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The James P. Myerson Collection of Pioneer Flight Mail 1910-1916 continued...

1913 Pioneer Flights (AAMC 67-AAMC 77) continued...
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941 c Image1913, September 22-27, Helena Mont. State Fair Aviation Exhibition, Route 663,002 (AAMC 75c). Picture postcard with caption "Miss Katherine Stinson--The Youngest Girl Flyer in the World" and showing her at the controls of her plane, with 1c tied by red "Aero Post, Helena, Montana Sep. 27" duplex datestamp and locally addressed, message written and signed by aviatrix Katherine Stinson, top left corner clipped, some slight wear, still Fine, the Montana State Fair Aviation Exhibition marked the first official airmail flight by a female aviator -- Katherine Stinson, one of the two airplane-flying Stinson sisters, flew mail from the post office station at the fairgrounds and dropped the bags to postal employees at a nearby race track, flights were scheduled for each day of the fair, but bad weather prevented Stinson from flying on September 22 and 25, the flights were assigned route number 663,002, and 1,333 pieces of mail were flown but surviving examples are quite rare (fewer than ten reported in the AAMC), September 27 was the last day mail was flown, ex Dr. Scott (Image)

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 $ 2,500.00

SOLD for $2,400.00
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942 c Image1913, October 4, Natrona Pa. Experimental Aeroplane Mail Service (AAMC 76). 2c entire with two 2c stamps cancelled by "Natrona, Pa. Dec. 18 11AM 1913" duplex datestamp, large purple "AEROMAIL SERVICE/OCT. 4 1913/Natrona PA" three-line datestamp, addressed to Tokyo, Japan, with receiving backstamp, address crossed out, "Inconnu" and "Returned to Writer from Tacoma, Wash. P.O." handstamps, Very Fine and unusual piece, apparently Truby (one of the founders of the Aero Mail Club) attempted to send the cover to Japan two months after the attempted flight and the piece was returned to him, the intended recipient was a well-known air mail collector in Mass. so he must have known it would be returned in due course, the flight was planned for a distance of 25 miles, but mechanical difficulties prevented it from taking off on the 4th or subsequent days, the mail was eventually sent by normal means (Image)

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 $ 275.00

SOLD for $200.00
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943 c Image1913, October 4, Natrona Pa. Experimental Aeroplane Mail Service (AAMC 76). 2c entire cancelled by light strike of duplex datestamp, large purple "AEROMAIL SERVICE/OCT. 4 1913/Natrona PA" three-line datestamp to New Kensington Pa., Truby's name scratched out, otherwise Very Fine, a flight was planned for a distance of 25 miles, but mechanical difficulties prevented it from taking off on the 4th or subsequent days, the mail was eventually sent by normal means, with 1980 P.F. certificate, illustrated in AAMC 7th Edition on p. 322 (Image)

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 $ 275.00

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944 c Image1913, October 17, Woodstock-Mt. Jackson Va. Shenandoah Fair Aviation Meet (AAMC 77). 1c Postal Card cancelled by "Mount Jackson Va. Oct. 17 8PM 1913" duplex datestamp, to New Market Va., blue "AEROPLANE MAIL/SERVICE,/WOODSTOCK, VA." three-line handstamp, Very Fine, according to the AAMC, the Woodstock postmaster approved plans for aviator Frank J. Terrill to fly mail from Woodstock to Mt. Jackson on October 17, the planned flight was announced on October 11 and a philatelist living in nearby New Market prepared ten cards or covers to be included on the flight, plans changed and the flight was made on Oct. 15 (carrying 22 pieces of mail), the ten from New Market did not arrive until the 16th, the postmaster asked Logan if he would fly these ten pieces, he agreed but the flight apparently never took place and the mail was sent by normal means, no mail from the October 15 flight is known and these ten items are all that are known relating to this flight (Image)

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 $ 500.00

SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction

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