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World War Two. 1940-45 Covers including 1943 stampless cover to Moshi with scarce "ARMY / SIGNALS" c.d.s code "ZBE" (a little stained), 1944 Zanzibar cover to a merchant seaman redirected with "S.S Cameronia" and "c/o G.P.O LONDON, E.C.1" labels, 1940 Cover to USA censored with manuscript "PBC", and other censored covers. (8). £100-120
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Tanganyika Government Air Service. 1931 (Oct 21/22) First flight covers from Zanzibar to Nairobi, or carried on the return flight from Nairobi or Mombasa to Zanzibar. Also cover from Kisumu (Oct 26) to Zanzibar carried by Wilson Airways to Nairobi and on the second Tanganyika Government flight from Mombasa to Zanzibar. (4). £100-120
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Wilson Airways. 1931 Covers from Kampala (Oct 22) or Mombasa (Oct 24) to Zanzibar with Oct 30 arrival backstamps, probably from a Wilson Airways flight although no flights for any airline are recorded arriving on this date; and 1932 covers carried on the first official Wilson Airways flight from Nairobi (Aug 17) to Zanzibar or the return flight from Zanzibar (Aug 20) to Nairobi both signed by the pilot M.C.P Mostart. (4). £120-150
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1931-38 First flight covers comprising 1931 (June 5) Zanzibar to England via Mwanza, G.B to Zanzibar special Christmas flight via Mombasa (2); 1932 First London - Cape Town service cover from Zanzibar to Cape Town or G.B to Zanzibar, New Zealand to Zanzibar via Nairobi and Wilson Airways first flight, Athens to Zanzibar first acceptance via Dodoma and return flight from Zanzibar to Athens via Nairobi; 1933 Cawnpore to Zanzibar first flight via Cairo; 1934 first flights from Zanzibar to New Zealand or Australia; 1937 first all-up air scheme to G.B (2) or Nyasaland, or South Africa to Zanzibar; 1938 first all-up acceptance from Southern Rhodesia to Zanzibar. (16). £200-250
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1931-39 Flown covers carried by Imperial and/or Wilson Airways, covers from Zanzibar (20) including items to Lebanon, India, Sweden, Poland, USA, etc., and covers to Zanzibar (6) from G.B, France, Hungary, Holland or Netherlands Indies. Also a mint sheet of ten of the first blue Air Mail etiquette of Zanzibar issued in 1932. (27). £200-250
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