Dr. Robert Pagqnini,-Airpost Pioneer, Die's In Switzerland

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by DR. M·~:X KRONSTEIN

•• '-.\\..V ord. has just been received in '-~ the United . States · that Dr.

Robe·rt Paganini, Dean of airpost collec­tors the world over, died in St. Gallen, Switzerland on December 6, 1950. Through the courtesy of Mr. E . Rickli, Director of the Airpost Archives section of the library of the Swiss Telegraph and Telephone Administration in Berne, we !earn that Dr. Paganini died quietly af­ter apparently having suffered a stroke during hi~ sleep at the Home for the Aged in St. Gallen where he had lived since the death of his wife Martha several years ago. Dr. Paganini was a member of the original Aero Mail Club of ·1912 and a honorary member of the Amet·ican Ai1· Mail Society and of practically every other air mail organization in every cor­ner of the globe.

Our honorary member commenced his studies in the field of air mail and air mail collecting during the period of pio­neer flights, at which time he was a chemist in the Ciba Corporation, one of the world's largest chemical companies.

During · these early days he gave an enormous impetus to the collection of aero-philatelic flown covers and later to air mail stamps. At that time almost single handedly he combatted the lack of interest which was then displayed in the philat~lic press and by philatelic socie­ties in these items, recognizing the essen­tial historical character of them. He cor­responded with kindred souls located all over the world and gathered together perhaps the world's finest documenta­tion of the history of the air mail and the postal flights ·connected with it, includ­ing stamps, covers, posters, autographs of famous fliers and · correspondence . with

• Dr. Robert Paganini

the pioneers of aviation. This magnificent collection was d<mated some years ago to the Swiss people and was housed per­manently at the Library of the General Direction of the Postal Telegraph and Telephone Administration in tierne.

Dr. Paganini, although well advanced in age, continued to contribute to the philatelic press until the very eve of his death, one of his last writings being an announcement of the publication of Vol­ume II of tl1e American Air Mail Cata­logue, which was made in the December issue of the Swiss Stamp Journal "SBZ". In September of this year Dr. Paganini, along with Col. Hans Lagerlof, was des­ignated Honorary Patron of the Inter-

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ll(ndividuals, some obscure, and some prominent. are honored in

the majority of instances in the issued and forthcoming airs we note this month. Ecuador is trying hard to achieve first place with the number of sets issued. And we have news of new issue sets that are still 18 months away!

CHILE Panama and Argentina have been

joined by Chile in honoring the hero of South America, San Martin. A decree calling for a 5 pesos violet air mail stamp has recently been issued. The stamp is to be 40 x 30 mm in size and will be printed in a quantity of one million. The central design will show the Villa Prades, a pass in the Andes. The central figure will be San Martin. The inscription will read "Chile Air Mail - General Jose de San Martin - 1st Centenary of his death 1950" in Spanish. The Casa de Moneda y Especies Valoradas is entrusted with the printing job.

CUBA

The portrait of Jose Paul Capablanca (1882-1942), the man who brought the world's chess championship to Cuba in 1922 will appear on a 1952 series that will honor him. Plans call for a 5c, Be, and 25c air mail set.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA Outside of confirming the fact that the

set will appear in January there are no further details on the Toudst Attraction series featuring outstanding spas, which was noted here about a year ago.

ECUADOR Mariana de Jesus Parades y Flores was

raised to Sainthood this past Holy Year.

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Otherwise known as the "Lily of Quito" this woman will be the subject of an issue of four values. The 60c, 90c, lS and 2S values will show her portrait, religious scenes, and the monasteries of QUito and Cuenca.

The Sebastian de Benalcazar and Earthquake series mentioned last year are now to appear soon according to re­cent reports. More details . when the stamps do appear - in 1952 if need be!

IFNI Lope Sancho de Venezuela, a medieval

warrior of Spain is pictured on a 5 pese­tas black stamp issued for the Day of the Stamp. This man led expeditions into the Uad Nun country which is now the Spanish possession of Ifni. The stamp is illustrated elsewhere.

NEPAL We note a report that this land north

of India is planning to join the U. P. U. When and if this is accomplished plans call for postal paper, one series of which will e for air mail use. Let us hope that the stamps are issued y the Nepalese and not some New Yorkese.

SPANISH GUINEA Manuel Iradier Bulfy' s portrait adorns

a 5 pesetas brown stamp, which we illus­trate this month. This item is another "Day of the Stamp" issue. Native art appears at the base of the stamp. This bearded and helmeted explorer was ac­tive in the 1874-84 period of African Exploration.

SPANISH SAHARA Diego Garcia de Herrera, first Spanish

governor of this area is presented as an armored figure holding a flag with the map background of the part of Africa

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e Airpost Stamp Issues of Receni Viniage

where he made his explorations. The value is 5 pesetas and the color is ma­genta. Another "Day of the Stamp" issue also illustrated elsewhere.

TANGIER - Sp. Of. in Morocco

Two values have been added to the 1949 set of four. This time they are a 20c gray violet and 1 peseta purple. B~th feature a "Constellation" high over the Tangier coastline.

TRIESTE

Bearing the straight-line block type "AMG-FTT" overprint we add the 300 L. magenta and 500 L. blue in the Bell Tower type alongside the 100 L. green which appeared last year.

TURKEY

We now illustrate the stamps for the Aviation Congress which were forecast in our September chronicle.

VENEZUELA

The Barquisimeto set mentioned last month as being due for release in the "near future" will not make its appear­ance until 1952. Juan de Villegas found­ed the city in 1552 and called it "Nueva Segovia". Despite earthquakes and burn­ings it today remains one of the most important cities of Venezuela, although it bears a new name.

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OUR BOOK REVIEW Zeppelili.post Katalog by Hermann E.

Sieger, 14th Edition, October, 1950, 2.30 pp.; :published by Sieger-Ver­lag, Lorch, Wuerttemberg, U. S. Zone of Germany. - Price $2;50.

• Reviewed by

DR.< MAX KRONSTEIN

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110r many years prior to World War. .IIlli, the Sieger Catalogue of Zeppe­

lin flights was the standard authority for these interesting items. During the War, of course, and during the immediate post war years it was not possible to bring out this catalogue. Collectors will, therefore, welcome the 14th edition of this standard work which has just been published in Germany. While printed in German, the collector rapidly becomes familiar with the various terms and is able to use it as a reference work without too much diffi­culty.

The new work follows the arrange­ment and format of former editions but it has been necessary to provide all new cuts of the hundreds of cachets and stamps included therein since the origin­al cuts were destroyed during the war. One innovation is the arrangement of the so-called "contract posts" by country groupings. These listings include the mail officially dispatched from countries oj:her than Germany by contract ar­rangement with the German government, such mail generally being sent by regu­lar means to Friedrichshafen and from there transported officially by Zeppelin. Those collectors interested in only a sing­le country can find all of the dispatches listed under that country.

Another new section lists all the mili­tary Zeppelins by name with their his­tory, the various markings employed on covers carried by them and the places where mail was dropped. Of particular interest to collectors will be the list ·of Zeppelin mail flights made during World War II by the Zeppelin LZ-130. Because of lack of information these flights could not be included in the Zeppelin section

of the ne~ American Air Mail Catalogue, 1950 edition, and it will be of interest to users of this catalogue that between items Z-441 and Z-442 mail carrying flights were made to Leipzig, Goerlitz, Biele­feld, Kassel and Wuerzburg, and that special cachets were provided for all of those flights. Several other flights were made and are listed, as well as several cachets which were prepared for use on special flights which subsequently had to be cancelled .

The prices in the new catalogue are based on the new German mark with I DM., equivalent to 1 Swiss franc which is presently worth slightly less than 25c U. S. currency. This catalogue, as is common with most European catalogues, is priced on a "discount basis," i. e. sales are generally made at net prices some­what less than those shown in the cata­logue. A careful job seems to have been done on the pricing, especially for those covers which bear special Zeppelin stamps.

We note one major difference in data between the American Air Mail Catalog­ue and the new Sieger work. The former states that the number of covers saved from the Hindenburg catastrophe at Lakehurst was 357 pieces; the Sieger catalogue states that the number recover­ed was but 133 pieces. As it is our un­derstanding that the data used in the Ame1'ican Air Mail Catalogue came from the United States Post Office Depart­ment, it would seem that the sources of the data used in both books might prop­erly be checked.

This is a very excellent work and all collectors of Zeppelin material will wish the new Sieger edition.

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N ow that the Holidays are over, we shall try to gather up the loose ends and start out the New Year with an account­ing of all recent inaugural flights. Trans­World Airlines has completed its ser­vices to Frankfort and London from New York, Boston and Philadelphia. These were the new ports of call as designated by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Similar stops assigned to Pan American Airways have not yet received the approval of the countries concerned. However, the first flight to Paris via Pan American took place on December 17, 1950 while ser­vice to Rome is slated for January 2, 1951. And, over this newly acquired ter­ritory, Pan American recently inaugur­ated service to Bremen, Germany.

There was considerable delay in the return of inaugural flight covers address­ed to t!le Station Managers of T. W. A. at London and Frankfort due to the in­abilitv of the airlines to handle such cov­ers for collectors. Remarks pertinent thereto will be found elsewhere in this issue of The Airpost Journal. The delay, however vvas worthwhile as T. W. A. very kindlv applied a cachet to all covers which had been in their care. None of these covers were backstamped but those sent otherwise received a backstamp of October 7, 1950, at Frankfort.

