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FLIGHT, NOVEMBER 2, 1933 AIR POST STAMPS By DOUGLAS ARMSTRONG (Editor of " Stamp Collecting ") Another British Air Stamp WHILE the prospect of an official air mail stamp for Great Britain seems to be remote as ever, the number of quasi- official British aero-labels grows apace. An unexpected addition made its appearance at the end of October under the auspices of Provincial Airways, Ltd., in connection with the reorganised London-Southampton-Plymouth ser vice. It is an oblong vignette printed in orange and blue and of the nominal value 3d. At the top of the design, between tablets bearing bold figures " 3d." in white upon a solid ground of orange appears an aeroplane in blue in conjunction with the name of the issuing concern. Across the centre extends the inscription " West Country Air Ser vice," surmounting three miniature views of the places served, i.e., London, represented by the Houses of Parlia ment ; Southampton, by an ocean liner and an aeroplane overhead, and Plymouth, by the Hoe, with the names below, separated by crosses. These vignettes, gummed and perforated, are apparently used to collect the special air post fee in the same way as those recently circulated by the Great Western Railway Company and International Air Lines, Ltd., making three varieties in all created in the British Isles within the present year. Picturesque Greek Issue One of the most attractive series of pictorial air mail stamps that has been produced as yet arrived from Greece on October 10, in substitution for that which has been current since 1926 in the air mail service operated by the Compania Aeroespresso Italiana between Italy, Greece, Turkey and Rhodes under contract with the Governments concerned. Although for the time being their status is merely semi-official, they are on sale by the Hellenic Post Office, and are exclusively employed to denote air post charges over this system. Engraved and printed in the admirable manner of the Bradbury, Wilkinson atelier at New Maiden, the subjects of the several designs embraced —an aviator behind the propeller of his machine (50 lepta, green and black), ruins of the Temple of Neptune at Corinth, with a flight of aeroplanes beside it (1 drachma, blue and orange), an aeroplane over the town of Hermou- polis, Syria, the site of an abandoned landing place (3 dr., brown and violet), an allegory of Flight (5 dr., blue and yellow), a map of the Brindisi-Athens-Istanbul-Rhodes air line (10 dr., red and black), the head of Mercury (20 dr., green and black) and another allegorical picture (50 dr., brown and blue). On the appearance of these stamps the former lithographic set was simultaneously withdrawn from circulation. A second series of " official " air stamps is impending in the same denominations to be employed over the air mail routes under direct government control. Latest Zeppelin Post Stamps Both Germany and the U.S.A. have provided distinc tive stamps for the special air mail carried by the airship Graf Zeppelin upon her latest triangular voyage to Brazil, the United States and back to Europe, calling en route at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. So far as the German issue is concerned, this consists of the three values in the existing type showing the dirigible passing over a terrestrial globe between the two Continents, viz., 1 mark carmine, 2 mk. ultramarine, and 4 mk. sepia, brought up to date by the addition of the inscription " Chicagofahrt Weltausstellung, 1933," in diminutive characters in the upper left-hand corner of the design. The new American " Zepp " stamp is, however, of new- design and of single value SO cents in traverse rectangular format, depicting the airship over the Atlantic, flanked on the right by a view of the " Zeppelin " hangar at Frie- drichshafen, and on the left by the towers of the Federal building at the Chicago World's Fair, the whole beautifully engraved and printed in light green. First placed on sale in New York on October 2, it was to "be withdrawn when the Graf Zeppelin was due to leave Akron, Ohio, for home on October 30. Holland-Java Air Stamps In connection with the projected non-stop air mail flight from Holland to the Dutch Indies, a special triangu lar air post stamp of 30 cents has been provided at either end for franking letters transmitted by the " Pandar " machine, which is expected to accomplish the trip in 3| to 4 days. This will be in all probability the last aero stamp to be issued in the Dutch Indies, as it has been decided to dis pense with