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Sparks Auctions Sale: 33

Postal History, Foreign
The L.V. Pont Collection of Early Air Mail Postal

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1527
Symbol: Cvr

image 1933.JUL.20 Australia to England, First Flight Calcutta to Lucknow Leg, with purple 6-line flight cachet (front and back), tying a "DUM DUM AIR PORT label, addressed to Mr. Pont in Calcutta, with JUL.23 receiver on back. Envelope has an illustrated "Ritz Hotel Calcutta" backflap and a Stephen Smith signature in red. Very fine. (Image)

Est $ 150

Opening C$ 85.00
Sold...C$ 85.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:31:44 EST
Sold For 85

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1528
Symbol: Cvr

image 1933.SEP.6 First Air Cargo of Fish, Edmonstone Island to Dum Dum,with black on green flight label, tied by a bright purple fish cachet, alongside Pilot's signature "W. Moylan". Addressed to Mr. Pont in Calcutta, with SEP.7 receiver on back, alongside Stephen Smith Signature. Very fine, with only 55 covers flown. An excellent item for a fish thematic exhibit, etc. (Image)

Est $ 200

Opening C$ 130.00
Sold...C$ 130.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:33:01 EST
Sold For 130

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1529
Symbol:

image 1933.OCT.1-2 First Extension Flights To and From Rangoon, two different uprated stationery cards, first Rangoon to Calcutta (arrived OCT.3, with purple flight cachet handstamp), second Calcutta to Rangoon (partial receiver, with manuscript cachet). Both signed by Stephen Smith on back and very fine. (Image)

Est $ 200

Opening C$ 35.00
Sold...C$ 55.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:33:23 EST
Sold For 55

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1530
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection

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image 1933.DEC.1-5 First Official Flight by Indian National Airways, Group of Seven Different Covers, all with the two-line cachet handstamp and Stephen Smith signature on back, with Calcutta to Dacca, Chittagong to Calcutta, Bassein to Calcutta, Calcutta to Chittagong, Dacca to Calcutta, Calcutta to Sandoway Burma (via Rangoon) and Calcutta to Bassein Burma (crossed out and forwarded to "Stationery Dept Calcutta"). A very fine group, with light stains on backs of some. (Image)

Est $ 500

Opening C$ 190.00
Sold...C$ 210.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:33:52 EST
Sold For 210

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1531
Symbol: Cvr

image 1934.JAN.20 Emergency Earthquake Relief Fund Cover, with red and blue on white flight cachet label, tied by a single-line blue "The Flying Circus" cachet, with Calcutta receiver on back alongside Stephen Smith signature. Very fine, with 78 items flown. (Image)

Est $ 150

Opening C$ 75.00
Sold...C$ 160.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:34:40 EST
Sold For 160

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1532
Symbol: Cvr

image 1934.JAN.19 First Parachute Delivery in India, with red and blue on white cachet label explaining that a "Mr. Wyndham jumped from 5,000 ft with a small pouch carrying this letter...", tied by a green parachutist handstamp (with second strike on back), addressed to Mr. Pont in Calcutta and received there on JAN.21. Stephen Smith signature on back, very fine, with only 62 items carried. (Image)

Est $ 200

Opening C$ 130.00
Sold...C$ 180.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:35:23 EST
Sold For 180

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1533
Symbol: Cvr

image 1934.JAN.29 Earthquake Emergency Flight Cover, Dum Dum to Darbhengah, with black on purple flight cachet label, tied by a single line "EARTHQUAKE EMERGENCY FLIGHT" cachet in purple, JAN.31 Calcutta receiver on back next to Stephen Smith signature, very fine. Mr. Pont claims 66 items were flown and Brown lists it at 6 items only. (Image)

Est $ 200

Opening C$ 75.00
Sold...C$ 75.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:35:51 EST
Sold For 75

