GB Qeii Coronation Year Aerogramme Entire

Nigel.. I expect this would be up your alley, but if anyone can help me with the cat number and near value of this Coronation Year Aerogramme. I would appreciate it. The whole letter is here and is typewritten, so I know it came from John Olson Editor of Pfizer Reports Abroad, 47-51 Chalton St, London, to this Dr Janet Hardy at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks - Jeff

May we have a close up detail of the CDS please?

Hi Jeff,

Yes, it's a Post Office special issue air mail letter sheet from 1953.

There are at least four varieties!

If the flaps are cut straight diagonally across the corners then it's APS2a in Collect British Postal Stationery.

If the flaps are cut on a concave curve across the corners then it's APS2b in Collect British Postal Stationery.

The straight corners are more common than the curved corners.

Higgins & Gage describe both of these but list two varieties of each depending on the relative alignment of the words LETTER and AVION at the top left.

Your one is either H&G F12 if the flaps are cut straight across the corners or H&G F12a if the flap corners are curved.

So what shape are your corners?

All the best,

I left the envelope at work, but when I open the whole thing up it is all square corners. You are basically looking at 1/4 of the whole. Rod CDS? If you mean the cancellation, I will scan just that tomorrow and post it with this. Thanks for the input everyone. Tonite is a short nite for me here, but I shall return.

Thank you,
Yes CDS = "Circular Date Stamp"

I will get you that close up rod but the date is 26 Sep 1953 (pretty sure), I remember that much. For the rest I will get you a close up.

I was more interested in the ???.fms wording

ok will scan in the morning

Here are the other scans of the aerogramme. The CDS appears to say (and this is from just a few readable pieces) LONDON F.S. with an N at 6 o'clock and dated (my memory was wrong) 28 Sep 1953. As far as square or round I don't know if there should be more to the aerogramme, but this second scan is showing one whole side the other side is part of the typewritten letter but dimensions are the same. Thanks again to all.- Jeff

Thank you,
Yes London Foreign section N
captured for my records.

BTW I don't think that text could be typewritten,
it looks like it has been duplicated somehow..1953??

I agree - typeset and printed by the local printer?

It seems a reasonable way to publish a newsletter to an international audience.

Thanks for the new picture Jeff.

You can see two of the corner flaps stuck on the bottom on the righthand page.

They appear to be cut diagonally in a straight lines.

Spent a lot of years in the newspaper business. The actual letter is preprinted. The addresses however which you can see with the stamp is handwritten (duh!) and the sender information IS typed with a typewriter and reads John A Olson M.D. Editor
(line) Pfizer "Reports from Abroad" (line) B.I.A. House, 47/51 Charlton Street (line) London, N.W.1, (line) England. The interior of the letter is dated 12 Sep 1953. Note at the bottom of the interior reads Edited at Rome. Prepared and mailed from London. Hope this helps the printing issue.