U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
January 13-14, 2015

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Lot #1152
PHILIPPINES Flight Covers
1919 The Aero Club of the Philippines souvenir card bearing 2c with violet triangular "The Champion Explorer of the Sky / Miss Ruth Law" cachet, addressed to Manila, dated April 4-5, some card flaws, otherwise fine and rare. Ruth Law, who received her pilot's license in 1912, was an accomplished flyer who had set the American nonstop cross-country record for men and women and the world nonstop cross-country record for women in November 1916, while flying from Chicago to New York. Not allowed to fly combat missions in World War I, she piloted airplanes to promote the sale of war bonds and stimulate reenlistments. Law refused to accept the U.S. War Department's rejection, eventually earning the right to wear the uniform of a noncommissioned Army officer while flying on recruiting tours for the military. After the War, she formed Ruth Law's Flying Circus. Along with a pair of pilots, she raced cars and flew through fireworks at county fairs. For her many aviation achievements she received the Glenn H. Curtiss Me
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Lot #1153
PHILIPPINES Flight Covers
1932 (25 Jan) first regular air mail flight cover from Manila to Baguio, "Philippine Aerial Taxi" purple cachet, fine, only 12 carried
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Lot #1154
PHILIPPINES Flight Covers
1936 (15 Oct) Manila to Batavia, first flight by KNILM, round the world flight via Amsterdam, with transit and arrival pmks, appropriate cachet, with German franking added in 1937 (30 April) and intended for passage to USA, fine-v.f.
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