Auction No. 44
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Lot 517
Rocket Mail.
Netherlands 1935 Rocket Mail, 3 covers from Holland launch, diff cachets.
Lot 518
First flights & commercial flights
R-cover was sent from Kioto Japan from S.J. DAVID & go.
Lot 519
Zeppelin flight.
Paraguay 1933 (Sep. 27) LZ127 Graf Zeppelin South American flight - return leg Paraguay - Wurttemberg, Germany, Asuncion registered 70c p.s. card uprated with 3p & 22.50 Zeppelin issue, various Zeppelin cachets, Sieger 233 + Zeppelin air & registration etiquettes. (1)
Lot 520
First flights & commercial flights
Indochina Flight Covers 1929 - 1930, 3 Registered Airmail covers w. transit and arrival postmarks :
1) 1929 return flight by Tixier and Robbe was delayed until 24 May because the seaplane’s pontoon needed repairs. The mail from Hanoi to Saigon consisted of 156 letters. POSTAL MARKINGSHANOI R.P. TONKIN 22-5 29 ; airmail label. Reverse: SAIGON-CENTRAL COCHINCHINE 24-5 29 Signed on back by pilot.
2) Lalouette and Goulette ; Saigon - Bangkok - Amsterdam - Europe17-25 October 1930 KLM Air Oriental 's first service posted at Saigon on 17 Octoberand reached Paris on 25 October 1930. Posmarked SAIGON-CENTRAL COCHINCHINE 17-10 30registry and airmail labels on
3) Pilot Lalouette and navigator Goulette 19 November to Hanoi. Letters were numbered, backstamped Hanoi 14:45, 21 November upon arrival. : Posmarked: SAIGON-CENTRAL COCHINCHINE 19-11 30airmail and registration label Reverse: receipt label and HA-NOI R.P. TONKIN 21-11 30
Lot 521
First flights & commercial flights
South Africa, 1931, Lot of 8 different internal flown covers from 5 different cities each franked with Scott #C5 and special Christmas seals, bi-lingual airmail etiquette on each.
Lot 522
First flights & commercial flights
South Africa 1935 // 1939 , Lot of 4 flight covers:
- 1935 Airmail Exhibition cachet tying King George V Silver Jubilee stamps (SG 65E, 66E , 68A) on air-letterCape town to India, Signed on back.
- 1935 Swaziland KGV Silver Jubilee 3d. pair ( SG 23 ; Sc 22) on Reg. cover to Cape Town
- 1938 (Feb. 19) Airmail Pretoria to India bearing mixed franking of 4d (SG 45c -A; O17b), arrival cds on back. hand marked at front 'Last Flight with Air Fee'.
- 1939 (9. XI) large Airmail cover Cape town to Calcutta bearing bi lingual Se-tenant block of 4 : 1/2d. & 1d. & 12/2 d & (SGSe-tenant (Michel ZA 131-132 ; Yvert ZA 108 and 111 & Mi:ZA 133-134, Sn:ZA B10, Yt:ZA 109 and 112 & Mi:ZA 135-136, Sn:ZA B11, Yt:ZA 110 and 113)
Lot 523
First flights & commercial flights
South Africa 1934 (July 31) First Flight to MADAGASCAR via Broken Hill. Air mail cover bearing mixed franking of 1d. + 1d.+2d (Mi:ZA 135A-, 23A, 49.; Yt:ZA 29, 17, 40; SG. 36, 31E,44E) all tied by Cape Town 31 July 1934 cds. 'by air mail/per lugpos' label in blue on front. Nice receiving cancel on reverse. Rare first flight cover.This is a leg of the first flight, originated in Paris, intended to established a link between the island and Broken Hill, South Rhodesia, so to link up with Imperial Airways.
Lot 524
First flights & commercial flights
1935 (AUG .5) First Flight Blantyre Nyasaland to Beira Portuguese East Africa . Souvenir envelope 'Rhodesian & Nyasaland Airways Ltd' bearing 4d (SG 135) tied by Blantyre cds 5 AUG 35. Special flight cachet in black, alongside. Arrival cds of same date on reverse. VF, attractive.
Lot 525
First flights & commercial flights
Netherland & Colonies, group pf 4 airmail covers, three of which signed by the pilots Captain Smith, Captain Robbs and Captain
- 1934, Australian First Flight Cover 20 October 1934 Official MacRobertson Air Race Holland to Australia via London. Carried by KLM DC2 "Uiver". On reverse arrival and flight postmark with pilot signature - Smith
- 1929 Gravenhage to Sabang Netherland Indies, by steamer and Airmail via the Rotterdam - Marseille 'EERSTE INDISCHE MAILVERZENDING per luchpost in 1929 ROTTERDAM-MARSEILLE', with pilot signature on reverse.
- 1934 Netherlands, airmail by 'the Snip' airplane ( a Fokker F-XVIII) the first transatlantic flight of the West Indies Company of KLM from Schiphol to Curaçao. 1934. KLM KERSTPOSTVLUCHT NEDERLAND - WEST INDIE GRAVENHAGE 13.XII.1934. + NEDERLAND SURINAME CURACAO VLUCHT SNIP. 15 DEC 34. to Norwich, England
- KLM airmail from Amsterdam franked w. 85c to London where 6d postage due stamps were applied by the 'T' hand-stamp.
Lot 526
First flights & commercial flights
France 1930 // 1938, Airmail cards posted to Calcutta India.: 1930 airmail Postcard to New York franked w. mixed franking of 150f. incl. a pair of first airmail issues Y&T Aerienne #5, Sc. #C5 ; 1937 PC to Calcuta India franked w. 3f. pair of 1936 Y&T Aerienne # 9 ; 1938 mixed franking to India.
Lot 527
First flights & commercial flights
Australia 1929 // 1937 , lot of 3 airmail covers properly franked; multi franking, transit and arrival postmarks : 1) 1929 Reg. airmail Perth West Australia to Melbourne. 2) 1934 First Flight Airmail Service cover FFC from Brisbane Australia To London England . 3) 1937 Sydney NSW Reg. Airmail cover to Calcutta India.
Lot 528
First flights & commercial flights
Indochina 1930 airmail covers:
1) 20th Anniversary of First Flight December 1930 commemorative cachet struck with blue ink on this airmail cover to France, postmarked: SAIGON-CENTRAL COCHINCHINE 26-12 30.2)Saigon to Hong Kong China 28 October 19303) Saigon – Bangkok – Amsterdam – Paris 1-12 January 1930. the second departure of the combined Air Asia-KLM Saigon- Paris service via Bangkok 1-1 30 a two-line, framed cachet (by Dutch airmail.) postmarked: SAIGON-CENTRAL COCHINCHINE 1-1 30 airmail and registration labels