The Subject Is Air Mail Overprints!

I love the original air mail stamps that carried overprints - either words, numbers or pictures. Here is one of my favorite pairs from Iceland - let's see some others!

Scouter
I have those too. I collect Iceland. They are something!

Those are great!

I really do have a liking to air mail overprints Scouter.
My Aussie collection is slowly growing.

Really nice overprints thanks for sharing.
It is not every day that you see an example
of these overprints on anything. KGV

Great stamps scouter. Always like the unusual. - Jeff

Excellent stamps, Scouter.

Here is a KGV with an airmail overprint...




It's true...not too many...

Nice stamp cjd, and a great scan. I wish we could put an online catalog together, with all of us here and the varieties, plate varieties, scratch varieties, color varieties that we all have, we would be the envy capito of the world with our database. Something to think about?

Londonbus1.....

LB:

That "vertical" plane is pretty impressive.

Ki

Nice overprints everyone especially with the airplanes. I collect stamps of airplanes but didn't think of seeking air mail stamps with overprints. Now I will focus my attention on acquiring some of them as well.

Just to be correct, all of the stamps shown so far [if I am not mistaken and without checking], with the exception of the Egypt pair are air mail stamps BECAUSE of the overprint.

Just a little confusing when one reads quickly.
The heading on Scouters page says it all !

Londonbus1

A collector friend of mine gave me a copy of Sanabria's Air Post Catalogue (1950 edition) awhile back. I've been wanting to go through it and so I've used this thread as an excuse to search for airmail stamps with flight related pictorial overprints. For the ones before 1940 I did a quick and dirty lookup of Scott catalog numbers (Sanabria used their own numbering system) but I didn't search for any of the later ones. And, you'll see that I didn't look too hard for the pre-1940 ones if they weren't obvious :)

Most of the "flight related" images in overprints are airplanes but others include zeppelins, birds, wings, and my favorite, a bomb (see China). This isn't to imply that there aren't a lot of interesting overprints without flight related pictorials. For example, overprints with text containing "Spitfire" (Cameroons), "Ameilia Earhart" (Mexico) and a number of "Zeppelins," not to mention wonders like "FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR POST April, 1919" (Newfoundland).

PRE-1950 PICTORIAL CANCELS FROM SANABRIA (with planes unless otherwise noted)
Alaouites 1926 Scott C9-C12
Alaouites 1928 (no longer in Scott, was C13-C16)
Alaouites 1929 Scott C17-C21
Argentina 1930 - Zeppelin Scott C20-C29
Belgium 1943
Bulgaria 1927-28 Scott C1-C4?
Bulgaria 1945
Canary Islands 1937 Scott 9LC31-33
Canary Islands 1939 Monte de la Esperanza - bird
Chile 1928-34 - bird Scott C6-C19
Chile 1940 - winged emblem Scott C51-C53
China 1945 Propaganda for anti-air defense - bomb! Scott 9N111-9N114
Costa Rica 1928 Lindberg Scott 147
Costa Rica 1930 Official stamps Scott C7-C10
Costa Rica 1932 Telegraph stamp - winged emblem Scott C14
Cyrenica 1934 Buenos Aires Flight Scott C20-C23
Czechoslovakia 1920 Scott C1-C6
Czechoslovakia 1921
Czechoslovakia 1922 Scott C7-C9
Danzig 1920 - a plane overprint and a bird overprint Scott C1-C3
Dominican Republic 1930 Hurricane Relief Scott RAC1-RAC7
Ecuador 1947 Pro-Patria
Ecuador 1929 Semi-officials - 2 different planes
Ecuador 1929 Quit-Ibarra
Ecuador 1929 Service stamps
Ecuador 1930 Services stamps
Ethiopia 1929 Airplane commemorative Scott C1-C10
France 1927 Scott C1-C2
French Levant 1942
Greece 1938 Scott C36-C37
Guatemala 1937 Exhibition - Quetzal bird Scott C32-C69
Guatemala 1937 Scott C70-C91
Haiti 1933 Boyd-Lyon Scott C4A
Iceland 1928 Scott C1
Iceland 1929 Scott C2
Ifni 1937-39
Iran 1927 Scott C1-C16
Iran 1928-29 Scott C17-C33
Italy 1934 Buenos Aires Flight Scott C52-55
Japan 1919 Scott C1-C2
Lebanon 1925 Scott C13-C16
Lebanon 1928-30 Scott C25-C38
Liberia 1941 Red Cross
Liberia 1941 Special Delivery
Liberia 1941 Registered
Lithuania 1933 Darius-Girenas overprints on Scott C55-C62
Monaco 1933 Scott C1
Netherland Indies 1928 Scott C1-C5
Netherland Indies 1932 Scott C17
New Caledonia 1932 Paris-Noumea Scott 180-181
New Caledonia 1933 Flight anniversary Scott 182-207
New Guinea 1931 definitives and Tenth Anniversary Scott C1-C43
Panama 1929 Lindberg Scott C1
Papua 1930 Scott C2-C4
Paraguay 1931 Graf Zeppelin - zeppelin Scott C54-C55
Philippines 1928 London-Orient Scott C18-C28
Philippines 1932 Capt Von Gronau Scott C29-C35
Philippines 1933 Fernando Rein Scott C46-C51
Philippines 1935 P.I.-U.S. Scott C52-53
Salvador 1931 Scott C19
Salvador 1933 Graf Zeppelin Flight
Spain 1938 Scott C92-C96
Switzerland 1919-20 - stylized wings Scott C1-C2
Syria 1926 Scott C30-C36
Tripolitania 1934 Rome-Buenos Aires Scott C29-C32
Tunisia 1919 - wings Scott C1
Tunisia 1920 - wings Scott C2
Tunisia 1927 Scott C3-C6
Tunisia 1928 Scott C7-C9
Turkey 1934 Scott C1-C5
Turkey 1937 Scott C6-C8
Turkey 1942
Uruguay 1921 Scott C1-C3
Uruguay 1945-46 Victory Issue - Winged Victory
Uruguay 1946-49

Please note that I don't collect airmails beyond what is depicted in my Scott Blue Volume 1, but I thought some of you might find this interesting.

BOB

Great Reference List, Bob.

Thanks,
KS

Three from Sweden:

Here is another of those little planes - this is Scott C1 from Monaco.