China, 1940 to Netherlands with routing flimsy, franked $9.55 by Martyr issue including block of 4 #360 ($2) with 16 Jan 1940 transit stamp and large purple Hong Kong hand stamp on face. Very rare directional "Par Avion" flimsy with manuscript "De Shanghai/Pour Palestine" and faint purple straight-line "By Imperial [Airways] Service" applied. A large blue X on the flimsy indicates that air service terminated, presumably in Palestine. A remarkable piece of wartime Chinese postal history, Very Fine. Suggested Bid $250-350 (Image)
Suggested Bid $250-350
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Lot No: 4155
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China, 1938-1959, five from China; three from Hong Kong; rare air label single, foiur covers, various frankings, two from North China; one Taipei, 1959 first flight JAL Taipei to Tokyo; two covers and a card from Hong Kong, different air labels, Very Fine to Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $100-150 (Image)
Suggested Bid $100-150
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Lot No: 4158
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Cat No: Feb 8
Dominican Republic, 1928 (Feb 8) West Indian Aerial Express, First Flight Santo Domingo to Havana, Cuba, 12c postage tied by a blue Feb 6 Santo Domingo duplex handstamp on a properly cacheted cover flown by Lindbergh in the "Spirit of St. Louis"; backstamped Havana on Feb 8 & 9 (AAMC Lindbergh 34), Very Fine. (Image)
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Lot No: 4159
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Cat No: Feb 8
Dominican Republic, 1928 (Feb 8) West Indian Aerial Express, First Flight Santo Domingo to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 12c postage tied by a blue Feb 6 Santo Domingo duplex handstamp on a properly cacheted cover flown by Lindbergh in the "Spirit of St. Louis"; backstamped Port-au-Prince the same day (AAMC Lindbergh 33), Very Fine. (Image)
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Lot No: 4161
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Cat No: Oct 6
Egypt, 1925-1940, two covers, 1925 (Oct 6) to Iraq with air label A1; 1934 registered to Holland, air label A2a. Suggested Bid $50-75 (Image)
Suggested Bid $50-75
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Lot No: 4162
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Cat No: 5*
Ethiopia, 1932-1933, two covers, 1932 second special flight Addis-Dessie, air label A3 (5*); 1933, registered to GB with directional air label, "Addis-Abeba-Djibouti" A7 (5*), Very Fine to Extremely Fine. (Image)
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Lot No: 4174
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French Colonies: French Africa, 1937-1960, five covers and air etiquette single, 1937, French Equatorial Africa: first flight Cotonou-Dakar franked 37, 45 and Ubangi-Chari 66, sent from Brazzaville; 1952 to France; French Guinee, commercial 1938 franked 83, 88, 96, 102 [a RARE franking]; 1960 to France; French Somalia, and 6* A3 directional air etiquette "Par Avion/Djibouti--Addis-Abeba", Very Fine to Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $200-300 (Image)
Suggested Bid $200-300
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Lot No: 4185
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Cat No: Nov 23
French Colonies: Madagascar, 1929 (Nov 23), registered first flight wreck cover to France, registered at Anjiro on 50¢ P.T.T. (lovely vignette upper left) additionally franked 111, 113 (6, including block of 4), first flight (Mu. 8), manuscript "Accidente" and red "Pli Accidente" (crash listed in Saulgrain, valued SwF 220 in 1996), blue handstamp on front "Par Avion" and on back on official accounting label on reverse along with Madagascar air label A2 (5*), arr. Mirecourt Jan 11, a gorgeous cover, Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $150-200 (Image)
Suggested Bid $150-200
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Lot No: 4209
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Cat No: 2
Greece, 1937, to India, forwarded, franked 394, C23, C26 (2), RA55 (2) to passenger aboard Reliance in Bombay c/o Hapag, forwarded within Bombay, with Greek air label A3a tied by black boxed Karachi canceller (end of air service), internal Greek censor, tear on reverse, Fine to Very Fine. Suggested Bid $75-100 (Image)
Suggested Bid $75-100
