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1937 (Apr.) Pan Am F.A.M 14 route extended to Hong Kong and Macao, first outward flight covers from San Francisco to Hong Kong (7, two very scarce Canada acceptances from Vancouver, two to New Zealand, one to China with additional cachet) or to Macao (3, one a very scarce Belgium acceptance - 12 such covers sent), Honolulu to Hong Kong or Macao, Wake Island to Hong Kong, Guam to Hong Kong or Macao, Manila to Hong Kong (2, one a Nethelands Indies acceptance) or Macao (2), one Manila cover pilot signed, also a cover flown around the world with U.S.A, Straits, Brazil and Dutch stamps carried on the first Pan Am San Francisco to Hong Kong flight and then by KLM, and three Feb. 15 F.D.Cs of the U.S.A air stamps. (23). £350-450
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1937 (Apr 28/29) Pan Am F.A.M 14 route extension to Hong Kong and Macao, first return flight covers from Macao to Hong Kong (2), Manila (3), Guam (2) Honolulu or San Francisco (2), or from Hong Kong to Manila (2), Guam, Honolulu (2, one a scarce Dutch acceptance) or San Francisco (4, three Netherlands Indies acceptances), also a photo of the British Consulate in Macao signed by the nine crew. (2). £250-300
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1937 (Apr.) Covers from China flown by CNAC to Hong Kong, then by Pan Am on the first flight from Hong Kong to Manila, Guam (2), Honolulu or San Francisco (6), also a China 1c postcard with the China flight cachet applied by favour, two c.1937 CNAC timetables and a luggage label. (14). £150-200
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1937-47 Covers flown over Pan Am F.A.M 14 route, including illustrated Clipper covers, 1937 (May 10) flight to Catalina Island (2), August 26 first British acceptance to Philippines via Pan Am to Hong Kong, 1938 commercial covers with “MAILED AT WAKE ISLAND” or similar “MAILED AT MIDWAY ISLAND” cachets cancelled at Honolulu and 1939 cover posted at Guam with both Wake and Midway cachets, 1939 (Jan 27) first flight from Guam to new base at Treasure Island and first flight from Treasure Island, Mar. 5/6 first “Boeing Clipper” flight from Manila to Guam, Honolulu or San Francisco (2), 1939 (Aug 9) first “California Clipper” flight from Midway Island, 1941 Midway Island cover with 3rd Def. Bat. duplex, commercial covers censored in Hong Kong, etc. (35). £350-400
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1941 (May) Pan Am F.A.M 14 route extension to Singapore, first flight cover from San Francisco, Honolulu, Guam (2) or Manila (2) to Singapore, and first return flight covers from Singapore to Manila (2, one an unusual small cover), Guam, Honolulu or San Francisco, all censored. (11). £100-120
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1938 (Jan 2) Pan Am Auckland to San Francisco survey flight, covers and cards flown by “Samoan Clipper” from Auckland to Pago Pago (2), Honolulu (2) or San Francisco (7) with the official cachet in red (7) or violet (2), two with larger P.A.A cachet in black, two signed by the Captain or crew, also two unused flight envelopes, and news cuttings about the flight or the loss of the following flight with all crew (which caused the suspension of the service until 1940). (13). £150-200
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1940 (July 12) Pan Am Los Angeles and San Francisco to Auckland F.A.M 19 route, covers and cards carried on the first outward flight on virtually all legs from San Francisco (4), Los Angeles (4), Honolulu (3), Canton Island (2) or Noumea, or on the return flight from Auckland (8), Noumea (4), Canton Island (3) or Honolulu. Also Press Photos (6), picture postcards and news cuttings. (36+). £200-300
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1941 (Nov 5) Pan Am F.A.M 14 route extension to Fiji, first outward flight covers from San Francisco, Los Angeles (2), Honolulu, Canton Island, Noumea or Auckland (3) to Fiji, and return flight covers from Fiji to Honolulu (2), Canton Island, Noumea (2), Auckland (2), Los Angeles (2) or San Francisco (4), also 1941 commercial covers from Noumea to Australia, Australia to G.B or U.S.A, and later commemorative covers. (25). £200-250
| Crash Covers
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1929-54 Covers (8) including 1954 (Jan.) Burma airletter to G.B with red “DAMAGED BY SEAWATER / COMET MAIL”; 1954 (Apr 6) G.B airletter to South Africa, a little water damaged, with violet “SALVAGED MAIL / COMET CRASH / 8.4.54”; U.S.A covers (4), etc., also a 1968 N.Z Post Office letter from Whangarei originally enclosed with a cover from the Heathrow crash. (9). £120-150
