He established a prosperous eye, ear, nose and throat practice in Redlands and San Diego. degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1903. Pounds graduated from Cornell University in the “Senior Medics” class of 1902 and earned his M.D. Philatelic legend holds that Pounds was related to Kid Canfield (Richard Albert Canfield), a notorious turn-of-the-20th-century gambler and confidence man turned anti-gambling reformer, author, lecturer and subject of a 1920s Western silent motion picture, but I have been unable to verify that. A 10-lempira stamp issued by Honduras in 2000 pictures Pounds (Scott C1076). The Honduran president, Lopez Gutierrez, approved the contract on Dec. Pounds to establish airmail service between Tegucigalpa and the north coast. 24, 1922, the postmaster general of Honduras contracted with an American physician named Thomas C. The small aircraft flown by Compania Aerea Hondurena (also advertised as Central American Airlines ) traveled the 200-kilometer distance in about an hour and a half. Tegucigalpa was isolated from the outside world, with no rail transport and with roads so poor that mule trains took up to a week to carry mail to a port on the north coast for onward transmission to other countries. But airmail service was of greater relative significance to Honduras than the original U.S. Green Valley, AZ 85614īrowse our wide-ranging collection of auction catalogues previewing the rare stamps and lots being offered at upcoming sales.įirst-issue airmail stamps of Honduras are important to philately in the same way that United States airmail stamps of 1918 are important, as historical artifacts of the service that created them.
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