This evening marks one hundred years since curious spectators in Auckland craned their necks to witness one of the first flights in New Zealand made by a Government owned aircraft. Joseph Joel Hammond of the Royal Flying Corps was at the controls of the ‘Britannia’ and in the […]
Today I have another couple of envelopes and another story, this time from wartime Wellington – a city that has had a bit of a shaky time lately. I came across this pair of covers (fancy philately term for used envelopes) back when I was a teenager. At […]
Today I thought I’d share a snippet of aviation history that I found during some “front-line” ephemera collecting. It also has a bit of cricket geekery thrown in for good measure along with a D-Day reference AND a tropical cyclone. In the digital age most of my collecting […]
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