1895 Leaflet headed "A Message from above TO THE ELECTORS OF SOHO WARD", depicting a balloon, dropped from the "Saladin" balloon over Birmingham during local elections, supporting Lempriere, "the free and independent candidate". A fine and rare leaflet, 190x88mm.
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Railway Air Services. Tickets, letters, photos and ephemera including issued tickets (3) and tickets handstamped "Specimen" (4), air map, advertising leaflets and timetables (5), G.W.R exam certificates (3), photographs and picture postcards (13), etc. (30).
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Railway Air Services. 1933 Covers, air stamps and letters, with mint 3d G.W.R Air Mail stamps (46, including two sheets of twenty); covers bearing a single 3d air stamp comprising May 15 Plymouth to Cardiff first flight pilot signed, May 22 Birmingham to Plymouth first flight (2, one pilot signed), Sept 2 Cardiff to Plymouth cover addressed to USA, Sept 20 Cardiff to Birmingham flight cover to Burma carried on the first IA Calcutta to Akyab flight, Sept 30 Plymouth to Birmingham final flight (2, one pilot signed); 1933 (Sept 20) Cardiff to Plymouth flight cover addressed to USA unusually with two 3d G.W.R stamps, and May 15 Newport to Plymouth registered first flight cover unusually bearing eight 3d G.W.R stamps; 1933 P.O Notices announcing the new service from Plymouth (2); P.O letters regarding the air service (7), G.W.R letter, photos, etc. Also 1934 (Aug 20) Plymouth to Cardiff first flight cover carried at the ordinary letter rate, pilot signed. A good lot, scarce pilot signatures, foreign destinations and multiple frankings of the air stamp. (c.60). Photo on Page 18. (Image1)
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Great Western & Southern Air Lines / Olley Air Service. 1936-54 Timetables or advertising brochures (22) for various internal services or flights to Deauville or Le Touquet, also letters on headed notepaper (4), luggage labels (2), G.W&S logo artwork and 1954 business card. (30).
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Isles of Scilly. 1943-44 Covers flown by Great Western & Southern Air Lines from St. Marys to Penzance (6) or Penzance to St. Marys (3) all with boxed "Letter by G.W&S / AIRLINES / Paid (4d)", one cover from Stornoway also flown by Scottish Airways to Glasgow with violet "SCOTTISH AIRWAYS / LIMITED / AIR / LETTER / SERVICE", eight covers franked 2½d, the other from a soldier in the Scilly Isles unusually addressed to another soldier in the Middle East franked 1½d, one cover to Canada. Also two leaflets advertising the service. (11).
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Channel Islands. 1924 (June 10) Cover from Leyton to Guernsey franked 3½d (marked "1½d Postage, 2d Fee") and bearing two "By Air Mail" labels, endorsed "First Service Channel Islands" with arrival c.d.s (June 11), not called for and returned to the sender, with a related Photo and news cutting on early aviation to Guernsey. This proposed air mail route was mentioned in the June 1924 G.P.O Bulletin, but this is the first cover we have seen from the flight, which is apparently unrecorded in any of the literature on Channel Islands philately. A rare cover, previously sold in our March 2020 auction for £400. Photo on Page 18. (Image1)
