Images | Description | Current Bid |
Lot #1677 Italian Air Post 1926 Transpolar Flight "Norge", special vignette used on cover to Leningrad, overall toning and discoloration, nevertheless with markings and vignette intact, signed by the pilot, very rare | Price Realized $550.00 | |
Lot #1678 Italian Air Post 1926, April 8 Transpolar Nobile "Italia-Alaska", franked with two Italian adhesives, canc. Ciampino Roma 8.4.26 to Kingsbay, Alaska and later to Norway, with special Nobile label overprinted to state that 51 letters addressedto Oslo were misplaced and eventually found nine years later, fine and scarce cover, illustrated in Luning (page 171), Muller FFr 10,000 | Price Realized $900.00 | |
Lot #1679 Italian Air Post 1926, April 8 Transpolar Nobile "Italia-Alaska", franked with two Italian adhesives, canc. Ciampino Roma 8.4.26 to Nome, Alaska, with special Nobile label, signed by a crew member | Price Realized $700.00 | |
Lot #1680 Italian Air Post 1926 Transpolar Nobile "Italia-Alaska", special newspaper published by the members of the crew, v.f., rare., with Dr. Longhi cert. | Price Realized $900.00 | |
Lot #1681 Italian Air Post 1926, April 8 Transpolar Nobile "Italia-Alaska", franked with two Italian adhesives, canc. Ciampino Roma 8.4.26 to Kingsbay, Alaska and later to Norway, with special Nobile label, variety imperf. at right overprinted toindicate that 51 covers addressed to Oslo were misplaced and eventually found nine years later, fine and scarce cover, especially franked with the variety | Price Realized $900.00 | |
Lot #1682 Italian Air Post 1926, April 8 Transpolar Nobile "Italia-Alaska", franked with two Italian adhesives, canc. Ciampino Roma 8.4.26 to Kingsbay, Alaska and later to Norway, with special Nobile label, horiz, pair imperf. between, overprintedto indicate that 51 covers addressed to Oslo were misplaced and eventually found nine years later, fine and scarce cover, especially franked with the variety | Price Realized $900.00 | |
Lot #1683 Italian Air Post 1926, May 13 first flight over the North Pole with airship "Norge" (pilot Amundsen), carried from Ciampino Roma 10.4.26 to Kingsbay, Alaska, franked with Italy 1.25L, also with special Nobile label, horiz. pair imperf.between (another single label on back overprinted "Norge"), bearing oval cachet "Volo Transpolare 1926 Amundsen - Ellsworth - Nobile Equipaggio Italiano Dirigibile Norge", addressed to Milano and bearing signature of "Precerutti", v.f. | Price Realized $800.00 | |
Lot #1684 Italian Air Post 1930 Virgil, gray card with nine diff. color proofs of 7.70+3.30L, each imperf. amid simulated perfs, v.f. and probably unique item, with Diena cert. P Catalog #C25P | Price Realized $3,500.00 | |
Lot #1685 Italian Air Post 1930 Trans-Atlantic Squadron, 7.70L Prussian Blue and Gray, l.h., v.f. * Catalog #C27 Catalog Value 210 | Price Realized $180.00 | |
Lot #1686 Italian Air Post 1933 Balbo Flight, set of two triptychs, n.h., fine-v.f. ** Catalog #C48-49 Catalog Value 320 | Price Realized $150.00 | |
Lot #1687 Italian Air Post Air Post Special Delivery. 1933 gray card with 12 diff. color proofs of 2,25L, each imperf. amid simulated perfs, v.f. and probably unique item, with Diena cert. P Catalog #CE4P | Price Realized $4,500.00 | |
Lot #1688 Italian Air Post Air Post Officials. 1933 Servizio Di Stato triptych, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #CO1 Catalog Value Euro 3,750 | Price Realized $1,800.00 |