Beschreibung:

cover 1919-80, the fine and extensive collection of flight XU5 and cards, to and from Siam dispalying a wide variety of frankings and postal rates including 1919 (Feb.) first flight Bangkok - Chandhaburi XU5 (2) and a card, and return flight XU5 and cancellation of blocks of four (3), 1922 Trial flight XU5 and card, both from Roi-Ed to Bangkok, 1923 (10 Jan.) Ubon - Bangkok XU5, (17.7) Ubol - Bangkok XU5 bearing 2s. imprint block of twenty, 1923 (Dec.) Nong Khay - Bangkok first flight card (50 carried) and other internal flights of the period to 1935; Contract Mail Service 1931 (Aug.) XU5 (4, including return flight), 1927 (6 July) K.L.M. return flight to Amsterdam showing "BY DUTCH PASSENGER SERVICE" cachet, 1928 (13 Sept.) K.L.M. trial flight Amsterdam - Singora - Bangkok delayed XU5, 1928 (2 Oct.) Bangkok - London, 1929 (17 Dec.) Bangkok - London through flight XU5 and other early K.L.M. FLIGHT XU5 (5) to 1934, 1929 (22 Dec.) goodwill flight card to India (showing return postmarks), 1930 (30 Dec.) goodwill flight XU5 to Hanoi, 1936 (Dec.) Bangkok to Japan experimental flight return trip XU5, 1939 (4 Feb.) Bangkok to Japan (via Formosa), together with numerous Imperial Airways and other contemporary companies flights as well as a large number of later items to 1980. A fine representative study, carefully annotated throughout, displaying the complexity of these early flights. (253 items)