Are there many Postmarks from airports?

King Tut · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 20:57:18 pm

Came across the following when flicking through my boxes.

The postcard was mailed at HK airport and received a postmark indicating such.

Are there others out there?

I may have found another interest! :shock:

Global Administrator · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 21:35:58 pm

Certainly in Australia the only one I am aware of was Sydney .. and not sure if that is still there?

I found a few of these covers this week that I have listed here for sale.

First Mail of this Millennium

As LHI is over 700 km from Sydney, it was the first PO in Australia to usher in the new Century. A small quantity of 500 special flown covers were created to commemorate this. A beautiful envelope was created, inscribed "New Day - 1st January 2000".

An Eastern Australian Airlines (Qantas) flight departed Sydney December 31 with all 500 bearing the superb HOLOGRAM Australia 45¢ Millennium stamp cancelled Sydney Airport pictorial "Smithy" (Charles Kingsford Smith) cancel of December 31, 1999. Each were signed by the pilot Peter Gavin, also the Chief Pilot of Eastern Airlines, Stewart Boyd.

LHI PO staff cancelled the 500 covers after midnight, with "1 Jan - 2000" cds - on a single stamp on front of envelope, and on a block 4 on reverse. The sun rose at Lord Howe Island at 5.22am January 1, 2000 to perfect conditions.

At 10.00 am on Saturday January 1, 2000, the local Courier Post Managers - Peter Phillipps (General Manager), Chris Murray (Courier Services Manager), Margaret Murray (Stamp artist) and Helen Hall (Office Manager), arrived outside the Island Post Office to distribute pre-ordered and now cancelled covers to Island residents and visitors.

The queue of customers almost blocked the main road outside the Post Office, and it took two hours to fill all orders. This was followed by a special Courier Post ZEMAIL run in the electric vehicle in the afternoon to deliver those covers not collected by residents outside the Post Office.

The face value of issues on each envelope is $9.45 and they sold for $15 to cover the flight, autographs and special cover. Demand greatly exceeded the small supply.

The great majority stayed on the island with residents and visitors as souvenirs and likely will not enter the philatelic market.

They have also proven to be popular with Aerophilatelic collectors, due to the very unusual nature of the flight. I understand it was the last flight of the century to leave Australia.

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 21:51:00 pm

King Tut wrote:

Several post office branches here in Hong Kong have a slot (in addition to the 'local', 'surface' and 'air' slots) to drop letters to receive a pictorial cancellation. I've seen them in the main branches, and the outlying islands; maybe all the branches that have something 'distinctive' about them?

There's also a machine postmark that identifies the canceller as being from the airport sorting office. All PO branches have a 3-letter code; I forget what the airport code is Airport Processing Centre maybe? Lots of airports have a post office in the terminal for those last-minute sendings of postcards etc, but they may not all have a pictorial cancel.

peterh · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 21:52:54 pm

Croydon Aerodrome - does this count?

Not mine incidentally, found it on another thread.

peterh · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 22:02:22 pm

...and this is on Ebay now...

traralgon3844 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 22:18:51 pm

Certainly Essendon Aerodrome had one, as did Tullamarine (Melbourne Airport)

A quick check of PPA reveals quite a number.

sa Adelaide Airport PO 16/2/1955.
qld Brisbane Airport Renamed from Eagle Farm Airport PO c.-/8/1953; closed 30/6/1990.
qld Brisbane International Airport PO c.1991.
qld Eagle Farm Airport PO c.-/5/1952; renamed Brisbane Airport PO c.-/8/1953.
vic Essendon Airport (1) Renamed from Aerodrome Essendon PO c.1949; renamed Melbourne Airport PO 5/11/1956.
vic Essendon Airport (2) Renamed from Melbourne Airport PO 1/9/1966; closed 28/12/1984.
vic Melbourne Airport (1) Renamed from Essendon Airport PO 5/11/1956; renamed Essendon Airport PO 1/9/1966.
vic Melbourne Airport (2) PO 14/8/1970; closed 30/7/1999.
sa Parafield Airport Renamed from Parafield PO 17/3/1965; closed 27/6/1986.
wa Perth Airport PO 15/10/1962.
nsw Sydney Airport Renamed from Mascot Aerodrome PO 1/7/1960.
nsw Sydney International Airport Renamed from Overseas Terminal Mascot TO 1/7/1960; PO 5/5/1970.