Service from Philadelphia from the aforementioned cities commenced on November 1, 1950. The Department pro­vided a cachet for covers destined for Frankfort but no special marging for those to London because the British postal authorities consistently refuse to accord philatelic treatment to first flight covers. Covers from the G. P. 0. and

• Airfield are postmarked 11:30 A. M. and backstamped Frankfort, December 2, 1950. Covers to London. of course, are not backstamped. It may be well to men­tion that about two-thirds of all col­lectors' items sent to Frankfort and Lon­don (November issue The Airpost Jour­nal) were serviced by the airlines them­selves and later distributed by them. Be­for leaving T. W. A. we might add that the service to Frankfort and London is on a separate spur of F. A. M. 27 and has no connection with any other Trans­World Airlines services.

" " " Pan American's service to Paris and

Rome when completed will be a new routing through Europe with a hop-off from Shannon to Paris and a direct flight from Par:s to Rome, by-passing the port of Nice, France. From Rome the route will be extended to Beruit, Syria, where it will meet the main route of F. A. M. 18 extending from Istanbul via Beruit­Basra-Karachi, etc.

Service as far as Paris was inaugurated on December 17, 1950 and covers are so postmarked at New York and Boston. Some covers received a backstamp of December 19th and apparently were re­turned by the inaugural flight for they too are backstamped New York, Decem­ber 22 or 23, 1950. Paris-New York cov­ers depict a plane in flight between the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty and "First Flight, PARIS-NEW YORK, Pan American World Airways." The cachet was obviously provided and pos­sibly applied by the airlines and seems to have been generally poorly handled. Covers we have seen are not backstamp­ed, possibly due to the Xmas mails,

JANUARY. 1951

e The American Eagle Carries the Mail on Official F AM-27 Cachet

however we can assume that all covers from these services were carried correctly because they had to be addressed to the port of destination.

The Captain on the first flight to Paris was H. Smith; co-pilots Emerson and Jacobs. There were but 112 pieces from the New York G. P. 0. and 200 from the Airfield.

This is the initial service to Paris by Pan American World Airways although this airline was the first to operate sched­uled service across the Atlantic to Mar­seilles, France on May 22, 1939. Because of the use of flying boats the Marseilles port was the nearest practical port for Paris. To the collector, Paris, is, of course, a new stop on F. A. M. 18, and as such a first flight.

Pan American Airways also made a flight to Bremen, Germany, over old F. A. M. 24 from New York on Decem­ber 1, 1950. The Statue of Liberty is again depicted with a plane in flight and the usual wording on the official cachet. The G. P. 0. applied the cachet in green and dispatched 344 covers while the Air­field used purple and sent but 360 pieces. This service was performed on rather short notice and the small number of pieces carried indicate the scarcity of these covers.

On the original schedule, the notation relative to the flight reads, "Flight 197 designated 1 flight (December 2nd) only, Berlin-Ham:burg..,Bremen." As stat­ed ·before the flight took place on Dec-

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ember 1,. 1950, . and covers are back- . stamped, Bremen, Germany, December 2, 1950.

Covers which we believe to have been carried on the first return flight bear a circular-type cachet reading, "Bremen­Neur - Fugdiens - Bremen - Berlin, Dec­ember 2, 1950". These covers are not backstamped but it is quite possible some were later backstamped through favor. The return flight pilot was F. Wal­lace along with co-pilot R. Nordt.

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Our old young friend George Lindman of Stockholm, Sweden, has shown us complete coverage o_n the Pan American inaugurals over old F. A. M. 24 when various Scandinavian cities became Pan American ports-of-call. While these are not listable as first flgihts they are very interesting to the specialist, especially for those who try to secure full P. A. A. coverage. It was no small task to com­plete such coverage for no philatelic ser­vice was provided in any way and all covers had to be addressed to the port of destination.

British Overseas Airways was to have inaugurated service from Nassau, Bahamas on about November 1, 1950. Covers so dispatched bear a typed cachet reading "First Direct Flight Nassau-New York, Speed bird Stratocriuser." We un­derstand however that these covers were not carried as indicated.

For some reason unknown to the writ­er, a first flight was to have been made to Baghdad, Iraq over F. A. M. 18 on December 1, 1950. This city is not shown on any P. A. A. schedules or maps so we have to wonder as to the reason for such a flight. In any event, the covers at hand were postmarked at the New York Air­field on December I, 1950 but were later returned to the senders with this notation, "As the scheduled stop at Bagh':' dad is cancelled indefinately, the attach­ed covers are returned to you." Covers, of course, had to be addressed to Bagh­dad.

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Some few collectors appear to be con­fused as to the catalog1.1ing of covers

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F. A. M. NOTES -· (Continued from preceding pa~:e)

• which involve more than orie route or better still, are mailed from a point on one route to a point on another. This is particularly true of covers posted from F. A. M. 5 (old) to F. A. M. 6 or vice versa. We must remember that when our K A. M. System was in its infancy, there were only a few ports of call on each route and it was then the vogue to add­ress covers from each inaugural city to cities on connecting routes. But, when 6-10 expanded to cover the entire length of South America this type of dispatch and listing became a major problem be­cause of the many cities involved. One or two earlier catalogues attempted to list such cross dispatching but it all ended in mass confusion. We today therefore consider any covers carried past the ter­minal points to be the• equivalent· of those addressed to the terminal of the route on which they were originally mailed.

There is one instance where this rule does not apply and it would be well for all collectors to check the following: On the completion of the Lindbergh Circle, F. A. M. 6-10 dispatched to F. A. M. 5 and vice versa, and it would be well for all collectors to study the text and listing of F. A. M. 6 on page 666 of the new catalogue as well as pages 646 and 647 under F. A. M. 5. A somewhat similar condition applies in the addition of Cien­fuegos, Cuba and Kingston, Jamaica to F. A. M. 6-10 on August 7-8, 1932. (Page 672 of catalogue.) These same cities were originally added to F. A. M. 5 (Pages 644 and 649). Here again it would be well to study the text and the maps.

May I take this opportunity to wish our readers a belated Holiday Greeting. My wife Dorothy joins me in thanking so many of our good friends for their remembrance at Christmas time. May the New Year bring you not;hing but Good Luck and Happiness.

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BY-IAN C. MORGAN 1455 Union Avenu,e. Montreal 2. P. 0.

• CANADA

Official notice received from Ottawa advises us that a new 15c air letter sheet in the design of the recently issued 10c sheet is now available from the Philatelic Agency, Ottawa. The new sheet has the stamp imprinted in red but all other printing is in blue as is the printing on the 10c sheet.

NIGERIA Although frequently reported, Fred W.

Kessler is the first to show us the air letter sheet from this Colony for official use. The entire form is printed in red with pink overlay on gray paper. It has the words "Official Paid" in two lines in the upper right-hand corner and the let­ters "O.H.M.S." at top center. The in­scription at top left is the same as that found on all Empire type air letter sheets. In one line at the bottom of the form are the words "For Use within Nigeria only." The reverse of the form is printed in black and includes the word "Airgram" and printed sections a~~ lin~~ for ~,efe~­ence number, date and From and To . It is doubtful whether postal statoinery of this type will be catalogued in the American Air Mail Catalogue of Air Let­ter Sheets but these items are interesting and of particular interest to the specialist.

PAKISTAN Harold Fisher has let us have a look

at the new Pakistan 4 annas red air mail card sent him by the Regal Stamp Comp­any of Lahore on August 9, 1950. This is believed to be the first day of issue.

PORTUGESE COLONIES Sam Hantman sends us the informa­

Jion, and Fred W. Kessler kindly loans

us the specmien sheet which we illustrate on the front cover this month, in respect to an entirely new series of air letter sheets recently released for the eight Portugese Colonies. Each of the sheets bears an embossed stamp of the Holy Year commemorative design inscribed at the top "Ano Santo MCML", with the name of the individual Colony at the bottom. All inscriptions on the sheet are in every case in the color of the stamp. All of the sheets are light pink in color and there is a total of six values for the eight Colonies; however, these are not divided on the basis of two to each Colony. The sheets for each Colony has a design in the lower left corner consist­ing of letter with two wings attached and the tri-lingual inscription "Aerea-Par Avion-By Air Mail"; however strangely enough this design and inscription is omitted on the sheets furnished for Moz­ambique. It is not known at this time whether the omission was intentional or through inadvertence.

We list below the values and colors of each of the sheets seen to date, together with the reputed first day ' of issue in every case and we also list the reported values for those items not yet seen:

Angola-

1.50 AGS., gray green 2.50 AGS., brown 4.50 AGS., red First day of issue-October 25, 1950

Cape Verde Islands -

2.50 ESC., not yet seen . 3.50 ESC., not ye tseen

JANUARY, 1951

Macao-60 Avos, not yet seen

Mozambique -1.20 ESC., not yet seen 2.50 ESC., red 3.50 ESC., gray green First day of issue for items seen -

November 3, 1950

Portugese Guinea -2.50 ESC., gray green First day of issue-October 17, 1950

Portugese India :-9 Tangas, gray green

10 Tangas, not yet seen First day of issue for item seen -

October 21, 1950

St. Thomas & Principe -1.50 ESC., not yet seen 2.50 ESC., blue First .day of issue for item seen -

November 11, 1950

Timor-50 Avos, not yet seen 70 Avos, not yet seen

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]!Lujan, in Argentina, chiefly is known as a Catholic pilgrimage shrine, but one of its more important attractions is a museum devoted to the display of vehicles associated with the history of transportation in the Argentine. In its vast halls are dog, horse and ox-carts, diligencias, carriages, railroad cars and even airplanes, all of which were used at one period or another in the swifter delivery of mail.

