1911-85 First flight and commercial covers and cards including 1911 First U.K Aerial Post card to Cape Town (arrival c.d.s, faults), 1926 S.S "Homeric" to New York seaplane flight by Alan Cobham initialled "AC", 1930 Algiers to Clermont-Ferrand flight, 1931 USA ship to shore airship flights (2), 1931 Manila to Katsuura flight signed by Francis Chichester, 1935 Liechtenstein Vaduz-Altenrhein-Innsbruck first flight, commercial 1937-38 Deutsche Lufthansa flight covers from Germany or Austria to Argentina or Austria to South Africa, etc. (39).
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1924-52 Covers from South or Central America with explanatory cachets showing the route to be flown orhow far the cover was to be carried by air mail (31), and covers partly carried by air with the air mail inscriptions or labels obliterated in transit when diverted to surface mail (20), quality a little mixed with some faults. (51).
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1930-68 First flight covers including 1930 Canada cover from Lac La Rouge to Christopher Lake bearing Cherry Red Airlines 10c stamp; 1938 first 11/2d rate flights from G.B to Cook Islands, Nauru, Solomons or New Guinea; 1947 Canton Island to Sydney; 1964 Tonga to Fiji or return (12) or Fiji to Gilberts or return (22); 1965 Tonga-Penrhyn-Tahiti experimental flight (8); 1965-66 illustrated first flight covers by BOAC (42), QANTAS (9) or Air New Zealand (11), etc. (122).
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Lufthansa/Zeppelin. 1934 Deutsche Lufthansa fold up summer timetable and route map including Zeppelin services to South America and Catapult services from the ships "Europa" and "Bremen"; and 1936 Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei illustrated leaflet giving the timetable for flights by the "Hindenburg" to the USA, both fine and scarce. (2).