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Sparks Auctions Sale - PH2

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Antigua
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
1 CVR   image1931 (August 20), Antigua DO-X special-flight cover to Belize, British Honduras, franked with the 1s King George V definitive tied by St. John’s (20 Aug) c.d.s., showing the bold pictorial cachet “Special Flight DO-X / Pan-American Airways / Cooperating Special Agent / From Antigua” with vignette of the Dornier DO-X and blue Via Airmailendorsement at centre, addressed to Belize and bearing Miami, Florida (22 Aug) transit on reverse together with Belize (25 Aug) receiver, a scarce dispatch from the 1931 Dornier DO-X transatlantic demonstration flight, with Antigua origin covers less common than those from St. Thomas or other ports, minor toning in places, else fine-very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for C$110.00
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Australian States (South Australia)
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
2 CVR   imageSouth Australia, 1904 (November 4), Adelaide to Kadina, postage due Dead Letter Office postcard, franked with 1d Victoria, tied by Adelaide double-circle c.d.s., to Hyde Park, with T2D postage due handstamp and Kadina squared circle receiver (5 Nov), two neatly-struck rose "Dead Letter Office Adelaide" c.d.s. (8 Nov), some edge wear, a striking card. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for C$40.00
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Australia
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
3 CVR   image1914 (June), proposed first official Melbourne-Sydney airmail "Wizard Stone" postcard, the special illustrated card depicting A.B. “Wizard” Stone and organiser P.V. Ryan, franked with 1d red King George V and addressed to Sydney, bearing the printed endorsement “Australia’s First Aerial Mail – Melbourne to Sydney” promoted by Arthur Rickard & Co. Ltd., produced for Stone’s officially announced Melbourne–Sydney airmail of May–June 1914 which was twice postponed due to damage to his Blériot aircraft and finally cancelled following Stone’s crash on 1 June, the cards later dispatched by rail, a key pioneer item, very fine. (AAMC 2). (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for C$160.00
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4 CVR   image1919 (August 12), Harry Butler Adelaide to Minlaton flight souvenir postcard, the special illustrated Vardon-printed card depicting aircraft over southern South Australia with portrait of Capt. Harry Butler, A.F.C. on reverse, franked with 1d red King George V tied by Adelaide (12 Aug) c.d.s. and bearing manuscript message dated 6 August 1919, the day of Butler’s outward flight, this example carried on the scarcer return leg of Minlaton to Adelaide of 11 August with the approximately 200 returned items cancelled on arrival the following day, a clean and attractive souvenir of Butler’s celebrated Bristol monoplane Red Devil mail service—Australia’s first airmail across St. Vincent Gulf and a landmark in post-WWI civil aviation. (AAMC 20). (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Austria - Lombardy - Venetia
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
5 CVR   image1850 (April 20), registered cover from Asola to Mantova, franked on reverse with 30c brown on ribbed handmade paper, and on front with two 15c red singles, each with large to very large margins, the 15c stamps struck by choice Asola circle-of-bars datestamps, the 30c cancelled by dual RACCOMANDATA straight-lines with framed Mantova handstamp alongside and ornate double-circle “2” above, a lovely and well-composed cover bearing superb examples of this desirable Asola cancellation; signed Colla. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Austria
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
6 CVR   image1670 (October 3), Holy Roman Empire, Silesia (now Poland), administrative letter signed by Georg Abraham Freiherr von Dyhern, Landeshauptmann of Silesia, folded manuscript addressed to the magistracy of Breslau (today Wrocław) and written in German, the text dealing with property and jurisdictional matters involving appeals, protestations, and obligations, signed by Georg Abraham Freiherr von Dyhern (1620–1671), during a period of tightening Habsburg control following the Thirty Years’ War, the address panel displaying ornate calligraphy with original wax-seal remnants on the reverse, quite clean and well-preserved for its age, very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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7 CVR   image1675 (April 17), Holy Roman Empire, Glogau, Silesia, manuscript document of Johann Bernhard, Count of Herberstein, folded chancery-style paper bearing bold calligraphic headings and flourishes, written at Glogau during the reign of Emperor Leopold I, the outer wrapper retaining its embossed imperial paper seal with the double-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire, the text signed by Johann Bernhard, Graf von Herberstein, then serving as Landeshauptmann and senior Habsburg administrative and judicial authority in Silesia, the contents comprising formal orders, resolutions, and ratifications of legal decisions reflecting the machinery of provincial governance within the Habsburg monarchy, an exceptionally fresh letter from the period when Silesia formed part of the Bohemian Crown Lands under consolidated imperial rule following the Thirty Years’ War, the fortress town of Glogau standing at a major strategic crossroads in Central Europe, very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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8 CVR   image1696 (May 29), Holy Roman Empire, Vienna, Imperial Chancery letter under Emperor Leopold I, finely written in chancery German and bearing a large intact blind-embossed paper seal with the Habsburg double-headed eagle and legend Leopold Imper., the document signed by imperial officials and embellished with decorative pen flourishes, the contents addressing fiscal and administrative matters characteristic of the extensive Habsburg bureaucratic system linking Vienna to its territories across the Empire, produced in the closing years of the Nine Years’ War (1688–1697) when financial and military pressures weighed heavily on imperial governance, scarce and very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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9 CVR   image1856 (September 21), folded cover from Szegedin to Pesth, Hungary, franked with strip of three imperforate 3Kr red Coat of Arms of Austria, clear to large margins all around, cancelled by two strikes of Szegedin single circle cancellations, next-day Pesth / Fruh single circle arrival backstamp, an attractive franking. (Sc. 3) (Image 1) (Image 2)

