1901 Cover opened on 3 sides to show front & back, 1l chocolate strip of 5 SG1 & 5l green single on front tied with Xania 4 Sept 1901 cds cancels. Addressed to France. On reverse a superb block of 15 of SG1. Very fine display quality cover. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £32.00)

1931 Air Mail registered cover, SG311, 314 & 315 tied with Prague 22 May 1935 cds cancels & Praha 1 reg label. Hand addressed to Kisumu Kenya. On reverse Athens 25 May 1935 transit connecting with Imperial Airways flight Kisumu 1 May 1931 receiving. Slightly soiled but very scarce Prague - Kisumu route. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £24.00)

1934 Poldi Steel Works stationery envelope with meter mark in red Poldi Kladno 12 Apr 1934 paying 12.50k. Typed address to Calcutta. On reverse Prague 12 Apr 34 transit, Athens 15 Apr 34 transit connecting with Imperial Airways flight IE264, Calcutta 21 Apr 34 arrival. Slightly soiled on front. Scarce commercial use. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £32.00)

1935 First Flight Prague to Bucharest on an Air France (AIR FRANCE printed right across the middle of the cover), SG309 pair, 310 & 311 tied Praha 3 June 1935 cancels. Typed address Air France Bucharest. On reverse Bucharest 3 Jun 35 oval arrival & local 4 Jun 35 cds. Pressure mark from paper clip top left otherwise very clean & fine {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £24.00)

1936 First Flight CSA Service Prague to Moscow, 5 covers neatly presented & written up on A4 pages with protectors ready for display. 2 Sept 1936 each with appropriate cancels & cachets, 2 specially issued cards of the route one outward journey with SG309 & 313. The second with Russian issues for the return. Uzhorod (a stage on the flight) signed by CSA Chief Pilot Karel Brabenec. Prague-Kyjev bottom left corner Plate 1 block of 4 SG348 addressed to Karel Brabenec stated to be one of only 16 flown on this leg. Prague-Moscow Plate 1 & 1A blocks of 4 SG346 & 348 single, hand addressed to Brabenec. Superb display quality covers (5). {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £120.00) (Image)

Collection of Air Letter Sheets mainly unused & written up on pages. Rhodesia & Nyasaland 1957 unused set of 8 6d in pink. Similar period set of 8 in blue no value expressed. 1964 set of 5? Addressed to Cape Town Postmaster's Office 6 Feb 1964 Salisbury boxed cancel. Zimbabwe colour illust unused. Zambia colour illust. 10 used Zambi between 1971-1980. Malawi 1970 9d unused. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £32.00)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Southern Rhodesia 10d (SG22) tied to Springbok official illust cover with Bulawayo 28 Jan 32 cds cancels. First Official Air Mail cachet. Typed address to Anglesey. Double Crash. Tyngongl 17 Feb 32 receiving on front. Very fine & clean Display Quality cover. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £68.00) (Image)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Southern Rhodesia 4d & 6d (SG19 & 20) tied to Springbok official illust cover with Bulawayo 28 Jan 32 cds cancels. First Official Air Mail cachet. Typed address to Anglesey. Double Crash. Tyngongl 17 Feb 32 receiving on front. Very fine & clean. Display Quality cover. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £68.00) (Image)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Northern Rhodesia 2d & 3d both as horiz joined pairs (SG4 & 5) tied to plain cover with Livingstone 18 Jan cds cancels. Hand addressed to Salcombe Devon. Delayed by double crash. On reverse Broken Hill 19 Jan wavy line & cds, Livingstone 18 Jan cds & Salcombe 17 Feb 32 receiving. Fine & clean. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £40.00)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Northern Rhodesia ½d horiz joined pair & 3d (SG1 & 5), tied to Robertson illust cover with Broken Hill 29 Jan 32 cds cancels. Printed address to Mpika. On Reverse Mpika 2 Feb 32 receiving. This cover could not have left Broken Hill on the 'City of Delhi' which crashed on the 29th & mail not recovered until the 4 Feb. Either it missed the flight & was carried by land or it went on the 'Supplementary Flight' which left Broken Hill on the 2 Feb. Very fine & Scarce Display Quality cover. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £120.00) (Image)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Nyasaland 3d horiz joined pair & 4d (SG105 & 106?) tied to plain cover with Limbe 23 Jan 32 cds cancels. First Official Air Mail cachet. Typed address to Khartoum Sudan. Double Crash. On reverse Salisbury 27 Jan 32 transit. Sudan Air Mail Khartoum 10 Feb 32 receiving. Very fine. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £60.00)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Nyasaland 1/- (SG108?) tied to plain cover with Lilongwe 21 Jan 32 cds cancel. First Official Air Mail cachet. Double Crash. Hand address to Tunbridge Wells. On reverse Salisbury 27 Jan 32 transit. In pencil 530 carried. This was the total covers from Nyasaland on this flight, with just 10 (ten) carried from Lilongwe. Some edge wear but very rare. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £160.00) (Image)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Nyasaland 4d x 3 (SG106?) tied to plain cover with Limbe 21 Jan 32 cds cancels. First Official Air Mail cachet. Double Crash. Hand address to Stanley Gibbons Strand. On reverse Salisbury 27 Jan 32 transit. Slight edge wear. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £48.00)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Southern Rhodesia 2d Falls, 4d & 6d (SG17, 19 & 20) tied to Parry Leon & Hayhoe Ltd illust cover with Bulawayo Station 27 Jan 32 cds cancels. First Official Air Mail cachet. Typed address to Newcastle. Double Crash. On reverse Bulawayo 28 Jan 32 transit & Newcastle 17 Feb 32 receiving. Some edge wear otherwise fine & very scarce. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £104.00) (Image)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Southern Rhodesia 1d, 2d Falls x 2 & 6d (SG16, 17 & 20) tied to illust cover (souvenir Envelope from S. Rhodesia with Rhodes (large 230x105mm)) with Salisbury 28 Jan 32 cds cancels. First Official Air Mail cachet. Hand address to Watford. Double crash. One of only 150 carried from Salisbury. No postal markings on reverse. Very fine display quality cover. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £80.00) (Image)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Southern Rhodesia 10d (SG22) tied to illust cover (souvenir Envelope from S. Rhodesia with Rhodes (large 230x105mm)) with Salisbury 28 Jan 32 cds cancel. First Official Air Mail cachet. Hand address to Tulse hill. Double crash. One of only 150 carried from Salisbury. No postal markings on reverse. In pencil Recv'd 16 Feb 32. Very fine display quality cover. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £80.00) (Image)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Nyasaland 4d horiz strip of 3 (SG106?) tied to plain cover with Limbe 23 Jan 32 cds canels. First Official Air Mail cacchet. Double Crash. Hand address to Dingwall. On reverse Salisbury 27 Jan 32 transit. Slight wear to edges. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £48.00)

