Postal Bid Sale #156
AERO PHILATELIC SECTION
Including - First Flights, Balloons, Routes, Zeppelins, Catapults and
Commemoratives etc, etc.
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Crash Items
421 Bahrain 195012-6}, Air mail Saigon to Paris flight, crashed upon landing at Bahrain,
damaged item, without adhesives and most of reverse missing. Sent to Versailles
and re-directed to Paris, Has straight line black "Courrier Accidente" cachets {2}, on
reverse Versailles postmark of July 10 and small fragment of Officially Sealed tape
Air France flight and loss of 46-40 passengers and 6 crew. {Nierinck 500612a}
and scarcer.
Good only. £125.00
422 Italy 1937 Air mail cover {Larger than normal} from Palestine f.w. 53m adhs. British
plane“Cygnus” flew from Karachi to Brindisi. On 4th Nov. On take on 5th Nov it
overturned on take off and sank. Mail saved but many casualties. Applied by British
P.O. *** Damaged By Sea Water/In Airplane/Accident violet cachet. Mail from
Palestine scarcer. Addressed to Bristol. {Nierinck 371205}
Fine for this. £65.00
423 France 1946 ppc with burn marks around edge and adhesives missing and sent on
3-9-46 to Francis Field, Sutton Coldfield. Sent in ambulance cover to F. Field from
French P.O.air mail on 16-9-46. Originally sent from Le Bourget airport on flight
Paris/Croydon on 09-15am September 04, 1946 Lost altitude after losing an engine
on takeoff and crashed into a factory yard. Lost 20 passengers and 2 crew. Has
**/*** Service Postal Francais/Correspondance Retarde/Par accident d’avion/ Friere
ce no pas taxer cachet. Good for crash item and ambulance.
Fine condition. £75.00
424 U.S.A. 1929 Air mail cover 5c adh from **/*** Atlanta, Ca/Mar 1/1929 duplex d.s.
flown from Daytona Beach, Fla Pitcairn Aviation Flight. Daytona to Tampa but
failed to take off and plunged into the river. Some had special markings this has
none. Back stamped at Orlando Mar1 {AAMS 29.6}
Fine condition for this. £26.00
425 U.S.A.1954 Air cover from East Germany and addressed to Orlando, Fla On Aug. 4
1954, an Air France Super Constellation with 37 people on board crashed in a
potato field in Preston. Surprisingly, all of the 37 passengers aboard the survived
the crash. Destination was Norwich, Conn. Has on back **/*** Delay caused by Air
mail Interruption Near Norwich, Connecticit violet cachet. {N540803}
Fine condition. £35.00
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426 BURMA 1965 BOAC First Flight Rangoon/Nandi,Fiji. Back stamped.
Fine condition. £6.00
427 CANADA 1926 Cover “Western Canada Airways Ltd” f.w. 2c adh. canc. **/*** Red
Lake/My 10/26 d.s. Has “Western Canada Airways” label tied *** Western Canada
Airways Limited green cachet. Rate came down from 3c to 2c with abolition of War
Tax adhs. Label should of been on the back. Sent to USA
Fine condition. £35.00
428 DENMARK 1935 Special cover for “Denmarks Filatelist Union 1s Postflyvning”
f.w. 10ore and 15or air adhs. canc. **/*** Nakskov/Nafila/26.8.35/Filatelisklubs
Landsud d.s. Flown Copenhagen to Nakskov with receiver d.s.
Fine condition. £12.00
429 GERMANY-Zeppelin 1912 Zeppelin Schwaben flight card f.w. 5pf and 10pf brown
'Goose' vignette canc. **/*** 'Flugpost am Rhein u.am Main/ Mainz/13.6.12 d.s
Sent to Nordheim. Minor edge faults other wise
Fine condition. £35.00
430 GERMANY 1923 Air mail p.s. 30m card uprated 25m canc. **/*** Berlin/3.7.23/
Luftpost ds. Flown to **/*** Danzig/4.7.23/Luftpost receiver d.s.
Fine condition. £15.00
431 GERMANY-Zeppelin Carrier Cover 1930 Registered cover sent to the Zeppelin
Company Office at Freidrichshafen for flight of Graf Zeppelin { Flight round
Germany} f.w. 45pf adh. canc. **/*** Keil/19 6 30 d.s. and back stamped there.
Inside the prepaid cover which would be carried on Zeppelins flight. These covers
sent to the company were normally destroyed. Hence their scarcity. Most collectors
of Zeppelin flights don’t even know about these items.
Fine condition. £90.00.
432 GERMANY-Heligoland 1940 ppc “ LZ “Hindenberg” Zeppelin over Heligoland f.w.
6pf canc. **/*** Heligoland/3.7.40 d.s. Sent in Frimark.
Fine condition. £8.50
433 GERMANY 1938 Air mail cover and has **/*** Deutsche Luftpost/Pic/Europa-Sud
Amerika red cachet f.w. 25pf and 50pf x 3 adhs. canc. **/*** Berlin/5.10.38 d.s.
