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Heavier-Than-Air Flights continued...

Other Foreign Flights continued...
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
721   imageGermany, 1930, Imperial Navy Seaplane Base, Island of Sylt, handstamp on Feldpost cover to Flensburg; part of return address missing, Fine.
Estimate $100 - 150

Sylt was the first German territory to be bombed by the British in World War II . (Image) 		Suggested Bid $100-150
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
722   imageGermany, 1931 (Jul 29), von Gronau Transatlantic Flight, cover postmarked Berlin with all other appropriate frankings and markings, signed by Von Gronau, Very Fine.
AAMC TO 1147; $1,250.
Estimate $400 - 600. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $2,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
723   imageGermany, 1932 (Jul 21-Nov 10), von Gronau Round-the-World Flight, airmail envelope franked with 25pf Hindenburg canceled Warnemünde, 30 Jan 1933, 2½ months after completion of the flight, but bearing the violet flight cachet and signed by Capt. von Gronau ("v Gronau") below a typed statement, "This Letter Carried By Kindness of Capt. Wolfgang Von Gronau. Germany- Germany.", Very Fine. The cover was created by and is addressed to U.S. letter carrier and airmail collector, Bill Schneider, Jr. of Rahway, N.J., and is backstamped Rahway, Feb 8. Quite possibly a unique von Gronau collectible.
AAMC TO 1168 var.
Estimate $300 - 400. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $300-400
SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction
724   imageGermany, 1938 (Aug 10-14), First Successful Round Trip Flight, Berlin - New York, cover with German stamps tied by Bremen "Focke-Wulf-Condor" 8pf meter and by flight cachet, but no other markings; it is signed by all four aviators, Alfred Henke (Rudolf) von Moreau, Paul Dierberg, and Walter Kober.
AAMC TO 1309; $1,000.
Estimate $400 - 600. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $900.00
Will close during Public Auction
725   imageGermany, 1953-95, Lufthansa first flights, over 475 covers mounted on pages, includes 1953 May 9 Frankfort to New York cover, 1955 June 8 Hamburg to New York cover, 1955 Jun 8 Hamburg to New York cover, 1955 Jun 8 Dusseldorf to New York cover, 1955 Oct 24 Vienna to New York cover, 1956 Apr 23 Dusseldorf to Montreal cover, 1959 Feb 27 Cologne to New York cover, 1960 May 13 Paris to San Francisco cover, also with luggage labels and stickers, photos, newspaper clippings, correspondence, autographs, schedules, picture postcards, a massive lot well worth checking out, Very Fine.
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26) (Image27) (Image28) (Image29) (Image30) (Image31) (Image32) (Image33) (Image34) (Image35) (Image36) (Image37) (Image38) (Image39) (Image40) (Image41) (Image42) (Image43) (Image44) (Image45) (Image46) (Image47) (Image48) (Image49) (Image50)

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Suggested Bid $2,000-3,000
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
726   imageGermany, 1959-88, Lufthansa & Interflug first flights, over 450 covers mounted on pages, includes 1959 Nov 11 Hamburg to Pakistan cover, 1959 Nov 1 Frankfurt to Pakistan cover, 1959 Nov 1 Hamburg to Calcutta cover, 1959 Nov 1 Hamburg to Bangkok cover, 1961 Jan 23 Frankfort to Tokyo cover, 1963 Jul 5 Dusseldorf to Kuwait cover, 1963 Jul 7 Calcutta to Kuwait, 1964 Fairbanks Alaska to Copenhagen cover, 1965 Apr 5 Singapore to Athens cover, 1966 Mar 23 Cape Verde to Djibouti cover, along with picture postcards, luggage stickers, a cornucopia of desirable material, Very Fine.
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26) (Image27) (Image28) (Image29) (Image30) (Image31) (Image32) (Image33) (Image34) (Image35) (Image36) (Image37) (Image38) (Image39) (Image40) (Image41) (Image42) (Image43) (Image44) (Image45) (Image46) (Image47) (Image48) (Image49) (Image50)

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Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
727   imageGermany, 1911-25, flight covers, 9 different cards or covers comprising 1911 Leipzig - Dresden, 1912, Mannheim - Heidelberg & Heidelberg - Mannheim, 1922 Bremen - Magdeburg, 1924 Görlitz - Dresden (2 different cards, one with special vignette) and 1925 Leipzig - Bremen and two WWI Feldpost covers from Flying Units, mounted on seven colorful, professionally handmade album pages (text in Dutch), Very Fine.
AAMC 13, 13a, 26, 26a.
Estimate $350 - 500. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7)

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Suggested Bid $350-500
SOLD for $190.00
Will close during Public Auction
728   imageGermany, 1912-48, first flights and miscellaneous airmail covers, 24 cards or covers, all but five pre-1930; nice variety with two of the later covers being Berlin 100pf Airletter Sheets (LF2) used during the Berlin Airlift, Very Fine.
Estimate $250 - 350. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction
729   imageGermany, 1912-48, first flights and miscellaneous airmail covers, 18 cards or covers, all mounted on colorful, professionally handmade album pages (text in Dutch); includes Muller numbers 80, 115, 115a, 290 (2 diff.), 307a, 307c, 309, 344, 531, two World War II Feldpost, and three Berlin Airlift; a very nice lot, Very Fine.
Estimate $250 - 350. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
730   imageGibraltar, 1929 (Jul 23), Gibraltar - Bordeaux, cover franked with 2½d postage tied by Jul 23 Gibraltar c.d.s.s and backstamped Paris, Jul 26; manuscript endorsements "By Airmail for Bordeaux"and "Via Bordeaux Airmail", but no evidence of having been flown to Bordeaux; addressed to Capt. T.A. Smye in Gosport, England, a prominent collector of the time; said to be "Baldwin 233 var.".
Estimate $100 - 150. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $100-150
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
731   imageGreat Britain, 1911, Coronation Flight, First U.K. Aerial Post, a complete set of the 30 different plates of the commemorative card, fully described, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000

