FIRST EMPIRE FLYING BOAT 1½d rate, SOUTH AFRICA to EGYPT postal history 1937 cover with Claremont sender address on reverse marked "First Empire Flying Boat 1½d rate" to Cairo, Egypt with 1½d tied Cape Town JUL 3 1937 machine, on arrival framed "RETOUR" and pencil "to sender", on reverse boxed "UNCLAIMED/NON RECLAME" handstamp, some toning. £24
FLYING BOAT CALPURNIA CRASH IN IRAQ, cover Muswell Hill to Invercargill, NEW ZEALAND postal history 1938 cover with several pages readable lengthy letter from Milly in Muswell Hill pmk'd 22 NOV 1938 to L.G. Crawford, Thomson & Beattie Ltd, Invercargill, New Zealand, stamp washed off with 2-line purple "RECEIVED IN DAMAGED CONDITION/EX FLYING BOAT CALPURNIA". £60
JUSQUA' A ROME, Malta postal history 1938 from A.J. Tayar, Lascaris Wharf (per flap) marked via Italy to Hamburg, Germany with KG6 1½d, 2½d pmk'd MY 17 38 d/rings, the airmail label struck through and purple boxed "PAR AVION JUSQUA' A ROME" added, reverse 19.5.38 transit. £75
VICTORIA to SOUTH AUSTRALIA postal history 1860 cover front and top flap marked per "Oscar Steamer" to Adelaide with 6d Queen on Throne pmk'd "1" paying the intercolonial rate to Adelaide, South Australia showing OC 13 1860 arrival and Melbourne C/OC 10 60 on top flap. £75
ST. VINCENT stamps: 1890 QV 2½d on 1d grey-blue (SG.55, Cat.£100), fresh mint block of four. £28