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Premium Airmail and Admiral Byrd Cover Group, consisting of 1) three first flight covers for each leg of the new service between San Juan, Ponce, Mayaguez & Vieques, each cover had to carry US postage and the semi officials to prepay mail to the US, each cover with US No. C10 and 1 or 2 (five total) of the seven Sanabria listed semi official stamps, scarce as a complete set, all addressed to Spencer Anderson on Nassau St.; 2) Albania, 1933 (19-22 Aug), 5th South America Flight, Friedrichshafen-Recife registered cover to Brazil franked with 85q tied by Shkodêr c.d.s.'s 14 Aug, Friedrichshafen departure c.d.s. 19 Aug, backstamped Rome & Tirane but no Recife receiver (Michel 327; €450 ($600). Sieger 226A), 3) 1936 1st North America Flight, two return leg covers (Sieger 409 B, 409 C), one addressed to Germany, the other to Pennsylvania, each with US C18 (one solo, one with additional postage), each with flight cachet on front and Frankfurt May 14 receiver (Type I or III) on reverse, 4) US C11 block of 4 on Oct. 1928 first flight Loredo TX to Mexico; 5) US Zeppelin flown cover with Nos. 570-573 & C11, 6) Hindenburg flown cover to Germany, 7) Zeppelin flown cover from Brazil to the USA 24 May 1930; 8) complete set of 9 FAM 18 first flight covers with Pan American matched typed address; 4 Byrd covers including 1930 event signed "R.E. Byrd", TLS "Dick Byrd" on Byrd Polar Expeditions letterhead and cover with same corner card, and another cover signed "Bernt Balchen, Pilot over South Pole, 29 Nov. 1929", Very Fine, fully imaged online. Shipping charges apply - weight 0.8 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)
Estimate $750-1,000
Opening US$ 375.00
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Sale No: 809
Lot No: 2240
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Lindbergh and First Flights Cover Collection, 1926-77, nine volumes of mostly commemorative Lindbergh and First Flights; several hundred covers with vast majority related to the 50th anniversary of the Spirit of St. Louis New York-to-Paris flight, also includes buttons, medals, newspaper clippings and souvenir pages; First Flights include Contract Air Mail (CAMs), Foreign Air Mail (FAMs), helicopter mail, airport dedications, experimental pick-up envelopes, jet service, flying mail car, National Air Mail Week, and more; much to explore, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 51 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Image)