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Lot No: 4217
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Cat No: Sep 3
Italy & Colonies, 1934 (Sep 3), uprated postal card to Germany, franked Sc. C63 [soccer topic], reply half of 75¢ postal card (with image of Caserma Mussolini), cancelled "Bolzano-Ferrovia/Express" c.d.s., air label A2, to Berlin with red round Berlin arrival hand stamp, very rare, Very Fine to Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $250-350 (Image)
Suggested Bid $250-350
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Lot No: 4219
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Cat No: Feb 4
Italy & Colonies, 1937 (Feb 4), cover to Australia, franked C17 pair, 218 (2), 221 pair, boxed black handstamp "par Avion/per via aerea", backstamped Sydney, nice destination for scarce stamp on cover, Very Fine to Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $75-100 (Image)
Suggested Bid $75-100
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Lot No: 4228
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Cat No: May 24
Liechtenstein, 1936 (May 24), Zeppelin to NY thence Paraguay (Si. 408B), single franked C16, registered typed "Mit Luftschiff LZ 129 nach Nordamerika" with second line "Mit Lufstpost ab New York" deleted, proper Zeppelin red marking, air etiquette Switzerland A11 & Colombia SCADTA B17 (5*) via NY May 5 thence to Asuncion Jun 11 by surface, an interesting short-payment, mild central crease not affecting, Very Fine. Suggested Bid $100-150 (Image)
Suggested Bid $100-150
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Lot No: 4229
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Cat No: Oct 24
Liechtenstein, 1925 (Oct 24), two covers including only recorded air cover to Iraq by trans-desert route, registered Vaduz to Baghdad arrived Nov 8, franked 57, 66, 67, manuscript "Par avion le Caire-Baghdad/Chargee", Swiss air label A2c (airmal from Liechtenstein was handled through Switzerland), an exceptional rarity and 1930 (Aug 30) Vaduz-St. Gallen flight, Sc. C2 tied with proper red boxed handstamp, Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $500-750 (Image)
Suggested Bid $500-750
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Lot No: 4232
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Cat No: Jun 6
Montserrat, 1930 (Jun 6) First Airmail, Plymouth to British Guiana, Registered cover with boxed "First Air Mail/ Montserrat" cachet and franked with 1s4½d postage (including a 1½d Leeward Is.) tied by Jun 6 Montserrat c.d.s.s; backstamped at Georgetown, British Guiana on Mar 5, 1931 with an additional strike of the flight cachet on the reverse., Very Fine. Only 19 covers were destined for Georgetown. Muller 1/6.
Covers, intended for various destinations were canceled June 6, 1930 in readiness for the seaplane air mail flight, which was delayed by bad weather and, in effect, postpones. The British Navy cruiser, H.M.S. Dorsetshire, visited Montserrat in February 1931 and on leaving left behind her seaplane. When the plane flew to re-join her ship at St. Kitts, the mail that was originally prepared for the June 1930 flight was taken aboard and flown to Basseterre, St. Kitts, arriving on Feb 23. The covers were then forwarded by surface mail to their original destinations. (Image)
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Lot No: 4236
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Cat No: Jul 5
Netherlands, 1934-1946, four covers including three to South America, 1934 (Jul 5) registered "Mit Flgupost Germany, America", red DLH handstamp to Uruguay Jul 13, three black return handstamps, received on return Aug 5, air label A2; 1936 (May 13) DLH to Argentina May 17, air labels A3 and B3 (5*); 1946 (Sep 20) registered to Argentina handstamped for return with private "KLM" air label, unrecorded; 1937 front for DLH flight censored in Las Palmas, Very Fine. Suggested Bid $150-200 (Image)
Suggested Bid $150-200
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Lot No: 4239
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Cat No: 5*
Persia, 1928-1929, two covers, all bearing Iran air etiquette A2 (5*), variously franked: 1928 (Jan 31) to Germany, two air hand stamps; 1929 (Feb 7) to NY, black boxed Iranian handstamp, worth examining, Very Fine to Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $100 (Image)
Suggested Bid $100
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Lot No: 4244
