Booklets of the World; U.S. and Worldwide; Russia
April 6-7, 2011 and April 11-12, 2011
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | 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  Catalog #C68b | Unsold |
