1353

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Collection of 62 covers to smaller or less usual European countries, 1933 to 1946, comprising Albania; Bulgaria (4); Danzig (2); Denmark (8); Estonia; Finland(5); Hungary(10); Ireland(5); Liechtenstein; Malta (5); Monte Carlo; Norway(3); Poland 1935 (4 June) Athens-Warsaw 1st flight; Portugal (4); Rhodes (2); Rumania (5); Spain; Yugoslavia (3), a few censors, mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £500

1354

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Austria: 1934 to 1938, 29 covers or cards, range of rates with registered, Postage Insufficient handstamp, Currency Control marks, Imperial, K.L.M., etc., mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £180

1355

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Belgium: 1935 to 1946, 23 covers, Imperial and K.L.M., range of rates with registered, a few censored, etc., mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £180

1356

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Cyprus: 1935 to 1952, 17 covers with M.I.S.R. Airlines 1st flight covers for 1935 (4), 1936 (1 of 10 flown - ex Warwick), 1937 (2 stages), 1938 (2 stages and return - the Port Said and return both 1 of 12 flown and ex Warwick). Also 1935 covers to Troodos with arrival (2), 1939 cover with Cypriot ''RETOUR'' and ''INCONNU'', markings, 1952 censored, etc., mostly good to fine. Good lot.

Price Realised £250

1357

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Czechoslovakia: 1936 to 1947, 22 covers or cards, range of rates, frankings, with registered, Currency Control marks, 1938 (2) and 1953 censored, etc., mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £100

1358

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: France: 1933 to 1962, 69 covers or cards, with a wide range of rates and frankings, registered, 1933 cover with handstruck ''(A)NNULLATO'', WW.II and later censor marks, labels, etc., mostly good to fine. A comprehensive lot.

Price Realised £290

1359

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Great Britain: 1933 to 1950, 214 items, mainly covers with some postcards contained in two albums, with a wide range of rates and frankings, various routes and carriers, registered mail, the war time period with a good range of censor marks and labels, F.P.O.'s, etc., mostly good to fine. An excellent and replete lot.

Price Realised £1500

1360

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Great Britain: 1936 (Oct. 30) and 1937(Feb. 26) Imperial Airways Test Letters to London, former 1st Alexandria-Brindisi flown Canopus; latter 1st duplicate westbound flight Alexandria-Southampton flown Capella which was delayed by bad weather at Macon (passengers and mail forwarded by train – with newspaper report), both fine.

Price Realised UNSOLD

1361

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Germany: 1933 to 1952, 67 covers or cards, wide range of rates, Imperial and K.L.M., registered, handstruck crosses denoting air mail service completed, 1933 registered express cover, plus a disallowed franking, etc., mostly good to fine. Comprehensive lot.

Price Realised £300

1362

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Greece: 1933 to 1946, plus one late use in 1965, 29 items, good range of rates and frankings, Censorship & Greek Exchange Control labels and cachets, etc., mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £120

1363

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Italy: 1933 to 1949, 22 covers, range of rates and frankings, registered, censored, 1933 Francesco Crispi maritime cancellation, 1938 postage due, 1946 registered British F.P.O. 655, etc., mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £100

1364

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Netherlands: 1934 to 1951, 23 covers or cards, good range of rates and frankings, 1934 pictorial maritime cover, censors, 1940 cover delayed in France due to the war and not delivered until 1948 with Dutch instructional adhesive label, etc., mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £100

1365

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Sweden: 1935 to 1946, 17 covers, range of rates and frankings with registered, censors, 1945 with large O.A.T. cachet applied in London, etc., mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £80

1366

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Switzerland: 1934 to 1947, 56 covers or cards, good range of rates and frankings with registration, censors, various routes, carriers, 1935 attractive pair of 15 mill registration envelopes from Gash El Dubara with blue cancellations and registration cachets, etc., mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £340

1367

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Europe: Switzerland: 1934 to 1936 Egyptian franked Air Covers franked in combination with Swiss stamps for Express Delivery to Sulzer Freres, Winterthur, comprising 1933 60c. Swiss rate with Express label; 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1937 covers at Swiss 40c. rate with either postal or Telegraph cancellations, last with Telegraph security punch hole, one with light stains but good to fine and a scarce group. Sulzer Freres paid for mail sent from their Cairo office to go by Express mail within Switzerland to expedite business orders. Thus unusual Egypt/Switzerland modern combination covers.

Price Realised UNSOLD

1368

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Middle East: Collection of 51 covers, comprising to Aden(2); Bahrain (2, one 1933 registered 1st flight cover with arrival); Iran (3); Iraq (7); Lebanon (7); Palestine (21); Syria (5); Turkey (4), range of rates and frankings, majority good to fine.

Price Realised £450

1369

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Middle East: Egypt: 1940 to 1946, 15 covers sent surface mail within Egypt, including 1940 Express cover, 1942 registered Returned to Sender cover with cachets, four large covers early 1940s sent Insured with suitable higher frankings and impressive wax seals, War Time to M.E.F., etc., mostly good to fine. Air Mail stamps only valid for that service; Invalid for internal or surface mail until 1st August 1938

Price Realised £150

1370

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Middle East: Iraq, 1939 to 1941, six legal size covers between United States Legations in Cairo and Baghdad, rates from 30m. to 272m. with no two the same, one franking includes the 200m. which is scarce on cover. Various censor marks, good to fine.

