By Air  

... February 18, 1911 The first officially sanctioned airmail flight takes place in India between Allahabad and Naini Junction, a distance of five miles across the Ganges River. ... a one-time flight which was staged in conjunction with an exhibition. A total of about 6,000 letters and postcards were carried (of which the pilot autographed 400) but these are now scarce ... From: A Concise History of Airmails At: First Flight Covers

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Aircraft on Postage Stamps - Jim Yeaw
 

Aerophilately of Mexico - Marino Riosa
 

Zeppelinpost-Arbeitsgemeinschaft

(Zeppelin Study Group; in Germany)

 

ZEPPELINs and AIRSHIPs - John Dziadecki, @

Comprehensive history in all areas including stamps.

 

Zeppelin Collectors Club

Cheryl Ganz (@) c.2007

P.O. Box 77196, Washington, DC 20013

Data Pg.

 

History of Aviation - Thomas Divier

 

Flying Fakes - (the Ganiff Fakes)
From the Arthur Salm Foundation of The Collector's Club of Chicago (cf: AskPhil.org)

Derived " ... from a speech presented by Susan E. Morton, U. S. Postal Service Crime Laboratory, San Bruno, Ca. at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, New Orleans, 1986. It was brought to our attention by Collectors Club member Ken Gilbart, who took part in the investigation and the findings.

The dealer is not named since he, and his wife, committed suicide rather than go to trial and they were never found guilty or innocent. ... many of these fake covers are still "flying around" ...

(focused on US covers, published Feb. 2000)  

See Also:  

International Aero-Philately Club

aka: Internationaler Aero-Philatelisten Club - Otto Lilienthal (IAPC) - @

Achim Lange (c.2006)

Lubminer Str. 35

01109 Dresden, Germany

ph.: 0351-8802043  

 

American Air Mail Society: Links!

Stephen Reinhard = @

P. O. Box 110

Mineola, NY 11501, USA

ph.: (516) 746-5543={ofc}

fax: (516) 294 0923={home}

 

Aerophilatelic Federation of the Americas

Lower Lobby - Ste. D, Elgin Tower Building

100 East Chicago Street, Elgin, IL 60120

(Does this organization still exist?)

data from an old article :

"Collecting Airmail, Cheryl Ganz, Editor"

panther.bsc.edu/~spezzill/colair.html

 

British Air Mail Society

(formerly: British Aerophilatelic Federation)

Keith D. Hanman - @

55 Jubilee Avenue

Whitton, Middlesex TW2 6JA, UK

 

IAS - Irish Airmail Society

Karl Winkelmann @

5 Dalys Rd., Rochford, Essex SS4 1RA, UK

Mr. David Reid (c.2008)

18 Glenlucan, Killarney Road, Bray,

Co. Wicklow, Ireland

 

AMSNZ - Air Mail Society of New Zealand

Alan Tunnicliffe @

P.O. Box 29-144, Fendalton

Christchurch, New Zealand

Tel.: 03-358-4838

 

FISA - Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Aérophilatéliques ^FIP
(International Federation of Aerophilatelic Societies)

Kuno Sollors

Grosse Strasse 41

D-49201 Dissen, Germany

ph.: 0049 5421 5396

fax: 0049 5421 5396

 

FIP Commission for Aerophilately (new url c.2006)

(lists others not here)

Source: FIP - See: 'Contacts' / 'Commissions'

(Alt URL: via AAMS - new alt url c.2007)

Stephen Reinhard = @

c/o AAMS

P. O. Box 110

Mineola, NY 11501, USA

ph.: 516 294 0923={home}, 516 746 5543={ofc}

 

Albert M. Schneider, France:

Expertization of Balloon Mail (and France)

See Also: Topical Index : 'Balloon'

 

Dieter Leder, Germany: - @

Expertization: Zeppelinpost; catapult mail

 

Hermann Walter Sieger, Germany @

Expertization: German airmails of 1912;

air and zeppelin post, catapult and rocket mail.

Dr. Joachim Simon, Germany:

Expertization: Zeppelinpost; catapult mail ..

