Versailles Part IV; The G. Ackerman Collection of Russian Air Post
June 3-4, 2008
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #5135 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1928 (24.7) Red Cross cover, sent registered, Express from Moscow to Samarkand, Uzbekistan (30.7) paying 70k (proper express mail rate as of 1924), filing folds away from the stamps, fine. Regional surface transport in South Central Asia was by horse/camel, with limited access to rail. Local air service began in 1924 but an air connection with other regions of USSR did not start until 1930. Since it only took four days for this cover to arrive in Samarkand, it was probably carried by rail from Moscow to Tashkent and flown from there, or flown from Moscow to Baku and southward by train to Samarkand  | Price Realized $950.00 |
