Lot 29
1929 Airmail Colour Trials and flown covers ‡





The Moody Tidwell Collection of South Africa, with Important Pioneer Airmails | S26032
Auction: 17 December 2026, 10:00 GMT
Description
1929 Airmail pair of stamps; the five colour trials printed on the back of obsolete Government Land Charts, with an extra 1s scarlet to display the reverse. Also 1929 (Aug. 26th) first flight from East London to Durban registered cover, signed by Lt. Caspareuthus the pilot; 1932 registered Wyndham cover Cape Town to Johannesburg, also signed Caspareuthus; 1933 Wyndham cover from the first Union Airways flight Durban to Germiston, signed by Lt. Bellin the pilot, and 1933 (Nov. 1st) Greenbaum envelope Durban to Port Elizabeth, first day of the rate reduction to 3d per ½ oz





