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Italy, Italian States and Colonies ITALY Flight Covers
Sale No: 1222
Lot No: 660
Symbol: e
1926 Transpolar flight cover with appropriate "Norge" label and Italian 1.25L St. Francis adhesive, canceled Campino and addressed to Nome, Alaska, violet cachet, filing fold away from the stamps, otherwise fine (Image)
Est.US$500
Opening US$ 475.00
Sold...US$ 475.00
Closed..Dec-14-2022, 10:13:42 EST
Sold For 475
Sale No: 1222
Lot No: 661
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1928 "Nobile" picture postcard franked with 60c Air Mail, "Spedizione Aerea Di Soccorso Dirigible Italia" handstamp, addressed to Kingsbay, red "R.N.C. di Milano Sped. Artica" and blue "Esplorazione Polare "Nobile" Dirigible "Italia 1928" cachets, fine (Image)
Est.US$200
Opening US$ 260.00
Sold...US$ 260.00
Closed..Dec-14-2022, 10:13:59 EST
Sold For 260
Sale No: 1222
Lot No: 662
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1929 (20 Aug) flight from Brindisi to Argostoli, Cephalonia, attractively franked, with "1-o volo Brindisi-Patrasso" in red, little toning, otherwise fine, only 47 carried (Image)
Est.US$200
Opening US$ 190.00
Closed..Dec-14-2022, 10:14:14 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 1222
Lot No: 663
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1929 "La Crociera Aerea D'Oriente" picture postcard franked with 30c gray and corresponding "Crociera Aviatoria Mediterraneo Orientale" label, handstamped "Crociera Aerea Balbo-De-Pinedo" and addressed to Tortona, signed Diena (Image)
Est.US$200
Opening US$ 230.00
Sold...US$ 230.00
Closed..Dec-14-2022, 10:14:50 EST
Sold For 230
Sale No: 1222
Lot No: 664
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Cat No: C27
1930 Trans-Atlantic Rome-Rio de Janeiro, 7.70L used with additional franking on specially prepared flight cover addressed to General Italo Balbo care of the Italian Aeronautic Ministry in Rio, with arrival pmks, signed by 12+ pilots and crew members, minor cover fold away from the stamp, fine, with 1999 Diena certificate (Sass.25) cat. €2500 (Cat No. C27) (Image)
Cat. €2500, Est.US$500
Opening US$ 450.00
Closed..Dec-14-2022, 10:15:12 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 1222
Lot No: 665
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Cat No: C49
1933 (16 June) registered and flown cover from Orbetello Grosetto to the Italian Consulate in Chicago, franked with a single triptych "I-Dini", likely handled by Captain Baldini himself and sent to another pilot of the Armada, Capt. Genaro Abbriate, with Amsterdam, Reykjavik, Londonderry, Shediac, Cartwright, Newfoundland, Montreal transits, showing Crociera logo, arriving in Chicago on 15th July, with Century of Progress slogan pmk, v.f., signed Bolaffi, with 1980 certificate, cat. $3000 (Cat No. C49) (Image)
Cat. $3000, Est.US$1,500
Opening US$ 1,600.00
Sold...US$ 1,600.00
Closed..Dec-14-2022, 10:15:24 EST
Sold For 1600
Sale No: 1222
Lot No: 666
Symbol: e
Cat No: C52-55
1934 Rome-Buenos Aires overprints, complete set used with additional franking on registered and flown cover from Milllesimo (Savona) (22.1.34) to Buenos Aires, framed "Transported by Courtesy Pan-American Airways System Fortaleza-Buenos Aires" cachet and appropriate transit and arrival pmks on back, fine cover, signed Diena, also Bolaffi, with 1982 certificate (The Rome-Buenos Aires mail flight, Francesco Lombardi, Branco Mazzotti and three others were attempting an experimental mail-carrying flight from Rome to Buenos Aires in three days, crashed on a beach twelve miles south of Fortaleza, Brazil, after having made a fine Atlantic crossing in fourteen hours. The plane was carrying 200 lbs of mail and copies of a souvenir edition of a newspaper, flew to Dakar, Senegal, by way of Casablanca, Agadir and Thies. After leaving Dakar the aircraft encountered unfavorable weather and crashed) (Sass.A56-59, Euro 2,250) cat. $1600 (Cat No. C52-55) (Image)