Of particular interest to airpost collec­tors is the monstrous looking amphibian whose fabric is inscribed. "Plus Ultra, M-MWAL," and in which Spanish pilot· D. Ramon Franco, accompanied by co­pilot and navigator Ruiz de Alda y Duran and mechanic · Rattla flew from Madrid to Buenos Aires in 1926, covering some 10,120 kilometers in sixty-one hours and 44 minutes to establish a then-new long­distance flying record.

Accustomed only to four-engine lux­ury liners ·of today, the younger genera­tion of Argentines who streamed through the museum the Sunday I was there just couldn't believe that this awkward con­trivance even could have taken off the ground, or rather from a watery runway. "But how could the pilots keep dry and warm without a cabir.?" one ten-year old inquired of his father, as he skeptical-

. ly looked at the open cockpits. Argentina has no other place where the public can actually see pioneer aircraft.

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We have just received word from Har­ry L. Lindquist, the American Commis­sioner for the International Philatelic Ex­hibition, which was scheduled to be held in Cairo, Egypt late in March this year, that cabled advices indicate that this great show has been indefinitely post­poned, if not actually cancelled for this year.. Mr. Lindquist who planned to at­tend the show promises to send us addi­tional information just as soon as it is re­ceived. It is believed that the present in­ternational situation has made this action necessary.

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The death of Dr. Robert Paganini in Switzerland on December 6 will come as a shock to those airpost collectors who have been with the hobby over a period of years. From the earliest days Dr. Paganini has stood for everything that was fine in aerophilately and really earned the title of "The Grand Old Man of Airposts." It is gratifying to know that he has left a living monument to his in­terest in and efforts for air mail collecting in the form of the Airpost Archives which he donated to the Swiss Postal Museum some years ago ... We also learn with regret of the passing of Jack Smith, for­mer Superintendent of the Stamp Print­ing Division of the U. S. Bureau of En­graving and Printing. Mr. Smith died in Florida following a long illness. Those who have made pilgrimages through the Bureau of Engraving and Printing under the auspices of the American Air Mail Society on the several occasions on which the Society held its gatherings in Wash­ington, will recall with pleasure the gen­ial personality of this grand person who was never too busy to take time out to explain tl1e intricate workings of the var­ious machines - some of which he him-

GEORGE ANGERS RECOVERING

• Friends of George W. Angers, Past

President and Co-Founder of the Amel"ican Air Mail Society, will be happy to learn that he is presently recovering from a recent serious op­eration, but that it will be several months before he is in a position to personally communicate with the lar­ge number of people who have writ­ten to him.

George asks us to convey his grati­tude for the many expressions of goodwill and prayers for his recovery. He would like to use the- columns of the Journal too, for this purpose as it would be a physical impossibility for him to personally answer all of the letters which he has received.

self perfected. Mr. Smith will also be remembered as . the official in charge of the stamp printing equipment which was on display at both the 1936 and 1947 International Exhibitions held in New York. Although not a collector himself, he has a host of friends among- collectors and will be sorely mourned by them.

"' "' "' Does anyone want to add a very scarce

Dedication cover to his collection and at the same time assist the Publication Fund of the American Air Mail Society? Some years ago, through the courtesy of Albert N. Brown of San Francisco, Cal­ifornia, the Society was presented with the only known copies of the Airport Dedication Covers from the Dedication of the Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Fal­lon, Nevada. These covers will be found catalogued in the supplementary listings to the American Air Mail Catalogue, the

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entire quantity being less than ten pieces. We know that there is a vacant space in most Dedication collections where this item should be. We will send a copy of this cover te. the first four collectors who send us $5.00 in any negotiable form -cash, check, or money order. Prompt ac­tion is necessary as there are only four covers available. Address the Editor.

Collectors of F AM flight covers were recently thrown into a dither by informa­tion to the effect that Trans-World Air­lines had announced its refusal to return covers addressed in its care on the in­augural service to London and Frank­fort. While the information in respect to these particular covers was incorrect and these covers have actually been returned to the senders by the Airlines, discus­sions with TWA bring out the fact that in the future Trans-World will have to re­fuse to accord philatelic treatment to any covers sent in its care except in those cases where the United States Post Office Department has made advance arrangements and announcement to the effect that covers may be sent in care of its Station Agents. This action is made necessary by the many collector abuses of airline "hospitality" and, while it may seem a bit drastic, a careful investigation of the facts indicates that the Airline is fully justified in discontinuing the ser­vice which it has previously rendered. Collectors of F. A. M. covers and domes­tic covers as well are aware of the un­failing courtesy previously rendered by officials of T. W. A. and of the fact that they have actually returned thousands of such letters to collectors at their own ex­pense in many cases flying them back to the United States from distant points. Naturally, as this service was set up to provide facilities to individual collectors who otherwise might not be able to secure souvenir flight covers to far away places, a restriction was made that only a limited number of covers could be handled for each collector. But perhaps it would be better to let Mr. W. H. Plu­chel, Director of Mail and Express for TWA, take it from here and explain the situation in his own words. We quote, and in this case Mr. Pluchel is referring

THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

ADDRESSES WANTED

• The Catalogue Committee will be grateful to anyone who can supply the present addresses of the following persons:

Chesley B. Pickle Col. Robert T. Stevens, U. S. A.

If you can furnish the present postal addresses of the above parties, kindly communicate with Editor L. B. Gatchell, 6 The Fairway, Upper Montclair, N. J.

to the 1946 inaugural flights to the Mid­dle East:

"Wanting to cater to the individual amateur philatelist,· and not to the commercial collectors, we set a limit of 10 covers for each individual to each individual city. Within two weeks after the planes departed we were de­luged with inquiries concerning the return of these covers. An investiga­tion developed that the loudest com­plaints were from the commercial philatelists, who had already put out a price list on these covers at a price far in excess of the postage.

We did the best we could; however, in further analyzing these we found as many as a thousand covers to the same address, with only a change in the name. Needless to say this was a commercial philatelist's way of getting around our instructions.

To prepare these covers . for ulti­mate shipment to the sender required two girls working five days a week approximately three months, and the final dispatch amounted to in excess of 4000 individual packages, some containing as few as one envelope and others as high as a thousand.

Since that time we have been asked at various times by collectors to do all sorts of unauthorized ways of handling covers, and other requests, each of them with the idea in mind that their cover might be a distinct rarity and, hence, of high intrinsic value. I think you can well appreciate

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.JANUARY, 1951

Dedication Covers ... • By WILLIAM T. WYNN

8544 Cloverlawn. Detroit 4. Mich.

• Rapid City, S. D. is reported to have

held · dedication of its field on Aug. 27. The posbnaster says one or two covers were mailed. - Orrin Russell Fox Hello­port was dedicated at Pasadena, Calif., on Oct. 27; a silver sticker . was applied to 1250 covers by the C. of C. The mail was flown by helicopter to Los An­geles and backstamped at the Air Mail Field. A few covers have been reported with embossed cachet in the same de­sign as the sticker. - ChaUis, Idaho's air­port was dedicated Oct. 22; 188 covers were mailed. Two cachets were used -one a map type cachet and the other reading "Sportsmans Paradise" - Doug­las, Wyo. held dedication of its Airport on Oct. 22; 12S covers without any markings, were mailed. - Dress Memor­ial Airport at Evanst>ille, Ind. was dedi­cated on Oct. 29; cachet was sponsored by Evansville Squadron. - Borger, Tex. is reported as dedicating its field. Post­master's inscription is found on a very few covers. - Pacific Airmotion Airport was dedicated on Nov. S. Ontario, Up­land and Chino, Calif. all entered into the dedication exercises, but so far no covers are reported from any of these towns. - Monrovia, Calif. held dedica­tion of Model Airport on Jan. 1, 1950. Can anyone help your editor with cov­ers? - Garberville, Calif. held dedication of its Airport on Sept. SO and Oct. 1. To date covers are reported for Sept. SO only. - Covers have been seen from the Sutter County airport dedication held on Oct. 1, mailed from Meridian, Calif., marked with a sticker cachet. Most of the covers for this event were mailed at Yuba City, Cal. - A new CAP field will

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be dedicated at Live Oak, Fla. on Jan. 21; send your covers to Chamber of Commerce. All of those who had cards with the writer for such short notice news have been notified. Again we offer this service to anyone interested. There is no cost for this service, just send a supply of self-addressed cards to your Editor at 8544 Cloverlawn, Detroit 4, Mich. -The Hutchinson County airport was dedicat­ed at Borger, Texas on Oct. 18; a very few covers were mailed with posbnaster's

·inscription. - A MODEL plane port is reported to have been dedicated and cov­ers mailed with cachet from Monrovia, Calif. on Jan. 8, 1950, but so far we have been unable to obtain proof of dedica­tion. Who will help with such news? -Reports have been received on dedica­tion at Shannon, La., Oct. 1 and Many, La. on Oct. 18, but we have no details or covers from such a dedication. Your help is solicited in respect to news of past or future events or any other news pertaining to airport dedications. We

, hope in the next few weeks to get the listing of the 1950 events into shape sa that a new Supplement can be carried in The Airpost Journal early in the new year.

• DR. PAGANINI DIES­

(continued from page 95)

• national Airpost Exhibition held at the National Philatelic Museum in Philadel­phia under the auspices of the American Air Mail Society.

