franking of 2d, 3d, 6d (SG 121-123); 1½ d , 3d. (SG 117-118)& 1½ d (SG 105) and 3d. (SG115) All stamps tied by 'Toorak VIC / April 22 1931', On reverse rubber hand stamp in violet commemorating the 'FIRST OFFICIAL AIR MAIL FLIGHT' from Melbourne to London. and May 4 1931 arrival cds.
Lot 556
First flights & commercial flights
South Africa Imperial Airways 1932, three different covers properly franked w. 1929 airmail stamps the 1932 Jan 26 to Calcutta via Cairo, carries 'CANCELLED' box cachet per heavy rains and delayed flights, delivered day after. Reg Parys CV to London and First Flight Kimberly to Woodstock.
Lot 557
First flights & commercial flights
Toga Niuafoou 1938, Walter Quensell's Tin Can Mail. Signed on reverse, Niufoou Island Reg mail to India Calcutta correctly franked at 5.5d. Cover contains a total of 20 different cachets in several languages.
Lot 558
Zeppelin flight.
Irland Stoltz, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1s, 9d, and 1/2d defines., GAILLIMH double-ring CDs, green AER POST/GAILLIMH-BERLIN cachet of first flight, red LUFTPOSTAMT/BERLIN handstamp, circular red and hexagonal orange handstamp of 9th South American Flight of the Graf Zeppelin, Pernambuco receipt CDs on the reverse of October 27. Adhesive tape at the left edge and on reverse, otherwise fine. Scarce -Davis states only 25 flown.