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Postal History continued...

Airmail Postal History

LotNo.

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Lot Description

233

Airmail Postal History 1924-45, a few thousand Airmail envelopes across a wide range of events; first transcontinental flight involving night flying with examples from New York (Scott # C4 to Chicago and a C6 to California), Chicago to New York, and Cheyenne to San Francisco; Pan Am Clipper survey flights San Francisco to Honolulu and back as well as the San Francisco to Guam and back; Lindbergh mail including San Juan to Paramaribo paid with C5 and C6; 1933 Army Air Maneuvers with Century of Progress pictorial cancel; astronaut autographs on space event covers including Jack Lousma, Ken Mattingly, Bruce McCandless, James McDivitt, Ron McNair, Mike Mullane, Steve Nagel, George Nelson, and several others; real photo postcards of partial solar eclipse and early (1910) flying machines; hundreds of Contract Air Mail (CAM), many with autographs; Air races, Airport Dedication, and National Air Mail Week (1938); catapult mail from SS Bremen; pair of C5 on 1925 overweight letter from Chicago to Hollywood; Mexican First Flight covers; Pan American Airways test mail with return stamps from Bolivia; experimental helicopter mail; 1936 American rocket mail; Prime and Secondary Recovery Ship envelopes as part of manned spaceflight task force; Foreign Air Mail (FAM) with extensive Pacific Ocean routes; Jet Airmail routes; Crash Mail including Jan 1930 wreck in Santa Monica and Jan 1946 in Juneau Alaska, and lots more, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 18 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

Estimate $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $1,700.00
Will close during Public Auction

234

Aerophilately in a Box, 1926-75, about 500 individually sleeved and annotated aviation covers; most lots contain only one facit of a collecting area, this one is different; at least 100 better National Air Mail Week and Airport Dedication covers with no duplication; a smattering of Alaska Emergency Flights, Balloon, Helicopter, Rocket Mail, Supersonic, Contract Air Mail (CAM), and Air Mail (AM); strong (about 150) Foreign Air Mail (FAM) from FAM 1 on including great FAM 14, 18, and 22; wonderful Zeppelins (30 of them) including 1933 Miami and Akron legs of Century of Progress each with Scott # C18, three 1925 LZ-3 Los Angeles to Bermuda, a fourth a week later to Puerto Rico, and a fith for the return flight from Bermuda to New Jersey, 4sh British franking on Graf Zeppelin from London to Buenos Aires, commercial mail from Germany to Brazil, 1930 Swiss 1Fr on a postcard, five Registered Hindenberg covers (Stuttgart (2), Frankfurt, Lorch, and Berlin) add to America, 2RM (C37) Zeppelin stamp on first 1929 flight from Friedrichshafen to New York, seldom seen 3Kr paying the rate from Denmark to the US, 1928 Graf Zeppelin first flight America to Germany, 1929 envelope and postcard from LA to NY for Round-The-World-Flight, 5 covers for the 1936 Hindenberg voyage from Lakehurst to Franfurt, as well as two carried on the Coast to Coast USS Akron, and three on the Tactical Training Flight (one has pair of great Roessler labels); attactive early New Zealand and South Africa; Crash Mail from 1930, 1932, 1938; some Jet Age, a few Trans-Oceanic Record Flight, several 1935 Belgian Congo, a little Canada (one has a Semi Postal), and much more, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 7.2 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $1,300.00
Will close during Public Auction

235

Better Aerophilatey Collection, 1926-50, 2,500 envelopes carefully organized for the Airmail specialist; about half are in glassines and annotated by CAM, AM, FAM, etc. as well as year flown; at least a dozen carried by Charles Lindbergh, a flew early balloon related, some Airport Dedications, Jet Age, Canada (including several Semi-Postals), worldwide flights organized by country, incomplete Milestones of Flight, a few common Zeppelins, and a few hundred WWII soldier mail (interesting censors) and commercial mail; a solid lot, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 30 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,400.00
Will close during Public Auction

236

Serious Aerophilatelist Collection, 1926-77, 500+ CAMs, FAMs, Dedications, NAMW, Foreign Flag, Jet Age, Rocket Mail and more organized in glassines with the year and appropriate AAMS Catalogue heading; beginning with Air Expo, National Air Mail Week, Airport Dedications, Contract Air Mail (CAM), Air Mail (AM), several WWII Alaska censored Emergency Flights, Atomic Bomb Test cover from crew of USS Bayfield, strong Foreign Air Mail (FAM) selection (especially FAM 14, 18, and 19), followed by about 50 Jet Age envelopes; Rocket Mail includes 1935 parachute minature cover, 1964 flight from China Lake, three 1948 Trona, and a set of two from the 1950 flight; Trans-Oceanic material includes Floyd Bennett envelope carried on search for Nungesser and Coli, SS Ile de France Catapult Mail, as well as two shot from the Bremen; Earl Ovington autograph on catapult cover, 1935 Pan Am Pacific round trip, 9 examples of the 1937 first flight from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, a dozen Goodyear Airship Volunteer Ship-To-Shore envelopes, 7 stratospheric flight covers flown by Wiley Post, and 3 flown Coast to Coast covers autographed by Laura Ingalls; 21 Airship covers including Graf Zeppelin Brazil to Germany, Hindenberg to America, Graf Zeppelin advertising card on 1928 US Germany flight, 1936 New York to Franfurt on Hindenberg, 4 Los Angeles NY to Bermuda (April 15, 1925) and 3 to Puerto Rico (April 27, 1925), 4 on the USS Akron Training Flight, and 6 (including one signed by C E Rosendahl) on the Coast to Coast trip; very nice material, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 9.6 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

237

Paul Robertson Lindbergh Aerophilately Exhibit, 1930, in 1930 Paul Robertson was President of the American Air Mail Society (which turns 100 this year); contained in 4 custom (and indestructable) binders with slip cases is a part of his Boston exhibit of Contract Air Mail (including Lindbergh's CAM 2); there are about 160 covers in total with many addressed to him, A C Roessler, or Raymond Bahr (and friend of Lindbergh); better items include 1927 Mississippi flood mail, Nungesser-Coli Search Expedition mail, C10 FDCs, Chicago Air Mail Facility unofficial C-10 FDC to New York and then carried by Lindbergh two months later, Mauck wings on horseshoe cachet, CAM 3 with RPO, Special Delivery cover from Robertson to Lindbergh, "Horseshoe" mail with Peoria precancel Postage Due, Good Will Tour, carried in the Spirit of St Louis, and Air Field Motor Truck; behind the cover pages are the original exhibit pages from 1930; irreplaceable segment of Aerophilately formed by the Dean of Lindberghiania, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 35 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Video3 for this lot) (Video4 for this lot) (Image)

Estimate $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $1,600.00
Will close during Public Auction