U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
January 9-10, 2013
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1215 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1910 two picture postcards, one showing biplane "Farman", the other the pilot, Capt. Sredinsky, signed by both aviators (Captains Gorchkoff and Sredinsky), v.f., rare  | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1216 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1917 (13.7) ppc bearing double circle and eagle emblem of the State of Moscow free frank with text "Organizing Committee of the All-Russian Aviation Congress" (because of the Bolshevik Revolution, the planned conference never took place), sent by G.Kalinin (a member of the Aviation Congress Committee) to his father, G.V. Kalinin, Murmansk Railway Administration warehouse in Petrograd. This Kalinin family were related to Mikhail Kalinin and to the Kalinins who designed aircraft in the 1920s-30s | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1217 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1918 two cards addressed to France, one "Mission d'Aviation Francaise en Russie," the other :Mission Aeronautique Francaise en Siberie", some wear, otherwise fine-v.f., scarce | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #1218 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1918 (24.10) Military mail/flight document from Kiev flight station, pre-printed official "K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen Mil. Fluglinienstation Kiew" also "Mit dem nachsten Postflugzeug an Flugstation Kiew senden", fine and rare document detailing the military transport activities, stops in Proskurow and Baroviszcze | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1219 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1918 Military mail/flight document from Aspern flight station with an official 2-line "K.u.K. Fliegerkourierlinie Wien-Kiew" handstamp. The Austrian military-civil air mail service connection, Vienna-Lemberg line, began in the summer of 1918. This line was extended to its most eastern outpost in Kiev in July, 1918. The Kiev connection via Proskurov (Ukraine) to Lemberg was operational for only three months and was closed before the end of World War I. The flight station Aspern was located on the outskirts of Vienna | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1220 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1924 (May 28) Lenin Mourning Issue, set of four, including 6k First Printing, used on air mail cover from Moscow to Paris, with boxed violet "Samoletom" handstamp, which was in use for three weeks between May-June 1924, with Berlin transit on reverse, filing fold between the stamps, otherwise fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #1221 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1930 (13.8) flown cover from Leningrad to Tashkent (19.3), paying 70k (internal air express rate to Central Asia), endorsed "Speshnaya Pochta" (Express Mail), probably flown via Moscow (air route to Tashkent opened in 1930), with appropriate markings, fine | Price Realized $210.00 |
 | Lot #1222 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1931 (18 Dec) registered and flown cover from Sakhalin to Japan, paying 76k with a combination of regular issues, tied by "Okha Sakhalin" cds, with three handstamps indicating "registered," "to Japan" and "Air Post", some toning and minor faults, rare | Price Realized $1,200.00 |
 | Lot #1223 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1933 (3 June) Attempted Round the World Flight by Jimmie Mattern, flight failed as plane crashed in Siberia; after two weeks Mattern rescued by a Russian pilot, finally returned to New York, small cover with Russian and U.S. adhesives on front and back, signed by Mattern, with all cancels showing the complete history of this flight, minor toning (caused by the seam adhesive), fine and extremely rare cover, signed Schoendorf Catalog #AAMC 1177 | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #1224 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1944 (18 Jan) First Flight Moscow to Damascus, Syria, with "France Libre" cachets and censor markings, v.f. | Price Realized $450.00 |