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1936-39 Covers from Imperial or British Airways crashes, comprising 1936 “Scipio” cover from India to G.B with stamp washed off and Damaged by Seawater cachet, “Athena” cover from G.B to Australia, fire damaged; 1937 “Cygnus” cover from Singapore (red 50c meter) to London with Damaged by Sea Water cachet; 1938 “Calpurnia” cover from G.B to New Zealand with stamp washed off and cachet; 1939 “Challenger” cover from Scotland to South Africa and “Centurion” cover from Singapore to London both with stamps washed off and cachets; 1939 (Aug 10) cover from Bembridge, Isle of Wight, franked 1d + 1½d to Switzerland, minor fire damage, with red cachet “Endommagee lors de l’accident / purvenu a l’avion postal a Luxeuil”. (7). £250-300
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1954 (Jan 11) Cover from Kobe to London bearing Japan 5s + 10s + 100s, recovered from the Philippine Airlines crash near Rome on Jan. 14th, a little soiled and torn, “Corrispondenza recuperata in sequita / incidente aereo del 14 GEN 1954” cachet applied in Rome with a further “DAMAGED IN / PAL - AIRCRAFT CRASH” cachet applied in London. £100-120
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1954 (Dec 25) B.O.A.C Prestwick crash, covers (7, two enclosed within ambulance envelopes), air letters (2) and a front, one air letter and a registered cover in an ambulance envelope from Ceylon to U.S.A, the others from G.B to U.S.A (3), Jamaica (in ambulance envelope), Peru, Cuba (registered, franked KGVI 5/-) or Bermuda (2, one on front), three covers and the two ambulance envelopes with the usual boxed cachet (one unusually in black on the registered cover), the others with the two line loose type “SALVAGED MAIL / PRESTWICK 25-12-‘54” (3). A good lot with scarcer cachets and destinations. (12). £400-500
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Cyprus. 1961-67 Covers to Cyprus, 1961 (Dec 20) cover from Germany with Officially Sealed labels tied by Nicosia c.d.s (Jan 2, 1962), torn across the cover, from the B.E.A Comet that crashed at Ankara on December 21st, handstamped violet “SALVAGED MAIL / AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT”; and 1967 (Oct 10) cover from Belgium recovered from the October 12th B.E.A Athens to Nicosia flight that crashed into the sea due to a time bomb on board, with Greek three line cachet in blue. (2). £120-150
| WRECK MAIL
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S.S “Eider”. 1892 (Jan 21) 1c Postcard from Philadelphia to London, a stamp washed off, handstamped violet boxed “Saved from wreck / of S.S “Eider””, red London Paid arrival c.d.s (Mar. 4). The “Eider” was wrecked on the Atherfield Ledge near St. Catherines Point, Isle of Wight, on January 31st, most mail recovered by February 8th with the final 15 mail sacks recovered by divers on 2nd March; this card is from one of these last mail sacks to be recovered. £100-150
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S.S “Empress of Ireland”. 1913 (Jan 13) Ottawa Dead Letter Office ambulance envelope with violet “Recovered by divers from wreck of S.S Empress of Ireland”, registered to London, a 1c and three 2c stamps washed off the original letter affixed to this D.L.O envelope and tied by an Ottawa c.d.s, unusual. £150-200
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1915 (Mar 1) Cover from Kobe, Japan to England “via Canada”, franked 10s, edges a little stained, handstamped “RECEIVED AT LIVERPOOL / DAMAGED BY SEA WATER” in magenta. £100-120
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1923 (Nov 30) Cover from Le Havre to Fremantle and redirected to Sydney, the stamp washed off, reverse bearing the explanatory label “Received in mail from Paris via / Singapore in damaged condition / at Post Office Fremantle” bearing a Fremantle, Western Australia c.d.s (15 JA 24). A rare cover from an unknown maritime incident, not recorded by Hoggarth & Gwynn. Photo on Page 122. £200-300
| MILITARY MAIL, P.O.W MAIL & CENSORSHIP
(Also see lots 361/463, 660/1, 830, 839, 997, 1031, 1084, 1134, 1155, 1158/69, 1230/2, 1235, 1245, 1374/1445, 1569/84, 1636/9, 1700/1, 1809/46, 1900, 1906/24, 1934/5) | |
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1898-1939 Covers and cards, also some picture postcards, labels, and ephemera, including French forces mail from Morocco and other colonies (c.40), 1938 Czech F.P.Os (10), WWI with G.B forces in Egypt, Salonica and Palestine, S.W.A F.P.Os (2), P.O.W mail, etc. (c.160). £200-250
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P.O.W Mail. 1914-18 Covers and cards including India (6, from Ahmednager, one to Yercaud), Malta, Jamaica bundle label (unused), etc. (69). £100-120
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1914-18 Covers and cards, mainly British forces mail including “I am Well” cards printed on white, grey, red or blue card with totally blank address sides (4) all posted in October 1914, other 1914 cards with single ring A.P.O datestamps, naval mail, some foreign forces mail, civil censors, Dutch postcard with “PART OF A MAIL CAPTURED / BY GERMANS AND DELAYED”, etc. (100s). £200-250
