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Group of 36 Mostly International Air Mail Flight Covers, 1928-1947, includes a 1928 picture post card flown London on the 25th Anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight; a 1928 Liverpool to Belfast flying boat cover; four 1933 Provincial Airways first flight covers; an AUG. 1934 Liverpool to Birmingham experimental flight cover; four APEX 1934 covers; one pigeongram; two 1937 Allied Airways Scottish flight covers; eight Jersey Airways first flights from May and June 1937; three Atlantic Coast Air Lines flown first day covers, two for the MAY.13.1937 Coronation issue and one for the 1½d KGVI issue. Also four 1937 London Stamp Exhibition covers, a 1937 Highland Airways cover and OCT.5.1938 North Eastern Airways first flights, plus a 1937 2½d rate airmail cover to Switzerland and a 5d 1947 airmail cover to France. Saw lots of interesting labels and cachets, etc, an interesting lot which is all scanned online. Many with minor edge or other faults still overall fine or better. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 500
Opening C$ 300.00
Sold...C$ 300.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 16:53:33 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1543
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
Nov. 1937 F/O A.E. Clouston & Mrs. Kirby Green Record Flight to Cape Town, includes a NOV.13.1937 cover with beige label flown to Cape Town, with NOV.16 receiver, and a NOV.13.1937 cover with a blue label flown to Cape Town and back to London, with a GB stamp on the back cancelled NOV.23. Both very fine and scarce. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 500
Opening C$ 55.00
Sold...C$ 55.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 16:53:58 EST
Sold For 55
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1544
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
FEB.20.1938 Group of 36 "Mails for India" Air Mail Covers, all sent at the 1½d rate. Includes 2 each of the following destinations Burma, Ceylon, Palestine, Sarawak, Seychelles, Malaya, Egypt, Brunei, Bahrain, Singapore, North Borneo, Aden, Tibet, Labuan, Muscat, Dubai, Trans Jordan and India. All sent by A. Phillips, Air Mail Specialist of Newport GB, all with the same cachet in red, black, blue or green. Many also have return to sender handstamps, etc. Overall very fine. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 500
Opening C$ 525.00
Sold...C$ 900.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 16:55:21 EST
Sold For 900
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1545
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
1938 Jim Broadbent Unofficial Air Mail Cover, H798 cancelled London MAR.9.1938 and signed by the pilot. Had a forced landing at Flores, Dutch East Indies MAR.17 and only 48 covers reported. H804 is the return flight from Darwin Australia on APR.22. He arrived back in the UK on APR.22, with only 40 covers reported. Both very fine and scarce, with no back stamps. Eustis catalogue value is in Australian dollars. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Eustis $ 500
Opening C$ 110.00
Sold...C$ 110.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 16:55:45 EST
Sold For 110
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1546
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection
JUL.23.1938 Empire Air Mail Scheme Cover Collection, with 21 covers, all from A. Phillips, airmail specialist in Newport, England. Note covers to Solomon Islands, Fiji, Fanning Island, New Guinea, Samoa, Norfolk Island, New Hebrides, Ellice Island, Tonga, Cook Islands, Papua, Nauru, New Zealand (x3), Banks Islands and 5 to Australia. All were mailed at the 1½d rate and all have the cachet in either red or black, most with receiving cancels. Very fine. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 250
Opening C$ 400.00
Sold...C$ 500.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 16:56:16 EST
Sold For 500
Worldwide Stamps and Covers The L.V. Pont Collection of Early Air Mail Postal
FEB.11.1911 World's First official Air Mail Flight, Allahbad to Naini Junction, then to Calcutta. A large size post card with large magenta First Aerial Post cachet canceling stamp, reverse depicting the biplane used for this historical air mail flight. The card is also signed by the pilot Henri Pequet (only 40 recorded) and expert Stephen H. Smith. Serious creases and tears, still an important flight item. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
FEB.11.1911 World's First official Air Mail Flight, Allahbad to Naini Junction. A small size stationery post card with large magenta First Aerial Post cachet canceling stamp, reverse blank except for Henri Pequet pilot signature (only 40 recorded). Small hinge remnants on back and stain at right, still an important air mail item. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 100
