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Air India New additions

May 2023

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March 2023

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JRD Tata signed and dated FDC Ahmedabad cancel.
Ahmedabad was a Fuel stop during JRD Tata's first flight from Karachi to Bombay.

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Indian Airlines Bombay Karachi first flight

Jan 2023

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July 2022

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1956 Air India first flight cover from Germany for the Rome Sydney Inaugural flight.

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1958 AirIndia first flight cover from Germany from the Delhi Moscow flight.

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JRD Tata signed and dated FDC.

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Added a Cover which has all the cancellations on a single cover, also an International Eucharistic Congress brochure which was made only for the distinguished delegates stamped 7th December 1964.
Click here to view the complete brochure and the Pope's visit FFC's.

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1937 Tata FFC from Ahmedabad to Cutch-Mandavi

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1955 Air India FFC to Tokyo and intermediate stop Hong Kong

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Indian Airlines ffc from Bangladesh to Calcutta

Fisherman- Shanti Dave

June 2022

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Earliest known suggestions and complaint envelopes

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Indian Airlines first flight to Karachi from New Delhi

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A nice Greeting card featuring the Maharajah.

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Bhuj Trichinopoly

Trichinopoly Karachi

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Inflight booklet for Children contains 500 miles of entertainment.

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8th June 1948 posted from Calcutta, a 12 annas stamp comet cancel dated 6th June 1948

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New Air India flight cover found flown 6th April 1968 Kuwait to Geneva

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1961 Private ffc in monocolor

1980 AIR INDIA CALCUTTA PARIS FFC (1).png
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1980 FFC flown to Calcutta to Singapore missed the cachet.(cachet shown below)

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1937 TATA FFC GWALIOR BOMBAY GWALIOR (1).png
1937 TATA FFC INDORE BOMBAY INDORE (1).png
1937 TATA FFC BHOPAL BOMBAY BHOPAL (1).png
1937 BOMBAY DELHI BOMBAY TATA FFC (1).png
1937 TATA FFC GWALIOR BOMBAY GWALIOR (2).png
1937 TATA FFC INDORE BOMBAY INDORE (2).png
1937 TATA FFC BHOPAL BOMBAY BHOPAL (2).png
1937 BOMBAY DELHI BOMBAY TATA FFC (2).png

1937 FFC flown both sides

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Air India Menu

May 2022

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1937 Tata Flight covers for addition of Bhuj as a stop.

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Hand Made fan given to First class passengers

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1932 TATA FFC BELLARY TO KAMPALA (1).png
1932 TATA FFC BOMBAY MOMBASA (1).png

Type 1A covers to various Foreign destinations

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1932 TATA FFC MADRAS CROYDON (1).png
1932 TATA FFC AHMEDABAD KOSTI (1).png
1932 TATA FFC BELLARY MOMBASA (1).png
1932 TATA FFC BELLARY MALAKAL (1).png

Type 2 covers to various Foreign destinations

1932 TATA FFC AHMEDABAD SUDAN (1).png
1932 TATA FFC BELLARY CAIRO (1).png
1932 TATA FFC MADRAS CAIRO (1).png

Type 3C covers to various Foreign destinations

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1932 TATA FFC LONDON BELLARY (3).png
1932 TATA FFC LONDON BOMBAY (1).png
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Type 3A covers to and from various Foreign destinations

January 2022

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Lot of new collectibles added to Publicity Ephemera and postcards page please do visit and enjoy!!!

This is a new variety found with Genève stamps.
There do exist Bombay-Genève, New Delhi-Genève and Genève-Bombay with Liechtenstein stamps.

December 2021

It gives me great pleasure to announce we have come across a lot of information regarding flights and pilots, Courtesy: Percy Jokhi.
Do check the names updated

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Che Guevara signed Air India photo

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AIR INDIA FIRST FLIGHT  BOMBAY TOKIO  1955.jpg

Sent in 54, flown in 55

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AIR INDIA FIRST FLIGHT ZURICH  BOMBAY1955.jpg

Another example of Zurich Bombay Air India Flight Cover

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Some Old 1950's Air India photo's

October 2021

It gives me great pleasure to show you here some new unseen and unknown flight covers. We have also found a 1953 Bombay Dusseldorf cover which was thought does not exist. Keep visiting this page to view it in January 2022.

1960 NEW YORK BOMBAY VIA FRANKFURT.jpg

Seen for the first time a intermediary flight cover for the return New York Bombay flight, via Frankfurt.

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A private cover example of this 1956 Rome Sydney flight

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Another great example of this 1955 Bombay Sydney flight sent from Dusseldorf, earlier one was addressed to Cairo, this cover to Sydney

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1932 Bellary Ahmedabad Tata flight cover.