Sent to Buenos Aires and receiver 10.10.38 mc d.s. Flown H381 in Dorner D Wal
via Gambia, to refuel.
Fine condition. £8.50
434 G.B. 1934 Cover “Opening of the Regular Air Mail by Highland Airways Ltd from
Kirkwall/Wick on 1st December. Back stamped.
Fine condition. £10.00
435 G.B.-Helicopter 1964 Cover f.w.3d adh. canc. **/*** St Marys/2 My/64/Isles Of Scilly
d.s. and *** First Scheduled Helicopter Flight/”Helicopter”/Penzance-Scillys-
Penzance” green cachet.
Fine condition. £7.50
436 G.B.-Rocket 1968 “Chasewater Festival” with “Womborne/Rocket Mail 6d blue label
tied **/*** Womborne/ASVC/Rocket Mail and with *** Royal Visit cachet.
Fine condition. £7.50
437 G.B.-Helicopter 1975 Cover “British Airways” Flown in Helicopter with 55p A.L.S.
**/*** British/Airways/4 Aug 1975/Glasgow Airport cachet flown on “Hawker-Siddeley
/Inaugural Service Glasgow-Aberdeen red cachet.
Fine condition. £7.00
438 G.B.-Helicopter 1978 Cover “British Airways” Flown in Helicopter with A.L.S. £1.50
label tied *** B A Helicopters Lrd/7 Dec 78/Penzance cachet from St. Marys,Scilly
islands.
Fine condition. £8.00
439 G.B.-Hovercraft 1982 ppc Carriage Of Mail By Hovercraft f.w. 15 1/2p adh. canc.
**/*** Hovercraft Postcard/First Day Of Sale /20-7-82 Wallasey and Carried on 20th
Anniversary/Hovercraft cachet.
Fine condition. £5.00
440 INDIA-RAF Flight 1930 Cover “By R.A.F. Aeroplane/Allanbad to Delhi” f.w. 1anna
canc. **/*** New Delhi/22 Nov 30 d.s. and **/*** Letter D’Coy/No/Date/1st Bn The
Cheshire Regiment oval d.s. with pencil annotation.
Fine condition. £30.00
441 INDIA 1933 First Flight Trans Indian Service Cawnpur-Jodhpur has “Map” cachet
and back *** Calcutta -Karachi/11 Jlt/First Air mail cachet this also cancels the
adhesives on front with Jodnpur receiver.
Fine condition, £10.00
442 INDIA 1934 Cover **/*** First Flight Karachi-Lahore” cachet and 2annas weak d.s.
Sent to **/*** Moluton/4 De/04 d.s.
Fine condition. £8.50
443 INDIA 1934 Cover .First Flight Madras/Calcutta Back stamps Puri and Calcutta.
Fine condition. £7.50
444 INDIA 1937 First Flight cover “Karachi/Bhuj and back stamped.
Fine condition. £7.50
445 INDIA 1938 Cover for **/*** First Regular Air Mail/India-Ceylon cachet from Madras
to Colombo.
Fine condition. £6.50
446 NETHERLANDS 1929 First Flight from Amsterdam/Bandoeng and with red label
“Not to delivered Sunday” with **/*** Weltevreden/22.9.29 arrival d.s.and onward
to Bojolali. Has red cachet etc. {LVNA Aereo 25}
Fine condition. £35.00
447 PHILLIPINE ISLANDS 1935{Dec 2} First Flight cover Manila-San Francisco. Back
stamped at San Francisco. Has two “Flight” cachets one printed and other rubber.
Different designed cover than normal the Pan Am.
Fine condition. £9.50
448 SAAR-Acceptance 1955 DLH cover FF Hamburg-Frankfurt-New York by Deutsche
Lufthansa on 11th June 1955. Nice looker.
Fine condition. £6.00
449 SWEDEN 1929 First Night Flight from Stockholm-Stralsund then forwarded to
Dorking, England. Sent from Stockholm1/7/29 d.s.
Fine condition. £22.00
450 U.S.A.-Kitty Hawk 1928 Cover “Twenty Fifth Anniversary/First Flight/Made By The
Wright Bros” f.w. 5c canc. **/*** Kitty Hawk/Dec 17/1928 duplex d.s.
Fine condition. £7.50
451 U.S.A.-Catapult 1929 Cover *** Kataplutflug/vom D. Bremen/Des Nordeutschen
Lloyd//nach Bremen 2.8.1929 red cachet. Has other red cachet at Berlin. Sent f.w.
20c adh. **/*** Lancaster/Jul 24/1929/Pa mc d.s. {S Smith No 6}
Fine condition. £42.00
452 U.S.A.-Catapult 1930 Cover *** Deutscherkataplutflug/D. Europa-/Southampton /Am
21 September 1930 red cachet and *** Mit Kataplutflug red cachet. f.w. 20c adh.
canc. **/*** Warwick St Annex/Sep 15/1930 mc d. {S.-Smith 56}
Fine condition. £40.00
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