• Login (enter your user name) and Password
    Please Login. You are NOT Logged in.

    Quick Search:

  • To see new sales and other StampAuctionNetwork news in your Facebook newsfeed then Like us on Facebook!

Login to Use StampAuctionNetwork.
New Member? Click "Register".

StampAuctionNetwork Extended Features

StampAuctionNetwork Channels


 
You are not logged in. Please Login so that we can determine your registration status with this firm. If you have never registered, please register by pressing the [Quick Signup (New to StampAuctionNetwork)] button. Then Login.   Listen to Live Audio!
 

logo

Heavier-Than-Air Flights continued...

U.S. Government Flights, First Flights and Related continued...
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
381   image1925 (Apr. 17), New Orleans - Chicago Experimental Flight, one postal card plus three covers; postal card mailed from New Orleans (#171), covers each from Birmingham (#171a), Nashville (#171d) and Louisville (#171e); each with two-line magenta handstamp; New Orleans with additional Postmaster-applied "AIR MAIL/via/New Orleans, La" marking, Very Fine.
AAMC 171 vars.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12)

image image image image

Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction
382   image1925 (May 9), New York - San Francisco, Experimental Round-Trip Transcontinental Flight, postmarked Washington, DC, with Chicago wavy-line May 10 receiver on reverse; part of the experimental Newark - San Francisco - New York round-trip flight, Very Fine, set a time record of 56 hours, few covers were carried and very few examples have been reported.
AAMC 172; $250.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image)
Suggested Bid $200-300
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
383   image1925 (July 26-Nov. 11), Seattle, WA - Victoria, BC Seaplane Flight, four covers in total, three of which are addressed to A.C. Roessler; July 26 cover (postmarked Seattle), bears purple and violet boxed cachets and red manuscript "By S.S. Pres. McKinley", Sept. 21 Victoria covers (2) each with boxed reddish "1st Trip" cachet and oversize "Victoria, B.C., to Seattle, Wash./VIA/SEA/PLANE" circular cachet, Nov. 11 cover (Seattle again) bears boxed "Seattle/Victoria/Seaplane/Mail" cachet, Very Fine, a pretty grouping.
AAMC 555-556a.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

image image

Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction
384   image1926 (May 23), First Flight from U.S. to Argentina, a Roessler "Air Plane Stamp News" cover with great franking: U.S. 2¢ Sesquicentennial plus 10¢ Special Delivery, plus 5c Argentine San Martín and triangular red "Posta Aerea" pictorial label; U.S. issues cancelled by Grand Central Station May 23 duplex, with San Martín cancelled Dec. 11 (!); noted in red pen manuscript "Carried through courtesy of Sr. Don Duggan/First N. to S.A. airmail.", Very Fine, a pretty cover all around, only 30 letters carried.
AAMC TO 1040.
Estimate $350 - 500. (Image)
Suggested Bid $350-500
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
385   image1926 (Nov 25), Cobham Ship to Shore Demonstration Flight, from HMS Homeric on a seaplane piloted by Alan Cobham, cover with printed cachet by Edward Worden franked with 2¢ Washington tied by 25 Nov New York duplex and Great Britain 1½d KGV tied by onboard "HOMERIC" straightline and "25 Nov '26" datestamp; backstamped Millburn, N.J., Nov 26 numbered 166 and initialed by Cobham, Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1045.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image)
Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $90.00
Will close during Public Auction
386   image1926 (Dec 1), C.A.M. route card advertisement from P.O. Department in Springfield, IL, 9-1/8 x 4-inch POD Penalty Card cancelled Dec. 1 with "Air Mail/[plane]/Saves Time" slogan c.d.s.; front shows woodcut bust of Lincoln and "The Air Mail/Saves Time Saves Money/Use It" exhortation; reverse shows map of the U.S. and the 15 Contract Air Mail routes in operation along with proposed routes; complete with counterfoil offering a copy of the Gettysburg Address delivered by Airmail for 10¢ enclosed postage; a couple minor corner creases, still Very Fine, a fun little piece.
Estimate $100 - 150. (Image)
Suggested Bid $100-150
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
387   image1926 (Dec. 2-4), Sir Alan Cobham "Peri"-Columbia Distance Flight, New York - Washington, DC, set of four covers from each leg of the journey (New York, Milburn, Philadelphia and Washington); New York and Milburn covers with green circular cachet, cachet in blue for Philadelphia and violet for DC; Milburn cover initialed "GC" (Lady Gladys Cobham), others "AJC" (Alan J. Cobham), Very Fine.
AAMC SH567-567c.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9)

