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Long Distance Flight Paris - Bassorah: franked picture postcard with cds. "CHAVILLE BANLIEUE-OUEST 25 6 26" and with oval arrival mark "POSTMASTER POST & TELEGRAPH RECEIVED 27 JUNE 1926 Reg.No..... BASRAH", scarce as only 27 pieces flown, very fine (Muller.-Nr. 151)

1928, Ile de France 10 fr. on 90 c. red, unused, very fine, signed, PF certificate

Ile de France 10 fr. on 1.50 fr. blue with additional franking tied by octagonel "New York au Havre 23.8.28" to registered cover, mailed by the Captain of the packet-boat J. Blancart addressed to Paul Blancart in Martel, with six line special flight cachet in black alongside, one additional stamp defective, otherwise very fine, a rare and interesting cover, signed Bloch with certificate

1930, E.I.P.A 30 1,50 fr. carmine, mint never hinged, very fine, signed von der Weid with certificate

E.I.P.A 30 1,50 fr. blue with left sheet margin also showing the perfin, tied by special cancellation to special pre-printed cover, slightly stained, otherwise fine

1932, Transatlantic Solo-Flight, cover from Le Havre addressed to Rome, with five line cachet "BENVENUTO A ROMA MRS. AMELIA EARHART TANSATLANTICA WELCOME TO ETERNAL CITY", with facsimile of her signaute, stamps affixed at the edge, otherwise fine

1918, Semi-official airmail stamp, for use on military postal service, for the flights from Constantinopel to Bucharest: 2 fr. multi-coloured, unused without gum as issued, imperforated, small crease at left otherwise fine, rare, signed Kessler

Compagnie des Transports Aériens Guyanais: 1921, 75 c. on salmon, used with oval cancel, very fine, Behr certificate

Cayenne - St. Laurent, cover franked with Winget helmet 0.75 fr. on salmon paper and additional franking tied by pen cross. resp. straight line "AVION", few creases, still very fine, signed J.F. Brun

Cayenne - St. Laurent, cover franked with Winget helmet 0.75 fr. on salmon paper and additional franking tied by cds. resp. straight line "AVION", vertical fold not affecting stamps, part of backflap missing, winget helmet small faults due to being affixed at the edge, still fine

Mercure 0.75 c. on grey, unused without gum as issued, very fine, signed and certificate Behr

Cayenne - St. Laurent, cover franked with Mercury  0.75 fr. on grey paper and additional franking tied by cds. and straight line "AVION", a rare cover, very fine, signed J.F. Brun

75 c. on yellow, used with straight line "AVION", small thin spot at upper left, otherwise very fine, Behr certificate

1911, Experimental Flight Casablanca -Rabat-Meknes-Fez, two picture postcards showing the "Petit Journal" shortly before its departure, each card with different black cachet "MISSION MILITAIRE FRANCAISE AU MAROC" and "POSTE AERIENNE AU MAROC DU 'PETIT JOURNAL", fine

1928, Flight Casablanca - Toulose, Crash cover franked with Senegal stamps addressed to Gand, the plane made a forced landing at Malgrat, near Barcelona, the plane was wrecked and caught fire and was completly destroyed, the salvaged mail was forwaded to Toulouse, where a black four line cachet "CORRESPONDENCE AVION retardée et déterioaée par suite de l'accident aérien survenu le" was struck, also a typewritten label was attached to the cover, usual faults, very interesting (Nierinck 281215 a/b)

1912, Semi-Offical Airmailstamp: 5 different artists drawings and two printed items, all signed Rudolf Junck, fine and very interesting 

1928, Zeppelin 4 M. with upright watermark, with very clear cancel "EISENACH -4.12.35", two short perfs, otherwise in usual condition, one of the great Zeppelin- and Reichspost Rarities, signed Peschl BPP with certificate and confirmation letter H.-G. Schlegel (1982), this is the submission piece for entry in the Michelkatalog (1983)

1931, Polarflight 1 and 2 M., each with overprint error "missing hyphen after Polar", unused, fine, signed Schlegel BPP resp. Peschl BPP with certificate

1912, Borck-Brück Flight, Airmail stamp with Germania 3 pfg. with perfin "GR" (= Georg Rothgießer, Founder of the Airfield MARS) on printed matter envelope from "BRÜCK 5.3.12" to Schoningen with adjacent blue cachet "Flugpost Bork und Umgegend durch Gradeflieger", very fine and rare, Sieger BPP certificate 

Borck-Brück Flight, Airmail stamp with additional franking Germania 5 pfg. tied by special cachet "FLUGBEFÖRDERUNG BORK-BRÜCK * 25 JUN. 1912 * DURCH GRADEFLIEGER" resp. cds "BRÜCK 18.7.12" to picture postcard showing "Grade-Fliegerschule, BORK", fine

