Christchurch Air Race, 5 Red Cross issues (50c) SG769-773 plus 25c airmail and 10c definitive; illustrated cover for 8 Oct 1953 with VF race cachet in violet; cancelled Rotterdam 23 September 1953; b/s Christchurch 11 Oct 1953
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Gold Coast registered airmail 1953
Gold Coast KGVI 6d (SG 142), 2/- (SG 144), 5/- (SG145), QEII 4d (SG 159) on registered packet-envelope, by airmail from Takemadi to Beckenham, 7 June 1953 (?)(before independence), very lightly cancelled; registration label completed in red ink ‘Tci(?); no clear b/s
St Vincent Registered envelope 1953
St Vincent Coronation 6 x 4c (2 on reverse) + KGVI 6d pictorial on registered airmail envelope, cancelled with s/r cds Kingstown St Vincent 18 June 1954, Registration GPO Trinidad 20 June, large red cds Montreal Registered 23 June, large purple d/s REGISTERED cds MONTREAL PQ 23 June 1953; a nice combination
Lundy Coronation Issue, 1953
7 Lundy small pictorials overprinted “Coronation 2-6-1953” on BPA-PTS Coronation envelope; Lundy to Barnstaple 2 June 1953; cancelled same day “Lundy-Coronation-God Save the Queen”
B.E.A Airletter Stamps, 1953
GB 2½ Coronation (SG 532) on long envelope with added British European Airways “stamps” 1/9d, 1/2d, 8d cancelled with boxed “Waterloo Air Terminal” 25 November 1943, to British European Airways, Birmingham. with small added h/s “To Be Posted on Arrival”. m/s on reverse states “flown in by helicopter”.
Netherlands Red Cross issue 1953 FDC
Red Cross issue of 5 values 1953 (SG 769-773) on illustrated First Day envelope 24 August, with pictorial red cross cancellations, s’Gravenhage to Sheffield, neat clean Red Cross item
27-153 Berlin Summer Olympics 1936
as description in BPS auction 27 (code 4709)
PORTUGAL ADVERTISING COVER 1953
5e, 1.50e, 10c Knight definitives cancelled CTT Restauradores 18 June 1953 on advertising envelope ‘Por Aviao’ to London; no back stamps; some faults to envelope
AIR RACE HOLLAND TO CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND 1953
Decorative illustrated envelope from Holland for the Christchurch Air Race 8 October 1953, franked with 5 Red Cross issues, 25c special air stamp & 5c Juliana issue (SG 769-773, 790a, 684), cancelled Eindhoven 29 September 1953 and with special cachet for the event; on reverse Christchurch arrival d/s 11 October 1953; violet h/s on front ‘Retour à l’Expéditeur’
FRANCE REGISTRATION VOUCHER FOR TRANSPORT COMPANY 1853
Small docket ‘Bulletin d’Enregistrement’ as part of ‘Correspondance des Messageries Nationales’ 21 October 1853(?) from Rennes to Vaud (?): a signred receipt for a registered article weight 7 poids, rarely seen