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 ( £ ) 131 131 20640 F AIRMAIL: 1933 Envelope to London franked India1a3p (2) tied by violet blue HOUSTON MOUNT EVEREST FLIGHT  * PURNEA * 5 APR.33 cds, cover tear at top clear of adhesives and some tonespots top right affecting both stamps, rare 2’000-3’000 20641 F / 130 AIRMAIL: 1933 Envelope to Calcutta franked 1a3p tied by illegible postmark with DUM DUM AIR PORT label alongside, this tied by cachet AUSTRALIA-ENGLAND FLIGHT/CARRIED BY “The Spirit of Western Australia”/ Piloted By :-Mr.JAMES WOOD/ Stage Calcutta-Lucknow/20th:July in violet, fine, 16 flown 200-240 20642 F / 130 AIRMAIL: 1935 Two air covers from India to England, 1 redirected to Barbados, both delayed in Bahrain 15-16 July due to bad weather there, and in Basra, both sent from Srinagar on July 11th, both with defective flaps 300-400 20643 F / 130 AIRMAIL: 1937 Cover to Australia franked India 1/2a + 2a with large boxed violet cachet ‘A-A-A/SOLO/ FIRST FLIGHT/ BRISBANE-CAPETOWN/BY/Mrs. H.B.(M.R.) BONNEY/IN HER MONOPLANE/”MY LITTLE SHIP II”/AUSTRALIA/ASIA-AFRICA/April 1937, Australia mixed franking alongside with Brisbane datestamp 240-300 20644 CC 247-264 1937-40 Set of 18 mint nh, plus 1940-43 14a, very fine and fresh (SG £600) 150-200 20645 F / 130 AIRMAIL: 1950 Cover mailed from the Bombay Stock Exchange to London, crashed on November 3rd into the Mont Blanc (France) with etiquette on reverse: “Salvaged April 1951, from the/Air Liner “Malabar-Princess”, which crashed in the Alps, November, 1950”, peripheral wear 240-300 20646 F / 130 AIRMAIL: 1951 Card addressed to Calcutta with 2-line violet cachet: ‘SALVAGED  NIGHT AIR MAIL/DUM DUM CRASH 21st NOV’51’, missing top right corner, most of the mail was burnt 100-150