India
Covers and stamps / India / Airmail / First Flight
(Airmail) 1911 internal registered cover franked 3p., 2a. and 8a. tied by single illustrated FIRST AERIAL POST/ U.P. Exhibition Allahabad cds, fine legible registration handstamp bottom left, manuscript registration number “9”. Fine and attractive.
£645
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Airmail
(Airmail) 1912 Leipzig Margareten Volksfestes card used within Leipzig bearing 50pf grey-blue tied framed Durch Flugpost 18/5 12; very fine condition.
£75
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Airmail
(Airmail) 1925 Easter Air Day Regensburg 10pf and 20pf on Official used card on 13th april, the second day, each label tied by cds and the marginal 20pf also by two-line ‘Mit Flugzeug/ D409 befordert’; very fine condition.
£375
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Airmail
(Airmail) 1931 (2.7.) registered company insured (10.45 Rmk) cover to Nienburg bearing single franking 1 RM tied by two Hamburg cds, arrival backstamp.
£55
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Airmail
(Airmail) 1934 (2.2.) registered cover to Montevideo, Uruguay endorsed “Mit deutscher Luftpost nach Sudamerika”, the franking including 1 RM Zeppelin and Wagner 40 + 35pf. tied Berlin C date stamps, red smudged air cachet, arrival backstamps.
£195
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Airmail
(Airmail) 1934 (26.1.) airmail cover Bremen to Bahia, Brazil with printed directions for item to go via Air France with Marseille Air backstamp of 28.1. and arrival of 3.II., the franking including 4Rm South American flight zeppelin; good condition.
£145
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany / Airmail
(Airmail) 1938 airmail cover to Leopoldville, Belgian Congo carried on first Air Africa Alger to Brazzaville flight with red handstamp at centre, arrival backstamps; a rare acceptance.
£50
Germany
Covers and stamps / Germany post 1945 / Postal Stationery / Airmail
(American and British Zones) 1949 60pf airmail letter sheet showing spelling variety ‘hochgeschlagen’ instead of ‘hochschlagen’, very fine unused with normal for comparison. (Michel LP 3I)
£125
France
Covers and stamps / France / Russia / Airmail / St Petersburg
(Ballon Monte) 1870 (26 Oct) small entire to St Petersbourg, Russia franked 1863-71 Laureated Napoleon 80c. tied ‘18’ Paris Star with Paris, A. D’Amsterdam cds in association, framed PD and red manuscript rates in transit. Small tear at back, fine and fresh to rare destination. The letter was sent to Councellor of State Mr Alexandre de Schulz denying any involvement of Prince Napoleon in scandal with forger of Russia’s banknotes made by Mr. Dombrowsky.
£3200
Great Britain
Covers and stamps / Great Britain / Airmail / Exhibitions
(British Empire Exhibition) 1924 (31 Oct) airmail cover to Danzig franked with 1d. and 1924 Exhibition 1 1/2d. (3) tied by Exhibition cancels, reverse with Berlin transit and red airmail cachet; good condition.
£75
Italian Colonies
Covers and stamps / Italian Colonies / Libya / Airmail
(Libia) 1933 airmail cover to Lodi, franked Postage 50c. and Air 50c. of Tripolitania plus vertical pair of overprinted 80c Posta Aerea cancelled Posta Aerea Tripoli D’Africa cds, Lodi Milano arrival backstamp. Scarce 80c. multiple.
£145
French Levant
Covers and stamps / Constantinople / French Levant / Airmail / Military
1919 (14.8.) printed headed envelope from Constantinople to Paris franked Merson 40c. strip of three and Sower 5c. tied by two framed ARMEES ALLIEES EN ORIENT/ POSTE AERIENNE cachets, Tresor et Postes 506 cds, arrival backstamp.
£295
French Levant
Covers and stamps / French Levant / Airmail / Censored mail / Military
1919 (22.9.) envelope to American Express, Paris franked Merson 1f. and Sower 10c. and 15c. tied by framed ARMEES ALLIEES EN ORIENT/ POSTE AERIENNE cachet, Tresor et Postes 506 cds, censor tape at top that is tied at back.
£195
Thailand
Covers and stamps / Thailand / Switzerland Incoming Mail / Airmail
1924 registered airmail cover to Switzerland franked 1920 Rama VI issues 2s. (2), 5s. (4) and 15s. (3) all tied by three large 'aeroplane' illustrated Roi Etch date stamps, registration handstamp bottom left, reverse with Bangkok 2 and 5 transit cancels and Bern arrival cds.
£225
ALBANIA
Covers and stamps / Albania / Airmail
1927 Airmails 5q green block of 4 with shifted overprint (few teeth slightly toned) together with 5q green marginal strip of 3; attractive franking on airmail cover from 'TIRANE/18 6 27' to Italy with arrival mark on reverse. (Cat.144(4), 153(3)).
£55
Persia
Covers and stamps / Persia / Airmail / First Flight
1929 (6 IV) registered airmail cover, Bouchir to Imperial Bank of Persia, London, Franked on reverse 1926 ‘Regne de Pahlavi’ overprinted 10ch. and 3k. plus 1928-29 Airmail overprint 5ch. strip of three, obverse with registration handstamp and bilingual illustrated First Flight cachet Buchir – Londres.
£75
Iraq
Covers and stamps / Iraq / Late Mail / Airmail / Instructional Handstamps
1929 airmail cover to Bombay, India franked 6a. tied Baghdad cds, bottom left with framed violet RECEIVED LATE FOR INCLUSION/ WITH THE AIR DESPATCH, REVERSE WITH TWO Baghdad cds and two Bombay arrivals.
£75
Indo-China
Covers and stamps / France / Indo-Chine / Crash and wreck / Airmail
1929 registered airmail cover from France with adhesives cancelled by Poste Aerienne France – Indo-Chine date stamps, at centre three-line violet RAID INTERROMPU/ PAR ACCIDENT/ Retour a l’envoyeur; fine condition.
£75
United States
Covers and stamps / USA / Crash and wreck / Airmail
1930 (Sep 19) printed Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco envelope with printed Hotel contents airmail to Stuttgart, Germany, bearing two-line Delayed in PLANE FIRE/ WARREN, O. Handstamp, without backstamps; toning around the top perfs otherwise good condition.
£65
Sudan
Covers and stamps / Sudan / Proofs / Airmail
1931-37 three 10p. ‘Statue of General Gordon’ airmails imperf colour trials on S G watermarked paper without gum; fine and scarce.