image image image image

Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $90.00
Will close during Public Auction
388   image1927 (Apr. 21), First Flight Cleveland - Boston - Los Angeles - Seattle, commemorative cover, the "I knew I should have taken a left at Albuquerque" piece, single piece of heavy paper with handstamped request "POSTMASTERs please cancel postage ONLY at points marked"; franked with 14 10¢ Airmails, each to cover postage on each leg of the trip, with additional 2¢ commemorative to cover the postage from Seattle to Portland, OR; backstamped at each stop along the way (per handstamped request), including a double-ring "First Flight Inaugurating/Contract Air Mail/Cleveland,/Ohio,/12:00 noon/April 21/1927/Cleveland-Pittsburgh Route"; folded twice (midline horizontally and vertically), with vertical fold showing slight separation at top and bottom that does not affect stamps or cancellations, Fine to Very Fine, a showpiece for sure.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image)
Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction
389   image1927 (Apr 30), Wilkins North Polar Expedition, Roessler airmail envelope postmarked Barrow, Alaska, Apr 30 with "Detroit News Wilkins Expedition" flight cachet also tying stamp; signed "H Wilkins" in the cachet, backstamped Fairbanks, May 16, with manuscript endorsement "12,000 miles over Arctic by Airplane", 100 miles on foot to shore", Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1052.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image)
Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction
390   image1927 (Jun 22), Nungesser-Coli Search Expedition, New York - St. John, special envelope canceled New York, Jun 2, and backstamped St. John, Jun 11; also includes a French postcard picturing the fliers and their plane White Bird; also including a couple of old newspaper clippings raising the possibility that pilots Nungesser and Coli, who were presumed lost in the Atlantic in their 1927 attempted Nonstop flight from Paris to New York, may have made it to the U.S. mainland but had crashed in Maine., Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1055.
Estimate $100 - 150. (Image) (Image2)

image

Suggested Bid $100-150
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
391   image1928 (Mar. 16-Apr. 10), Emergency Snowbound Service, Sault Ste. Marie - DeTour, MI, and Return, nine covers, all but two from or to A.C. Roessler; covers Sault Ste. Marie - DeTour, DeTour - Detroit (2; 3/16 & 3/31), DeTour - St. Paul, Pickford - St. Paul, Rudyard - Detroit, Hessell - Detroit, Stalwart - Detroit, and one Pickford; one Roessler cover noted in green manuscript "Emergency Plane", two other covers handstamped "Forwarded by Air Mail from/Detroit, Mich.", Very Fine.
AAMC E9.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image)
Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $90.00
Will close during Public Auction
392   image1928 (May 15), Speed Test Flights, Chicago South and West, seven covers from Chicago to Dallas, Austin, Denver, Elko (NV), Las Vegas, Vancouver and Boise; each on large Post Office Department, Second Assistant Postmaster General, penalty envelope endorsed B.F. Myers, Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

image image image

Suggested Bid $200-300
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
393   image1928 (May 15), Speed-Test Flights from Chicago, six covers in all; from Chicago to Atlanta, Birmingham, Hartford, Milwaukee, Youngstown and Peoria; each on Post Office Department, Second Assistant Postmaster General penalty envelopes typed "SEND VIA AIR MAIL/By authority of/Superintendent/Contract Air Mail Service/Per" and signed B.F. Myers; Atlanta cover noted "Via C.A.M. 17 & C.A.M. 19" and Birmingham "Via C.A.M. 17, 19 & 23"; arrival/receiving markings on reverse, Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

image image image image

Suggested Bid $200-300
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
394   image1928 (Aug. 6), Martha's Vineyard, MA, to Curtiss Field, lovely cover cancelled Hempstead, NY, Aug. 6, with typed "Mailed at Edgartown, Mass./Martha's Vineyard's First Air Meet.", signed by D.P. McBride, Secretary of the Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce, with a green "Martha's Vineyard/Isle of Dreams" label, Very Fine, one of ten covers flown (noted in pencil on reverse).
AAMC SH588.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) (Image2)

