1920s-30s AIRMAILS MISCELLANY- INCL. ENV. EX THE U.K. TO UGA...

Hammer

£70

1920s-30s AIRMAILS MISCELLANY- INCL. ENV. EX THE U.K. TO UGANDA INTENDED TO BE CARRIED ON THE ILL-FATED THIRD EXPERIMENTAL EAST AFRICA SERVICE SOUTHWARD FLIGHT OF MARCH 1927: Env. ex Oxted (Surrey) bearing KGV ½d, 1d & 6d adhesives plus black/blue airmail label addressed to Kampala. Backstamped Kisumu (31 March) & Kampala (4 April) alongside red "KENYA-SUDAN/MR 31/27/AIRMAIL" cachet. The env. was intended for the Fairey III service to Jinja which was suspended due to a crash into Lake Victoria on the Northbound leg (12 March) & subsequently was carried by rail. It is not clear why the env. was given the Kenya-Sudan Air Mail flight cachet. Also a group inc. 1931 (March) env. per 1st Imperial Airways flight bearing "AIR MAIL" 10m & 2p tied by fine "SUDAN AIR MAIL/WADI HALFA" c.d.s. of 13th March & with violet first flight cachets at foot of cover, 1935 env. with Sherwood Foresters crest on flap ex Khartoum to Sandgate, Kent, 1936 (March) O.H.M.S. env. ex Gebeit to Aboukir with black oval h.s. of No. 207 (Bomber) Squadron of the R.A.F., 1937 R.A.F. Stationery env. ("Sans Peur" pictorial crest of 47 Squadron on flap addressed to Deal bearing 5m Postman & 3p Gordon Statue adhesives tied by fine "SUDAN AIR MAIL/KHARTOUM" c.d.s., etc. (10)