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.
1927 (Feb 14-23) RAF Display cancels of Risalpur (Feb 18) with Delhi arrival backstamp and bearing a photographic By Aeroplane vignette, or of Delhi (Feb 22) with Lahore arrival datestamp (Feb 23), both franked 1a. Also Feb 14 covers from Karachi with KGV stamps...

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.
1927 (May 24) Croydon to Australia flight by Dennis Rook, which ended when he crashed near Aurangabad. Cover to Rawalpindi, flown as far as Karachi with KGV 1a cancelled at Drigh Road (June 22), fine and very scarce. Photo on Page 161.
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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.
1927 (July 2) De Havilland Moth demonstration flight over Calcutta, flown by Ft. Lt Vetch in the aeroplane that won the 1926 Kings Cup, a cover and card both with printed explanation in red and a moth cachet, KGV stamps cancelled at Calcutta (July 1) 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.
1927 (July 12) Calcutta to Karachi return flight by Geysendorffer and Scholte, flown cover bearing flight vignette, a 1a cancelled upon arrival at Karachi, fine and rare, just 15 covers flown. Photo on Page 161.
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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.
1927 (July 15) Calcutta to Shillong flight by Ft. Lt. W.H Vetch, cover franked 1a, posted at Cherrapunji (July 17), backstamped at Shillong, with violet flight cachet. A few tiny tone spots, otherwise fine and scarce. 35 Covers were flown from Calcutta to...

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.
1927 (Nov 3) Paris to Saigon and return flight by Capt. Leon Challe, cover carried on the return flight from Calcutta to Karachi with a flight vignette tied by the cachet "ROGER LATAPIE" (the name of Challe£s plane) with violet "CONSULAT GENERAL DE FRANCE /...

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.
1927 (Dec.) England to Australia flight in the "Red Rose" by Mrs Jessie Miller and Capt. W.N Lancaster, page bearing the signature of Capt. Lancaster dated Dec. 20 (the day before the plane left Calcutta), and the two differing colour labels for use on covers...

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.
1927 (Dec 21) England-Australia "Red Rose" flight, cover flown from Calcutta to Rangoon bearing the white vignette, a 1a stamp cancelled at Park Street, Calcutta (Dec. 18), backstamped at Botataung and Rangoon (Dec. 31). A fine cover, 52 flown. Photo on Page...

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.
1927 (Dec 21) England to Australia "Red Rose" flight, cover to Manila, flown from Calcutta to Singapore, bearing the white vignette with three 1/2a stamps cancelled at Park Street, Calcutta (Dec. 18), backstamped at Singapore and Orchard Road (Jan. 9) and Manila...

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.
1928 (Jan 1) R.A.F Empire Cruise Seaplane flight by Gp.-Capt. Cave-Brown-Cave, souvenir picture postcard flown from Bombay to Colombo bearing the "Empire Cruise Bombay-Colombo" vignette and circular "BY / AIR" cachet, the India 1/2a cancelled upon arrival at...

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.
1928 (Feb 3) R.A.F Empire Cruise Seaplane flight, 1/2a postcards (2) and a cover franked 3p (2) + 1/2a all flown from Calcutta to Akyab, the cover with the yellow flight vignette, the postcards with the printed cachet showing the outline of India in red or green...

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.
1928 (Feb 11) "Germania" flight cover carried from Etawah to Calcutta bearing the flight vignette and a 1a stamp cancelled upon arrival at Calcutta, signed by the German aviators Otto Koennecke and Johannes Hermann, fine and scarce, just 24 covers flown. Photo...