U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
November 1-2, 2017
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #868 RUSSIA Air Post 1922 (10 Nov) registered cover (opened for display), franked on both sides with 12 different stamps, including 45r with red overprint, sent from Moscow to England, with 21 November Oppeln (Germany) transit and 22 November Crayford arrival pmk, cover reduced at backflap and at top, otherwise fine  Catalog #C1 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #869 RUSSIA Air Post 1931 50k gray blue (error), l.h., well centered, v.f., * Catalog #C23a Catalog Value $500 | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #870 RUSSIA Air Post 1931 50k gray blue (error), l.h., well centered, v.f., * Catalog #C23a Catalog Value $500 | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #871 RUSSIA Air Post 1931 15k gray black, perf. 12 1/2 and perf. 14, each on cartridge paper, showing considerable offset on back, used, v.f. O Catalog #C25,25b | Unsold |
 | Lot #872 RUSSIA Air Post 1931 North Pole Issue, imperforate singles, large margins, n.h., v.f., ** Catalog #C26-29 Catalog Value $217 | Unsold |
 | Lot #873 RUSSIA Air Post 1933 Balloon, 5k ultramarine, horizontal pair, imperf. between, cancelled "Leningrad 1933", v.f., extremely rare, with 1988 Mikulski certificate (Zagorsky 341Pb) O Catalog #C37b | Unsold |
 | Lot #874 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k dark brown, h.r., v.f., signed Goznak, etc., * Catalog #C68 Catalog Value $725 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #875 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco 1r on 10k brown (Levanevsky), overprint and surcharge inverted, sheet margin example, small h.r., v.f., pencil signed several times, also Brun, Romeko, Dr.P.Jemchouhin and Mikulski, with his 1985 certificate. A wonderful world-class Air Post and Soviet Union rarity, especially rare with sheet margin, * Catalog #C68a Catalog Value $90,000 | Unsold |
 | Lot #876 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 #877 RUSSIA Air Post 1937 30k bottom right sheet corner margin block of four, showing complete watermark at bottom, canceled "Stalino 23.12.37", n.h., fine and scarce  Catalog #C71var | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #878 RUSSIA Air Post 1961 6k on 60k blue, upper right sheet corner block of four, one missing "6" variety, n.h., v.f., rare (Zagorsky 2564Ta) **Catalog #C99var | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
