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The Honduras airmail officials are from 1933. They are Sanabria 119d (red) and Sanabria 121d. Scott lists 36 stamps for this series -- CO15-43. It lists no varieties. The 1972 Sanabria lists 60 main numbers and 160 varieties! Both of these stamps are varieties (imperforate between).
There is a vast number of varieties in older Honduras airmails. Scott lists most, but for some reason did not on this issue.
The printing quality on the pictured stamps and others I have from this series is poor.
The Aegean Islands stamps are CE1-2, airmail special delivery from 1932. The Canadian semi-official is CL13, from 1926. And the two Nicaraguan airmail officials are CO2b-3b, issued in 1929.
I bought the Honduras stamps from a fellow in Taiwan, on eBay. The rest came from Eastern Auctions, in Canada.
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Great lookin' stamps Ed, thanks for sharing them with us. I especially like the Canadian and Italian stamps.
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I can't say why, but airmail stamps, to me, should look like airmail stamps! Of course, my "airmail" collection includes what are really airplane topicals/thematics, but what the hey!? Here are a few stamps, not necessarily my favourites, but they'd already been scanned:
This stamp shows a T-34 Mentor trainer, the plane that tried to kill me when I was 19. See Surviving a plane crash in the Black Range.
A Hurricane fighter flying over the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa:
The six-cent value of the 1942 Canadian "War Issue," showing a student pilot climbing into a Harvard trainer. Note the plate inscription. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was a Canadian initiative that resulted in the training of thousands of Commonwealth air crew during the Second World War.
Iceland airmail issue:
Detail of one of the Iceland stamps, clearly used as a model for Disney animators! I kinda doubt that airplane could fly...
And finally, a block of Cuba stamps picturing my favourite airliner, the Lockheed Constellation. You gotta wonder, what good has the embargo of Cuba by the U.S. done for the U.S. economy? After the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuba has purchased Soviet/Russian airliners.
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I had never looked closely at that Icelandic stamp. That's an amazing rendering. It's possible that the artist had never seen an airplane.
I think the Connie was a beautiful plane, too. They're more fun to look at, though. I flew in one nearly 50 years ago from Kansas to Virginia. That was a long flight with lots of vibration.
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It's hard to believe that anyone in 1934 wouldn't have had a better idea of what aircraft looked like. I suspect that the artist was engaging in some artistic license.
I too had a long and memorable flight in a Connie, in 1963, from Travis Air Force Base to Tokyo. I tell that story in my web page, Low & Slow in a “Connie†— Flying to Japan in 1963.
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".... I suspect that the artist was engaging in some artistic license. ...."
Really ???
I hope that someone revoked his license for sure.
I only met a few Islandic seamen in my career. They were all rather nice and I assume competent, but talk about having a wooden leg, they certainly did love their schnaps.
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Some new airmail buys:
The Honduras airmail officials are from 1933. They are Sanabria 119d (red) and Sanabria 121d. Scott lists 36 stamps for this series -- CO15-43. It lists no varieties. The 1972 Sanabria lists 60 main numbers and 160 varieties! Both of these stamps are varieties (imperforate between).
There is a vast number of varieties in older Honduras airmails. Scott lists most, but for some reason did not on this issue.
The printing quality on the pictured stamps and others I have from this series is poor.
The Aegean Islands stamps are CE1-2, airmail special delivery from 1932. The Canadian semi-official is CL13, from 1926. And the two Nicaraguan airmail officials are CO2b-3b, issued in 1929.
I bought the Honduras stamps from a fellow in Taiwan, on eBay. The rest came from Eastern Auctions, in Canada.
Ed Foster
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Great lookin' stamps Ed, thanks for sharing them with us. I especially like the Canadian and Italian stamps.
Mike
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I can't say why, but airmail stamps, to me, should look like airmail stamps! Of course, my "airmail" collection includes what are really airplane topicals/thematics, but what the hey!? Here are a few stamps, not necessarily my favourites, but they'd already been scanned:
This stamp shows a T-34 Mentor trainer, the plane that tried to kill me when I was 19. See Surviving a plane crash in the Black Range.
A Hurricane fighter flying over the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa:
The six-cent value of the 1942 Canadian "War Issue," showing a student pilot climbing into a Harvard trainer. Note the plate inscription. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was a Canadian initiative that resulted in the training of thousands of Commonwealth air crew during the Second World War.
Iceland airmail issue:
Detail of one of the Iceland stamps, clearly used as a model for Disney animators! I kinda doubt that airplane could fly...
And finally, a block of Cuba stamps picturing my favourite airliner, the Lockheed Constellation. You gotta wonder, what good has the embargo of Cuba by the U.S. done for the U.S. economy? After the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuba has purchased Soviet/Russian airliners.
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I had never looked closely at that Icelandic stamp. That's an amazing rendering. It's possible that the artist had never seen an airplane.
I think the Connie was a beautiful plane, too. They're more fun to look at, though. I flew in one nearly 50 years ago from Kansas to Virginia. That was a long flight with lots of vibration.
Ed Foster
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It's hard to believe that anyone in 1934 wouldn't have had a better idea of what aircraft looked like. I suspect that the artist was engaging in some artistic license.
I too had a long and memorable flight in a Connie, in 1963, from Travis Air Force Base to Tokyo. I tell that story in my web page, Low & Slow in a “Connie†— Flying to Japan in 1963.
Bob
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
02 Jul 2014
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".... I suspect that the artist was engaging in some artistic license. ...."
Really ???
I hope that someone revoked his license for sure.
I only met a few Islandic seamen in my career. They were all rather nice and I assume competent, but talk about having a wooden leg, they certainly did love their schnaps.
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