Scarce Pan Am "Gooney bird" flight cover, return leg of San Francisco-Honolulu-Midway Island test flight, cachet showing plane, map & gooney bird, "First Flight PAA Midway 35" on primitive cachet carved from woodblock on Midway, only abt (100) exist, Pan Am corner card, mailed Honolulu to HQ in NYC 6/18/35, tear at bottom, minor faults, similar sold online a few years ago for $525! (Image)
Est. $350-450 LE
Opening US$ 240.00
Sold...US$ 240.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:09:06 EST
Sold For 240
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 10
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Cat No: 1945
CM4 R.F. Overprint 1945 w/ few mark/wrinkles, gen F-VF (Image)
Cat. $500 SE
Opening US$ 180.00
Sold...US$ 180.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:09:45 EST
Sold For 180
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 11
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Cat No: 1986
1986 Autographed Voyager Around the World flight cover signed by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeagar, (No. 145 of 750) (Image)
Est. $250-350 LE
Opening US$ 135.00
Sold...US$ 135.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:10:43 EST
Sold For 135
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 12
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Cat No: x70
(13) covers on pages, 1929-49 incl first flight Hong Kong to San Francisco, one from HK one from Canton, China; several airmails US to Germany, Juneau to Whitehorse first flight; Bermuda to NYC on Imperial Airways flying boat; Christmas card from Operation Deep Freeze USS Glacier pmk; 1941 B-19 flight cover from March Field, CA, then largest airplane; Byrd cover, more; a few faults, gen F-VF (Image)
Est. $70-90 LE
Opening US$ 135.00
Sold...US$ 135.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:11:27 EST
Sold For 135
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 13
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Cat No: x150
ROCKET MAIL group of covers & stamps, incl (E-Z cat #) 5D2, 2a; 8C1 green stamp; 9D1 silver 50¢ stamp, 16C4, 16C4a, 16C8, 20C3, 20C5, 23C3a, 30C1, more; gen F-VF [see addl web photos] (Image)
Est. $150-200 SE
Opening US$ 100.00
Sold...US$ 115.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:12:01 EST
Sold For 115
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 14
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Cat No: Collection
Accum abt (125) covers & postcards 1930s-90s w/ balloon related stamps, pictorial or slogan cancels & cachets, air races, balloon events, some pilot signed, festivals etc, cachets from hand stamped up to "silk" & handpainted, attractive group, bonus hardcover "The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America" by Tom Crouch, nice coffee table book (Image)
Est. $175-225 L
Opening US$ 125.00
Sold...US$ 125.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:13:00 EST
Sold For 125
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 15
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Cat No: Collection
Accum abt (800) mainly 1930s-60s w/ some earlier/later much first flights & dedications w/ scattered events & others, varied cond, gen F-VF+
Est. $250-350 L
Opening US$ 425.00
Sold...US$ 425.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:13:36 EST
Sold For 425
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 16
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Cat No: Collection
& SPACE COVERS Accum abt (400+) mainly 1960s-70s w/ some 1980s-90s incl missiles/rockets fired from Cape Canaveral & Vandenberg plus Sky Lab, Apollo-Soyuz, Minuteman, Gemini, few Macon/Akron w/ dup, (5) 1983 Challenger covers & related items, varied cond gen VF
Est. $250-350 L
Opening US$ 260.00
Sold...US$ 260.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:14:12 EST
Sold For 260
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 17
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Cat No: Collection
Accum abt (1200+) 1930s-70s w/ much 1940s-60s assorted first/inaugural flights, various routes, 1st jet service, helicopter, many Pan Am plus TWA, Boeing, Eastern Air & others plus some HPO, varied cond gen VF
Est. $300-400 L
Opening US$ 240.00
Sold...US$ 240.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:14:43 EST
Sold For 240
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 18
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Cat No: Collection
Accum abt (1300) considerable 1930s w/ some earlier & many 1940s-60s & few others much first flights & inaugural 1st flights w/ some dedications, air events & related abt 80% nice cachets varied cond gen F-VF+ (Image)
Est. $350-500 L
Opening US$ 625.00
Sold...US$ 625.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:15:28 EST
Sold For 625
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 19
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Cat No: Collection
AKRON/MACON Accum abt (160) mainly 1932-35 much in memoriam plus training flights, anniversaries & others Akron OH, Macon GA plus Lakehurst, Moffett Field & other cancels, most nice cachets gen VF (Image)
Est. $400-500 B
Opening US$ 400.00
Sold...US$ 400.00
Closed..Sep-15-2020, 10:16:16 EST
Sold For 400
Sale No: 330
Lot No: 20
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Cat No: Collection
Collection USS Akron (12) and Macon (118) covers, about half of which were produced in quantities less than (100); in plastic pages, ea labeled w/ Ullmann catalog number and CV $5000+, some annotated w/ quantity or other info; all different, gen F-VF+ (Image)
