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

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

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)

Start Bid € 220