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The Krupnick Collection continued...

Miscellaneous
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
294 cover   imageCorrespondence to Pan Am Employee Max Brodofsky who was captured at Guam, comprising four cards and ten covers when he was held prisoner at Futatabi Camp (Camp 3) Kobe Japan, one cover and two letters from Max, plus many wonderful collateral items including a Pan Am Airways Trip Pass for his wife, letters and telegrams relating to his upcoming release in Sept. 1945, a copy of the Sept. 15 1945 Pan Am Clipper magnificent declaring "Guam-Wake Inernees Safe: Awaiting Transportation Home" with head shots of all twelve and signed by them (including Brodofsky) also including letter to "Jon Pace R.N., Formerly of Contractors, Pacific Naval Air Bases, Wake Island, American Prisoner in Japan, c/o International Red Cross Committee, Geneva Switzerland and forwarded to Shanghai with red Shanghai censor and Geneva Red Cross handstamps, plus three covers to Charles Ray Loveland including one with large purple Japanese Red Cross handstamp in French, Fine to Very Fine, a fantastic lot in our humble opinion. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.4 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image) (Image2)

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Get Market Data for [United States Camp 3] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction
295 cover 1926-31 image4 Pan American Canal Zone flight covers, comprising AAMC 13 (Nov. 22, 1926, 58 flown) this example without cachet and sent special delivery, AAMC 28 (Mar. 18, 1929, 27 flown) this example to Second Asst. Postmaster General Irving Glover and one of six signed by Capt. Ira C. Eaker), AAMC 55d (Apr. 30, 1930) this example with S.S. Santa Clara / U.S. Sea Post" c.d.s. and signed by three ship officers, and AAMC 73 with a plate no. pair of the 10¢ issue canceled on the First Day of Issue (Nov. 18, 1931) and flown (FAM 5), this example signed by Cristobal Canal Zone PMG Gerald Bliss, Very Fine. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

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Get Market Data for [United States 1926-31] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $75-100
SOLD for $275.00
Will close during Public Auction
296 cover 1931.06.04 imageSwains Island, 3 covers with the large purple all-caps handstamp at top right, first is signed Paul T. Diefenderfer and addressed to his wife in Fullerton PA, franked by 5¢ Beacon (#C11) tied by "Pago Pago Samoa May 15, 1931" double-circle datestamp, second is signed A.E. Jennings to the same addressee and franked with a 2¢ Pulaski (#690) tied by the "Pago Pago Samoa Jun 4 1931" double-circle datestamp, third also signed Jennings and has a 2¢ Washington Coil (#599) tied by Apia circular datestamp addressed to Cleveland, Very Fine trio.


Paul Diefenderfer was an official with the American Samoa Education Department, Swains Island is a tiny atoll, and the site of a privately owned coconut plantation, some one and a half miles long and a mile wide, lying 200 miles north of Tutuila, American Samoa. While it is geographically one of the Tokelau Islands Group, and located about a hundred miles from the three main islands, it is administrated by American Samoa. In 1925 the owners of Swains, the Jennings family, and the local inhabitants, petitioned the U.S. Congress to allow them to come under American protection. It never had its own post office, and all mail was carried to and from Swains is routed through either Pago Pago or Apia, Western Samoa . (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Get Market Data for [United States 1931.06.04] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
297 cover 1934-41 imageBalance of 34 covers, 1934-41, including many ship cancels and cachets U.S.S Nitro, U.S.S. Ontario (illustrated in Jon Krupnick's "Pan American's Pacific Pioneers The Rest of the Story" p. 536), U.S.S. Itasca, U.S.S. Otus, U.S.S. Astoria (while at Howland Island), one legal sized for the 100th Trans Pacific Flight signed by the pilot C.A. Lorber, couple commemorating the U.S.S. Panay, few Crosby cachets, and one 1940 cover flown by the California Clipper illustrated and discussed in Jon Krupnick's "Pan American's Pacific Pioneers The Rest of the Story" p. 417, an interesting group completely imaged on the web. Shipping charges apply - weight 2.2 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $850.00
Will close during Public Auction
298 cover 1936.05.06 image2 Zeppelin & Clipper flown registered covers from Germany, by Zeppelin to New York then by Pan American San Francisco to Manila, both covers franked by German Graf Zeppelin stamps canceled by Stuttgart May 6 1936 circular datestamps, with Stuttgart registry label, red Zeppelin handstamp cachet, red routing instructions at top left, to same addressee in Manila, Philippines, New York May 9 1936 double oval and May 16, 1936 receiving backstamps which indicate the covers traveled from Stuttgart Germany (May 6) via New York City (May 9) and then by China Clipper to Manila, one cover also with US 16¢ Airmail Special Delivery (#CE2) tied by red cachet and double oval, Very Fine covers, the window for Hindenburg and Clipper flown flights was only 18 months (Nov. 1935 to May 1937). (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction
299 cover 1936.08.06 imageZeppelin & Clipper flown registered cover, from the 1936 Summer Olympics by the Military Attaché at the US Embassy in Berlin Germany via Graf Zeppelin to New York then via Pan American's Hawaii Clipper from San Francisco to Honolulu, five German including four Graf Zeppelin stamps paying the proper rate and canceled by Berlin Olympic Aug. 8 36 circular commemorative datestamps, magenta circular Zeppelin handstamp cachet, Very Fine cover, the window for Hindenburg and Clipper flown flights was only 18 months (Nov. 1935 to May 1937). (Image)

