Papua New Guinea: Stamp Depicting Aerogramme

The stamp in the upper left corner of the 1985 Papua New Guinea mini sheet "Centenary of the Papua New Guinea Post Office" shows an aerogramme (PNG #14, issued in 1983).

Tonga: Aerogramme Form Sent to New Zealand

Imperial Air Mail aerogramme, "Form approved by the Postmaster General, No. 71995/2E", sent from Nuku'alofa (8 JA 65) to New Zealand.

Two 3 s self-adhesive stamps paying the 6 s rate to New Zealand.

Australia: Bogus Postage Due Aerogramme

Postage due aerogrammes attract both aerogramme and postal history collectors and are worth a premium. Sometimes, forgers affix postage due stamps to pimp ordinary aerogrammes.

Sent from Melbourne (5 FEB 1957) to Tel-Aviv, Israel. Two red „T“ handstamps, but no other taxation marks. Two postage due stamps with a total value of 105 pruta.

The red „T“ handstamps appear to be rubber handstamps never used in Australia. The cancels do not tie the postage due stamps to the aerogramme and the cancels even do not align.

Also, the 105 pruta postage due does not make any sense. The only reason for a taxation in Australia could have been an enclosure. The aerogramme, then, should have been marked accordingly. With an enclosure, the aerogramme would have been subject to air mail letter rate.

The air mail letter rate to Israel was 2 s in 1957, which would have made the aerogramme 1 s 2 d short-paid. Double the deficieny 2 s 4 d, then, would have been postage due.

The surface mail letter rate (7 ½ d) equivalent was 20 UPU centimes. The postage due in UPU centimes would have been 74 ⅔. The international surface mail rate in Israel was 120 pruta, which means 1 UPU centimes = 6 pruta. The postage due, then, would have been 448 pruta.

New Zealand: 1950s Aerogramme Form

Two aerogramme forms of New Zealand printed by Tornado Printery, 304 Ferry Road, Christchurch and approved by Post Office Authority (3) P. & T. 1950.4. (1)

The design of the back panel is different.

Egypt: No Air Letter Service to Switzerland in March 1945

Egypt #1 sent from Alexandria (23 MA 45) to Geneva, Switzerland. 

The „Air Letter“ type designation and the „By Air Mail“ Routing instruction voided with pencil, indicating that air mail letter service between Egypt and Switzerland has not yet been established at that time.

New Zealand: Aerorammes Official Usage

Aerogramme form issued by the New Zealand Post Officewith printed letterhead of Post Office headquarters. Sent to the UK on June 11, 1970. „Postage Paid“ handstamp

Printed letterhead of The Treasury. Sent to Canada on February 13, 1973. Rectangular „Postage Paid The Treasury “ handstamp.

Gambia: Newly Discovered Provisional Issue

This is a newly discovered aerogramme of Gambia. In 2001, the postage rate for aerogrammes was increased from 1.50 D to 3.50 D. The regular aerogramme, NGK 20/II, in the top part of the picture, was used for a provisional issue (bottom part of the picture).

Interestingly, the paper of the provisional issue is quite different:

• paper is light greenish grey instead of light bluish grey
• watermark, see scan below. NGK 20/II is on unwatermarked paper.

Reference:
NGK Aerogramme von Afrika 2012