Sale No: 15
Lot No: 366
Symbol: 7 6
Cat No: 161 var.
1937, "ROLAND GARROS" flight, 50c. red vertical pair showing variety "LOWER STAMP WITHOUT OVERPRINT" in combination with 75c. on registered flight cover, the pair oblit. "SAINT DENIS 21.1.37" (two days prior to stated first day of issue) resp. 25.1.37 (75c. and repeated alongside), flight cachet "Premiere liaison aeropostale / Reunion-France / (sans surtaxe) / Equipage Laurent Touge-Lenier" on front, addressed to La Demi-Lune/Rhone. The plane "Roland Garros" with team Laurent/Touge/Lenier on board left Reunion on 26 Jan 1937 and flew via Madagascar, Mocambique, Djibouti, Port Sudan, Cairo, Damascus, Tripoli, Rhodes, Athens, Naples to Marseille which was reached on 10 Feb 1937, Lyon transit mark 12.2.37 and La Demi-Lune arrival mark 13.2.37 on reverse. Envelope some postal wear and few faint tonings as to be expected, lower stamps of pair some slight round corner (irrelevant). Attractive airmail rarity of French area, signed Roumet. Maury PA1b, 3.750,- €++. (Image)
Start Bid € 1300
Opening EUR 1,300.00
Sold...EUR 130.00
Closed..Nov-28-2019, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 130
Sale No: 15
Lot No: 367
Symbol: p
Cat No: 163 var. (10)
1938, Airmail issue ‚airplane over mountains‘ (6.65fr.) brown/red with MISSING DENOMINATION in a block of ten from upper left corner, MNH and scarce, unlisted in Michel! Yvert PA3a, Maury PA 3b, € 2.000,-. (Image)
Start Bid € 180
Opening EUR 180.00
Sold...EUR 340.00
Closed..Nov-28-2019, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 340
Sale No: 15
Lot No: 368
Symbol: p
Cat No: 164 var.
1938, Airmails 9.65fr. carmine/ultramarine, imperforate gutter block of four without value, mint never hinged (folded in gutter). Maury PA4b nd (4), 2.100,- €+ (price four single stamps, gutter pair not listed). (Image)