U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
November 29-30, 2016

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #587
GREAT BRITAIN Flight Covers
1921 souvenir postcard depicting the crash of British Airship "R-38" (crashed over Hull, Aug. 24, 1921), posted by a crew-member (J.Cuelinam) and addressed to Scott E. Peck, United States Naval officer at Coco Solo base, Canal Zone, with Panama transit pmk, message reading (in part) "a good description on the other side. Who's lucky? The First Trip I missed"
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Unsold
Lot #588
GREAT BRITAIN Flight Covers
1928 (4 Aug) Catapult Air Mail cover via Le Havre (per "Ile de France") to Cleveland, fine and scarce
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Lot #589
GREAT BRITAIN Flight Covers
1928 (28 Aug) Catapult Air Mail cover via Plymouth (per SS "Ile de France") to Charlotte, North Carolina, fine and scarce, signed Gappe
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Lot #590
GREAT BRITAIN Flight Covers
1929 (26 Dec) first flight cover (Extension of Indian Air Mail), London to Jodhpur, India, v.f., with 6 Jan 30 arrival pmk, signed Royce Wight
Envelope
Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #591
GREAT BRITAIN Flight Covers
1934 (26 July) first flight cover from England to Bathurst, Gambia, with German "Europa-Sudamerica" cachet, also faint "First Official Airmail Despatch from Gt Britain" in red, with Stuttgart transit and 30 July arrival pmks; also a flown card from Stuttgart (10 Aug) to Gambia, addressed to Hermann Sieger, with arrival pmk
Envelope
Price Realized
$140.00

Lot #592
GREAT BRITAIN Flight Covers
1938 five flown covers from Newport to Papua, Cook Island, Fanning Island, Gilbert & Ellice Island and to Norfolk Island, each with arrival pmk
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Lot #593
GREAT BRITAIN Flight Covers
1939 (26 June) cover originating from Tripoli, flown via Glasgow to New York, where 8c stamp was added, v.f. three-country franking combination, Imperial Airways/Pan-Am, with arrival pmk
Envelope
Price Realized
$260.00

Lot #594
GREAT BRITAIN Flight Covers
1939 (31 May) first flight cover to Horta, Azores, v.f., with Pan-American Airways "Southern Route" cachet, arrival pmk (2 June) on back
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