Tag: Gardener’s Cottage

  • 1948 First Flight Trans-Canada Airlines Hamilton Montreal Toronto

    1948 First Flight Trans-Canada Airlines Hamilton Montreal Toronto

    Inaugural flight to Canada Hamilton–Montreal–Toronto by Trans-Canada Airlines. Cachet in violet. Poste Restante letters were backstamped 3 May at Montreal but no backstamp applied at Toronto. The service was bi-weekly with Canadair Four North Stars – one service to and from Montreal and one to and from Toronto. Type: First Flight Date: 1st May 1948…

  • 1947 FAM 33 Colonial Airlines New York Washington DC Bermuda

    1947 FAM 33 Colonial Airlines New York Washington DC Bermuda

    First Flight of FAM 33 Hamilton–New York–Washington by Colonial Airlines. Cachet: Purple – WASHINGTON – NEW YORK – COLONIAL AIRLINES INAUGUAL FLIGHT AUGUST 1st 1947 Date: August 1st 1947 Return flight westbound Bermuda to Washington DC CDS: -1AUG47A HAMILTON BERMUDA Address: Mr. Sigmund Janas, President, Colonial Airlines, Inc., 223 Shoreham Building, Washington, D. C. Envelope:…

  • 1941 Censor Cover

    1941 Censor Cover

    Wartime censorship of letter Type: Censor Cover Date: 12th May 1941 CDS: 12MAY41B ST. GEORGES BERMUDA Hand Stamps: T BERMUDA and CENTIMES 150 (Tax markings) Censor Label: B.C.1. OPENED BY EXAMINER 449 Label: AIR MAIL Address: Mrs Annette Sandilli, 71 Huyler Street, Hackensack, New Jersey, U.S.A. Stamps: King George VI definitive pictorials 1½d Ships in…

  • 1937 Bermuda to New York Air Service RMA Cavalier First Flight

    1937 Bermuda to New York Air Service RMA Cavalier First Flight

    Commemorating the first flight between Bermuda and New York Cavalier was a Short Empire flying boat with the registration G-ADUU that had been launched on 21 November 1936 and delivered to Imperial Airways. In 1937, Imperial Airways and Pan American World Airways opened up a New York-Bermuda-London flying-boat passenger service. Imperial Airways used Cavalier on…

  • 1936 King George V Pictorial Issue

    1936 King George V Pictorial Issue

    New King George V pictorials Stamps depicting various scenes around Bermuda. Date: 14th April 1936 Cachet: PICTORIAL ISSUE FIRST DAY COVER 14th. APRIL 1936 BERMUDA Stamps: ½d Red Hole, Paget; 1d South Shore; 1½d South Shore and 2d Yacht Lucie; 2½d Grape Bay, Paget Parish; 3d Point House, Warwick Parish; 6d Gardener’s Cottage, Par-la-Ville, Hamilton;…