U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
March 17-18, 2015
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1234 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1917 (13 July) picture postcard 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 #1235 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1918 (24 Oct) 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 #1236 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 #1237 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1925 (13 July) registered and flown cover from Tashkent to Germany, franked with three diff. labels, used in combination with regular franking, fine-v.f., with 19.7 arrival postmark | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1238 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1931 (7 Oct) cover franked with 3x5k Aviakhim (society for the development of Aviation and chemical defense) adhesives, used from Perm to Sverdlovsk, with arrival pmk. Since the Aviakhim stamps were not valid for postage, the cover was initially charged "30k" penalty postage due (boxed handstamp), later voided, since the sender was probably a Red Army officer, rare item | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1239 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1930 (13 Aug) 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 #1240 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 was rescued by Levanevsky and 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 #1241 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 |
