Sale No: 298
Lot No:752
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1915/90c.: Collection of covers (250+) with early Canoe issue cover, 1928 cover & contents from Missionary to USA with 3 d. tied "Tulagi" cds, 1929 registered cover franked 2 s. blue on lilac cancelled "Shortland Island", 1938 cover at 1½ d. airmail rate from GB with "Unclaimed" in mss. and "Return to Sender" cachet in violet, OAS covers ex NZ forces, 1945 cover to Malaita with 1½ d. tied "Lunga" cds, 1947 cover ex "Munda" carried on Ship "Daphne" with cachet (scarce), 1949 RSW 2 d. and 10 s. on FDC, 1950's air-letter usages at variety of rates,  "Barakoma Airfield" cover, 1951/52 covers carried on the "Cicely II", "Inaha", "Ozama Twomey" or "Malakuna", 1959/62 covers with Solomans Postage Due usages of 3 d., 4 d. and 6 d. charges on three covers, cancellations from Auki - Yandina, together with a quantity of more modern covers showing village cancels etc. A fine and seldom seen group and a fine genesis of a collection. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image)

Sale No: 298
Lot No:981
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1927 (March 12): Lake Victoria (Kenya) - North Sea Aerial and General Transport Ltd.G-EBOP 'Pelican', crash cover from "NAIROBI KENYA 9 MR 27" to England with adjacent "KENYA-SUDAN AIR MAIL MR. 12 27" cds. in red, showing on reverse "KISUMU KENYA 10 MR 27" cds and special cachet 'Owing temporary failure / Air Service Mail / forwarded normal route' in violet (Nierinck 270312a) togther with group of five postcards and on envelope from Ireland bearing rectangle handstamp: "Service officially arranged to / operate from London, March 10 1927, but abbandoned owing to / breakdown of Hydroplane on / Lake Victoria" in red (Nierinck 270312c) Nierinck= CHF 3'300. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image)

Sale No: 298
Lot No:984
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Crash Mail of Imperial Airways in Africa 1931/33: Group of 14 covers to Ireland, including cover of 'City of Salonica' posted at 'Londania, Kenya March 16.1931' (Nierinck 310318), ten covers of IA first flight Cape Town - London, crashed at Broken Hill - Salesbury (Nierinck 320129), of which one from Victoria West, one registered usage from Blantyre and two from Salesbury S. Rhodesia, 'City of Arundel' crash at Wadi Halfa, Sudan with cover from "Nairobi March 5, 1932", referring to Ken Sanford only one postcard known (Nierinck 320309), as well as 1933 (Dec. 7) envelope posted at "Dar-es-Salam" with local  Wilson Feeder Service to Nairobi, the plane 'Knight of the Grail' crashed during take off in Mombasa (Dec. 8) due engine troubles. A fine and scarce offer. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image)

Sale No: 298
Lot No:800
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1940: Cover from Australia to Ocean Island with 2 d. carmine tied by "Goulburn" machine cancel (Nov 28). Reseal "OPENED BY CENSOR" in red at left tied in violet and cover received back in Sydney (Jan 23, 1941) with cds on reverse; after the mail had been recovered from the "S.S. Triona" which had been sunk by the Japanese but the mail had survived. Cover endorsed in manuscript "Raider Mail" in red crayon on Ocean Island to explain the delay. Rare and very fine.rnProvenance: "Taylor / Belknap" Collections, Christies, Melbourne, 26 Oct 1995, lot 272. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

Sale No: 298
Lot No:801
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1922/74: The genesis of a Postal History exhibit collection (71 items) with 1938 NZ 1 d. tied "Christmas Island", 1942 cover to Sir Harry Luke ex Phoenix Islands, 1944 cover with ½ d. pair tied by GARDNER ISLAND cds's, 1945 cover from Tarawa to Funafuti with fine "PASSED BY CENSOR / No. 8" in black and a further strike of this rare mark on cover to APO 709 (Solomon Islands), 1945 cover with 2 d. and framed "PASSED BY CENSOR / No. 3" at Funafuti; 1950/60's "Christmas Island" Military usages, 1961 cover with 2 d. tied by "Hull Island" cds, 1964 cover with 1 s. and 2 s. adhesives used as Postage Dues, thereafter with further scarce covers from Abaiang, Abemama, Beru, Betio, Butaritari, Funafuti, Hull Island, Marakei, Nonouti, Nui, Nukufetau, Tarawa, Willis Island Radio Station etc. A fine and unusual lot. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image)

Sale No: 298
Lot No:802
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1881: 1½ d. brown on buff postal stationery card used to the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, cancelled by scarce framed "ELMINA / PAID / MR 27 81" datestamps in black. Circular "Paid / Liverpool / Br. Packet" cds of transit in red (April 23) and reverse with London arrival (April 25) in red. Interesting message "There is no chance of War out here I'm afraid...". Some aging but scarce.rnProvenance: Collection "Ashanti" (Robert Nelson), Stanley Gibbons, London, 24 Jan 1991, lot 531. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)

Sale No: 298
Lot No:805
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1884/91: 2 s. deep brown, a single example on 1894 registered cover to Birmingham tied by barred obliterator with ACCRA despatch cds alongside (Nov 22). "Registered / Liverpool" transit (Christmas Day) and Birmingham, arrival on reverse.rnProvenance: Collection John Sacher, Spink, London, 12 Nov 2009, lot 170. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image)