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India Pigeongram: 1941 (Apr 5) KALYAN FIRST PIGEON
MISSIVE cover from もっと見る India Pigeongram: 1941 (Apr 5) KALYAN FIRST PIGEON MISSIVE cover from Kalyan to Bombay
Pakistan Stamps & Postal History 1947 - 1961 An extensive
collection もっと見る Pakistan Stamps & Postal History 1947 - 1961 An extensive collection mounted upon 445 exhibition pages, presented as a detailed study of the stamps, postal stationery and overprints used from independence in August 1947 through to the issue of the decimal currency overprints in 1961 and the locals in use during that period. Constructed over several decades the collection has been carefully organised into ten specialised exhibits which run together to illustrate the numerous nuances from one district to another, as well as providing a detailed oversight of the evolution of the Pakistan Postal System and its stamps and postal history. The structure is; Volumes 1 & 2: the 1947 Ordinary, illustrating the use of British India stamps which were overprinted a few weeks into their use, with pages dedicated to districts; Azad Kashmir, Badomali, Bannu, Charsadda, Hyderabad, Jhelum, Chakwal, Khewra, Kohat, Lyallpur, Mansahra, Multan, Nowshera, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Shujabad, Bahawalpur (pre-accession & state), Baghdad, Bara Fort, Quaid, Nasik, Peshawar (including City) and Karachi. Volume 3: Pakistan Partition Postal Stationery, with 40 pages illustrating unused and used registered stationery, cards, envelopes, air letter sheets and airmail envelopes. Volumes 4 & 5: Service stamps similarly covering the districts. Volumes 6, 7 & 8: Locals, covering districts; Attock, Bannu (Lakki Marwat), Dadu, Dera Ismail Khan (Tank), Gujranwala, Hazara, Jhelum, Kalat & Kharan, Mirpur Khas (Umarkot & Shujabad), Nawabshah (Naushahro), Peshawar (Charsadda), Quetta (Harnai), Rawalpindi, Sanghar (Shahdadpur & Bhalwal / Shahpur), Tharparkar (Jamesabad), Thatta (Ladiun & Mirpur Sakro / Mirpur Bathoro), Karachi, Khairpur Mirs, Kohat (Hangu), Lahore (Mughalpura), Mardan, Mastung (Machine Prints), Volume 9: 1961 East Pakistan, covering districts; Barisal, Chittagong, Dacca, Dinajpur (Thakurgaon), Mymersingh, Khulna (Satkhira), Sylhet (Chandpur Bagon), Tippera (Shilmuri) and Hat Krishnapur. Volume 10: 1961 Surcharges, covering; decimal currency overprints, Security Printing Karachi, Forgeries & Errors and The Times Press. Noted; rare Mustung Machine Prints 9 Paisa on 1½ a. SERVICE stamp with variety ‘Overprint Inverted’ a used example and a very scarce Hazara District Mansehra provisional two-line handstamp on 3½ a. tied to a registered cover (also 2 on piece). A number of discovery pieces, including; Tippera District - Shilmuri machine overprint 6 Paisa on 1 a.; Faridpur District - Hat Krishnapur 25 Paisa on 4 a. and Sylhet District - Chandpur Bagon with large irregular boxed handstamp in Bengali script in purple on 8 a. Also, an unrecorded manuscript 6 Paisa surcharge in green ink on a vertical pair of SERVICE 1 a. tied to a Multan RMS envelope to Karachi and an unrecorded variety on a 1 a. red Rawalpindi surcharged with 7 Paisa in purple. An unofficial manuscript Pakistan on a stationery 1½ a. envelope uprated and sent registered from Jhelum to Lahore dated 12 April 1948 and a 1940 14 a. airmail envelope unused with overprint error PAKISTAN in black (Nasik), among many others. A broad range of values, frankings, combinations and postmarks, together with numerous overprint varieties. Condition is mixed in places, as is the case with mail from this area, however many fine examples. A unique assembly
Stephen H. Smith Signed Letters — India’s First もっと見る
Stephen H. Smith Signed Letters — India’s First Pigeongrams &
Early Airmail, 1931–1932
A remarkable pair of letters from Stephen H. Smith, a pioneering figure of Indian airmail and the first Indian pigeon mail, typed on official Indian Air Mail Society stationery and signed in ink.
