Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1925 (Feb 8) Anglo-Indian Survey Flight by Alan Cobham, 1a postal stationery envelope flown from Rangoon to Akyab and onto Calcutta, cancelled at Rangoon with an Akyab transit c.d.s on the front and a Calcutta backstamp, initialled "AJC". Just 32 covers carried...

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1925 (Feb 16) Anglo-Indian Survey Flight by Alan Cobham, 1/2a postal stationery postcard and a cover franked 1£4pi block of four both flown from Calcutta, the card flown to Delhi with a c.d.s and 1a due mark of Havelock Square, the cover flown to Karachi and...

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1925 (Feb 16) Anglo-Indian Air Survey Flight by Alan Cobham from Calcutta to Karachi, a cover and picture postcard depicting Cobham£s aeroplane, both posted at Drigh Rd., bearing the pink vignette and triangular cachet and signed by the flight engineer Arthur B....

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1925 (Feb 16) Anglo-Indian Survey Flight by Alan Cobham, a picture postcard depicting Cobham£s aeroplane and a cover both addressed to London, flown from Calcutta to Croydon, both bearing uncancelled and disallowed Indian stamps and the green flight vignette with...

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1925 (May 13) Marchese de Pinedo World Air Flight from Calcutta to Melbourne, the right portion of a cover addressed to Canterbury, Melbourne, bearing two uncancelled KGV 1a stamps, with the red cachet "Italian Consul General£s (Melbourne) letter of 12-11-25 / No...

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1925 (Dec 31) Calcutta demonstration flight by the RAF, printed "Grand Military Searchlight Tattoo" leaflet publicising a forthcoming event to aid RAF charities, dropped by plane over Calcutta. Handstamped circular "CARRIED BY AIR OVER CALCUTTA / 31 DEC 25 / 10...

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1926 (Jan 22) First flight from Karachi to Risalpur, flown by Ft. Lt Spence of the RAF, cover bearing two pen cancelled 1/2a stamps with the oval cachet "27 SQUADRON / ROYAL AIR FORCE" and very light Karachi Air Craft Depot cachet, inscribed and initialled "...

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1926 (April 4) Copenhagen to Tokyo flight by Botved and Herschend, two covers flown from Calcutta to Rangoon with the coloured Air Mails vignette, flight cachet and Danish Consulate Calcutta cachet, franked by two 1/2a stamps or a single 1a cancelled upon arrival...

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1926 (Apr 19) Spanish flight from Madrid to Manila by the Spanish aviators Lts. Loriga and Gonsalez, cover flown on the Karachi to Calcutta leg bearing the grey label "24 Via Aeroplane" and signed by Lt Loriga with a 1a stamp cancelled upon arrival at Calcutta,...

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1926 (Apr 21) Spanish flight from Madrid to Manila, cover flown from Calcutta to Manila with the vignette "BY SPANISH BREGUET BIPLANE - 1926 / FIRST TRIP / CALCUTTA-MANILA 18th APRIL 1926" and India 1 1/2a pair tied by an aeroplane cachet, a large aeroplane...

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1926 (July 16) England to Australia flight by Alan Cobham and Arthur Elliott, cover bearing the vignettes "AVAIL AIR MAILS" and "BRITISH FLIGHT / ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA 1926 / PILOT:- ALAN J. COBHAM / CARRIED FROM KARACHI TO CALCUTTA" with two 1/2a stamps cancelled...

The exceptional award winning collection featuring the 1911 Allahabad Flight, 1918-20 flights via the Persian Gulf, the Ross Smith flight to Australia and other pioneer flights.
1926 (July 23) England to Australia flight by Alan Cobham, cover with a printed black border and explanation that Arthur Elliot, the flight engineer, had been killed by a bullet fired from the ground between Baghdad and Basra. Flown from Calcutta to Melbourne...