1922-25, Collection of Irish Acceptance for RAF "Desert Airmail Service" London-Cairo-Baghdad, 24 covers, a front and "Pilot's Handbook of the Cairo Baghdad Route", HB 1923, with maps and "Special regulations for handling airmails", with a variety of Irish frankings sent on the Cairo-Baghdad route, a few covers showing Harrison Coil "long 1 in 1922" varieties, five of the covers "London-Cairo" which meant London-Paris then onwards by surface mail, a couple of faulty covers, attractive group (Image)

1923 (Mar 26) Handley Page Paris-London flight, Switzerland 25c postal stationery card sent registered from Zurich to Ireland, uprated with 5c, 25c Tell and 25c Airmail, endorsed "per avion Paris-London", registered London transit, fine and scarce (Image)

1923 (Nov 17) Irish acceptance London-Paris airmail service, cover from College Green, Dublin, with ovpt 9d, London and Paris bs, very fine (Image)

1924 (May 2 - Jun 9) First Experimental Flight Service Belfast-Liverpool, collection of 16 covers incl. four May 2nd first flight, May 3rd second service (2, one signed by pilot Alan J. Cobham), May 6th, May 8th, May 10th, May 12th, May 13th (3, one also flown London-Paris, one also flown Croydon-Cologne and one also flown London-Amsterdam), May 26th and Jun 9th (with "NO FLIGHT..." hs), some with 1924 British Empire Exhibition frankings, fine (Image)

1924 (May 30) Envelope to Denmark with "By Air Mail" label with very late usage QV 1892 4 1/2d red & green, invalid for postage and highlighted with blue crayon and struck with "INSUFFICIENTLY PAID FOR / TRANSMISSION BY AIR MAIL" cahcet on both sides, and on arrival in Copenhagen franked with strip of four 20ö postage dues, very fine and attractive (Image)

1924 (Jun 25) Irish Acceptance for RAF "Desert Airmail Service" London-Cairo-Baghdad-Tehran, envelope sent registered from Dublin to Persia with nine Saorstat 1d tied by College Green cds, reverse with despatch, London and Baghdad transits and Tehran arrival, fine (Image)

1925 (Jan 26) Irish Acceptance for RAF "Desert Airmail Service" London-Cairo-Baghdad, cover from Dublin and forwarded to Sudan from Cairo, franked with Harrison Coil 1 1/2d pair and 2d strip of three, both showing an example of the "long 1 in 1922" variety, reverse with despatch, London, Shella Halfa TPO and Khartoum ds, fine and scarce varieties on cover (Image)

1927 (Mar 9) Irish acceptance for experimental London-Cairo-East Africa airmail service, postcard from Dublin to Kenya uprated with Map and Shield stamps with ms "by first flight regular air mail service to Kenya via London", however the aircraft crashed on Khartown-Kisumu route and was forwarded by surface mail, with Nairobi and Kisumu arrival cds, redirected to Ireland with Irish 1d postage applied on arrival, fine (Image)

1928 (Sep 24) Imperial Airways flight service Liverpool-Belfast & Belfast-Liverpool, collection in an album incl. Post Office Daily Lists from Sep 20th, 21st, 22nd, 24th, 27th, 28th and Oct 1st  detailing the service, picture postcards and press photos of the plane and a few publicity items, and 20 covers incl. three covers signed by the pilot, a nice lot (Image)

1929-32, Irish Acceptances via the London-India service, collection incl. 1929 (Apr 6) Imperial Airways 2nd Service, press photo of passengers boarding the plane, four covers 1929 Croydon-Karachi, 1929 (Dec 21) pair of covers sent on first flight Karachi-Dehli (very few known as it was only announced 5 days afterwards), 1929 (Dec 28) Karachi-Jodhpur and Karachi-Delhi extensions (14 + press photo), 1930 (Jan 9) Croydon-Delhi, etc., one underpaid and sent by surface mail, 3 with airmail labels obliterated as they weren't flown all the way, two incoming (Australia and India), eighteen 1932 (Oct 15) Tata Karachi-Madras covers, etc., plus GPO brochures/notices for England-India airmail services, a great lot for the airmail specialist (55 covers) (Image)

1929 (Apr 22) Irish acceptance for air service New York - Nueva Laredo and thence Nueva Laredo - Mexico City, 5d registered envelope with SE 1/2d, 2 1/2d and 10d from Dublin 22 AP to Mexico City, very unusual (Image)

