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Airmail Postal History

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

3711

Alaska Emergency Air Mail Service, 1934-46, 52 examples from the territory of Alaska in binder pages; cancels include Flat, Holy Cross, Council, Anvik, False Pass, Kiana, Kodiak, Golovin, Kotzebue, Koyukuk, Nome, Sitka, Yakutat, Baranof, Kake, Chatham, Kokrines, Unalakleet, Selawik, Kimshan Cove, Haines, Funter, Elfin Cove, Tenakee Springs, Hydaburg, Haycock, Shishmaref, Ruby, Nenana, Point Hope, Nulato, Noorvik, Kobuk, Saint Michael, Deering, Wales, Kivalina, and several others; large percentage have censor tape and includes a 1929 real photo postcard mailed from the Yukon of a family of sledge dog malamutes, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 0.8 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

Estimate $400-600
SOLD for $275.00
Will close during Public Auction

3712

Catapult, Helicopter, and Autogiro Collection, 1931-1950, 42 envelopes carried by unusual means; 3 Ship to Shore postmarked Honolulu and backstamped SS City of Los Angeles, 2 Pick-Up Route First Flight (AM 49B and AM 49E), 13 Autogiro flights, and 23 Helicopter first flights (7 from 1946, 6 from 1947, as well as a beautiful 1948 San Gabriel cachet, 3 from 1949, 3 from 1950, 2 from 1952, and 1 from 1953); unusual, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 0.8 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $250-325
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3713

United States, Mostly Airmail Collection 1931-1934, 34 mostly US, mostly Airmail envelopes from the early 1930s; large First Day Cover with Scott # 704-715 (Washington Bicentennial) postmarked Washington DC, USS Akron flown cover, commemorative airship envelopes (Airship dock, dispatch of Goodyear blimp, welcome to West Coast Naval Air Base, and greeting the Akron), First Day Covers (Arbor Day, and Yorktown), Rate Changes (last day, first day), 20th Anniv of 1st flight (Mineola, and Los Angeles), Airport Dedication (Spokane, and Atlanta), FAM 5 (Mexico, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, and Cuba), FAM 6 (Cuba, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico), foreign covers (Mexico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Guatemala), and more, Fine to Very Fine. (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $120.00
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3714

The Gentleman's Magazine, Jan. & Feb. 1785, January and February 1785 partially bound pages from this British magazine; a bookmark in the February edition points to a Letter to the Editor expressing concern that aeronauts could fall from balloons and be seriously injured; incredibly, this appears less than two years after the Montgolfier brothers demonstrated the first practical hot air balloon and Rozier made the first tethered flight. (Image)

Estimate $100-150
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3715

United States, First Flight Collection, 1934-1978, 800 First Flight, AM routes, Jet Service, and Airport Dedication organized by route; Airlines include American Airlines, Alitalia, Air New Zealand, Avianca, Austrian Airlines, BOAC, Japan Airlines, KLM, Lufthansa Air, Pan Am, Swiss Air, SAS, TAI, TWA, Qantas, Air France, and United Airlines; clean collection, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 18 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $500-750
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3716

1929.0123

1929, Pair of C.A.M. 29 "Airgrams" to Lucerne, Switzerland, both franked with Aeronautics Conference commemoratives (two 2¢ & a 5¢), one originating in Beaumont, Tex., the other in Houston, on Jan 23 and both traveling eastward through New York (Jan 26) by surface mail to Switzerland (no Swiss receivers); both open up into large lettersheets, the Beaumont one being a Christmas "Hollygram" with a colorful corner card and a colorful scene of Santa Claus atop a Plane being pulled by Reindeer, Very Fine. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

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Estimate $130-180
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