Airmails

**ALBANIA**
Lot	Symbol	Catalog No.	Descrip	Opening
10000		C42a	1931 Tirana-Rome Flight high value (3fr) with INVERTED OVPT, first we’ve seen, nh, very fine (Scott $275+) Get Market Data for [Albania C42a] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	CLOSED Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10001			1933 (May) Zeppelin 1st South America Flight, reg’d cover sent via Italy (transits on back), F’hafen arrival (6.5.33), sent to Pernambuco (partial bs), 7 stamps = 160q total franking tied at Tirana (1.5.33 cds), very fine and scarce (Sieger 202, € 450)	CLOSED Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10002			1933 (June) Zeppelin 2nd South America Flight, reg’d cover with 4.10Fr total franking (10 stamps) tied at Vlone (June 1), three different Italian transit bs plus F’hafen June 3 cds on face along with flight cachet, sent to Santos, Brazil with June 7 bs, elusive and very fine (Sieger 214, € 425+)	CLOSED Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM

**PORTUGUESE COLONIES » ANGOLA**
Lot	Symbol	Catalog No.	Descrip	Opening
10003			1945 Emergency airmails, group of seven internal commercial covers franked by various 90c-3.60A values (Sanabria 12-15) incl. multiples, most with additional postage issues, mixed condition (some tears, some reduced), seldom encountered, fine overall (Est. € 80/120) Get Market Data for [Angola Collection] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	SOLD for € 70.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM

**ANTIGUA & BARBUDA**
Lot	Symbol	Catalog No.	Descrip	Opening
10004			1931 Do-X Special Caribbean Flight cover, one of 9 flown from St. John’s, ANTIGUA (20 August cds tied 6d + 2d franking) to St. Thomas, USA VIRGIN ISLANDS (21 August) and from there to Tortola, British Virgin Islands (Road Town bs). Prepared and despatched for the Netherlands consul at St. Thomas, and a major Do-X rarity, very fine	CLOSED Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM

**ARGENTINA**
Lot	Symbol	Catalog No.	Descrip	Opening
10005			1911 (2 Sept.) First International Airmail, Buenos Aires to Montevideo, 10c franking tied by B.A. Exterior cds, bold strike in blue of the special cachet (naming pilot Teodor Fels), with blue “Pro-Aviacion Militar” label on reverse plus Carteros / Montevideo bs (2 SEP. 2°), very fine, signed Roumet (Müller 4, 20’000pts)	SOLD for € 1,200.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10006			1921 (March) Buenos Aires to Asuncion del Paraguay flight, two 5c Orange tied to front by machine cds (March 29), special printed label on back reading “POR AEREOPLANO / PILOTO / Mayor S. G. Kingsley / MARZO 28 DE 1921” tied by two diff Paraguay receivers (dates almost legible) incl. Asuncion, and by Buenos Aires Exterior cds (March 29). Fine and extremely rare example of this “forgotten” pioneer effort by aviatrix Shirley Kingsley (later responsible for Buenos Aires to Montevideo trial flights in 1923); this event not listed by Müller, AAMC, etc.	CLOSED Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10007			1923 (December 31) Trial flight from Buenos Aires to Montevideo flown by aviatrix Shirley Kingsley, three 5c tied at origin by “Exterior” cds (also shows machine bs of the same day), manuscript “Por aeroplano,” and backstamped at Montevideo on Jan. 1, 1924. Fine, certified by Sociedad Argentina de Aerofilatelia (1994). Note: has original contents, two large business cards with notes about the flight. An extremely rare pioneer flight cover, with just TWO COVERS RECORDED carried on this flight.	CLOSED Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10008			1927 (12 Nov.) Cover flown on “Nungesser-Coli” plane from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, franked by 20c composed of different values, Montevideo arrival on reverse, pilots Costes and Le Brix, very fine, cert. César Jones	SOLD for € 460.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10010			1927 (25 Nov.) Buenos Aires to Asuncion (Paraguay) flight by Costas & Le Brix, stamps of each country tied by respective Nov. 25 cds to cover with printed cachet, only 85 carried, unaddressed, vert. fold, fine (Mü. 26, 7’500pts)	CLOSED Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10011			1929 (12 Sept.) Trial Flight, Comodoro Rivadavia (Patagonia) to Buenos Aires by pilot Paul Vachet (who signed the special envelope), 5c San Martin tied by first day of use of the Comodoro Rivadavia cds (11.SET.29), bs on arrival SEP 12 / 1929, taking 12 hours to cover the 1’800km, only 400 such covers flown, very fine (Mü. 46, 2’500pts)	SOLD for € 200.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10012			1930 (Jan 25) C.G.A. crash by Laté 26 from Buenos Aries to Toulouse, which crashed into the sea between Ceuta and Mellila, with two postal bags later washing up on beaches, cover with stamps washed off and affixed with a typed label on reverse explaining the delay, rare (Nierinck 300125a)	SOLD for € 200.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10013			1930 (May 10) Crash of C.G.A. plane flying from Buenos Aires to Montevideo (all but one passenger killed), cover to Germany with violet three-line hs, “Accident d’Avion / Correspondances recueillies en mer / NE PAS TAXER,” opened for display, fine (Nierinck 300510a)	SOLD for € 95.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10014			1930 (May 10) C.G.A. flight from Buenos Aires to Toulouse which as a result of very bad visibility crashed into the sea, 1482 letters were recovered, envelope with “Accident d’Avion / Correspondances recueillies en mer / “NE PAS TAXER” violet hs on reverse, still with franking, Liege bs (Nierinck 300510a)	SOLD for € 80.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10015			1930 (May-June) Zeppelin South America Flight, two items, cover with cplt. blue ovpt. set (Scott C20-24) and 5c postal card with 1P and 50c green ovpts, each with add’l franking, tied by May 21 or 22 airmail cds and flown to Europe (former to Austria, latter to Germany), each with triangular Argentine cachet and “American” cachet, each with F’hafen 6.6.30 receiver, fresh and very fine (Sieger 63, € 730)	SOLD for € 420.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10016			1930 Zeppelin South America Flight, cover and 5c postal card with add’l overprint frankings (card with 1P & 50c, cover with pair of 1P, two 50c and Bolivar 12c) all tied by Buenos Aires cds (21 May), F’hafen bs (6.6.30), diamond cachets plus special Argentina cachet, very clean, very fine (Sieger 63 B)	SOLD for € 85.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10017			1930 (8 June) First Trans-Atlantic Airmail-Only flight cover with 68c franking tied at Buenos Aires, three strikes of special boxed cachet front and back, bs Paris (18 June), one of the few covers signed by pilot Mermoz, very fine (Mü. 94a, 2’500pts)	SOLD for € 1,200.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10018		C20-28	1930 Zeppelin ovpts cplt. in blue plus all but 1P80 with same in GREEN, lh, very fine (Scott $391) Get Market Data for [Argentina C20-28] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	CLOSED Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10019			1931-34, Six diff. Graf Zeppelin flight covers, frankings incl. 1932 ovpts, useful and fine group (Sieger 135, 135 var.,151 I, 173C, 185, 256; € 280+) Get Market Data for [Argentina Collection] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	SOLD for € 130.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM
10020			1935 (Nov 3) Crash by Air France plane from Chile to France, cover sent from Buenos Aires to Montrouge, with part of the ambulance envelope cut out and stuck to the cover, showing the “COURRIER ACCIDENTE AU BRESIL” hs, arriving Nov 14 in Montrouge, fine	SOLD for € 120.00 Closing..May-04, 12:00 PM