Versailles Part IV; The G. Ackerman Collection of Russian Air Post
June 3-4, 2008
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #5122 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1926 (3.8) flown cover from Verkhneudinsk to Urga - Ulan Bator, Mongolia (3.8) to Harbin, Manchuria (16.8), paying 35k (air mail letter rate to Mongolia was 29k), filing folds away from the stamps, with appropriate markings on back, fine example of this isolated international air link between Verkhneudinsk (Ulan Ude) in eastern Siberia and Ulan Bator. Mongolia did not permit outgoing mail to be sent by air until 1929. One of 10 known covers carried on first flight to Ulan Bator, returned by courier to Verkhneudinsk and forwarded by Chinese Eastern Railroad to Harbin, signed Field  | Price Realized $7,500.00 |