Opening C$ 1,200.00
Sold...C$ 1,200.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 16:59:08 EST
Sold For 1200
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1549
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: India
FEB.11.1911 World's First official Air Mail Flight, Allahbad to Naini Junction. A large piece of a cover franked with a 3r Queen Victoria, cancelled by a large magenta First Aerial Post cachet, plus a second free strike, reverse is addressed to Glass Bangles Merchants in Firozabad (Dist. Agra). A few hinge remnants, still a scarce and possibly unique franking for this popular flight. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 100
Opening C$ 950.00
Sold...C$ 950.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 16:59:51 EST
Sold For 950
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1550
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: India
1925 de Pinedo World Flight, Calcutta to Melbourne, franked with a ½a and 1½a KGV definitives, with a red handstamp reading "Italian Consul General's (Melbourne) letter of 12-11-25. / No. 750/11. / Calcutta to Melbourne by Seaplane, 13/5/1925.". Back shows a purple cachet with map "ITALIAN / WORLD AIR / FLIGHT" (also another strike partly visible on front), with green initials of Stephen Smith and the president of the Aero Philatelic Club of India H.A. Outhwaite (these, apparently to prevent duplication). This is the right half of the cover only, as the 93 existing covers had all been intentionally cut in half, as they had been signed by de Pinedo after a promised charity donation had failed (the half with his signature are missing). Accompanied by a fairly contemporary article written on these interesting covers. This one is numbered 76 (out of 93), very fine and rare. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 500
Opening C$ 1,100.00
Sold...C$ 1,150.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 17:00:41 EST
Sold For 1150
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1551
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: India
1925 de Pinedo World Flight, Calcutta to Melbourne, franked with a ½a and 1½a KGV definitives, with a red handstamp reading "Italian Consul General's (Melbourne) letter of 12-11-25. / No. 750/11. / Calcutta to Melbourne by Seaplane, 13/5/1925.". Back shows a purple cachet with map "ITALIAN / WORLD AIR / FLIGHT" (plus part of another on front), with green initials of Stephen Smith and the president of the Aero Philatelic Club of India H.A. Outhwaite (these, apparently to prevent duplication). This is the right half of the cover only, as the 93 existing covers had all been intentionally cut in half, as they had been signed by de Pinedo after a promised charity donation had failed (the half with his signature are missing). Accompanied by a fairly contemporary article written on these interesting covers. This one is numbered 63 (out of 93) and has been subject to some water damage, mostly visible in the diluted Melbourne, Australia address. Non the less rare and desirable. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
DEC.31.1925 Dropped Leaflets from an RAF Calcutta Flight, both reading "A Grand Military Searchlight Tatoo" at top (one in red and one in black), with text below explaining a charity fund raising event for military aid. Each also has a blue double circle "DELIVERED BY AIR OVER CALCUTTA / 31 DEC 25 / 10 A.M.", and one is also franked with a 1a postage stamp, cancelled in Calcutta on the same day. Both folded, with fold tears, and one has one quarter detached (partially re-attached with stamp hinges). Scarce documents, as it is believed that only a dozen leaflets passed through the mails. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 300
Opening C$ 110.00
Sold...C$ 160.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 17:03:22 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1553
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: India
APR.4.1926 Calcutta to Bangkok First Flight Cover, franked with three 1a KGV definitives, alongside slogan air mail label reading "AVAIL AIR MAILS / AND / SAVE TIME". A black two line handstamp reads "BY DANISH FOKKER AEROPLANES 1926. / CALCUTTA TO BANGKOK.", and two purple strikes reading "ROYAL DANISH LEGION" (one in English and one in Danish). Very fine appearance, with missing backflap, still scarce with only 41 covers carried. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 400
Opening C$ 350.00
Sold...C$ 475.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 17:04:10 EST
