GB 1938 15 March: 2 (Flying Officer Clouston & Victor Ricketts) air race covers to NZ & return, with Darwin & Sydney transit cancels, pair NZ GVI ½d green cancelled Blenheim 20 March 1938 "C" class cds & London 26 March 1938 arrival cds. Stapleton 183b. (Image)

GB & World 1911-40 x 39 flight covers incl: 1911 Windsor (2); May 1929 England-Persia; 1930 R100 Airship Montreal; 1931 Francis Chichester signed flight Manila-Japan (plain wrecked cache) addressed Kamchatka; Feb 1931 Karachi-Croydon; AP 1931 England-Australia; 1929 Bremen "KATAPULTFLUG"; 1937 Penang-Singapore FFC; assorted other Commonwealth, Latin America & Philippines. (Image)

Netherlands Indies 1924-40 x 67 FFCs & flight covers incl 1924 Amsterdam-Batum; 1928 3 x Netherlands-Java, 28 ditto to Australia; 5 x Netherlands Indies to GB WWII censored & by various routes. (Image)

NZ 1931-48 c70 flight covers incl Nov 1930 Christchurch-Dunedin flight (signed), AP 31 NZ-Sydney-England, Nov 31 Christchurch-Auckland, March 38 Blenheim-Darwin-London (12 flown) etc. (Image)

NZ 1935 16 Jan: Royal Tour, pilot MW Buckley signed flight cover, Wellington to Longbeach. Cover [which has a diff address to that recorded in "Airmails of New Zealand" Vol 1] addressed to E. A. Munden Esqre., c/o Royal Party, Longbeach, ASHBURTON. Together with lined page bearing "Please see official envelope" in black ink & purple oval "GENERAL POST OFFICE / 15 JAN 1935 / WELLINGTON C.1." d/s. NZAMC states "only 1 cover known", however a note from a Laurie Franks' Jan 1978 sale advises "Very rare - we have seen only 1 other". NZAMC 115c. Cat $1000. (Image)

USA 1934 Orville Wright signature (scarce) on 25th Anniv of First Flight Air Mail. Also signature of Admiral Byrd (Polar aviation explorer) & 2 covers from his 1934 Antarctic expdn. Plus 1945 cover signed by General MacArthur. (Image)

Zeppelin 1930 small envelope franked US Zeppelin $1.30 canc NY May 29 91930), addressed Warsaw, Poland via Graf Zeppelin Lakehurst NJ with circular Zeppelin 1930 Sud Amerika - large Europe-Pan America round flight. B/s Friedrichshafen 6-6 & Warsaw 8-6. Very scarce destination. Unlisted by Michel or Frost (believed to be Siegel 64III - only 45 items flown). (Image)

Zeppelin, South America etc 1930s 22 Zeppelin covers incl S Brazil May 30, 1 each with 5k & 10k Zeppelin stamps, ovpt Zeppelin & 10k ovpt on Zeppelin stamps (stamps cat US$950 6g Frost). Also Brazil Aug 1931-May 1934 (7); Argentina June 1930; Spain-Brazil 1930 (2); Russia to Freidrichshafen 1930; Russia, North Pole 1931 (2); Netherlands internal 1932 & Hungary-Brazil 1935 (2 scarce). (Image)

Zeppelins: Germany 1929-38 x 35 flown Zeppelin covers incl: Aug 1929 to US, franked 4m grey Zeppelin & 1m Airpost. Aug 1931 local franked 1d red Zeppelin, Sept 31 to US canc 4m grey Zeppelin, June 32 to US franked 1m red Zeppelin + 50pf; Aug 33 to Brazil franked 1m red Zeppelin + 50pf; May 37 local German mail dropped before disasterous flight to US etc. Also 6 trans-atlantic covers not marked for carriage by airship. (Image)

Zeppelins-USA 1925-36: 2 x Zeppelin flight covers; 1925 Airship LA-Lakehurst; Oct 1928 US to Germany (3); US to France; Aug 1929 US internal (6); to Germany; Oct 1933 US internal each with 50c Zeppelin stamp (5), May 1936 US internal (2) England, Germany. Also claimed original piece of Graf Zeppelin's ship & photo. (Image)