1925-46 Covers including 1925 South Africa internal flights (2); 1931 London to Cape Town Christmas flight cover flown on Khartoum to Kosti leg; 1932 first regular London - Cape Town service, first flight from Norway to London reposted to Cape Town (Norway + G.B stamps), Windhoek to London, Karibib to London with Croydon Aerodrome backstamp; 1934 London - Mocambique first flight via Broken Hill, and South Africa to Australia first flight; 1936 G.B to Nigeria first flight via Khartoum; 1937 G.B to South Africa first all-up flight, pilot signed; 1939 Angola - Johannesburg first flight, etc. (14).
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Egypt. 1929 Covers, mainly first flights including 1929 (Apr) Cairo to India (2) and Cairo or Alexandria to London (5, one to Switzerland), December 5th Alexandria to Cania (2); 1930 (April 18) Alexandria to Salonica or Vienna; 1931 (Mar 3) Alexandria to Mirabella or Athens; 1932-33 covers to Athens with Greek air mail cachets and pink or green labels (3, the Greek labels all different), etc. (22).
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Egypt /Greece - Crash Covers. 1933 Covers flown from Alexandria, comprising March 5th cover from Cairo to Athens, the flight making a forced landing in rough sea off Cape Suniun due to a lack of petrol, then towed into Phaliron Bay by a Greek Coastguard trawler; and May 5th covers from Cairo to Candia or Alexandria to Corfu carried on the "Scipio" which damaged a wing tip attempting to land in rough sea off Heraklion, took off again and subsequently landed at Mirabella Bay, where the plane floundered. Scarce, just 18 covers carried from Egypt on this May "Scipio" flight; the mail was taken to Heraklion on the 26th but one of these covers received an arrival datestamp for the 24th, the date of the initial intended landing. (3).
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Sudan - Alan Cobham London to Cape Town Survey Flight. 1925 (Dec 23) Souvenir postcard flown from London to Khartoum, posted to the Editor of "Flight" magazine franked Sudan 3m + 5m tied by Khartoum c.d.s, an imperforate green vignette unusually on the front of the card tied by violet oval "BY SPECIAL AIR MAIL / 16-11-25 / LONDON / CAPE TOWN", the reverse signed "Alan J. Cobham" with the message "Up to present we have not found it necessary to fly in early morning only due to heat. True we are in winter weather now but the DH50 Jaguar combination works well for performance". Extremely fine and very scarce, just three cards recorded from Sudan, all posted at Khartoum. Photo on Page 24. (Image1)
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Sudan. 1931 (Mar.) First Imperial Airways London to East Africa service, cover from Yugoslavia to Wadi Halfa, and covers from Sudan flown southwards from Wadi Halfa to Kareima, Omdurman, Kisumu or Mwanza (2), or from Khartoum to Nairobi or Mwanza (2), the cover to Nairobi with "FIRST FLIGHT / KHARTOUM TO LONDON" northbound cachet applied in error. Also 1931 (Jan.) Post Office notice regarding posting times for the first air mail (endorsed "Copy for D.C., Omdurman"), and 1931 (Dec 12) London - Cape Christmas flight cover from Khartoum to Broken Hill. (12).
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Kenya - Gladstone Airways. 1927 (Feb 10) Covers from Nairobi carried on the first return flight from Kisumu to Khartoum with "By Air Mail" etiquettes and red "KENYA - SUDAN / 1ST / AIR MAIL" skeleton c.d.s (Feb 15), two to Egypt, one registered to USA; postcard from Ireland (Mar 8) to Kisumu, intended to be flown from Khartoum but diverted to surface mail, Kisumu arrival c.d.s (Mar 31) and F.J. Field cachet "Service officially arranged .... but abandoned owing to / breakdown of Hydroplane on / Lake Victoria"; cover from London (Mar 10) to Nairobi intended to be sent by air but diverted to surface mail; and cover from London (Sep 29) to Jinja carried on the final Gladstone Airways flight from Khartoum with red "AIR MAIL / UGANDA SUDAN" double ring skeleton backstamp (Oct 27), all fine. (6).
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Kenya / India. 1931 (Mar 9) Covers from Nairobi to India (5) or the Philippine Islands, all carried on the first flight to Alexandria and then by air to Karachi, arrival datestamps, scarce destinations for this flight. (6).
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Nigeria / G.B. 1936 (Oct 15-28) Covers carried on the first London to Lagos service, flown from London to Ilorin, Kaduna and then posted back on the return flight (both with Croydon Aerodrome datestamps) or to Lagos; Lagos to Oshogbo, Minna, Kaduna, Kano (2), Maidugari, Johannesburg, Athens or London (2); Oshogbo to London; Kano to Minna; Kaduna to Minna; Minna to Lagos. Also October 29th cover from Lagos to Antigua, the first air acceptance for the West Indies. (18).
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South Africa / G.B - R.F Caspareuthus. 1930 (Oct 4) Cover to Cape Town with G.B 1½d cancelled by London W.1 machine, handstamped "AIR POST / SPECIAL" and signed by Caspareuthus, with Cape Town backstamp (Oct 13). Carried from Lympne to Cape Town in the record breaking solo flight of just 8½ days by R.F Caspareuthus, a record that stood for six years. Fine and scarce, just 20 covers and a few newspapers carried. Photo on Page 24. (Image1)
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South Africa / G.B - Schlesinger Air Race. 1936 (Sep 22) Cover franked 1½d cancelled at Bristol, addressed to Johannesburg, flown by A.E Clouston as far as Southern Rhodesia where his aircraft, G-ADOD, crashed. Clouston then travelled by car to Bulawayo where he got another plane ride to Johannesburg. Pilot signed with a South Africa 1d cancelled at Jeppestown, Johannesburg (7 Apr. 37), backstamped at Aldershot (Mar. 14). Fine and scarce, 35 covers flown.
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South Africa / Rhodesia. 1935-39 Covers and cards comprising 1935 Salisbury to Beira first flight cover signed by the pilot M.H Pearce, 1936 (Apr 3) first S.A.A flight from Bloemfontein signed by the pilot, and APEX card from L.A Wyndham; 1937 underpaid cover from South Africa to G.B with Christmas postage concession label; 1939 cover from Durban to Egypt redirected to Rhodesia, from the "Challenger" crash with the stamp soaked off and violet bilingual "FLYING BOAT CORRESPONDENCE DAMAGED BY SEAWATER". (5).
