1918 (Oct 7) Red Cross "Make Your Sixpence Fly" card with large arms in blue carried on the first Cape Town flight from Wynberg to Green Point with KGV 1/2d tied by the Aerial Post c.d.s, signed on the front by the pilot Lt. A.H Gearing. A fine pilot signed card. Photo on Page 170. (Image1)

1918 (Oct 26) Red Cross "Make Your Sixpence Fly" card with large arms in blue carried on the second Cape Town flight with KGV 1/2d tied by the Aerial Post c.d.s, signed on the front by the pilot Lt. A.H Gearing. A fine pilot signed card. Photo on Page 170. (Image1)

1918 (Nov 20) Red Cross "Make Your Sixpence Fly" second type card with small arms in ultramarine, carried on the first Johannesburg flight with KGV 1d tied by the Aerial Post c.d.s, signed on the front by the pilot Lt. A.H Gearing. A fine pilot signed card. Photo on Page 170 (Image1)

1918 (Nov 22) Red Cross "Make Your Sixpence Fly" second type card with small arms in ultramarine, carried on the second Johannesburg flight with KGV 1d tied by the Aerial Post c.d.s, signed on the front by the pilot Lt. A.H Gearing. Very minor creasing, otherwise a fine pilot signed card. Photo on Page 170. (Image1)

1918 (Nov 24) Red Cross "Make Your Sixpence Fly" second type card with small arms in light blue carried on the first flight from Germiston to Johannesburg, with KGV 1/2d tied by the Aerial Post c.d.s, signed on the front by the pilot Lt. A.H Gearing. A few minor tone marks, otherwise a fine pilot signed card. Photo on Page 170. (Image1)

1918 (Nov 27) Red Cross "Make Your Sixpence Fly" second type card with small arms in light blue carried on the flight from Johannesburg to Pretoria with KGV 1/2d tied by the Aerial Post c.d.s, signed on the front by the pilot Lt. A.H Gearing and Sgt A.T Way who accompanied Gearing on the flight. A little minor staining but a scarce card signed by both crew members. Photo on Page 170. (Image1)

1918 (Dec 1) Red Cross "Make Your Sixpence Fly" second type card with small arms in light blue, written and signed by Major A. Miller who accompanied Gearing on the flights from Johannesburg to Benoni and back, carried on the return flight with KGV 1/2d tied by the Aerial Post c.d.s. The message reads "Benoni Race Course, Sunday. My pal Gearing & I had a lovely flight from Joh-burg. I wanted to stop at Germiston but Gearing was in a hurry. With best love, (Major) A. Miller, Royal Air Force, Benoni Depot Aerodrome". A rare card from one of the aviators, addressed to Germiston, very fine. Photo on Page 170. (Image1)

1918 (Dec 16) Red Cross "Make Your Sixpence Fly" second type card with small arms in light blue carried on the Dingaan's Day flight at Cape Town with KGV 1/2d tied by the Aerial Post c.d.s, message reads "Lieutenant Gearing circled over Benoni yesterday, was a beautiful sight. He is landing at the Race Course today .... this card will be taken by aeroplane to J-burg". Also a fine real Photo of Gearing in front of his plane boldly signed "A.H Gearing", and a news cutting reporting his flight to Benoni. (3).

1919 (Aug 2) Printed "PEACE CELEBRATIONS / CAPE TOWN / Pigeon Post / No. (420) carried August 2nd, 1919" unused form, tiny tear at base, otherwise fine, believed to be the only known unused example of this pigeon post message form.

