Aeromaritime Flight Cachets 1937 French colonies in Africa

Here is an interesting collection idea that will allow you to take off in "aero-philately": you can still find quite a number of covers of the first flights of the Aeromaritime. They have fancy stamps on them usually and special cachets. You will see for example:

• diamond shaped cachets in red or black or


• the cachets showing a plane in red or black / blue.

A few examples follow.

This is a representation of a plane that was used frequently, the Sikorsky S-43