1918 Correspondence from R.A.F. Airman Fred Gable who was on "recruitment" duty in Dublin, showing a charming collection of 28 envelopes with the accompanying letters, all addressed to his wife in Westcliff on Sea, Essex, a fascinating group of social history, plus one letter making reference to a letter he sent to her that did not arrive due to the sinking of the "SS Leinster", a wonderful assembly.

1924 SWITZERLAND: Irish Acceptance for Early Airmail Services to Switzerland and back: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 11 album pages, showing fifteen flights or airmail usages, five with overprint frankings, two double flight reply cards, an attractive group (15 items). (Image)

1924 HOLLAND: Irish Acceptance for Early Airmail Services London-Amsterdam: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 7 album pages, showing ten flights or airmail usages, three with overprint frankings, an attractive group (10 items). (Image)

1924 GERMANY: Irish Acceptance for Early Airmail Services London to Cologne, Berlin, and or Nurnberg: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 7 album pages, showing twelve flights or airmail usages, three with overprint frankings, an attractive group (12 items). (Image)

1924-25 SWITZERLAND: Irish Acceptance for Early Airmail Services to Switzerland and back: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 9 album pages, showing nine flights or airmail usages, three with overprint frankings, two double flight reply cards, an attractive group (9 items). (Image)

1924-25 GREECE: Irish Acceptance for Early Airmail Services London-Paris-Athens: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 2 album pages, showing four flights two Athens, all with an array of overprint frankings, an attractive group (4 items). (Image)

1925-31 Early Irish Acceptance: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 7 album pages, showing eight covers with London-Cairo, London-Cairo-Bagdad and London-Cairo-Kenya, three with overprint frankings, the rest with definitives, an attractive and scarce group (10 items). (Image)

1925-1926 EUROPE: Airmail Services from Ireland, all franked with overprints issues, various destinations including Belgium, France, Greece, Germany, Holland, Poland & Switzerland, magnificently mounted and written up on 19 album pages and housed in one black Lighthouse album, showing 23 covers with a fine array of different frankings, an excellent basis for study and expansion, a wonderful assembly (23+ covers).

1925-1928 EUROPE: Airmail Services to and from Ireland, including various destinations including Danzig, Denmark, France, Latvia, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland etc., some useful early definitive usages, specialised collection, magnificently mounted and written up on 44+ album pages and housed in one black Lighthouse album, showing 50 covers with a fine array of different frankings, usages and cancels, an. excellent basis for study and expansion, a wonderful assembly (50+ covers).

1929 Experimental Flight Service by Col. Charles F. Russel, Galway - Dublin - London, a charming specialised collection magnificently mounted and written up on 40 album pages and housed in one black Lighthouse album, showing 40 covers with a fine array of different frankings, some signed Russel or Crawley, many with "Karlsruhe-Galway" vignette label, plus additional documentation and newspaper clippings, an excellent basis for study and expansion, a wonderful assembly (40+ covers)

1929 Early Irish Acceptance For Airmail Services by ABA: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 10 album pages, showing eleven covers with 1929 London-Amsterdam-Stockholm, seven showing Ireland/Swedish combinations frankings, the rest with Irish only usages, an attractive and scarce group (10 items) (Image)

1929 Early Irish Acceptance For Airmail Services by ABA: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 6 album pages, showing eight covers with 1929 London-Amsterdam-Stockholm, some with O'Connell frankings & combination usages with definitives, an attractive and scarce group (8 items). (Image)

1929 (1.10) Early Irish Acceptance For Trial Night Airmail Service London-Brussels by Sabena: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 3 album pages, showing seven covers some with mixed Irish/GB frankings, all tied by various PAQUEBOT cancels, an attractive and scarce group (7 items). (Image)

1923 Irish Acceptance For Early Airmail Service London-Paris: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 2 album pages, showing four covers, all bearing boxed violet or black boxed hs "NO FLIGHT SENT BY ORDINARY SERVICE", two with overprint frankings, an attractive and scarce group (4 items).

1930 (15.4) Irish Acceptance For First Night Airmail Service London-Brussels by Imperial/Sabena: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 3 album pages, showing five covers, some tied by PAQUEBOT cancels, one with overprint usage, an attractive and scarce group (5 items).

1932 (1.7) War Loan Conversion Notice Flight London to Dublin: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 4 album pages, showing six covers, three on OHMS envelope, five showing violet "SPECIAL AIR" cachets, an attractive and scarce group (8 items).

1932-37 GERMANY: Irish Acceptance for Airmail Service to and from Ireland: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 26 album pages, showing 35 flights or airmail usages, one of which is going to Sweden & one Liechtenstein, an attractive group (38 items).

1932-40 SWITZERLAND: Irish Acceptance for Airmail Service to and from Ireland: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 24 album pages, showing 36 flights or airmail usages, one of which is going to Sweden & one Liechtenstein, an attractive group (36 items).

1932-40 MALTA: Airmail Services to and from Ireland: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 4 album pages, showing six flights or airmail usages, one from Latvia and the other to Austria, an attractive group (9 items).

1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed by General Italo Balbo: Specialised collection magnificently mounted and written up on 21 album pages and housed in one black Lighthouse album, showing a wonderful array of items pertaining to the Orbetello-Londonderry-Chicago-New York-Valentia-Rome flights, including the special vignettes with complete booklets and booklet panes, single used on fragment and cover, array of original photos of Balbo two being portraits signed and dedicated including one to the famous pilot Carlo Cattaneo, also two signed Menus together with other significant signatures, plus seven flights from different legs of the journey, also Iceland Hopflug Italia set of three, Newfoundland Balbo issue mint single and two singles on cover etc., an attractive and scarce group (39 items). (Image)

1933 (9.12) Irish Acceptance For First Flight Imperial Airways Service London-Rangoon-Bangkok: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 11 album pages, showing seventeen covers mostly all with special Imperial airways envelope, with attractive array of frankings including overprint & O'Connell issues, an attractive and scarce group (18 items).

1933 (1.7) Irish Acceptance For First Flight Imperial Airways Service London-Karachi-Jodhpur or Delhi or Allahabad or Calcutta: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 9 album pages, showing fifteen covers mostly all with special Imperial airways envelope, with attractive array of frankings, an attractive and scarce group (17 items).

1933-35 ITALY: Irish Acceptance for Airmail Service from Ireland to Austria: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 9 album pages, showing eleven flights or airmail usages, two of which are going to Holland & one to Czechoslovakia, an attractive group (14 items).

1933-35 AUSTRIA: Irish Acceptance for Airmail Service from Ireland to Austria: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 6 album pages, showing eleven flights, two of which are going to Sweden & Italy, an attractive and scarce group (11 items).

1933-40 FRANCE: Irish Acceptance for Airmail Service to and from France: Selection magnificently mounted and written up on 8 album pages, showing ten airmail usages, an attractive group (11 items).