4 APRIL 1931, Page 38

Just now stamps associated with the aerial post are all

the rage. For a letter carried on the first successful transatlantic flight by Sir John Alcock in June, 1919, £70 was paid in a London auction room the other day, which is double what it would have fetched a year or two ago. A mint copy of the " De Pinedo " air mail stamp of Newfoundland, issued as recently as 1927, realized the up to now record price of £225, whilst a " flown " letter bearing the same stamp went for £42. The first specimens to be offered at auction of the special stamps prepared for the mail brought from Newfoundland to England by the mono- plane ' Columbia ' only last September sold for £75 unused and £64 on cover respectively.

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