Dr. Paganini had an extensive library of aero-philatelic literature and this was also donated to the Airpost Archives.

It was this writer's privilege to· know Dr. Paganini personally and to number him among his friends. He was one of the most friendly and warmest persons we have been privileged to know in these stormy times. He was a real friend to all of those who came to know him well and his friends and the hobby will mourn his loss.

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If you'd rather buy from lists, they can be had "for the ask­ing". Oceanics, Historicals, First Flights, First Days, etc., etc.

If you like to buy at Auction, you'll find our Monthly Mail Sales a great source of supply. Nearly every sale has a large rep­resentation of cover material. Singly, as well as in bulk lots, you can thus buy fine covers at YOUR OWN PRICE.

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CANADIAN AIRMAIL COVERS

I These colorful, historical First Flight Airmail Covers from the I land of the Maple Leaf will add greaty to your air collection!

All covers listed are very fine, neat and clean. They're also of standard size, properly cancelled, cacheted, etc. Some have Semi­Official Air stamps used in addition to the government air or postage stamps. (San: Sanabria Catalog which lists Semi's.)

C-1

C-2

C-3

C-4

C-5

C-6

C-10

C-11

C-12

C-13

C-14

C-16

C-18

C-19

C-21

A superb unaddressed cover with San. #542 used on Fort McMurray-Athabasca Feb. 23, 1931 First Flight #133 ..... $ .50

Another, as above, using San. #542, Athabasca. #133a. .... .50

Another, as above, using San. #542, Athabasca, #133c. .... .50

Another, as above, using San. #542, Edmonton, #133b. .... .50

Aklavik to Miami, March 14, 1931, with San. #542. ............ .50

Complete se:t of two superb #150, 150a, using San. #551. .. 1.50

Peace River Flight, Feb. 12, 1931 using San. #542. ............ .75

Edmonton Peace River 1931 Flight #132 with San. #542. .. .75

Aklavik to Buenos Aires, First through flight with 60c postage, crowded with postal markings; March, 1931. .... 10.00

Fort McMurray, July 26, 1930, Lists #239 at $2.00. ............ .50

Four complete, #245, a, b, c, Lethbridge 1931 set ........... ··1.00

August 17, !931, listed page 978 AAMS as #250, gem ......... 3.00

Round Trip Cover, Fort Chipewyan to Fond dulac 1933 •.. 1.00

Complete 6 different Feb. 15, 1933 Wadhope #542 to e ..... 1.00

Two beautiful July 1935 Flights, #577a, 577d ($5). ............ 2.40

I GET THIS ENTIRE COLLECTION of 25 different Historical I Canadian First Flight Covers at this special group price of

only $19.00

You may order by Number (C-1 to C-2D for your convenience i.f you do not need all of these covers. Bear in mind that in many cases only a very few of these covers were flown!

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• AM #93 ,..... SEGMENT #3, WINS-

LOW TO DOUGLAS. This was the in­itial segment of Route #93 to get under way and was operated in connection with the extension of Route #73 from Gallup to Winslow. This segment flies via Flag­staff, Prescott, Phoenix, Tucson, and Nogales, all in Arizona. The initial flights were made on June 1, 1950. Ser­vice over this segment is actually pro­vided in two parts with planes operat­ing from Winslow via Flagstaff, Pres­cott to Phoenix and return with another flight originating at Phoenix and operat­ing via Tucson, Nogales to Douglas and return to Phoenix.

The inaugural flight from Winslow to Phoenix was made by Captain Geo. L. Sims and First Officer Earl R. Wells as Flight #161 and was a continuation of the flight from Gallup via Route #73. At Phoenix this same crew returned to Winslow as Flight #162 and thence to Gallup, N. Mex., via Route #73 as re­ferred to in our chronicle of Route #73 above.

The initial flights between Phoenix and Douglas were made by Captain Dallas W. Taylor and First Officer Wm. Lyon operating as Flight # 171 from Phoenix to Douglas and Flight #172 from Doug­las to Phoenix.

A new type of cachet was furnished for the service on Route #93 being in the form of a rectangle with route of Segment #3 on the right side and with a picture of a desert flower on the left side of the cachet, with city name at the bottom in large letters. These cachets were very attractive, with different color used for each city involved. It might be mention­ed that on the Tucson to Phoenix dis-

patch there were but 256 covers for col­lectors.

AM #93 - SEGMENT #2, PHOEN­IX TO EL PASO. Service on this new Feeder route was further extended with the inauguration of Segment #2 on July 15th. This segment operates from Phoen­ix to El Paso via Stafford, Ariz., Lords­burg, Deming and Las Cruces, N. Mex.

The initial flight from Phoenix to El Paso was made via Flight #182 flown by Capt. W. M. Omeara and First Of­ficer Milton Lamoureaux. Captain Om­eara will be remembered as one of the inaugural pilots on the first flights of Route #72 several years ago.

The initial flight from El Paso to Phoenix was made via Flight #181, flown by Capt. Everett L. Aden, another veteran with Frontier Air Lines and First Officer A. F. Clark.

A map type cachet showing the addi­tional segment involved drawn in with more pretty flowers and applied in a dif­ferent color for each city, makes these a nice set of covers. We note the added notation: "Segment #2" in the cachet which collectors will appreciate as it identifies the segment from which the cover originated. A nominal dispatch was made from each each city on this segment with the Eastbound dispatch from Las Cruces consisting of 272 phila­telic covers being the scarcest item of this set. Inasmuch as service on this route is not complete, we can expect more activity from this route later.

AM ROUTE #90 - ADDITION OF COLUMBUS, NEBR. Getting back to

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Route #90, Columbus, Nebraska was added to this route on October Srd, 1950. This city is served on Segment #2 of Route #90 which operates between Huron, S. D. and Omaha, Nebr. The in­

augural flight from Columbus to Huron was made via Flight #237 flown by Pilot G. E. Richardson while the inaug­ural flight from Columbus to Omaha was made via Flight # 236 flown by Pilot Harry W. Brewer. No co-pilots were employed. The usual Route #90 cachet was applied in green to all covers showing route of Segment #2. 1980 pieces of philatelic mail were dispatched via Flight #236 while Flight #237 handled 313 pieces of philatelic mail. Carrier: Mid-West Airlines.

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PHILATELIC LITERATURE GROUP ELECTS NEW OFFICERS

• Members of the Philatelic Library As­

sociation have adopted a Constitution, By­Laws, and elected four officers and four­teen additional directors

Those elected were: Daniel W. Vooys, President, P. 0. Box 300, Canajoharie, New York; George T. Turner, First Vice Presi­dent, 34-52 73rd Street, Jackson Heights, N. Y.; David Lidman, 2nd Vice President, 64 Pascack Road, Park Ridge, N. J.; and Frederick L. Scholl, Secretary-Treasurer, Nedrow, New York.

Directors, in addition to the officers are: C. N. Allen, Hanover,' N. H.; Jere Hess Barr, Reading, Pa.; Fritz Billig, Jamaica, N. Y.; Winthrop S. Boggs, East Orange, N. J.; Miss Phebe Booth, Waukegan, Illinois; Sylvester Colby, New York City; Eugene Costales, New York City; Mrs. Edith M. Fisher, Montvale, N. J.; Mannel Hahn, Winnetka, illinois; Herman Herst, Jr., Shrub Oak, N.Y.; George W. Linn, Sidney, Ohio; Van Dyk MacBride, Newark, N. J.; Lowell J. Ragatz, Worthington, Ohio; and Wililam W. Wyle, of Albany, Oregon.

The purpose of the Philatelic Library Association is to promote and encourage the collection, study, and general use of stamp collecting reference publications, to circulate information on such material among the members, to compile and pub­lish bibliographies and other works re­lating to philately, and to provide a med­ium for the purchase, sale, and exchange of such reference literature.

Official publication of the Association .is the "Philatelic Literature Review," ed~ ited by Daniel W. Vooys since the first issue of September 1942.

Annual membership dues, including subscription for the Review costs $1.00 and applications may be sent to President Vooys, P. 0. Box 300, Canajoharie, New York, or Secretary Scholl, Nedrow, New York.

FOURTHI AUCTION MAIL SALE February 17, 1951

I. S. GOODMAN

offered by

Box 133

• Bloomfield, N. J.

TERMS OF SALE are the same as that of our 3rd Auction Sale as appear­ed in the September "Airpost Journal", and conform to usual auction practice. Feel free to send your maximum bids with the knowledge that 60% of the lots in our last sale were sold at 5% to 50% below the maximum available bid. Every single lot unconditionally guaranteed. A complete list of prices realized will be published in the next available issue of the "Airpost Journal" follow­ing the date of sale.

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• FIRST DAY COVERS

The following First Day Cover lots are all clean and fine as described. The larger lots may consist of mixed cacheted and uncacheted covers, but this lack of matching has been considered in computing the retail value .

