East African Airways (EAA) - Airmail Label (Africa)

This is the East African Airways airmail labels used by 3 African countries; Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in the 70s. The label printed with the airline lion logo with tagline "The Safari Airline". 

I obtained this labels from Uganda post office. The strip of five labels are in mint condition. The printing format is unique as two labels are printed upside down to form a strip of orange and light blue. I am eager to look for the full sheet of this labels. If you have, do let me know. I can do a trade. Wikipedia have a brief write up on EAA: 

"East African Airways Corp. (EAA) was an airline jointly run by three countries in East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania; and Uganda, which were then part of an East African Community. The airline was headquartered in the Sadler House in Nairobi, Kenya. When this was dissolved in 1977, each country established its own national airline: Kenya Airways, Uganda Airlines; and Air Tanzania."

You can view the pictures of EAA´s aircraft from bygone days at:

http://www.mccrow.org.uk/EastAfrica/East_Arican_Airways/East_African_Airways.htm

Thailand Airmail Registered Cover - Thai Calendar Year Postmark

This is a multi-service cover from Thailand, i.e. sent through Airmail and by Registered post. Thailand airmail label has a distinctive design, the label itself look like an envelope with Thai postal authority logo. The modern registered label with bar-code is affixed on the front cover and back cover is the receiving end bar-code from Pos Malaysia. 


The interesting thing I wanted to highlight is Thailand used Buddhist (Solar) calender as their official calender. There is a 543 years different between the Buddhist calender and the Western Calender (Gregorian). Hence, year in 2010 is year 2553 in Thailand. You can notice this on the postmark: THP Headquarter 02.06.53. That is 02 Jun 10 in our calender and THP stand for "Thailand Post".


You can read more on Thai Solar Calender at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar

USA Airmail Labels on cover - old designed

This cover sent from USA to Germany. The Airmail labels are perforated, postmark not cleared.

Argentina Airmail Label - via B.S.A.A.

This is an old cover I obtained from a friend. A cover sent from Argentina to Alemania (Germany in Spanish) on 21 Oct 1947 (postmark not very clear). It was sent via British South America Airways (B.S.A.A.). It was a state-run airline in Britain in the 1940s. It had several mysterious accidents such as loss without trace of aircraft cited as evidence of the Bermuda Triangle.


Postage rate was 60c (Argentina currency) and arrived on 10 Nov 1947 (handwritten on the cover). Around 20 days by air in1947 (notice two of the stamps were printed with year 1947). This airmail label is perforated like stamp, printed with "Speedman" image by B.S.A.A. (not by Argentina post office). Interesting to note even after this airline was ceased, many envelopes still annotated "Via B.S.A.A." for sending airmail letter. 


I done a bit of research on the Internet, you can do further readings on B.S.A.A. below: 


TIME Magazine, old article on Monday, Apr 01, 1946 - The British Are Coming:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,792703,00.html

Fly with the Star - B.S.A.A. - collections of yesteryears posters, map, aircrafts and labels: 
http://www.flywiththestars.co.uk/Pictures/pictures.htm

B.S.A.A. on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancastrian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_South_American_Airways

Malaysia Airmail Label - Parcle (Old logo)

Above are old Malaysia airmail label for parcel use, printed with old Pos Malaysia logo. The second label's logo image is slightly shifted. This consider normal as there are no security printing requirements for airmail label. 

For new logo, view my previous posting:

http://airmaillabels.blogspot.com/2009/12/airmail-label-malaysia-parcel.html