1911-48 First flight and flown covers and cards on pages, including 1911 First UK Aerial Post cards (2), 1923 London to Berlin or Amsterdam, 1924 Liverpool to Paris (Apr 1, first day of Imperial Airways), Berlin or Cologne, etc. (15).
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1919 (Oct 1) Cover from Newcastle on Tyne to the Orient Line in London franked 1½d + 1/- (2), flown by emergency government air service during the railway strike, backstamped in Newcastle and London (Oct. 2, 3.30pm), flown on October 2nd, the first day mail was flown from Newcastle to London. A little soiling to edge and reverse and small edge tears but scarce and clearly commercial, the majority of surviving flown covers having been sent by philatelists.
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1921 (July 5) Printed postcard headed with an aeroplane and "American Express Co Travel Department, Agent for Air Services London - Paris and other Aerial Routes, written while en route by Aeroplane", the card written en route from London to Paris describing the flight; and 1921 (July 7) Six Guinea ticket (in booklet form) for a single flight by Imperial Airways from London to Paris. Also a picture postcard of the Paris to London plane at Bourget Aerodrome. Scarce early aviation ephemera. (3).
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1932 (July 19) Cover from Ashford to Buenos Ayres franked 8/- for French air service from Toulouse via Dakar, bearing 6d + Bradbury Wilkinson 2/6 + 5/-, an attractive cover with Toulouse and Buenos Ayres backstamps.
