David Feldman Great Britain, British Empire & Ireland June 7, 2019

549 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Hib. N° Estimate ( £ ) Ireland – June 7, 2019 51068 F / 546 1922-25, Collection of Irish Acceptance for RAF “Desert Airmail Service” London-Cairo-Baghdad, 24 covers, a front and “Pilot’s Handbook of the Cairo Baghdad Route”, HB 1923, with maps and “Special regulations for handling airmails”, with a variety of Irish frankings sent on the Cairo-Baghdad route, a few covers showing Harrison Coil “long 1 in 1922” varieties, five of the covers “London-Cairo” which meant London-Paris then onwards by surface mail, a couple of faulty covers, attractive group 1’000 - 1’500 51069 F / 546 1922-23 Handley Page London Paris air service, collection on 21 pages with 22 covers, two with “NO FLIGHT. / SENT BY / ORDINARY SERVICE” hs, with covers sent on Mar 26 (2), Apr 23, Jun 1, Jun11, Jul 25, Aug 10, Sep 7 (2, FDCs of the 2 1/2d Shield), Sep 13 (3, with 9d frankings sent express), Sep 15 (3), Sep 17 (2), Sep 26 (underpaid), Sep 29 & Oct 29 incl. ephemera with press photo of the plane, 1921 April GPO Air Mail leaflet, 1922 April 25th Post Office Daily list giving the times of the daily London-Paris flights, GPO “Air Mail / Summer Services 1922” leaflet, 1923 Apr 25 PO Circular for air parcel services to Paris, two picture postcards and two Handley Page gummed labels, an interesting collection of this route 600 - 800 51070 F / 544 1922-23 Group of four printed “Irish Times” newspaper wrappers sent from Dublin to Baghdad and Basrah with Rialtar 1d, two sent to a Captain in a RAF Squadron in Baghdad, other two to a Reverend in Makina Camp (one redirected from Baghdad Cantonment) with arrival bs, creasing otherwise fine, unknown whether they were sent by RAF Desert Airmail Service 150 - 200 51071 F / 544 1923 London-Germany Airmail Services, collection on 9 pages, incl. 1921 April Air Mail Services brochure, with Irish Acceptances for 1923 (Aper 28) London-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg, cover, 1923 (May 23) London-Cologne, 1923 (Jul 2) & Jul 5) London-Brussels-Cologne, 1923 (Jul 27) London- Amsterdam-Hamburg (2), 1923 (Sep 1) London-Bremen-Hamburg-Berlin (2), 1923 (Sep 5) Munich- Zurich, 1923 (Sep 5) Brussels-Cologne, as well as German card sent Berlin-Cologne-London, plus press photo, useful lot showing different routes 300 - 400 51072 F / 544 1923 (Mar 26) Handley Page Paris-London flight, Switzerland 25c postal stationery card sent registered from Zurich to Ireland, uprated with 5c, 25c Tell and 25c Airmail, endorsed “per avion Paris-London”, registered London transit, fine and scarce 200 - 300 51073 F / 546 1923 (Sep) Irish Acceptance for RAF “Desert Airmail Service” London-Cairo-Baghdad, pair of covers from Ireland to RAF Squadron in Baghdad; the first Sep 7 cover (scuff by address) with 2 1/2d Shield block of four (first day of issue) and Saorstat 1d from Maryborough; second Sep 28 with Rialtar 1s pair and 1 1/2d block of six, attractive pair 100 - 150 51074 F / 548 67a, 68a, 69a 1923 (Jul 2) Irish Acceptance for Instone Air Line London-Brussels-Cologne, cover with Harrison Coil 1/2d pair, 1d pair and 1 1/2d vert. pair all with one stamp showing the “long 1 in 1922” variety, tied by Maryborough cds, “Mit Luftpost befördert / Köln 1.” hs adjacent, fine and scarce cover with these varieties 300 - 400 51075 F / 548 1923 (Oct 17) Instone Air Lines, flown from London to Cologne and on to Hamburg, cover with transit cds 19.10 with “Mit Luftpost” cachet, franked ovpt 1/2d pair, 1d and two 2d, vert. envelope crease clear of stamps 80 - 100 51076 F / 548 1923 (Oct 18) Ad Astra Aero Zurich-Munich then Munich-London airmail, incoming 25c postal stationery card from Switzerland uprated with 25c airmail, posted Schweizer Flugpost on 18th and 19th to Dun Laoghaire, with red “Mit Luftpost befördert / Flugpostamt München” hs, fine 80 - 120 51077 F / 548 1923 (Oct 23) Daimler Airways London-Berlin Air Service, reg. cover from Bray to Berlin franked definitives 1/2d, 1 1/2d, 2d 2 1/2d and 4d, London transit bs, Berlin arrival 26.10.23, last of this short- lived service (ended 26 October) 120 - 150