Airmails
Air Mail cover 1929 (16 Aug.) envelope carried on the pioneer Air Mail Service flight by the Lourenco Marques Aero Club to Inhambane, bearing 1929 50c. deep lilac (no other fees were required), cancelled by machine d.s. and showing rectangular flight cachet adjacent with arrival d.s. on reverse. The envelope is signed by the pilot J.A.S. Childs and is extremely rare thus. Photo
Details
Air Mail cover 1929 (16 Aug.) envelope carried on the pioneer Air Mail Service flight by the Lourenco Marques Aero Club to Inhambane, bearing 1929 50c. deep lilac (no other fees were required), cancelled by machine d.s. and showing rectangular flight cachet adjacent with arrival d.s. on reverse. The envelope is signed by the pilot J.A.S. Childs and is extremely rare thus. Photo
Further details
Accompanied by an article "Airmails of Portugese East Efrica" by Capt. M.F. Stern published by The Airport Journal in which the cover is illustrated