Seymour Collection

Philatelic collection relating to the first commercial jet airliner

The Seymour Collection is a collection of philatelic material relating to the development and operation of the de Havilland Comet aircraft, that forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections. The collection was formed by Kenneth Seymour and donated to the library by his daughter Yvonne Wallace and his son Derek Seymour in 2003.^[1]

References

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^ "Philatelic Collections: Air Mail Collections". www.bl.uk. Archived from the original on 2016年04月27日. Retrieved 2025年08月10日.

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de Havilland Comet family

Variants

Comet
Nimrod
- R.1
- AEW.3
- MRA.4

Topics

Accidents
and
incidents

BOAC Flight 115 (1952)
BOAC Flight 783 (1953)
BOAC Flight 781 (1954)
South African Airways Flight 201 (1954)
Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 322 (1961)
British European Airways Flight 226 (1961)
United Arab Airlines Flight 869 (1962)
United Arab Airlines Flight 869 (1963)
Cyprus Airways Flight 284 (1967)
Dan-Air Flight 1903 (1970)
RAF Nimrod R.1 XW666 (1995)
RAF Nimrod MR.2 XV239 (1995)
RAF Nimrod MR.2 XV230 (2006)

Notable people

Ronald Eric Bishop

John Cunningham

Tony Fairbrother

Related aircraft

Sud Aviation Caravelle

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British Library

Named
collections

Ephemera	Ettridge Collection Evanion Collection Francis Place Collection Jaffray Collection National Reports Collection
Literature	Ashley Library Cotton Library Dexter Collection Durrell Collection Eccles Collection Ediciones Vigía Garrick Collection Hannas Collection Harold Pinter Archive King's Library Leyden Medical Dissertations Paston Letters Private Case Suppressed Safe collection Thomason Collection Todd-Bowden Collection of Tauchnitz Editions
Manuscripts	Arundel Manuscripts Coptic Language Collection Cotton Collection Egerton Collection Harleian Collection Royal manuscripts King's manuscripts Lansdowne manuscripts Stowe manuscripts Syriac Collection Stefan Zweig Collection
Maps	Beudeker Collection
Newspapers	Burney Collection
Philatelic	Bailey Collection Blackburn Collection Bojanowicz Collection Booth Papers Burnett Collection Campbell-Johnston Collection Chismon Collection Chinchen Collection Contributions Agency Collection Crawford Library Crown Agents Archive Crown Agents Collection Davies Collection Ewen Collection Feldheim Collection Fitzgerald Collection Fletcher Collection Foreign and Commonwealth Office Foreign Office Collection General Collection Ginger Collection H.M. Customs and Excise Collection H.M. Stationery Office Collection Harrison Collection Harrison & Sons Collection Heys Collection Imperial War Museum stamp collection Inland Revenue Stamping Archive Johnson Collection Kaluski Collection Kay Collection Langmead Collection Landmark Trust Lundy Archive McInroy Collection Model Collection Monks Collection Mosely Collection Muraleetharan Papers Murray Collection Photograph Collection Postal Authority Publicity Collection R.P.S.L. Handouts Collection Row Collection Ryan Collection Seymour Collection Scott Collection Shelley Collection Sherborn Collection Smith Collection Supplementary Collection Tapling Collection Treasury Excise Correspondence Turner Collection of Forgeries Turner Collection of Newspaper Tax Stamps Turner Collection of Railway Letter Stamps U.P.U. Collection Walker Collection Williams Papers Wilson-Todd Collection
Sound	British Library Sound Archive Oral History of British Science St Mary-le-Bow Debates