U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
February 28-March 1, 2017
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1256 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 #1257 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 #1258 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 #1259 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 #1260 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1930 Airships, perforated set of five, used in 1931 (8 June) on flown cover from Moscow, addressed to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in Albany, 20k defective, otherwise fine Catalog #C20-24 | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1261 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1930 Airships, perforated set of five (various perforation varieties), used in 1931 on flown cover from Moscow to Berlin, filing fold away from the stamps, fine Catalog #C20-24 | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1262 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 #1263 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1936 5k postal card additionally franked with 5k Levanevsky, 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 | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #1264 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 |
