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 |
