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Lot# : 447A Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations
1 / 181850/1940ca.: Fine lot British Commonwealth, mention should be made of four Cape triangles (two with certificates), Rhodesia $2 red brown (1908) and Rhodesia Falls 1 d. to 5 Sh. unused mounted, very fresh. Ascension issues 1924 and 1934 complete unmounted, Bermuda 1 d. and 2 d. 1865 unused mounted, Newfoundland 1 c. 60 c. 1897, Sudan General Gordon 1935 unmounted set, better India 1882, some New Zealand e.g. TRANS-TASMAN Airmail, North Borneo issues 1931 mounted, 1939 unmounted, both complete, 3 stamps Japanese occupation of North Borneo . Few Grenada, some Egypt etc. Last but not least an excellent page Ireland with definitives overprints 1922 including seahorses 4 lines ovpt. almost complete unmounted, and seahorses overprinted with three lines mounted, definitves ½ d. to 1 sh. 1922-23 unmounted, 1940-42 mounted etc. Please inspect!Starting bid : 500 CHFHammer price : 1,700 CHFLot# : 448 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations
1 / 21853/63: Lot five stamps primarily used incl. Malta 1860/63 ½ d. buff unsed, Tasmania 1853 1 d. pale blue and 4 d. orange, New Brunswick 1851/60 3 d. red, and Nova Sotia 1851/60 3 d. blue. An interesting lot to be studied.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 340 CHFLot# : 449 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations
1 / 31854/56: Lot two covers and an unused stamp incl. UK 1854 6d. purple Embossed, a fresh cut-square example with vivid colour and good to full margins incl. parts of thr upper neighbouring adhesive in combination with 1854-57 2d. blue plate 4 (Gi 60+20), tied by London district '15' in diamond and bars handstamp, oval PD in red and French "ANGL. 30 SEPT. 56 AMB. CALAIS" entry cds alongside, on double rate cover to Paris, a correct and appealing franking to pay twice the 4d. rate to France in effect from January 1855, cert. RPSL (2023). Lot includes also Bermuda 1938/53 £ 1 pale purple & black on pale red, wmk. Multiple Crown CA, comb perf. 14, an unused example of rich colour, Row 2, stamp 5 (position 17) showing variety "Gash in Chin" (Gi 121bf = £ 2'250), fresh and fine, unmounted og. Also Mexico Morelia 1856 4 r. carmine, a horizontally bisected example, top half, used on 1860 entire letter to Mexico City to pay the 2 reales rate, tied by "FRANCO / MORELIA" circular datestamp (June 25) in black.Starting bid : 400 CHFHammer price : 400 CHFLot# : 532 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations
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Lots & Collections 1937/1940, Africa Aeromaritime collection of seven covers and additionally two unused picture postcards, neatly mounted and described on exhibition pages, including two first flight covers from Dakar with commemortive cachets, mail origins include; French New Guinea, Togo, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, England and Senegal, noted 1937 cover from Governor of French New Guinea at Conakry to the Governor General French West Africa in Dakar, also two censor mail covers, the postcards depict the aeromaritime route along the African cost and one with flying boat pictured on the sea, an interesting assembly in mostly good to fine condition.Starting bid : 150 CHFHammer price : 220 CHFLot# : 534 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations
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1932/1937, Imperial Airways Africa, group of six covers, comprising three first flight and three test flights, including 1934 envelope from Nairobi, Kenya, to Quelimane, Mozambique, carried on the first southbound flight from Broken Hill to Rhodesia, 1934 souvenir cover from Moshi, Tanganyika, to Sydney, Australia, carried on the first air mail service England to Australia, a 1937 typed envelope from London to Nairobi, Kenya, carried on the first "All-Up" UK to Kenya flight from Southampton to Kisumu, includes a headed note from the Imperial Airways traffic manager's office signed by E. Dolby, a 1932 first official air mail cachet on an official test cover from Bulawayo to the Superintendent of Imperial Airways in Brindisi, a 1936 test cover carried on the first through air mail service from South Africa to Nigeria via Khartoum and a 1937 pilot signed test cover for first "All-Up" Kisumu to Southampton flight; additionally a 1936 parcel label sent from Al Fashir to Khartoum, franked with Sudan air mail and postage stamps, an excellent and valuable group.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : 200 CHFLot# : 535 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations
