Sale No: 44
Lot No: 759
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World 1910-60s Commercial Propeller Aircraft. Barry Smith's 8 frame exhibit incl: 1911 India fine first ever airmail cover, 1911 UK Aerial Post cover; 1917 Italy Turin-Rome cover; 1918 USA Cleveland-New York crash mail; 1923 GB Daimler Airways 4½d airmail cover to Germany; 1925 South Africa last government experimental airmail (Durban-Cape Town) cover to GB; 1926 Australia Camooweal-Charleville cacheted cover; 1927 France Bleriot 2FR & 5FR used (former genuine, latter forgery) with certs; 1929 France reg'd cacheted catapult mail to New York; c1930 Canada various semi-official post airmail stamps & covers; 1933 GB GWR pilot signed Birmingham-Torquay airmail; 1934 Brazil Condor-Lufthansa Trans-Atlantic cacheted commercial cover to London; 1936 NZ unique Scipio crash mail surviving cover to Germany (NZAMC 1327b); 1938 Mozambique reg'd pilot signed cover to Angola (1 of 16); 1938-9 National Airlines x 2, Lockheed 10 covers each with etiquette (1 redesigned), very rare on year of issue covers; 1942 1F75 Madagascar mint stamp, 1944 Germany INSELPOST/Feldpost (Michel 8b) pair mint with cert. Also incl various FFCs, crash covers, stamps, etiquettes, airline promotional ephemera & 3 s/bs of misc (incl another 1927 France 5FR forgery), m/s mint/MUH/used & cinderellas etc. Also 14 items of related literature. An excellent in depth study of the subject. (Image)
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Opening NZ$ 3,500.00
Sold...NZ$ 3,500.00
Closed..Mar-19-2024, 15:30:00 EST
Sold For 3500
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