Auction No. 44
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Lot 457
First flights & commercial flights
Australia 1937 (May 29), First Australian Sailplane Flight" AAMC 734 - Sydney Sailplane Flight (unofficial). illustrated cover marked as number 55 (out of 125) signed by Pilot M. Warner.
Lot 458
First flights & commercial flights
France 1934 (Oct. 2) Airmail cover Paris to Calcutta, Label single line white on blue "Par Avion", various postage stamps commemorating events, cachet in black on reverse. Including 10f. Yvert No. 321, (stamp valued at Euro 210.-).
Lot 459
Zeppelin flight.
Germany 1936 (May 5), Pictured Postcard Graf Zeppelin, First Airmail by Hindenburg, from Friedrichshafen to New York, First Flight circular, red cachet "Deutsche Luftpost, Europa-Nordamerika' and Frankfort airmail cds tying LZ 129 50 Pf. and 15 Pf.
Lot 460
Zeppelin flight.
Paraguay 1932 (April 15) South America Zeppelin Flight, Sieger 155. Registered Postcard LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin from 1932 - Ascuncion (Paraguay) via Pernambuco (Brazil) to Friedrichshafen (Germany)(27.4.1932) and the arrival stamp Lorch (27.4.1932). mixed franking of two triangular zeppelin stamps 8p. and 12p. and 3p stamp of 70p prepaid stationery postcard . all tied w. two Cachets diamond shaped in violet. At left - Brazilian special confirmation cachet "Servico Aereo Transatlantico"
On back - oval airline cachet "Servicio Aereo / Condor-Zeppelin / Transatlantico" and the Reg label.
Lot 461
First flights & commercial flights
Alex Henshaw A Flying Legend, (British air racer in the 1930s and a test pilot for Vickers Armstrong during World War II .) hand-written and signed letter dated Feb 8 1939 following his record-breaking 12,754-mile solo flight from Gravesend to Cape Town and back. also another postcard of his plane the G-AEXF postmarked CapeTown airport Feb 8 1939 and London east airpot Feb 9 1939.
Lot 462
First flights & commercial flights
Nyasaland 1933, (Malawi) two flight covers: May 27 Blantyre to Lilongwe with “FIRST NYD AIRMAIL/30 MY/1933” type 16 skeleton cachet at 1s. rate SG-100,103.105.107(355 flown); and June 5 Zomba to Fort Jameson with “NYD NRHOD AIRMAIL/5 JU/1933” type 16 skeleton cachet at 1s. rate (261 flown). SG-106.
Lot 463
First flights & commercial flights
Nederland 1929. Two Amsterdam Netherlands Registered Airmail Commercial Covers To British India MEDAN. mixed franking incl the 1929 Netherlands 1½ GLD #C6 & 7½ GLD #C8 Mercurius airmail
Lot 464
First flights & commercial flights
Australia 1934 (June 15),New England Airways Ltd. "City of Grafton" env flown on the 1st Brisbane to Townsville flight covers AAC 480, with same day arrival cds.
Lot 465
First flights & commercial flights
Great Britain 1931 (April 14) First Experimental Flight London to Calcutta. cover franked w. 11p. (King George V. 6p+5p.) Handstamped in black w. 'VIA IMPERIAL AIRWAYS / 1ST EXPERIMENTAL FLIGHT / ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA', signed by Stephen H. Smith April 15 Calcutta receiver cds on back.
Lot 466
First flights & commercial flights
Australia 1929 (June 4), West Australian Airways Perth to Adelaide. Reg. cover bearing f ½d King George (x3) +3d kokabura +3d Biplane. Backstamped on arrival in Sydney. With Red Reg. label and red airmail hand-stamp.
Lot 467
Hotel SEMIRAMIS
Egypt 1934 airmail to Calcutta by Imperial Airways, franked w. Postal Congress 2, 10, & 15 Mils. - tied by Cairo 1934 March 9th, connected to Karachi-Calcutta, a blue 'By Air Mail' label is crossed over with box cachet "Karachi Cancelled / 16 MARCH 34',
Lot 468
Air - Mail
Egypt 1936 (Dec. 24) airmail Cover Cairo to Calcutta, label bi-lingual French Arabic "Par Avion", 4 commemorative postage stamps of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty August 26th 1936, 5, 15 (x2), and 20 Mills. (Mi. 220 - 222; SG. 245 -247 ; Yt. 184 - 186) all tied by Cairo 24. Dec. 1936.