Airmail

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India Rocket Mail labels – 8 different incl Coronation, Sikkim and Scouts Jamboree
$125.00
India 1900 incoming picture postcard from Egypt to Calcutta posted on French mailboat, thence transferred to a British mailboat at Suez, redirected to Empress Hotel, Cawnpore Provenance: Glenn Reed, Chairman, ISC
$150.00
India 1929 (Sep 29) MAILAGENT / S.S. CAUVERI on cover from Rangoon Sorting (Burma) to Trichinopoly with Konapet sc Provenance: Glenn Reed, Chairman, ISC
$425.00
India 1930 27 Oct. Air Mail cover, Karachi-Jodhpur, signed by Mrs. Vic...
$150.00
India 1938 (Nov 23) SENT BY LAUNCH FOR DELIVERY ABOARD BY PILOT on cover from Dunbar, Scotland bearing GB GVI 1½d addressed to S.S. Carthage, Port Said, to be forwarded by Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Company, Bombay – very unusual. Provenance: Glenn Reed, Chairman, ISC
$295.00
India Airmail – 1911 First Aerial Post Naini-Allahabad: Special picture postcard illustrating Henry Pequet at his contraption
$2,250.00
India Airmail – 1920 KARACHI AIR POST pictorial cancels on GV set to 1r on registered cover
$195.00
India Airmail – 1927 Moth First Flight cover carried by D.H. “G-E.B.M.O.” signed by the pilot, f.w. GV 1a tied by Calcutta GPO and Bombay G.P.O. delivery on reverse
$140.00
India Airmail – 1929 flown and signed by Joan Page as well as Stephen Smith
$175.00
India Airmail – 1932 (Feb 20) Viceroy’s Cup Aeroplane Race from Delhi to Agra to Jhansi to Lucknow, back to Delhi
$175.00
India Airmail – 1947 “DAMAGED BY SEA WATER” on registered cover franked with KGVI 1R to USA
$125.00
India Airmail – a collection of 28 airmail covers showing various rates, postage dues, first flights. Includes a cover to Kenya with KUT 30c postage due
$500.00
India Crash mail – 1930 (Oct 3) envelope “By Air Mail” from Kamptee to Okehampton, readdressed to Northumberland, bearing 1929 GV 8a Airmail and with Okehampton (Oct 10). The dates proving that this envelope was carried aboard Imperial Airways flight IW 79 which crashed when forced to land in order to refuel, killing four people. The envelope was recovered by the R.A.F. and eventually flown Nuremburg – Cologne – Croydon on the 17 Oct. A few faults though generally fine considering its journey.
$325.00
India Crash Mail – 1953 BOAC Comet crash near Calcutta – Forces Mail cover from Singapore to UK. Photocopy of Newspaper “Daily Mirror” from May 3 and May 4 Provenance: Glenn Reed, Chairman, ISC
$125.00
India Disaster Mail: ACCIDENT AT SEA MONGOLIA 23 6 17 oval on 1917 (May 30) cover from UK to Calcutta, recovered and delivered to Calcutta on Jul 4, with Bombay transit of Jul 1. Stamps washed off as is normal with ship wreck mails but offset of Edward 1d stamp on the back of the cover. The P & O. liner MONGOLIA, with passengers and the mails for India, China and Australia, as well as a full general cargo for Australia, struck a mine on June 23rd, 1917, 50 miles S. by W. of Bombay, and sank. Three passengers, three engineer officers and 14 native crew and three Europeans were killed by the explosion. The survivors were taken off without further loss, but it was not possible to get at the mails which went down with the vessel. The mine was laid by the German raider SMS Wolf. Provenance: Glenn Reed, Chairman, ISC
$2,750.00
India Disaster Mail: 1862 Saved from the wreck of the Columbo boxed cachet on mourning cover originating from India addressed to London. Stamps washed off as is normal with ship wreck mails. In November 1862, the P&O Steamer Colombo, whilst on a voyage between Australia and England, struck on Minicoy Island, the most southern of the Laccadives, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean three hundred miles due west of the southern tip of India Provenance: Glenn Reed, Chairman, ISC
$295.00
India Maritime 1935 (Mar 24) postcard from Taj Mahal with India GV 3a airmail + 1a and Italy mixed franking, each tied by Lloyd Triestino/P&O CONTE RUSSO, Italian ship cancel leaving Bombay for London on Mar 26. Another GV ½a Silver Jubilee stamp with a different Italian ship cancel. Provenance: Glenn Reed, Chairman, ISC
$375.00
India Maritime 1942 (May 19) cover printed “MERCHANT MARINE/ Posted on the high seas / S.S. Executor / American Export Lines” franked with GVI 1a pair tied by KHAMAR KARACHI, additionally f.w. US ½c + 1c, cancelled EXAMINER, backstamped EXAMINER with signature of C. M. McGowan, Master Provenance: Glenn Reed, Chairman, ISC
$150.00
India Pigeongram No.11 – 1977 (14th Jan) APPEX-77, Hyderabad Exhibition Venue to Hyderabad Jubilee PO
$80.00
India Pigeongram No.15 – 1987 (27th Feb) Hyderabad Philatelic & Hobbies Society Silver Jubilee Exbn
$80.00
India Pigeongram No.21 – 2000 (10th Jan) Millenium Exhibition on Numismatic and Antique by Connoisseurs
$80.00
India Rocket Mail – 1934 (Dec. 17) Shore to Ship (Saugor Island) cover bearing red label ”Shore to Ship//By Rocket”
$250.00
India Rocket Mail – 1934 (Dec.17) Shore to Ship (Saugor Island) cover bearing red label ”Shore to Ship//By Rocket”
$250.00
India Rocket Mail – 1935 (Apr 7) Sikkim Durbar Rocket Experiments – Gangtok Post Office to Durbar High School, cover bearing special blue and yellow 2r. label tied by fancy cachet ”ROCKET EXPERIMENTS/SIKKIM”, dely cds on reverse, fine, 200 flown, signed by Stephen H. Smith. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails.
$125.00
India Rocket Mail – 1935 (Apr 9) Sikkim Durbar Rocket Experiments – Gangtok Post Office to Durbar High School, cover bearing special blue and yellow 2r. label tied by fancy cachet ”ROCKET EXPERIMENTS/SIKKIM”, dely cds on reverse, fine, 200 flown, signed by Stephen H. Smith. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails.
$125.00
India Rocket Mail – 1935 (Apr 9) Sikkim Durbar Rocket Experiments – Gangtok Post Office to Durbar High School
$195.00
India Rocket Mail – 1935 (Mar 23) Silver Jubilee Ship to Shore (Diamond Harbour), cover with yellow and blue label, tied by diamond shaped ”ROYAL SILVER JUBILEE /1910-1935/Crown/ROCKETGRAM/Crown”, dely cds on reverse, signed by D.C. King, Customs Officer of Diamond Harbour, fine, signed by Stephen H. Smith. From the L. V. Pont Collection of India Airmails.
$125.00
India Rocket Mail – 1935 (Mar 23) Silver Jubilee Ship to Shore (Diamond Harbour), cover with yellow and blue label
$165.00
India Rocket Mail – 1935 Experiment “on Sikkim Durbar Service” signed by Captain & Stephen Smith & Jal Cooper
$175.00
India Rocket Mail – 1937 (Feb 2) All India Scouts Jamboree lot containg Rocket despatch labels in red and blue; Scout equipment list (JC18b); Letter of Sir John Anderson, Governor of Bengal (JC18e); Message of Loyalty dated Feb 1 (JC 18f); Bengal Girl Guides orange label. (JC23) – 6 items
$275.00