THE KURT GOLDSMITH COLLECTION OF FIRST FLIGHT COVE continued...
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| 272 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA FEEDER SERVICE MAIL 1934 Feeder services to connect up with the London - Cape Town flights were established in Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Mozambique & Basutoland. 1934 covers (6) that were posted and put into this
service, all First Official Air Mails, incl. two from Nyasaland, and one each from Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Basutoland and a Mozambique. (Image)
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Estimate £ 60-80
Starting Bid £ 60
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
| 273 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA The first weekly regular flight from Southern Africa to Australasia left Cape Town on 4th Dec 1934 to connect up with the Imperial Airways flight at Cairo. Eight covers and a card from South Africa, South West
Africa (2) Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Southern Rhodesia (2) Tanganyika and Zanzibar that were all on this flight which connected to the Australia flight in Cairo on 10th Dec and arrived Sydney 21st Dec. Interesting lot. (Image)
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Estimate £ 100-130
Starting Bid £ 100
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
| 274 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 1936 cover from Bulawayo to Cape Town that was on the Imperial Airways 'Artemis' that hit a tree while taking off from Pietersburg in the Northern Transvaal. There was no loss of life and all the mail was
recovered and forwarded the next day. No specific cachets were applied to the recovered mail but this cover has an explanatory typed message on the back.
(Image)
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Estimate £ 130-170
Starting Bid £ 130
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 1936 Schlesinger Air Race. There were 14 entrants, but only nine aircraft took part in the race, five dropping out prior to the race starting. The race began from Portsmouth Airport at 6.15am on Tuesday 29th
Sep. Only one competitor finished the race. This cover was flown by A Clouston & F. E. Tasker. He has endorsed it 'Crashed, engine failure, Telegraph Rd, Southern Rhodesia 3rd Oct 1936' and it has his signature. It crashed 150 miles south of
Salisbury. Very uncommon. (Image)
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Estimate £ 100-120
Starting Bid £ 100
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 1936 Schlesinger Air Race. There were 14 entrants, but only nine aircraft took part in the race, five dropping out prior to the race starting. The race began from Portsmouth Airport at 6.15am on Tuesday 29th
Sep. Only one competitor finished the race. This signed cover was flown by Victor Smith. Due to engine problems he retired at Khartoum. (Image)
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Estimate £ 80-100
Starting Bid £ 80
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 1936 Schlesinger Air Race. There were 14 entrants, but only nine aircraft took part in the race, five dropping out prior to the race starting. The race began from Portsmouth Airport at 6.15am on Tuesday 29th
Sep. Only one competitor finished the race. This cover was flown by Flt. Lieut. T. Rose. He retired after his undercarriage failed at Cairo Airport. Some covers were specially prepared for this race and were posted in Cairo. (Image)
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Estimate £ 80-100
Starting Bid £ 80
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
| 278 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 1936 Schlesinger Air Race. There were 14 entrants, but only nine aircraft took part in the race, five dropping out prior to the race starting. The race began from Portsmouth Airport at 6.15am on Tuesday 29th
Sep. Only one competitor finished the race. This signed cover was flown by Capt. S. S. Halse. On 30th Sep, S. Halse crashed his Percival Mew Gull in a forced landing 20 miles North of Salisbury. (Image)
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Estimate £ 80-100
Starting Bid £ 80
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 1936 Schlesinger Air Race. There were 14 entrants, but only nine aircraft took part in the race, five dropping out prior to the race starting. The race began from Portsmouth Airport at 6.15am on Tuesday 29th
Sep. Only one competitor finished the race. This signed cover was flown by Victor Smith. Flying in a Miles Sparrowhawk he had problems with the oil and eventually retired in Khartoum on 3rd Oct. This cover has his notation & signature. (Image)
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Estimate £ 80-100
Starting Bid £ 80
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 1936 Schlesinger Air Race. There were 14 entrants, but only nine aircraft took part in the race, five dropping out prior to the race starting. The race began from Portsmouth Airport at 6.15am on Tuesday 29th
Sep. Only one competitor finished the race. This cover was flown by Major A Miller flying in a Percival Mew Gull was the 2nd competitor to drop out of the race. He had a forced landing near Belgrade and withdrew. (Image)
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Estimate £ 80-100
Starting Bid £ 80
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 1936 Schlesinger Air Race. There were 14 entrants, but only nine aircraft took part in the race, five dropping out prior to the race starting. The race began from Portsmouth Airport at 6.15am on Tuesday 29th
Sep. Only one competitor finished the race. This cover was flown by Flt. Lieut. T. Rose. He retired after his undercarriage failed at Cairo Airport. His signature is at the lower right of the cover. (Image)
