AIR MAILS 1932 First Regular London to Cape Town & Return Fl
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Lot No: 282
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Ephemera including invitation and menu for the departure ceremony at Croydon Airport, news cuttings (4), photographs of "Helena" at Croydon (4), Imperial Airways flight publicity letters sent from London (2, one with cover) or Johannesburg, Imperial Airways invoice to J.S Davis for 3,000 special envelopes and a further 220 covers posted at eleven places en route, England - South Africa Civil Air Transport Service agreement carried on the first return flight from Victoria West to England, etc. (20).
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G.B. 1932 (Jan 20) Printed "Springbok" (6) or "Speedbird" (3) first flight covers all cancelled "CROYDON AERODROME / CROYDON SY" c.d.s, flown to Moshi, Dodoma, Salisbury, Pietersburg, Johannesburg, Upington, Mariental, Victoria West or Cape Town, the cover to Salisbury signed by J.S Sheppard ("City of Baghdad", Kisumu to Broken Hill) and M.H Pearce (Broken Hill to Johannesburg). 504 Covers posted at Croydon Airport, ten each to Upington and Mariental, 24-30 to most other places. (9). Photo on Page 46. (Image1)
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Lot No: 284
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G.B. 1932 (Jan 17-20) Covers or cards flown from London to Wadi Halfa, Malakal, Kosti, Tanga, Dodoma, Broken Hill (2), Pietersburg, Johannesburg, Windhoek or Cape Town (4), including printed "Speedbird" (5) or "Springbok" (2) envelopes, one cover to Cape Town posted as a railway letter at Gosport with a Southern Railway 3d parcel stamp affixed. (14).
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Lot No: 285
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Greece. 1932 (Jan 22-23) First flight covers from Athens flown to Dodoma (2, one for Dar-es-Salaam), Moshi, Broken Hill, Kimberley, Victoria West or Windhoek, or from Heraklion to Nairobi (2), including printed "Speedbird" and "Springbok" (5) envelopes, the cover to Windhoek signed by F.J Bailey ("Scipio", Brindisi - Alexandria), J.S Sheppard ("City of Baghdad", Kisumu - Broken Hill) and R.F Caspareuthus ("City of Karachi", Johannesburg - Cape Town). (9). Photo on Page 46. (Image1)
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Lot No: 286
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Europe / Morocco. 1932 (Jan.) Covers carried on the first flight, from Ireland (2), Switzerland (3) or the British P.O in Tangier, all flown from London to Cape Town; Malta to Pietersburg or Mariental and Italy to Cape Town, all flown from Brindisi; or Cyprus to Cape Town, flown from Cairo, including printed "Speedbird" (5) and "Springbok" covers. Also a "Speedbird" cover from Holland to Cape Town carried on the second flight. (11).
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Lot No: 287
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Egypt. 1932 (Jan 22-24) Covers from Alexandria to Tabora, Beaufort West or Cape Town; Cairo to Dodoma or Cape Town; Assiut to Cape Town (3); Aswan to Cape Town (2), including printed "Speedbird" (3) and "Springbok" (4) envelopes. Also a "Speedbird" cover posted from Cairo to Cape Town in February, and aerial photos of Egypt (7). (11+).
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Lot No: 288
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Sudan. 1932 (Jan 24-26) Covers carried on the first southbound flight from Wadi Halfa to Atbara or Cape Town; Atbara to Gwelo or Cape Town; Khartoum to Kosti, Broken Hill or Windhoek; Malakal to Mbeya (7 flown), Broken Hill (6 flown), Salisbury (6 flown), Kimberley or Cape Town; Juba to Johannesburg, Victoria West or Cape Town; and Feb 1/2 covers carried on the first northbound flight from Khartoum to Atbara or Wadi Halfa, or from Atbara to Wadi Halfa, includes printed "Speedbird" and "Springbok" (9) envelopes, also three aerial photos. A scarce group. (18+).
