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Airmail Postal History

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

804

1926.1210

1926 (Dec. 10), U.S. Army Air Corps Pan American Goodwill Flight via Canal Zone, cover mailed from New York, Dec. 10, 1926, addressed to Major H.A. Dargue in San Antonio where it was carried through Mexico, Central and South America and the West Indies with 34 stamps and cancels from "all nations of Central and South America and the West Indies," signed by surviving pilots Dargue, Eaker, Robinson, McDaniel, Weddington, Thompson, Fairchild and Whitehead (two aviators were killed when two planes collided attempting to land in Buenos Aires), cover with two 5-line boxed handstamp cachets -- blue "First Pan American Flight to all nations of Central and South America and the West Indies, 22,065 miles visitin glands of 24 countries. Major H.A. Dargue Air Corps Commander." and purple "All America Aircraft Display Bolling Field PO Sub Station Washington, D.C.", scarce and striking item in every respect, opened out for display, Very Fine to Extremely Fine cover.
AAMC CZ 14; $625. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $400.00
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805

Airmail Covers to Foreign Destinations, 1930's-60's, approximately 365 covers and a few picture postcards, consisting of Scott Nos. C6/C13 (147 normal size and 72 legal size including 14 with "The Foreign Service of the United States of America" printed and "Office of U.S. Agricultural Attache American Embassy Panama, R.P." typed corner card to the same addressee with the same job either in Mexico City or El Salvador or Honduras or Guatemala, and 20 with "The Office of Censorship District Postal Censor Balboa, Canal Zone, Official Business" printed corner card to the same addressee in Costa Rica), C21/C31 (48 including 7 legal size), C42/C53 (72 including 16 legal size and 1 oversized), plus 60 "other", wide variety of frankings and destinations, which are mostly the Americas and Europe including Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Finland, France, Germany (East & West), Grenada, Haiti, Holland, Honduras, Hong Kong, Italy, Jamaica, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, USA, Venezuela and Western Australia, couple with original letter content, handful censored, few faults as always on large lots of commercial mail, generally Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 3.8 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Video3 for this lot) (Image)

Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction

806

U.S. Postal Agency in Cali, Colombia cover collection, approximately 240 covers (including 13 legal size or larger) from a variety of South American countries mostly to the US, a huge variety of frankings, many commercial mail, few consular mail, some interesting auxiliary markings, some registered, some censored, two with German origin, also includes two facing slips and a page of favor strikes of the Cali cancel, few faults as always, generally Fine to Very Fine, see the entire lot online.
AAMC CZ 113; approximately $5,000.

Shipping charges apply - weight 3.8 lbs.
Per the AAMC, "A U.S. Postal Agency under the supervision of the Canal Zone Director of Posts, was established at Cali because of schedule changes in air mail flights between Miami and various points along the western coast of South America that resulted in planes staying overnight in Cali. The Cali Agency neither sold nor cancelled stamps, but incoming mail from north and south was processed, including the backstamping of registered mail only.The agency was open from Sept. 1, 1940 to January 31, 1942." A copy of the page is included and notes the catalog values of the covers. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Video3 for this lot) (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $400.00
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807

C1-C5

Airmail Issues, 1929-31 (Scott C1-C5), approximately 175 covers including No. C1 (17), C3 (76), C4 (16 with pairs to the US, 1 with C1 to England, 1 to Columbia and 6 to Costa Rica), C5 (63 including seven used to uprate No. UC2 including one registered with Nos. 90 & C1 & C3-C5 and solo use on large penalty wrapper to the Columbian Consulate in the US), about 15 are legal sized, some are used with additional postage and a few are franked with blocks and pairs, majority to the US but we also see covers to Brazil, Canada, Curacao, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Italy and Jamaica, mixed condition with many sound, generally Fine to Very Fine, we imaged the C1s, C4s, and C5s in their entirety and many of the C3's. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.8 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Video3 for this lot) (Video4 for this lot) (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $425.00
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808

1928, Lindbergh Day Celebration, American Goodwill Tour, 60 covers including two with Jan. 9, 1928 cancels (one cacheted with fake Lindbergh signature), 19 plus six picture postcards with "LINDBERGH DAY CANAL-ZONE" two line handstamp cachet in blue either applied directly onto the cover or card or onto a piece of paper then affixed to the cover or card, franked with Nos. 70/74 to Rudolph Dinnebier in NYC (except one magenta to diff person), 4 prepared by famed dealer J.J. Klemann Jr. of 70 Nassau Street franked with No. 97, and 24 prepared by R.S. Carter with a variety of frankings (Nos. 72-74 & 85) and town cancels, minor duplication, very well organized on black stockpages, Very Fine, see them all online. Shipping charges apply - weight 2 lbs.
AAMC CZ 15. (Video for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $400-600
SOLD for $425.00
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809

C21-C31, C34

Airmail, 1951-58, Globe and Wing, 4¢ to 80¢ complete (Scott C21-C31, C34), set of 12, 122 mostly covers plus a few picture postcards and parcel fronts, strength is in the foreign destinations which cover a vast majority of the world including US and Canada, many countries in Europe and Latin America, and a few countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, includes 31¢ solo uses to China, Morocco, Australia, New Zealand (cover and QSL card), Hong Kong (with two Hong Kong stamps affixed and forwarded to London), India and Lebanon, 80¢ (two covers and three parcel fronts), 35¢ (3 including solo to Singapore, with 10c stamp to Denmark and pair to New Zealand), sorted by Scott number on black stockpages, few faults as always but the majority are sound and very salable, Very Fine, 17 of the items listed above have a Scott catalog value of $790; see the entire lot online. Shipping charges apply - weight 4 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $190.00
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810