This set was sold by H.R. Harmer of London, 1964. We have never seen another. An extraordinary rarity of this popular card . (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26) (Image27) (Image28) (Image29) (Image30)

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Suggested Bid $6,000-8,000
SOLD for $2,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
732   imageGreat Britain, 1911, Coronation Flight, First U.K. Aerial Post, three items comprising a brown advertising postcard, forwarded within U.K. (closed tear), plus an envelope (rare in itself) to the U.S., forwarded to Victoria, B.C. (mild edge wear), as well as a greenish internal card, Fine, a rare and fascinating group.
Estimate $750 - 1,000. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Suggested Bid $750-1,000
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
733   imageGreat Britain, 1920 (Jul 22), London - Paris, rate reduced to 2d, special envelope produced by Fred Melville and the Philatelic Institute; light file fold, Fine; also includes a French postcard picturing the Handley Page W 8 of the type in use at the time. The pictured plane, G-EAPJ, was destroyed in a crash at Poix, France on a flight from London to Paris in July 1923.
Muller 96.
Estimate $100 - 150. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $100-150
SOLD for $50.00
Will close during Public Auction
734   imageGreat Britain, 1926 (June 30), London - Melbourne Flight, cover authenticated by A.J. Cobham, gray blue envelope with typed notation at left, upper: "Demonstration/Air Mail/England to Australia." and lower: "Carried by Alan J. Cobham/On De Havilland 50 Seaplane./Departed June 30th 26/Arrived Darwin Aug 5th 1926" [dates in manuscript], with circled "9" in manuscript and Alan J. Cobham signature; accompanied by signed typewritten note from Cobham stating that this was one of the ten covers flown, this being #9; also included are two examples of AAMC #TO 1041b, cards carried Calcutta to Rangoon by Cobham (each postmarked Calcutta 23 JLY 26), along with signed photo of the pilot and short Indian National Airways Gazette article, Very Fine, ex-Meroni.
AAMC TO 1041; $4,200.
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
735   imageGreat Britain, 1930 (May 15), First Night Flight, London - Berlin, cover and picture postcard postmarked May 15, the cover at London, the card at Gosport; both are marked as printed matter and have the red Berlin Central Airport cachet and are backstamped May 16 at 9-10 a.m.; the cover bears a Southern Railway Gosport 3d parcel label, while the card links the Bible's book of Ezekiel, chapter 1, to the invention of the airplane; both are addressed to Capt. T.A. Smye.
Muller 176.
Estimate $100 - 150. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $100-150
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
736   imageGreat Britain, 1931 (Feb-Mar), London - South Africa and points between, Imperial Airways flights, 46 different legs, including covers originating in England, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanganyika, Very Fine.
Muller 180/184.
Estimate $400 - 600. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26)

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Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction
737   imageGreat Britain, 1931 (Dec), London - South Africa and points between, Imperial Airways flights, 26 different legs, including covers originating in England, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanganyika, South West Africa and South Africa, Very Fine.
Muller 200.
Estimate $250 - 350. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13)

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Suggested Bid $250-350
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
738   imageGreat Britain, 1932 (Jan-Feb), England - South Africa and points between, Imperial Airways flights, 47 different legs, including covers originating in England, Belgium, Malta, Greece, Egypt, Kenya, Tanganyika, N. & S. Rhodesia, South West Africa, South Africa, most on Imperial Airways cacheted envelopes.
Muller 205.
Estimate $400 - 600. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23)

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Suggested Bid $400-600
SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction
739   imageGreat Britain, 1937 (Nov 14-20), London - Capetown - London, cover carried on the round trip with a special "London - Capetown - London" label and all appropriate markings and signed by pilots Arthur Clouston and Betty Kirby Green; also includes a cover flown only on the return flight appropriate label and markings (Muller South Africa 71), Very Fine.
Muller 375.
Estimate $350 - 500. (Image) (Image2)

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Suggested Bid $350-500
SOLD for $190.00
Will close during Public Auction
740   imageGreat Britain, 1938 (Mar. 12), London - Waingapu, Dutch East Indies First Flight, 1½d King George VI cancelled London 9 MCH 1938 by Empire Exhibition Glasgow slogan c.d.s., addressed to pilot Jim Broadbent; annotated in Broadbent's own hand "Left Lympue 3 am 12th March 1938/Force-landed near Waingapui, Dutch/East Indies, 16th March 1938." and signed by the pilot, one of 48 flown.
Muller 381: 3,000 points.
Estimate $150 - 200. (Image) 		Suggested Bid $150-200
SOLD for $90.00
Will close during Public Auction

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