1935 Silver Jubilee Stamps & Covers Air Mail Covers
Sale No: 51
Lot No: 774
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G.B. 1935 Covers to Syria (2, one a printed Silver Jubilee envelope), Colombia, India (2), USA (3) or Trinidad (2/6 rate, with all four Jubilee stamps), one cover to San Francisco franked 1½d + U.S Air Mail 6c applied in London to pay for internal U.S air mail. Also a 1959 2d postcard to USA from the Silver Jubilee collector Eric Bloch bearing a Nyasaland Silver Jubilee 1d! (10).
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Lot No: 775
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G.B/Europe. 1935 Covers (17) and postcards (4) from G.B to Europe including set on First Day postcard to Malta, London to Brindisi and London to Portugal via Paris and Madrid first flights, the rest commercial with express letters to Germany and Italy, etc. (21).
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Lot No: 777
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G.B/Northern Rhodesia. 1935 (May 7) G.B set on First Day Cover cancelled at Wilton Road, Hudson Place S.W1, carried on the first flight to Lusaka, dropped by parachute as the airport had not been completed. About 50 covers flown but most were official letters, only about 10-20 stamped covers carried. With 1935 and 1977 letters from Francis J. Field. Fine and scarce.
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Lot No: 778
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G.B - Australia/New Zealand. 1935 Covers from G.B to Australia (3) or New Zealand (3) including May 7th F.D.C bearing pairs of the 1d, 1½d and 2½d (2 pairs), cover to New Zealand with set in strips of three, an unusual commercial cover from Kirkwall franked 1/3 comprising seven stamps from the Jubilee, 1924 or 1934 sets, also covers from Australia to South Africa (2) or Canada. (9).
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Sale No: 51
Lot No: 779
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Gambia - Graf Zeppelin Pendulum Flights. 1935 (Nov 21) Cover from Recife to Bathurst franked Brazil 200r + 2000r pair inscribed "Graf Zeppelin" and bearing a "VIA / CONDOR - ZEPPELIN" label with red "DEUTSCHE LUFTPOST / EUROPA - SUDAMERIKA" cachet, backstamped at Stuttgart (Nov 25) and Bathurst (Nov 29), then reposted from Bathurst (Nov 30) to Pernambuco franked Silver Jubilee 6d (2), with Recife arrival c.d.s (Dec 2). The Graf Zeppelin flew three pendulum flights between Brazil and Gambia in November when the usual Deutsche Lufthansa service was suspended whilst the service ships in the Atlantic were being repaired. This cover carried on the second Zeppelin flight to Bathurst, then strangely flown from Bathurst to Stuttgart by Deutsche Lufthansa, returned by DLH then flown back on the third return flight by Graf Zeppelin. A little light staining but an exceptionally scarce double pendulum flight cover. Photo on Page 124. (Image1)
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Lot No: 780
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Gambia - Graf Zeppelin Pendulum Flights. 1935 (Nov 28) Cover from Pernambuco to Bathurst franked Brazil 500r + 700r, inscribed "Mit Graf Zeppelin", carried on the final Graf Zeppelin pendulum flight with circular "SERVICIO AEREO TRANSOCEANICO / CONDOR / ZEPPELIN / LUFTHANSA / BRASIL - EUROPA" cachet and a Bathurst arrival c.d.s (Dec 2), then reposted from Bathurst (Dec 6) to Pernambuco franked ½d + 2d + Silver Jubilee 1/-, carried on the first resumed DLH airmail service with Pernambuco arrival c.d.s (Dec 8). A little light staining but extremely scarce. Photo on Page 124. (Image1)
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Lot No: 781
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West Africa/Morocco. 1935-36 Covers comprising Nigeria first flights from Maidugeri to London or London to Lagos; Gambia set of four on First Day Cover with "POSTED OUT / OF COURSE" and a registration label applied in London, carried by surface mail, and flown covers with "AIRMAIL / GAMBIA - ENGLAND" cachets; Morocco Agencies (3); also a surface mail cover from Sierra Leone franked 1d + 3d + 5d with boxed "POSTED ON STEAMER" of Freetown. (9).
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Lot No: 783
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KUT/Singapore. 1935 (Aug 3) Cover from Kenya to Australia "via India, Singapore & Trans Australia" franked 50c + Silver Jubilee 20c (2, one variety diagonal line by turret, S.G. 124f) and 1/-, violet "BY AIR IN AUSTRALIA / PAR AVION EN AUSTRALIE" and very scarce violet "Received late at Singapore / Missed connection", Singapore (Aug 19) backstamp. Photo on Page 124. (Image1)
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Lot No: 785
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Southern Africa. 1935-36 Covers and cards from South Africa (30), Basutoland, Swaziland or Bechuanaland, including South Africa set in pairs on May 1st F.D.C from the Cape Town Post Office Exhibition, July 30th first flight cover from Cape Town to Beira via Salisbury signed by all three pilots, other first flight covers from Cape Town to Johannesburg or Germiston to G.B, other mainly commercial covers to Italian Somaliland, Palestine, Ireland, New Zealand, S.W.A, flown within South Africa, etc., one cover to Switzerland with 3d block of four containing cleft skull variety. (33).
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Lot No: 786
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South West Africa. 1935 Covers including set in pairs on cover to Germany, cover franked 3d to Natal with scarce violet "AIR MAIL CANCELLED", etc., also a cover from Cape Town to Windhoek. (8).
