Airmails 2013 (#414) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 101-200 of 353. Previous|1234|Next Lot 401 MacRobertson Air Race group: comprising 19th Sept.1934 pamphlet "England to Australia - Supplementary Regulations III" printed by Harrison & Sons; Roscoe Turner flown & signed cover; Roscoe Turner publicity card; Hansen flown & signed cover; Uiver flown covers from Netherlands to Australia & to Java. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$375StatusSold Lot 402 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.435) MacRobertson Air Race cover carried by Owen Cathcart-Jones & Ken Waller in their DH "Comet"; signed by both aviators. Very rare. [#23 of 24 flown]. View details Estimate$1,250 - $1,500Price Realized$1,700StatusSold Lot 403 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.436a, 444) MacRobertson Air Race cover flown by James Melrose from Calcutta to Rangoon [32 flown] with special red/yellow vignette tied by 5-line cachet. Also a cover flown from Holland to Australia by the KLM entry "Uiver". View details Estimate$400 - $450Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot 404 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.437) MacRobertson Air Race cover, flown by H.L. Brook & Miss E. Lay and signed by the former. The cover postmarked at MELBOURN, England also postmarked at MELBOURNE on arrival. View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$575StatusSold Lot 405 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.438,438a) MacRobertson Air Race covers, flown England - Australia & England - Australia - New Zealand by Hewitt, Kay & Stewart. Both signed by Kay. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 406 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.438a) MacRobertson Air Race cover, flown England - Australia - New Zealand by Hewitt, Kay & Stewart. [100 flown]. View details Estimate$100 - $125Price Realized$110StatusSold Lot 407 Oct.1934 (AAMC.439) MacRobertson Air Race cover to Australia, carried by Davies & Hill; signed by Davies. With Cyprus adhesive affixed & tied during the delay there; Melbourne arrival cds on reverse. [50 flown] View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot 408 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.439a) MacRobertson Air Race England - Australia: cover flown England - Cyprus in a Fairey 111F, G-AABY by C.G.Davies & C.N.Hill & signed by them. Cyprus 1½pi on reverse tied by Nicosia cds. [53 flown]. View details Estimate$400 - $450Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot 409 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.440) MacRobertson Air Race cover, flown & signed by McGregor & Walker. [160 flown]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot 410 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.441) MacRobertson Air Race cover, flown by Hansen & Jensen and signed by Hansen. [110 flown]. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 411 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.451a) MacRobertson Air Race cover, flown as far as Abadan, Persia; carried by Wright & Polando and signed by the former. [179 flown]. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot 412 CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH & P.G. TAYLOR CROSS THE PACIFIC FROM WEST TO EAST21 Oct.1934 (AAMC.455) Trans-Pacific flight cover from Brisbane to San Francisco via Fiji & Honolulu, flown by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith with P.G.Taylor as co-pilot, in a Lockheed Altair 8D 'Lady Southern Cross'. Backstamped at LOS ANGELES (NOV 5) on completion of the journey. The cover has been signed by Charles Kingsford Smith [75 carried]. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$1,875StatusSold Lot 413 22 Nov.1934 (AAMC.463) Australia - New Zealand cover, flown by Whitehead & Nicholl in a DH80A Puss Moth "Faith in New Zealand". This was the 15th crossing of the Tasman by air. (12 carried). View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 414 Dec.1934 (AAMC.469 & 469g) London - Melbourne & GAZA - Longreach covers carried on the first flights associated with the opening of the QANTAS - Imperial Airways service between England & Australia. Cat.$225+. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 415 Dec.1934 (AAMC.469g) Capetown - Darwin and Khartoum - Camooweal covers carried on the first flights associated with the opening of the QANTAS - Imperial Airways service between England & Australia. Cat.$300. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 416 Dec.1934 (AAMC.469.l&p) Bangkok - Brisbane and Batavia - Brisbane covers carried on the first flights associated with the opening of the QANTAS - Imperial Airways service between England & Australia. Cat.$325. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$170StatusSold Lot 417 INWARDS COMMERCIAL FLOWN COVERS: Dec.1934 BATAVIA - Sydney (short-paid with 6d Dues affixed); Dec.1934 London - Melbourne (underpaid, 1/9 in Dues affixed); Nov.1935 Taiping, PERAK - Sydney; Aug.1936 London - Sydney (rated 3/9 incl. 2/6 Seahorse); Mar.1937 London - Adelaide (rated 9d); Apr.1937 Hong Kong - Sydney; Apr.1937 Mexico City - Melbourne. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 418 DESTINATIONS: 4 Mar.1935 commercial cover from LOCKINGTON, Vic flown to HUNGARY via Greece (rated 2/-); and 5 Mar.1935 commercial cover from Melbourne to FRANCE via England (rated 1/9). Both with arrival b/stamps. Also, July 1936 cover flown from Sydney to SINGAPORE (rated 10d) and Aug.1936 cover flown from DARWIN to CANTON (rated 10d) View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 419 DESTINATIONS: 13 Mar.1935 Sydney - TALINN, ESTONIA flown cover, rated 2/3 and endorsed "Australia - Greece - Estonia"; 19 May 1935 Melbourne - MILAN, ITALY flown cover, rated 1/9; 16 June 1936 Sydney - Holland cover, flown via France and rated 2/1; also, 15 Dec.1936 Sydney - RMS Ormonde at COLOMBO, CEYLON and rated 1/2. Nice group. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 420 24 Mar.1935 (AAMC.493) Australia - England cover, flown & signed by pilot, H.L.Brook in his Miles Falcon. A participant in the MacRobertson Air Race, Brook flew a solo record time of 7 days, 19 hours & 50 minutes on his return flight. [85 flown]. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 421 INWARDS AIRMAILS: 9 May 1935 commercial cover flown from Koln, GERMANY to Melbourne; rated 1.75mk and with "MIT DEAUTSCHER LUFTPOST" vignette; a 29 July 1935 cover from SHANGHAI to SYDNEY, rated 74c and endorsed "By AIRMAIL from SINGAPORE to Australia". Also, 8 Jan.1937 registered cover flown from COPENHAGEN, Denmark to WILUNA, W.A. (rated 2Kr.40) and 7 Feb.1937 cover flown from WAU to CAIRNS rated 8d. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 422 15-23 July 1935 (AAMC.509a) Darwin - Derinallum cover flown & signed on reverse by J.V.Fairbairn, MP, on his Round Australia flight in a Dragonfly. [12 flown]. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 423 THE LAST FLIGHT OF THE "SOUTHERN CROSS": 18 July 1935 (AAMC.515) A cover carried on the last flight of the "Southern Cross" from Mascot - Richmond; with rare IMPERFORATE vignette showing the route the aeroplane had followed around the world; signed by Charles Kingsford Smith, Mary Kingsford Smith, P.G.Taylor, John Stannage and all other personnel aboard the flight. (Very few examples known with imperforate vignettes & signed thus). View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot 424 23 Oct.1935 (AAMC.545) England - Italy - England cover, flown in the "Lady Southern Cross" by Kingsford Smith & Tommy Pethybridge; 12-line cachet on reverse signed by B.Shiel & numbered [41/49]. [These were the last covers carried by these aviators, who were lost somewhere off Burma, Nov.7-8, en route from England to Australia.] View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 425 26 Oct. - 16 Nov.1935 (AAMC.546) Sydney (25OC) - Daly Waters (7NO) - Darwin (16NO) cover, flown and signed by the entire crew of the "Southern Star" on a relief flight to the "Faith in Australia" stranded at Daly Waters, with its' mail for Adelaide. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 426 22-25 May 1936 (AAMC.603) (Brisbane) - Melbourne - Hamilton cover, carried by Ansett Airways Ltd on their inaugural mail flight. [142 flown]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 427 Aug. & Sept. 1936 (AAMC.623 & 631) "Scipio" & "Boadicea" crash covers; the former from Sydney to England with large "DAMAGED BY SEA WATER" cachet on reverse; the latter from London to Sydney, accompanied by a printed note from the "Returned Letter Section, Mount Pleasant, E.C.1. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 428 DESTINATIONS: Sept.1936 Sydney - CALCUTTA uprated postal card (rated 9d); Mar.1937 Sydney - GIBRALTAR (rated 1/8); Mar.1937 Sydney - HELSINKI (rated 2/3); Apr.1937 Melbourne - PORT SAID, Egypt (rated 1/7); May 1937 Sydney - BLANTYRE, NYASALAND registered (franked 2/8 incl. 1/- Victoria x 2); May 1937 Sydney - SHANGHAI (rated 1/-); July 1937 Sydney - OTTOWA, Canada (rated 9d for ship to San Francisco thence by air); Dec.1937 Sydney - England stampless and taxed 3/-. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot 429 9 Apr.1937 (AAMC.716) Brisbane - Capetown cover, flown and signed by Mrs H.B. Bonney on her long journey, being the first direct solo flight from Australia through Asia and Africa; a distance of over 29,000kms. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot 430 17 Apr.1937 (AAMC.727) 2d KGV Envelope uprated to 4/8 (including 2/- Brown 3rd wmk Kangaroo!!) sent from PERTH to join the first flight to the USA via the Phillipines, Macao and Hong Kong. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 431 Apr.1937 usage of 5/- Kangaroo, solo franking on commercial airmail cover from Sydney to Chicago; with HONG KONG transit cds on reverse. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$950StatusSold Lot 432 15 May 1937 (AAMC.730a) Melbourne - Sydney cover, flown aboard the Junkers 86 "Lawrence Hargrave" and signed by the crew members, Wolfermann, Gerish & Kerr. [12 flown]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 433 18 May 1937 (AAMC.730d) Sydney - Townsville cover, flown aboard the Junkers 86 "Lawrence Hargrave" and signed by the crew members, McLaughlin & Kerr. [12 flown]. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 434 18 May 1937 (AAMC.730d) Townsville - Sydney cover, flown aboard the Junkers 86 "Lawrence Hargrave" and signed by the crew members, McLaughlin & Kerr. [12 flown]. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 435 DESTINATIONS: Aug.1937 Sydney - PORT SAID, EGYPT (1/2 affixed; under-paid and with 40m Dues affixed on arrival); Dec.1937 Ayr - USA (rated 2/2); Jan.1938 Sydney - Germany (rated 2/1); Feb.1938 Sydney - Czechoslovakia (rated 2/-); Apr.1938 Melbourne - NYBORG, DENMARK (rated 1/9); July 1938 Sydney - SOERABAIA, JAVA (rated 9d); Aug.1938 Hobart - Germany (rated 2/1); Dec.1938 Melbourne - SWEDEN (rated 2/2); Mar.1939 WERRIS CREEK - TOUNGOO, BURMA (rated 6d) & July 1939 Sydney - Bombay, INDIA (rated 5 View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 436 22 Sept.1937 (AAMC.766a) Sydney - Thursday Island cover, flown and signed by Davis & Duryea on the first leg of their flight to Papua and New Guinea in a Sikorsky Amphibian owned by Papuan Oil Development Co. [12 flown to Thursday Is.]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 437 15 Mar.1938 (AAMC.801) England - Australia - New Zealand, cover flown & signed by Clouston & Ricketts in their DH88 Comet "Australian Anniversary". [14 flown]. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 438 18 Apr.1938 (AAMC.804) Australia - England cover, carried by Jim Broadbent on his record solo flight in a Percival Vega Gull "Sirius". [40 flown]. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 439 4 Aug.1938 (AAMC.822c) Australia - Singapore cover carried on the first Qantas flying boat service, en route for England. This is an example of the small number of covers carried only as far as Qantas flew, via Darwin. Signed by the pilot, Lester Brain and endorsed by him "Camilla". Also, 8 Aug.1938 (AAMC.826) Australia - England cover flown all the way by QANTAS and Imperial Airways. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 440 18 Jan.1939 (AAMC.843) Darwin - Adelaide, 'Koranga' crash cover, addressed to Fremantle, W.A. Crashed at Katherine River NT, killing all on board. With a duplicated explanatory label affixed, which was applied to recovered mail delivered in WA. View details Estimate$300 - $350StatusUnsold Lot 441 22 July 1939 (AAMC.874) Adelaide - Dili, Portuguese Timor, Guinea Airways survey flight, for QANTAS. Return flight cover, signed by all on board incl. the Minister for Civil Aviation, J.V. Fairburn. A very small unofficial mail was carried. View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot 442 25 Aug.1939 airmail cover from Vienna, AUSTRIA to