U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History; The John Pednault Collection of Ireland; Brazil
December 1-2, 2015 and December 3, 2015
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #962 RUSSIA Air Post 1934 Civil Aviation (watermarked), 80k violet, perf. 10:14:14:14, top sheet margin (folded) single, cancelled Moscow 25.3, fine and rare, with 2001 Hovest certificate (a similar variety realized $5,500 plus 15% buyer's premium in our 2011 Ivanov auction) (Zverev 363A, cat. $6,000) O | Unsold |
 | Lot #963 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Chelyuskin expedition, complete set, l.h. or n.h. (including 25k and 40k), 3k regummed, otherwise fine-v.f., */** Catalog #C58-67 Catalog Value $ 1,345 | Unsold |
 | Lot #964 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Chelyuskin expedition, complete set, mostly horizontal watermark, n.h., usual gum wrinkles, fine-v.f. (catalogue value for hinged) ** Catalog #C58-67 Catalog Value $ 1,345 | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #965 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k dark brown, h.r., v.f., signed Goznak, etc., * Catalog #C68 Catalog Value $ 650 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #966 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, surcharged 1r on 10k, small "f" (in San Francisco), used on registered and flown cover from Moscow (August 2), with letter ("I send you with this letter our rarest stamp - with flight of Levanevsky through the North Pole to S.Francisco. Now every man here could buy only one stamp, but I get for you one on the envelope") addressed to Mr. W.C.Steiger in New York, with bilingual "Special Air Flight Moscow-San Francisco through the North Pole" cachet, v.f., signed Mikulski and Diena. Three Soviet fliers, Sigismund Levanevsky, George Baidukov and Victor Levchenko, took off from Schlovsky Military Airport near Moscow in the red-winged Soviet monoplane "O 25" at 6:30 A.M. on a 6,000 mile non-stop flight to San Francisco, via the North Pole. Flying over Siberia and 700 miles across the Arctic Ocean, the plane developed problems, and on radio instructions, the fliers returned to their base. This cover was actually carried by Levanevsky on this ill-fated flight and returned to Moscow. A ce  Catalog #C68b | Unsold |
 | Lot #967 RUSSIA Air Post 1937 Jubilee Aviation Exhibition, souvenir sheet of four, n.h., v.f.,  **Catalog #C75a Catalog Value $ 400 | Price Realized $170.00 |
