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Auction: 11001 - Winter Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 81

Canada Semi-Official Air Post Stamps A collection in two stockbooks and some large album pages; a fine representation including Aero Club of Canada 1918 (25c.) perforated essay without numerals and the red printing, (25c.) singles (2, one without red frame, 6 known) and 25c. tête-bêche pair; Aero Club of Canada Toronto-New York 1919 $1 complete pane of ten (3 known); Estevan-Winnipeg 1924 $1 vertical pair (the pane of two); Moose Jaw Flying Club Moose Jaw -Winnipeg 1928 ($1) red on white; Laurentide Air Service Ltd. Hailey-Rouyn 1924 Second Issue (25c.) booklets (3); Jack V. Elliott Air Service Lake-Rolling Portage-Sioux 1926 "Swastikas" (25c.) complete sheet of sixteen and (25c.) imperforate block of four with the upper-left stamp showing "air service" omitted; Elliott-Fairchild Air Service Red Lake and Rouyn Goldfields 1926 (21 Mar.) (25c.) block of four with type varieties, 1926 (7 Apr.) (25c.) imperforate plate proof complete sheet of sixteen in red and black and issued (25c.) imperforate vertical pair; Elliott Fairchild Air Transport Co. Ltd. Rouyn-Haileybury 1926 (25c.) vertical strip of five; Fairchild Air Transport Ltd. Northern Ontario-Rouyn Goldfields 1926 (25c.) ultramarine complete sheet of ten; Patricia Airways and Exploration Co. Ltd. 1926-27 Styles 1-3 including proofs, single stamps and sheets with Style 3 (50c.) proof sheet of eight without red printing (printed number "1"), issued sheet of twelve with red printing (printed sheet "3") and a sheet of eight without red printing (printed sheet "6"), both signed by the designer; Western Canada Airway Service 1927 (10c.) horizontal block of ten with shifted perforations; Western Canada Airways Jubilee Issue 1927 complete pane of fifty; Yukon Airways and Exploration Co. Ltd. 1927 die proofs in black with reversed design (3); British Columbia Airways Ltd. 1928 5c. pane of fifty-five; Klondike Airways Ltd 1928 25c. pane of four; Cherry Red Airplane Ltd. 1929 10c. panes of fifty (3); Commercial Airways Ltd. 1929-30 (10c.) "via air" proof, four different colours in matched horizontal pairs with [2] in each showing "c" flaw and proof set of six different colours from the lower left corner of the sheet; Canadian Airways Ltd. 1932 (10c.) with shades and blocks, and "10 cents" proof in violet. Generally very fine. A magnificent and most interesting collection of these fascinating stamps which would form the basis of an award-winning collection when mounted and written-up. Unitrade cat. c. $57,000 Estimate £ 15,000-18,000 provenance: Sir Gawaine Baillie, 2007

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