Lot 7
1918 (Oct. 7th - Nov. 30th) ‘Make your Sixpence Fly’ cards and souvenirs ‡
The Moody Tidwell Collection of South Africa, with Important Pioneer Airmails | S26032
Auction: 17 December 2026, 10:00 GMT
Description
1918 (Oct. 7th - Nov. 30th) ‘Make your Sixpence Fly’ cards, all with Aerial Post cancels. Large wings; Oct. 7th first flight on glossy white card (corner fault), and a further first Cape Town aerial postcard to London with 1d definitive and 3d ‘Our Day’ Red Cross label, both tied by Aerial Post cds (stains, the label with a surface thin); Oct. 26th second flight signed by the pilot Lt. Gearing, and another locally used, rather tired and grubby but scarce; Nov. 2nd third flight with Our Day label. Small wings; Nov. 20th Johannesburg flight, Nov. 24th Germiston flight to USA, Nov. 27th Pretoria flight and Nov. 30th Benoni flight. Also an unused souvenir envelope with the Our Day label. A good group
