U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
September 9-10, 2014
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #89 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1938 (July 10) Howard Hughes Record Around the World Flight, specially prepared legal sized cover. This flight was the aviation epic of the year. Howard Hughes and a crew flew a Lockheed 14 and the flight took 91 hours, with stops in Paris, Moscow, Omsk, Yakutsk, Fairbanks (Minn.) and back to New York. A specially prepared legal sized airmail cover, franked with U.S., French and Russian adhesives and signed by the entire crew and Hughes, v.f. and exceedingly rare as only a handful are known to be signed by Howard Hughes  Catalog #AAMC TO1307 | Price Realized $2,900.00 |