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Cat No: Jun 23
Russia, 1924 (Jun 23), to London with rare Russian air label, franked 257, C6 with Russian air label A2 (6*) and German air etiquette A1 tied, purple boxed "Mit Luftpost", carried by Dereluft to Konigsberg thence Berlin and GB (Imperial), slightly cut in both sides and tatty at right corner, not affecting but a rare eary air cover, Fine to Very Fine. Suggested Bid $100-150 (Image)
Suggested Bid $100-150
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Lot No: 4249
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Cat No: Jan 31
Scandinavia: Sweden, 1922-1938, two covers (Jan 31), franked C3, to Germany with unrecorded air label; 1938, franked C1, C2 to Madagascar on lovely illustrated A-B Aerotransport ad cover, German air label A11, nice set of C1-3 on two covers, Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $100-150 (Image)
Suggested Bid $100-150
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Lot No: 4255
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Cat No: Jan 2
Switzerland, 1929 (Jan 2), to Iraq, franked 80 pair, "de Kairo a Baghdad" in black crayon, via Geneva Jan 3, arr Jan 10, air label 5, a rare desintation, fewer than 6 recorded, Very Fine to Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $150-200 (Image)
Suggested Bid $150-200
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Lot No: 4256
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Cat No: Jul 31
Switzerland, 1925 (Jul 31), registered to Italy, first flight TSA, franked C3, C5, C6, tied with boxed black special cancel, on first flight of Transalpine Airline, Lausanne-Milan with air label A2c and registery label overprinted with red "Poste aerienne" (and etiquette single), round purple handstamp of "Aeroport Blecherette/Lausanne", Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $50-75 (Image)
Suggested Bid $50-75
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Lot No: 4257
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Cat No: Nov 14
Switzerland, 1924 (Nov 14), registered to France, franked 204 (2), 205, C5 via Basel to Paris with Swiss air label A2c and triangular France C3a, beautiful cover, Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $50-75 (Image)
Suggested Bid $50-75
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Lot No: 4259
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Cat No: 5*
Tanganyika, 1932-1936, five covers and two etiquettes, variously franked, three to England with air label A2 (5*) plus A1a and A2 single etiquettes; purple boxed "Feeder Service" to Nairobi, air label A2; KUT to GB franked 47, 53, each with upper right plate corner, air label A3, uetrtes, Very Fine. Suggested Bid $150-200 (Image)
Suggested Bid $150-200
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Lot No: 4263
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United States, Airmail Postal History, 1934 Adams Chicago World's Fair Airmail in-Flight Pick-Up & Delivery Flights, four covers, all cacheted, the first, Oct 21, 1934, is signed by in-flight system's inventor, Lytle S. Adams; the other three, each with a different cachet, are all canceled Oct 31, the last day of the fair, and are signed by Adams and by his pilot, Eddie Gerber. (Image)
Opening US$ 75.00
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Zeppelin Covers
Sale No: 5111
Lot No: 4234
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Cat No: Nov 11
Netherlands, 1930-1932, cover and postal card, 1930 (Nov 11) on 5¢ postal card with purple boxed special handstamp for the Graf Zeppelin (Si. 298A), not flown; 1932 (Jun 16) from Rotterdam via Friedrichshafen Jun 19 (black Zeppelin machine cancel on back) to Emden (Si. 165Aa), proper purple cachet, German air label C10a (5*) tied, nice clean pair, Extremely Fine. Suggested Bid $100-150 (Image)
Suggested Bid $100-150
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Lot No: 4260
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Cat No: May 6
United States, Zeppelin Flights, 1932 (May 6), first transcontinental flight U.S.S. Akron, special Roessler etiquettes, franked 545, 649 pair, proper purple handstamps front and back, San Diego received May 11, special air etiquette C15e (6*) tied; full sheetlet of four labels in four colors tete-beche, C15a-d (6*); and two singles in green and orange, a very useful lot. Suggested Bid $150-200 (Image)