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1534
Symbol: Cvr

image 1934.FEB.2 Earthquake Emergency Flight, was supposed to fly on JAN.29, but the landing strip in Darbhangah got damaged by an earthquake and the plane was damaged. The cover has a pink "Delayed in Transit / Plane Damaged" and purple "Earthquake Emergency Flight" handstamps on front and back, with a Union Jack flag label especially prepared for the flight, using the same design as was used on the 1933 Everest to Purnea flight. Addressed to Stephen Smith in Calcutta, with FEB.3 receiver on back alongside his signature. Very fine, with only 50 covers flown. (Image)

Est $ 150

Opening C$ 75.00
Sold...C$ 95.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:36:13 EST
Sold For 95

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1535
Symbol: Cvr

image 1934.FEB.9 Colombo Ceylon First Flight by Royal Air Force Seaplane to Calcutta, with Cossipore / Calcutta on FEB.17 cancelling India stamp, and FEB.18 Dharamtala / Calcutta receiver on back. There is a COLOMBO / CEYLON purple cachet on front and back, with Stephen Smith signature and signature of "J.Pereira" plus notation "4/5". Back also has a small newspaper clipping explaining in part that "two three-engined R.A.F. flying boats attracted interested crowds when they arrived in Colombo harbour to-day. They are on a coastal flight from Basra to Calcutta and left Basra on February 1. They are proceeding to Trincomalee to-morrow". Very fine. (Image)

Est $ 100

Opening C$ 55.00
Sold...C$ 400.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:37:05 EST
Sold For 400

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1536
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection

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image 1934.FEB.10-11 First Flight Madras Air Taxi Service, Group of Seven Different Covers, all with single line cachet in purple, with Puri to Calcutta, Vizapatam to Calcutta, Madras to Calcutta, Calcutta to Puri, Calcutta to Madras, Calcutta to Gunnavaram and Calcutta to Vizagapatam. All signed by Stephen Smith on back, with appropriate backstamps, all scanned online. A very fine group which Mr. Pont described as "limited mail carried". (Image)

Est $ 500

Opening C$ 140.00
Sold...C$ 200.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:37:40 EST
Sold For 200

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1537
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection

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image 1934.OCT.25 England to Australia McRobertson International Air Race, Group of 6 Different Covers, all with the appropriate 5-line cachet in purple or violet. The first three have different coloured flight cachet labels (purple, green and yellow), with Rangoon to Calcutta and two from Mingaladon to Calcutta. One of these has two purple cachets on front plus one on back. Three other covers are written on back by Stephen Smith "only autographed, not flown" and are postmarked at Calcutta on OCT.25, with violet cachets and purple "AUTOGRAPHED BY / PILOT.ENTRANT No____", with signatures from the #2 (New Zealand), #7 (Denmark) and #14 (Britain) pilots. Overall fine to very fine group. (Image)

Est $ 400

Opening C$ 675.00
Sold...C$ 675.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:38:07 EST
Sold For 675

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1538
Symbol: Cvr

image 1934.DEC.4 Lahore to Karachi First Flight Cover, with boxed flight cachet used to cancel the stamps, addressed to Mr. Pont in Calcutta, with DEC.8 receivers on back, alongside Stephen Smith signature. Very fine. (Image)

Est $ 100

Opening C$ 25.00
Sold...C$ 35.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:38:37 EST
Sold For 35

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1539
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection

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image The Leon Pont Collection of Personal Correspondence Covers, 1920s to 1940s, with about 120 envelopes of all sizes (no letters inside), mostly sent from India to Mr. Pont in India, England, Switzerland and France (also some to his family), many were mailed by his long time friend Stephen Smith, who was either just saying hello, or sending him the latest batch of covers in exchange for financial help for his air mail and rocket mail endeavors. Many are registered and there is a wide variety of frankings, mostly all from India, including several first airmail issues, high value definitives, etc. There are many faults, some severe, still many are fine. Too large a lot to properly describe here, see some of our scans to get an idea. (Image)

Est $ 200

Opening C$ 675.00
Sold...C$ 700.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:39:15 EST
Sold For 700

Worldwide Stamps and Covers
Worldwide Air Mail Covers

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1541
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Great Britain

