Number of results: 27
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1919 ''Martinsyde'' Attempted Transatlantic Flight, large envelope to London endorsed ''per favour Major Morgan/Aviator to England'' and bearing 3c. brown with ms. overprint ''Aerial/Atlantic/Mail'' used with unoverprinted Caribou 1c., 2c., 4c., 5c., 6c. and 8c. cancelled St. Johns Apr. 14 and again Apr. 19, London Arrival of Jan. 7 1920 on reverse. The envelope addressed to Capt. H.A. Anderson, in charge of the Pay and Records Dept. of the Royal Newfoundland Regt. from his father John Anderson, a member of the Legislative Council in St. Johns. Some perf. toning, the cover rather worn and creased with vertical fold nevertheless rare and attractive. With B.P.A. certificate (1948) and letter of opinion signed by Cyril Harmer after the item's last appearance at auction (Harmers, 23-24 February 1948, lot 350). Photo. Price Realised £11500 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1919 Alcock & Brown, ''Trans-Atlantic/AIR POST,/1919./ONE DOLLAR.'' on 15c., mint vertical pair, both showing no comma after ''AIR POST'', the upper stamp also with no stop after ''1919'', fine. S.G. 143a, 143b, cat. £500+. Photo. Price Realised £210 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1919 Second Supplementary Mail, Envelope locally addressed bearing the ''Trans-Atlantic/AIR POST,/1919./ONE DOLLAR'' on 15c. red tied by St. Johns machine cancellation of July 12 1919 and signed by the aviators Raynham and Biddlecombe, with further St. Johns machine datestamp of Feb. 5 1920 and London ''7 JA/20 receiving datestamp on reverse, a little roughly opened but rare, one of only 25 covers added by Raynham, the attempted flight resulting in the Martinsyde crashing on take-off. H.R. Harmer pencil signature on reverse. Photo. Price Realised £3200 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1919 Alcock & Brown Flight, ''Westcott'' forgery envelope bearing $1 on 15c. with fake St. Johns June 13 1919 machine cancellation, Weybridge ''arrival'' of June 18 and with accompanying postcard of the Vickers-Vimy plane. Price Realised £270 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1919 Alcock & Brown Flight, Commemorative luncheon menu produced for the 10th Anniversary Luncheon given by Vickers Ltd and Rolls Royce Ltd at the Savoy Hotel, London, folded, bearing P.U.C. 1/2d., 1d. and 21/2d. cancelled same day and sent to Stockholm via night flight to Berlin with June 17 arrival, scarce. Also seating plan and contemporary newspaper cuttings. Price Realised £620 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1921 Botwood, Newfoundland–Halifax, Nova Scotia, ''AIR MAIL/to Halifax, N.S./1921'' on 35c. red complete mint pane of 25 showing the full setting, mainly fine with eighteen unmounted. S.G. 148 (7), 148a (10), 148b, 148f (4), 148g (2), 148h, cat. £3,570+. Photo. Price Realised £1700 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1921Botwood, Newfoundland–Halifax, Nova Scotia, ''AIR MAIL/to Halifax, N.S./1921'' on 35c. red, 23/4mm. between ''AIR'' and ''MAIL'', mint horizontal pair, one with no stop after ''1921'', also a mint single, a little heavily mounted, with no stop and first ''1'' of ''1921'' under ''f'' of ''Halifax'', fine. S.G. 148, a, b, cat. £540. Photo. Price Realised £130 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1921Botwood, Newfoundland–Halifax, Nova Scotia, ''AIR MAIL/to Halifax, N.S./1921'' on 35c. red mint block of four, the pair at left with no stop after ''1921'', 23/4mm. between ''AIR'' and ''MAIL'' except the lower left stamp 11/2mm. between, the upper pair with slight hinge thin, otherwise fine with the lower pair unmounted. S.G. 148, 148a (2), 148f, cat. £500+. Photo. Price Realised £130 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1921Botwood, Newfoundland–Halifax, Nova Scotia, ''AIR MAIL/to Halifax, N.S./1921'' on 35c. red, seven used examples, four being on flight covers to Halifax (one to Montreal, slightly stained), the mail delivered by sea due to the crash of the plane, most fine. S.G. 148 (2), 148a (4), 148b, 148f. Price Realised £260 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1921Botwood, Newfoundland–Halifax, Nova Scotia, ''AIR MAIL/to Halifax, N.S./1921'' on 35c., 23/4mm. between ''AIR'' and ''MAIL'', no stop and ''1'' of ''1921'' below ''f'' of ''Halifax'', used with St. Johns Nov. 24 1921 machine cancellation on cover, the mail delivered by sea due to the crash of the plane, Halifax Feb. 4 1922 machine slogan arrival on reverse. S.G. 148b. Photo. Price Realised £90 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1921Botwood, Newfoundland–Halifax, Nova Scotia, ''AIR MAIL/to Halifax, N.S./1921'' on 35c. red with inverted overprint 23/4mm. between, no stop after ''1921'', mint single from the so-called ''Pane 3'' of the four panes of 25, pencil signatures on reverse. S.G. 148d, cat. £4,500. Price Realised £1900 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1921 Botwood, Newfoundland–Halifax, Nova Scotia, ''AIR MAIL/to Halifax, N.S./1921'' on 35c. red with inverted overprint, mint block of four from the so-called ''Pane 2'' of the four panes of 25 discovered with overprint inverted. Three with 23/4mm. spacing between ''AIR'' and ''MAIL'' (one with no stop after ''1921''), the other at lower right with 11/2mm. spacing. One stamp (S.G. 148c at lower left) with small stain at foot, otherwise fine and a very scarce multiple, only 16 examples of the inverted 11/2mm. spacing being possible. (From top left) S.G. 148c, 148d, 148c, 148i, cat. £22,000+. Photo. Price Realised £10500 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1927 De Pinedo Flight, ''Air Mail/DE PINEDO/1927'' overprint on 60c. black affixed inverted to envelope to Italy, St. Johns machine cancellation of May 20 1927 with Trepassy ''MY 21/1927'' c.d.s. alongside and offset of Naples June 23 machine arrival below, a further normal impression on the reverse over Rome ''22 VI/1927'' slogan transit. Scarce, only 225 items carried, 165 bearing the special adhesive. Photo. Price Realised £7000 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1927 De Pinedo Flight, Envelope to London bearing unoverprinted 60c. black cancelled on arrival by Roma Centro c.d.s. of June 22 with Trepassy ''MY 21/1927'' c.d.s. alongside and with additional Rome arrival and Ginn signature on reverse, soiled vertical fold. From the final portion of supplementary mail not cancelled in Newfoundland in case delayed too long for inclusion, one of twenty. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1930 ''Miss Columbia'' Flight, ''Trans-Atlantic/AIR MAIL/By B. M./''Columbia''/September/1930/Fifty Cents'' on 36c. sage-green, a mint example with two collector's handstamps and pencilled initials on gum, fine and rare. S.G. 191, cat. £5,500. B.P.A. certificate (1962). Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1930 ''Miss Columbia'' Flight, ''Trans-Atlantic/AIR MAIL/By B. M./''Columbia''/September/1930/Fifty Cents'' on 36c. sage-green, tied by St. Johns Sept. 25 1930 machine cancellation to envelope to W. J Carew, Secretary to the Prime Minister of Newfoundland, at the Savoy Hotel in London with typed endorsement ''Per Air Mail Columbia,/Hr. Grace to London, Eng.'' and signed by Capt. Errol Boyd and Lt. Harry Connor, backstamped Harbour Grace ''OC 9/30'' and Ginn pencil signature on reverse, rare and most attractive. Photo. Price Realised £4500 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1930 ''Miss Columbia'' Flight, unoverprinted 36c. sage-green and 14c., tied by St. Johns Sept. 25 1930 machine cancellation to printed envelope to London with typed endorsement ''Per Air Mail ''COLUMBIA''/Hr. Grace, to London, Eng./Sept. 1930'', backstamped Harbour Grace ''OC 9/30''. Photo. Price Realised £150 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1930 ''Miss Columbia'' Flight, Envelope to London with typed endorsement ''VIA AIRPLANE/COLUMBIA'', bearing 20c. and 30c.tied by St. Johns Sept. 25 1930 machine cancellation, backstamped Harbour Grace ''OC 9/30'' and London ''OCT 13/1930''. Photo. Price Realised £160 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1930 ''Miss Columbia'' Flight, unoverprinted 36c. sage-green with 4c. and 10c., tied by St. Johns Sept. 25 1930 machine cancellation to envelope to London with typed endorsement ''per Air Mail ''Columbia'' Hr. Grace/to London England, September 1930.'', backstamped Harbour Grace ''OC 9/30'' and with advertising enclosure from the Rome Brass & Copper Co. of Rome, N.Y. Photo. Price Realised £150 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1931 Airs without wmk. set mint and used, with wmk. set mint and used (with additional 50c. and $1, the latter slightly thinned), most fine. (14) S.G. 192-197. Price Realised £160 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1931 Air 50c. green horizontal pair without watermark but showing marginal watermark line, variety imperf. between, both cancelled by Bay De Verde R.P.O. ''FE 1/31'' datestamp, fine and very scarce in used condition, just seven examples believed to exist. S.G. 193a, cat. £1,100. B.P.A. certificate (1932). Photo. Price Realised £820 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1931 Air 15c. to $1 with and without watermarks set used, the without wmk. 15c. and with wmk. 50c. cancellations not guaranteed, mainly fine. S.G. 192-97, cat. £350. Price Realised £110 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1932 Dornier DO-X Flight, ''TRANS-ATLANTIC/WEST TO EAST/Per Dornier DO-X/May, 1932./One Dollar and Fifty Cents'' on $1 tied by red diamond flight cachet to airmail envelope to London with blue Holyrood ''MY 20/32'' c.d.s. alongside and with German 2m. marginal pair and single cancelled by D1929 ''19 May 32'' c.d.s.'s, backstamped by Berlin ''27.5.32'' receiving mark, London May 28 arrival and additional cachet, slight soiling. Scarce on-board mail. Photo. Price Realised £1150 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1932 Dornier DO-X Flight, ''TRANS-ATLANTIC/WEST TO EAST/Per Dornier DO-X/May, 1932./One Dollar and Fifty Cents'' on $1 iused upside down with St. Johns May 20 1932 machine cancellation on envelope to Germany endorsed ''Via Airmail/Do. X'' and with red Mit Luftpost cachet, slight creasing. Photo. Price Realised £110 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1933 Airs, a selection comprising set mint and used (with additional 75c. on piece), and 5c. (6), 10c. (2), 30c. (3), 60c. (3) and 75c. variously used on six (July 11) Wabush-Katsao, Labrador via Sept Iles first flight covers (NSCC FF 36). (11 + 6 covers) Price Realised £400 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1933 Balbo, ''1933/GEN. BALBO/FLIGHT./$4.50'' on 75c. tied by St. Johns ''26 JUL/33'' c.d.s. to ''Harmer'' envelope to London endorsed ''Via Italian Air Armada/Trans Atlantic Flight'' with blue-green flight cachet, backstamped Shoal Harbour July 28 and Lido di Roma receiving datestamp. Photo. Price Realised £400 |
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| Sale number: 52 Canada: Newfoundland: Airmails: 1936 Mollison Flight, Envelope addessed to Carbonear bearing 1c. Codfish pair cancelled Brigus ''OCT 29/36'' with Jim Mollison signature above, registered for return from London on Oct. 31 with K.G.V 2d. and K.E.VIII 21/2d., arrival backstamp of Nov. 17. Photo. Price Realised £820 |
