1932 Irish acceptance for 9th South American Flight with Graf Zeppelin cachet + Galway-Berlin 1st Flight cachet

Irish Airmails: Galway-Berlin (First Flight Cover) 22nd October 1932 + Irish acceptance for 9th South American Flight with Graf Zeppelin cachet

Irish Airmail Cover: Timeline: Galway to Berlin with special green cachet Irish Free State 1/- blue, ½d green and 9d purple cancelled with a Galway c.d.s. dated 22nd October 1932 Galway-Berlin cachet (green ink) dated 22nd October 1932 Oranmore Aerodrome, Galway Baldonnel Aerodrome, Dublin Sealand Aerodrome, near Chester Croydon Aerodrome, London Rotterdam, Netherlands Tempelhof Airfield,…

1932 Galway-Berlin (First Flight Cover) 22nd October 1932, Galway-Berlin cachet in green ink, and "FIRST FLIGHT" cachet (also in green ink) and the commemorative Berlin receiver mark (in red)

Irish Airmails: Galway-Berlin (First Flight Cover) 22nd October 1932

Irish Airmail Cover: Galway-Dublin-Berlin: The Flight This was the first “direct” airmail flight from Ireland to the Continent with the aim of speeding up mail from Ireland to Europe and, hopefully, as a precursor to setting up regular services. Prior to this experimental flight, all such mail had to be routed by sea to England,…

1929 Experimental 'Ship to Shore' Catapult Airmail Cover (Karlsruhe-Galway)

Irish Airmails: SS Karlsruhe-Galway-Croydon (Catapult Airmail) October 1929

1929 SS Karlsruhe-Galway-Croydon Airmail On August 26 1929, a North German Lloyd Liner (the Karlsruhe) arrived at 6.30am in the morning in Galway Bay from New York. Special bags of mail were immediately taken from the ship into Galway by launch, and together with mails that were especially made up in Galway Post Office, were…

1929 (Aug. 17) cover to Berlin with typed endorsement, franked U.S. 4c., 5c. at standard 9c. rate, with AIRMAIL-KARLSRUHE-GALWAY green label tied by New York duplex

Irish Airmails: SS Karlsruhe-Galway-Croydon (Experimental Airmail) 26th August 1929

1929 SS Karlsruhe-Galway-Croydon Airmail On August 26 1929, a North German Lloyd Liner (the Karlsruhe) arrived at 6.30am in the morning in Galway Bay from New York. Special bags of mail were immediately taken from the ship into Galway by launch, and together with mails that were especially made up in Galway Post Office, were…

1929 (Aug. 15) U.S. 1c. stationery envelope to London, with added imperf. 2c. block of four and AIRMAIL-KARLSRUHE-GALWAY green label tied by Boston duplex

Irish Airmails: SS Karlsruhe-Galway-Croydon (Experimental Airmail) 26th August 1929

1929 SS Karlsruhe-Galway-Croydon Airmail On August 26 1929, a North German Lloyd Liner (the Karlsruhe) arrived at 6.30am in the morning in Galway Bay from New York. Special bags of mail were immediately taken from the ship into Galway by launch, and together with mails that were especially made up in Galway Post Office, were…

1919 airmail cover, carried on Alcock & Brown's first Trans-Atlantic flight (addressed to Alcock's sister), bearing 1919 (9 June) $1 on 15c. bright scarlet.

Irish Airmails: Alcock & Brown’s First Trans-Atlantic Airmail Post (1919)

Irish Airmail Cover: We rightly remember the first ‘non-stop’ Trans-Atlantic flight, when Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Brown landed their Vickers Vimy airplane in a bog near Clifden, Co. Galway on 15 June, 1919 but not many people know that it was also the first Trans-Atlantic Airmail service flight. Alcock & Brown carried 197…

1929 Galway-Croydon (First Flight Cover) 26th August 1929

Irish Airmails: Galway-Croydon (Experimental airmail flight) 26th August 1929

1929 Galway-Croydon Airmail On August 26 1929, a North German Lloyd Liner (the Karlsruhe) arrived at 6.30am in the morning in Galway Bay from New York. Special bags of mail were immediately taken from the ship into Galway by launch, and together with mails that were especially made up in Galway Post Office, were rushed…