Stamped Covers Related to the Airlines

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Stamped Covers Related to the Airlines

Collecting stamped covers is a whole world in its self and I admit I have very little knowledge in that area. Since I collect airline postcards I've run into some stamped covers with references to various airlines. I've put together a small group of those to supplement my postcard collection. Here is a group that I found interesting. The earliest airline I found who made stationary advertising for their airline is Lignes Aeriennes Latecoere of France who made orange border envelopes for their flights from Morocco. I believe they started in 1922 though my earliest cover is dated 1923. I'm listing all of those I have first and then various other stationary envelopes from other airlines around the world by date. This album will be a long work in progress.

Album by Barry Hepsley. 1 - 46 of 46 Total. 609 Visits.

1 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 27 June 1923 I believe this early style cover was first issued in 1922.	2 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 27 June 1923 The airline name is at the bottom on the back of this cover.	3 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 17 March 1925 The first two styles of covers had the airplane graphic top center on the front of the cover.	4 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 17 March 1925 This style cover has the airline name on the back at the top of the cover.	5 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 19 August 1925 Another example of the previous cover that used non-airplane stamps.	6 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 19 August 1925 This is a duplicate of the previous cover.	7 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 28 February 1927 I also thought the stamps with the plane on them were pretty cool and I was able to get covers that used all the denominations of the stamps.	8 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 28 February 1927 Starting with this style cover the name of the airline is not on the cover.
9 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 6 September 1927	10 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 6 September 1927	11 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 29 February 1928	12 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 29 February 1928	13 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 11 August 1928	14 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 11 August 1928	15 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 10 July 1929	16 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 10 July 1929
17 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 25 November 1929	18 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 25 November 1929	19 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 23 May 1931	20 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 23 May 1931	21 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 8 November 1931	22 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 8 November 1931	23 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 24 February 1933	24 Lignes Aériennes Latécoère. 24 February 1933
25 West Indian Aerial Express 1927 Signed by Pilot Basil L. Rowe.	26 West Indian Aerial Express 1927 Basil Rowe made a large number of these covers and they are still pretty common.	27 Aeropostale 1928	28 Aeropostale 1928	29 Syndicato Condor 1930	30 Syndicato Condor 1930	31 N.Y.R.B.A. 1930 There are many early air mail covers generated by stamp dealers to be sold to their customers.	32 N.Y.R.B.A. 1930 I bought this one because of the NYRBA poster stamp on the back of the cover.
33 Boeing Air Transport. May 1, 1931. An airport cover with several early airline names rubber stamped on the front.	34 Panair. November 1, 1931	35 Panair. November 1, 1931	36 Hindenburg 1936	37 Hindenburg 1936	38 Air France - Aeromaritime. February 26, 1937	39 Air France - Aeromaritime. February 26, 1937	40 United Air Lines. May 5, 1937. Similar route map graphics were used on United's postcards of the same period.
41 Panagra - Panair 1938	42 Panagra - Panair 1938	43 Air France. February 4, 1938. This cover went from Argentina to Switzerland via Air France.	44 United Air Lines. May 19, 1938. Air Mail Week covers were made for stamp collectors. This one has a nice graphic of a United Air Lines plane.	45 United Air Lines. July 10, 1942 This cover was signed by the pilot and the local postmaster.	46 CORREIO AEREO History of Airmail in Brazil by William Victor Kreibel. The book, which is available from the American Air Mail Society, shows covers of all the airlines who flew into Brazil. This book started my interest in covers related to the airlines.

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