1876 Cover from Montanbau addressed to "Monsieur L Fournier, Lieutenant de Vaisseau au bord du "La Galissonniere", Division Navale Francaise de L'Ocean Pacifique Sud" franked Ceres 10c + 40c + 80c cancelled "2429", Ligne D Paq. Fr. No. 2 c.d.s on reverse. Light vertical file fold, otherwise fine, an unusual rate and destination, letter enclosed. The "La Galisonniere" was the flagship of the French Pacific Fleet.
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Air Mails
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Lot No: 1089
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Air Mails. 1881 (Aug 30) Handwritten receipt for 100 florins received from Prince Alfred de Wrede, a prize for coming third in a balloon race, written and signed by Eugene Godard, Aeronaute, bearing his cachet "EUGENE GODARD AINE / AERONAUTE, BREVETE, S.G.D.G" with a balloon in the centre. A rare early balloon related item; Godard made the first balloon flight over London, and constructed 33 balloons to carry mail in Paris during the 1870-71 siege.
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Sale No: 52
Lot No: 1090
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Cat No: Collection
1922-29 Covers comprising 1922-23 commercial covers from Paris franked 1f.40 to Budapest or registered franked 2f.25 to Prague bearing the first type perforated air vignette in blue; 1926 Marseille to Geneva first flight; 1929 first flights from Paris to Stockholm or Corfu, all fine. Also a 1924 Air Union leaflet advertising the London to Paris service. (6).
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Sale No: 52
Lot No: 1091
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West Africa. 1923-35 Covers and cards comprising 1923 (May 10) Dakar to Senegal first flight with "MAIRIE DE DAKAR / SENEGAL" cachet; 1925 (Jan 14) Paris to Fort Lamy survey flight flown as far as Niamey with "PAR AVION" cachet and label, backstamped at Niamey (Feb 18) and N'Guigmi (Mar 15); 1925 (Feb 7) Dakar to Paris flight with "PAR AVION / RAID DAKAR PARIS / VIA TOMBOUCTOU / Mission / Lemaitre Arrachart" and circular "AERONAUTIQUE A.O.F / LE COMMANDANT"; 1926 (Oct 23 Bernard and Guilbaud France to Madagascar flight, card flown on the Bamako to Lokoja leg franked 50c with despatch and arrival datestamps, reverse with "VOYAGE AERIEN / FRANCE - MADAGASCAR"; 1935 (Aug 12) Fort Lamy to Paris with "VOIE TRANSSAHARIENNE" and "TRANSPORTE EXCEPTIONNELLEMENT / PAR AVION"; 1935 (Oct 8) Fort Lamy to Belgium with stamps applied upon arrival at Brussels (Dec 1). A scarce group. (6). Photo on Page 162. (Image1)
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Sale No: 52
Lot No: 1093
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French India / China. 1930-38 Covers comprising 1930 (Jan 17) Girier and Weiss Paris to Pondicherry flight (2, one signed by both pilots), 1934 commercial cover to Shanghai franked 7f.50, 1936 (July 10) Canton to France first flight, 1938 Air France Paris to Hong Kong first flight via Hanoi. (5). Photo on Page 168. (Image1)
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Sale No: 52
Lot No: 1094
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French West Indies. 1935-37 covers with 1935 (Nov/Dec) Lt. de Vaisseau flight covers from Dakar to Guadeloupe or Martinique and Paris to Martinique, 1936 Pointe-a-Pitre to St. Martin first flight, 1937 Paris to Cayenne or Martinique first flights via Natal, Brazil. (6).
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Sale No: 52
Lot No: 1095
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Indo-China. 1929-38 Air Mail covers flown from Saigon to France (11), India, Hong Kong or Hanoi, including 1929 (Apr.) first flight covers from Phnom-Penh or Saigon to France, 1929 (May 14) Saigon to Hanoi first flight, 1929 (Nov.) Hanoi to France flight by Costes and Bellonte (2), 1931 (Jan.) Air Orient first flight to Calcutta or Paris, etc. (14).
