Versailles Part IV; The G. Ackerman Collection of Russian Air Post
June 3-4, 2008
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #5173 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1934 (September 2) Pan-American Airways Survey Flight cover from Tellier, Alaska to Uelen (Siberia), USSR and from there to Nome, Alaska, with U.S. franking cancelled Petropavlovsk 22.10.34 (Kamchatka), with a notation "this letter was mailed by me at Uelen, Siberia", signed Harlee Branch, 2nd Asst. P.M.G. In addition "was carried via Vladivostok, Moscow, Scandinavia, across the Atlantic, the United States to Nome, Alaska". One of the few covers carried on the Survey flight to evaluate best Trans-Pacific route to Russia. Approved for posting by the U.S. Postmaster General (a member of the flight crew), this cover was carried from Uelen (Northeastern tip of Russia) by ship ("Around the World") to Petropavlovsk, then Vladivostok and flown westward across Russia and beyond  | Price Realized $2,000.00 |