Sydney; opened and censored as the mail was in transit at the outbreak of World War Two, on 1st September. The recipient, Sir Samuel Cohen, who had been knighted in 1937 for his extensive community involvements: with the Citizens Reform Associatio, the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales, as director & vice-president of Sydney Hospital and an executive-member of the Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund, among many other roles. From the mid-1930s View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 443 1942-45 group of flown & military covers & postal stationery on annotated pages, all with identified Northern Territory Military P.O. cancellations. Incl. registered envelopes (2), registered letters (4, all RAAF P.O.s) and Air Mail Letter Cards (2). Post Offices incl. Batchelor, Birdum, Melville Bay, Gorrie, Coomalie Creek, Fenton, Katherine. Daly Waters and Darwin. Mixed condition. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 444 1934 (Apr.28) airmail cover franked 2/11 from Barbados to Japan endorsed in pen "to St Lucia by steamer, to New York by air and onward by steamer". Attractive and unusual destination. Backstamped St Lucia. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 445 BRITISH WEST INDIES: collection mainly mounted on exhibit pages as a study of the first flights connecting the British Colonies in the Caribbean & elsewhere; noted Bahamas 1919 Nassua-Miami flights (3), with "FIRST TRIP/ AEROPLANE/NASSUA TO MIAMI" (on postal card) or "BY AIR SERVICE/NASSUA TO MIAMI" cachets, 1928 Survey Flight & 1930 FAM 7 flights, British Guiana incl. 1929 PAA flight Georgetown - Paramaribo, 1935 first internal flight by Art Williams & 1930 NYRBA flight to New York, Bermuda 193 View details Estimate$3,000 - $4,000StatusUnsold Lot 446 1929-53 developing annotated dislay entitled "British Asia and Pacific & The Long Ocean Routes", incl. 15 Dec.1934 (AAMC.469n) Singapore - Aust., 19 Apr.1937 (AAMC.727) Aust. - USA Clipper cover via Hong Kong, 27 Mar.1936 Hong Kong 5 different Imperial Airways covers, 20 June 1939 (AAMC.867a) Seychelles - Mombassa 'Guba II' cover, 30 May 1930 Kuching - Miri, Sarawak RAF flown cover, 2 June 1930 (Muller.10) Jesselton, Sarawak - Kudak, Nth Borneo and 14 July 1930 Lautoka - Suva, Fiji. Fine through View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,150StatusSold Lot 447 1929 study with 22 covers on annotated pages on the development airmails in the British Colonies. Encompasses both the north and southbound flights of FAM5 and FAM6. Includes Antigua, British Guiana, British Honduras, St Lucia and Trinidad. Noted 22 May Belize - Havana [26 covers flown], Belize - Miami & Panama - Belize, 23 May Belize - Cristobal, 21 Sept. Haiti - Antigua & Dominican Republic - British Guinea [6 covers flown], 23 Sept. British Guinea - Dutch Guinea, 25 Sept. British Guinea - Ant View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusUnsold Lot 448 Oct.1934 airmail cover from COLOMBO to WELLINGTON N.Z., bearing "H.S.B." perfins (R1 x 2 + 25c) for Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 449 14 Oct.1928 (Newall.28.10B) Baghdad (Hinaidi) - Egypt (non-stop flight) flown cover. Flown by Flt. Lt. Switzer in Vickers 'Victoria' J28233. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 450 1911-39 interesting group, majority 1st flights as identified by Newall or Muller. Incl. 9 Sept. 1911 Windsor postcard to Australia (fault); 26 Oct.1925 RAF manoeuvres Leidenhausen; 10 Mar.1927 London - Cairo - Jinja; 20 Jun.1928 London - Stockholm overnight service; 24 Sept.1928 Liverpool - Belfast by flying boat; 30 Mar.1929 London - Genoa - Rome with 1987 Diena cert.; 26 Aug.1929 Galway - London; 16 Apr.1932 London - Limassol Cyprus; 9 Dec.1933 London - Singapore. Plus 20 other and a few docu View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$450StatusSold Lot 451 1919 (Mar.1) Way Bill for 15 sacks of mail flown by the R.A.F. postal service from A.P.O.S40 at Cologne to Lympne Aerodrome, Folkstone, signed by the pilot, Lieut. Ramsay and by the mail guard, L/Cpl. Haskell at A.P.O. S106. The service commenced on this date, flying from Cologne to Hawkinge, but transferred to Lympne on July 22nd and ceased operating on August 31st. A rare document from the first flight to Lympne Aerodrome. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 452 1919 (Oct.2) cover from Newcastle-on-Tyne to London, endorsed "By Aeroplane Post" at top and "Delivered by aeroplane during the Railway Strike - 2 Oct.1919" (initialled) at lower left.During the railway strike of Oct.1-6, 1919 an emergency air post service was established between London and Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester & Glasgow. View details Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 453 1919 Official card headed "ROYAL AIR FORCE / AERIAL POST,/ TO BE CARRIED BY THE PILOT OF A POSTAL AEROPLANE" carried by Lieut.W.A. Ramsay of No.110 Squadron, R.A.F., who flew for the R.A.F. postal service between Cologne and Folkstone. The card provides details of the locations of A.P.Os as well as providing instructions on what to do in the event of a forced landing. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 454 1920-53 group. First flights incl. 22 Jul.1920 London - Paris for the reduced airmail rate, 15 May 1925 London - Malmo, 30 Mar.1929 London - Karachi, 14 Apr.1930 London - Brussels night flight, 15 May 1930 London - Berlin night flight x2, 9 Dec.1931 London - Sth. Rhodesia & Sth. Africa, 16 Dec.1936 London - Colombo, 31 May 1939 London - Canada and 3 other. Plus a group of commercial airmail covers showing a diverse range of rates and usages incl. reg., censored, redirected etc., noted 31 Jul.192 View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$450StatusSold Lot 455 7 Oct. 1920 early commercial flight cover London - Amsterdam, franked 5d with annotated and h/stamp "AIR MAIL", plus Leeuwarden "10.10.1920' b/stamp. Opening faults, otherwise fine and attractive. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 456 1922-34 group of covers to and from the Middle East, majority first flights incl. intermediates. Noted 9 Jan 1922 Baghdad - Cairo, ? Dec.1926 Baghdad - Cairo and 6 Jan.1926 UK - Cairo - Basra. Mainly Imperial Airways, many endorsed first flight, 2 registered, various frankings and postal markings. Some will require research, mixed condition. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$440StatusSold Lot 457 1925 (Nov. 16) Cobham Survey Flight, London to Capetown (AAMC 12): Imperial Airways Survey Flight printed postcard with London-Capetown Special Mail imperforate label tied by Nov.16, 1925 purple oval datestamp, signed & endorsed "Alan J. Cobham", to Johannesburg with Feb.23, 1926 machine receiving cancel tying South African KGV adhesive. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$675StatusSold Lot 458 1928-39 collection of flown postcards on annotated pages, illustrating the changing postal rates. To various destinations incl. 1st flights, night flights and 1st flights at altered rates. Various frankings, interesting informative group that can be further developed. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot 459 30 Mar.1929 (Newall.29.05a) London - Baghdad - London, flown intermediate cover for the first Imperial Airways regular flight to India, hand endorsed "First Flight / CROYDON - KARACHI / Air Mail.". Incl. a R/P postcard of the aircraft, the DeHavilland 'Hercules' G-EBMZ. Extremely rare, Newall records 3 return flights flown. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot 460 1927-28 (Muller.9a,11,12 & 15) West Indian Aerial Express Co. group on annotated pages with 18 Jul.1927 Port au Prince, Haiti - Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep. flown postal card; 13 Dec.1927 Port au Prince - San Domingo and San Juan flown covers, both signed by the pilot; 28 Feb.1928 Port au Prince - Santiago, Cuba, 2 covers, both with blue flight cachets, one signed by the pilot the other on forwarded to Philadelphia. View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 461 Charles A Lindbergh covers: 6 Feb.1928 locally addressed cover cancelled Port au Prince, with red Lindbergh aeroplane cachet; 7 Mar.1930 Port au Prince - Antigua, NYRBA flown cover [100 flown]. Both on annotated pages. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 462 1936-37 group with 26 Mar.1936 First Through Flight Hong Kong-Penang-London via Imperail Airways, HK - London, HK - Singapore & HK - Saigon, 29 Apr.1937 HK - Manila via PAA, 29 Jun.1937 Initial Flight for Eurasia Aviation Corp into China and 5 covers for the First Flight of FAM.14 Clipper route. Mainly mixed frankings incl. HK KGV to $2. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 463 1911 (Feb. 18) Allahabad First Aerial Post envelope, locally adressed, franked 1/2a. tied by fine strike of the magenta cachet, backstamped Allahabad Feb. 18. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$675StatusSold Lot 464 9 Jan.1919 stampless 'ON SERVICE' cover to Scotland via Delhi (b/stamped), with "F.P.O. 55" cds overstruck with magenta 'POSTAL SERVICE M.E.F. / AERIAL POST - BAGHDAD - DELHI / PER / HANDLEY- PAGE AEROPLANE' cachet, & on reverse circular 'CARRIED BY AEROPLANE / BAGDAD-DELHI / JANY.1919' cachet in violet. Rare. Only 6 items recorded from Baghdad to Delhi.Check Gaertner catalogue View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot 465 17 Jan.1919 Royal Air Force survey flight U.K. - India: cover to Karachi endorsed "Per kind favour General McEwan - First Aero post to India", franked KGV 2a6p, flown Bandar Abbas - Omara & then by sea per HMS "Britomart" to Karachi where it was cancelled on arrival; with three line 'FIRST THROUGH AERIAL MAIL / GREAT BRITAIN TO INDIA / KARACHI 14. 1. 1919' cachet in magenta (with "14" amended to "17") alongside. Circular PASSED CENSOR KARACHI' cachet in violet at lower left applied over Bandar A View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Price Realized$3,500StatusSold Lot 466 4 Apr.1926 (Muller.22) Calcutta - Rangoon flown cover, with 2 line black cachet "BY DANISH FOKKER AEROPLANES 1926. / CALCUTTA TO RANGOON". Flown by Flt. Lts. Botved and Herschend who were forced to land in a paddy field 28 miles from Rangoon. With a faint violet "DANSK KONSULAT CALCUTTA" oval alongside. [78 FLOWN]. View details Estimate$350 - $450StatusUnsold Lot 467 1920-35 group of 1st flights and commercial covers. Incl. 15 Feb.1920 Karachi - Bombay flown cover; 15 Feb.1927 Karachi - Lahore flight by "MESSRS STACK & LEETE", advertising cover for Webley & Scott guns (faults), Imperial Airways first flights and 27 Oct.1930 Karachi - Jodphur, illustrated cover "FLOWN COVER OF FAMOUS PILOT", signed by Mildred Bruce. Mixed condition. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 468 1927-34 useful group with 14 Feb.1927 Karachi - Lahore flown cover with violet 3 line cachet on front & reverse "..... WITH MESSRS STACK & LEETE", 60 carried; 19 May 1927 Basra - Cairo flown cover with boxed 3 line cachet; 1 Jul.1927 Calcutta - Calcutta commemorative flight by FLt, W.H. Vetch, 276 flown; Apr.1927 Imperial Airways 1st flight to India (3); 27 Dec.1929 London - Karachi - Delhi 1st flight; 27 Oct.1930 Karachi - Jodphur, illustrated cover "FLOWN COVER OF FAMOUS PILOT", signed by Mild View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 469 25 Jun. 1927 (Muller.39) Calcutta - Rangoon flown cover, endorsed "Dutch flight, 1927, to Batavia / Carried from Calcutta". Flown by G.J. Geysendorffer and J.B. Scholte. With 2 b/stamps. [31 flown]. Fine and very scarce. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot 470 1929 (Jan-Feb) World Flight by Baron Von Koenig - "Kamarad" souvenir postcard (Map) used on the Calcutta to Akyab stage, franked ½a, tied by Park Street cds of Jan.15, boxed "Delayed by Unfavourable Weather left 5th February" cachet in green alongside, signed by Stephen H. Smith on reverse. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 471 1929 (Jan-Feb) World Flight by Baron Von Koenig - "Kamarad" souvenir postcard (Map) used on the Calcutta to Singapore stage, franked ½a, tied by Park Street cds of Jan.15, boxed "Delayed by Unfavourable Weather left 5th February" cachet in violet alongside, signed by Stephen H. Smith on reverse. With 1 April arrival cachet. [Only 17 flown], View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot 472 June 1929 Joan Page special illustrated Dum Dum - Calcutta flight cover to Stephen H. Smith in Calcutta, franked K.G.V 1a. with Dum Dum 1929 (June 25) datestamp, front with blue "Flown Joan Page" cachet (also on reverse). View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 473 6 Feb.1931 (Muller.90) Calcutta - Jodhpur Air Orient flown cover, with an attractive violet cachet showing a cat & a horse. Flown by M. Launay in his aeroplane "La Yoyeuse" P.H.