U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
October 31-November 1, 2012
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #164 UNITED STATES Flight Covers 1912 (16 May), Marietta, Ohio-Marietta Daily journal aviation meet, beautiful ppc (in color), "Marietta, Ohio 2 P.M. Mailed by Aeroplane" circular cachet and machine pmk, additionally endorsed "Via Aeroplane", fine. Approximately 1,500 pieces of mail were flown, although less than 10 are known to exist today,  Catalog #AAMC 24 Catalog Value $2,500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #165 UNITED STATES Flight Covers 1912 (June 7-8), Mansfield, Ohio. Fairgrounds Aviation Meet, specially prepared card (little stained on back), with "Mansfield, O. 3 P.M. Mailed by Aeroplane June 8, 12" violet cachet, fine. The Mansfield Daily News prepared many souvenir cards for these flights. Only an estimated five to ten cards have survived, Catalog #AAMC 34 Catalog Value $2,000 | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #166 UNITED STATES Flight Covers 1912 (July 1-6) Squantum, Mass. Boston Aviation Meet, flight cover, addressed to Boston, franked with 2c, tied "Boston Aviation Meet Aero Mail Service" cachet with Atlantic, Mass (July 3). pmk, fine and rare. Mail was to be flown on each day of the meet from Hartford Aviation Field, served by the Squantum post office, via Atlantic, Quincy, Milton and East Milton to New York City. Harriet Quimby was designated mail carrier, but due to financial disputes, she refused to fly the mail (Harriet Quimby was the first woman to gain a pilot's license in the United States and the first woman to fly across the English Channel. On July 1, 1912 Quimby flew in the Third Annual Boston Aviation Meet at Squantum, Massachusetts. She flew out to Boston Light in Boston Harbor at about 3000 feet, and then returned and circled the airfield, eventually crashing to her death) Catalog #AAMC 36a Catalog Value $1,500 | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #167 UNITED STATES Flight Covers 1914 (September 17-18) Clayton, New Mexico. Fair Grounds Aviation Meet. During this meet, exhibition flights were given by the Rodgers Aviation Company owned and managed by the widow of the late "Cal" Rodgers, pilot of "Vin Fiz" fame. Flights were made by aviator Floyd Smith. A ppc (Martin Tractor and Floyd Smith), franked with a defective 1c green, tied by oval "First Aeroplane Post Office, Clayton, New Mex, Sept. 18, 1914" datestamp, card creased and somewhat dirty, nevertheless rare, one of only 4 (!) known Catalog #AAMC 81a Catalog Value $4,500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #168 UNITED STATES Flight Covers 1919 (July 7) Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America corner cover addressed to London, sent via Dirigible R.34, endorsed "Per Airship 34", franked with 2c red, with Hempstead NY Jul 9 departure and "London R.34 July 13" arrival pmks, with contents enclosed, minor cover folds, fine and extremely rare Zeppelin cover (R34 left Britain on 2 July 1919 and arrived at Mineola, Long Island on 6 July after a flight of 108 hours with virtually no fuel left. As the landing party had no experience of handling large rigid airships, Major EM Pritchard jumped by parachute and so became the first person to reach American soil by air from Europe. This was the first East-West crossing of the Atlantic and was done two weeks after the first transatlantic airplane flight. The return journey to was from 10 to 13 July and took 75 hours) | Price Realized $3,500.00 |
 | Lot #169 UNITED STATES Flight Covers 1933 (July 15) New York-Kaunas Transatlantic flight by Stefan Darius and Stanley Girenas in their plane "Lituanica", with appropriate cachets and postmarks, signed by both fliers, fine. After successfully crossing the ocean, the fliers lost their lives when their plane was wrecked at Soldin, Germany, some 400 miles short of their goal Catalog #AAMC TO1182 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #170 UNITED STATES Flight Covers 1938 Howard Hughes Record Flight Around the World, airmail cover addressed to Florida, triple franking with French and Russian adhesives, all appropriate markings and actually signed by Howard Hughes and Harry Conner, one stamp defective, otherwise fine and scarce item, one of only a few covers actually signed by Hughes | Price Realized $4,000.00 |
