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Lot 150 |
1922-40, first flight and other airmail covers, small group, includes 9 nice first flight covers from the 1920's-30's with neat cachets, plus some misc. including C.A.M. etc, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photos | Unsold | |
Lot 151 |
1924 (May 12), SCADTA cover to Colombia (Scott CLEU54), with 30c SCADTA "EU" stamp plus 4c Colombia postage, no US postage. Cover slightly reduced at left, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold | |
Lot 152 |
1925 (Jun 6), SCADTA cover to Colombia (Scott CLEU54), with 30c SCADTA "EU" stamp plus 2¢ US postage, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold | |
Lot 153 |
1926 (Feb 13), First Flight, Chicago - Detroit - Cleveland, Nickles cover with the wrong date for the flight on front (correct date was Feb 15), with backstamp showing the Feb 15 date; this is actually an FDC, Very Fine, unusual. Estimate $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photos | Unsold | |
Lot 154 |
1926 (Jul 1), First C.A.M. Flight, Boston to New York, legal-size cover with all proper postmarks and cachets, plus the signatures (on the reverse) of the pilot and a passenger, plus a letter about the flight, Very Fine. Estimate $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photos | Unsold | |
Lot 155 |
1927-38, first flight covers, group of 6, including a Lindbergh cover to St. Lucia, also U.S.S. Macon. The lot also contains 2 advertising covers, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photos | Unsold | |
Lot 156 |
1928 (Aug 16), Catapult Mail via S.S. "Ile de France", paid reply postal card (separated and both parts canceled), franked with a $1 Washington-Franklin (!), addressed to France, for a catapult flight that never took place, the reply card was returned to Portland, Or. Message card with an archival fold and stapling, Fine to Very Fine overall, a rare usage. Scott 518. Estimate $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold | |
Lot 157 |
1934 (Jul 28), National Geographic Society - Army Air Corps Stratosphere Flight, cover marked STRATOSPHERE MAIL, addressed to to Maj. General Sladen, with 3 backstamps, plus an official letter to Gen. Sladen, attesting that it was carried during the flight, and signed by the pilot and crew members. The lot also contains a "trimming of the fabric from the actual balloon of … the flight", Very Fine overall. Estimate $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photos | Unsold | |
Lot 158 |
1935 (Apr 16), First Flight, California to Hawaii and back, round trip cover with all proper postmarks and cachets, Very Fine. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold | |
Lot 159 |
1935 (Oct 5), First Flight, San Francisco to Guam and back, round trip cover with all proper postmarks and cachets, plus a letter from Pan-Am on their official stationery, Very Fine. Estimate $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold | |
Lot 160 |
1935 (Oct 5), First Flight, San Francisco to Guam and back, round trip cover with all proper postmarks and cachets, Very Fine. Estimate $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold | |
Lot 161 |
1935 (Oct 10), First Flight Westbound, Honolulu to Guam, a neat cover with the flight cachet, Very Fine, reportedly only 313 carried. Estimate $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $90 |
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Lot 162 |
1935 (Oct 10), First Flight, San Francisco to Guam, attractive cover with the special flight cachet, Very Fine. Estimate $60 - 80. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold | |
Lot 163 |
1936 (Oct 22), First Passenger Flight Across the Pacific, cover from Honolulu to Guam, addressed to Clara Adams, the well-known "professional passenger", with Guam backstamp, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $160 |
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Lot 164 |
1936 (Nov 3), First Flight, Hawaii - California, neat cover signed by the radio operator and with the address label of Clara Adams, the well-known "professional passenger" on many airplane and Zeppelin flights, Very Fine. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold | |
Lot 165 |
1938, First U.S. Trans-Atlantic Air Mail to Bermuda, with a lovely cachet and a Bermuda backstamp, Very Fine. Estimate $40 - 60. View details and enlarged photos | Unsold | |
Lot 166 |
1948 (Jun 16), Palestine Emergency Delivery airmail, cover from San Mateo, California to Rishon-Le-Zion, Israel, with 25¢ airmail stamp canceled by the special P.E.D.I. postmark. This was a special rate in use for a brief time to the newly formed state of Israel. Opened a bit roughly at top, otherwise Very Fine, a most uncommon cover. Estimate $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $180 |
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