TAKE OFF! - Buckingham Covers · 3 Zeppelins ARZ54 £100 £25 for 4 months 1931 LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen, Germany - Cairo, Egypt with Pyramid ‘Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin

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1939 England-Canada per Imperial Airways ‘Caribou’, great John Smith cover with one KE VII definitive, one KE VIII definitive, five KG VI definitives, and two KG VI Coronation commemoratives, plus several arrival postmarks on the reverse, a superb cover.

ART130C £100

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ARZ31 £100 £50 for 2 months

1931 LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin Baltic Year Tour flight with ‘Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Ostseejahr-Rundfahrt’ cachet.

ARZ31 £100£50 for 2 months

1971 Sheila Scott carried and signed cover on her third world flight via the North Pole, this was the first flight over the North Pole in a light aircraft.

ARE226C £75 £25 for 3 months

1934 Rocket Post with ‘Trial Firing Sussex Downs’ cachet, famous rocket pioneer Gerhard Zucker undertook this trial which was his first in England.

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ARO35S £75

17/02/34 The first official airmail New Zealand - Australia, flown on the Avro 10 ‘Faith in Australia’, signed by the pilot Charles Ulm.

ARP02 £75

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1933 Provincial Airways London - Plymouth - London with Provincial Airways 3d stamp, this was an unofficial flight and the PO demanded an apology for infringing on their mail carrying route, the Provincial flights were subsequently cancelled.

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1931 LZ 127 Friedrichshafen, Germany - England flight which landed at London Airfield, Hanworth with purple ‘Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Englandfahrt’ showing LZ 127 over Tower Bridge, three examples available as per below.

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1936 Hindenburg carried mail with purple ‘Olympiafahrt’ cachet - the Zeppelin flew over the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony, four examples available as per below.


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1931 LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen, Germany - Cairo, Egypt with Pyramid ‘Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Agyptenfahrt 1931’ red cachet.

ARZ55 £250£50 for 5 months

1934 LZ127 Graf Zeppelin card flown on the 400th flight with illustration of the 1934 Reichsparteitag Nürnberg (Nuremberg Rally), which was annual rally of the Nazi Party.

£25 for 2 monthsARZ51 £501936 Graf Zeppelin Leipzig Exhibition Flight flown Friedrichshafen - Leipzig with ‘Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Leipziger Messe’ cachet.

1932 LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin flown from Friedrichshafen, Germany - England with fantastic special yellow St. Pauls ‘Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Englandfahrt’ cachet, scarce acceptance, two examples available as per below.


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1911 First UK Aerial Post red-brown illustrated die 4 postcard and sent on the first day of flights on September 9th. The postcard has been signed by Thomas Wareham Smith (1874-1938) who was a newspaper publicity director and founded the famous Ideal Home Exhibition.

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1911 First UK Aerial Post with scarce Zog Cleaning Paint logo, several companies paid for adverts on the postal stationary flown with this Zog example being one of the rarest to find, in good condition for its age.

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1912 King George V Ideal Stamp Exhibition postcard franked with a 1d and Special Event postmark dated 17th October, sent to Germany.

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Front1910 Postcard with illustration of Charles Rolls after his return journey over the Channel on 2nd June. Charles Rolls (1877-1910) co-founded Rolls-Royce and became to the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident during a display over Bournemouth.

1949 illustrated card flown on the Dutch Air Balloon Henri Dunant with an attractive flown cachet. This was the first air balloon to start its flight from Great Britain when it took off on September 24th from Ulster in Northern Ireland, a scarce item.

DK01 £325 £65 for 5 months

£100 for 4 months DK02 £400

DK05 £75


DK06 £150£50 for 3 months

DK03 £50


Unused WWI German Air Fleet Union Military postcard with an illustration of a Schutte-Lanz Airship bombing Warsaw, they were sold to finance Germany’s ‘lighter than air fleet’.

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1910 Postcard with illustration of American aviator John Armstrong Drexel sent on August 16th, four days earlier on the 12th he had broken the world altitude record by flying at 6,750 feet at Blackpool in a Bleriot monoplane.

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1912 Waterplane Daily Mail UK Tour Aerial postcard, with illustrated ‘Promoted

by the Grahame White Aviation Co’ cachet. It was sent from Portsmouth to

London with a 6th August postmark.

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1930 Postcard with an illustration of R-100 Zeppelin, it features a Canadian 5c and Aerodrome St Hubert Airport cachet dated 1st August which is also signed by Geo Faille the postmaster, plus a Montreal, Canada 13th August CDS, scarce aviation cover and amazing condition for its age.

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1931 King George V High Value 2/6 Seahorse on attractive envelope from London to Melbourne Australia, and an illustrated Abel Tasman first flight cachet, the plane was named after famous Dutch explorer Abel Tasman who discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fiji.

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1938 North Eastern Airways FF

1937 Jersey Airways FF

ARN01 £25 Leeds - London.

ARN05 £25 Doncaster - London.

ARN02 £25 Bradford - London.

ARN06 £25 Newcastle - London.

ARN04 £25 Perth - London.

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ARJ03 £30 Jersey - Southampton

ARJ04 £30 Jersey - London

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BEA Air Letter FDCARH21 £20 1956 10d air letter stamp FDC.

ARH22 £20 1953 8d air letter stamp FDC with Helicopter Service cachet.