Sold For 475
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1554
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: India
JUL.23.1926 England to Australia Flight Covers, all three with text explaining the tumultuous flight, first with "Calcutta to Rangoon" in red, franked with 1a KGV definitive tied by Calcutta G.P.O. JUL.23.1926 c.d.s., addressed to Rangoon, with JUL.26 receiver on back, alongside photographic cachet (re-attached with stamp hinge). Two other covers were not flown, read "Carried from Calcutta to Melbourne" and are signed by Stephen H. Smith. A very fine and rare trio. with only 45 items carried. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 400
Opening C$ 500.00
Sold...C$ 500.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 17:04:39 EST
Sold For 500
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1555
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: India
JUL.1.1927 Domestic Souvenir Air Flight Over Calcutta, two covers with flight information printed at top in red, one franked with a 1a and the other with two ½a definitives, both addressed to Calcutta with JUL.2 receivers on back. Both covers also hve their butterfly "cachet" and initials. Very fine, with 276 covers flown. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 200
Opening C$ 130.00
Sold...C$ 130.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 17:05:32 EST
Sold For 130
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1556
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: India
NOV.3.1927 First Experimental Flight by a French Pilot, Calcutta to Paris, with red corner card cachet naming the pilot "Capt. Leon Chale", engineer and date, with initials of Stephen H Smith in red, alongside purple French Consul handstamp. Cover is addressed to Miss K. Hare in London, England, and the back has a notation "Received 28th Dec 27 / K.H." alongside a Stephen Smith signature in green. Very fine and scarce, with 93 covers carried. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 400
Opening C$ 375.00
Sold...C$ 375.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 17:06:46 EST
Sold For 375
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1557
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: India
NOV.3.1927 Calcutta to Karachi Roger Latapie First Flight Cover, mailed Calcutta to Karachi, with NOV.7 receiver on back, alongside NOV.6 Drigh Road c.d.s., with pink label reading "Urgent" By Aeroplane Return Trip Calcutta, Karachi", with ROGER LATAPIE handstamp in green and French Consul handstamp, all on Bennett stationery envelope. Very fine, and rare with only 55 covers flown. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
JAN.15.1929 Baron von Koenig Berlin to Tokyo, Calcutta-Akyar Leg., "Kamerad" card addressed to (and signed by) Stephen Smith, re-addressed to von Koenig ("the Boy Pilot") in Akyab, Burma. The card has all the appropriate handstamps (front and back, both scanned online). Very fine and rare, according to Mr. Pont, 2 cover and 39 cards were carried. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
JAN.29.1929 Baron von Koenig Berlin to Tokyo, Calcutta-Singapore Leg. "Kamerad" card addressed to (and signed by) Stephen Smith, re-addressed to von Koenig ("the Boy Pilot") in Singapore. The card has all the appropriate labels and handstamps (front and back, both scanned online). Very fine and rare, according to Mr. Pont 1 cover and 25 cards were carried. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 500
Opening C$ 675.00
Sold...C$ 1,330.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 17:11:08 EST
Sold For 1330
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1560
Symbol: Cvr/P
Cat No: India
April 4th to 26th 1929 First to Fourth India to England Flights, by Imperial Airways. 1st, 2d and 3d are covers, 4th flight is a card (partially split open, does not detract), each with different frankings, but all with the same red and blue cachet plus the double circle "BY AIR" handstamp. Overall fine group, all signed by Stephen Smith a few also by Harold Hayman. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
Est $ 100
Opening C$ 210.00
Sold...C$ 210.00
Closed..Jan-31-2020, 17:11:29 EST
Sold For 210
Sale No: 32
Lot No: 1561
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: India
APR.19.1929 Karachi to Cairo Flight Cover, via Imperial Airways, addressed to Mr. Pont in Cairo and franked with a 3a and 4a, with green and red cachet and double circle 'BY AIR". There is a c.d.s. "Reçu par avion / Alexandrie" dated APR.24 and an undated Cairo machine receiver, alongside a Stephen Smith signature. Overall toning, still very fine. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails. (Image)