Get Market Data for [United States 1936.08.06] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $1,000-1,500
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
300 cover 1939.03.23 imagePan American Yankee Clipper flown test flight cover, signed by pilot Harold Gray and franked with 6¢ Eagle (#C23) tied by "Dundale Mar. 23, 1939" duplex cancel, same day Baltimore transit backstamp, Gray carried this cover on the first leg of the survey flight from Baltimore to Horta Azores, which took 17 hours and 32 minutes and covered 2,400 miles, Extremely Fine, cover accompanied by letter from the recipient to his customer, one of two known examples. (Image) (Image2)

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Get Market Data for [United States 1939.03.23] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census

Estimate $100-150
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
301 cover 1939.06.24 image3 FAM 18 Round Trip Northern Route Inaugural New York June 24, 1939 cacheted flown covers, comprising one to Shanghai where three Chinese airmail stamps affixed and two to Hong Kong (one "triptych style" to American Consul) where three King George VI stamps affixed to reverse, all three sent registered to New York with registry labels, Very Fine trio. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
302 cover 1939.07.07 imageAmon Carter Yankee Clipper FAM18-10 Flown Cover, 1939 (AAMC FAM18-10), stunning registered airmail envelope with custom cachet showing trip from Fort Worth (as President of the Fort Worth Star-Telegraph) to New York and on the first regularly scheduled flight of the Yankee Clipper to London in 1939, signed A.E. La Porte Capt Yankee Clipper, the unopened cover has wonderful franking and delicious auxiliary markings, Fine to Very Fine. (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $110.00
Will close during Public Auction
303 cover 1941.06.21 image"Released by Prize Court" two-line handstamp on Philippines to Luxembourg registered censored legal sized cover, franked with four Philippines stamps tied by single "Manila Philippines Jun. 21, 1941" circular datestamp paying the 38c rate, registry label at bottom left, purple "Registered Via Siberia" two line handstamp at top left, reverse with two 1940 Christmas seals tied by purple boxed three line "Registered Foreign Mail Section Jun. 21 1941 U.S. & Foreign Mail Division" handstamp plus two "New York 8-20-1941" registry ovals; vertical crease at left, Very Fine, very scarce, this cover was seized in Bermuda and held there for almost two months. (Image)

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Estimate $75-100
SOLD for $60.00
Will close during Public Auction
304 cover 1941.08.09 imagePhilippines to Switzerland registered legal sized cover censored at Bermuda, franked with five Philippines stamps tied by wavy line cancels paying the 1Peso - 92c rate, registry label at bottom left tied by one of two bold strikes of purple "Registered" handstamp, boxed "Air Mail via "Clipper"" handstamp at bottom center, reverse with three strikes of purple boxed three line "Registered Foreign Mail Section Aug. 9 1941 U.S. & Foreign Mail Division" handstamp plus "New York Foreign 8-19-1941" registry oval, purple "Honolulu, Hawaii Registered Aug. 10, 1941" double circle and Rorschach Switzerland receiving backstamps, Very Fine. (Image)

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Estimate $75-100
SOLD for $40.00
Will close during Public Auction
305 cover 1941.08.29 imageReconnaissance Bomber then PAA Clipper, 1941, extraordinary oversized registered cover to New York stamp dealer mailed from New Hebrides departing Noumea Aug 29, transit Hawaii Sept 2, and arrive in New York Sept 5th, carried by US Navy Reconnaissance Bomber to Honolulu and then flown by Pan Am Clipper to the mainland, colorfully franked with 15 values (Scott 67-78 and J11-15) with overprints France Libre and Chiffre Taxe on the Postage Due, backstamps include Noumea, Honolulu, and New York, a tremendous piece; minor damage to two stamps, Fine to Very Fine. (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $275.00
Will close during Public Auction
306 cover 1941.12.06 imageFAM 22 Pan Am Inaugural Service from NYC & Miami to Leopoldville (Congo), three covers comprising two cacheted from Miami Dec. 6 including one with 10¢ & 50¢ Transport (#C27 & C31) with five signatures -- two postmasters, the sender and recipient, and the Captain W.M. (William M.) Masland, other with plate block of 15¢ Transport (#C28) tied on cover to England, with third New York Dec. 4 1941 that missed the flight (due to censorship?), Very Fine. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

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Estimate $100-150
SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction
307 cover 1941.12.06 imageBill Mullahey "correspondence", comprising one postal card from the Netherlands Indies on 6 Dec. 1941 to Auckland New Zealand (received 20 Jan. 1942) and forwarded to "Treasure Island, San Francisco, U.S.A." plus nine covers comprising strip of five 1¢ Presidentials (#804) used in Pago Pago Samoa to Suva, Fiji, from Karl Leuder c/o American Embassy in Bangkok to Honolulu franked with 13 Thailand stamps, rest to Auckland including two from China, one each from Singapore, Hawaii & New Caledonia, plus two covers from Bill in Fiji to his wife in Auckland, Very Fine, also including Pan American internal office envelope used by Mullahey to hold his covers.


