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The History and Romance of Air Mail Stamps

Chapter 3: Transcriber’s Notes
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A survey traces humanity's pursuit of flight from ancient myths and early thinkers through ballooning, dirigibles, and the advent of powered heavier-than-air craft, recounting key pioneers and technological milestones. It describes how military conflict accelerated aircraft development and how civilian aviation enabled medical relief, long-distance passenger service, and rapid mail transport. The narrative highlights airmail stamps as a vivid, pictorial chronicle that depicts airships, airplanes, celebrated flights, and perilous routes, combining historical account with philatelic description to honor engineering achievements and the danger and romance of early air travel.

EMIL BRUECHIG, 522 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK, N. Y.

The purchase of mounted air mail collections remains the most economical and quickest way to achieve a good showing of these stamps. For this reason, we always carry a complete selection of collections, ranging in price from $40.00 upward, all carefully mounted in Scott Air Post Albums. Below we list a few representative items from our stock which we shall be glad to show for examination at our New York office, or send on approval after proper references have been submitted.

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Collection #1—(contains over 400 stamps) $40.00
Collection #2—(contains over 600 stamps) $100.00
Collection #3—(contains over 800 stamps) $150.00
Collection #4—(contains over 1100 stamps) $500.00
Collection #5—(contains over 2200 stamps) $1,375.00
Collection #6—(contains 2,833 stamps, representing over 98% of all air mail stamps issued up to the present time.) $5,400.00

Proper mounting and lettering enhances the appearance of your collection and means much toward its success when competing against others at an exhibition.

As we specialize in air mail stamps, a great fund of knowledge has been gathered concerning these issues. We can, therefore, offer our clients the opportunity to have their collections “written up” with interesting and accurate descriptions, and skillfully mounted in loose-leaf albums.

We solicit your inquiries regarding this service.

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As we have agents in all corners of the world, our facilities for obtaining the new issues are unexcelled. Our service is an individualized one, for our customers can specify any requirements they choose. Whether they desire to restrict their purchases to certain countries, or to limit them to a definite price range, they will find us ready to meet these varying demands with exactitude.

In many cases, we are able to acquire certain issues through our network of agents that quickly command premiums, and these savings alone, which we pass on to our customers, pay the slight charge for subscribing to our new issue service.

We carry a complete line of
Air Post Albums
and Accessories

Illustrated below are the popular albums manufactured by the Scott Stamp & Coin Company, a distinguished selection to fit the purse of all collectors.

Loose Leaf with Two Spring Back Binders (Illustrated)

Two spring back binders, with maroon colored Fabrikoid back and corners, maroon cloth sides. High grade linen ledger pages, linen hinged. Printed on one side only with artistic border and individual spaces for each stamp. Statistical data including dates of issue and historical information on outstanding flights.

De Luxe Edition $15.00 (12 lbs.)
Pages only 7.50 (6 lbs.)
Binder only, each 4.00 (4 lbs.)
Blank Pages, with heading, Covers, Semi-Official, or no heading, for De Luxe Edition 25 for 1.50 (3 lbs.)
Loose Leaf, Hinged-Post Edition (not illus.) $5.00 (8 lbs.)
Pages only 3.50 (5 lbs.)
Binder only 2.00 (4 lbs.)
Blank Pages, with headings, Covers, Semi-Official or no heading 25 for .40 (2 lbs.)

The International AIRPOST ALBUM

A handsome and practical album at a low price. Provides spaces for all Air Post stamps issued up to January 1, 1936. Pages printed on both sides. Bound in red cloth, attractively stamped in black. $1.00

Transcriber’s Notes

  • Silently corrected a few typos.
  • Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
  • In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.