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1 TAKE OFF!October 2017 Issue 24 RU for 10 months Very scarce airmail cover flown from Ryde, Isle of Wight to Portsmouth before travelling by surface mail to Croydon Airport. It then flew on the first flight of the joint Imperial and Qantas Airways service from Croydon on 8th December 1934, arriving in Sydney on the 21st December. The final part of its journey to New Zealand was via boat. This is a rare cover since all mail from Ryde was unofficial as the Postmaster General refused permission for an airmail service. Furthermore it features a very scarce imperf Portsmouth, Southsea, and Isle of Wight Aviation airmail label, with this being the only example of the imperf label on an airmail cover that we have seen, a superb airmail cover. 170 for 5 months RU London Scottish and Provincial Airways special airmail flown at the request of the Nottingham Post Office to be flown from the PO Exhibition at Nottingham to London. The mail departed on 23rd May 1934 and took 43 minutes to reach its destination, having been piloted by F. Jaques. It features a clear 2.15pm timed Nottingham CDS (the time all test flight covers were cancelled). This particular example is addressed to the then Member of Parliament for Nottingham and has been signed by the Nottingham Postmaster General on the reverse. The company was Back aiming to be authorised to fly regular airmail routes but were actually refused permission Front and subsequently shut down later that year. RU for 4 months First Round the World flight airmail. This airmail was flown with a small quantity of mail on the first leg on 17th March 1924 from the Clover Field Training and Testing Facility at Santa Monica, California to Clover Field in Seattle, Washington where they arrived on 20th March. They were flown by eight US Amy Air Corps personnel in a contingent of four Douglas DWC planes. They continued their round the world trip leaving Seattle on the 4th April but this particular cover was flown back to California. The cover features a Santa Monica, California - Seattle, Washington First Leg cachet. 50 for 3 months RU Attractive cover flown on the endurance record flight by Reginald Robbins and James Kelly on 26th May 1929 at Fort Worth, Texas. It features a special cachet with flight details Commemorating a new world endurance record at Fort Worth, Texas by Robbins and Kelly in their plane Fort Worth of 172 hours 32 minutes, 2 seconds in the air. It has been signed by Robbins plus another unidentified aviator (we don t believe it to be Kelly). Front Back

2 RU for 5 months Hindenburg cover flown on the Second North America return flight which departed on 21st May This airmail was sent from Montreal, Canada to Lakehurst, New Jersey from where it was flown on the Hindenburg to Frankfurt, Germany. The cover has both New York and Frankfurt arrival backstamps and an additional nine 6c airmail stamps on the reverse. RU for 4 months First Round the World flight by Graf Zeppelin cover flown on the Tokyo to Lakehurst, New York leg. The cover is cancelled with two Tokyo postmarks dated 21st August 1929 and four superb Japanese stamps, plus a special red cachet. On the reverse there is a clear Lakehurst arrival backstamp and green Graf Zeppelin cachet. This leg from Tokyo is very rare and the first we have ever been able to offer, a superb item. Back Front RU for 5 months Graf Zeppelin card flown on the Italian Flight to Rome which left on 29th May The card has been franked with a 10 Lire Tripolitania Zeppelin stamp postmarked in Tripoli and a special blue Graf Zeppelin Rome flight cachet. This card was also flown again on the Second Graf Zeppelin South America flight via Friedrichshafen to Pernambuco, Brazil. This card is lovely example of one of the scarce Italian acceptances and to have been double flown. RU for 10 months Graf Zeppelin 1933 South America flight cover flown from London to Friedrichshafen, Germany from where it was carried on the Graf Zeppelin to Uruguay. The cover two special Zeppelin flight cachets and a th Philatelic Congress cancelation, a very scarce postmark. There is a clear Montevideo, Uruguay arrival backstamp and the cover is in good overall condition. RU for 3 months Bermuda First Overseas airmail postmarked 16th April 1925 at Hamilton, Bermuda and flown from the island on the airship USS Los Angeles to Lakehurst, New Jersey. The cover has an interesting Home of the Postage Stamp, Hawthorn Court, New York address and on the reverse a New York arrival backstamp betty@buckinghamcovers.com 2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel Fax Betty@Buckinghamcovers.com