Flight Gotha-Erfurt, 10 Pfg. tied with E. Schlegel signature to picture postcard showing "Ing. Schlegel in front of an airplane", with additional franking, airmail stamp corner crease at upper left, additional franking some perforation faults, slightly stained, otherwise fine, PF certificate

Regensburger Airmail Days, 10 pfg. with additional franking Bavaria 5 Pfg. tied by special violet cachet "Erste Regensburger Fliegertage 11.-13. Oktober 1912" resp. cds. to picture postcard showing two participants, some foxing, otherwise fine, rare, signed Röhrl

Regensburger Airmail Days, 20 pfg. with additional franking Bavaria 5 Pfg. with cds. "REGENSBURG 12 OCT 12" on picture postcard "Otto Schaefer", additional franking with faults, otherwise fine, very rare

1913, Special Flight Mühlhausen-Feldberg, 25 pfg. with with blue cachet "Erste Flugpost 11. SEP 1913 Feldberg Mühlhausen" and additional franking on picture postcard (showing Arthur Faller in front of his double-decker of Aviatik, with his signature), to Mühlhausen, Airmail stamps with small faults, otherwise fine

Hochwasser souvenir sheets as special minister blocks, fine, scarce, Bühler certificate for Michel.-Nr. 1

1942, Airmailstamp, imperforated with left sheet margin, tied by straight line "28.NOV. 1942" to folded letter to Vienna with adjacent L2 "Feldbahnpost Riga-Gatschine", stamp with horizontal crease, otherwise fine and rare, signed Mogler BPP

1944, Rhodos perforated, unused with complete, here and there slightly disturbed gum, very good perforation and apart from one gentle trace of a crease in fine condition. The perforated, unused Rhodos stamp is one of the great Feldpost rarities, certificate Müller BPP

Rhodos perforated, tied by fieldpost cancellation "20.11.44" to cover to Heidenheim, stamp with corner crease and shortening at top, otherwise fine, a very scarce cover, Mogler BPP certificate

1945, Leros perforated, black-blue overprint (type III), unused, fine, signed Dub and certificate Mogler BPP

Leros perforated, black-blue overprint (type II), with clear datestamp " 23.05.45" of the local field post office in Port Lago, few minimal shortend perfs and a gentle crease on the corner, very fine total appearance, signed, certificate Müller BPP

Leros rouletted with blue-violet overprint, type I, on cover to Freiburg, the sender of this cover with fieldpost# 68071 C was a member of the pioneer company, several covers of this company are known without a cancellation, fine, Mogler BPP certificate

1911, Coronation Aerial Post, Windsor - London, Privilege Mail: large size envelope franked with 1 d. with clear Windsor die 2 cancellation of September 16th, addressed to Hurstpierpoint, a trifle soiled and a little roughly opened, otherwise fine, very rare, besides some interesting documents relating to this flight (Muller.-Nr. 40a)

1919, First Aerial Post England-Australia, the so-called Ross-Smith vignette in dark blue, sheetlet with margins all round, mint never hinged, very fine, only 576 examples of the vignette were printed, of these 125 were destroyed and another 364 were used on mail; of the remaining 87 mint examples about 20 had their margins removed in anticipation of being used on mails and it is believed that around 25 are held in institutional collections around the world, leaving only about 50 sheetlets available for private collector, signed Holcombe with certificate

1926, London - Cairo - Khartoum - Kenya Experimental Flight, cover carried by Air Commodore Weir to Cairo (signed and inscribed on reverse, he later lost his life in the R-101 Airship disaster), showing on front a good strike of the unframed "Carried by the Airline between Khartoum and Kisumu, Kenya Colony" in violet, signed by the pilot for the Khartoum - Kenya leg, Captain T.A. Gladstone; a violet oval cachet "H.E./THE GOVERNOR" applied on arrival and bearing Kenya and Uganda 20c. applied and cancelled (14.2) in Nairobi, very scarce only 8 pieces are believed to have been carried, fine (Newall 26.18./27.05a)

1927, First Flight Jinja - Kisumu, cover from Jinja addressed to Nairobi with arrival mark, with the special red cachet "AIR MAIL UGANDA * SUDAN 1ST FE 12 27", on reverse red cachet "KENYA-SUDAN 1 ST AIR MAIL FE 12 27" which was applied in Kisumu, the addressee is believed to be G.R. Martin, at that time Assistant Post Master General in Nairobi, with rare Airmail label, very fine and scarce with only four covers flown (Newall 27.05 bl)

1911, World's First Official Airmail Flight, picture postcard of the plane, with special magenta cachet "FIRST AERIAL POST U.P. EXHIBITION ALLAHABAD 1911" and Allahbad and Bombay cds. alongside, signed by the pilot H. Pequet, slight creases, otherwise very fine, rare (Muller.-Nr. 1a)