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Sudan
Sale No: 52
Lot No: 1590
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Cat No: Collection
1897-2008 Mint collection in five albums, apparently complete, unmounted from 1938, the 1927-41 set on both ordinary and chalk-surfaced papers, most listed shades and perfs, additional 1948 sets (2), many rarely seen post-1980 surcharges and other issues. S.G. £2,200 for 1897-1954 issues. (100s).
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Sale No: 52
Lot No: 1594
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Cancellations. A huge accumulation of pieces and stamps mostly collected for their cancels, many in packets, some mounted on pages, mainly post 1954 but some earlier noted. (1000s).
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Sale No: 52
Lot No: 1595
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1900-51 Covers and cards including 1900 1a envelope from India to England with "London" misread as "Soudan" so missent to Wadi Halfa, postage due stamps applied in Cairo and subsequently removed as it was correctly paid to England, with Wadi Halfa and Egyptian backstamps and boxed "MISSENT"; 1941 postcard and lettersheet from Italian P.O.Ws, the lettersheet to the Civil Internment Camp at Dire Daua in Ethiopia and redirected to Mogadiscio in Somalia; 1946 cover from France to Khartoum with boxed "UNCLAIMED" and oval bilingual dated "RETURN TO SENDER"; 1935-46 covers from Sudan to G.B but returned with Returned Letter Office Khartoum backstamps, etc. (11).
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Lot No: 1596
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1901-12 Picture postcards from (12) or to (8) Sudan including 1904 stampless card to Italy from an Italian expedition to the Sudd with blue Bahr El Ghazal c.d.s and boxed "T"; 1910 card with 3m cancelled by retta, boxed "T" and a London ½d charge mark; 1912 card from Italy to the Wellcome Archaeological Expedition diggings at Jebel Moya; 1906-08 cards from G.B (3), Zanzibar or Azores to an employee of the Eastern Telegraph Co. at Suakin; 1906 card from G.B to "Miss Victoria Wingate, The Palace, Khartoum"; 1905 card from Orange River Colony to Halfa redirected to Cairo and G.B, etc. (20).
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Lot No: 1597
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1926-77 Covers, mainly c.1940-55 commercial air mail covers, some ingoing mail, a few T.P.Os (with some registered and skeleton cancels), etc. (190).
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Lot No: 1598
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Official Mail. c.1916-2000 Stampless official covers, various Postage Paid handstamps including WW1 period censored wrapper with scarce oval "POSTAGE / A / PREPAID" (Proud PD2), 1947 cover with "SUDAN P.O" skeleton c.d.s backstamp, 1936 front with Official cachet depicting a rhino, also four covers bearing S.G. overprint stamps. (66).
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Sale No: 52
Lot No: 1599
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Censorship. 1924 (Dec 10) 10m Postal stationery cover to St. Julian's Bay, Malta, cancelled on the Halfa-Khartoum T.P.O No. 2, with triangular "PASSED / BY / CENSOR / 81 / SUDAN", backstamps include large "SHALLAL-HALFA / 2 / T.P.O" skeleton c.d.s. The fascinating enclosed letter from Khartoum includes "The fun started at 6pm on Thursday 27th November ..... I was ready to go to the club but the sound of musketry altered my plans. Instead I reported to the palace where I was employed in getting it ready for the defence of British families. At 8pm six of us reinforced the few tommies guarding the War Office where fully equipped Sudanese machine gunners were camped. At midnight I was detailed to cover working parties round Gordon statue erecting machine guns. At 6.30am I was detailed to round up a party of mutineers and kill or capture them. We accounted for a few ........ last time I went to Omdurman I was surrounded by hordes of the wives of killed or captured mutineers". A very scarce cover during the brief reintroduction of censorship, just six 1924 censored covers recorded by Firebrace. Photo on Page 237. (Image1)
