£600 - £700
Provincial Airways - West Country Air Service. 1933 Covers, postcards, letters and ephemera, including proofs of the 3d air stamp (6), mint sheets of four (6, shades, all four printings) and stamps on covers (14) flown from Croydon to Plymouth (4, one signed by the pilot S.W.A Scott), Croydon to Southampton, Plymouth to Croydon (2), Southampton to Croydon (3, one signed by Scott), Southampton to Plymouth (2), or Croydon to Plymouth and back to Croydon (2). Also letters concerning the forthcoming service (2, one bearing a mint air stamp); postcards of aircraft (2, one signed by Scott); luggage label; letters to A. Phillips or John Davis concerning the sale of mint air stamps or stamped covers, etc. (11); flight ticket; advertising brochures or time-tables (8); an amusing series of letters from the G.P.O to George King concerning detained flight covers which contravened "Poste Restante" rules (4); and letters from the pilot S.W.A Scott (2), a fine group. (57).
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