The first, dated 18 February 1931, addresses Lady Ezra and recounts the inaugural pigeongram flight in India, when 42 pigeons — half military, half civilian — carried messages from Asansol to Calcutta. Each missive bore the name of its pigeon, and Smith describes his painstaking efforts to ensure the flight’s success, even arranging photographs for publication.
The second, 18 April 1932, sends two airmail covers from New Guinea, noting the Bird of Paradise stamps and their appeal to Sir David and Lady Ezra, reflecting Smith’s connections to the leading collectors of the era.
Both letters exhibit horizontal folds and gentle toning consistent with age, yet remain in excellent collector condition, with clear typed text and bold ink signatures. They are a rare, tangible witness to the birth of Indian pigeon mail and early international airmail, offering a direct glimpse into the world of pioneering aerophilately
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Borneo Camp Prisoner of War Mail - Kuching Camp, Sarawak もっと見る
Borneo Camp Prisoner of War Mail - Kuching Camp, Sarawak An
extraordinary collection of Prisoner of War cards, informatively
presented upon 11 pages, comprising seven cards including a
complete set of all 5 Types of Japanese POW cards, sent from
Kuching by Private Albert Briggs, a Prisoner in Borneo.
Additionally, a card written by the same prisoner when in transit
through Singapore (9 OCT 1942) and also an incoming card sent to
the Batu Lintang Camp. The collection comprises one example of each
of the Japanese PoW cards Types; 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 cards, all sent
to the Briggs family in Birstall, Leeds, West Yorkshire and each
showing censor chop with the red seal of camp commandant, Colonel
Suga, and red arrival censor handstamp. Additionally there is an
incoming card addressed to; Lieutenant D.P. Glasgow, British
Prisoner of War, Borneo Camp, dated 8th March 1944, received 21
September 1944. There is also an aerial photograph of the Batu
Lintang Prisoner of War Camp, Kuching, taken from a Royal
Australian Air Force reconnaissance aircraft shortly before the end
of the Japanese occupation of Borneo. The original was given to
Private Albert Briggs when recuperating in hospital on Labuan
Island, by the pilot of the plane who apologised for (unknowingly
at the time) putting the lives of the prisoner’s at risk during the
bombing of the air-strip being built by POW on the outskirts of
Kuching. The photo includes a key of 6 points of interest in the
camp. Accompanying this collection is a A4 page with a handwritten
story which was narrated to Jack Roberts (Mike Roberts' father)
directly by Albert Briggs. Some creases and faults although in the
main a remarkably well preserved group. Complete sets of cards from
the same prisoner are extremely rare and together with the
additional cards, and photograph, this represents a unique
opportunity to acquire a specialised collection which has resided
in the Mike J. Roberts family collection for two generations. Note:
Private Albert Briggs was born in April 1921 and left Britain as
part of a Heavy Anti-Aircraft Unit bound for India which was
diverted to Batavia. He was captured in Java early in March 1942
and transported to Borneo via Singapore. Briggs would have been in
the group that arrived in Kuching on 13 October 1943. The Prisoners
in this camp managed to construct a clandestine radio from material
found on the Camp or stolen from the Japanese. Private Briggs was
responsible for looking after a small tubular Erasmic shaving cream
tin which contained one of the parts for the radio. In one incident
Briggs was punished for stealing a coconut from Kuching docks and
confined for a month in a cage in which he could neither sit down
nor lie. When the Camp was eventually liberated in September 1945,
by Australian forces, Briggs weighed only 4½ stones. He spent three
days in Sarawak General Hospital and some time in Labuan before
being sent to recuperate in Bangalore. When he arrived home in West
Yorkshire on New Year’s Eve 1945 he weighed 11 stones
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MISSIVE cover from もっと見る India Pigeongram: 1941 (Apr 5) KALYAN FIRST PIGEON MISSIVE cover from Kalyan to Bombay