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10 CVR   image1915 (January), feldpost flight card from the Siege of Przemyśl to Vienna, Feldpost correspondence card to Vienna, struck with purple straight-line "Fliegerpost Przemyśl / Jänner 1915" handstamp and circular IX.54 unit cachet, written by Géza Lichner, Leutnant, vertical crease and handling wear consistent with wartime carriage, a scarce and fine example of mail flown out of the encircled fortress during the protracted siege, when aircraft provided the only remaining postal link to the outside world. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for C$100.00
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11 CVR   image1915 (June 17), K.u.K. Luftschifferregiment, feldpost correspondence card from Air Company 12, showing a bold violet "K.u.K. Luftschifferregiment / Fliegerkompanie Nr. 12" cachet with Imperial double-headed eagle at centre, mailed from St. Veit im Wippachtal by a soldier attached to Flik 12, his pencilled sideways unit notation along the left edge further confirming service with the company, fresh and very fine; a scarce Austro-Hungarian Luftschiffer card, with feldpost from these formations notably uncommon. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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12 CVR   image1915 (September 8), Austro-Hungarian feldpost correspondence card with portrait of Graf Zeppelin, cancelled and lightly struck with the violet K.K. Landwehr Infanterieregiment Graz Nr. 3 unit handstamp, written by a soldier of the Graz Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 3, the patriotic portrait underscoring the symbolic importance of Graf Zeppelin whose image was widely used during the war to bolster morale among airmen and infantry alike, fresh and very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for C$60.00
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13 CVR   image1916 (July 30), K.u.K. Luftschifferregiment, feldpost correspondence card from Air Company 7, bearing a bold violet "K.u.K. Luftschifferregiment / Fliegerkompanie Nr. 7" cachet with Imperial double-headed eagle at centre, alongside a faint but legible circular K.u.K. Etappenpostamt 181 cancellation, then used in present-day Czechia, the message on the reverse written in Slovenian conveying a short note of greetings to family, fresh and very fine; an uncommon example of Austro-Hungarian military aeronautical feldpost, illustrating the operations of the K.u.K. Luftschifferregiment within the broader German–Austrian airship system and scarcer than contemporary German Zeppelin feldpost. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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14 CVR   image1917 (August 21), Austro-Hungarian Balloon Troops Feldpost postcard to Graz, the correspondence card bearing at upper left a clear violet cachet of the K.u.K. Aviation Troops, Balloon Company No. 10, struck while in the field and cancelled by K.u.K. Feldpostamt No. 627 (21.VIII.17) double-circle c.d.s., addressed to Graz with the sender identified as Oberleutnant V. Reiner, Ballonkompanie 10, Feldpost 627 in the return address, a scarce Austrian military-aviation usage, fine-very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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15 CVR C1-C2c image1918 (March 30), first flight Lemberg–Vienna, uprated postal stationery card, 8h green card addressed to Vienna and franked with two “Flugpost” surcharged airmails 10k. and 2k50, the latter the scarcer 12½ × 11½ perf variety, all tied by two bilingual double-circle Lemberg–Lwów (30 Mar) cancellations on the first day of issue of the airmails, with Flugpost Poczta Lotnicza Lemberg–Lwów (31 Mar) transit and Flugpost / Wien (3 Apr) arrival on face, reverse with contemporary manuscript endorsement “Befördert mit der ersten Flugpost Lemberg–Wien", a clean example of this important inaugural airmail usage. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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SOLD for C$80.00
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16 CVR   image1918 (May 25), Kraków–Vienna airmail postcard, picture postcard of Kraków’s Marienkirche and Cloth Hall franked with 10h Austrian Crown definitive and 2k Jubilee overprinted Flugpost 2.50k on 3k, both fresh and neatly tied by bilingual Krakau/Kraków (25.V.18) double-circle c.d.s., with accompanying Flugpost–Poczta Lotnicza Krakau (25.V.18) strike and on reverse Flugpost Wien (26.V.18) and Wien Telegraphenzentralstation (26.V.18) transits, red manuscript Flugpost at lower left, addressed to Vienna, a fine early usage from Polish territory under occupation franked with the first Austrian airmail issue. (Scott C2). (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Bahamas
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
17 CVR 13b image1881, 4d dull rose cover to the United States, tied by A05 barred oval, to Hancock, Massachusetts, with Bahamas (31 Dec) New York Paid All (5 Jan, 1882), and Pittfield (6 Jan) c.d.s. backstamps, with contents, some sulphurization to stamp, else an attractive and remarkably fresh single-franking; ex Provera. (Sc. 13b, S.G. 27) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5)

