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Lot 3531 - 1943 (Feb. 22), Pan Am Boeing 314 "Yankee Clipper" (Air Crash Mail of the World 430222h & p), crashed on landing at Lisbon, Portugal. The flight was carrying a large load of mail to various European countries. Two covers, one to Nice, France with French three-line cachet and one to Lisbon, Portugal with cachet "Salvados do Yankee Clipper". Both are rare destinations. Very few covers to France have been recorded; ACMW "D, F" respectively.....Estimate $500-800 Currently US$ 300

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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC Sale - 845

The Kendall Sanford Pan American Airways Crash Mail Collection - June 18, 2026

A headline-making sale, offering sixty covers spanning 46 years (1928-74) of Pan American Airways crashes. The items present show Pan Am’s global growth and expanding routes, grounded by a cover from the very first crash (August 15, 1928) off the Florida coast, followed by numerous Central and South American or Caribbean covers, numerous Clipper covers from the Pacific, plus scarcer items from East Germany, India, Liberia, Portugal, etc. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Crash Mail or Pan Am aficionado, from the man who (literally) wrote the book on the subject.

Kendall C. Sanford

Ken Sanford retired from the Airline Industry after 40 years and has specialized in collecting crash covers for just as long. He worked in Pan Am Headquarters in New York from 1969 to 1974 as Manager, Passenger Services, and in a similar position for the International Air Transport Association in Geneva, Switzerland for 23 years. His collections have won gold medals in national level exhibitions and with international participation, in the US, Canada, Great Britain and Switzerland.

He is a Past President of the American Air Mail Society and has served as a member of that Society’s Board of Directors for many years. Ken is President of the Metropolitan Airpost Society, which is an aerophilatelic society in the New York Metropolitan area. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Internet Philatelic Dealers Association. He has given displays of his collections of crash covers of Pan American World Airways and Imperial Airways of Great Britain to aerophilatelic societies in many countries around the world. Ken is a member of all the aerophilatelic societies in English-speaking countries. His collection of Pan American World Airways crash covers is the most extensive and complete in the World. Some covers are unique.

Listings, cachet varieties and prices are based on Air Crash Mail of the World, published by the American Air Mail Society in 2023 (which replaced the American Air Mail Catalogue’s Interrupted Flights section and Nierinck’s Recovered Mail Catalogue.

ACMW prices covers using an A-K scarcity scale, with price ranges as follows:

A: Up to $50
B: $51-$100
C: $101-$150
D: $151-$250
E: $251-350
F: $351-500
G: $501-750
H: $751-1,000
I: $1,001-$2,000
J: $2,001-$3,000
K: Over $3,000

Sale Session Information:

Session 1: (Lots 3501 - 3561) Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT

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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC
P.O. Box 220
Bethel, CT 06801
Phone: 203.297.6056
Fax: 203.297.6059

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