Aerophil - Email

Kendall (Ken) C. Sanford ^{APS, IDPA}

613 Championship Drive

Oxford, CT 06478-1298, USA

ph./fax : 203-888-9237

AEROPHILATELY - Books and Covers from AEROPHIL (commercial) "..world's largest stock of Aerophilatelic books - both new and used, and a large stock of air crash covers.." (formerly located in Switzerland, Ken has returned to the USA)

 

ESPACE Lollini's Concorde Catalog

Featuring, "all the stamps worldwide issued about

the Concorde Supersonic airliner."

Their page offers movie clips too!  

Concorde Briefmarkensammlung, Germany

Concorde covers & stamps

our Space related page

Topical Index : Aerophilately ...  

 

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By Sea  

Navicula - .de

Super!
 

Ship Stamp Society (Alt URL)
10 Heyes Dr., LYMM, Cheshire WA13 0PB, UK

Covering all maritime themes - England, 'This is the specialist society for you, and one of the very few which manages to issue a magazine every month.' (Gibbons Stamp Monthly - April 1999).
 

Wreck & Crach Mail Society ; air, rail, sea, posts

Glen Stephen's Stampboad data pg.

Mr. Brian Peace

3 Elms, Church Lane, Chapel Allerton

Leeds LS7 4LY England

See also: dealer Ken Sanford's ' Aerophil '

He is Editor, "La Catastrophe"

The Wreck & Crash Mail Society was formed in the latter part of 1994, and is devoted to the collecting and study of all aspects of delayed and/or damaged mail and interrupted mail services. Currently the Society is composed of four study groups, namely:

Air Crash Study Group,

Railroad Wreck Study Group,

Ship Wreck Study Group,

Suspended Mail/Conflicts Study Group.

 

Universal Ship Cancellation Society

747 Shard Court, Fremont, CA 94539-7419, USA

 

Interested in ships & lighthouses on stamps? Join the ship-stamp mailing list. Send an e-mail to the majordomo with no Subject, and the message line: "subscribe ship-stamp (your-email-address)" ; no parenthesis.
 

Ian Billings - @

of: Norvick Philatelics (Alt URL)

P. O. Box 119

Dereham, NR20 3YN, UK

ph.: 44-08450090939

Features the stamps of Great Britain, Special Event and First Day postmarks - Maritime themes
Including Lighthouse stamps and cancels.

 

Titanic Stamps - from Stampville
 

Ed (Edwin) Jackson's Boats and Ships (on US Stamps)

a single frame exhibit.  

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by Land  

The Pony Express

From the USPS ' History of the U.S. Postal Service

Pony Express Museum

914 Penn Street

St. Joseph, MO 64503-2544

The Wells Fargo Bank History Museum

420 Montgomery Street

San Francisco, CA 94104-1205

(search for "museum")

 
 

Automobiles on Postage Stamps

Here Jim @ Philately.com provides lists featuring autos by manufacturer!
 

Philatelic Land Rovers

by: T.F. Mills

Includes ANYTHING Rover-ish!
 

Philatelic Study Unit Motor Vehicles

Klaus Merkent

Firnhaberstrasse 2, D-86159 Augsburg, Germany

See Also:  

Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Where's That Vehicle Come From?

(or, Trainspotting for Road Users)
 
Bill Boomer's 1940 Ford

Bill Boomer (@) also keeps ' Bill's Philatelic Bargains, gotta 'down-size my collection', .ca-SK

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By Rail  

Horst Brix's Railway Thematic Stamps (in German & much in English)
 

Postal History of the First Transcontinental Railroad

by Bruce C. Cooper

"Perhaps one of the most important benefits to the public at large of the opening the Pacific Railroad in 1869 was the greatly increased speed and reliability -- and vastly decreased cost in direct Government subsidies -- of the transport of transcontinental mail. (Government subsidies for construction of the railroad were another matter, of course!) "

 

Mail By Rail (formerly 'Railway Mail Service')

From the USPS 'History of the U.S. Postal Service

Railway Mail Service Library

117 East Main Street

Boyce, VA 22620-9639
 

Belgium Railway Stamps by Frank Daems

and he covers general Europe

and writes catalog software (freeware)

 

Jon Digranes' Norwegian Railways On Stamps
 

Hans Vink's Dutch Railways On Stamps
 :

Jan Langenberg's Dutch Railways on Stamps
 

Kari Paananen's Finnish Railway Philately
 

Manfred Kopka's German Railway and World Philately (in German)

'Eisenbahn in Deutschland auf Briefmarken der Welt'
 

Trains of Europe

"In this site you will find my own pictures of trains, railways and railway related subjects from different European countries and my collection of European railway stamps. I'm grateful for any help in determining types, serial numbers, descriptions of any of the items shown."

