U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
January 8-9, 2019

We are pleased to kick off the New Year with our January 8-9 sale, with 1,678 lots, including additional offerings of the Heinz Gappe (H.G.I. Company) inventory of Flight and Zeppelin covers of the world, as well as properties of numerous other vendors and estates sold by their order. Heinz was well known to Aero philatelists, having been active in this field since the 1960s and amassing a wonderful holding of this ever-popular and exciting area. There are selections of attractive United States, rarities from Albania, Austria, France, Germany and Colonies, Italy and Colonies, Russia, Saar, Scandinavian countries and Switzerland. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented, featuring a strong selection of Batum, booklet from India with set of Gandhi stamps overprinted specimen and lots more. As always, our sale includes selections of better South America, with Colombia Air Post, Asia and rest of the world. We conclude with 100+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers, mostly offered intact. This entire sale is online at www.cherrystoneauctions.com. Please check with us often, as additional scans are continuously uploaded. A limited number of printed catalogues are available on request.

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #1049
ITALY Flight Covers
1910 picture postcards of Pescara (Aviation Station) and International Air Show in Milan (view of Duomo and biplane), used in 1918-19, also four different perf. And two imperf. Vignettes, last two 1917 Palermo Posta Aerea, fine lot
Envelope
Price Realized
$140.00

Lot #1050
ITALY Flight Covers
1917 Rome-Turin and Turin-Rome first flight cover and card, also Naples-Palermo and Rome-Naples-Palermo two first flight covers, minor cover adhesions or tears, fine-v.f.,
Envelope
Catalog #C1-2
Catalog Value $410
Price Realized
$140.00

Lot #1051
ITALY Flight Covers
1918 (Nov) Posta Aerea Transadriatica/Venezia, complete cachet tying 1c adhesive on piece, fine, with pencil signature at bottom
Price Realized
$140.00

Lot #1052
ITALY Flight Covers
1920 (20 Apr) first flight postcard from Athens to Rome, franked with a defective pair of 5L green, tied by a four-line handstamp, very rare, signed Colla, ex-"Celeste" collection
Envelope
Unsold
Lot #1053
ITALY Flight Covers
1925 (28 June) Livorno, special postal card prepared for the Philatelic Congress, franked with 60c and 1L and the corresponding vignette, all tied by Livorno pmks and flown to Rome, plus cover with 60c franking and the airmail vignette (not tied), both card and cover with Rome arrival pmks, fine-v.f.
Envelope
Price Realized
$280.00

Lot #1054
ITALY Flight Covers
1925 (3 Oct) Milano-Geneva first flight cover franked with 1 Lire definitive, v.f., with arrival pmk
Envelope
Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #1055
ITALY Flight Covers
1926 (1 Apr) first flight cover to Pavia, Torino-Trieste route, appropriate franking and oval cachet, 30c Postage Due applied on arrival, fine
Envelope
Price Realized
$180.00

Lot #1056
ITALY Flight Covers
1926 (1 Apr) first flight cover to Venezia, Torino-Trieste route, appropriate franking and oval cachet, 30c Postage Due applied on arrival, fine
Envelope
Price Realized
$180.00

Lot #1057
ITALY Flight Covers
1926 (1 Apr) first flight cover from Pavia to Venezia, Torino-Trieste route, appropriate franking and oval cachet, 30c Postage Due applied on arrival, v.f.
Envelope
Price Realized
$230.00

Lot #1058
ITALY Flight Covers
1926 (1 Apr) first flight cover to Trieste, Torino-Trieste route, appropriate franking and oval cachet, fine cover with arrival pmk
Envelope
Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #1059
ITALY Flight Covers
1926 (1 Apr) first flight cover from Pavia to Trieste, Torino-Trieste route, appropriate franking and oval cachet, v.f., with arrival pmk
Envelope
Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #1060
ITALY Flight Covers
1926 (1 Apr) first flight S.I.S.A. postal card from Venezia to Trieste, appropriate franking tied by red Venezia-Ferrovia cds, also Trieste to Venezia flown cover with appropriate cachet and franking, 30c Postage Due added on arrival, fine-v.f.
Envelope
Price Realized
$180.00

Lot #1061
ITALY Flight Covers
1926 (1 Apr) first flight from Venezia to Milano, appropriate franking tied by red Venezia-Ferrovia cds, with oval cachet and arrival pmk, v.f., rare
Envelope
Price Realized
$240.00

Lot #1062
ITALY Flight Covers
1926 (1 Apr) first flight cover via Pavia to Milano, Torino-Trieste route, appropriate franking and oval cachet, fine cover, with arrival pmk
Envelope
Price Realized
$180.00

Lot #1063
ITALY Flight Covers
1926 (May 13) first flight over the North Pole with airship "Norge" (pilot Amundsen), cover carried from Ciampino Roma 10.4.26 to Kingsbay, Alaska, franked with Italy 1.25L, also with special Nobile label (rare variety horizontal pair imperf. between), all on front (another single label on back overprinted "Norge"), bearing oval cachet "Volo Transpolare 1926 Amundsen - Ellsworth - Nobile Equipaggio Italiano Dirigible Norge", addressed to Milano, signed "Precerutti", v.f.
Envelope
Price Realized
$1,500.00

Lot #1064
ITALY Flight Covers
1929 (10 July) Rome-Venezia, Rome-Milano flight, two covers, each with "Arrival Day of Pathfinder at Aereporto del Littorio" cachets and arrival pmks, one signed by Lewis A. Yancey (pilot), fine-v.f., ex-Joffe
Envelope
Price Realized
$260.00

Lot #1065
ITALY Flight Covers
1930 (4 Jan) first flight cover from Trieste to Fiume, violet "Societa Italiana Servizi Aerei Idroscalo Di Fiume", v.f., with arrival pmk
Envelope
Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #1066
ITALY Flight Covers
1931 (1 May) first flight cover from Venice to Monaco, also 1 April, 1931 first flight card from Munich to Verona, fine-v.f.
Envelope
Price Realized
$140.00

Lot #1067
ITALY Flight Covers
1934 Martino & Kuhn intended flight New York to Rome, four unaddressed, specially prepared covers, fine-v.f.
Envelope
Price Realized
$230.00

Lot #1068
ITALY Flight Covers
1937 (6 Apr) special first flight cover Milano-Torino-Paris-Brussels, v.f., with arrival pmk
Envelope
Price Realized
$140.00

Lot #1069
ITALY Flight Covers
1937 (7 April) Paris-Torino, three first flight covers, with Venice, Milano and Torino arrival pmks, each with appropriate cachet; also 5 April first flight from Marseilles to Palermo, v.f., ex-Joffe
Envelope
Price Realized
$230.00

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