483P

1929 Typed address first flight Antigua - USA cover to San Juan with black on light blue By Air Mail bilingual label applied sent on Lindbergh's return pioneering flight at 9d rate bearing Antigua KGV 3d & 6d definitives tied by St John's Antigua cds dated 26 September 1929. San Juan illustrated slogan bilingual machine cancel dated 26 September 1929 on reverse. ()

£20.00

484P

1943 Incoming air mail cover typed Antigua address carried on First Air Mail Flight British Guiana to Antigua via Trinidad by British West Indies Airways sent registered at 34c rate (Sterling 1d = 2c) 11½d air mail plus 2½d surface mail and 3d registration = 1s 5d bearing KGVI 4c, 6c & 24c definitives tied by individual strikes of Air Mail GPO British Guiana double ring cds dated 5 April 1943. Same cds on reverse along with St John's Antigua cds dated 8 April 1943. British West Indies Airways was established in 1940 becoming a public company under an agreement with the governments of Trinidad¬ the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands who set a rate of 2½d per ½ ounce between these islands (one of the lowest rates in the world). The service was extended to British Guiana in September 1945. ()

£15.00

485P

1944 Typed address air mail commercial cover from Thomas Kelesick (green cachet on reverse) to a firm of book sellers in London England from Montserrat by sea to Antigua then air to New York then by sea to England at 2/6d rate (2s 4d transatlantic air mail fee plus 2d surface mail) Montserrat KGVI 6d & 1/- x 2 tied by GPO Plymouth cds's 9 July 1944. ()

£20.00

486

1946-47 Four typed address OHMS foolscap covers (1 grey rest manilla) from Antigua all addressed to Paul Dorn LA USA at 10d rate (7d air plus 3d surface mail) bearing Antigua stamps between August 1946 and August 1947 tied by St John's cds's. ()

£20.00