U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
August 9-10, 2016
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1284 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1928 (10 Aug) registered first flight cover from Moscow, via Verkhneudinsk to Ulan-Bator, paying the correct 68k rate to Mongolia, overall toning, otherwise fine, with 18.8 Ulan Bator arrival pmk, only 10 carried  | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1285 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1929 (7 Aug) - special flight from Moscow to New York City to promote Soviet Aviation. The flight paralleled the Trans-Siberian RR to Khabarovsk and northeast to Seward, Alaska, to Seattle and the East Coast. The plane - "Land of the Soviets" covered the distance of 13,300 miles in 70 days. Only 10 covers were carried on the "Land of the Soviets", nine to New York (another to Seattle), v.f. Catalog #AAMC 1095 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1286 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1932 Mattern & Griffin Round-the-World flight, cover franked with U.S., German and Russian adhesives, bearing appropriate postmarks and autographed by both fliers, some light cover stains as often, otherwise v.f. The U.S. pilot Jimmy Mattern, with Lt. Griffin attempted to beat the "round-the-world" record, held at the time by Post and Gatty. After flying from New York via Harbour Grace, they landed in Berlin and later reached Moscow. Their plane crashed on the way to Siberia. Only 10 covers were carried Catalog #AAMC TO 1167 | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #1287 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1936 5k postal card additionally franked with 5k Levanewsky, sent from Moscow to Lautoka, Fiji, with transit and arrival pmks, returned back to Russia, with Souva 21 March departure and received back in Moscow (25.5), creases, well travelled card to an unusual destination | Unsold |
