RAF flights 1934-1939, Far East cruise (2 envelopes) and service flight (4 envelopes) flown from Kuching (4x) and Bintulu (2x), a nice group of covers
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Auction 239: General sale
By: Corinphila Veilingen
Corinphila Veilingen Auction 239: General sale
Auction 239: General sale
Dates: 16 & 21-23 March 2019
Highlights: Exhibition collection of Seychelles, Zeppelin covers, Classic issues Netherlands, Unused classic Netherlands Indies with rarities, original country collections.
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Lot #2926 - Great Britain and former colonies sarawak
Lot #2927 - Great Britain and former colonies sarawak
RAF flight 1937, envelope flown from Miri to Kuching, marked " By R.A.F. K6910 " franked at 6 cents, arrival cds Kuching 20 jun on reverse
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Lot #2928 - Great Britain and former colonies sarawak
RAF service flight 1939, envelope flown from Kuching to Singapore, marked " By R.A.F. flying boat " and franked at 5 cents, no arrival marks. Given that no official announcement of an air mail opportunity was made, mail carried must have been limited.
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Lot #2929 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
B64 numeral on stamps of Mauritius, collection (23 ex.) with Z25, Z31, Z38, etc., mostly fine to very fine, cat.v. £ 3000
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Lot #2930 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Specialised collection 1890-1966 used and */** with many better ex. and items, varieties (SG 15a, 18a with BPA cert. 1957, 104w *, 128b-131b short extra flagstaff all in corner marginal blocks of 4 ** (all slightly toned on gummed side), 160b *, 161b used, 162b * postmarks, plate numbers, multiples, duplicates etc. in stockbook and folder
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Lot #2931 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Provisional 1896 the 18 cents on 45 cents brown and carmine a block of 12 (largest known block of the 18 cents) together with the 10 cents (SG12) and 3 cents (SG 22) on fragment with Seychelles cds and registered mark, arrival postmark registered London, fine to very fine (small tear in fragment)
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Lot #2932 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Provisional 1896 the 18 cents on 45 cents (broken top 8 of 18, pos. 4/2) on registered 18 cents on 30 cents postal stationary envelope with Seychelles cds OC 27 96 send to London, a fine envelope (small imperfections reversed side)
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Lot #2933 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Provisional 1896 the 18 cents on 45 cents brown and carmine with the error surcharge double, a fine used ex. (a bit discoloured at top) with BPA certificate 1981, cat.v. £ 1500
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Lot #2934 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Provisional 1896 the 36 cents on 45 cents on envelope together with 4 cents Die I on registered envelope with Seychelles cds FE 12 04 (late use) send to Calcutta India, This envelope was sorted aboard in the Aden - Bombay Sea Post Office 21 FE 04, registered mail cachet B.SET in violet (a rare cachet !), a very fine envelope, the 36 cents on cover is scarce!
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Lot #2935 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Provisional 1896 the 36 cents on 45 cents brown and carmine with the error surcharge double, a fine to very fine unused ex. with RPS certificate 1956, cat.v. £ 1800
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Lot #2936 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Provisionals 1896, a highly specialised collection including Specimen overprints, shifted overprints,varieties, constant varieties, blocks of 4 and large blocks (18 cents block of 30, 36 cents blocks of 10, 12 and 30 with platenumber) etc., neatly described on album leaves
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Lot #2937 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Edward VII 30 cents violet and dull green with the error - dented frame - , a very fine used ex., cat.v. £ 650
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Lot #2938 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Registered Air Mail envelope flown in 1935 by Airship Graf Zeppelin to Brazil. The cover left Seychelles (July 17) by sea (SS Ellora) to Mombasa thence by air on Imperial Airways from Nairobi to Croydon (arriving July 28), onwards by Lufthansa to Berlin, then to Stuttgart and by Lufthansa-Condor "Schwabenland/Westfalen" double catapult flight no L.95 of August 1 to Pernambuco via Natal, arriving August 4. On reverse cds Mombasa, Nairobi,...
Lot #2939 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Indian ocean survey flight, Catalina flying boat GUBA 2 was the first civil aeroplane to arrive on Seychelles. This cover was send from Hollandia (Dutch New Guinea) 11-5-1939 to Rose Bay N.S.W. Australia on 3-6 routing Port Hedland/Batavia/Cocos Islands/Diego Garcia/Seychelles/Mombasa were it arrived on 21-6, it returned to the USA via West Africa and Brazil, arriving Los Angeles on 17-8. The cover attracted adhesives and courtesy...
Lot #2940 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Fishing pirogue 6 cents greyish green marginal ex. with the error watermark inverted, cat.v. £ 1500
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Lot #2941 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Indian ocean survey flight. Catalina flying boat GUBA 2. One of very few genuinely commercial covers flown. It left Victoria on 17-6-1939, arriving Kisumu, there it attracted a K.U.T. 20 cents adhesive (cancelled on 23-6) to prepay the Empire Air Mail "All-Up" rate to India, it arrived in Karachi on 27-6, to finally arrive in Ahmedabad on 28-6-1939.
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Lot #2942 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Giant Tortoise 12 cents reddish violet on envelope. Between 22 March 1938 and 3 Sept 1939, the EAMS air mail rate was 12 cents for a letter not exceeding 15 grams. This cover went by sea from La Digue Island to Mahé, then by sea to Mombasa. This cover probably left there on 27 Jan. carried by the Flying boat "Ceres" arriving in Southampton on 31 Jan. 1939. On reverse Victoria cds Ja 21, back flap missing, rare! 1 of only 3 covers recorded at...
Lot #2943 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Giant tortoise 2r.25 brown-olive with the error in watermark St.Edward's Crown (W9b), a very fine unused ex, cat.v. £ 1600, a rare stamp!
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Lot #2944 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Coco de mer Palm 9 cents chalky blue in a marginal block of 4 ex. with the error double perforation
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Lot #2945 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Fisherman 15 cents with the error major red shift
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Lot #2946 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
First recorded incoming Air Mail cover November 1926. 8 years before airmail rates were introduced in Seychelles, this cover was flown on USA Contract Air Mail (CAM) from Norfolk (9 October) via Washington to Philadelphia from there it went by land and sea arriving in Seychelles (16 November) from Bombay carried by the SS Karagola, very fine cover
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Lot #2947 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Air Mails an exhibition collection 1926-1971 with many better covers, censor marks, nice frankings, incoming mails, destinations etc., the collection is divided in the pre-war years, war years, post-war years, the growth years and the later years, all neatly described on album leaves, totally well over 100 covers
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Lot #2948 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
Airmail covers exhibition collection 1935-1971 including many better covers, interesting destinations, military mail, some airgraphs, incoming mail, censor, 1 crash cover, etc., neatly described on album leaves, totally 100 covers in 5 folders
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Lot #2949 - Great Britain and former colonies seychelles
censor marks (civil and military) handstamps and labels, exhibition collection including many better and rare items, the rare type H.I (single line handstamp) the latest recorded use, H.II (6 covers), H.IV.1 in black, H.V, Label Type T.OBC on illustrated cover to USA, etc., neatly described on album leaves, totally 81 covers in 4 folders
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Lot #2950 - Great Britain and former colonies singapore
RAF goodwill flight 1936, envelope carried on all stages of the flight from Singapore as far as Shanghai. As the flight could not continue to Japan due to the military coup there on 26 February, the cover went on by surface mail and was given an arrival mark at Kooji-Machi post office in Japan on 11 March. The red Japanese characters on the left of the envelope were probably added at the post office as they translate to: Try the British...
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