DJIBOUTI 1920s/40s FLIGHT COVERS COLLECTION. a very well-researched and written-up collection of over 50 covers focusing on flights from 1920s to the end of WW II with scarce first flights including the routes flown during the Allied blockade of Vichy Djibouti in the early 1940s; highlights include photographic postcards with -½1 service avion-+ handstamp ovpt frankings on 1929 first airpost services Djibouti-Addis Ababa and Djibouti-Dire Daoua (on each of which only about 100 items were flown), the 1930 2nd Djibouti-Addis Ababa, another Addis flight carried in the Gypsy Moth as Haile Selassie-+s coronation present, 3rd June 1931 Addis flight with spectacular combination franking all with airpost handstamp ovpts not listed in Scott, the 1932 first Djibouti-Dakar flight (one of only forty-five flown by d-+Estailleur), followed by the 1932 Lombardi first flight to Rome, the 1934 Moensch/Catinot and 1935 Genin flights to Paris, etc, through WWII with military official mail and a fascinating showing of 17 scarce blockade-runner covers flown by Durmon, Codos, Gambade, Casanova and Chassin, thru France Libre frankings 1943 onwards. A wonderful collector-+s collection of exhibition standard, viewing a pleasure

CV. 2,000

1920s/40s AIRMAIL COVERS ASSORTMENT. 60 covers nearly all being with European franking or with European destination, better covers of note from Hungary, Iceland, Baltic region, GB, Australia, France and French area, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, etc., usual mixed condition but a highly desirable selection and a must-view

CV. 1,000

WORLDWIDE FLIGHT COVERS GROUP. few hundred mostly 1950s/60s European flights but do note some Latin America and Asian nations, includes covers of Japan, France, Austria, Germany (incl Berlin and East Germany), Netherlands, GB, USA, Greece, KUT, South Africa, India, Kuwait, Spain, Hungary, Brazil, Switzerland, Belgium, Uruguay, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Israel, etc., mostly F-VF

CV. 200