Per Jon Krupnick's book "Pan American's Final Flight" (p. 43), "Bill Mullahey joined Pan Am in March 1935 as a construction worker on Wake. He became station manager at Guam, then tranferred to Auckland as station manager for the July 1940 FAM Inagurual Flights to New Zealand" . (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $100-150
SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction
308 cover 1943.01.05 imagePrisoner of War from Wake Island, 1943, Executive Office of the President Bureau of the Budget penalty envelope, censored with 30¢ Transport franking and Japanese receiving chop, envelope tells a sad story of a wife communicating through the International Red Cross with her husband, he was one of two civilians taken prisoner by the Japanese following the attack on Dec 8 1941 (Dec 7 in Hawaii), plans were made to evacuate Wake Island, Hevenor, a civil service employee, failed to leave on Dec 8th or during a lone Navy rescue flight just prior to surrender of the island to the Japanese, he would spend the war in the Zentsuji War Prison Camp in Japan, commenting on his failure to make the flights, an Army Commented, "It struck me as a rather drastic lesson in the wisdom of punctuality", fascinating postal history, Fine to Very Fine.


Illustrated in Jon Krupnick's "Pan American's Pacific Pioneers The Rest of the Story" p. 603 . (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction
309 cover 1950.10.15 imageSouvenir from President Truman and General McArthur's Wake Island Conference, 1950, at Pan American, the sender, Bill Mullahey, was known as Mr. Pacific, Per Jon Krupnick's book Pan American's Final Flight (p. 43), "Bill Mullahey joined Pan Am in March 1935 as a construction worker on Wake. He became station manager at Guam, then tranferred to Auckland as station manager for the July 1940 FAM Inagurual Flights to New Zealand."; Bill wrote this note with accompanying envelope to his son in Hawaii on Flying White House stationary, datelined "Wake October 14, '50", it reads, "Dear Mike: Greetings from President Truman and General McArthur's Wake Island Conference held here today. Love Dad", nice personal correspondence from a key Pan Am executive, Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction
310 cover group imagePan American Clipper flown covers on FAM 14, FAM 5, FAM 18, FAM 19 and other routes, comprising 48 censored covers from different countries comprising Argentina (2), Australia (2, 1 to London with L1 partial franking), Belgian Congo (2 to New York City), Great Britain (4 including 5sh King George VI to China, others to New Zealand/Australia), Hong Kong (3 better, 2 to US including one with mixed franking of Hong Kong & US stamps, 1 to England), Indochina (3 to US & 1 to Argentina), Japan (2 to Brazil), Macao (3 to US), Switzerland (3 to Batavia, Australia & Philippines), New Caledonia (8 including four signed "Capt. J.H. Tilton"), Ceylon (to New York City), Turkey (to New York City), Gilbert & Ellice Islands, Mexico (to Philippines), Sudan (to New York City), North Borneo (to Los Angeles), Portugal (to Shanghai China), Canada (to Netherlands East Indies and back to Canada), Egypt (to Canada), Jamaica (to Guam), Uruguay (to Honolulu), Palestine (to England via Singapore), Papua (11 different stamps to Canada), New Guinea to Chicago, and Trinidad & Tobago to Western Australia, Very Fine. (Image)

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Estimate $500-750
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
311 cover group imageKrupnick's covers and collateral consignment balance, comprising approximately 35 covers including addressed by Musick with original TLS on PAA letterhead to a collector offering to sign, two U.S.S. Penguin and one U.S.S. Edsall covers while searching for the lost Hawaiian Clipper including one with Penguin cachet at top left, legal sized with ten New Caledonia and 40¢ US postage -- one New Caledonia stamp privately overprinted for the flight, a multicolor contemporary souvenir envelope regarding the loss of Earhart and Noonan, cover with a new variety of the cachet used on the first passenger flight in Nov. 1936 (see Jon Krupnick's "Pan American's Pacific Pioneers The Rest of the Story" p. 253), Collateral including Harry Truman Sept. 26 1949 TLS to Sec of Defense Louis A. Johnson on White House letterhead, a radiogram from R.O.D. Sullivan and the Philippine Clipper crew thanking their colleague for his nice season's greetings message Dec. 26, 1936 and a few other items, overall Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.6 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction

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