Malta. USA 1923-43 FOREIGN AIRMAIL COVERS USING FOURTH BUREAU...

Malta. USA 1923-43 FOREIGN AIRMAIL COVERS USING FOURTH BUREAU ISSUES. Quality collection of about 165 covers, Foreign Airmail direct (x75) or in combination with surface mail (x89), using FOURTH BUREAU and related issues. On homemade annotated pages describing each cover in detail and the rate calculations. Variety of frankings, destinations, postal markings, mixed frankings with Airmail stamps, first flights, registered, Zepplins, more. Highlights include 1928 S.S. ‘Ile de France’ ship to shore cover with $1 & 5¢; 1934 catapult cover S.S. 'Europa’ with 25¢ & 5¢ Beacon; 1936 registered on 'Hindenburg’ with two 20¢ Map plus 20¢ Golden Gate; 1939 30¢ single franking to London; 1940 to Greece, 'No Service,’ via Gibraltar (6¢ airmail entire, 20¢ Prexy, 4¢ Taft); 1929 25¢ single franking to Guadeloupe, returned; 1929 Marine Corps Haiti postmark to New Jersey; 1928 Round-the-World Zeppelin flight Lakehurst to Tokyo with $2 and 5¢ Beacon; 19?? $1 single franking, from Maine to cruise member c/o Grand Hotel in Yokohama; 1940 Registered Airmail to Lima, Peru, franked with $2 Capitol and $1 Prexy, mute oval, various handstamps and airmail etiquettes, soiled; 1941 15¢ single franking to Trinidad, censored; 1935 4x rate to Uruguay with $2 Capitol and 20¢ Map; 1935 large envelope Providence, RI, to Uruguay with $5 and two 20¢ Maps and 10¢ Lindbergh; 1940 30¢ single franking Detroit to Yugoslavia; 1926 C4-C6 on cover to England; 1928 10¢ single franking to St. Lucia, returned with 'Deceased’ handstamp; 1932 Montgomery, AL, first flight mixed franking to Manchuria, returned for insufficient address, Chinese paper affixed; 1929 Albany-Buffalo first flight cachet to Belgian Congo, underpaid and returned, 4 Belgian Congo stamps affixed; 1935 5¢ plus 25¢ Clipper airmail to Shanghai, via Honolulu, not claimed & returned to Wisconsin; 1936 8¢ single franking to Mokpo, Chosen, Japan (Korea); 1939 11¢ single franking San Francisco to Poland, returned 'Postal Service Suspended,’ Liverpool transit mark; 1933 6¢ entire with 30¢ Bison to Vienna via Berlin; 1936 long envelope with 12¢, 6¢ coil pair & 1¢ to Berbera, British Somaliland; 1938 50¢ single franking to Australia; 1937 New York by ship to Amsterdam then by air to Cairo, 4¢ block of 4 plus 5¢ West Point stamp; 1936 cover New York to Kirkuk, Iraq, with two 10¢, 4¢, 2¢ and 1¢, forwarded several times (Basrah, Abadan, Iran, Kuwait), India and returned to sender, covered in postmarks and manuscript directions; 1935 New York to Madagascar with 50¢ and 6¢ Winged Globe; more. Several are first flights, including San Juan-Paramaribo with 25¢ single franking, New York-Montreal, Canal Zone-Chile; more. Covers to Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and numerous other Latin American countries, Barbados, China, Denmark, Egypt, France (including 1940 'Service Suspended’), Germany (including 'Service Suspended’ mailed Dec. 3, 1941), Hong Kong, India, Iraq, Ireland, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, Thailand. Several high values used on multi-franked covers. Typical faults expected, overall fine to very fine. (Estimate 1200 - 1500 US$)

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