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Cavendish Philatelic Auctions Ltd. Sale: 835

Great Britain and British Commonwealth
AIRMAILS
Sale No: 835
Lot No: 154
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Cat No: Collection

image ZEPPELIN COVER GROUP INCL. HUNGARY, ARGENTINA; Group of cards & covers incl. 18 Sep. 1931 plain postcard ex Buenos Aires to Germany (28 Sep. Friedrichshafen arrival d/s), 23 Oct. 1931 commercial env. ex Buenos Aires to Friedrichshafen (28 Oct. arrival) and 12 Jun 1934 env. ex Buenos Aires to Germany. Also, cover & card, both dated 30 Aug. 1932 to Brazil, each with special Zeppelin stamp frankings and with violet cachet of 5th S. America Flight plus 26 May 1936 cover to Brazil with the 2 1936 issue 'LZ.129' stamps cancelled by Hindenburg "EUROPA-SUDAMERIKA" c.d.s.; Also in the lot a 27 Mar. 1931 Zeppelin 127 cover flown within Hungary with special blue cachet and Hungary 2p Zeppelin stamp plus 5 x 4f with Budapest air Post cancels & USA 1925 Airship 'Los Angeles' cover to Bermuda, franked 2c tied by red "AIR MAIL SERVICE/NEW YORK" cancel. Also 5 x 1930s PPCs depicting Airships. (c.14 cards & covers) Cross Reference: GERMANY, HUNGARY, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ZEPPELIN MAIL (Image)

Opening GBP 140.00
Sold...GBP 220.00


Closed..Mar-09-2021, 01:00:00 EST
Sold For 220

Sale No: 835
Lot No: 155
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image PIONEER BALLOONIST JOSEPH SIMMONS (1834-88) - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED REF. FLIGHT IN WALSALL; 16/17 Aug. 1874 env. (minor wear; small tear at top) with 1d Red tied by superb "WALSALL/834" Duplex addressed to London. The original contents were written and signed by the pioneer English balloonist, "Jo[seph]. Simmons" to a lady friend: “This is a horrible town, and I don’t care how soon I soar out of it. Yesterday I was preparing the balloon in a vast, sombre, empty, echoing room, and for a great part of the day [I was] shut up quite alone; it gave me the blues, or rather the blacks…The Secretary had many applications during the day from people desirous of seeing the balloon; but he refused every one...”. Rare letter from a professional balloonist whose flight (as the main event of the Walsall Summer Fete) on the day this letter was posted was a total success. With copies of relevant 1874 articles from the local papers. [The previous month Simmons had piloted his balloon to enable a free-flight pioneer M. de Groof to try out his apparatus over Chelsea: De Groof plummeted more than 200 feet to his death. Simmons went on to cross the Channel in a balloon in 1882 (by accident!) and was eventually killed in a balloon crash in 1888 during a flight at the Irish Exhibition in London.] Cross Reference: THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR, 1870-71, BALLOON MAIL, STAFFORDSHIRE (Image)

Opening GBP 220.00
Sold...GBP 220.00


Closed..Mar-09-2021, 01:00:00 EST
Sold For 220

Sale No: 835
Lot No: 156
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Cat No: Collection

image MOSTLY KGV AIR MAIL ACCUMULATION: c.1930-1966 range of cards covers incl. seven 1930-36 covers to several British African countries, an assortment of mostly Air mail covers GB to Worldwide incl. First Flights, Censor, FDC, etc. KGV (13), KGVI (9) and early QEII (13); group of 20 mostly KGV postcards includes 1931 to Switzerland with Philatelic Congress (Leicester) cancel. Also, 2 x 1914 Regd. covers to India. (c.64 cards/covers) (Image)

Opening GBP 120.00
Sold...GBP 200.00


Closed..Mar-09-2021, 01:00:00 EST
Sold For 200

Sale No: 835
Lot No: 157
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Cat No: Collection

image MODERN FIRST FLIGHTS GB TO/FROM EUROPE & INTERNAL: Large group of 1960s covers featuring BEA Comet 4B/Trident/Viscount First Flights from UK to a wide variety of European destinations (40 covers) and from Europe to UK (30). Also, a group of 1960s GB internal 'First Flight' covers incl. Channel Is. & Scillies Helicopter flights. (24). All covers slightly different in franking, cachet or destination, etc. (c.94 covers) (Image)

Opening GBP 60.00
Sold...GBP 320.00


Closed..Mar-09-2021, 01:00:00 EST
Sold For 320
Sale No: 835
Lot No: 1338
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Cat No: Collection

image NORTH EASTERN AIRWAYS, BEA COMET FLIGHTS, HELICOPTER MAIL, ETC: 1938-60 collection incl. 3 N.E.A. First Flights (Perth, Leeds, Bradford), BEA Helicopter First Flights June 1948 various East Anglian routes (10), various 1960 Comet 1VB & Comet 4B First Scheduled Flights and other 1950s BEA flights, the covers bearing BEA Airway Letter Service labels. (c.30 covers) (Image)

Opening GBP 40.00
Sold...GBP 80.00


Closed..Mar-10-2021, 01:00:00 EST
Sold For 80
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