Booklets of the World; U.S. and Worldwide; Russia
April 6-7, 2011 and April 11-12, 2011

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #1932
RUSSIA Flight Covers
1911 (20.6) French ppc (Aviation) from Gatchina to Versailles, signed by two Russian pilots, some creases, fine and unusual item
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Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #1933
RUSSIA Flight Covers
1923-33 selection of seven flown covers, various franking and destinations including one to Poland (November 1924 experimental flight to Warsaw), France (with registered and flown cover franked with strip of 3x10k definitive) and Austria, last one franked with 1r, registered from Kazan to Vienna, fine lot
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Unsold
Lot #1934
RUSSIA Flight Covers
1931 (2 Oct) registered and flown cover from Leningrad to Berlin and Colombia, franked on both sides, with Special Delivery 6c and additional 2c added in Bogota for further transmission to Cali, appropriate transit and arrival pmks, little toning, otherwise fine
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Unsold
Lot #1935
RUSSIA Flight Covers
1935 Moscow-San Francisco, small "f", used on registered and flown postal card from Moscow (August 2), addressed to Mr. William Ludwick in Philadelphia, with bilingual "Special Air Flight Moscow-San Francisco through the North Pole" cachets, fine. Three Soviet fliers, Sigismund Levanevsky, George Baidukov and Victor Levchenko, took off from Schlovsky Military Airport near Moscow in the red-winged Soviet monoplane "O 25" at 6:30 A.M. on a 6,000 mile non-stop flight to San Francisco, via the North Pole. Flying over Siberia and 700 miles across the Arctic Ocean, the plane developed problems, and on radio instructions, the fliers returned to their base. This card was actually carried by Levanewsky on this ill-fated flight, returned to Moscow and possibly redirected once again to the United States. A certificate from Mr. Mikulski (1990) states that few postal cards are known, with the small "f" being great Air Post and Soviet rarity
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Catalog #C68b
Unsold
Lot #1936
RUSSIA Flight Covers
1944 (Jan 6) registered and flown cover from Damascus to Moscow, with French Levant 6.50fr adhesive tied by Poste Aux Armees cds, additional markings including bilingual France Libre Mission Militaire en U.R.S.S. and Moscow arrival pmks, little toning, otherwise fine, scarce
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Unsold

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