These results will lead to more if you search other than 'Airport'.

makielb · **Posted:** Thu Dec 01, 2011 22:41:21 pm

I know that in the late 1940s early 1950s there was a Jerusalem Airport PO. I have several covers (somewhere) from the Jordanian Palestine area that were canceled there.

norvic · **Posted:** Fri Dec 02, 2011 03:56:35 am

peterh wrote:

Croydon Aerodrome - does this count?

Not mine incidentally, found it on another thread.

It counted long before Gatwick and Heathrow. :lol:

There used to be a postmark applied at Heathrow, but no longer.

These are some of the special postmarks which mention Heathrow but they were applied at the philatelic handstamping centre, not at the airport.

Kainnikanada · **Posted:** Fri Dec 02, 2011 04:23:55 am

Here's one from the Nadi, Fiji airport.

waroff49 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 03, 2011 23:24:07 pm

Tullamarine- Melbourne Vic.

nightwatchman · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2012 18:57:23 pm

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Australia: Melbourne Airport 22 November 1956.
This postmark was used from 5 November to 14 December 1956.
The Games began on 22 November and closed on 8 December 1956.

Wolfgang · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2012 20:10:40 pm

Wolfgang · **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2012 20:13:24 pm

Another one from Papua New Guinea
RABAUL AIRPORT
opened: 26.January 1966
closed: 31. August 1967

The Pom · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 04:00:32 am

One from Adelaide Airport.

Shame it's in such poor condition. It would be worth a lot of money if it was fine.

nasreldeen · **Posted:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 04:27:03 am

one from Cairo Airport

makielb · **Posted:** Mon Feb 06, 2012 03:07:59 am

Here's a 1955 cover from the Jerusalem Airport

manfaefife · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2012 17:34:07 pm

Just scanning through threads whilst having a coffee I noticed this thread. I have a Nigerian one on ebay at the moment. Ikeja Airport. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400297488360?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Arakan · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2012 05:37:28 am

aethelwulf wrote:

King Tut wrote:

Several post office branches here in Hong Kong have a slot (in addition to the 'local', 'surface' and 'air' slots) to drop letters to receive a pictorial cancellation. I've seen them in the main branches, and the outlying islands; maybe all the branches that have something 'distinctive' about them?

Drool....
These Hong Kong post office pictorial postmarks are similar to scenic postmarks used in Japan and China.
I collect these and I want some! Anyone in Hong Kong can send me some covers with these postmarks in exchange for stamps or covers?

http://www.douban.com/group/topic/28419002/

waroff49 · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2012 08:10:50 am

A fairly recent one from Melb. Airport ,Tullamarine. Coloured printed cancel.

Wolfgang · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2012 08:28:37 am

Flug- und Luftschiffhafen - Airport for Planes and Zeppelins
Frankfurt (Main)
1. Dec. 1938

norvic · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2012 20:08:16 pm

waroff49 wrote:

A fairly recent one from Melb. Airport ,Tullamarine. Coloured printed cancel.

I'm guessing that that philatelic digital colour postmark probably wasn't applied to regular mail posted at the airport - and probably wasn't applied at the airport either.

waroff49 · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 00:02:43 am

Don't know, came in auction box lot. But it is going into my Airmail_QANTAS collection.

Wolfgang · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 05:08:41 am

Stuttgart Airport

manfaefife · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 09:28:08 am

This is one from Iraq and it's Basra Airport from 1949, haven't a clue what the triangle mark on the back is though.

norvic · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 18:35:16 pm

It's a censor mark I think.

manfaefife · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 18:43:39 pm

Cheers Ian, I tend to look for censor marks around the 39-46 dates, and tend to forget that some countries had other disputes outwith these times, and of course some countries have censorship outwith war-times.

Wolfgang · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 00:36:46 am


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