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image SEP.9.1911 Official Coronation Aerial Post Card, London to Windsor, with ½d green KGV stamp tied by FIRST UNITED KINGDOM / AERIEL POST / LONDON, postmark (plus a free strike), with pictorial cachet in brown. Very light corner creases, still a very nice example of the world's first official scheduled airmail post. (Image)

Est $ 200

Opening C$ 450.00
Sold...C$ 450.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:40:19 EST
Sold For 450

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1542
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: India

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image FEB.11.1911 World's First Official Air Mail Flight, Allahbad to Naini Junction. A lovely small cover with large and crisp strike of the magenta First Aerial Post cachet canceling a 2a stamp, reverse shows Allahbad FEB.18 transit and Pachmarhi FEB.20 receiver. Very light horizontal crease, else very fine and important air mail item. (Image)

Est $ 200

Opening C$ 375.00
Sold...C$ 400.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:41:23 EST
Sold For 400

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1543
Symbol: (*)
Cat No: Italy

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image 1926 (April 10) Italian Volo Transpolare Amundsen Nobile Ellsworth Zeppelin Airmail Labels, a rare full sheet of 20, with even rarer tête-bêche stamp at lower left corner of sheet. The back of the sheet shows 10 oval handstamps in purple, and there is a pencil signature on back of the inverted stamp. Unfortunately, this sheet was stored folded in half, with a thin layer of glassine protecting the gum, but the layer has mostly remained stuck. This sheet belonged to Mr. Leon V. Pont, whose Indian Airmail collection is being sold elsewhere in this catalogue. We believe he purchased the sheet in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Faults due to storage, still presentable and rare. (Image)

Est $ 100

Opening C$ 300.00
Sold...C$ 300.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:43:28 EST
Sold For 300

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1544
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: New Zealand

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image Group of 12 Air Mail Covers, 1931, includes Stapleton catalogue numbers 37a, 37b, 39a, 40a, 40b, 44a, 44b, 44c, 45a, 45b and 47d plus a JUN.5.1931 air mail cover to the U.K. via Karachi, India. A scarce group, note two with Health stamps, 10 with New Zealand Air Mail Society expert committee handstamps on back and 8 which are pilot signed. Overall very fine. (Image)

Stapleton $ 880

Opening C$ 325.00
Sold...C$ 325.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:44:01 EST
Sold For 325

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1545
Symbol: Cvr
Cat No: Collection

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image Group of 1959 Quantas Boeing 707 Australia to U.K. and Return Flight Covers, with 16 covers flown Oct 27th to 30th, with legs from Australia (x3), U.K. (x1), Thailand (x2), Singapore (x2), India (x2), Italy (x1), Egypt (x2), Pakistan (x2) and Germany (x1). Note the odd small corner crease else overall very fine. All catalogue A$300 in Eustis catalogue. (Image)

Eustis $ 300

Opening C$ 30.00
Sold...C$ 30.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:44:51 EST
Sold For 30

Miscellaneous
Picture Postcards

Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1546
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Canada

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image Lot of Approximately 3,200 Picture Postcards, consisting mostly of glossy chrome issues, from the 1950s to the 1980s with some earlier ones. All are housed in seven shoe boxes, with many sorted by city or province (these better than usual, please inspect) or by category such as comic, greetings, planes and ships. We estimate that less than 10% of the postcards were postally used. We noted some duplication in some cases up to 40 copies. Also included are over 70 souvenir folders containing bound postcards, from many Canadian tourist destinations. Clean lot, overall fine to very fine. (Image)

Est $ 150

Opening C$ 250.00
Sold...C$ 250.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:46:04 EST
Sold For 250
Sale No: 33
Lot No: 1547
Symbol: PC
Cat No: Canada

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image Box of about 400 early Canadian Picture Postcards, with a mix of unused and postally used. We note about 250 Niagara Falls (mostly early postcards with some better) and about 200 greetings card with 10 better Santa, Thanksgiving, Easter, etc, a few artists signed, 3 leather cards, and a mix of other subjects or origins. Mixed condition, but overall fine or better. (Image)

Est $ 150

Opening C$ 170.00
Sold...C$ 170.00


Closed..Jun-26-2020, 17:46:44 EST
Sold For 170

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