-AEN [35 flown]. Addressed to Stephen Smith, fine and scarce. View details Estimate$450 - $550Price Realized$525StatusSold Lot 474 17 Oct.1932 illustrated cover (type I featuring the Union Jack) by Tata Sons Ltd. for first flight Madras - Karachi (b/s), franked KGV 3a & 3p tied by special cancels in use at Madras for one day only. Rare, only four type I covers recorded this flight. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 475 1926 (Aug.23) Singapore - PORT SWETTENHAM, cover flown by N Vincent's Air Survey Co. Endorsed and h/s "BY AIR MAIL" with Port Swettenham cds backstamp. Small number flown. Also, 23 Aug.1926 flown cover Singapore - KUALA LUMPUR, by N Vincent's Air Survey Co. Endorsed and h/s "BY AIR MAIL" with Port Kuala Lumpur cds backstamp. Small number flown. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 476 Malta & Cyprus group with 3 flown covers by the Societa Anomina de Navigatione Aerea, 19 Jun.1931 Valletta - Naples & Valletta - London - USA plus 9 Oct.1933 Valletta - Fiume; 2 Imperial Airways covers, 16 Apr.1932 London - Cyprus and 22 Apr.1932 Cyprus - London. All fine, 4 on annotated pages. View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 477 25 Sept.1929 (Muller.7) Paramaribo - San Juan, Porto Rico flown cover with violet flight covers signed by both Charles and Annie LINDBURG. With San Juan backstamp. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot 478 The unauthorised "Airmail" Provisionals: Edie Creek 14th September 1928: ½d Huts pair, 1½d, 2d pair, 3d & 4d all with typed "By Air Mail / Edie Creek / to / Salamoa" and each with a fine strike of the EDIE CREEK cds of this date. Ex Ray Kelly.All letters carried by Airmail during the inaugural flights of 1928 were usually endorsed accordingly on the cover. The postmasters at both WAU and EDIE CREEK prepared "unofficial" adhesives, either typed or hand-written, to indicate airmail delivery. The p View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$675StatusSold Lot 479 SPECIMEN HANDSTAMPS - UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION MEMBERSHIP: A range of Specimen (or Especimen) hand-stamped New Guinea stamps, comprising 1931 Huts Air 4d, 1931 Dated Bir Airs 2d, 3d, 5/- & 10/-, 1932 Undated Bird Airs 2d, 5d, 9d & 5/- and 1939 Bulolo Airmail 2d. On annotated album page Ex ray Kelly. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot 480 1931 (SG.163-76) ½d - £1 Dated Bird Airmails, complete set MUH. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 481 1932-34 (SG.190-203) ½d - £1 Undated Bird Airmails, complete set MUH. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 482 1932 (SG.201) 5/- Undated Bird Airmail, Ash Imprint block. Superb. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 483 1935-9 (SG.204-5 & 212-225) £2 & £5 Bulolo Airmails plus 1939 ½d - £1 Airmails, complete set VFU. Cat.£1390. View details Estimate$900 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot 484 1935 (SG.204) £2 Bulolo Goldfields Airmail, VFU in combination with Undated Bird Airmail 3d, plus 1/-, 5/- & £1 Postage on a gold bullion shipment parcel tag or label, cancelled at SALAMAUA (5FE37). This was the purpose for which these high denomination (£2 & £5) stamps were introduced. The £3/6/3 affixed to this label would have paid for the airmail shipment of 264 ounces + 3d registration. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$1,150StatusSold Lot 485 1935 Bulolo £2 forgery Die Proof in dull violet; believed made by Panelli/Oneglia. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 486 1935 Bulolo £2 forgery in dull violet; unusually well centred, believed made by Panelli/Oneglia. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 487 1935 (SG.205) £5 Bulolo Goldfields Airmail, VFU in combination with Undated Bird Airmails 3d, 2/- and 10/- on a complete gold bullion shipment parcel tag or label, cancelled at WAU (date indistinct). This was the purpose for which the high denomination (£2 & £5) stamps were introduced. The £5/12/3 affixed to this label would have paid for the airmail shipment of 448 ounces + 3d registration. Exceptional & rare. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$1,250 - $1,500Price Realized$2,300StatusSold Lot 488 1939 (SG.212-25) ½d - £1 Airmails, complete set MUH. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusUnsold Lot 489 1st flight covers with 30 Apr.1932 Auckland - Russell & Dargaville - Russell; 1934 Australia/New Zealand group x5 incl. June NZ - New Guinea cover registered to New York; 1937 Samoa Clipper group x4 incl. cover to American Samoa signed by the pilot; 20-22 July 1940 Auckland - Los Angeles. Plus one other. Majority fine. Cat. $400+. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot 490 1929-30 Air Mail Overprints: Range on Hagner pages, mainly comprising Imprint or Monogram strips of 3 illustrating the Cooke, Ash & Harrison printings. Mainly fine. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$2,300StatusSold Lot 491 1930 (SG.115) Harrison Printing 3d AIR MAIL & Aeroplane overprint, Harrison Imprint strip; the central unit with minor gum tone but UNIQUE; exhibited together with an Ash Imprint strip of SG.118. Only 2 sheets of the Harrison printing are reported to have been issued and the only other known imprint has now been broken-up. View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Price Realized$19,500StatusSold Lot 492 21 Nov.1928 (AAMC.P1a) Papua - United States registered cover bearing 1/- Lakatoi tied by Port Moresby and (later) San Francisco (25 Jan.1929) datestamps; another San Francisco cds of the same date tieing a 5c Beacon to pay for the airmail postage for delivery to East Orange, New Jersey; also with BRISBANE Reg'd cds on reverse. A rare registered example of this dual-franking arrangement which had been introduced in 1924. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$950StatusSold Lot 493 30 Apr.1927 (AAMC.P1b) New Guinea - United States cover bearing 3d Huts pictorials tied by RABAUL datestamps; a US 24c Airmail tied by READING, Pa. double ring oval paying the internal airmail fee from San Francisco (b/s June 9); Philadelphia (11 June) backstamp. Fewer than 15 examples of the dual-franking arrangements with New Guinea are believed to exist. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$1,900StatusSold Lot 494 PACIFIC ISLANDS SURVEY FLIGHT: Sept. - Dec.1926 (AAMC.P2) 25 Sept.1926 Sydney - Lindenhafen, New Guinea, via Daru and Port Moresby with THURSDAY ISLAND 10 OC 26 cds applied in transit: A cover flown by Group Captain Richard Williams on his survey flight from Melbourne to various Pacific Islands in a DH50A seaplane. The intention was to follow the East Coast as far as Thursday Island and then via Papua, New Britain and the Solomon Islands to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia before turning east View details Estimate$16,000 - $20,000Price Realized$12,000StatusSold Lot 495 28 June 1928 (AAMC.P12a) Edie Creek - Wau - Lae cover, flown and signed by pilot Alan Cross for Guinea Airways in a Junkers J-34. Two 4d Huts with typed "BY AIR" overprints tied by EDIE CREEK cds's and scarce "GUINEA AIRWAYS LTD/WAU" 2-line cachet. [One of 2 known - flown & signed by Cross; the other example offered at a recent Sydney auction at $2500-$4000]. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot 496 21 July 1930 (AAMC.P20) Port Moresby - Salamaua - Lae cover, flown and signed by pilot Ray Parer for MorLae Airline Ltd. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold Lot 497 18 Aug. & 22 Sept. 1930 (AAMC.P21 & 25) Wau - Rabaul covers, flown for Guinea Airways and both showing the round violet cachet used on all mail carried by the airline. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$375StatusSold Lot 498 17 Nov., 8 Dec. & 16 Dec.1930 covers from Samarai (2, incl. one reg'd) and Port Moresby (reg'd) all addressed to England or Scotland. The route followed was by sea to Cairns or Brisbane to connect with the new Adelaide - Perth air service. From Perth the mail was carried by sea to Karachi where it was collected by Imperial Airways for onward delivery. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$375StatusSold Lot 499 14 Mar.1931 (AAMC.P29) Port Moresby - Salamaua cover, flown by Guinea Airways. AAMC reports 'four covers are known'. View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot 500 1 May 1931 (AAMC.P30) Salamaua - Port Moresby cover, flown by Lionel Shoppee for Papuan Airways. [12 flown]. The small mail connected at Port Moresby with the mailboat to Cairns (8 May cds); from Brisbane they were flown by ANA to Sydney (11 May) and then by sea to Christchurch (19 May backstamp). View details Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next Previous 1234 Next