Price Realised £150

1371

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Near and Far East: Collection of fourteen covers, comprising to Burma (4, one tatty but readdressed to Estonia); Ceylon (2); China (4, with 1935 90m. rate cover to Sven Hedin in Peking with bars to indicate air service completed, another with British Navy Patriotic label); Hong Kong (2); Vietnam (2, both via Bangkok and Cambodia), majority good to fine.

Price Realised £300

1372

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Near and Far East: India: 1933 to 1945, collection of 36 covers, good range of rates and frankings, registered, a few 1st Flights with acceptance for 1st Calcutta-Puri, eleven examples of the Karachi Cancelled cachet, censors, Indian type F.P.O. 17 (3) and 25 (2) cancelations, etc., mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £280

1373

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Near and Far East: Netherlands Indies, 1933 to 1946, 18 covers, including 1935 Postagent Batavia-Rotterdam on 90m. rate cover, Egyptian and Netherlands Indies censor marks and labels, good range of rates and frankings, etc., mostly good to fine. Good lot of scarce covers.

Price Realised £170

1374

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Oceania: Australia: 1934 to 1941, 21 covers or Parcel Cards, including 1934 cover bearing disallowed commemorative issues, 1935 twice delayed flight cover, 1940 Sydney Paquebot on Naval censor cover, a few 1st flight covers, range of censor cachets with Air Letter and two registered Parcel Cards, 1940 cover to Noumea, New Caledonia via Australia, etc., majority good to fine.

Price Realised £300

1375

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Oceania: New Zealand, 1937 to 1941, 14 covers or Parcel Cards, including 1937 Karachi cancelled cover with N.Z. 1d. postage due, 1940 and 1941 Parcel Cards (one with 200m. in franking), Forces with N.Z. Base Office, F.P.O. 1 (5), F.P.O. 2 (2), etc., majority good to fine.

Price Realised £160

1376

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: North and West Africa: Collection of 27 covers, comprising to Algeria (5); Dahomey; Djibouti (2); Eritrea; Ethiopia (5); Gold Coast; Nigeria (3); Sudan (6, one a front but one French Sudan); Tripoli (2 fronts); Tunisia 1938 1st flight, mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £200

1377

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: North and West Africa: Chad: 1936 (Feb. 11) 70m. rate from Imadel Din, Egypt 1st Flight cover Cairo-Khartoum-Fort Lamy and similar cover but Tunisia 1938 (Jan. 1) 60m. rate from Bab el Lud, Egypt 1st Cairo-Tunis, both registered with arrival backstamps, former with Air Afrique cachet and Non Reclame mark, both fine. Very few flown.

Price Realised £100

1378

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: North and West Africa: Djibouti: French Somalia, 1936 (Mar. 25) and 1936 (Apr. 2) 1st & 2nd Flight registered covers from Cairo-Djibouti at 95m. rate, former returned to sender, latter posted Imad el Din, both with arrival backstamps fine. Very few flown.

Price Realised £200

1379

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Southern Africa: Collection of 26 covers, comprising to Kenya (15); Tanganyika (7); Uganda (3); Zanzibar 1936 registered 1st flight via Wilson Air Line, etc., mostly good to fine. Good lot of scarce covers.

Price Realised UNSOLD

1380

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Southern Africa: Collection of 20 covers, comprising Belgian Congo (7, with 1936 1st flight to Buta, 1 of 10, five variously censored covers to same addressee); Madagascar (4); Mauritius; Nyasaland; Portuguese East Africa (3); Southern Rhodesia (3); Zanzibar 1936 registered 1st flight via Wilson Air Line, etc., mostly good to fine.

Price Realised £270

1381

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: South Africa: 1936 England to Johannesburg Air Race flown cover by Rose & Bagshaw posted on return trip from Cairo to U.K. with K.E.VIII 1/2d. confirming date of arrival in London, fine. Also Photo of pilots. Photo.

Price Realised £80

1382

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: South Africa: 1936 to 1948, 28 covers, including 1938 5m. postal stationery envelope with additional franking, range of rates, frankings, registered mail, censorship marks & labels, etc., majority good to fine.

Price Realised £120

1383

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: South America: Collection of 14 items, comprising to Argentina (6); Brazil (2); British Honduras (forwarded to U.K. where much readdressed); Chile 292m. registered from Legation; Panama; Puerto Rico; Uruguay 1938 270.m rate by Air France; Venezuela; frankings include 200m. stamp (2), etc., few faults but majority good to fine. Scarce lot.

Price Realised £280

1384

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: Canada: 1934 to 1946, 16 items, including 100m. rate Clipper covers (3), 1942 Parcel Card, censors, etc., chiefly good to fine.

Price Realised £120

1385

Sale number: 124

Egypt: Airmail Covers: United States of America: 1933 to 1946, 49 items, 1936 hand illustrated cover, range of rates, routes, frankings, registered mail, two with U.S. postage dues affixed, etc., majority good to fine.

Price Realised £750