Versailles Collection Part III; U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
November 1-3, 2005
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1187 United States Flight Covers 1912, Apr.7, San Diego. Colorado Polo Grounds Aviation Meet, ppc (little toning and corner defect), violet San Diego "Aeroplane Station" pmk, rare  Catalog #AAMC 21 Catalog Value 500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1188 United States Flight Covers 1912, May 16, Marietta, Ohio-Marietta Daily journal aviation meet, beautiful ppc (in color), "Marietta, Ohio 2 P.M. Mailed by Aeroplane" circular cachet and machine pmk, additionally endorsed "Via Aeroplane", fine. Approximately 1,500 pieces of mail were flown, although less than 10 are known to exist today Catalog #AAMC 24 Catalog Value 2,500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1189 United States Flight Covers 1912, June 7-8, Mansfield, Ohio. Fairgrounds Aviation Meet, specially prepared card (litte stained on back), with "Mansfield, O. 3 P.M. Mailed by Aeroplane June 8, 12" violet cachet, fine. The Mansfield Daily News prepared many souvenir cards for these flights. Only an estimated five to ten cards have survived. Catalog #AAMC 34 Catalog Value 2,000 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1190 United States Flight Covers 1912, July 3-4, Bedford-Oolitic-Mitchel, Indiana. Athletic Park Aviation Meet, specially prepared souvenir card ("Max Little, World's Champion Aviator"), with two line cachet "Air Ship Route No.1 Bedford, Ind." (type 2), fine and very scarce Catalog #AAMC 37 Catalog Value 2,000+ | Unsold |
 | Lot #1191 United States Flight Covers 1912, July 12-13, Hamilton, Ohio. Butler Country Fair Aviation Meet, specially prepared card ("Lincoln Beachey receiving mail"), with three line cachet "Aero Mail Service July 12, Hamilton, Ohio", little toning at left, otherwise fine Catalog #AAMC 39 Catalog Value 500 | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #1192 United States Flight Covers 1912, August 10-11, Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington. Country Club Aviation Meet, 2c stationery entire with six-line cachet "U.S. Aeroplane Mail Service This Letter Carried by Aviatior Walter Edwards from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, Wash.", fine Catalog #AAMC 48a Catalog Value 250 | Price Realized $210.00 |
| Lot #1193 United States Flight Covers 1912, August 10-11, Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington. Country Club Aviation Meet, 1c stationery card (stained), with six-line cachet "U.S. Aeroplane Mail Service This Letter Carried by Aviatior Walter Edwards from Portland, Oregon toVancouver, Wash."; also August 23 Rockport, Indiana Aviation Meet, ppc ("Horace Kearny Ready for Flight") with four-line cachet, fine Catalog #AAMC 48a,49a Catalog Value 400 | Unsold | |
 | Lot #1194 United States Flight Covers 1912, December 27, San Francisco, Ca. Tanforan Park Aviation meet, ppc (Roy M. Francis, aviator) with "San Francisco, Cal., Aviation Post Office Dec.27, 1912" canc., addressed to Goshen, Ind., little edge toning, otherwise fine. This is the only known card recorded with this date Catalog #AAMC 66b Catalog Value 2,000 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1195 United States Flight Covers 1914, September 17-18, Clayton, New Mexico. Fair Grounds Aviation Meet. During this meet, exhibition flights were given by the Rodgers Aviation Company owned and managed by the widow of the late "Cal" Rodgers, pilot of "Vin Fiz" fame. Flights were made by aviator Floyd Smith. A ppc (Martin Tractor and Floyd Smith), franked with 1c (defective), oval "First Aeroplane Post Office, Clayton, New Mex, Sept. 18, 1914" hs, card creased and somewhat dirty. Only 4(!) known Catalog #AAMC 81a Catalog Value 4,500+ | Unsold |
 | Lot #1196 United States Flight Covers 1914 (Oct.17-20), Des Moines, Iowa - Chicago, Ill, experimental aeroplane mail flight cover addressed to Chicago, franked with 2c coil and 10c Special Delivery, with By Aeroplane Mail Oct.17" and "Forwarded via Aero Post"hs, filing fold away from the stamps, fine and rare flight cover Catalog #AAMC 82 Catalog Value 1,250 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1197 United States Flight Covers 1916, November 2, Chicago, Ill-New York "New York Times" Aerial Post, 1c stationery card with two special cachets in red "Between Sunrise and Sunset forwarded from Chicago to New York by New York Times Aeroplane" and "New York Times Aeroplane Flight Chicago to New York, 900 Miles, Between Sunrise and Sunset", some creases, otherwise fine Catalog #AAMC 97a Catalog Value 600 | Price Realized $300.00 |
| Lot #1198 United States Flight Covers 1924 Trans-Polar Flight Expedition card, franked with 2c, used in combination with Norway 5p and 25o (minor flaws), fine-v.f. | Price Realized $90.00 | |
 | Lot #1199 United States Flight Covers 1932, May 20, Trans-Atlantic Solo Flight, Amelia Earhart, flown cover franked with 5c Winged Globe, canc. May 13, 1932 and GB 11/2p canc. Londonderry, 23 May, 32, with diamond shaped cachet, numbered "7" out of50 carried and signed by the aviatrix, fine and rare cover Catalog #AAMC TO1165 | Price Realized $4,250.00 |
 | Lot #1200 United States Flight Covers 1932 "Von Gronau Gronland Wal" flight card addressed to Wayzata, Mn, Aug. 10, 1932 Mpls departure cds, v.f. and rare Von Gronau flight | Price Realized $350.00 |
| Lot #1201 United States Flight Covers 1933 badly burned cover from New York to Los Angeles, with notice stating "this air mail was damaged when plane was forced down at Pittsburgh Pa." Actually the westbound Transcontinental & Western Air Mail plane crashed ontakeoff from the county airport Pittsburgh, with only 3-4 sacks of mail recovered | Price Realized $140.00 | |
| Lot #1202 United States Flight Covers 1937 Round the World Flight cover, with stops in New York, Amsterdam, Brasil, Penang, Hong Kong and San Francisco, variety of transit pmks and cachets, fine-v.f. | Unsold | |
| Lot #1203 United States Flight Covers 1946 New York to Vatican City, special round-trip postcard FAM 27, franked with 5c FDR and two Vatican adhesives, v.f., with appropriate cachet and pmks, ex-Bayer | Price Realized $80.00 | |
| Lot #1204 United States Flight Covers 1960 Railroad disaster, card with "Damaged in Fire in Railway Mail Car at Cadiz, Calif." in purple. The fire was caused when the train was derailed and partly submerged in a river in Cadiz, California | Price Realized $200.00 |