1926 Printed souvenir card "In Commemoration of the Air Mail Service in South Africa, March 1925" with a picture of the aeroplane and the four air post stamps attached, signed "E. Stuurman, Postmaster General, 12/4/26", with the original envelope and compliments slip from the Postmaster-General. These cards were given to the pilots and V.I.Ps, less than 30 cards produced in total, fine and scarce. Photo on Page 172. (Image1)

Crash Mail. 1929 (Feb 24) Registered cover (no 606) to Cape Town with 1/2d and 1d pairs, 2d and 3d tied by five strikes of scarce "VERNEUK PAN / VPN" skeleton c.d.s used at the temporary P.O for Malcolm Campbell's speed trials, the enclosed letter written by the Postmaster Geoff Grey, with a further strike of the datestamp and the interesting message "no spcl stamps but your letter is going back by aeroplane if I can get Penny to take it back with him tonight". Later this day Penny flew Malcolm Campbell to Clanwilliam but crashed after taking off from there, twelve letters from Verneuk Pan P.O being recovered from the crash and forwarded by train. Some cover staining but possibly the only registered cover from this crash and most exceptional with the enclosed letter. (2). Photo on Page 172. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image1)

Crash Mail. 1931 (Nov 12) Badly burnt cover and contents from East London to Cape Town, franked 2d + air 4d and bearing an air mail letter, with similar explanatory letter to the previous lot, the four lines however ending with the words "letter" ..... "the" .... "Elizabeth" .... "1913", the final date incorrectly shown as 1913 and altered to 1931 in manuscript, fine and scarce.

1947 Royal Tour. Stampless cover to England from Cpl. P. Hawkins endorsed "On Service Air Mail" with circular violet "THE KINGS FLIGHT / 7 MAR 1947 / ROYAL AIR FORCE", and a philatelic cover with Royal Visit 1d - 6d pairs tied by the Kings Flight cachets dated 16 APR 1947. Also cover with the Royal Visit set tied by the usual Royal Visit datestamps, addressed to Kenya and flown by C.A.A. (3).

Crash Mail. 1951 (Oct 13) Cover franked 2d from Riversdale to Pietermaritzburg, signs of singeing at the edges, handstamped violet "SALVAGED CRASHED PLANE 15/10/51", also endorsed "XXX Keep this Envelope. 16 people killed and plane completely burnt out. How these few letters were salvaged is a miracle" and "Plane Paardeburg crashed in Enqelie Mountainside in mist near Kokstad, Cape". Scarce, very little mail recovered. Photo on Page 172. (Image1)

1853-2001 Mint and used collection on pages including Cape of Good Hope with triangulars (12, nearly all with faults), 1874-76 1d on 6d or 1/- surcharges used, 1883 Crown CA 5/- orange used, 1882 1/2d on 3d claret Crown CC used; Natal with 1876 1d yellow mint, 1877 1d on 6d rose mint, 1902 å£1.10 used; New Republic (32); O.F.S; Transvaal; Zululand with 1888 3d - 9d mint and 1/- used, 1894 2/6 mint; Union of south Africa, and homeland issues. Also South West Africa with setting 1 single å£1 mint unusually with a black square of four dots before "Africa". (Many 100s).

c.1871-1977 Covers and cards, mainly Cape of Good Hope with many picture postcards, ingoing mail including 1896-97 covers from G.B to Whitley Bros, booksellers and stamp dealers in Cape Town (10), a few interprovincial uses with covers bearing Transvaal + South Africa stamps (2), a few scarcer cancels, mixed quality, a few fronts only but many fine. (193).

1903-15 Covers and cards all with combination frankings, comprising stamps of two different provinces (17) or stamps of South Africa + provincial stamps (12, five with 1910 Union Parliament 21/2d), two covers with Sea Post Office datestamps, two from Prisoners of War at Pietermaritzburg. (29).

1902 (May 17) Censored cover posted within Heidelberg bearing Transvaal V.R.I 1/2d with overprint inverted and E.R.I 1/2d on 2d; also Boer War covers with censor cachets or F.P.O cancels; 1902 (Sep 28) Transvaal å£5 banknote issued at Pretoria, ephemera, Transvaal 1892 å£5 reprint block of 15 and 1886 10/- revenue mint block of four. Some faults, the 1/2d V.R.I inverted overprint cover with two vertical folds clear of the stamps but otherwise fine and unusual. (22).