Private [or semi-postal] Airmail stamps,Labels or covers.

With respect Michael,
"deHavilland Tiger-Moth flying over Palestine, Circa 1934"

The Tiger Moth was a Bi Plane, this info may need a re-visit?
Cheers

Yes Rod, I had been curious all day whilst searching and from the info gleaned yesterday from the market.
It appears that it is most likely a Short Scion S-16 British-made plane which was used for the first public service 1937-40.
Palestine Airways had two such planes and later acquired a few others for their services between Lod [and later Sde Dov,Tel Aviv] to Haifa.
They later flew to Beirut, Lebanon their first International route.
The service and the company ceased in 1940 because of the war. The Royal Air Force impounded all planes in the region.

So the labels without the overprint are most likely earlier types before the Public service was set up. I have a date for the PATCO types as 1938 hence my 'circa' in the initial post.
There are other values but they are hard to find. I found two 25 mils values on eBay today for £17 [$27] each but no others. I did find an old auction listing for 7x25 Mils values and they are most likely the ones I purchased.

I can only assume that Aviron gave the remainders of their labels to Palestine Airways for use in their new service. I also assume that the pilots used by PATCO were trained at Aviron so there is a strong connection, although I cannot find a bond.

Back to work......

They're not in my 1959-60 Sanabria, either. But given the cover posted by Rod, they must have had a legitimate postal purpose.

I don't know much about Israeli stamps, as I only collect through 1940. I assume specialty catalogs of Israeli stamps are around. Do they list these stamps?

I spent four years in the U.S.A.F. and I thought the plane was a C-47 flying. I don't know what a "deHavilland Tiger-Moth" is. Also the C-47 was a popular plane during the 1940's -1960's and is/was still used in south America and many of the third world countries.

PATCO AVIRON 

Most respected dealers I have seen with this material
call the labels Fakes or Fantasies    Maybe created by one Mendel Shapira.
Ergo, will not show in any Air Catalogue I would think, unless they include fantasies

I give up on that one.

I've bought a lot of Canadian semi-officials. Never seen that one. It's not listed in Scott, Unitrade or Sanabria. The seller wants $100 Canadian. Gag! That's a lot to pay for a Roessler production.

A block of four of these things is being offered by Eastern Auctions in its Feb. 20-21 auction. The block is of the "scarce" orange tree variety. Eastern estimates a value of $500. It does not show a catalog number.



I watch auctions carefully and do not recall ever seeing this label. Now it has turned up twice, including the "scarce" orange tree variety. I don't know what to think.

It's Lot 520, at stampauctionnetwork.com/zm/zm84426.cfm

C.A. Longworth-Dames should have learned the difference between a sticker , a Label and a stamp before writing that piece. And the Editor of the Unitrade press should have been at his  butt to remind him.
It was nice to know the story, but to me, the continuous use of the word 'sticker' made that short write-up sound quite silly.

Londonbus1

PORTSMOUTH, SOUTHSEA AND ISLE OF WIGHT AVIATION LTD. [P.S.I.O.W.A.]

The company were based on the Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England but moved to the mainland when Portsmouth City airport was opened in July 1932. The airport was one of the last grass runway airports in the UK and closed in 1972.

After experimental and short runs on the South coast of England, the company made their first flight between Portsmouth and Ryde [IOW] on Feb 3rd 1934.
Unaware that the Post Office had a monopoly on mail delivery to the Isle of Wight, they produced Booklets of labels and charged 3d extra for carrying letters. 20 covers were flown both ways on the inaugural flight but the Post Office forbade any further carrying of mail !!

The labels were printed by Charpentier in blue with red serial numbers. They depict a plane flying over Portsmouth town hall.
Issued in booklets of 20, 5 panes of 4 stapled twice to a left-sided margin.
The first printing had straight edges around the pane. [Imperf x Perf 11½]. Nos 1-4000
The second printing were perforated 11½, Nos 4001-8000.

My pair is from the latter printing very near the end of the print run. They do not have gum and the few other copies I have seen did not have gum either.



An undated Grosvenor auction sold some covers [2], Proofs and Artist sketchwork at very high prices. Mint or unused labels have a varying price range from pennies to pounds, cents to dollars.

A further issue of two labels were produced but not used. They show an aircraft over the Needles Lighthouse on the IOW coast. They exist in Sepia and Blue. Perf 11½.

Londonbus1

I paid 99p for my pair !! [2014]

Make 1 more post anywhere on the forum and all of your posts will reflect 50 (the total post count is what you're seeing).

Great Post, nice write up.
I think it fabulous when stamps are covered like this, the information lives on for all collectors.
Why I like jkblues Blog so much.

These never arrived and I was a bit confused so I asked the seller when exactly he posted them. He told me the date and said they should have arrived the following day !!
It was then I realised that he posted them to my secondary address with Paypal !!

They were sent to England because Paypal have changed my address and THEY WILL NOT CHANGE IT BACK !! Nor can I edit it. So now I have to make sure that sellers use the address with eBay and not Paypal and I have to remind other sellers of that. Frustrating !