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Airmail Postal History

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

2416

Air Mail Cover Group, of eighteen comprising #C1 (two; one Dec. 17 1918 first trip to Chicago and one cacheted Roessler), #C2 (four Roessler including one first trip), #C4 (two including one mixed franking with Canada 10c Maple Leaf issue), C5 Roessler, C6, C4-C6 Night Air Mail to Germany backstamped, C4-C6 on 2c Hartford stationery First Flight Atlanta to NY, four with 50c or $1 1922 issues comprising one catapult to Germany and three Zeppelin flown (two with handstamp cachets), and two with #C9 comprising one Zeppelin and one catapult to Germany, also including an unused Zeppelin route cacheted envelope, Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 0.8 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $475.00
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2417

Air Meet & Exposition Hoard, 1920s-30s, With over 700 Airmail covers, myriad cachets of Air Meets, Aeronautical Expositions, transportation shows, tours, and more, from Boston, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, South Bend, Los Angeles, New Haven, St. Louis, McKeesport, etc.; some duplicated up to several times, others with same cachets for different dates of the exhibition; an extensive lot for further research. Shipping charges apply - weight 9.8 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $300.00
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2418

NYRBA Reference Collection, 1929-80, balance from a lifetime obsession with the South American airline that lasted only a year before getting swallowed by Pan American; signed copy of Triple Crash Covers, Outlaw Flight, and its Postal Markings, O'Neill signed crash cover census (bound photocopies of covers), typed Log of Maiden Voyage of Amphibian "Washington" special copy to Mrs. Galbraith (Confidential), bound color photocopies of The Last Commodore on a lake bottom, W P McCracken TLS to Congressman, Journal of Arizona History (Summer 2011) on Ralph O'Neill (WWI Ace and founder of NYRBA), 1929 NYRBA financials, handwritten passengers carried ledger pages (1930), photocopy diary of 1st pioneering flight, NYRBA Study Group newsletters (consignor was President), several AAMS Airpost Journal, drafts of articles by O'Neill and his widow (Not All That Glitters), photographs, and more; very useful, Fine to Very Fine, Julius Grigore, Jr. Shipping charges apply - weight 10.6 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $200.00
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2419

Small but Powerful Graf Zeppelin Collection, 1930, 7 better Graf Zeppelin envelopes individually sleeved from the 1st European Pan-American Round Trip Flight; C13 block of 4 via Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, C13 block of 4 via Friedrichshafen to Pernambuco, C14 Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen, C14 pair Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, C14 (plus blocks of C4, C6, 561, 563, and 623) on round trip Friedrichshafen to Friedrichshafen, C15 Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, and C14 & C15 Friedrichshafen to Friedrichshafen round trip and retuen by steamer; fabulous group with significant catalog value, Fine to Very Fine. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $2,000.00
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2420

Century of Progress Zeppelin Covers, 1933, six better covers franked with Scott # C18; 241C franked with C18 and 704-715 New York to Miami, C18 block of 4 Lakehurst to Lakehurst, 242A Miami to Akron with C18, 242B Miami to Chicago with C18, Akron to Lakehurst via Friedrichshafen with C18, and 243C with C18 franking from Akron to Seville, Fine to Very Fine. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $475.00
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2421

Crash Mail Collection, 1929-49, 22 envelopes collected as Interrupted Mail; these were involved in aircraft accidents and have the expected scars including oil and water soaked, burned, and crumpled; annotated as presented in the AAMS 5th Ed Vol 1 for Crash Mail; includes 29.6 Daytona Beach (4), 29.7 Park City, 29.10 Cheyenne (2), 29.17 Indianapolis (2), 30.2 Cedar City (2), 30.12 Warren (2), 30.15 Alhambra (2), 31.2 Washougal, 32.9 Potland, 36.1 Goodwin, 38.7 Pt Reyes (2), Dec 1944 APO to NY (with ambulance envelope), and 46.3 Cheyenne; talk about postal history, Very Good to Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.6 lbs.
AAMC 29.6//46.3. (Video for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $350-500
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction