Auction No. 44
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New Zealand 1934, The second official trans-Tasman airmail 29 March 1934 by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. The plane was the Fokker VIIb/3m monoplane Southern Cross used in the original trans-Tasman flight of 1928. It was commemorated in a set of historic aircraft issued in May 2001. The special cover listed the six trans-Tasman flights. Some of the official covers, including the above, have two errors in the list of flights. The special cachet ' trans-Tasman airmail New Zealand Southren Cross ' with dot Above C variety. tying 7d. stamp along with Calcutta April 23, as cover addressed to India. It does have the Sydney backstamp which is at 4pm on the 29 March and Calcutta April 22 1934. The envelope signed on back by pilot Smith Australian aviation pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith (“Smithy”, 1897-1935),
Lot 452
First flights & commercial flights
Australia 1931 (Nov. 19)Christmas greetings from Australia - First air mail illustrated cover bearing mixed franking of 6d. Kingsford-Smith's Trans-oceanic flights (x2) (Mi:113, Yt: PA4, SG.139, , Bru:AU C2-3) 2d. King George V. All stamps tied by Air Mail 9 Nov 1931. Special flight cachet at bottom left. Signed by the pilot 'G. Allan'.
Australia airmail 1935 & 1938 4 covers:
1) Australian First Flight Cover 19 August 1935 Australian Transcontinental Airways Adelaide to Darwin. Backstamped on arrival at Darwin.
2) 1st Regular Air Mail to England, (AAMC 826) two different covers : 31 July 1938 and, August 1938, Postmarked Sidney NSW.
3)1938 Australia to England properly franked w. 9d. AIR MAIL/SECTION/GPO machine postmark.
Lot 454
First flights & commercial flights
Australian First Flight Cover 1938 Carpenter Airlines Australia Boomerang covers to Papaua and to New Guinea backstamped on arrival in Rabaul; Port Moresy and Sydney. ; Also British Commonwealth New Guinea Registered Rabaul cover to Calcutta India
CANADA 1928, Scott 142, CL42 on 1928 Yukon Airways First Flight Cover. First Flight, Carcross to White Horse, Yukon. 3 strikes of CARCROSS / AP 13 28 / YUKON CDS, 2 of which tie 25c blue Yukon Airways & 2c green Confederation to First Flight envelope. Reverse: WHITE HORSE / AP 16 28 / YUKON receiver CDS. Canadian Air Mail Catalogue CL42-2801f.
Lot 456
First flights & commercial flights
China 1920's //1939, two airmail covers: Airmail Bandoeng Amsterdam to London cover mixed franking of 156gts. incl. 1921 First Peking Print Airmail (Chan A4-5). and 1939 w. ovpt stamp.
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.