3 RU for 4 months Hindenburg North America cover flown from Frankfurt to New York. The cover has an attractive assortment of eight German Olympic stamps with Berlin cancellations and a special North America Zeppelin flight cachet, plus New York arrival backstamps. RU for 5 months Graf Zeppelin cover flown from Alexandria, Egypt to Friedrichshafen, Germany in April This superb Egyptian cover features an advert for tobacco and cigarettes and has three clear Egyptian cancelations through two airmail stamps, plus a Friedrichshafen arrival backstamp. It is addressed to Paris and the remaining journey from Germany to France was completed via surface means. RU for 4 months First International Rocket Mail flight flown from America to Mexico and back on 2nd July Pair of covers each flown over the Rio Grande on one of the journeys with relevant stamps, cancelations, and special rocket mail Cinderella stamp. The idea was conceived as part of Texas centennial celebration in 1936 and spearheaded by the Post Commanders son of the Texas City of McAllen who deigned his own triangular 50 cent stamps. In addition to this Cinderella stamp, the mail leaving the US had a 16 cent stamp applied and those on the return from Mexico a 40 centavo Aero Correo value. RU for 10 months Catapult mail carried on the German liner Bremen flown on 29th August This special postal stationary card commemorates the Postal Exhibition at Aschersleben and was despatched from the exhibition to Koln from where it was flown on the special supplementary flight to Cherbourg. At Cherbourg it was then carried aboard the liner Bremen across the Atlantic until it neared the American east coast. The final distance of 1,180km on 29th August was completed by Catapult aircraft to New York which took off at 9am and arrived stateside at 4pm. The cover features two excellent exhibition datestamp as well as two flight cachet including one from the Catapult flight. RU for 5 months Graf Zeppelin flown postal stationary card flown from Russia to Friedrichshafen, Germany in September The card has been uprated with two attractive Russian stamps both cancelled with special Zeppelin Moscow postmarks and a German arrival postmark on 11th September. During the Graf Zeppelins worldwide flight the year before in 1929 a scheduled flyover Moscow was cancelled due to adverse winds. The Russians saw it as a diplomatic snub and resulted in an official complaint from Stalin s government. To repair relations the Graf undertook a special two day round trip from Friedrichshafen to Moscow leaving on 9th September 1930, and landing to collect mail at Moscow where it was greeted by a crowd of 100,000. This lovely postal stationary card was carried on the return flight to Germany. 3

4 German Airmail ARG Days of the Berlin Airlift card with blue border and Luftbrucke Berlin cachet plus a German & English translated Air Supply Operation to and from Berlin 1948 cachet. ARG South German Air Week (held from 31st May to 6th June), card with the Karlsruhe Luftpost postmark dated on the first day of use 7th June, plus the special purple Suddeutschlandflug Karlsruhe cachet. ARG27A Days of the Berlin Airlift plain card with green German & English translated Air Supply Operation to and from Berlin airmail without extra charge ARG27B Days of the Berlin Airlift plain card with green German & English translated Air Supply Operation to and from Berlin airmail without extra charge ARG Berlin International Aeronautical Exhibition label illustration with Berlin Exhibition postmark, flown to the Leipzig/Halle Airport. ARG Leipzig/Halle - Stuttgart with mit luftpost befordert postamt No.1 Stuttgart cachet and illustration advertising winter flights with the comforts and heating of modern planes. ARG Hamburg, Germany - Sao Paulo, Brazil first flight with 1.Flug Hamburg-Sudamerika cachet and illustration advertising the Leipziger Messe (Leipzig Trade Fair). ARG Munich - Hamburg via Berlin airmail with terrific variety of German airmail stamps and Munich Flugpost cancellations, with Berlin and Hamburg arrival backstamps on the reverse. 4 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel Fax Betty@Buckinghamcovers.com