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INDIA 1935 GV 3as ON CALCUTTA BOMBAY DEMONSTRATION  FFC CALCUTTA TO RAIPUR.jpg

1935 Tata flight covers both Bombay Calcutta and Calcutta Bombay via Raipur and Tatanagar.

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1935 Bombay Trivandrum Tata flight cover

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INDIA 1937 FFC AHMEDABAD-ANJAR.jpg
INDIA 1937 FFC BOMBAY MANDRA CUTCH.jpg
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1937 Tata flight cover to and from Bhuj, Anjar, Mandra, Ahmedabad, Bombay, Hyderabad.

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Madras Trichinopoly Colombo

December 2020

26.09.1956 DUSSELDORF-CAIRO VIA AUSTRALI
26.09.1956 DUSSELDORF-CAIRO VIA AUSTRALI
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K.R. GUJDER ON AN INAUGRAL FLIGHT CUTTIN
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1937 BHUJ MADRAS.jpg

November 2020

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1956 Prague Delhi Bombay Air India first

Another great example of this 1956 Praha Bombay via Delhi flight

1958 DELHI MOSCOW AIR INDIA FIRST FLIGHT
1958 DELHI MOSCOW AIR INDIA FIRST FLIGHT

ERROR:  Green missing, the QUTUB MINAR is also missing.

1976 BOMBAY BAGHDAD ERROR AIR INDIA FFC.

ERROR:  BAGHDAD- BOMBAY stamp instead of BOMBAY BAGHDAD

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Private FFC- BOMBAY BRISBANE via SYDNEY

1948 8TH JUNE FIRST FLIGHT STAMP ERROR B
1948 8TH JUNE FIRST FLIGHT STAMP ERROR B

ERROR:  RUDDER BROKEN example

August 2020

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Another great example of this 1956 Praha Bombay via Delhi flight, got a smudged Bombay arrival stamp.

June 2020

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January 2020

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1954 BOMBAY HONGKONG RED COVER AIR-INDIA

November 2019

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8th JUNE 1948 BOMBAY LONDON AIR INDIA FF
1935 CANNANORE BOMBAY TATA FFC.jpg
1935 CANNANORE BOMBAY TATA FFC BACK.jpg
1935 BOMBAY TRIVANDRUM TATA FFC.jpg
1935 BOMBAY TRIVANDRUM TATA FFC BACK.jpg
1936 MADRAS TRICHINOPOLY TATA FFC.jpg
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1938 TRICHINOPOLY TRIVANDRUM TATA FFC1.j
1938 TRICHINOPOLY TRIVANDRUM TATA FFC BA
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1938 TRICHINOPOLY TRIVANDRUM TATA FFC BA
1938 POONA COLOMBO FFC TATA.jpg
1935 BOMBAY TRIVANDRUM FFC.jpg
1935 BOMBAY TRIVANDRUM FFC BACK.jpg
1935  TRIVANDRUM BOMBAY FFC.jpg
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1932 LONDON AHEMDABAD VIA KARACHI FFC.jp
1950 BHARAT AIRWAYS CALCUTTA SINGAPORE F
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1932 COLOMBO TO BOMBAY VIA MADRAS FFC.jp
1932 COLOMBO TO BOMBAY VIA MADRAS FFC BA
1932 COLOMBO TO BAGHDAD VIA MADRAS AND K
1932 COLOMBO TO BAGHDAD VIA MADRAS AND K
1935 TRIVANDRUM BOMBAY TATA AIRLINES FFC
1935 TRIVANDRUM BOMBAY TATA AIRLINES FFC
1936 XMAS FLIGHT BOMBAY TRICHINOPOLY FFC
1936 XMAS FLIGHT BOMBAY TRICHINOPOLY FFC
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1936 XMAS FLIGHT KARACHI CEYLON FFC BACK
1936 XMAS FLIGHT MADRAS BOMBAY FFC.jpg
1936 XMAS FLIGHT MADRAS BOMBAY FFC BACK.
1936 XMAS FLIGHT SAHARANPUR CEYLON FFC.j
1936 XMAS FLIGHT SAHARANPUR CEYLON FFC B
1936 XMAS FLIGHT TRICHINOPOLY BOMBAY FFC
1936 XMAS FLIGHT TRICHINOPOLY BOMBAY FFC
LETS HAVE AN AFFAIR INDIA BOOKLET SIGNED
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October 2019

1 APRIL 1963 GENEVA SINGAPORE AIR INDIA
1 APRIL 1963 GENEVA SINGAPORE AIR INDIA

This is the route for Geneva Sydney via Singapore

AIR INDIA SPECIAL EVENT SIMULTANEOUS LAN
AIR INDIA SPECIAL EVENT SIMULTANEOUS LAN

Found one more variety with UN stamps

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Tata Airlines freight label

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AIR INDIA 1961 BOMBAY TOKYO SIGNED FFC B

25th Jan 1951 Bombay Tokyo- signed cover

19 APRIL 1960 AIR INDIA BOMBAY LONDON FF
19 APRIL 1960 AIR INDIA BOMBAY LONDON FF

19th April 1960 Bombay London Signed Capt Rajwade

July 2019

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Type 4: Coasters added to collection

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A matchlabel and a matchbox

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