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Lot No: 289
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Kenya / Uganda / Zanzibar. 1932 (Jan 6 - Feb 5) Covers flown on the first southbound flight, from Kampala to Cape Town; Kisumu to Dodoma or Cape Town (signed by J.S Sheppard and R.F Caspareuthus); Mombasa to Windhoek; Zanzibar to Cape Town; Nairobi to Moshi, Dodoma, Mbeya, Mpika, Broken Hill, Salisbury, Bulawayo, Pietersburg, Kimberley, Windhoek or Cape Town (3), includes printed "Speedbird" (3) and "Springbok" (12) envelopes, and two "Springbok" envelopes from Zanzibar to Cape Town carried on the second flight. Also covers carried on the first northbound flight from Mombasa to London; Nairobi to Alexandria ("Springbok" cover), Mirabella Bay, Athens or London; or Kampala to London. A good lot, some stages scarce. (26). Photo on Page 46. (Image1)
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Lot No: 290
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Tanganyika. 1932 (Jan 14-27) Printed "Springbok" covers flown on the southbound flight from Tabora to Cape Town (flown from Dodoma), or from Moshi to Dodoma, Mbeya, Mpika, Broken Hill, Salisbury, Bulawayo, Pietersburg, Johannesburg, Windhoek, Victoria West or Cape Town, and a plain cover from Dodoma to Cape Town, all offloaded and sorted at Mbeya prior to being reflown. (13).
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Lot No: 291
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Rhodesia. 1932 (Jan 28-30) Covers flown on the first southbound flight from Northern Rhodesia (9) or Southern Rhodesia (4), sent from Mpika to Broken Hill, Johannesburg, Upington, Keetmanshoop or Cape Town; Ndola to Bulawayo or Cape Town (both flown from Broken Hill); Broken Hill to Salisbury or Pietersburg; Salisbury to Bulawayo, Lourenco Marques or Cape Town; Bulawayo to Cape Town, includes four printed envelopes in various designs. Also four bundle labels handstamped "FIRST OFFICIAL AIR MAIL" and "BULAWAYO" (2) or a Salisbury c.d.s (2) each for a bundle of letters to Johannesburg or Cape Town. (17).
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Rhodesia. 1932 (Jan 28-30) Registered cover from Mpika to Cape Town signed by M.H Pearce, J.S Sheppard and R.F Caspareuthus, and a cover from Bulawayo to Victoria West signed by N.H Pearce and R.F Caspareuthus, two fine pilot signed covers. (2). Photo on Page 52. (Image1)
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Lot No: 293
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South Africa. 1932 (Jan 21-31) Covers carried on the first southbound flight from Germiston to Upington, Victoria West or Windhoek (written by Capt. Wright); Kimberley to Upington; or Pilgrims Rest to Cape Town; and covers carried on the first northbound flight from Cape Town (27, five posted at Muizenberg), Durban (2, flown to Cape Town by Union Airways), Victoria West (13, one from Port Elizabeth), Upington, Kimberley (6), Johannesburg (13), Germiston or Pietersburg (7). The extensive lot with covers to most destinations within South Africa, Northern or Southern Rhodesia, Tanganyika and Kenya, also covers to Belgian Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Egypt, Athens, Switzerland, G.B, USA and Australia, one with Croydon Aerodrome backstamp. Sixty covers to places north of Bulawayo all from the double crashes of "City of Basra" at Salisbury and "City of Delhi" 55 miles from Broken Hill, one cover to England with the stamps washed off and endorsed "Received in this condition at Kingston-on-Thames 17.2.32" bearing an Officially Sealed label, accompanied by a letter from the Kingston-on-Thames Postmaster (March 15th, with envelope) to the addressee explaining "the first homeward Cape Air Mail was forced to descend in a swamp near Broken Hill and a portion of the mail was damaged by water. It is probable the stamps were detached and the envelope damaged through this cause". (75 + P.O letter).
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South Africa. 1932 (Jan 27) Pilot signed covers flown from Cape Town to Brindisi or London (2), one signed by R.F Caspareuthus, H.W.C Alger, J.M Gittens and J.S Sheppard, another by Caspareuthus, Alger and Gittens, the cover to Brindisi signed by D.H Drew ("Sylvanus", Alexandria to Brindisi), all three from the double crashes of "City of Basra" (H. Alger) and "City of Delhi" (Gittens), all fine. (3). Photo on Page 52. (Image1)
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South West Africa. 1931 (Dec 19) - 1932 (Jan 27) Covers flown to Kimberley by South West Airways to connect with the first Imperial Airways northbound flight, from Windhoek to Kimberley (signed by the pilot A.O Wright), Bulawayo, Broken Hill (2), Mbeya, Dodoma, Moshi, Nairobi, Port Bell, Sinkat, Cairo (2, one for Calcutta), Athens, Paris (to Germany, signed by the pilot A.O Wright) or London (3, one for USA); Mariental to Johannesburg, Pietersburg or London; Keetmanshoop to Bulawayo, Salisbury, Paris (to Germany); Grootfontein to London (written by Capt. Wright); Omaruru to Johannesburg or London; Otjiwarongo to London, 21 covers to places north of Bulawayo from the double crashes of "City of Basra" and "City of Delhi". (27).