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Estimate £ 80-100
Starting Bid £ 80
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
| 282 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 1936 Empire Exhibition, Johannesburg. During the Exhibition from 15th Sep 1936 to 16th Jan 1937, postcards could be flown anywhere in the world for ½d. Four cards, one each to Canada, Nyasaland, Portuguese East
Africa and Costa Rica. Uncommon. (Image)
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Estimate £ 70-90
Starting Bid £ 70
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
| 283 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 6th Feb 1936 Flight Lieut. T. Rose flew from London to Cape Town in a record time but carried no mail. On his return flight from Cape Town on 3rd March he carried a few covers that he posted in London on his
arrival on 9th March. This cover has the Cape Town Wingfield Airport cancel of 3.MAR.1936, the day he left Cape Town. Few covers recorded. (Image)
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Estimate £ 120-160
Starting Bid £ 120
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
| 284 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 6th May 1936 a young pilot, H. L. Brook flew to South Africa in a Czechoslovakian 36 h.p. light plane, with a cruising speed of only 79 mph. He arrived in Cape Town 16 days & 4½ hours later. This flown cover
was posted in Harrogate 3rd May and has a Cape Town cancel of 24.MAY.36. Uncommon. (Image)
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Estimate £ 60-80
Starting Bid £ 60
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA Feeder services to connect with the Imperial Airways London and Cape Town flights. Two covers one to Angola, one from Angola, a cover and a card on the Madagascar feeder service, 1936 cover from Lagos to
Johannesburg, a cover from Nairobi, Kenya, 15.OCT.36 to Koko, Nigeria, that took a long and circuitous route, that eventually arrived on 30.DEC.36, and a cover from Cromer, England, 16.OCT.31 to Dar Es Salaam endorsed 'By First Inward Feeder Service
Air Mail,' Tanganyika, with a violet oval Tanganyika Territory Feeder Service cachet. (Image)
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Estimate £ 80-120
Starting Bid £ 80
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
| 286 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 12th May 1937 - Coronation Day - the Hottentots Homing Union organized a demonstration pigeon flight from Worcester to the Strand (Cape Town). The distance was 52 miles. 200 birds took part each bird carried a
flimsy message and on arrival this was sent on in a special envelope with the bird number. A Souvenir Programme also is included in this lot. (Image)
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Estimate £ 120-150
Starting Bid £ 120
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 14th June 1937 the South African Airways Junkers JU-52 'Earl of Caledon' crashed shortly after taking off from the Rand airport and was completely destroyed. This cover to Durban has both an explanatory label
and an explanatory manuscript note on the cover. (Image)
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Estimate £ 200-250
Starting Bid £ 200
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
| 288 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA Record round trip London - Cape Town - London flight. On 14th Nov 1937, Flight Officer Arthur Clouston and Betty Kirby-Green took off from Croydon Airport and reached Cape Town on 16th Nov on what was then a
record 45 hours & two minutes. Their return journey of 57 hours & 23 minutes was also record-breaking. A cover cancelled London 13.NOV.37 with a Cape Town arrival 16.NOV.37 that was carried on this and the return flight. Uncommon. (Image)
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Estimate £ 70-90
Starting Bid £ 70
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
| 289 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA Record round trip London - Cape Town - London flight. On 14th Nov 1937, Flight Officer Arthur Clouston and Betty Kirby-Green took off from Croydon Airport and reached Cape Town on 16th Nov on what was then a
record 45 hours & two minutes. Their return journey of 57 hours & 23 minutes was also record-breaking. This cover that was on those two flights has a pair of South African ½d's cancelled Cape Town 16.NOV.37 and a GB 1½d cancelled London 21.NOV.37 on
arrival back in England. The cover has been signed by both Clouston and Kirby-Green. (Image)
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Estimate £ 100-120
Starting Bid £ 100
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA Record round trip London - Cape Town - London flight. On 14th Nov 1937, Flight Officer Arthur Clouston and Betty Kirby-Green took off from Croydon Airport and reached Cape Town on 16th Nov on what was then a
record 45 hours & two minutes. Their return journey of 57 hours & 23 minutes was also record-breaking. This cover that was on those two flights has a GB 1½d cancelled London 21.NOV.37 Cape Town 16.NOV.37 and Cape Town Airport Wingfield 16.NOV.1937
cancels are on the cover. The cover has been signed by both Clouston and Kirby-Green. (Image)
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Estimate £ 100-120
Starting Bid £ 100
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
| 291 |
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 SOUTHERN AFRICA 1938 cover to Tristan Da Cunha with three South African ½d's, cancelled Johannesburg 3.III.38. The cover would have been flown to London and then went by ship to Tristan Da Cunha, where it received a two Type
VI cancels. Very unusual. (Image)
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Estimate £ 80-100
Starting Bid £ 80
Closing..Nov-11, 12:00 PM |