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British Empire - Civil Censors. 1915-18 Covers and cards with “PASSED CENSOR / ASCENSION” on cover with G.B 1d tied by Ascension c.d.s, other censors from Aden, Bushire and Samoa, also a registered cover from Rabaul with censor label. (8). £100-150
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Hospitals & Medical Services. 1914-20 Covers and cards from Austrian, British, German or French forces with hospital or ambulance cachets, Red Cross, etc., also a few earlier and later covers including 1898 cover with Yen-Bai, Tonkin c.d.s and circular “INFIRMERIE - AMBULANCE / LE MEDICIN CHEF / YEN-BAI”, etc. (100s). £300-400
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Censorship. 1939-47 Worldwide covers and cards, nearly all censored, various cachets and labels, including Aden, Bermuda, Bahamas, Jamaica, Grenada, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Cameroon, Tahiti, Togo, 1945 Japan cover with “EXAMINED IN THE FIELD / PASSED BY / JOINT INTELLIGENCE”, etc. (229). £350-450
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Censorship. 1939-45 Covers, the extensive lot with censor cachets and labels from many Empire and foreign countries including Bermuda, Gambia, Gold Coast, North Borneo (4), Somaliland, Papua, etc., also some forces mail. (100s). £300-400
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1939-45 Forces mail from allied forces including U.S, French, Canadian, Indian, Australian and Czech, covers from G.B, Europe, West Indies, Iraq (one with small “POSTAGE prepaid” cachet), Iran, Bermuda, etc. (140). £180-220
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c.1939-99 Covers and cards, ephemera, etc., including unused V. Mail forms (4, two illustrated), group of five British WW2 and postwar miniature medals, Red Cross message forms, a few patriotic labels, various postwar forces mail, censors, sheet of 100 WW2 military labels believed to be from Thailand, 1982 (Mar 8) British Antarctic Territory F.D.C with Islas Malvinas datestamp applied at Port Stanley on April 6 (date inverted), etc. (c.200). £250-300
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P.O.W Mail - Formosa. 1943 (Apr 13) G.B 2½d P.O.W Air Letter for use to P.O.Ws in Europe, incorrectly used to a P.O.W in the Far East, posted from Loxwood, Billingshurst, to “W/Sgt Henry Hill, Royal Engineers, Taiwan Camp, Formosa” with British and Japanese censor cachets, the letter approx 280 words long, far exceeding the 25 word limit allowed to P.O.Ws in Japanese Camps. A rare use of this air letter. Photo on Page 122. £240-300
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P.O.W Mail - Java/Japan. 1942 Covers from G.B to airmen in Malaya (2), both redirected to India with violet “NO TRACE R.A.F / INDIA COMMAND”, one to L.A.C R. Williams, with a cover from G.B to Williams at Java P.O.W Camp 7, and a cover from Williams in Osaka Camp. Also a postcard from G.B to another R.A.F P.O.W at Java Camp X. (5). £100-120
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P.O.W Mail - China. 1943-44 Shanghai War-Prisoners Camp postcards from W. Bolt, addressed to Glasgow, the first dated 24th June 1943 with the camp imprint in small lettering, the second dated 6th June 1944 with the imprint in larger lettering, both with Japanese censors, the first with a British censor, the 1944 card evidently still in Japanese hands when the war ended 14 months after it was written, handstamped violet boxed “RETURNED IN / UNDELIVERED / MAILS FROM JAPAN”. The 1944 card a little creased, otherwise fine. (2). Photo on Page 122. £120-150
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P.O.W Mail. 1940-46 Covers and cards including India 1943 cover with “PASSED BY CENSOR / INTERNMENT CAMP & PAROLE CENTRE / SATARA”, other covers from India (2), Jamaica (5), Oflag IXA / H Christmas card, etc. (32). £100-120
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Mint and used collection in an enormous KABE album produced in Germany in 1943 for Africa and Asia, with pages cut from a second equally large volume for European countries, some reasonable Europe classics noted, also some Commonwealth with Ceylon Chalon Heads (19), duplicates in a further eight stockbooks, a few SAS first flight covers, etc., a few faults with some mint stuck to pages. (1000s). £400-500
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1874 Imperial Postage Stamp Album and Catalogue published by E.S Gibbons in Plymouth, a few G.B stamps removed but otherwise virtually untouched, a good number of mainly used pre-1875 stamps throughout stuck in with stamp edging, very mixed condition but with useful Europe, Canada, USA and some Commonwealth, the album very early and in unusually fine condition. £300-350
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Worldwide stamps and covers, the extensive lot including stockbooks of British Commonwealth and Europe; 1939 registered Centurion crash cover from Australia with cachet; c.1936 crash cover from India to Brazil with cachet applied in France; Egypt, Switzerland, Belgium and Scandinavia covers, etc. (1000s). £300-500
