Canadian Commercial Air Mail Covers

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 BW11-43
$60.00 
#'s 241x2, 260x2 pay the 60 cent double rate on this August 15, 1942 air mail cover from Montreal to Switzerland. Canadian censor tape at left & Mannenbach Sep. 21 1942 receiver on the back.
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 BW11-44
$60.00 
#'s 175, 199 pay the 25 cents per half ounce rate on this January 8, 1936 air mail cover from Toronto to Jamaica. Malvern, Jamaica Jan.15 1936 receiver on back. Small repaired tear at top just to left of #175.
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 BW11-45
$80.00 
#'s 257, 260 pay the 30 cent air mail rate on this December 2, 1943 Prisoner Of War letter card mailed from Camp 44, Grande Ligne, Quebec to Germany. Canadian DB/382 censor handstamp on front as well as a German Ab handstamp, which shows it was not read & simply passed along. One of the scarcer Canadian POW camps for mail.
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 BW11-48
$95.00 
June 24, 1939 35 cents per quarter ounce rate cover plus 10 cents for registration on this cover to Argentina. Part of back flap missing. Has Miami transit back stamp & 4 Argentine receiver backstamps. An attractive cover.
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 BW11-49
$150.00 
#'s 243 x 2, 244 pay the 90 cent Pam Am Clipper air mail rate on this February 10, 1941 cover to Australia. Australia censor tape at left. No Canadian censor markings.
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 BW11-50
$95.00 
April 21, 1932 double rate cover (15 cents per half ounce) to Southern Rhodesia. Vertical fold through 20 cent stamp & some minor tears, but a very scarce destination.
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 BW11-51
$150.00 
March 10, 1941 90 cent rate Pan Am Clipper cover across the Pacific & then up to Egypt. Mailed from Victoria, BC. Egypt censor hand stamp on front.
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 BW11-52
$195.00 
#227 $1 Champlain single use cover paying 3 x the 30 cent per half ounce trans-Atlantic air mail rate plus the 10 cent registration on fee on this #10 size cover from Charlottetown PEI to the UK. Vertical fold at left through "REGISTERED". A great exhibit cover.
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 BW11-58
$95.00 
#E4, C3 & 196 pay the special delivery air mail rate on this October 3, 1933 air mail cover from Winnipeg to Chicago, IL. Nice Marlborough Hotel advertising cover, with picture obscured by the E4. Rough opening at right as can be seen in the scan.
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 BW11-67
$125.00 
March 1946 War Issue cover to Colombia at the 25 cent per half ounce rate. Arrived Barranquilla, Colombia March 22, 1946 (back stamp) & re-addressed to Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Forwarding to USA paid for with 2 x 15 centavo Colombia stamps A great cover. Some minor creasing, but still a great exhibit piece.
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 BW11-68
$95.00 
July 6, 1943 POW air mail post card from the Milag Nord POW camp to Montreal, QC. Rated 10 centimes postage due. Air Mail label is printed on the card. Has 2 vertical folds. Nice item.
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 BW12-1
$160.00 
June 5, 1930 air mail cover from Toronto to Belgium sent at the old 13 cent rate that had ended March 1st. Rate should have been 15 cents. No postage due marknigs. Franked C1 & 154.
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 BW12-3
$60.00 
June 7, 1944 censored cover from Grace Bay, Nova Scotia to Costa Rica. Canadian "OPENED BY CENSOR DB/669" censor tape at left. Note slogan at left of cover "DON'T TALK ABOUT NAVAL ARMY OR AIR FORCE ACTIVITIES CARELESS TALK MAY CAUSE LOSS OF LIFE'. Part of back flap missing. Franked with 249, 254 & 255 x 2.
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 BW12-4
$60.00 
Montreal March 9, 1937 cover to George Town, British Guiana. March 17, 1937 receiver. Franked with 218 x 11, 219. Rate 25 cents per half ounce.
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 BW12-5
$75.00 
#226 the 50 cent Victoria Parliament Buildings issue pays the double rate on this February 26, 1938 cover from Hespler, Ont. to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Appears the post office charged the wrong rate. Rate should have been 70 cents for a double rate cover to Argentina. Only charged the Brazil rate. Buenos Aires March 9, 1938 receiver on back.
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 BW12-6
$50.00 
March 17, 1939 6 cent "All Up Empire Rate" cover from Toronto to India. Lohaghat, India receivers on back (2). Then re-directed to Tejam, India. 6 cent rate paid with a pair of #233.
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 BW12-7
$50.00 
Toronto May 17, 1937 25 cent rate cover to Puerto Rico. Paid with #'s 221, 225. San Juan May 21 receiver on back.
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 BW12-8
$60.00 
Toronto August 28, 1936 25 cent rate cover to Cape Town, South Africa. Rate paid by #'s 218, 219, 225. Cover has 2 vertical folds, but still an attractive item.
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 BW12-11
$65.00 
Vancouver September 27, 1934 35 cent rate air mail cover to South Africa via the U.K. Franked with 175, 196 x 2, 199, C3. Minor corner creases bottom right.
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 BW12-13
$50.00 
Toronto October 19, 1945 12 cent rate cover to Cristobal, Canal Zone. October 24, 1945 company received hand stamp on back. Franked with # 254 x 3.
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 BW12-14
$60.00 
January 31, 1937 25 rate cover from Montreal to Cape Town, South Africa. Endorsed "via SS Bremen Air Mail" from London. Partial Union Castle January 31, 1937 back stamp. Some minor creasing at right & small pieces of the back flap are missing.
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 BW12-16
$95.00 
Toronto December 8, 1937 35 cents per half ounce rate air mail cover to Sydney, Australia. Flown air mail in Canada, surface to the UK, Imperial Airways to Singapore & Quantas to Australia. Sydney January 7, 1938 receiver on back. Minor faults at both top corners.
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 BW12-17
$250.00 
A twin engine Piper Commanche plane, on a flight from Anchorage, Alaska to Oslo, Norway crashed in the Yukon after having engine trouble. The disappearance of the plane caused the widest Alaskan & Yukon search until that time & after 18 days, the pilot T. Tjonveidt & the navigator E.S.Pederson were found alive but injured. Only 6 covers, prepared by the addressee, were carried by the pilot to Inuvik & cancelled there on October 27, 1967. No special crash cachet was applied, but both the pilot & navigator autographed the cover. Very rare item. great exhibit piece for the Centennial or Interrupted mail collector.
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 BW12-18
$60.00 
Toronto October 3, 1939 33 cent rate cover to South Africa. Return DLO Cape Town November 8, 1939 & Ottawa DLO Jan3, 1940 back stamps. 30 cent Empire rate overpaid by 3 cents. Some faint writing on the back not postal related.
 
 
 
 
 




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