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Bermuda
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
18 CVR   image1935 (April 3), Bermuda–U.S.–Argentina mixed-franking airmail cover, originating at Hamilton, Bermuda, where the 2½d Caravel issue was tied by c.d.s., forwarded to New York and additionally franked with the U.S. 15c Airmail and two 20¢ Airmails for onward transmission to Argentina, the U.S. adhesives tied by New York duplex (6 Apr), reverse showing Buenos Aires machine arrival (16 Apr), a clean and appealing dual-franking transatlantic cover showing Bermuda postage for origin and U.S. franking for the onward airmail to South America, a rare and desirable mixed-country usage necessitated by the absence of a direct Bermuda–South America airmail service at the time. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Brazil
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
19 CVR   image1930 (May 24), Graf Zeppelin airmail postcard to New Jersey, with early use of the 5 000r Graf Zeppelin overprint, illustrated postcard showing the Interstate Airlines CAM 30 biplane “The Route of Happy Landings”, franked with 200r definitive and 5 000r Graf Zeppelin overprinted issue, both tied by large double-circle Sindicato Condor Ltda. / Serviço Aéreo Brasil / Rio de Janeiro (24 May) cancellation, with additional double-circle cachet Correio Aéreo Graf Zeppelin / Brasil–USA–Europa / Sindicato Condor Ltda. / Recife (26 May), bearing bilingual green-and-yellow Condor airmail etiquette, addressed to Rahway, New Jersey with Pernambuco (27 May) transit and Rahway, N.J. (25 Jun) duplex arrival on reverse, the Rio de Janeiro date of 24 May representing a first-day usage that precedes the formal issue date cited in Scott, a desirable Zeppelin–Condor. (Scott 4LC8). (Image 1) (Image 2)

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20 CVR   image1930 (May 24), Graf Zeppelin first-flight cover Rio de Janeiro to Pernambuco, franked with 300 réis definitive and 5$000 overprinted on 20 000 réis blue Graf Zeppelin issue, both tied by Sindicato Condor Ltda. / Serviço Aéreo Brasil / Rio de Janeiro (24 May) cancellation, showing green Correo Aéreo label and typed routing “Graf Zeppelin – Rio de Janeiro – Pernambuco”, the reverse with Correio Aéreo Graf Zeppelin / Brasil–USA–Europa / Sindicato Condor Ltda. / Recife (26 May) strike confirming carriage on the inaugural South American flight of 1930, a clean and attractive Zeppelin first-flight usage. (Sieger 59 H). (Image 1) (Image 2)

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