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collection もっと見る Pakistan Stamps & Postal History 1947 - 1961 An extensive collection mounted upon 445 exhibition pages, presented as a detailed study of the stamps, postal stationery and overprints used from independence in August 1947 through to the issue of the decimal currency overprints in 1961 and the locals in use during that period. Constructed over several decades the collection has been carefully organised into ten specialised exhibits which run together to illustrate the numerous nuances from one district to another, as well as providing a detailed oversight of the evolution of the Pakistan Postal System and its stamps and postal history. The structure is; Volumes 1 & 2: the 1947 Ordinary, illustrating the use of British India stamps which were overprinted a few weeks into their use, with pages dedicated to districts; Azad Kashmir, Badomali, Bannu, Charsadda, Hyderabad, Jhelum, Chakwal, Khewra, Kohat, Lyallpur, Mansahra, Multan, Nowshera, Quetta, Rawalpindi, Shujabad, Bahawalpur (pre-accession & state), Baghdad, Bara Fort, Quaid, Nasik, Peshawar (including City) and Karachi. Volume 3: Pakistan Partition Postal Stationery, with 40 pages illustrating unused and used registered stationery, cards, envelopes, air letter sheets and airmail envelopes. Volumes 4 & 5: Service stamps similarly covering the districts. Volumes 6, 7 & 8: Locals, covering districts; Attock, Bannu (Lakki Marwat), Dadu, Dera Ismail Khan (Tank), Gujranwala, Hazara, Jhelum, Kalat & Kharan, Mirpur Khas (Umarkot & Shujabad), Nawabshah (Naushahro), Peshawar (Charsadda), Quetta (Harnai), Rawalpindi, Sanghar (Shahdadpur & Bhalwal / Shahpur), Tharparkar (Jamesabad), Thatta (Ladiun & Mirpur Sakro / Mirpur Bathoro), Karachi, Khairpur Mirs, Kohat (Hangu), Lahore (Mughalpura), Mardan, Mastung (Machine Prints), Volume 9: 1961 East Pakistan, covering districts; Barisal, Chittagong, Dacca, Dinajpur (Thakurgaon), Mymersingh, Khulna (Satkhira), Sylhet (Chandpur Bagon), Tippera (Shilmuri) and Hat Krishnapur. Volume 10: 1961 Surcharges, covering; decimal currency overprints, Security Printing Karachi, Forgeries & Errors and The Times Press. Noted; rare Mustung Machine Prints 9 Paisa on 1½ a. SERVICE stamp with variety ‘Overprint Inverted’ a used example and a very scarce Hazara District Mansehra provisional two-line handstamp on 3½ a. tied to a registered cover (also 2 on piece). A number of discovery pieces, including; Tippera District - Shilmuri machine overprint 6 Paisa on 1 a.; Faridpur District - Hat Krishnapur 25 Paisa on 4 a. and Sylhet District - Chandpur Bagon with large irregular boxed handstamp in Bengali script in purple on 8 a. Also, an unrecorded manuscript 6 Paisa surcharge in green ink on a vertical pair of SERVICE 1 a. tied to a Multan RMS envelope to Karachi and an unrecorded variety on a 1 a. red Rawalpindi surcharged with 7 Paisa in purple. An unofficial manuscript Pakistan on a stationery 1½ a. envelope uprated and sent registered from Jhelum to Lahore dated 12 April 1948 and a 1940 14 a. airmail envelope unused with overprint error PAKISTAN in black (Nasik), among many others. A broad range of values, frankings, combinations and postmarks, together with numerous overprint varieties. Condition is mixed in places, as is the case with mail from this area, however many fine examples. A unique assembly
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A remarkable pair of letters from Stephen H. Smith, a pioneering figure of Indian airmail and the first Indian pigeon mail, typed on official Indian Air Mail Society stationery and signed in ink.
The first, dated 18 February 1931, addresses Lady Ezra and recounts the inaugural pigeongram flight in India, when 42 pigeons — half military, half civilian — carried messages from Asansol to Calcutta. Each missive bore the name of its pigeon, and Smith describes his painstaking efforts to ensure the flight’s success, even arranging photographs for publication.
The second, 18 April 1932, sends two airmail covers from New Guinea, noting the Bird of Paradise stamps and their appeal to Sir David and Lady Ezra, reflecting Smith’s connections to the leading collectors of the era.
Both letters exhibit horizontal folds and gentle toning consistent with age, yet remain in excellent collector condition, with clear typed text and bold ink signatures. They are a rare, tangible witness to the birth of Indian pigeon mail and early international airmail, offering a direct glimpse into the world of pioneering aerophilately
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(app. 171 EUR)
2026/04/16 22:00 CEST
(app. 171 EUR)
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＋10枚
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