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June 15-16, 2011

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #915
ITALY Air Post
1930 7.70L Trans-Atlantic Flight, used with additional franking on piece, v.f., signed Diena (Sass.A25)
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Catalog #C27
Catalog Value €1,650
Price Realized
$350.00

Lot #916
ITALY Air Post
1930 7.70L Trans-Atlantic Flight, used with additional franking on flown cover from Rome (15 Dec), addressed to General Italo Balbo in Rio de Janeiro with (22.1.31) arrival pmk, stamp with a slight abrasion at top, otherwise fine (Sass. A25)
Envelope
Catalog #C27
Catalog Value €2,200
Price Realized
$675.00

Lot #917
ITALY Air Post
1933 Zeppelin, 3L, 5L, 10L and 15L, each on separate cover or card flown to Germany or Buenos Aires (15L), appropriate Roma cachets, 5L with little adhesive toning, otherwise fine-v.f., 10L signed Longhi (Sass.45-47,49)
Envelope
Catalog #C42-44,46
Catalog Value €4,150
Price Realized
$1,000.00

Lot #918
ITALY Air Post
1934 Rome-Buenos Aires overprints, cplt set used with additional franking on registered and flown cover (22.1) to Rio de Janeiro, fine-v.f., with arrival pmk (Sass.A56-59)
Envelope
Catalog #C52-55
Catalog Value €1,850
Price Realized
$575.00

Lot #919
ITALY Air Post
1934 Rome-Buenos Aires overprints, cplt set used with additional franking on two covers (25.1) v.f. and two picture postcards to Buenos, those with traces of fire-damage and boxed "Transported by Courtesy Pan-American Airways System Fortaleza-Buenos Aires" cachets, others fine-v.f., signed Sorani (The Rome-Buenos Aires mail flight, Francesco Lombardi, Branco Mazzotti and three others were attempting an experimental mail-carrying flight from Rome to Buenos Aires in three days, crashed on a beach twelve miles south of Fort Aleza, Brazil, after having made a fine Atlantic crossing in fourteen hours. The plane was carrying 200 lbs of mail and copies of a souvenir edition of a newspaper, flew to Dakar, Senegal, by way of Casablanca, Agadir and Thies. After leaving Dakar the aircraft encountered unfavorable weather and crashed) (Sass.A56-59)
Envelope
Catalog #C52-55
Catalog Value €2,110
Price Realized
$575.00

Lot #920
ITALY Air Post
1934 Rome-Mogadiscio, 1L, 2L, 4L and 8L, used on two covers and two cards, with appropriate cachets and markings, some toning, otherwise fine (Sass.A83-85,87)
Envelope
Catalog #C52-55
Catalog Value €2,570
Unsold

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