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Worldwide and G.B stamps and covers including G.B county postal history, postal stationery, omnibus issues, etc. (100s). £100-200
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c.1841-1970s G.B, Commonwealth and foreign countries, mint and used collections in eight albums including G.B KGV 2d with boxed “TRISTAN / DA / (CUNHA)” cancel used by the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, reasonable USA, etc. (8 Albums). £200-250
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Foreign Countries, collections in two S.G. New Ideal albums with issues to 1936, also smaller collections on pages and in stockbooks including Portuguese Colonies, Luxembourg, Danish West Indies, Portugal, Sweden, Cameroon, Morocco, Belgian Congo, Macao, French Guinea, French P.Os in China, French Guyana, German States, etc. (1000s). £600-700
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Stamps and covers including a Belgium collection in two albums, Australia postage due covers, etc. (100s). £120-180
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Forgeries. “The Spud Papers”, all 63 articles by the Rev. Earee, cut from “The Philatelist” (1867-76) or “The Philatelic Quarterly” (1877-79), with all 134 Spiro forgeries, a scarce complete set of these pioneering articles illustrated with actual forgeries. (134 forgeries). £150-200
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Cinderellas. The worldwide accumulation with labels, revenues, forgeries, toy stamps, perfins, postmarks, charity labels, etc. (1000s). £400-500
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Abyssinia & Somalia. 1894-1984 Mint and used collection in two albums, with Abyssinia, Eritrea, Somalia, Benadir and Italian East Africa, including 1945 formula registration envelope franked 3/7 in British stamps from E.A A.P.O 77, etc. (2 Albums). £150-200
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Africa - Portuguese & Spanish Colonies. Mint and used collection to c.1984, including Mozambique, Angola, St. Thomas & Prince, Cape Verde, Cape Juby, Western Sahara, Fernando Po, Spanish and Equatorial Guinea, Portuguese Guinea, Nyassa, etc. (4 Albums). £200-250
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Arabia. 1937-84 Mint and used collections of Aden, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, North Yemen, Muscat and U.A.E in four albums, Aden including 1917 cover with circular Aden censor and straight line “OPENED BY CENSOR”, 1937 5r used, etc. (4 Albums). £200-300
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Benelux. 1849-1984 Mint and used collection of Belgium (three albums), Netherlands (four albums) and Luxembourg (one album), with Luxembourg 1874 imperf 4c mint, officials; Netherlands 1852 15c used, 1898 1g type A used, etc. (8 Albums). £250-300
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Balkans. 1862-1984 Mint and used collections of Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia in eleven albums, various occupation issues, etc. (11 Albums). £300-400
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Central America. 1856-1984 Mint and used collections of Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Salvador in eight albums, some classics, a good level of completeness for 20th century issues. (8 Albums). £400-500
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Eastern Europe. 1871-1984 Mint and used collections of Czechoslovakia in nine albums, Poland in three albums and Hungary in five albums, a good level of completeness. (17 Albums). £250-350
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Egypt & Sudan. 1866-1954 Mint and used selection in a stockbook including Egypt 1923-24 set, 1926 Kings birthday 50p, 1927-37 set all mint; Sudan 1897-1954 postage issues mint (just missing S.G. 75), 1936-62 official sets mint, etc. S.G. £2,700+. (100s). £300-400
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Egypt & Sudan. 1866-1984 Mint and used collection in two albums, a good level of completeness from c.1930. (2 Albums). £150-200
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Europe. 1849-1966 Mint and used collections of France, Austria, Hungary, Germany and German Colonies in five albums, also a world collection, includes France 1937 PEXIP miniature sheet unmounted; Germany 1872 ¼g - 5g small shield and large shield sets used, 1931 D.O.X card from Friedrichshafen to New York flown via Brazil bearing 1930 1st South America flight 4m; Hungary 1948 Chain Bridge miniature sheets, etc. (6 Albums). £200-250
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Far East. 1862-1984 Mint and used collections of Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mongolia, Shanghai and local posts, including Hong Kong 1871 30c mint, 1891 Jubilee 2c broken “1” used, 1904 $2 used, etc. (4 Albums). £300-400
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