Friday 18 August 2017

Amalgamated Press / The Champion - AMC-34 The Champion Album of Record Breakers (04) - Sheet 1


1935
AMC-34 The Champion Album of Record Breakers
Amalgamated Press / The Champion
64 (4 footballers)

Noel Almeida has found the magazine that came out a week before this collection was issued and the middle pages includes a photo of the first sheet of stamps. Here's an updated listed of the known sheets, with three of them now dated. Another four still to find.

(AMC-34) The Champion Album of Record Breakers - sheet 1 - issue no 716, dated 19 October, 1935

World's Fastest Seaplane
"Papyrus" - 108m.p.h. Engine
Wiley Post, Long-Distance Flyer
Don Bradman (South Australia)
"Bluebird"
R.M.S. Majestic
C. Bastin (Arsenal)
Capt. G. Eyston

(AMC-34) The Champion Album of Record Breakers - sheet 2 - issue no 717, dated 26 October, 1935

Our Biggest Flying Boat
Empress of Britain
World's Fastest Rail-Flyer
Capt. Eyston's Hotchkiss
F.W. Southall 
H. Scott-Paine 
Eric Langton 
Len Harvey (Boxing)

(AMC-34) The Champion Album of Record Breakers - sheet 3 - issue no 718, dated 2 November, 1935

World's Fastest Airplane
Harry Grant, Paced by Motor-bike
C.W.A. Scott (Pilot)
H. Sutcliffe (Cricket)
Dr. Eckener (Graf Zeppelin Designer)
Capt. R.N. Stuart, VC (Empress of Britain Commander)
Miss America X, World’s Fastest Speed Boat
M.G. Magic Midget

(AMC-34) The Champion Album of Record Breakers - sheet 4

Empire's Biggest Troop Carrier
H.M.S. Codrington
Ernst Henne as Speed (Motor Cycling)
Graf Zeppelin
W. Hammond (Cricket)
Max Grosskreutz
H.L. Brook
Capt. R.B. Irving

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