Versailles Part IV; The G. Ackerman Collection of Russian Air Post
June 3-4, 2008

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #5143
RUSSIA Flight Covers
1929 (21.6) registered and flown cover from Osaka, Japan, via Irkutsk to Turin, Italy (7.7), with three-line "Poluchen. z Vosdushnoj Pochtoj" (received by air mail) handstamp, v.f. The Trans-Siberian air line eastward to Irkutsk became operational in 1929. Mail to and from the Orient was linked to the Chinese Eastern Railroad and to Russia's Far East by the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. This cover was transferred from Japan to Chinese Eastern Railroad, flown from Irkutsk to Moscow and from there to Italy
Envelope
Price Realized
$625.00

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