U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
June 9-10, 2010
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1086 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1917 (13.7) ppc bearing double circle and eagle emblem of the State of Moscow free frank with text "Organizing Committee of the All-Russian Aviation Congress" (because of the Bolshevik Revolution, the planned conference never took place), sent by G.Kalinin (a member of the Aviation Congress Committee) to his father, G.V. Kalinin, Murmansk Railway Administration warehouse in Petrograd. This Kalinin family were related to Mikhail Kalinin and to the Kalinins who designed aircraft in the 1920s-30s  | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1087 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1918 (24.10) Military mail/flight document from Kiev flight station, pre-printed official "K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen Mil. Fluglinienstation Kiew" also "Mit dem nachsten Postflugzeug an Flugstation Kiew senden", fine and rare document detailing the military transport activities, stops in Proskurow and Baroviszcze | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1088 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1918 Military mail/flight document from Aspern flight station with an official 2-line "K.u.K. Fliegerkourierlinie Wien-Kiew" handstamp. The Austrian military-civil air mail service connection, Vienna-Lemberg line, began in the summer of 1918. This line was extended to its most eastern outpost in Kiev in July, 1918. The Kiev connection via Proskurov (Ukraine) to Lemberg was operational for only three months and was closed before the end of World War I. The flight station Aspern was located on the outskirts of Vienna | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1089 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1922 (11.11) registered cover (opened for display) franked with single 45r on front and 18x100,000r on 250r on back, handstamped "Mit Luftpost" and sent to Germany, with Furth in Bayern (19 Nov) arrival pmk, usual creases and faults, scarce franking Catalog #C1 | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #1090 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1928 (31.7) registered first flight cover from Moscow to Novosibirsk, paying 45k with set of Air Post Congress and 20k Lenin, with Moscow actual departure (1.8) and Novo-Sibirsk (2.8) arrival pmks on back, filing fold resulting in small cover tear at top, away from the stamps, fine. Only 10 (!) covers reported carried on this flight Catalog #C10-11 | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
 | Lot #1091 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1928 (18.9) registered first flight cover from Moscow to Irkutsk, paying 45k with set of Air Post Congress and 5k & 15k surcharges, with Moscow actual departure (19.9) and Irkutsk (22.9) arrival pmks, also violet circular First Flight cachet of "Dobrolet", all on back, v.f. After this first flight event, there was no further air mail until Spring, 1929 Catalog #C10-11 | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #1092 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1927 (10.10) registered cover flown from Moscow to London, paying 74k (underpaying by 1k) with set of Air Post Congress (15k rounded upper right corner), also additional stamps and Foreign Exchange stamp on back Catalog #C10-11 | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1093 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1930 (13.8) flown cover from Leningrad to Tashkent (19.3), paying 70k (internal air express rate to Central Asia), endorsed "Speshnaya Pochta" (Express Mail), probably flown via Moscow (air route to Tashkent opened in 1930), with appropriate markings, fine | Price Realized $200.00 |
