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USS Macon

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

1048

1933-36

Varied Group of USS Macon Covers, 1933-36, 18 in total, with cachets and cancels honoring her Christening, Flight Visits (Detroit, Half Moon Bay), Wiley Takes Command, a USS Houston "USS Macon Intercepts" and other "USS Macon Overhead" cancels, Crash (including USS Pennsylvania with three-line handstamp (264 made)), and In Memoriam covers, etc.; numerous signed including by Ewing, King, Miller, Rosendahl, and Wiley; an interesting selection well worth review, Fine to Very Fine or better. (PDF for this Lot) (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $400-600
SOLD for $375.00
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1049

1933.1015

1933 Arrival of USS Macon at Moffet Field, Cal., rubber stamp cachet honoring the Macon's arrival et its home base plus a printed West Coast Air Mail Society cachet noting Navy blimp J-4 carried the cover on the arrival date, #707, 722 line pair tied by Moffet Field Calif Oct 15 1933 hand cancels, two autographs including Moffet postmaster, Very Fine and scarce. (Image)

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Estimate $400-600
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1050

1934.0712

1934 (July 12), USS Macon Training Flight cover, franked by 10¢ Map and tied by Sunnyvale, Calif. duplex, with purple cachet of the Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce, across which is written (printed?) "First Flight with Commander Wiley"; this was the training flight during which the Macon located the ships Houston and New Orleans (the former carrying President Roosevelt on a secret trip to Hawaii); having found the ships, the Macon's Sparrowhawk planes dropped newspapers and magazines to the President, near Very Fine. (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
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1051

1934.0807

1934 (Aug. 7), USS Macon Camp Kearny cacheted cover, postage (6¢) cancelled by Moffett Field, Calif. four-bar dater, the cover with "U.S.S. Macon/[star]/Camp Kearny/Sunnyvale C. of C." cachet in violet; autographed at top left by Lieutenant (junior grade) Leroy C. Simpler, one of the survivors of the Macon's 1935 crash; Camp Kearny (or Kearney) was the ship's mooring station, Very Fine. (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
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