THE CARDS ARE OUT THERE
EVENTS
Events announced between Newsletters will be posted in the News section of www.aviapc.com as will the corrections that usually seem necessary for this section.
Known aviation shows are:
7 Jan | Croydon Old Terminal |
24 Feb | 1000 Basel, Eurairport pvandewalle@euroairport.com |
3 Mar | Luton- Vauxhall Leisur |
17 Mar | 1000 Stuttgart, Musberg Village str-convention@web.de |
18 Mar | Manchester Airport T2 |
24/25 Mar |
Russelsheim,
nr Frankfurt Germany, Hotel
Adler www.ruesselsheimer-sammelboerse.de |
22 Apr |
Gatwick
Crawley K2 leisure centre. LGW2007@gatwickaviationsociety.org.uk |
28 Apr | 0900 Vienna Airport T2 |
12 May | Feltham Community School |
19 May | 0900 Dusseldorf, Airport |
6/8 July |
AI2007
Kansas City Mo, USA . Organiser for 2007 is US member Chris Slimmer. |
9 Sep | 1000 Berlin Schonefeld Airport www.airportworld-bbi.de |
Nov 3/4 | Frankfurt Schwanheim Village |
INTERNET REPORT
Internet activity has been relatively subdued with no obvious feeding
frenzies. Another UK multi-card
item, two items from which are shown. here fetched £72. This was for three of
the early Heathrow Bridge House set featuring PanAm DC-3, Air India
Constellation and BSAAC Lancastrian – the downloaded pictures have some
distortion as they are digital camera shots not a scan.
Another sign of passing time is that one of the 1970’s Pamlin of
Croydon aviation cards sold for over £15 – many non-aviation cards from this
time by this publisher are still on sale for 50p. The item concerned was a repro
photo of an Avro 504 at Swaythling, Southampton in the 1920 s
If an original card exists of this subject
from that period then you would expect to find it at not much more then
£5 more. I suspect competition between
local history collectors was at the heart of this one.
With Ebay India opening up it is possible that we masy see the last great
source of undiscovered Imperial Airways
material, although I have only seen one such offering from there so far. The
climate would not be conducive to the survival of paper items over so long a
period unless well protected.
The new Cathay Pacific history set
of large cards showing stewardesses has been on offer from Hong Kong at a
considerable range of prices and most have sold due to the combination of the
two strong collecting themes of Cathay and Stwardesses.
Oddly these cards have edges which have edges mimicking stamp
perforations
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