U.S. & Worldwide
June 15-16, 2011
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | 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)  Catalog #C52-55 Catalog Value €2,110 | Price Realized $575.00 |
