Lot 326 (C)Canada, 2 Very Fine Used Jetliner Flight Mail Covers, Sent On April 18, 1950 From Toronto, One Addressed to Somerset, MB & One To Moncton, NB, Both Franked With C9.

2 very fine used jetliner flight mail covers, sent on April 18, 1950 from Toronto, one addressed to Somerset, MB & one to Moncton, NB, both franked with c9.

Flown to New York, where the somerset cover received a New York receiving backstamp. The Moncton cover has no such backstamp, which indicated it was accidentally sorted into te actual mail stream, and never actually boarded the flight. With these tyes of flights, the collection in Somerset or Moncton would have sent their cover to Toronto ahead of time. Here, clerks would apply the cachet, and the mail would be sent to New York, where it would be stamped and then the mail was put back into the surface mail stream to get teh covers back to the collectors.

Unitrade doesn't list these varieties, so we estimate them at $25. The covers offered here grade 75 as follows:

Centering/Margins: 35/60

Paper Freshness: 5/5

Colour: 5/5

Impression: 5/5

Absence of Visible Paper Flaws: 5/5

Perforations: 10/10

Cancellation: 10/10