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South Africa. 1932 (Jan 26) Registered express cover from Table Mountain to London, flown on the first flight from Cape Town franked 1/11, also bearing an "SAC" label, signed by the South African Prime Minister J.B.M Hertzog, former Prime Minister J.C Smuts, and Lord Clarendon, Governor-General of South Africa, a little creasing, otherwise fine and very unusual. Also a 1939 letter written and signed by Clarendon, agreeing to add his signature to the cover. Photo on Page 52. (Image1)
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Lot No: 297
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Southern Rhodesia. 1932 (Jan 23-28) Covers from Bulawayo to Salisbury, Broken Hill, Dodoma, Port Bell, Khartoum, Cairo, Alexandria, Athens, Brindisi or London (3); or from Salisbury to Broken Hill, Leopoldville, Nairobi, Kosti, Wadi Halfa (2), Athens or London (3), all from the double crashes of "City of Basra" and "City of Delhi", ten printed "Springbok" covers, also a printed cover from Salisbury to London carried on the second flight. (23).
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Lot No: 298
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Bechuanaland. 1932 (Jan 22-29) "Robertson" printed flight envelopes from Lobatsi, all flown by Imperial Airways from Kimberley on the southbound flight to Victoria West, or northbound flight to Dodoma, Nairobi, Port Bell, Khartoum or Athens, these five from the double crashes of "City of Basra" and "City of Delhi", all fine. (6).
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Lot No: 299
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Nyasaland. 1932 (Jan.) Covers posted at Limbe (4) or with T.P.O Nyasaland c.d.s, flown from Salisbury to Broken Hill, Dodoma, Nairobi, Port Bell or Alexandria, all from the double crashes of "City of Basra" and "City of Delhi", one Limbe cover with scarce violet boxed "T.P.O LATE FEE / NOT PAID" ("NOT" crossed out in manuscript). (5). Photo on Page 52. (Image1)
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Northern Rhodesia. 1932 (Jan 16-29) Covers flown from Broken Hill to Mpika, Mbeya, Dodoma, Moshi, Nairobi (2), Kisumu, Port Bell, Kareima, Sinkat, Khartoum, Cairo (2), India, Cyprus, Paris or London (3, one to USA); or from Mpika to Mbeya, Dodoma, Moshi, Nairobi, Cairo or London (2), all carried on the emergency flight from Broken Hill to Nairobi due to the crash and stranding of the "City of Delhi" 55 miles from Broken Hill. All fine, 15 are printed "Springbok" covers. (26).
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Lot No: 301
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Tanganyika. 1932 (Jan 25-30) Covers carried on the northbound emergency flight (Broken Hill to Nairobi), from Dodoma to Moshi, Nairobi (3), Kisumu, Malakal, Khartoum, Assouan, Assiut, Cairo, Alexandria, Athens or London; Mbeya to Dodoma, Moshi, Nairobi or Sinkat; Moshi to Nairobi (2), Kisumu, Leopoldville, Juba, Malakal, Khartoum, Cairo, India, Athens (2), Brindisi or London (3), includes printed "Map of Africa" (2) and "Springbok" (20) covers, six registered, also two C.O.Ps and two aerial photos. (32+).
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Lot No: 302
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First New Zealand Acceptance to Africa. 1932 (June 28-29) Covers from New Zealand to Baghdad, Jerusalem, Assiut, Wadi Halfa, Khartoum, Juba, Nairobi, Mombasa, Dodoma, Mbeya, Broken Hill, Blantyre, Beira, Pietersburg or Cape Town, covers to destinations beyond Egypt all with boxed flight cachet. A fine group, from Timaru (6), Auckland (8) or Wellington, very few carried to some destinations. (15).