5 German Airmail ARG London - Berlin with Empire Exhibition Wembley Park postmark and German cachet. ARG Days of the Berlin Air Bridge, flown Berlin - Frankfurt, our choice of German Berlin overprinted stamps. ARG England - Argentina via Germany with purple Deutsche Luftpost Europa-SudAmerika cachet, our choice. ARA Air Anglia Jersey - Aberdeen ARA Air Anglia Edinburgh - Amsterdam ARA Air Anglia Amsterdam - Jersey ARA Air Anglia Aberdeen - Jersey ARA15A 1974 Air Anglia Aberdeen - Stavanger ARA Air Anglia Amsterdam - Aberdeen ARA Air Anglia Humberside - Aberdeen.. 10 ARA Air Anglia Amsterdam - Edinburgh ARA Air Anglia Jersey - Amsterdam ARA Air Anglia Stavanger - Norwich ARA Air Anglia Aberdeen - Norwich ARA Air Anglia Norwich - Aberdeen ARA Air Anglia Birmingham - Norwich ARA Air Anglia Aberdeen - Edinburgh ARA Air Anglia Humberside - Jersey ARB BOAC Sydney - London ARB BOAC London - Tokyo ARB BEA 6d stamp on a flown air mail ARB222 cover th Anniversary of the first U.K. aerial post with BEA 11d airway letter service stamp. 10 ARB BEA London - Germany ARB BA Japan - London ARB106A 1961 BOAC Lima, Peru - London ARB BOAC London - Tokyo first flight ARB BOAC Tokyo - London ARB201A 1953 BEA 6d Air Letter Service extension to Channel Islands FDI ARG Deutsche Lufthansa First Night Flight, from London-Berlin-Hanover-Rotterdam-Copenhagen- Stockholm. flight cover bargains BUY ANY TWO 10 COVERS BELOW FOR 18 ARB BEA 10th Anniversary of the Vanguard, flown London - Paris ARC06C 1959 Comet 4 London-Tokyo ARC06D 1959 Comet 4 Tokyo-London ARC07C 1959 Comet 4 London-Sydney ARC12C 1959 Comet 4 London-Singapore ARE226N Gerhard Zucker Rocket Mail with mit lufttorpedo par aerotorpedo label ARH34A 1934 Windsor - London (route of the first UK aerial post in 1911), flown by autogiro ARO London - Sydney Air Race, RAF Little Rissing cover, flown in race ARO London - Sydney Air Race, flown on the race by the outright winners, plus several backstamps from stop off points ARO London - Victoria Air Race, Royal Aero Club official cover ARO18A th Anniversary of the first flight England - Australia, doubled with BFPO 1102 postmark and several backstamps ARQ33A 1954 Qantas Sydney - Vancouver ARS th Anniversary of the first mail flight to Shetland, includes a great booklet on air mail in Scotland SEE SCANS OF THESE COVERS AND OUR WHOLE RANGE OF AIRMAILS BY VISITING OUR WEBSITE SHOP AND CLICKING THE FLIGHT BUTTON 5

6 AUSTRALIAN AIRMAILS ARO Australia - England, second experimental return flight, arrived at Croydon on 4th June. ARO Adelaide - Perth flown as a tribute to Major Norman Brearley, veteran pilot and aviation pioneer who founded Western Australian Airways. ARO Australia - Canada with purple first official airmail flight Australia - Canada cachet ARO Sydney, Australia - Bombay, India with purple Air India Boeing 707 Inaugural Service cachet. ARQ Qantas Empire Airways Sydney - Mauritius. ARQ Qantas Brisbane, Australia - Hong Kong via Manila first flight with purple cachet. ARQ Qantas Empire Airways Sydney - Cocos Islands. ARO for 5 months 1938 Carpenters Airways Australia - New Guinea first flight, signed by the pilot Captain R. O. Mant. ARQ43A for 2 months 1953 Qantas Sydney - Bangkok, signed Captain J Pollock and Captain J Haylock betty@buckinghamcovers.com 6 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel Fax Betty@Buckinghamcovers.com

7 TRANS-ATLANTIC AIRMAILS ARJ for 4 months 1938 Elkhorn, Wisconsin, USA - Lundy Island, UK - first by rail to New York then a ship to Plymouth (5 cent US stamp rate to UK), Atlantic Coast Air Service to Lundy arrived 7/11 (1/2d x2 Lundy stamps). ARB05A Dornier Do X Flying Boat first Trans- Atlantic return flight from South America to Europe with Brazil acceptance and Bahai backstamp, plus special DOX black cachet. ARC20L Marseille - South America crash postcard with Raid Interrompu cachet, carried on Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi world record distance attempt, the flight crashed at Porto Praia, Portugal. ARA for 3 months 1948 Sky Merchant World Flight - Atlas Supply Company equipped a flying salesroom on a global flight that visited 29 cities airsheets were produced by the American Air Mail Society. ARG England - Argentina via Germany with purple Deutsche Luftpost Europa-SudAmerika cachet, three nice examples available. ART109A Pan American Northern Route England - Canada via Ireland, Newfoundland, and Canada first air maill. ARO Pan American Airways New Zealand - USA per Samoan Clipper first air mail. ART109B Pan American Airways England - Newfoundland first air mail with a Trans-Atlantic Air Mail First Acceptance cachet. ART Pan American Northern Route New York - Ireland first airmail. 7

