The International Aerial Time Table, No.7 for November 1926, with time tables for all commercial air routes and various adverts, the attractive cover showing planes flying around a globe. Also "The Air Post Stamp", journal of the Association of Air Philatelists, for March-June 1926 (3), and "World Air Posts" by Francis J. Field, 1948. (5).
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c.1909-28 Picture postcards, including Bleriot's 1909 Cross Channel flight (4), Pegoud (2), 1909 Reims aviation meeting (3), M. Salmet 1913 Daily Mail tour, flying at Brooklands, Orville Wright with the German Crown Prince, von Richthofen with the Kaiser or with other German air aces, Captain Guynemer, Alan Cobham plane at Malta in 1928, the seaplane "America", Colonel Cody, H.G Hawker, etc. (36). Also 1919 (June 16) "Daily Chronicle" reporting the Alcock & Brown transatlantic flight, WW2 aerial propaganda leaflet, and various modern commemorative covers and reproduction photos. (38+).
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Amy Johnson. 1931 (Aug 1) Picture postcard posted from Japan to USA franked 6sn, signed "Amy Johnson", inscribed below by the sender "Miss Amy Johnson, Londons daring young lady aviator just flew from London to Tokyo Japan in 10 days, arrived Aug 6, 1931"; 1930 (Dec 9) Post Office telegram posted within London with message "Regret cannot oblige, Amy Johnson"; and four page card "Programme of arrangements for Miss Amy Johnson's return at Croydon Aerodrome on Monday Aug 4th 1930" with a picture of her plane on the cover, horizontal fold. An interesting group. (3).
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Amy Mollison. 1936 (Oct 26) Typed letter to a Miss Cook thanking her for a lavender sachet and referring to her recovery after the recent accident, on notepaper of "The Gate House, 59A Ennismore Gardens, London S.W7", signed "Amy Mollison", with the cover posted at South Kensington stamped 1½d; and a press Photo of Amy Mollison taken on October 27th 1936 with her arm in a sling after her plane crashed in Kent when on a flight from Paris to London. (2).
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Jean Batten. 1934 Undated typed letter to Ted Corling in Merriwa thanking him for a drawing of her England to Australia flight (which occurred in May 1934), on notepaper with a "JB" monogram, signed "Jean Batten".
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Sheila Scott. 1967 Cards carried on her solo flights from London to Cape Town or the return flight to London, bearing G.B 4d or South Africa 1½d, various cachets applied en route; 1971 cover carried on her round the world flight from London via the North Pole, with stamps and cancels of G.B, Norway, Greenland, USA (Alaska & Hawaii cancels), Fiji and Australia; and a postcard of her 1971 world flight, all four items signed by Scott. (4).
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1930 Cover flown around the world, posted from Chicago to Iraq franked 25c then reposted from Magil to Chicago franked 6a, flown from Chicago to New York and London - Paris - Marseille - Cairo - Basrah, then Basrah - Karachi - Batavia - Philippines - Hawaii - San Francisco - Chicago. Very unusual.
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Round the World Flights. 1949 Cover carried around the world on the flight piloted by Richarda Morrow-Tait, posted by her after arriving back in England, franked 1/- cancelled at Cambridge, pilot signed; and 1958 cover carried on the New Zealand to Canada leg of the R.A.F Canberra round the world flight, posted at R.C.A.F Stn. Uplands, Ottawa, franked 10c, pilot signed. (2).
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Zeppelins. 1930-36 Covers and cards carried on the Graf Zeppelin (5) or Hindenburg (2), including 1930 (Sep 14) Swiss flight from Geneva or October 12th Swiss flight from Bern posted on board (Swiss 10c postcard franked Germany 1m, cancelled at Friedrichshafen), 1932 3rd South American Flight posted on board, 1936 Leipzig Fair flight, 6th South America Flight from Brazil, etc. (7).
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1953 (June 2) QANTAS Coronation day flight, the complete set of printed flight envelopes (24) and air letters (24), with a cover and air letter flown from Sydney, Colombo, Cocos Island, Singapore, Karachi, Port Louis, Vila, Wellington, Norfolk Island, Honiara, Suva or Port Moresby all to London; and covers and air letters flown from London to these twelve destinations. Also the 2013 book "The QANTAS Coronation Day Airmail Flights June 1953, The Untold Story" by Collyer, Genge & Wolf. (48 covers + book).
