(RCSD) Francis J Field

Seek any info at all
on this companies booklets on Airmail
any images would be welcomed.
Thanks
Rodney

On Oct 31, 5:28 am, "rodney" wrote:
Seek any info at all
on this companies booklets on Airmail
any images would be welcomed.
Thanks
Rodney


Hi Rodney:

FIELD, Francis John 1895-1992.
For seventy years a student of airpost history and aerophilately. In
1921
he founded the firm of Francis J Field Ltd, dealing specially in air
stamps.
At Birmingham, in May 1923, he gave the first British philatelic talk
on
radio. He compiled 'A Commercial and Historical Atlas of the World's
Airways' [1925], and was co-author, with NC Baldwin, of 'The
Coronation
Aerial Post 1911' [1934].
http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/aviation/...ostJubilee.jpg

Works published by his firm included: 'British Air Mails - A
Chronology of
the Air Posts of Great Britain and Ireland' [1935], 'Air Mail Labels
(Etiquettes)',
'The Blitz Book' [1942], 'Great Britain and Ireland - Catalogue of
Internal
Air Mails 1910-41' compiled by NC Baldwin [1942], 'World Air Posts -
A concise priced summary of the Air Post and Aviation Souvenirs
of about 200 countries' [1948], 'British Air Mail Society Souvenir'
[1971], and from 1926 the house magazine 'The Aero Field'.
President Aerophilatelic Federation and Streetly P.S.
Named in Roll of Honour of Birmingham P.S. RDP 1968.


1957 Scout Jamboree Francis J Field FDC;Sutton.Coldfield Slogan
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From a US dealer's list.

Francis J. Field Airmail Booklets

These small booklets were originally published by Field and are
similar in
nature to the series by Philip Cockrill, in essence they give the
essence
of the subject which is often all that is needed. For the most part
the
below are reprints by M.S. Todd with full royalties being paid to the
family.
In a few cases we can supply the original printing at the market
price.
Stock and prices revised April 15,2004.

