Auction No. 44
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Lot 655
First flights & commercial flights
CANADA 1929, LAC-LA-RONGE-SASK to PRINCE-ALBERT (AAMC #CL40-2903a), Western Canada Airways scarce blue cachet semi-official first flight cover dated JUN21'1929, pilots Hillick & Kenyon, VF
Lot 656
First flights & commercial flights
CANADA 1929, Airmail Semi-Official, 1929, 10¢ Commercial Airways Ltd., #CL47a.First flight between Edmonton and Grand Prairie, Alberta, MY 21 29 cancels, blue flight cachet on front, shows "Commercial", GRANDE PRAIRIE ALTA Fine to Very Fine
Lot 657
First flights & commercial flights
CANADA 1928, Scott 142, CL42 on 1928 Yukon Airways First Flight Cover. First Flight, white Horse YUKON, British Columbia to Carcross, Yukon. AP 13 28 / B.C. CDS & light grid ties 25c blue Yukon Airways & 2c green Federation to First Flight envelope. Reverse: Carcross receiver CDS. Canadian Air Mail Catalogue CL42-2801g.
Lot 658
First flights & commercial flights
Canada 1928 (Ap.13), YUKON AIRWAYS first flight cover Whitehorse to Carcross bearing 2c green & 25c blue YUKON AIRWAYS flight label. (RL type 30).
Lot 659
First flights & commercial flights
HONG KONG 1936, 1st air mail to Australia from Hong Kong on 27.3.36 by Dorado The cover included as Figure 2 addressed to Brisbane, Australia was posted at the GPO on 26 March 1936. It was also part of the mail flown by Dorado to Penang the following day. It was then flown by the Imperial Airways IE429 service from Penang to Singapore on the AW15 Athena. There it was transferred to the DH 86 City of Brisbane, which flew it to Darwin, leaving Singapore on 30 March (it was running late because of a delay at Karachi caused by engine trouble) and arriving at Darwin on the following day after an overnight stop at Rambang. From there it was flown on 1 April to Brisbane by the DH 86 City of Melbourne, arriving there on 2 April after an overnight stop at Longreach. The cover is correctly franked at 80c (½ ounce rate by Imperial Airways to Australia as set down in Government Notification No. 266 of 1936).
Lot 660
First flights & commercial flights
HONG KONG 1937, First flight cover franked w. 35c P1563. tied w. 'Hong Kong 29 Apr. ' to Manila by Pan American Airways "Clipper", special cachet 'First Flight VIA P.A.A. / Received Manila 1937 / from Macau Hong Kong'. With arrival cds on back dated Apr. 27 1937. VF
Lot 661
First flights & commercial flights
South Africa 1931, Kimberly South West Africa First Flight Airmail Cover Reg. Winjhoek-Kimberley SHS special cachet on Grootfontein cover to Cape Town franked with 1931 Airmail 3d & 10d bilingual horiz prs. SG 86-87. transit and arrival pmks.
Lot 662
First flights & commercial flights
Swiss 1924, Lot of 2 similar postcards franked w. 45c or 35c on '1924 Poste Aerienne Monument National, Des Bangiers La Caouerelle-Lausanne' Special flight to Lausanne. SLH SF24.6 with 'Inauguration Du Monument National, Des Rangiers' label on both .
CANADA 1921, Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1921 Botwood, Newfoundland–Halifax, Nova Scotia, ''AIR MAIL/to Halifax, N.S./1921'' on 35c., 23/4mm. between ''AIR'' and ''MAIL'', no stop and ''1'' of ''1921'' below ''f'' of ''Halifax'', used with St. Johns Nov. 22 1921 machine cancellation on cover, the mail delivered by sea due to the crash of the plane, Halifax Feb. 4 1922 machine slogan arrival on reverse. S.G. 148b. Photo.
Lot 664
First flights & commercial flights
USA 1923, (April 9), Hydroplane Mail, New Orleans - Pilottown, LA to Belize, British Honduras by Steamer, on 2¢ stationery, Truby Bros cover.AAMC F3-1.
Lot 665
First flights & commercial flights
Thailand 1928 (Oct. 2) Flight cover to London signed by the pilots John Lee and Stephen Smith. scarce and good condition.
Thailand 1928 airmail cover from Bangkok to London England bearing 1928 King Prajadhipok stamps 10 satang & 25 satang (Scott 214 & 217 ; Michel No. 202 & 204 ; SG 255, 257) tied by a special cachet of two airplane silhouettes trailed by three wavy lines, in violet, which was used only in the autumn of 1928. The VIA AIRMAIL MARSEILLES-LONDON cachet in black was applied by the Bangkok G.P.O. Stephen Smith autograph on back along with his handwritten note : " only 35 covers carried on flight" Very scarce and good condition.C.J. Chan was a stamp dealer who prepared covers for many early Siam inland air mail flights. On October 2, 1928, mail left Bangkok on the inauguration of Bangkok-Marseilles, France-London, England service. The mail was flown over the Marseilles-London leg of the route. Fawdry reports that there were only about 35 covers carried on this air mail first flight, the small number probably due to the fact that the public did not feel justified in paying additional postage for the savings of half a day of transit time. The majority of these covers were prepared by Chan.
Lot 668
First flights & commercial flights
Thailand 1925 (April 19), Siam Airmail Cover NAGOR RAJASIMA to UBOL bearing 3s+5s+15s Garuda airmails (Scott. C2-C3, C5-C6 ; Mi: 184- 185, 187-188) tied by aeroplane circular date stamp cancel; Ubol arrival back. vf.