8 WORLDWIDE AIRMAILS ARE London - Colombo first flight with the Indo - Ceylon Special Flight Xmas cachet. ARE Ballon Post with special Salzburg Ballon Post cachet and mit Ballon Post etiquette - flown with Kufstein, Austria arrival backstamp on 24/10 and Rosenheim, Germany landing cachet. ARE Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) - Moscow first flight via Riga flown by Deruluft. This postal stationary card has a great illustration of the three cities crests and the reverse features an advertisement for the German Exhibition in Konigsberg. This card is normally found with the advertisement in German but this Russian text version is much scarcer. ARK Amsterdam - Bandoeng KLM 500th flight with official commemorative cachet. ARS Berlin - Stockholm via Warnemude first night service flown by Junkers- Luftverkehr, Stockholm arrival backstamp on 19/08. ARR20A for 3 months 1934 Railway Air Services Douglas Isle of Man - London first flight with scarce 10am CDS Douglas postmark, this is a rare first flight cover due to a mistake by RAS official at Douglas Airport which resulted in them postmarking the majority of the souvenir covers with a 4.30pm postmark - after the flight had left! Only ten examples with the 10am postmark are known to exist. ARE for 10 months 1935 Quetta Earthquake Emergency Mail addressed to England with Quetta earthquake postage free cachet and Earthquake area postage free written on, plus Quetta postmark on reverse. The 1935 earthquake in Quetta in modern day Pakistan brought devastation to the area and killed 60,000 people. The postal service, along with most public services, were brought to a standstill and the RAF established a postal route which they ran free of charge. The cachet used on this example were applied instead of a postmark. 8 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel Fax Betty@Buckinghamcovers.com

9 ARZ38A Graf Zeppelin Hungary flight with luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Ungarnfahrt 1931 cachet and Budapest acceptance. Zeppelins ARZ for 5 months 1937 LZ 129 Hindenburg with purple Luftschiff Hindenburg Deutschlandfahrt am 1. Mai 1937 cachet, the Zeppelin crashed just 6 days later on May 6th so this was one of its final flights. Want to spread the cost of your covers? Ask us about Flexi Pay! Call for full details. ARZ for 5 months 1934 Graf Zeppelin flown postal stationary card with illustration of the Brandenburg Gate, flown Germany to Pernambuco, Brazil with red Europa- Sudamerika & black Graf Zeppelin Sudamerikafahrt cachets ARZ for 5 months 1930 Graf Zeppelin postcard posted on board before being dropped over Orly, France during the flight from Friedrichshafen to England, with red oval flight cachet plus Orly and Paris datestamps. ARZ Graz Zeppelin Germany - Brazil with an bord des luftschifes Graf Zeppelin Sudamerikafahrt 1934 cachet. ARZ for 3 months 1912 German airmail postal stationary card with illustration of a zeppelin, uprated with an extra German stamp and a Wiesbaden - Frankfurt Luftpost cancellation, hand addressed to England. ARZ42E for 5 months 1934 USS Macon leaves Miami for fleet manoeuvres in Caribbean Sea with Miami postmark, only 20 produced betty@buckinghamcovers.com ARZ42D for 10 months 1934 USS Macon, South California Training cover with Los Angeles acceptance and New York arrival backstamp, signed by three crew members including the Executive Officer. 9

10 BALLOON POST Siege of Paris The Siege of Paris lasted from 19th September 1870 until 28th January 1871, and resulted in the capturing of the city by Prussia and the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. As Prussian forces surrounded Paris they blocked messengers from entering the city, cut overhead telegraph lines, and even found the cities secret telegraph cable running through the River Seine, forcing Paris to engineer a radical solution to their communication problem. The result was remarkable; the largest scale balloon post ever attempted. The city rushed to devote resources to repairing and creating balloons to fly mail out of the besieged city, as well as ensuring each balloon would have a homing pigeon so return messages and knowledge of the outcome of each balloon could be quickly reported to Paris. Jules Duruof flew the first balloon out of the city in late September, and like those after him he was faced with Prussian artillery cannons as he glided across their military lines. Duruof successfully travelled 50 miles west of Paris and continued the rest of the journey by train to Tours, the location of the French Provisional Government. By the end of the siege 66 balloons carried two and a half million letters and 102 passengers out of Paris, a great success with all but eight balloons reaching their destination safely. We can offer for the first time two superb letters carried by balloon from Paris, a remarkable piece of history with a wonderful backstory. The letters were all carefully folded into a very small envelope allowing as many as possible to travel inside each balloon, and these two examples show the ingenious means of how the residents of Paris ensured their voices were heard. ARB for 3 months Flown to Kervenic, near Vannes, in Brittany. ARB56A for 6 months Flown to Pres Montdider, Somme USS Macon The USS Macon was an airship built by the US Navy to serve as a flying aircraft carrier and carried both single and double seated fighter and scouting aircraft. Launched on 11th March 1933 she was in service for only two years after crashing off the coast of California in 1935 after sustaining damage in a storm. At 785 feet in length she was one of the largest flying objects in the world and still holds the world record for the largest helium based airship. ARZ42C for 5 months Fantastic collection of 41 USS Macon covers with different illustrations and cachets which commemorate a range of events and flights. All the covers have been written up on pages by the previous collector, which was clearly a labour of love and have all been kept in excellent condition. I struggle to imagine where a better collection of USS Macon covers could be found. 10 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel Fax Betty@Buckinghamcovers.com

