David Feldman's Great Britain & British Empire June 12, 2018

Great Britain & British Empire / June 12 & 13, 2018 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Cat. N° (SG) Estimate ( £ ) 129 129 20628 F / 126 AIRMAIL: 1911 Internal reistered cover franked 12a tied by fine FIRST AERIAL POST /U.P.EXHIBITION ALLAHABAD circular violet cachet with matching registration cachet in black alongside, backstamped Allahabad and arrival cds’s, fine and appealing cover with scarce franking 700-800 20629 F / 126 AIRMAIL: 1925 Envelope to England franked India 2a (uncancelled) with green label By/ANGLO-INDIA AIR/ SURVEY D.H.50/CALCUTTA/TO/LONDON with violet triangular ANGLO-INDIA AIR SURVEY cachet alongside, taxed with GB 3d postage due applied on arrival, signed on reverse ‘AB Elliots Engineer’ and Waddon Aerodrome Croydon arrival backstamp, fine 240-300 20630 F / 128 AIRMAIL: 1925 SURVEY Flight Calcutta to Akyab (Burma) with arrival backstamp, franked india 1a, signed, only 34 flown 240-300 20631 F / 128 AIRMAIL: 1925 Cover to Ambala with violet cachet CALCUTTA-RISALPUR DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT/CALCUTTA 1925, franked India 1/2a tied by Risalpur 2 Feb 25 cds, signed alongside by Flight Lt. Graham, 35 flown 240-300 20632 F / 128 AIRMAIL: 1925 Cover franked India 1a with dark pink label ‘BY/ANGLO-INDIA AIR/SURVEY.D.H.50. CALCUTTA/TO/KARACHI and triangular violet cachet ANGLO-INDIAN AIR SURVEY cachet alongside, 68 covers flown, signed on reverse A.Elliott, Engineer 200-260 20633 F / 128 AIRMAIL: 1925 1/2a Stationery card cancelled Havelock Square 16 Feb 1925 cds, addressed to Delhi, with dark pink label “BY / ANGLO-INDIA / AIR.D.H.50.”, manuscript annotation alongside: “Arthur B.Elliott, Anglo- Indian Air Survey, 1924-25”, only 40 flown 200-240 20634 F / 128 1926 1/2a Stationery card  with typed CALCUTTA to Risalpur /By Aeroiplane/ 2/1/26 with oval cachet 27 SQUADRON ROYAL AIR FORCE with negative HAWASAE/By AIR in violet, alongside vignette applied depicting aeroplane and elephant inscribed ‘By Air’, fine 240-300 20635 F / 128 AIRMAIL: 1927 Cover franked India 1/2a (2) tied by Calcutta cds with an etiquette showing map of India with a rose emblem, on reverse manuscript ‘Certified conveyed by air from Calcutta to Akyab in the ‘red Rose’ light aeroplane Dec 22, 1927’ signed by the pilot W Lancaster 700-800 20636 F / 128 AIRMAIL: 1927 Flight cover from Calcutta to Burma franked 1a tied by Calcutta cds with Rangoon arrival backstamps, printed on obverse DUTCH FLIGHT, 1927, TO BATAVIA/CARRIED FROM CALCUTTA with etiquette ‘AVAIL AIR MAILS/AND/SAVE TIME’, this was the first venture from Europe to the East Indies by KLM 300-400 20637 F / 128 AIRMAIL: 1927 Envelope with printed advertising  for Stower’s Lime Juice franked India 1a tied by  Park Street Calcutta 3 Nov. 27 cds with etiquette ‘URGENT BY AEROPLANE/RETURN TRIP/CALCUTTA KARACHI’ with Karachi arrival backstamp, French Consulate cachet alongside, 55 flown, attractive 200-240 20638 F / 128 AIRMAIL: 1928 Cover to Rangoon franked India 1/2a + 3p (2) tied by Calcutta 4 May 28 cds carried by a French Breguet 19 plane which crashed on May 16th over Akyab, salmon coloured label with design of a plane inscribed From Calcutta by Air, and 2 green handstamps of DOISY AND CAROL (pilots), 1 with additional plane motif, 121 covers carried 200-300 20639 F / 130 AIRMAIL: 1928 Envelope franked India 1/2a bottom marginal with 3p (2) all tied by PARK STREET CALCUTTA 3 Feb 28 cds’s addressed to Burma with Akyab arrival backstamp, etiquette applied on obverse depicting map of India, inscribed ‘ BY AIR/BRITISH FLIGHT/FROM CALCUTTA/by Seaplane’, tied to cover by postmarks and stamps, 89 flown 150-200