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1932/1938, Imperial Airways Africa, collection of ten covers studying various routes into and out of Africa, predominately air mail to Europe, although one to Australia, one to Jamaica and unusually an 1937 cover from Lourenco Marques, Mozambique to Macau, carried via Alexandria, Penang and Hong Kong where it travelled by surface mail and then boat, noted 1935 envelope from Mbeya,Tanganyika to Stockholm, Sweden endorosed by violet cachet "By Air to Brindisi", also a late fee to England, an example of parcel post from Mombasa, to England, also an interesting mailing from Belgian Congo to Switzerland and others, condition in the main is fine, some with faults, an excellent assembly neatly presented upon exhibition pages.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 536 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations
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1935/1944, Study of Africa air mail, set out on eight attractive exhibition pages, detailing routes, rates, flights and airlines, comprising ten covers, includes Air France routes, Sierra Leone to UK, UK to Senegal, Belfast to Sierra Leone, Imperial Airways UK to Gold Coast and the "Horseshoe Route" Tanganyika to UK, a 1943 OHMS Unganda Protectorate envelope to USA, possibly carried by a combination of RAF Transport Command and Pan American Airways, also Elders Colonial Airways Sierra Leone to UK, a neatly presented and carefully written-up study with varied frankings and postmarks, a scarce group.Starting bid : 200 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 537 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations
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1931/1937, Imperial Airways, study of northbound flights out of Africa, comprising thirteen covers mounted on exhibition pages and comprehensively written-up, originating from South Africa, Tanganyika, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, to destinations in USA, England, Switzerland and Greece, varied frankings predominently British commonwealth, routes incorporate maritime, rail and surface mail, some eye catching covers, noted 1937, Ford Motor company illustrated advertising envelope sent from Nakuru to Ohio, also 1934, Royal Tour South Africa philatelic cover, sent registered from Basutoland to Athens via air mail, with billingual special event cachet (commemorating visit by Prince George), also "Feeder Service" endorsements and "By Air to / London" cachets, a fascinating and attractive study.Starting bid : 300 CHFHammer price : not soldLot# : 539 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations
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1932/1937, Wilson Airways, study of air mail routes, comprising ten covers mounted and described on exhibition pages, noted two scarce examples of official OHMS covers originating from "Mafia Island", a location not part of the costal service routes, however Wilson Airways made ad-hoc 'special' flights, both relate to medical services and are marked "Confidential", other mail includes from Tanganyika, Kenya, Zanzibar and Uganda, destinations within Africa as well as UK and France, also two covers with straightline cachet "Local Air Fee Paid" in violet, and two registered covers one from Zanzibar to Paris the other Uganda to Zanzibar, good range of frankings and values, some flaws to be expected, nice selection of usages, a fine study.Starting bid : 400 CHFHammer price : 440 CHFLot# : 540 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations
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1937/1945, BOAC Africa air mail study of flights, routes and rates, comprising seventeen covers, predominantly WWII mailings, with censor marks and labels, including seven covers from Gold Coast one of which is sent to Palestine with censor marks on despatch and arrival, also one very large format envelope which with block of tweleve ½d, a 1944 registered cover from Tripoli, Libya to Hull, England, franked with M.E.F. overprint including a vertical pair of 2 s. 6d. "Arms" issue, three large covers from Kenya, two forces on active service, one to Colombo the other to Cornwall in England with RAF and Naval censor marks repectively, two covers from French Cameroon both with "Arms" high values, includes "Horseshoe Route" 1941 Eastbound Kenya to USA via Pacific endorsed "via Hong Kong", also 1944 first air service to Aden from Nairobi, Kenya, a fascinating group with varied destinations and frankings, many scarcer, valuable assembly mounted on exhibition pages with detailed descriptions.Starting bid : 500 CHFHammer price : 500 CHF -
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