CAPE TOWN -LONDON FIRST REGULAR RETURN SERVICE 1932 Nyasaland 2d, 4d & 6d (SG103, 106 & 107?) tied to plain cover with Zomba 23 Jan 32 cds cancels. First Official Air Maill cachet. Hand addressed to Manchester. Double Crash. On reverse Salisbury 27 Jan 32 transit. Vertical crease. Just 79 items of mail carried from Zomba. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £52.00)

LATER FLIGHTS 1932 GB 9d (SG427) tied to plain cover with London F.S. Air Mail 1 Jun 32 cds cancel.Hand address to Zomba. On reverse TPO Nyasaland 14 Jun 32 transit & Zomba 15 Jun 32 receiving. Soiled & faults. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £16.00)

LATER FLIGHTS 1932 New Zealand 5d on 3d & 7d (SG550 & 551) tied to plain cover with Auckland 29Jun 32 cds cancels. New Zealand Africa First Official Air Mail bi plane cachet. Hand addressed to Blantyre. On reverse TPO Nyasaland 9 Aug 32 transit. Blantyre 10 Aug 32 receiving. With Air Mail Soc of NZ Expertising cachet. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £80.00) (Image)

LATER FLIGHTS 1933 Northern Rhodesia 2d, 4d & 6d horiz joined pair (SG4, 6 & 7) tied to plain registered cover with Broken Hill 11 Sep 33 cds cancels. Extension to the Empire Airmail Service to Rangoon via Calcutta Indian Continental Airways. Neat hand address to Rangoon. On reverse Broken Hill 1 Sep 33 Cairo 20 Sep 33 transit. Rangoon registration 2 Oct 33. Receipt for the reg cover Broken Hill 1 Sep 33. Very fine Display Quality cover. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £96.00) (Image)

LATER FLIGHTS 1933 Northern Rhodesia 1d, 4d & 1/- (SG2, 6 & 10) tied to plain cover with Broken Hill 7 Dec 33 cds cancels. Extension of Empire Air Mail to Singapore. Typed address to Singapore. On reverse Cairo 12 dec 33 transit. Singapore General Post Office 19 Dec 33 (probably for the return to sender as arrival was 17 Dec 33). Very fine. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £60.00) (Image)

LONDON CAPE TOWN EXPERIMENTAL CHRISTMAS FLIGHT 1931 Southern Rhodesia 1d x 2 & 3d Falls (SG16 & 18) tied Bulawayo 18 Dec 31 cds cancel. Experimental Flight official cachet in black & 'By First Air Mail from S. Rhodesia' cachet. Typed address to Pietersburg. Just one stage of the flight. On reverse Johannesburg 21 Dec 31 transit (one stage after Pietersburg) & Pietersburg 22 Dec 31 receiving. Further research required. It would appear that this cover was flown further than necessary and presumably travelled back by road? {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £68.00) (Image)

LONDON CAPE TOWN EXPERIMENTAL CHRISTMAS FLIGHT 1931 Northern Rhodesia ½d x 2, 1d & 3d (SG1,2 & 5) tied to illustrated 'The Aero Philatelic Club of Calcutta' cover, produced to commemorate the first flight to South Africa, with Broken Hill 17 Dec 1931 cds cancels. Adddressed to Cape Town. Johannesburg 21 Dec 31 transit & 21 Dec 31 Cape Town receiving on reverse. Some light foxing around 2 stamps. Very scarce. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £96.00) (Image)

LONDON CAPE TOWN EXPERIMENTAL CHRISTMAS FLIGHT 1931 GB 3d violet (SG423) left marginal horiz strip of 3 making correct 9d rate tied to plain airmail cover with Salcombe Devon 8 Dec 1931 cds cancels. Hand written address to Bulawayo. Manuscript 'First Flight GB to Rhodesia'. Salisbury 19 Dec 1931 arrival on reverse. Fine. {C} (Start Price / Minimum Bid) = £32.00)