* Artic Air Mails: Field, 1968, 20 pages, card, £4.00, $9.00
* Atlantic Mail FLIGHTS, Fifty Years of by Baldwin, 20 pages,
card, £3.50, $8.00
* Australia: External Air Mails of: Baldwin, 1965, 62 pages, card,
£8.00, $18.00
* Australia & New Zealand to Great Britain (War time services
1939-45): O. R. J. Lee.
13 pages, card, £3.50, $8.00
* Qantas Empire Airways Comes of Age, 20 pages, card, £4.00, $9.00
* Austria; An Air Mail Digest: Field, 16 pages, card, £4.00, $9.00
* Bermuda, Air Mails of: Baldwin, 16 pages, card, £4.00, $9.00
* B.E.A. Helicopter Mails: 20 Years of by Baldwin, 11 pages, card,
£3.00, $6.75
* B.O.A.C.'s. Silver Jubilee: Baldwin, 20 pages, card, £4.00,
$9.00
* Bridging the South Atlantic by Air Mail: A.L.Leon, 9 pages,
card, £5.00, $11.50
* Post-War Bridging the Atlantic, 1945-50: Baldwin, 48 pages,
card, £6.50, $14.50
* British Commonwealth Air Mail Digest 1-10: Field (updated
information), 1953,
48 pages, card, £5.50, $12.50
* Ceylon 1873-1950: Field, 12 pages, card, £3.00, $6.75
* COMET-1: Baldwin (List of Flights), 12 pages, card, £3.00, not
available
* COMET-4: Baldwin, 20 pages, card, £4.00, not available
* East Africa Governors Conference Report of a Committee Appointed
to Prepare
a Scheme for Post-War Local Air Services in East Africa
1943.
(Routes, Mileage, Tariffs), 24 pages, card, £11.00, $27.50
* Ethiopia Air Mail Flights to 1934: N.Cape, 48 pages, card,
£5.50, not available
* Air France, History of the Development of the Air Mail Services:
Baldwin, 2968,
20 pages, card, £4.00, $9.00
* Deutsche Luft Hansa and Luft Hansa: Field, 14 pages, card,
£4.50, $10.25
* Fanco-German War 1870-71, Balloon Builders Cachets on Letters
Entrusted
to Aeronauts: H.Cappart, 5 pages, card, £2.00,
not available
* British Mails of The Graf Zeppelin: Field, 1987, 15 pages, card,
£2.00, $4.50
* Great Britain, Air Letter Stamps and Services: Baldwin, 1966,
21pages, card, £5.00, $11.50
* Great Britain and Ireland, Catalogue of Internal Air Mails
1910-1941: Baldwin,
38 pages, card, £6.00,
$13.50
* British Air Mails 1946-1951: Baldwin (Priced supplement), 1955,
21 pages, card, £5.00,
$11.50
* Fifty Years of British Air Mails 1911-1960: Baldwin, 47 pages,
card, £8.00, $18.00
* British Inland Air Mail April 1933-April 35: Phillips, 15 pages,
card, £3.50, $8.00
* Railway Air Services, British Inland Air Posts: Baldwin, 8
pages, card, £3.00, $7.00
* Hong Kong Air Post History, Priced Check List: Baldwin & Field,
8 pages, card, £3.50,
$8.00
* Imperial Airways & Subsidiary Companies, History and Price Check
List of Empire
Air Mails: Baldwin, 79+ pages, card, £10.00,
$22.50
* Japan Overseas and International Flights: Field (Valuation
guide),
20 pages, card, £4.00,
$9.00
* Libya, Air Mail Postal History of the Fezzan: N.Davies, 3
pages, card, £1.50, not
available.
* Malaya, Air Mails of: Baldwin, 19 pages, card, £4.00, $9.00
* New Guinea, Air Mail In, Includes Papua: Gisburn, 11, pages,
card, £4.00, $9.00
* Norwegian Air Mails, A Check List of: Baldwin, 12pages, card,
£3.00, $7.00
* Bridging the Pacific, Priced Chronology of Projected, Attempted,
and Successful
Pacific Flights 1919-1951: Field, 52 pages, card,
£8.00, $18.00
* Pan American Airways: Baldwin, 21 pages, card, £4.50, $10.50
* Royal Air Force Covers of: Field, 22 pages, card, £5.00, $11.25
* Rhodesia's and Nyasaland, Air Mail History of: Baldwin, 16
pages, card, £4.00, $9.00
* Rocket & Jet Posts History of: Field, 41 pages, card, £6.50,
$14.50
* British Africa, Air Mails of 1925-32: Baldwin, 69 pages, card,
£8.50, $19.25
* South Africa, Air Posts of: Check List 1911-1956: Baldwin &
Stern,
24 pages, card, £6.00, $13.50
* Royal Air Force Reconnaissance Flights, Delhi to Singapore
1930:
A.H.Frost, 12 pages, card, £5.00, not
available

Baldwin, N.C. "British Turbo-Prop Aircraft, Commerative Covers
Carried on Flights."
Francis J Field Ltd, Sutton Coldfield, U.K., 1960s?, 14pp.

Field, John C.W. "The Unlucky Giant - Flugschiff DOX - 1929 to
1933."
Sutton Coldfield, U.K.: Francis J. Field Ltd, 19??,
12pp.

Baldwin, N.C. Bahamas: History of Air Mail Service 1919 to
1957.
Sutton Coldfield, U.K.: Francis J. Field Ltd.,
undated [1950s?]; 4pp.

Poole, Bertram W.H. The Postage Stamps of Bermuda. West End
Philatelist
Philatelic Handbook no. 7. London: Francis J. Field Ltd,
1911; 37pp.

Baldwin, N.C. The Aviation History of Trinidad and Tobago.
Sutton Coldfield, U.K: Francis J. Field Ltd, 1950s?; 12pp.

There are scores more.

Blair

"Blair (TC)" wrote in message


Aerial Post 1911' [1934].
http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/aviation/...ostJubilee.jpg

G'day Blair,
goodness, a high achiever!

something to put with my cover
http://cjoint.com/data/kFnbaRRsSU.htm

I note the link above you offered, is one of the great philatelic mysteries
that book he co authored is still missing!