.)'t629, 682, 689, 690, 702 (2 eities), 703; Blocks of 4 ............................. Retail Value $ 5.50 27 diff. 2c First Days 1926-1931, inc. scarce 2c Hawaii. ............................................ 10.50 41 diff. 3c Comm. First Days, #772-803 complete in Block of 4. ............................ 30.00 1938 Presidentials, 'hc-20c complete, mostly cacheted, (23 covers). ................ 12.50 1938 Presidentials, combined 16c, 17c, 18c, 19c, 20c on 1 fine cover .................... 5.00

combined 24c, 25c on one cacheted cover. ............................ 4.00 12c-20c complete on matched cacheted cover, all in pairs or strips, face $3.09. . ....................................................... ,........ 10.00 #803-812, 'hc-7c complete in Blocks of 4 ................................ 11.00 #817-820, 12c-15c in Blocks of 4 (4 covers). ........................ 8.50 $5 Coolidge, scarce cover. ................................................................ 15.00 coils #839-851 complete .................................................................... 3.00 coils #839-847 complete in pairs. ................................................ 4.00 Booklet Panes (3 covers). ................................................................ 2.00

Defense set, #899-901, pairs on one cover ........................................................................ 2.00 Occupied Nations, 13 values complete (13 covers). .................................................... 6.00 Famous Americans, 1c-5c values complete, all sets (28). ........................................ 10.00 Trans-Mississippi 1c sheet. Omaha & Wash., complete panes on 2 covers .... 3.00 CE1, CE2 (2 covers). . ................................................................................................... ,.......... 1.50 National Parks complete inc. Blocks 7c, lOc ................................................................ 7.00 Army-Navy complete, mostly pairs. . ........... ,................................................................... 3.00 Army-Navy complete blocks of 4. .................................................................................. 8.00

C. A. M .. F. A. M., MISC. U. S. FLIGHTS

C. A. M. #2-9; 26 diff. stages, inc. 9W36. . .................. < ............ AAMS Cat. value C. A. M. #10-13; 15 diff. stages, inc. 11E7f, 13N3. . .................................................. .

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I. S. GOODMAN - MAIL AUCTION - FEB. 17

24.10 23.80

9.00 14.50 13.75 13.25 7.50 5.75

45.00 24.50 13.50 8.50

17.50 3.50

20.00

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TRANS-OCEANIC

#1068b, Lindberg Caribbean Flight. . .............................................................................. . #1138, First Official Flight, Australia-England, (Darwin-Athens) stage. . ...... . #1230, 1935 P. A. A. Survey Flight, California-Hawaii Round Trip .................... . #1255, Inaugural Regular Service, France-South America. . ..........•.................... #1328, Montreal-New York ......................................................................................... : ....... ..

FO&IEIGN FIRST FLIGHTS

17.00 25.00 15.00

5.00 3.00

42 Canada, #291-29li, all stages complete, 10 covers ..................................................... $ 4.70 43 Canada, 40 diff. Gov't. Flights. ............................................................................................ 13.65 44 Greece #2, (?), Athens-Brindisi, Sept. 29, 1926. ........................................................ 8.00 45 Greece #3, Athens-Alexandria, April 2, 1929. ............................................................ 8.00 46 Peru #6, Lima-Paita (large cover). ................................................................................ 5.00 47 Philippines #101, 102; Manila-Labuan & Singapore, 2 good covers. .................... 4.00 48 Philippines #117, Manila-Batavia via KNILM, folded but good. ........................ 3.00 49 Syria #5, Damascus-Baghdad. ................................................................................................ 3.00

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ROCKET FLIGHTS

Germany; 4 Proofs of the 1933 Rocket Issue (yellow only missing), rare (Kessler Rocket Catalogue)

Germany: 3 mk. on 1 mk. with star surcharge. (Kessler lj()a) ............................ . Italy; Dec. 1934 Flown Card with 5 Lire Rocket stamp ..................................... Est. Italy; As above but autographed cover with 7.7 Lire stamp ......................... Est. Jugoslavia; J·ug II Rocket Stamp mint (Kessler Illb) .............. ; ............................. . Netherlands. Mar. 6, 1935 Flown autographed covers with rocket stamps. Est. Netherlands; April 23, l!l35; Flown Cover with 2 rocket stamps, signed

Roberti. .............................................................................................................. Est.

ZEPP FLIGHTS- GERMAN & U.S. DISPATCHES

40.00 30.00 5.00

15.00 9.00

10.00

15.00

57 215 - Schwaben Flight, Darmstadt post card with San. #2. .. ...... AAMS Cat. $ 3.00 58 Z41 - Oct. 1924, First Trans-Atlantic flight (ZR-3), v. f. card with C23. ........ 3.00 59 Z41 - Oct. 1924, First Trans-Atlantic flight, v. f. cover with C24. .................... 3.00 60 Z55 - First Ocean Crossing LZ127, Oct. 1928, v. f. card with C36. .................... 4.00 61 Z55 - First Ocean Crossing LZ127, v. f. cover with C25 ....................... 00................ 4.00 62 Z56 - Retum Flight, fine card ...... oo .. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ........ oooooooooooooooooo••oo.. 4.50 63 Z56 - Return Flight, fine cover. ooooooOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo .......... oooooooooooooooooooooooooo.......... 4.50 64 Z56a - Return Flight, fine cover, Lakehurst postmark. oo00oooooooooooooooooooooo ....... oo..... 6.00 65 Z63 - Orient Flight, good card with C32. oooooooooooooo ........ oooo.............................................. 3.50 66 Z63 - Orient Flight, good cover with C36 ........ oo ..... oo .. oooooooo ......... ooooooooooooooooooooooooOOooOOoo• 3.50 67 Z63? - Orient Flight, v. f. Tel Aviv drop card .... oooooo•oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo• 000000000000 Est. 10.00 68 Z65 - Mediterra.nean Flight, card, regular cancellation. •oooooo•oooooooo ... oo .. :oo ...... oooo•oo• 3.00 69 Z65a - Mediterranean Flight, card. oo .......... ooooooOOoooo ... oo ... oo .... ooooooooooooooooooooooooo•oo.............. 3.00 70 Z65a - Mediterranean Flight, v. f. Board Cover with C36. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 3.50 71 Z64- 1929, Southwest G~rmany flight- Mannheim drop card, v. f. 000000000000 6.00 72 Z67 - 1929 Interrupted American Flight, y. f. card with C36. oooooooooooo•oo•oooooooo•oo• 4.00 73 Z67- 1929 Interrupted American flight, v. f. cover with C37 ...... 00 ............... 0000...... 4.00 74 Z72d- Round the World Flight, Lakehurst-Tokyo, cover, scaree. 00000000000000000000 12.50 75 Z73 - Round the World Flight, Germany-Tokyo, good cover. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 3.50 76 Z75 -Round the World Flight, Los Angeles-Lakehurst, fine card. ooooooooooooooooooo• 2.00 77 Z75 - Round the World Flight, Los Angeles-Lakehurst, fine cover .. oo .. ooooooooooo 2.00 78 Z76 - Round the World Flight, last leg, Sept. 1, '29, nice cover. 00000000000000000000 3.00 79 ZBl - Oct. 13, 1929, Holland flight, fine Amsterdam card. .. .. oooooooooooooooooooo .... oo.. 3.00 80 Z82 - 1929 Balkan Flight, Bucharest drop card, v. f. oooooooooo•oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo• 6.00 81 Z82g - 1929 Balkan Flight, Breslau drop card, v. f. oooooooooooooooOOooOOOOOOooooOOOOOOOOooOOoooooo• 3.00 82 Z84- Nov. 2, 1929, 6th Swiss flight, v. f. card. ooooooooooOOOooOooooooooooooooooooooooooo ........ oooo...... 2.50 83 Z84 - Nov. 2, 1929, 6th Swiss flight, Zurich cover, fine. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.... 2.50 84 ZlOl - Spanish Flight, April 15, 1930, v. f. cover. ooooooooo•oooo;•oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo•oo... 2.50 85 Z107b, 1930, Europe-Pan American Round Trip, Seville (cover)-Lkhst. oo...... 7.50 86 Z107c, 1930, Europe-Pan American R. T., cover, Seville-Seville, 343, 344 (2). 10.00 87 Z107d, 1930 Europe-Pan American, v. f. Seville-Fried, Round Trip cover. oo•• 12.50 88 Z175 - 3rd S. A. Flight 1931, v. f. card ... oo .. ••oooooooooOOOooOOOooooooooooooooo ........ oooooooooooooooooooooo ... oo. 3.50 89 Z404 - 1st N. A. Flight, Hindenburg, v. f. card. oooooooooooOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo .... oo... 2.50 90 Z404 - 1st N. A. Flight, Hindenburg, v. f. cover ...... oo .... oo ...... oooooo ..... oooo ........ oo........ 2.50 91 Z442 - Sudeten Flight L2-130, v. f. pictorial card. oooooooooooooooooOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.... 3.00 92 Z417- 7th N. A. Flight, good but wom cover. oooooooooOOoooooooo .... oo .......... oo .. oo .. oooooooooooo..... 2.00 93 Z504 - Lakehurst-Bermuda, nice cover. .. .... 00 ...... oo .......... oo .. oo ................. _................... 3.00 94 Z505 - 2nd Flight Lakehurst-Bermuda. oo .... , ... oo ............ oo .................. oo .. oo ....... 00............. 2.00 95 Z506a - Return Flight of above, cover with 3 line cachet. .................................... 3 00 96 Z507 - Lakehurst-Puerto Rico, nice cover ......................................... 00 ..... 00 .. 00 ............ 00 • 2:oo 97 Z510 & Z511 - both Akron covers. oo ..................... oo ...................... oooo ............................... oo 1.50

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ZEPP FLIGHTS- FOREIGN DISPATCH

Some of the foreign dispatch covers below are among the rarest '.Zepp; covers. Not only are they scarce, but most of them are still abroad and seldom available in the United States. Values are estimated net prices.

