U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
April 25-26, 2017
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #696 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH CANADA Flight Covers 1932 (Aug) flown 1c stationery card to USA, final leg of the Trans-Atlantic flight Germany-Iceland-Canada-USA, franked 2c brown, cancelled Winnipeg, with appropriate cachet, Wayzata, Minn. arrival, fine  | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #697 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH CANADA Flight Covers 1933 (27 July) Jimmy Mattern round the world flight, Edmonton to New York sector, mixed franking with 1c USA, signed "Jimmie Mattern", with arrival pmk, very rare, signed I. Heiman (On June 3, 1933, Jimmy Mattern, with permission to fly over Europe and Russia, attempted to circle the globe. He landed in Jomfruland, Norway 48 hours later. Next stop was Moscow and then to Khabarovsk. On June 14th, he took off for Nome, Alaska, and after crashing in Siberia, was rescued by the Russian pilot Levanevsky. He finally returned to Floyd Bennett Field completing his around-the-world flight on July 30, 1933) Catalog #AAMC 3337 Catalog Value $1,200 | Price Realized $950.00 |