11 ARS Kirkwall - Shetland via Aberdeen signed by Bernard Wilson who was a pilot with Highland Airways and also signed by Captain E.G. Starling the Chief Pilot of Allied Airways. ORDER FORM ARI Imperial Airways South Africa - England first flight, interesting double crash mail which first was aboard the City of Basra which crashed at take-off in Salisbury, South Africa. The mail was transferred to the City of Delhi which was forced into an emergency land in a swamp near Broken Hill, Australia and as such the mail was delayed! This is also a scare Imperial illustration - great item. RETURN TO: BUCKINGHAM COVERS WARREN HOUSE SHEARWAY ROAD FOLKESTONE KENT CT19 4BF Please note, with older covers you may receive a different illustration from the one depicted. Please let us know if you require the one shown. PAGE ITEM QTY CODE p Air Magazine October 2017 WANT TO SPREAD PAYMENTS? If you want an expensive item, you don t have to pay for it all at once. We will spread the payment over up to 12 months without interest. Tick the box and we will contact you to discuss a payment plan that suits you. Yes! I would like to receive promotional s about air and flight covers. UK POST & PACKING (UNDER 200) 2.45 PER SENDING UK SPECIAL DELIVERY (OVER 200) 6.95 PER SENDING OVERSEAS POST & PACKING (UNDER 200) 3.45 PER SENDING OVERSEAS POST & PACKING (OVER 200) 7.95 PER SENDING TOTAL Delivery Details ACCOUNT No (If Known) NAME ADDRESS Payment Details I enclose my cheque/ Postal Orders made out to Buckingham Covers for..... I would like to pay by Credit / Debit card. I understand you will keep this number on a secure computer system and I authorise you charge it when my covers become available. EXPIRY DATE START DATE ISSUE No POST CODE TEL No: SIGNATURE SECURITY CODE* *Last 3 digits on back of card. We cannot process your order without it. Alternatively you can call our small friendly Folkestone based Customer Service team (no call centres) on BUCKINGHAM COVERS LTD, REGISTERED IN ENGLAND NO IS PART OF INTERNET STAMPS GROUP LTD, REGISTERED IN ENGLAND NO REGISTERED OFFICE FOR BOTH: WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY RD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF, UK. TEL

12 Back RU for 5 months Scarce early American airmail cover flown by Beckwith Havens on 28th November 1911 at the Athletic Park Aviation Meet in Savannah, Georgia. The mail was carried around the park and then for roughly a mile where he dropped it out of the plane to the waiting Post Office officials below. A lovely item with the official purple Aerial Substation Athletic Park, Georgia cancelation. Whilst 624 pieces of mail were flown in total, 619 of these are cards and just the remaining 5 were covers. We are pleased to be able to offer one of the covers, a truly scarce airmail cover. RU for 5 months Front Illustrated airmail from the Harvest Festival Aviation Exhibition at Fort Recovery, Ohio. Originally intended to be flown on 6th August 1912 by George Schmitt but his plane was damaged on take-off and subsequently aviator Earle Sandt carried this airmail two days later on 8th August from the festival to the local Post Office. The cover features a superb Aviation Station, Fort Recovery postmark and a great illustration of the festival on the reverse. RU for 3 months Rare example of an experimental and survey flight of the transcontinental route which were conducted between January and June in This particular example was flown from West to East departing San Francisco on the 15th May before arriving in Philadelphia on 19th May. A very limited amount of mail was carried on these flight as few collectors knew about them at the time. Front Back RU for 3 months Postcard from the abandoned flight by Walter Brookins which was meant to commence on 18th May 1912 but was forced to cancel after huge crowds flocked onto the airstrip and couldn t be cleared by police. Brookins was an American aviator and the first pilot trained by the Wright brothers for their exhibition team, he set several records for both altitude and endurance. RU for 10 months Graf Zeppelin card flown on the Sixth 1932 South America flight which departed on the 12th September. This registered card is franked with two 5 Lire Cyrenaica airmail stamps and was flown from Bengasi via Rome to Friedrichshafen, and then flown by Graf Zeppelin to Pernambuco, Brazil. It features both Friedrichshafen acceptance datestamp and a Pernambuco arrival backstamp, as well as a special green Zeppelin flight cachet. Scarce and in very good condition. 12 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel Fax Betty@Buckinghamcovers.com