98 Z109c - Europe-Pan American Flight, Rio Dispatch, v. f. cover with San. Cll (2) stamps ($6.00 each).· ···········································-··········································· $25.00

99 ZllOn- Europe-Pan American Flight, Uru~:uay dispatch, v. f. cover with C14, C18. ......................................................................................................................... . .... 10.00

100 Z180 - 1st S. A. Flight, 1932, Greece dispatch, v. f. card. .................................... 4.50 101 Z200 - 1st. S. A. Flight, 1933, Tangier dispatch, v. f. cover; rare, 501-504 (3ea) 12.50 102 Z200 - 1st S. A. Flight, 1933, Eritrea dispatch, v. f. cover with fine frank. 7.50 103 Z200 - 1st S. A. Flight, 1933, San Marino disp. with #137, Cll, C12 ($8.00). 15.00 104 Z200 - 1st S. A. Flight, 1933, Albania dispatch, v. f. cover. ................................ 8.00 105 Z201- 2nc' S. A. Flight, Rhodes dispatch, v. f. rare cover with #7-22. ............ 12.50 106 Z202 - 3rcl S. A. Flight, Eritrea dispatch, v. f. cover. ............................................ 8.00 107 Z202- 3rd S. A. Flight, 1933, Malta dispatch, v. f. cover, with 169, 172, 180. 12.50 108 Z203 - 4th S. A. Flight, Cyrenaica dispatch, v. f. cover with C8-11. ............... 10.00 109 Z213 - Italy Flight, Eritrea mail, v. f. card. ................................................................. 7.50 110 Z213 - Italy Flight, Gibraltar dispatch, v. f. card. ................................................ 5.00

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The Catalogue is aavilable from most Philatelic dealers or from THE AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE, Albion, Penn' a at $4 per volume, plus 27c postage East of Chicago, 38c West of Chicago, 50c foreign for each volume.

- Twenty-Ninth Supplement -•

UNITED STATES CONTRACT AIR MAIL ROUTES

• AIR MAIL ROUTE NO. 20

• REVISED ROUTE NO. 7

• WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. ADDED

November 1, 1949

IV-V

American Airlines added White Plains, N.Y. to Revised Route No. 7 on the above date. An attractive official cachet, showing a sketch of the portico of the Federal Post Office Building, was provided.

WHITE PlAINS, li Y.

Cachet-Type 20t Pilot-C •. R. Johnson

20W66 White Plalm-(blue)-Johnson 20E66 White Plains-(blue)-.Tohnson

Type 20t

(3855 pieces) ( 565 pieces)

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JANUARY. 1951. 119

AMERICAN.AIR MAIL C.ATALOCUE._S_UPP.LEMENT~Cont.

AIR MAIL ROUTE NO. 81

• AMARILLO- WICHITA

September 15-16. 1949

Carrier: Central Airlines, Inc .

• AMARILLO - WICHITA

Although Central Airlines, Inc. was authorized to operate feeder service in the states of Texas and Oklahoma on November 27, 1946, it was not until September 15, 1949 that service was inaugurated. The initial service was on Segment #4 from Ft. Worth, Texas to Oklahoma City, Okla., serving six intermediate points. By a special Board rul­ing, Holdenville, Okla. was substituted for Wewoka on Segment #2 and #4; and, on short notice, the southern terminal of Segment #4 was changed from Dallas to Ft. Worth.

The southbound flight of September 15th was interrupted at Gainesville, on account of darkness, and operated on south, from Gainesville to Ft. Wol'!f;h, on September 16th. The Dallas Post Office inadvertently dispatched soine first flight· covers on an earlier flight to Ft. Worth which received a Ft. Worth backstamp of Sept. 15 - 7 P. M . .;· proper­ly dic;patched covers should have a Ft. Worth backstamp of Sept. 16 - 6 P. M. Official map type cachets, with small pictorial insets, were applied at all points. ·

U. S. AIR MAIL .

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Cachet -Type 81

Pilots- Gordon Bourland, S.D. Tumer.

Segment No. 4, Fort Worth - Oklahoma City

81N1 Ft. Worth-(green)-Bourland ( 1669 pieces) .25

81N2 Dallas-(black)-Bourland ( 796 pieces) .25

f. Airfield-(blue) (1023 pieces) .25

81S2 Dallas-(black)-Turner ( 282 pieces) .25

f. Airfield-(blue) ( 120 pieces) 1.30

81N3 Gainesville-(magenta)-Bourland (1366 pieces) .25

81S3 Gainesville..,-magenta)-Turner ( 319 pieces) .50

o:t.N4 Ardmore-(black)-Bourland (1553 pieces) .25

8184 Ardmore-(black)-Bourland ( 472 pieces) .50

81N5 Ada-(purple)-Bourland (1209 pieces) _ .25

i31S5 Ada-(purple)-Bourland ( 909 pieces) _ .50

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120 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENT ~ont.

81N6 8186 81N7 81S7 81S8

Holdenville-(green)-Bourland Holdenville-( green)-Bourland Shawnee-(magenta)-Bourland Shawnee-(magenta)-Bourland Oklahoma City-(blu")-Bourland

SEGMENT NO. 2 - TULSA - DALLAS October 10, 1949

(3402 pieces) ( 356 pieces) ( 3831 pieces) ( 385 pieces) ( 1152 pieces)

.25 .55 .25 .50 .25

On this date, service was inaugurated on Segment #2 from Tulsa, Okla., via Okmul­gee, Holdenville, and Durant, to Dallas, Texts. An unofficial cachet sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce at Okmulgee was applied to 329 southbound covers and 21 north­bound covers. Official map type cachets, with enlarged city names replacing the pictor­:al insets, were provided for all cities.

!11S9 81S10 81N10 81Sll

81Nll 81S12 81N12 81N13

Cachet-Type 81 Pilots-Floyd Kinyon, W. A. Whitlock.

Tulsa -(black)-Kinyon Okmulgee-(green)-Kmyon Okmulgee-(green)-Whitloek Holdenville-(purple)-Kinyon Holdenville-(purple)-Whitlock Durant-(blue)-Kinyon Durant-(blue)-Whitlock Dallas-(magenta)-Whitlock

f. Airfield-(purple)

(1823 pieces) (2056 pieces) ( 37 4 pieces) ( 3691 pieces) ( 299 pieces) ( 248 pieces) ( 2229 pieces) ( 1663 pieces) ( 1868 pieces)

SEGMENT NO. 3 - DALLAS-TEXARKANA October 15, 1949

.25

.25 .50 .25 .50 .55 .25 .25 .25

Ct>ntral Airlines, on the above date, inaugurated service on Segment #3 from Dallas, via Greenville and Paris, to Texarkana. Official map type cachets, with pictorial insets f!S used on the initial service, were applied at all points.

81E13

Cachet-Type 81 Pilot-Ed Armstrong Dallas-(green)-Armstrong

f. Airfield-(black) S1W14 Greenville-(purple)-Armstrong 81E14 Greenville-(purple)-Armstrong

Paris-(magenta)-Armstrong Paris-(magenta)-Armstrong Texarkana-(blue)-Armstrong

81W15 81E15 81W16

(1402 pieces) (1699 pieces) ( 517 pieces) ( 1268 pieces) ( 225 pieces) (1580 pieces) (2038 pieces)

SEGMENT NO. 5 - OKLAHOMA CITY-WICHITA November 10, 1949

.25

.25

.30

.25

.65

.25

.25

Service over Segment #5 was inaugurated on November 10, 1949, serving four inter­mediate cities between Oklahoma City and Wichita. Arkansas City and Winfield, jointly used the Strother Air Field. Official map type cachets, revised to show Segment #5 and with different pictorial inserts for each city, were provided at all points.

!'1N17 81N18 81S18 81N19 81S19 81N20 81520 81N21 81521 81522

Cachet-Type 81 Pilot-Charles M. Smith

Oklahoma City-(black)-Smith Enid-( purple )--Smith Enid-(purple)-8mith Ponca City-(blue)-8mith Ponca City-(blue)-8mith Arkansas City-( green)-Smith Arkansas City-(green)-8mith Winfield-(black)-8mith Winfield-(black)-8mith Wichita-(magenta)-8mith

(2167 pieces) .25 (5217 pieces) .25 ( 630 pieces) .40 ( 1549 pieces) .25 ( 347 pieces) .45 ( 1817 pieces) .25 ( 1900 pieces) .25 ( 1823 pieces) .25 ( 1777 pieces) .25 (1694 pieces) .25

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AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENTS-Cont.

SEGMENT NO. 1 - AMARILLO-TULSA November 15, 1949

Service over Segment #1 of this route was inaugurated by Central Airlines on November 15, 1949. This service operated from Amarillo to Tulsa via Pampa, Woodward, Enid, Ponca City, and Bartlesville. Official map type cachets, with small inserts depict­ing some outstanding feature of each city, were applied at all points.

81E23 81W24 81E24 lj1W25 81E25 e1W26 81E26 81W27 81E27 >i1W28 81E28 81W29

Cachet-Type 81 Pilots-Floyd Kinyon, Sam D. Turner Amarlllo-(green)-Turner Pampa-(black)-Kinyon ( 467 pieces) Pampa-(black)-Turner (1754 pieces) Woodward-(blue)-Kinyon ( 350 pieces) Woodward-(blue)-Turner (1480 pieces) Enid-(purple)-Kinyon (2650 pieces) Enid-(purple)-Turner ( 302 pieces) Ponca City-(magenta)-Kinyon (1239 pieces) Ponca City-(magenta)-'Turner ( 314 pieces) Bartlesville-(green)-Kinyon (1489 pieces) Bartlesville-(green)-Turner ( 304 pieces) Tulsa-(blue)-Kinyon (1753 pieces)

ADDITiON OF SHERMAN (DENISON), TEXAS January 16, 1950

.25

.50 ;25 .40 .25 .25 .50 .25 .50 .25 .55 .25

On January 16th Sherman and Denison, Texas were added to Segment #2 of AM-81 between Durant and Dallas. Denison received service through the Sherman Municipal Airport. Official map type cachets, similar to those previously used for Segment #3, with enlarged' city names instead of pictorial inserts, were provided for both cities.

