U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
October 16-17, 2018
Welcome to our October 16-17, 2018 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World. With 1,627 lots, this auction features properties of various owners and estates from all over the world, including Ernest Wheeler’s flight and space covers and autographs, additional selections from the Scouts of the World collection, Vito Bianco’s stock of Italian area and many others. There are solid selections of United States, Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Latin and South America, European Countries with Austria, Belgium, France, Germany & Italy, with their respective Colonies, also Poland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland; rarities from China and other Asian material. As always, the sale contains 150+ large lots and collections, with individual country collections, worldwide accumulations in cartons, cover lots and more. A limited number of printed catalogues are available on request.
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 | Lot #2752 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH JAMAICA Flight Covers 1931 (19 Nov) Pan-American flight cover from Kingston to Barranquilla, Colombia, franked with three different stamps, tied by departure cds, with arrival (22 Nov) pmk on back, signed by the pilot "C.A. Lindbergh," also "B.L. Rowe" (the co-pilot), plus another unidentified signature, fine and rare first flight cover. The first Pan American plane to be called a Clipper, the S-40 grew out of Juan Trippe and Charles Lindbergh's desire for a strong, sturdy, high-capacity four-engine transport to serve as an ocean liner of the air. Originally conceived in late 1928, the S-40 made its first test flight in April of 1931. On October 10, 1931, First Lady Lou Hoover, wife of President Herbert Hoover, christened the first S-40 American Clipper with a bottle of Caribbean water (since Prohibition law still made alcohol illegal in the United States). On November 19, 1931, the American Clipper made its first passenger flight to Cristobal in Canal Zone, via Kingston, Jamaica and Barranquilla, Colombia. Pan-American techni  | Unsold |
