This is the first air mail notice that specifically requires superscriptions for all or part of the route upon which mail was to travel by air. It also quite usefully defines the anticipated number of days that could be saved over ordinary mail.

It will be noted that in three instances rates are quoted thus, 1s 6 piastres, 2s 1 piastre, and 1s 4 piastre. This notation was used also on the Order of Council, and one subsequent Post Office Notice before the notation was dropped.

(Despite using the piastre, Cyprus still made reference to shillings, it issued a 10 shilling stamp = 90 piastres, hence 1 shilling was 9 piastres.)

Little or no air mail covers from this period have been identified to date, do any exist, and do any of our members actually own any? Do they carry the prescribed superscriptions, and who applied them?

Responses to the above would be useful for inclusion in the revised CSC Study Paper No.3