distinctive stamps for air-borne correspondence in future, and to use up the balance of the stocks for ordinary postal purposes. Air Stamp Prices Air post stamps are about the only exceptions to a general and drastic marking down of values in a new cata logue of postage stamps of the British Empire, just pub lished (Regent Stamp Catalogue, Robson Lowe, Ltd., 5s.). Under " Newfoundland " we find the " Hawker " air mail stamp quoted at £350 unused and £180 on flown cover, whilst the still more elusive manuscript " Martinsyde " variety figure at £500 on cover, but is not quoted in un used condition. The market, we are told, is " steady, and likely to rise." The " Alcock " trans-Atlantic air post stamp is possibly under valued at 30s. mint and £17 10s. " flown," although it is stated that the market has " fallen recently." The mint " De Pinedo " stamp is listed at £400, whilst the " flown " cover seems cheap at £30, compared with the "Columbia" at £47 10s. The latter stamp, unused, is quoted at £60. Many air post collectors would be glad to pick up the latest " Balbo " flight provisional on cover for the same price as the un used stamp, viz., 30s. Generally speaking, however, the trend of values is upwards, confirming the view that air stamps are by far the most popular feature of the philatelic market to-day. * 4> •> <• Employment for Ex-Airmen THE Air Council point out that it is very desirable that all units should help in giving publicity to the ques tion of providing civilian employment for ex-airmen, an:l it is considered that displays, tattoos, tournaments, band concerts, or any Service performances which are attended by civilian audiences afford valuable opportunities for such publicity, as the audiences must necessarily include numbers of potential employers. The Council, therefore, hope that whenever C.O.'s are giving approval for per sonnel under their command to give such performances they will endeavour to arrange that suitable reference to the question of employment is made in the programme, and that, if practicable, posters are displayed at the place of the performance. • • • •:• PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED Airman's Escape. By Hermann Kohl. Translated from the German bv C. W. Sykes. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd. Price 8s. 6d. net. Schneider Trophy. By Wing Commander A. H. Orlebar, A.F.C. London : Seeley, Service and Co., Ltd. Price 12s. 6d. net. Conditions and Prospects of United Kingdom Trade in India, 1932-1933. Report by Sir Thomas M. Ainscough, C.B.E. Department of Overseas Trade, No. 557. London : H.M. Stationery Office, W.C.2. Price 3s. 6d. net. Combat. A Motor Racing History. By Barre Lyndon. London : William Heinemann, Ltd. Price 7s. 6d. net. NEW COMPANIES REGISTERED ECONOM SYNDICATE, LTD., 1, Broad Street Place, E.C.2. Capital £2,000 in £1 shares. Objects, to acquire and turn to account interests in any invention relating to economising in the use of petrol by internal-combustion engines and the improvement in the running of such engines, etc. Solicitor; : Mawbv & Barrie, 55'61, Moorgate, E.C.2. F. D. LOMAS & SON, LTD., Datchelor Place, Datchelor Street, Camberwell S.E.5. Capital, £5,000 in £1 shares. Acquiring the business of a sheet metal worker carried on by Fredk. D. Lomas at Datchelor Place, Datchelor Street, Camberwell, S.E.5, sheet metal workers and manufacturers of motor car ana aeroplane bodies and bodies and parts of vehicles of all kinds, etc. Directoi>: Fredk. D. Lomas and Samuel L. Cook, both of Datchelor Place, Datrh(i"r Street, Camberwell, S.E. •> • • • AERONAUTICAL PATENT SPECIFICATIONS Abbreviations : Cyl. = cylinder ; i.e. — internal combustion ; m.— moto.-- (The numbers in brackets are those under which the Specification will be printed and abridged, etc.) APPLIED FOR IN 1932 Published November 2, 1933. 9937. STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES, LTD., D'A. A. HODGSON, am. H. LARNDER. Aircraft radio aerial equipment. (399,343.) 10111. VICKERS (AVIATION), LTD., and B. N. WALLIS. Construction ^ wings for aircraft. (399,555.) ... ,,nf, 16199. FAIREY AVIATION Co., LTD., and A. G. FORSYTH. Flexible sua couplings, particularly for use on aircraft. (399,606.) 16467. W. R. TURNBULL. Aircraft propellers. (399,607.) APPLIED FOR IN 1933 Published November 2, 1933. 2558. CIERVA AUTOGIRO Co., LTD. Aircraft having rotative sustaimm means. (399,693.) . Inr ,jr- 15035. E. BLOCHMANN and H. POHLMANN. Towing-arrangement i<" craft. (399,756.) 1112
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