U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
December 19-20, 2017
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #255 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 Jimmie Mattern Solo Circumnavigation Attempt/Levanevsky Flight cover from New York with five various Russian datestamps (5 June-5 July) and datestamps of Nome (July 21), Fairbanks (July 23), Juneau (July 25) and Edmonton (July 27), a USA 3c applied at Nome, signed by Mattern in pencil, some staining and two vertical folds, tape repair at lower edge. Mattern flew from New York on June 3rd but made a forced landing in Siberia where his plane was abandoned; he was rescued by Eskimos and flown on July 20th from Anadyr to Nome by the Russian pilot Levanevsky. He then flew from Nome to New York via Edmonton. One of the very few covers carried by Mattern and Levanevsky, the cover faults probably a result of the forced landing in Siberia and the conditions endured prior to his rescue. A rare cover  | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
