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11 Timetables issued by small commuter airlines tend to be among the rarest sought by collectors because these companies printed fewer copies of each issue than those produced by larger airlines . Pictured is a collage of commuter airline schedules from my collection .
13 Airlines used timetable advertising to introduce new service to the general public . This Mohawk issue , with three separate effective dates in September of 1961 , promotes the transfer of eight cities from Eastern Air Lines to Mohawk .
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prior to the name change from Pennsylvania Central .
What is the oldest timetable in your collection ? An Imperial Airways timetable from 1924 , the year that the company was formed . I found it years ago at a flea market and paid $ 12 for it .
What is the rarest timetable in your collection ? That ’ s a difficult question to answer . Of course , the rarest timetables are those from a batch of only a few printed , like the issues from small commuter
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carriers . I have many of those in my collection .
Then there are the older items — from the 1920s and early ‘ 30s .
I also have some rare schedules from extinct foreign carriers that did not print many timetables , like Cohata of Haiti , Cayman Brac Airways , Liberian National Airlines , and others .
But perhaps the rarest in my collection is the 180-page book of schedules from Aeroflot ’ s Far East Directorate , effective 1990 . I believe it may be one of a kind .
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This timetable book was given to Ron Davies as a gift upon his visit to Khabarovsk that year and was passed on to me by his daughters after his death .
How do you store your collection ? The rarest items are protected in museum-quality mylar sleeves produced by University Products of Holyoke , Massachusetts . The rest are in regular timetable-size plastic sleeves .
One quirk is that I have all of the timetables from before 1970 stored in one set of file cabinets , while those from 1970 and later are in another . That seems like an arbitrary dividing line , but it
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