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- OBJECT TYPE
- Canada/official
- DATE
- 1973
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1998.0966.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Barber-Ellis
- MODEL
- 50th Anniversary Internal Winter Air Mail Flights of Newfoundland 1923
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- paper
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 9.2 cm
- Width
- 16.5 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Commemorative
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Barber Ellis
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Period
- Postmarked May 16, 1973
- Canada
-
Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the first internal Winter air mail flights in Newfoundland, May 16, 1923/ Piloted by Major F. Sidney Cotton in a Rolls-Royce bi-wing Martinsyde - Function
-
Sent through the mail for the purpose of creating a collectible item - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Canada post stamp: "CANADA/ POSTES POSTAGE/ 8"/ Postmark over cachet: "00[ill.]/ 16 V 1971/ RIGOLET/ N F"/ Print lower centre: "PAR AVION VIA AIR MAIL CORREO AEREO"/ Cachet: "1923 50th Anniversary 1973/ Internal Winter Air Mail Flights/ of Newfoundland 1923/ Pilot: Major Sidney Cotton/ Aircraft: Rolls-Royce Bi-wing Martinsyde/ Hawkes Bay to Rigolet, Newfoundland/ and Return to Botwood/ 16 May 1923"/ Stamped address: "Major R.K. Malott/ c[/]o The Mayor's Office/ Hawkes Bay, Newfoundland"/ Mfr's logo inside cover: "BARBER-ELLIS"/ On back, mfr's print upper left corner: "107 DESIGN"/ Mfr's print lower center: "DESIGN RD 1929 B.-E. LTD."/ Return address: "Return in 3 days to:/ Major R.K. Malott/ 16 Harwick Crescent/ Ottawa 6, Ontario/ Canada"/ Stamped: "002201/ 20 V 1973/ HAWKES BAY/ N F"/
- Missing
- Complete
- Finish
- White coloured cover with a blue wavy design with airplanes and "Air Mail" printed inside the cover and with red and blue design around edges and a blue cachet/
- Decoration
- Depicts a Rolls-Royce bi-wing Martinsyde
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Barber-Ellis, Cover, 1973, Artifact no. 1998.0966, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1998.0966.001/
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