1931-32 Irish acceptances for airmail services to and from Africa, collection of 17 flight covers incl. 1931 (mar 4) from Belfast via second London-Mwanza service, 1931 (Jun 2) from Dublin via London-Kisumu with pair of KUT 5c postage dues, four covers from Sudan to Ireland, 1931 (Oct 8) South Africa to Dublin via Port Elizabeth-Cape Town, attractive 1931 (Oct 29) "Erne Soap & Candle Works" advertising cover to Khartoum (foxing), four KUT covers sent by Wilson Airways feeder service Tanga-Mombasa, two 1931 (Mar 25) London-Khartoum, 1931 (Dec 16) London-Kisumu, 1932 (Aug 6) London-Cape Town and 1931 (Dec 19) Southern Rhodesia "Experimental Flight" feeder service Salisbury-J'burg-Cape Town to Ireland, interesting mix (Image)

1931 (Feb 26) Imperial Airways England-East Africa Service, Air ministry leaflet sent as printed matter from Dublin via flight London - Mwanza (arrival 10 MR), fine (Image)

1931 (May 7) Accelerated Service by Sea and Air to Toronto, two covers Dublin 7 MY (one code 4 cds, one Gaelic) by Rimouski - Montreal - Toronto air Service, Toronto arrival MAY 16, fine

1931 (Oct 17) Irish Acceptances for Imperial Airways on London-Athens-Cyprus-Haifa service, two covers to Cyprus (one with publicity vignette) and three to Haifa, fine group

1931 (Dec 9) Irish acceptance for Imperial Airways Christmas airmail service London-Southern Africa, pair of covers with GB KGV 1 1/2d booklet panes, one "INDIA-RUBBER INLAID SPONGE...", other "Cash's WASHING RIBBONS...", both on 1/2d postal stationery envelopes with Dun Laoghaire paquebot cds, sent to Tanganyika with Mbeya and Dodoma arrival bs repsectively, fine and attractive pair (Image)

1932 (Jan 7) Irish Acceptances for "All Australian" flight service, collection of 23 covers incl. 7 signed by the pilot Kingsford Smith, three covers dropped at Singapore, some sent on internal flights incl. Melbourne-Launceston, Melbourne-Wyndham, Melbourne-Hobart, some forwarded to New Zealand, attractive mix of covers (Image)

1932 (Jan 20) Irish acceptances for Imperial Airways direct airmail to South Africa, group of 10 flight covers incl. London-Moshi, London-Dodoma, London-Broken Hill, London-Bulawayo (2), London-Kimberley-Windhoek, London-Victoria West, London-Cape Town (3), fine group

1932 (Oct 1) Imperial Airways London-Basra-Bahrain-Sharjah-Karachi flight services, group of 11 covers incl. two London-Basra forwarded to Kuwait, three plain covers and three "map" illustrated covers to Bahrain (only 25 covers accepted in Ireland), "map" illustrated cover to Sharjah (one of only 7 covers accepted in Ireland), "map" illustrated cover to Karachi, and an unused Imperial Airways envelope with legend, fine and rare group (Image)

1932 (Oct 12) Imperial Airways Dubai-London service, cover with India KGV 1a and block of six 1a3p tied by violet Dubai cds, sent to Liverpool and forwarded to Dublin, minor foxing around stamps, opened for display, fine and scarce (Image)

1932 (Dec 7) Hong Kong Acceptances for French airmail service by Air Orient, group of three covers/cards incl. cover with KGV 2c, 5c, 20c vert. pair and 50c vert pair tied by red Hong Kong double circle ds and two 4d postal stationery cards uprated with 20c & 25c, one with red double circle ds and one with red Hong-Kong / Kowloon cds, fine and attractive trio (Image)

1933 (Apr) Houston Mount Everest Flight, group incl. 1933 (Apr 20) "HOUSTON MOUNT EVEREST FLIGHT / PURNEA" blue cds, with Purnea 21 APR cds below, incl. original letter written by a Times correspondent, very rare; 1933 (Apr 8) cover with vignette tied by pictorial cachet sent to Calvutta and signed on the reverse by Stephen Smith, press photo of the plane and three newspaper clippings, rare group (Image)

1939 (Jun 5) Third Season of Summer service by Aer Lingus to Isle of Man, cover from Dublin to Douglas with 1939 US Constitution 2d, returned the next day to Ireland with GB franking on the Jun 6 flight, reverse with Aer Lingus "shamrock" label, fine and scarce (Image)

1939 (Jun 5) Third Season of Summer service by Aer Lingus to Isle of Man, cover from Dublin to Douglas with 2d Map, endorsed "per Aer Lingus" with certifying signature of Town Clerk, Corporation of Douglas, June 5/39; 4:30p.m., fine and scarce (Image)

1948 (Apr 7) 6d Photographic essay by R. J. King, showing similar design to the issued stamp but more stylised, very fine (Image)