C(harles) A. Lindbergh signed flown FAM 5 cover, the plane carrying the cover was flown by Lindbergh on the inaugural northbound flight of Pan-American FAM 5 on Feb. 10, 1929 from the Canal Zone to Miami, cover prepared by the office of Fred C. Rogers, the Commerical Attache to the Canal Zone and is addressed to "William MacCracken Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, Washington D.C.", flight handstamp cachet at left, stamp and indicia tied by "Balboa Canal Zone Feb. 9, 1929" machine cancel, red crayon "No enclosure in this envelope" at right, "Cristobal Canal Zone Feb. 10, 1929" and "Miami Fal. Feb. 13, 1929" machine backstamps representing the dates of departure and arrival, Very Fine signature and cover. (Image)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $400.00
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811

First Flights and Special Flights, approximately 2,000 mostly first flight covers that are well organized by flight in five 16 inch long plastic tubs, mostly 1918-1930's, a modest percentage are legal sized, one tub is absolutely stuffed with covers carried on the inaugural service return flight of the Pan-American operated FAM 5 plane piloted by Charles Lindbergh from Cristobal Canal Zone on February 10 arriving in Miami on February 13, including one signed by Col. John A. Hambleton, who served as Lindbergh's co-pilot and one of the three co-founders of Pan American; he died June 8, 1929 (four months later) in a plane crash in North Carolina, plus a legal sized cover franked by ½¢-$1.00 Ovpts. (70/95) and with 2c and 5c Panama Lindbergh labels, with most of the stamps uncancelled or tied by handstamps, and a second similar cover franked up to the 50c but with the stamps canceled, plus an additional 260 flown covers carried on the original southbound flight from Miami to Cristobal Canal Zone (departed Feb. 4 and arrived Feb. 6) also flown by Lindbergh and Hambleton, these FAM 5 covers have a very wide variety of frankings and recipients and senders, also includes 25 legal sized covers dated Oct. 18, 1918 (13 are subscription, 4 have signed notes to CZ PMG Bliss including 2 with original TLS by Bliss and one with signature of Panama Canal Governor Chester Harding), 3 covers Oct. 4 1920 including one with facing slip and the original mail pouch seal that carried mail on the failed flight, 3 covers from the Apr. 9, 1923 hydroplane mail to New Orleans, additional signed flight covers including the unique letter carried in Naval Patrol Plane XF2H-1 on non-stop flight from Norfolk VA to Coco Solo C.Z. on 15 & 16 January 1935 (see the handwritten note on the back of the imaged cover), cover signed by Pan Am pilot R.O.D. Sullivan, and 12 interrupted mail (crash) covers from the Aug. 3 1937 accident in the waters near the Canal Zone with some newspaper clippings, and much more including three Apollo 8 rescue and recovery signed covers, a German Zeppelin flown card, a few letters and photographs (obviously) heavy duplication among the more common flight covers, few faults as always on quantities of 75-100 year old flight covers, generally Fine to Very Fine, view the highlights online. Well worth the estimate. Shipping charges apply - weight 33 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Video3 for this lot) (Video4 for this lot) (Video5 for this lot) (Image)

Estimate $3,000-4,000
SOLD for $2,600.00
Will close during Public Auction

812

Superb SCADTA cover collection, consisting of 159 covers (including 25 legal size), 7 picture postcards and 5 cover fronts featuring an incredible variety of frankings including many mixed with US and Latin American and SCADTA issues, vast majority to New York City or to Kenneth Jones in Columbia (acquaintance of R.S. Carter), few to Belgium, France, Germany, Holland and Switzerland, some commercial use with large or illustrated corner cards, few faults as always but the vast majority are sound, salable and very attractive -- NO PERFINS!!!! overall Very Fine, it is well worth the 2-3 minutes required to see all items online. Shipping charges apply - weight 4.6 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $3,000-4,000
SOLD for $2,600.00
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813

64 IIIb

1930 (Jun 5-6), Graf Zeppelin Pan-American Round Flight, Seville to Friedrichshafen (Sieger 64 IIIb), cover franked with $2.00 postage consisting of a block of ten 20¢ on 2¢ (C5) tied by targets and a May 15 Cristobal duplex handstamp; backstamped Havana, Cuba (May 16), Seville (Jun 4), and Friedrichshafen (Jun 6), Very Fine.

The cover was flown to Havana where it was intended to board the Zeppelin, but since the planned stop in Havana was canceled, the cover was taken by ship to Seville, where it received the red Spanish Zeppelin cachet and was carried on the final leg from Seville to Friedrichshafen. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,200-1,800
SOLD for $600.00
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814

64 IIIb

1930 (Jun 5-6), Graf Zeppelin Pan-American Round Flight, Seville to Friedrichshafen (Sieger 64 IIIb), cover franked with $2.00 postage made up of ten 15¢ on 1¢ (C1) and a pair of 25¢ on 2¢ (C3) tied by targets and a May 15 Cristobal duplex handstamp; backstamped Havana, Cuba (May 16), Seville (Jun 4), and Friedrichshafen (Jun 6); one 15¢ with a torn corner, otherwise Very Fine, signed Arthur Falk.

The cover was flown to Havana where it was intended to board the Zeppelin, but since the planned stop in Havana was canceled, the cover was taken by ship to Seville, where it received the red Spanish Zeppelin cachet and was carried on the final leg from Seville to Friedrichshafen. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $550.00
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815

1936 Hindenburg return flight cover, Lakehurst to Frankfurt, franked with a 20¢ Airmail (C11) tied by a May 2 Cristobal duplex handstamp, plus 40¢ U.S. postage tied by a May 11 New York machine cancel with the American flight cachet and the appropriate Frankfurt backstamp, Very Fine.
Michel 13A.
Michel €750 ($810). (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction