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Airmail Postal History Collections

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971

Worldwide, World-Class Catapult Collection, 1928-35, 237 catapult envelopes, plus postcards, articles, and artwork in 2 volumes; 20 handpainted pages of drawings/maps/calligraphy highlighting flights from the SS Ile de France, SS Bremen, and SS Europa with mounted pictures and flown covers; includes uprated postal cards, mixed franking, Rosseler printed cachets, Hugarian franking (AAMS 117) on scarce cover, double flown (Ile de France and Bremen), Ile de France round trip (AAMS 7&8) Registered on ship stationery, French Airmail (C5) block of 4 on Rosseler printed cachet Ile de France to Paris, 26¢ (1¢ overpaid Printed Mater rate Ile de France New York to Latvia (backstamped Paris), several military catapult flights, SS Karlruhe backstamped Berlin, and much more; one of the most comprehensive collections (and with little duplication) ever created; view spectacular artwork on the website, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 12.6 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $5,000-7,500
SOLD for $3,500.00
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972

Worldwide, Wonderful Collection of Zeppelin Covers and Cards, 44 covers and 23 cards, mostly flown including US C13 (2 cover and 4 cards), C14 (4), C15 (3), C18 (6), other US frankings include C1-C6 with C6 plate block as partial franking, foreign frankings are mostly Germany but also Saar, Japan, Danzig, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, many with appropriate handstamp cachets, postcards are mostly zeppelin themed, also includes Zeppelin accordion style brochure "Flights Through Space Over Southern California" and the "Volo Transpolare 1926" cinderella stamp, couple small faults but, generally Very Fine, see the entire lot online. Shipping charges apply - weight 2.4 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $3,000-4,000
SOLD for $3,750.00
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973

Worldwide, "Flying High" Large Airmail Holding with Many Unlisted, Thirteen binders of manila stocksheets with thousands of mint & used stamps & souvenir sheets well organized by country with some in light duplication. Make sure you have a Sanabria catalogue nearby, because there is a lot of Scott-unlisted material here (Sanabria #'s noted), from imperf & overprint varieties to proofs & essays to stamps you may have never seen before, such as the semi-official airmails issued in 1938 for service between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands or the 1899 Pigeon Post of the Great Barrier Island off the coast of New Zealand. Errors too, some not even in Sanabria, like the many varieties of the Roosevelt issue of Ecuador 1964. An absolute joy to leaf through and we will present a few volumes via online flips to give you a taste, generally Fine to Very Fine, owner estimates catalogue value at nearly $40,000. Shipping charges apply - weight 73 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Video3 for this lot) (Video4 for this lot) (Video5 for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $3,000-4,000
SOLD for $2,000.00
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974

Worldwide, Noted Aerophilatelist Collection, 1926-1946, 300 envelopes that caught the eye of a top exhibitor, now he is thining his shelf and the high bidder gets this researched material stored in three binders; Registered Quilon India censored with Postage Due near the end of the war, oversized commercial Canadian meter mail with censor tape to Cyprus, triple censored Registered Zurich envelope to Argentina, Zeppelin from Recife to Paris, mixed franked Airmail from US to Czechoslovakia and redirected to England, numerou Prexies on suspended service covers, censored cover forwarded from Lisbon to Beirut to Cairo, Flight Too Late Marseilles-Lisbon-New York, London to Quito by Air, Prisoner of War mail, and much more; many are on exhibit pages with write ups of routes and rate calculations; condition varies considerably because this stuff is the real deal, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 12.8 lbs. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6)

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Estimate $2,500-3,500
SOLD for $1,600.00
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975

Worldwide, Eclectic Foreign Flight Cover and Card Collection, just over 100 foreign including DOX covers from Suriname, Germany including 4m South American zeppelin stamp used as partial franking, Trinidad & Tobago, Brazil, Portugal, Antigua, plus a Balloon Monte cover with 10c (2) tied by "Paris Nov. 11, 1870" double-circle datestamp on folded printed Lettre-Journal de Paris dated Nov. 9 to Mauritius (carried either on the Daguerre (departed Nov. 12 at 9AM; cat $325) or on the Niepce departed 15 minutes later; cat $6,250; needs more research; heavily hinge reinforced breaks along folds), 14 B.L. Rowe flown and signed covers, 19 NYRBA covers, two China, Newfoundland C3 St. John's to Halifax and C12 (2; one to London and one to Edinburgh Scotland), other countries include Australia, Danzig, England, India, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, also includes a Karl Lewis cover franked with Japan C4 & C5 tied by a large red commemorative cancel, a Wilkins North Pole cover and other miscellaneous covers including registered, few faults as always but, generally Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 3 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $2,600.00
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976

Worldwide, Better Collection of Worldwide Zepps, 1928-36, 59 flown letters and cards (43 envelopes and 16 postcards) from the US and Germany with a few from Brazil and Paraguay on black Lindner pages; includes Sieger 124Cb On Board card from Rio with 2M (Scott # C36) franking, 248A, 59A Recife to Rio to LA, 238Bc with C44 franking, 119A On Board Polar Flight to Berlin with C35, pair of 27A with C37 stamps, 57I, 59D uprated postal card Recife to Rio to LA (4CL8), 30Bc Germany to Lakehurst via Tokio (C36, C37x2), pair of 26A (C37), 24Aa Roessler card to Palestine (C36), 21A (C36x2), a few Olympics flights, 244D Chicago to Friedrichshafen (US C18), postcard with US C13 as franking, as well as a few flown with German C36 stamps; includes 2 tickets to 1909 International Air Exposition in Frankfurt and 2 dozen Zeppelin postcards; a strong grouping, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 2 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $1,600.00
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977

Worldwide, Delicious Early Flight Collection, 1934-1947, 100+ valuable first flight covers organized in a 3 ring binder; 1934 Territory of Hawaii first flight set of 4 different locations, Registered first flight Australia to US via New Zealand (released by censor), first flights by Pan Am Clipper San Francisco to Guam and back (1935) and a Roessler Airmail envelope postmarked Guam and Honolulu; outstanding Philippines material including Goodwill Flight Manila to Tokyo, initial flight Philippines to US, Fall of Battan First Day Cover, Von Gronau overprint on 2¢ First Day Cover, 11 overprinted stamps on 1935 Philippine Clipper cover (2), 8 values on 1935 Royal Flying Boat mail, about 10 FAM 14 Trans-Pacific covers, first flight Hong Kong to San Francisco, first flight Macao to San Francisco, lots of 1937 first flights (San Francisco-Macao, Guam-Macao, Honolulu-Macao, San Francisco-Hong Kong), FAM 19 New Zealand Clipper mail (through Honolulu, Noumea, Canton Island, and Auckland), FAM 19 (to Canton Island, Auckland, and Noumea), FAM 19 from Hawaii (to Noumea, Canton Island, and Auckland), Canton Island first flights, New Zealand first flights, 5 different New Caledonia flights, 1941 Philippine Airmail set on FDC, beautiful FAM 14 to Shanghai (from Guam, San Francisco, and Honolulu); 4 Imperial cachet FDC for C21 (pair, and a block), C22 (block of 4), and one with C21-C22; includes several Japanese Government occupation notes for the Philippines; powerful and worth a look, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 3.8 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $950.00
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978

Worldwide, Fun Lot for Digging, Bring a Parachute! 1882-2015, 800 worldwide envelopes and cards in several binders and a tray; with a strong airmail slant, Lindbergh first flight Haiti to St Lucia, first flights from Lisbon (to Marseilles, Horta, Aspres, Azores, US), first flights from France to US, first flights England to US, BOAC Karachi to Tokyo, first flights Ireland to US, BOAC Rangoon to Hong Kong, 1958 Austria helicopter flight, BOAC New Delhi to Beirut, BOAC Sydney to Johannesburg, Swiss franking on League of Nations cover, 32 Netherlands FDC (several are sets), 5 Registered Indonesia FDC with mutiple frankings, 7 crash covers (6 US, 1 Iraq), 50 Germany (Empire, Inflation, Third Reich, Polish Occupation, Ukraine postal cards, Berlin Airlift, Berlin, Bundespot, and DDR), several censored Austria, non-philatelic Luxembourg, 25 Swiss covers, about 50 Israel (mostly Registered first flights and tabbed FDC), dozen early Russia including 1909 money letter, commercial mail (South Africa, Iraq, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Japan, Philippines, New Zealand, and Latin America); fun to dig through, Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 36 lbs. (Image)

Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,000.00
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979

Worldwide, Mostly Airmail Remainder Collection, 1918-2018, about 50 items across Airmail postal history in an oversized binder; pair of used 1916 Japanese Customs forms along with a paper flag-like emblem that reads, "Nagasaki Customs" and a richly engraved card for Filature Raw Silk Terada Shimosa Japan with primitive picture of an aircraft; 1932 First Flight Southern Rhodesia to London with lovely cachet; 1945 Propaganda card (written in Japanese) intended for Nagoya postmarked on USS Maryin McIntyre; Scott # C21 block of 4 FDC with better cachet; 1938 Hitler pictorial cancel on postcard of Rome; Philippines pioneering flights (AAMS PI 15b, PI 15c, PI 15d, PI 15l, PI 15n, PI 15t, and PI 15y) that catalog $745; Registered China Clipper first flight Hong Kong to San Francisco on beautiful envelope; 1928 mixed franked US and Cuban envelope from the Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore in Havana; Aerial League of America corner card on legal envelope franked with C3 and postmarked Jun 3 First Trip (AAMS 104b); C21 block and unusual cachet from San Franciso to Hong Kong addressed to Amon Carter's daughter; Registered first flight Juba Sudan to London in 1931; 1920 German Airmail on commercial envelope; SS Nazi mail Registered from Krakau to Germany; oversized 1941 Registered Airmail from Vienna to San Francisco with 15 Hindenburg heads an censored cover; First Day Ceremony Program and covers from the 2018 Forever Airmail stamps; postally used Springfield IL aerogram with Lindbergh on one side and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on the other; 16 US Navy ship cancels from 1930-1931; 1927 Western Air Express folded postcards from Arcadia, Upland, L Jolla, Alhambra, Las Vegas, Whittier, Pasadena, and San Diego; bonus includes matted (and autographed) Classic American Aircraft pane (3142), matted photograph of two B-17 bombers over lower Manhatten, and a 1979 USPS Year Set; a wonderful low well worth a look, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 7.4 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $750.00
Will close during Public Auction