image

Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $200.00
Will close during Public Auction
395   image1928 (Dec. 17), Stinson Anniversary Flight, Northville, MI, 2 covers, each cancelled by "Northville/Dec/17/9 AM/1928/Mich." duplex, with red "Northville, Mich." straightline and blue "Via Air Mail" handstamps, bearing a large pasted-on Stinson Detroiter/Rotary International label commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight and signed by Eddie Stinson; Dec. 18 New York, NY & Rahway, NJ receivers on reverse; accompanied by article on Eddie and obituary for his sister, Marjorie, Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image) (Image2)

image

Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction
396   image1929 (Jun 13), Yellow Bird Flight, Old Orchard, Me. - Spain, cover with appropriate markings and signed by all three French aviators; also includes two vintage photos of two of the fliers with American aviator Roger Q. Williams, Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1091.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) (Image2)

image

Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction
397   image1929 (July 31) & 1930 (Aug. 18), Jackson-O'Brine Endurance Records, great set consisting of 6 covers (4 autographed by O'Brine) with spectacular half-envelope cachets (in red (2), black, green blue and a green blue-red half-and-half) celebrating Forest O'Brine and Dale Jackson's record-setting 420 hour, 21 minute-flight, cancelled Sept. 1, 2 & 3 during the American Legion State Convention (the original covers flown on the St. Louis Robin, O'Brine & Jackson's plane, were looted by souvenir hunters when she finally landed); additionally, 2 covers from O'Brine & Jackson's 1930 flight to retake the endurance record, one bearing diamond-shaped green, violet and magenta cachet (AAMC #SH631) with St. Louis Aug. 17, 1930 postmark, plus a cover postmarked St. Louis Aug. 14, signed by both pilots, with typewritten "This envelope was carried in the/GREATER ST. LOUIS Aug. 13, 1930,/when the Endurance Record was/broken." notice; a wealth of photos (many signed) and newspaper articles, both contemporary and later, accompany, Very Fine.
Estimate $200 - 300

Having set the world refueling endurance record with their 1929 flight, O'Brine and Jackson lost the title in June 1930 to the Hunter brothers (553 hours, 41 minutes, 30 seconds)—and so set out to take the record back. They did, at a whopping 647 hours, 28 minutes and 30 seconds, although the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale refused to recognize the record due to technical "irregularities". O'Brine & Jackson were outflown again in 1935 by the Key brothers: see their lot elsewhere in this sale.
(Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24)

image image image image

Suggested Bid $200-300
SOLD for $170.00
Will close during Public Auction
398   image1930 (Feb. 7), Emergency Air Service, Baudette - Penasse, MN, Crash Cover, cancelled Jan. 23 in Clear River, MN, with Penasse Feb. 7 backstamp; carried on the Baudette - Penasse flight that crashed on Lake of the Woods on Feb. 8; accompanied by Air Mail and Precancel Journal announcement; very slight reduction on right from opening, still Very Fine.
AAMC E15; $350.
Estimate $200 - 300. (Image) (Image2)

image

Suggested Bid $200-300
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
399   image1930 (Dec. 30), Simón Bolívar Flight, New York - Colombia, commemorative flight cover with 30¢ brown of 1922 series tied by New York, NY, Dec. 13 duplex, along with magenta "20 DIC. 1930" straightline handstamp on front; reverse shows violet "American Consulate/Santa Marta, Colombia./DEC 17 1930" receiver, a four-line violet Official Consular Correspondence handstamp and typewritten "return to" address in Devon, PA; includes original letter, stating letter arrived 45 minutes before the centenary of Bolívar's death; Barranquilla 18 DIC return postmark; microfilm print out (badly faded) of article included as well, Very Fine, scarce.
AAMC NY-4.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) (Image2)

image

Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction
400   image1931 (Jan 22), Mildred Bruce Solo Barnstorming Tour, cover franked with 5¢ postage canceled St. Louis, Jan 22, signed by Bruce with typed notation "From Tulsa-St. Louis."; small sealed tear at top, Fine to Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1120 var.
Estimate $100 - 150. (Image)
Suggested Bid $100-150
SOLD for $120.00
Will close during Public Auction

Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents


StampAuctionCentral and StampAuctionNetwork are
Copyright © 1994-2022 Droege Computing Services, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Mailing Address: 20 West Colony Place
Suite 120, Durham NC 27705
Back to Top of Page