ARH23 £20 1954 9d air letter stamp FDC with Helicopter Service cachet.

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Australia and New Zealand

ARO93 £20 1936 New Zealand - England with nice array of six New Zealand stamps and arrival mark on reverse on the 27th October.

ARO93A £20 1937 Nelson- Hokitika,

New Zealand internal flight.

ARO93B £20 1932 Dargaville, New Zealand - Melbourne, Australia, blue and red border illustration with special flight cachet on reverse.

ARO93C £20 1940 Sydney, Australia - Belfast, Ireland, opened by censor label.

ARO93D £20 1935 Napier, New Zealand - Gisborne, New Zealand East Coast Airways Ltd flown, first

day of issue of the 3d air mail stamp.

ARO93E £20 1935 England - Wellington, New Zealand via Sydney with arrival mark of 3rd January 1936 Sydney on reverse.

ARO93F £20 1929 Brisbane, Australia -

England, connected on the 2nd June first flight from Adelaide - Perth which shortened the

journey from eastern states to mail boat for London by two days.

ARO93G £20 1934 Milperra, Australia cancel with 5 nice Australian stamps, written on the cover is flown Adelaide - Perth and Karachi - London, we assume it would have gone by boat from the Australia to India leg.

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ARO93H £201929 England Australia, flown from London to Marseilles where it connected with RMS Maloja and sailed to Australia before flying from Perth to Adelaide, supplied in special ‘Aerogramme Series’ folder.

ARK21 £20 1951 KLM Australia - Holland first regular service with special

purple cachet.

ARO94 £20 1937 Auckland - Wellington, New Zealand internal flight, first official airmail.

ARO95 £20 1935 New Zealand - England first air mail, official Kings Jubilee

cover.


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1937 Empire Air Mail, London - South Africa first flight, three examples available as shown.


ARI13 £35

1931 Imperial Airways London - South Africa Christmas mail, three examples available as shown.

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1931 Imperial and Qantas Airways England - Australia first experimental flight via ‘City of Cairo’, three examples available as shown.

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1932 Australia National Airways England - Australia Xmas Greetings airmail,

five examples available as shown.

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ART109 £35

1939 Pan American England - USA first air mail, four examples available as shown.

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Catapult mail

Group Captain Randle: Military Series

£100 for 2 monthsARE226FB £20001/05/29 Catapult airmail, travelled on steamship Bremen with ‘Katapultflug vom D. Bremen des Norddeutschen Lloyd nach Bremen 2.8.1929’ cachet.

14/07/29 Catapult airmail carried on steamship Bremen from Germany - NY, USA with ‘Schnelldampfer Bremen Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen’ cachet.

ARE226FE £200£50 for 4 months

MIL01 £10 1971 Fairey Delta 2 first level flight at over 1,000mph by Peter Twiss.MIL01S £40 Signed Peter Twiss.

£50 for 8 months

MIL02S £400

1971 30th anniversary of Whittle Jet take off signed Frank Whittle.

MIL03S £25 1971 25th anniversary of the first live ejection in GB by Bernard Lynch, signed by Bernard Lynch and the pilot who flew the covers John Scott.

MIL04S £25 Signed by the pilot who flew the covers

Flight Lieutenant M.J. East.MIL04 £10

1971 Reformation display of 33 Squadron.

MIL05 £10 1971 Ceremonial hand-over of Squadron Standard for 8 Squadron.MIL05S £25 Signed by the pilot who flew the covers Squadron Leader E.C.Peck.

MIL06 £10 1972 Reformation display of 41 Squadron.MIL06S £25 Signed by the pilot and navigators of both legs - Wing Commander B.J. Lemon,

Squadron Leader B Straughan, Flight Officer P.A.Boulter, and Fight Officer C.F. Wrighton.


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ARA148 £40 1931 Los Angeles - Hawaii, First Pacific Coast Experimental Flight of Shore to Ship mail with fantastic green cachet.

ARA150 £20 1947 Pan American World Airways Calcutta, India - New York, first Clipper airmail with special cachet.

ARH34 £50 1934 Windsor - London (route of the first UK aerial post in 1911), flown by autogiro and signed by passenger John S Davis.

ART107 £20 1945 American Airlines System, USA - London first flight, you can choose from Boston, New York, or Philadelphia cancels.

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ARO09 £751934 London - Melbourne, Mac Robertson International Air Race, flown in the race, signed by Colonel Rosco Turner who came third in the speed event.

£25 for 3 months

ARA136 £1501948 Sky Merchant World Flight airsheet with superb mix

of 29 postmarks from each city they flew to.

09/09/30 LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin with red triangle ‘Russlandfahrt cachet.

ARQ43A £1001953 Qantas Sydney - Bangkok, signed Captain J Pollock and Captain J Haylock.

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ARQ44A £1251947 Qantas Australia - Japan, signed by Captain J G Morton.

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ARU05B £75911 First UK aerial post, ½d Olive Green Dye 3.

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ARS02B £601934 Highland Airways Kirkwall - Inverness

with first air mail label, this was the first day of air mail ordinary letter rate.


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TAKE OFF! - Buckingham Covers · 3 Zeppelins ARZ54 £100 £25 for 4 months 1931 LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, Friedrichshafen, Germany - Cairo, Egypt with Pyramid ‘Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin