U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
March 12-13, 2019
We are pleased to present our March 12-13, 2019 sale, with 1,577 lots, properties of numerous vendors and estates sold by their order. There are selections of attractive United States (over 350 lots), Western European countries with Austria, Benelux, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Danzig, Saar, Italy and Colonies, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented and as always, our sale includes selections of better South America, Asia and rest of the world. We conclude with 130+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1335 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1917 (13 July) picture postcard bearing double circle and eagle emblem of the State of Moscow free-frank with text "Organizing Committee of the All-Russian Aviation Congress" (because of the Bolshevik Revolution, the planned conference never took place), sent by G.Kalinin (a member of the Aviation Congress Committee) to his father, G.V. Kalinin, Murmansk Railway Administration warehouse in Petrograd. This Kalinin family were related to Mikhail Kalinin and to the Kalinins who designed aircraft in the 1920s-30s  | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1336 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1918 (24 Oct) Military mail/flight document from Kiev flight station, pre-printed official "K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen Mil. Fluglinienstation Kiew" also "Mit dem nachsten Postflugzeug an Flugstation Kiew senden", fine and rare document detailing the military transport activities, stops in Proskurow and Baroviszcze | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1337 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1918 Military mail/flight document from Aspern flight station with an official 2-line "K.u.K. Fliegerkourierlinie Wien-Kiew" handstamp. The Austrian military-civil air mail service connection, Vienna-Lemberg line, began in the summer of 1918. This line was extended to its most eastern outpost in Kiev in July, 1918. The Kiev connection via Proskurov (Ukraine) to Lemberg was operational for only three months and was closed before the end of World War I. The flight station Aspern was located on the outskirts of Vienna | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1338 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1925 (13 July) registered and flown cover from Tashkent to Germany, franked with three diff. labels, used in combination with regular franking, fine-v.f., with 19.7 arrival postmark | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1339 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1927 10k postal card (Ural Air Squadron) with 5k dark blue (Air Defense League), tied by Zlatoust cds, with additional pmk alongside, fine | Price Realized $425.00 |
 | Lot #1340 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1929 (7 Aug) - special flight from Moscow to New York City to promote Soviet Aviation. The flight paralleled the Trans-Siberian RR to Khabarovsk and northeast to Seward, Alaska, to Seattle and the East Coast. The plane - "Land of the Soviets" covered the distance of 13,300 miles in 70 days. Only 10 covers were carried on the "Land of the Soviets", nine to New York (another to Seattle), v.f. Catalog #AAMC 1095 | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1341 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1931 (27 Sep) registered and flown cover from Batum to Athens, franked on both sides with three different adhesives, Batum departure and registry markings, triangular Zemun bilingual transit, also Berlin and Athens arrival pmks, fine and unusual cover | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #1342 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1931 (7 Oct) cover franked with 3x5k Aviakhim (society for the development of Aviation and chemical defense) adhesives, used from Perm to Sverdlovsk, with arrival pmk. Since the Aviakhim stamps were not valid for postage, the cover was initially charged "30k" penalty postage due (boxed handstamp), later voided, since the sender was probably a Red Army officer, rare item | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1343 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1937 two leaflets (dropped from airplanes over Moscow) to greet the three Trans-Arctic fliers who flew from Moscow on 18th of June to Vancouver in 63 hours in their ANT-25 airplane, the leaflets red "Glory to Soviet heroes Chkalov, Baidukov and Belyakov", "Forward to New Victories under Lenin, Stalin", some stains, seldom offered | Price Realized $95.00 |
 | Lot #1344 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1939 (28 Apr) Non-stop Transatlantic flight, Moscow-New York, by Soviet aviators Gen.Kokkinaki and Major Gordienko on their airplane "Moskva". After successfully crossing the Atlantic, the aviators were forced (due to bad weather over Labrador) to fly at 30,000 feet using oxygen masks. Their supply of oxygen was nearly depleted and at high altitude, the radio equipment froze up. Eventually, Gen. Kokkinaki fainted and his navigator Gordienko took over the controls and managed an emergency landing at Miscou Island, off the coast of New Brunswick. After repairs, the "Moskva" proceeded to New York. This postcard (Lenin Mausoleum) is one of only 32 carried on this flight, with Registry label No.67, addressed to BAN. Nikolsky, with Miscou Lighthouse N.B. Apr 28, 39 arrival pmk, v.f. Catalog #AAMC TO1320 | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1345 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1944 (18 Jan) First Flight Moscow to Damascus, Syria, with "France Libre" cachets and censor markings, v.f. | Price Realized $450.00 |