81N30 81S30 81N31 !31S31

Cachet-Type 81 Pilots-James L. Smith, Sam D. Turner Sherman-(green)-Turner Sherman-(green)-Smith Denison-(black)-Turner Denison-(black)-Smith

u. S. FOREIGN AIR MAIL

• CONTRACT

ROUTES

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( 2235 pieces) (1006 pieces) ( 1277 pieces) ( 458 pieces)

XII-B FOREIGN AIR MAIL ROUTE NO. 24

• FIRST SERVICE -_NEW YORK TO HAMBURG, GERMANY

AND RETURN

March 5-7, 1950

.25 .25 .25 .35

Effective on the above date, New York first dispatched to Hamburg, Ger­many. No cachet was used but some covers were returned bearing a typed cachet appropriate to the flight.

Cachet:_ None Pilot-0. B. Whitmore

.F24-56 F24-56F F24-57

New York-Hamburg, Mar. 5-6, (no cachet) New- York Airfield-Hamburg, Mar. 5-6, (no cachet) Hamburg-New York, Mar. 7-9, (po cachet)

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3.50 3.50 5.00

122 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

AMERICAN A·IR MAIL CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENTS---:.Cont.

FIRST SERVICE - BOSTON TO HAMBURG AND RETURN April 30 and May 6, 1950

On April 30, 1950, Boston and Airfield made first dispatches to Hamburg, Germany. No cachet was used on mail carried in either direction but the A. 0. A. Station Agent at Hamburg applied a typed cachet on return flight covers which read, "First Air Mail Flight via Route FAM 24- American Overseas Airlines, Hamburg, Germany to Boston, Massachusetts. Flight 145, May 6, 1950."

Cachets-None Pilot-R. B. Keeton

F24-58 Boston-Hamburg, Apr. 30 - May 1, (no cachet) 3.50 F24-58F Boston Airfield-Hamburg, Apr. 30 - May 1, (no cachet) 3.50 F24-59 Hamburg-Boston, May 6-7, (no cachet) 5.00

ADDITION OF DUSSELDORF-COLOGNE. GERMANY September 2. 1950 .

On the above date, New York and Boston and respective Airfields made inaugural dispatches to Dus5eldorf, Germany. A cachet was also provided for mail intended for Cologne, Germany as this city also received service through the port of Dusseldorf at the time of the inaugural flight.

Type F24f · Type. F24g

Cachets--New York and Boston and Airfields: Type F24f and F24g, with appropriate change in wording; Dusseldorf, box type cachet. inscribed "FIRST FLIGHT .:...._; AMERICAN OVERSEAS AIRLINES - DUSSELDORF - NEW YORK - Se;)tember 1, 1950." - · -

Pilot-William H. Fish. F24-60 New York-Dusseldorf, Sept. 2-3, (red). F24-60F New York Airfield-Dusseldorf; Sept. 2-3, (blue). F24-61 Boston-Dusseldorf, Sept. 2-3, (green), F24-61F Boston Airfield-Dusseldorf, Sept. 2-3, (purple). F24-62 New York-Cologne, Sept. 2-3, (purple), F24-62F New York Airfield-Cologne, Sept. 2-3, (green*) F24-63 Boston-Cologne, Sept. 2-3, (blue) F24-63F Boston Airfield-Cologne, Sept. 2-3, (red) F24-64 Dusseldorf-New York, Sept. 1-3, (red)

( 1226 pieces) ( 1056 pieces) (1019 pieces) (1007 pieces) ( 1358 pieces) (1094 pieces) (1095 pieces) ( 941- pieces)

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75

.75 ,.75

2.50 -( *) The New York Airfield-Cologne cachet is also found applied in blue;

officialy designated color. green was the

JANUARY, 1951 123

AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENTS-Cont.

WITH THIS FLIGHT THE SERVICES OF FAM-24 WERE TERMINATE~. ON SEPTEMBER 25, 1950, AMERICAN OVERSEAS AIRLINES WAS PUR­CHASED BY PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS AND SERVICES FOR­MERLY CERTIFICATED UNDER F. A.M. 24 AUTOMATICALLY BECAME F. A. M. 18 SERVICES.

• FOREIGN AIR MAIL ROUTE NO. 34

• EXTENSION TO ASUNCION, PARAGUAY

March 6, 1950

Add following listing, inadvertently omitted: F34-19 Asuncion-Houston, Mar. 8-10, (no cachet). (**)

ROUTE COMPLETED TO BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINE May 29. 1950

2.00

On this date Braniff imnJgurated the final link in its route to Buenos Aires, Argentine with stops at Colon, C. Z. and Lima, Peru. The majority of covers from Buenos Aires arc on Company prepared envelopes but some bear an unofficial cachet similar to the one used on F. A. M. Route 5-A express service covers as illustrated en page 653 of the Catalogue. In order to drama­tize Braniff's through service between Buenos Aires and Chicago these covers were carried through to and backstamped at Chicago, june 1, 1950.

Cachets-Houston and Airfield, Type F34a, inscribed as to destination and containing the national flag cf the Argentine.

Pilot-T. 0. George. F34-25 Houston-Buenos Aires, May 29-31, (magenta) (1704 pieces) .50

E'34-25F Hous>.on Airfie1d-BuPnOf Aires, May 29-31, (blue) ( 863 pieces)

(*)

.50 F34-26 Balboa-Buenos Aires, May 29-31, (no cachet) 1.50

2.00 F34-27 Lima-Buenos Aires, May 29-31, (no cachet)

F34-28 Asuncion-Buenos Aires. May 30-31, (no cachet). 1.00

1.00 F34-29 Buenl's Aires-Houston (Chicago), May 31-.June 1, (no cachet).

(*) Some covers were postmarked from Balboa Airfield.

U. S. Airpost Stamps Bring High Prices

• A group of United States air mail

stamps in complete sheets sold at high prices in the Dec .. 5-6 auction of Harmer, Rooke & Co.

On the first day of sale, when the auctioneers were offering 171 complete U. S. Sheets, comprising the collection

of Ralph H. Blum <lf Beverly Hills, a set of Zeppelin sheets,. Nos. C13~15, was bought for $3,100 by a collector who. bid from the floor. This entire collection of sheets brought $12,854.

Sheets of 100 of the 24c airmail stamps of 1918 ar:d 1923 realized $310 and $420. Three sheets of the 50c Zeppelin stamp of 1933 brought $270, $310 and $250.

A bid of $1,000 took the horizontally imperforate sheet of the 6c blue and car­mine airmail stamp (No. C23a).

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Service. AM AU UC CAM FAM ID CMC EX By Grace Conrath.

Fatout, Oscar H., 314 Elm Ave., Long Beach, Calif. Age 59. Sign Writer. PC HC PA PB FF GF CAM FAM RP CC OF Z PIX By Grace Conrath.

Geer, L. Sherwood, 40 Forest Road, Tenafly, N. J. Age 57. Vice-President. By Grace Conrath.

Moyes, William E., P. 0. Box 16, Eatontown, N. J. Age 30. Tourist Camp Mgr. AM U20 UC HC FF GF CAM FAM RP OF DC CF 1D EX. By Wm. T. Wynn, Jr.

Coombs, George Woodrow, 289 Coverly Road, Lansdowne, Pa. Age 32. Accountant. By Grace Conrath.

Beadles, Dr. Elmer L., Ashland, Ill. Age 37. Dentist. CAM FAM ID EX By Grace Conrath.

Livingston, Fred W., 237 So. Cayuga St., Ithaca, N. Y. Age-Legal. Salesman. By John H. Harley.

Clark, John C., 7410 S. W. Miles Place, Portland 1, Ore. Age 35. Shipping & Receiv­ing Clerk. PC HC GF Canal Zone "RF" Overprints EX By Grace Conrath.

Kraemer, Henry, 105 Delafield Ave., Staten Island I, N.Y. Age 55. Stamp Consultant. AM PC HC FF PIX EX By F. W. Kessler.

NEW LIFE MEMBERSHIP L. M. 67 - 205 Charles G. Riess, P. 0. Box 11, Albany, N. Y.

CHANGES IN ADDRESS Alvev Correa, Alvaro, Caixa Postal 1577, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Austin, John E., Box 38, Vergennes, Vt.

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CHANGES IN· ADDRESS--- (Cont.) Fitts, Frederick B., 47 Nelson St., Framingham, Mass.

Frame, Robert W., 21 Santillane Ave., Coral Gables 34, Fla.

Johnson, Hamilton M., 623 So. Lahoma St., Norman, Okla.

Kent, Lt. Thaddeus F., QMTTS Library, Fort Lee, Va.

Lefkowitz, Herman, 1435 Lenox Ave., Miami Beach 39, Fla.

Maier, Alfred D., 521 ~5th Ave., New York 17, N. Y.

Pag, Aage, 71 Jullandsgade, Fredericia, Denmark.

Peck, Frank W., 4811 Circle Drive, San Diego 16, Calif.

