Russian Local Post (Zemstvo); U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
February 8, 2012 and February 22-23, 2012
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 | Lot #3096 ITALY Flight Covers 1932 (Amelia Earhart): autographed cacheted airmail cover with Italian and French stamps canceled, respectively, at Milano (Posta Aerea 8.6.32 cancel, Roma Aeroporto del Littorio 9.6.32 receiver), and aboard the ship bringing the aviatrix back to US (Le Havre a New York 17.6. 32 cancel, Rome I VII 32 receiver), signed Irwin Heiman. After her record-breaking Transatlantic flight in May 1932, the aviatrix had spent three weeks in Europe, before departing for US on June 15. On her visit to Italy, she was greeted by Italo Balbo in Milano on June 8, then flown as the guest of honor in the Italian military plane to Rome for an official reception. Small number of covers was prepared to commemorate the occasion; courtesy cover shown was signed and re-mailed by the aviatrix as she was returning to US (Earhart and Putnam returned to Paris on June 10; departed for New York aboard Ile de France on June 15). The addressee, Commodore Giuseppe Colianchi, was one of the pioneers of Italian aeronautics. An  | Unsold |
