U.S. & Worldwide; Vladivistok Collection of Russia; A. Cronin Collection
September 16-17, 2009 and September 22-24, 2009
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #2289 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1926 (3.8) flown cover from Verkhneudinsk (Ulan Ude in Buriat Mongolia) to Urga - Ulan Bator (Outer Mongolia) to Harbin, Manchuria (16.8), paying 32k (air mail letter rate to Mongolia was 29k), filing folds and cover wear, with appropriate markings on back, fine example of this isolated international air link between Verkhneudinsk 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 (a similar cover realized $7,500 plus buyer's premium in our June 2008 Dr.Ackerman auction)  | Price Realized $8,500.00 |
 | Lot #2290 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1928 (10.8) registered first flight cover from Moscow, via Verkhneudinsk to Ulan-Bator, paying the correct 68k rate to Mongolia, fine-v.f, with 28.8 arrival pmk, only 10 carried | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #2291 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1929 (6.9) first flight from Stockholm-Helsingfors-Reval, forwarded via Leningrad (23.9), Murmansk (21.9, with a note "returned because of expiration of the holding time and non-appearance of the addressee") back to Stockholm (11.11) and continuing to Portland, USA, arriving Nov.27, some faults, also five attractive labels, interesting usage (also on June 9th, Swedish fliers attempted (unsuccessfully) to cross the Atlantic from Stockholm to New York | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #2292 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1935 (15.8) flown cover from Leningrad to England, foreign surface rate (15k) plus 60k air mail fee paid, little toning, fine | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #2293 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1935-36 Le ballon "Belgica", two "Coupe G.Bennett" leaflets, one with additional Russian franking cancelled Veschenskaya 20.9.35; the other with red handstamp indicating that landfall was made at Medlesha, Archangelsk (portion of mail was lost), fine-v.f. | Unsold |
 | Lot #2294 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1937 (1.7) first flight from Moscow, via Riga to Stockholm, v.f., with arrival (2.7) pmk, 10k printed matter plus 1r air mail fee paid, only 25 (!) carried | Price Realized $325.00 |