Other page links on site include:

European railway stamps / Railway Stations / Railway Artefacts / The Dutch Railway Museum / Links / The small track to Belgium / Facts from Holland / Index of European Railway Resources / (3 different railway webrings) - and more! - (new URL a/o 7/2001)
Includes a special page on Regional mail in N.E. Finland
 

Railway Philately Exhibit: A Survey of Rail Philately

"This Exhibit started as a one frame exhibit and like topsy it grew. Please keep in mind that all of the items are available for purchase. "

from: The Rail Philatelist (new URL a/o 7/2001)
Al Peterson
P.O.Box 25505 Colorado Springs, CO 80936
Phone : (719)-591-2341, (orders) (800) 807-RAIL
E-mail
conducts mail sales ...
Their listing in the 'Directory' at Collector's Mall. Featuring other dealers related to rail mail as well!.
 

A Prague (.CZ) Museums Guide

If you are a steam engine fan this may be the place for you, as it shows the history of the use of steam engines for navigation in Prague. Podskali itself served as the centre for steam engine navigation and many sailors and raftsmen lived there. Open only Wed - Thu 10 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. and 1.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. - Podskalská Custom House, Rasinovo nábrezí, Prague 2. The page also lists the The Postal Museum, Nové mlýny 2, Prague 1 and The National Technical Museum, Kostelní 42, Prague 7 - Phone: 37 36 51 with the description: " If you are interested in technic and transportation, this is the museum to visit. Very few tourists finds the way out to it, so if you get tried of the crowds at some of the more popular museums it may be time to visit this museum. Open Tue - Sun 9 a.m. - 5 p.m."
 

Mobile Post Office Society

via Swanson
And:

Mobile Post Office Society
P.O.Box 51, Lexington, GA 30648-0051

via R. Kunz
 

The RPO Postmark Page by Rick Kunz - @

Primarily U.S. related.
"... Most mail of this era originated in the cities and towns where it received the local city's postmark. The history of the RPO is recorded in the postmarks used on mail that was taken to railroad station letter boxes or handed directly to the clerks on the trains. ..."

Rick's chief aim is on page 2:

The Railroad Postmark Pricing Project "This is an ongoing project, and collaborators and more data will be welcomed. Contact Rick Kunz if you'd like to help."

Data provided:

Price Chart - by number sold

Rarity Factor Chart by number sold

Auctions included

Dealers included
 

The Railway Philatelic Group

"...established as the foremost source of published information on all aspects of railway philately." - The Group publishes a quarterly journal, Railway Philately, and also runs an exchange packet, a postal auction and an annual convention.
For details write:
F. W. Taylor, @
5 Garth Lane
Widdrington, Morpeth
Northumberland NE61 5EN. U.K.

(Formerly hosted by Frank Wilson - Frank sells related material via:

"MailByRail"

Frank J. Wilson

57A Bourne Road

Spaulding, Lincolnsshire, PE11 1JR, U.K.
 

Paper Heritage

P.O.Box 77 Heathfield TN21 0ZL England.

Telephone: 01435.865686

(International +44.1435.86.56.86)

email mail@paperheritage.co.uk ...

old: www3.mistral.co.uk/paper.heritage

"Established in England in 1979, we attend fairs, mainly in Britain, and deal in stamps (but not postal history) of all coutries, except for Great Britain and the British Commonwealth." (has a specific page for TRAINS with the notation: "Country collectors may find a visit to our Full Railway List worthwhile, especially for China, Cucuta, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Turkey, to name but a few." - AJ ;) {c.2008}

 

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See Also:
 

Dr. Robin David Gwynn : Expertization: ship and rail wreck mail, .nz
 

Jim Mehrer's Postal History: Literature section: Railway Postal History Books

Some original works!

Our 'Postal History' section for more on airplanes..ships.. & our clubs section featuring specialist Postal History clubs.

Topical Index : Rail..

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