HONDURAS 1929 POSTAL STATIONERY & FIRST FLIGHT

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2c purple 'Flags of Cuba & Honduras' postal stationery card (H&G 37) numbered '31' on reverse used with added 1925 1c blue 'Baraona' issue, 1927 2c carmine and 6c blue, 1929 1c lake 'Installation of President Colindres' issue & 1929 25c on 50c vermilion 'Servicio Aereo' SURCHARGE issue (SG 222A, 248, 252, 259 & 261). Sent registered with boxed cachet on reverse flown on the first International airmail flight TELA - MIAMI with some stamps tied by boxed 'TEGUCIGALPA Primer correo internacional 15 de Septiembre de 1929' cancel in blue (use of which was intended for a first flight which did not happen). Forwarded on to TELA with transit cds dated 24th SEPT 1929 on reverse and flown to MIAMI on the 27th September with arrival cds dated the same day also on reverse. Addressed to NEW YORK with various other transit and arrival marks. Scarce. (Muller #21)