Sutton, James K., 341 MacLaren, Ottawa, Canada.

Walker, Douglas A., 21 MacMillan Ave., Cashmere Hills, Christchurch S. 2, New Zealand.

Welling, Jr., Lindsay H., c/o YMCA, No. Ervay St., Dallas, Texas.

Wight, Royce A., 708 - 14th St., Alexandria, Va.

RANDOM NOTES-(Continued from page 108)

• that it is impossible to take care of this type of request, so we have to be guided by some sort of a policy."

Surely, this Airline has done all that could be expected of it and more, too, and we now find that their courtesy ar­rangement which had been set up for the benefit of the individual collector must now be eliminated because of the actions of a few. We cannot say that we blame them at all, but all collectors should see in the forced action of TWA a salutary lesson for the future and for their rela­tions with other Airlines. We feel cer­tain that TWA does not intend to destroy any covers which may in the future be sent in their care, but will have to resort to the perfectly legal procedure of in­structing their Station Agents to refuse to accept such mail when sent in their care.

glad to report that following a success­ful operation Mrs. Truby is on .the road to recovery ... We have just received the 1951 edition of the Annual Price and Check List of Used Airmail Stamps pub­lished by George Herzog, Inc., 68 Nassau Street, New York City 7, N. Y. The price of this list is 50c which amount may be deducted from the first order of $5.00 or more . . . Our friends the Flying Boes­mans of the Hague have been at it again and we are now in receipt of two addi­tional flown balloon cards, one carried in Germany on the 50th Anniversa;y of the first flight of the Zeppelin LZl on Octo­ber 29, and another carried in the first balloon flight from Algeria, which was performed on November 26 of last year ... We also thank Mr. F. Jacobi of Cara­cas, Venezuela for a first day cover of the new Lake Maracaibo air mail set . . .

And so to bed!

• VOLUME II NOW READY

NOTES BY THE WAY: We learn ORDER FROM YOUR FAVORITE with regret of the serious illness of the wife of Harry A. Truby; however, we are DEALER TODAY - $4 plus postage

APJ ADS RATES:

THREE CENTS PER WORD per inser­tion. Minimum charge 50 cents. Remittance must accompany order and copy. The AIRPOST JOURNAL, APJ Ads, Albion, Penn•a.

6')) AIRMAIL J<;NVJ<;LUPES, l:lARBE.H Pole design. 24 lb . Parchment Stock, 100 per cent rag content, $11.00 per thousand postpaid. Samples Ten Cents. Milton Ehrlich, 76-29A 167th Street, Flushing, New York. Member AAMS. , 244-6t*

199 WHOLESALE ADS IN EVERY ISSUE of " Stamp Wholesaler" - World's Largest Stamp-Trade Journal! 21 issues $2. to stamp dealers only. Address: Stamp Wholesaler. Box 284, Burlineton 10, Ver­mont. 241-12t*

AAMS EXCHANGE ADS

WILL EXCHANGE FIRST FLIGHTS OR dedications for mint US or airs. Frank Herget, 92 Arden, Buffalo 15, N.Y. Ex-lt

WILL TRADE THE ALL AMERICAN, Singer Canary, for stamps, air mail pre­tered. Want a Graf Zep ($2.60) canceled. Mrs. E. L . Servoss, 1004 North St., Peoria 5, Illinois. Ex-1t

HAYTI-NYBRA COVERS 1930; PORT AU 1-'RINCE to various; also other Hayti -Trade for U . S. stamps. Rubin, 6509 Del­mar, University City, Me. Ex-lt

I WISH TO EXCHANGE COMMEMORA­'riVES and air mail stamps used. Basis Yvert . Magazines. Bartolomeu de Oliveria, Caixa Postal 47, , Joao Pessoa, Paraiba Brasil. Ex-1t

AIRPOST STATIONERY. AIR LETTERS, Air Cards, all types wanted in exchange against your needs, merchandise, etc., ar­ranged also . J. Barchino. Brantford. Ont. , Canada. Ex248-2t

SPECIALIST DESIRES PHILIPPINE AND Israel First Day and First Flight Covers, stamps, sketches, and proofs. On approval only. Ben Zimmerman, 615 Darien Way, San Francisco, Calif. Ex-lt

AGAINST USED AIR MAILS, I GIVE Used Air Mails of Paraguay. Basis Scott 50. No want lists. Dorothy de Gates, Cruz Chica CBA, Argentina. Ex-lt

WANTED EARLY FIRST DAY COVERS 1919-1930 U. S. only. Contact me if you have some. Charles A . Koehler, 2916 Mac­kinaw Street, Saginaw, Michigan. Ex248-2t

WANTED - ODD, UNUSUAL, ESPEC­IALLY cachet color variety CAM covers. Buy or exchange for CAM or other cov­ers. Chas. G . Riess, P . 0 . Box 11, Albany 1, N. Y. Ex248-2t

EXCHANGE COMPLETE MATCHED plate block commemorative collection from 1944 for what have you? Lloyd H. Flickinger, Riverdale, North Dakota.

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AAMS EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT BUY - SELL - WANT LISTS

WILL EXCHANGE 7x50 POWER BINOC­ULARS for U. S. Historical and first flight covers. Irving Pistiner, 27 Chatfield St., Springdale, Conn. Ex-1t

WANTED- CAM AND FAM COVERS­will exchange HPO, flights, airport dedi­cations, first day covers, etc. Even ex-change, catalogue basis. Jerry Jarnick, Almond, Wisconsin. , Ex-1t

WILL SWAP " EVEN STEVEN" YOUR mint U. S. against your want list. Harvey Dolin & Co., 31 Park Row, New York 7, N. Y. Ex-1t

WANTED - PIONEER COVERS, AVIA­TION Photos, 1910-1920. Also ship covers. 1800-1920. Will swap air mail and ship cov­ers. Comdr. Murch, 1307 Poplar, Annapo­lis, Maryland. Ex248-2t

STILL NEED CRASH COVERS FOR MY collection. Will trade or purchase. Need other covers. too . Josep!l Eisendrath, 2394 No. Deere Park Drive, Highland Park. Ill.

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NOW IS THE TIME TO SECURE F. A. M .. C. A. M., H . P. 0. and F. D. covers . Will exchange for U. S . mint blocks, or what have you? E . L. Hastry, Halethorpe 27, Maryland. Ex249-2t

WILL EXCHANGE WORLDWIDE USED Air Mails singles and mint in complete sets for what used I need. Harry Reichen­thal, P. 0. Box 73, New York 60, N. Y.

Ex249-2t

HAVE 150 DIFFERENT FOREIGN V­Mails (airgraphs) , thousands Foreign air­mail ana Zeppelin covers, exchange for o . g. U. S. commemoratives. Davis, 18 Lir,gdale Rd., West Kirby, Cheshire, Eng­land. Ex248-6t

EARLY AND MODERN U . S. AND FOR­EIGN air labels and air souvenir sheets of France. Ask for my list. Joseph J. Lohr, 1447 Minford, New York 60, N. Y. Ex249-1t

SEND ME YOUR MINT AIR MAIL SETS, and I will send you others in exchange. Basis Sanabria, Scott, Yvert. Francisco J. Straky, Huelfein 112, Cordoba, Rep. Ar­gentina. Ex249-2t

STAMPLESS COVERS, 1756-1856 WANTED tor Air Stamps. H. M. Konwiser, 181 Claremont Ave., N. Y. 27, N. Y. Ex249-2t

EXCHANGE USED AIR MAIL STAMPS of World - 1 to 5 of each kind. Frank J. Zeltman, 719 Bay Ridge Ave. , Brooklyn 20, N . Y. Ex249-2t

WANTED : U . S. A . CIGARETTE CARDS, FDC's cacheted blocks only. before 1947, Oceanic First Flights. Will give mint, used air Jetter British Colonies. R. Kahn, 1330, 45th Street, Brooklyn 19. N . Y. ,Ex-1t

A FINE LOT OF (THE ALL AMERICAN Singers) Canaries for trade in stamps. What have you. I am in need of the $2.60 used airmail Graf Zeppelin. Also the $5.00 Columbia (used). Mrs . E . L . Servoss. 1004 North St., Peoria 5, Illinois. Ex-lt

The Airmail Auction • • • of the year

Each year we accwnulate the finest collections and offer them in one Outstanding Auction Sale. This year we offer various col­lections, the most outstanding of which are:

The World-Famous Gold Medal Collection of

MR. J. J. KLEMANN, JR. containing the finest collections of

U. S. Pioneers - Trans-Oceanic Flights - Hi~torical Flights Governmental Flights - Zeppelin Flights

- --·---A highly specialized and very extensive collection of

COLOMBIAN REPUBLIC Property of Mr. C. L. Nichols of Bogota.

19th and 20th Century, Scadta Issues, etc.

---·---A COLLECTION OF CATALOG NO. I AIRMAIL STAMPS

USED ON FLOWN COVERS.

Property of Mrs. Mary E. Lane of Ocean Grove, N . ].

Also various other collections containing:

Mint Airmail Stamps Used Airmail Stamps

Roosevelt Collection, including full sheets

Foreign Pioneer Stamps on Cover Trans-Oceanic Flights

and other material

Property of Messrs. H. BARTLING, ROBERT G. FISHER,

CARL MANGOLD and others.

AUCTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN FEBRUARY Write now for free illustrated Catalog.

F. W. KESSLER 500 FIFTH A VENUE NEW YORK 18, N. Y.

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