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 #276 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1925 (9 June) MacMillan Arctic Expedition cover franked with 4x1/2c regular issue, tied by Philadelphia Navy Yard departure, with "Air Mail Phila-Boston via MacMillan Expedition" four-line cachet, v.f.  Catalog #AAMC TO1031 | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #277 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1929 (29 Apr) Cramer & Gamble, Nome Alaska-Siberia Flight, cover with 5c franking, Fairbanks, Alaska April 29, 1929 datestamps, v.f., signed by Willard S. Gamble and Parker D.Cramer. Only two covers from sender Schiller are known from their 10,000+ miles journey, annotated and stamped May 3, 1929 upon return to New York (Parker Cramer also served as the chief pilot for the second Wilkins-Hearst Antarctic expedition of 1929-30. In addition, he flew from New York to Nome, Alaska, and on to Siberia) | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
 | Lot #278 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1930 (3 May) first flight cover from Miami to Venezuela, corresponding "USA-Canal Zone-Venezuela" cachet, 10c orange added on arrival in Puerto Cabello (May 6 1930), with Cristobal (May 4) and Colon, Panama (Nov 18) pmks on back, v.f. | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #279 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1930 Mears and Brown non-stop air mail flight cover carried from New York to Harbour Grace, from where it was sent registered to New Jersey (Aug.2), various transit postmarks on reverse, with handwritten note on reverse by W.H. Kennedy (Postmaster at Harbour Grace) "Delivered to me by John Henry Mears who landed at Hr. Grace airport from airplane, City of New York August 2, 1930 at 4.25 PM", v.f. | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #280 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1930 (1 Aug) Mears and Brown attempted Round-the-World flight, card carried from US to Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, where the plane crashed upon take-off, v.f., scarce - only 25 cards carried | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #281 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 First Trans-Pacific Non-Stop Flight Tokyo to Seattle, mixed franking with Japanese stamp, signed by the pilots (Allen and Moyle), v.f. | Unsold |
 | Lot #282 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 (24 May) Hillig and Hoiriis Transatlantic Flight, New York to Copenhagen. The flight ended prematurely at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, from where the mail was forwarded by ship, arriving in Copenhagen on 3rd July; cover signed by both pilots, with Copenhagen and Liberty pmks, only 30 covers carried Catalog #AAMC TO1140a | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #283 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 Wiley Post & Harold Gatty Record Circumnavigation, June 21 cover with 2c canceled at Mineola, N.Y, Berlin cds (June 24) and Russian cachets, one dated June 29, signed by Post and Gatty. This circumnavigation via Newfoundland, Greenland, Russia and Alaska completed in 8 days 16 hours in the "Winnie Mae" airplane | Unsold |
 | Lot #284 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1932 Germany-Iceland-Canada-USA Transatlantic flight Wolfgang Von Gronau, cover with Canadian, USA, Philippines, Japan, Netherlands Indies, Ceylon and Indian adhesives, cancelled at their prospective stops, including Unalaska, Alaska (Aug 29) pmk, v.f., signed by Von Gronau, also three newspaper clippings | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #285 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 Darius-Girenas Transatlantic flight cover franked with 3c Washington, tied by Brooklyn July 15 cds, also "Lituanica" and corresponding violet cachets, Kaunas July 18 arrival pmk on back, some adhesive toning as always, otherwise fine | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #286 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 (1 June) Attempted Round the World Solo Flight by Jimmy Mattern, who attempted to circle the globe in record time. Leaving New York on 3rd June, he flew nonstop to Jomfruland, Norway. The next stop was Moscow, but he was lost near Anadyr, Siberia and no communication was received for two weeks. Jimmy was finally rescued by the famous Russian flyer Levanevsky and flew on his plane to Nome, Alaska. From there, Mattern secured another airplane and continued back to New York. He carried a few covers which have postmarks showing the history of the flight: New York (June 3), Jomfruland (June 4), Moscow (June 5), Khabarovsk (June 12), Krasnoyarsk (June 9), Amadyr (July 5), Edmonton (July 27), and on reverse Juneau (July 25) and Fairbanks (July 23), franked on both sides, with minor toning and cover wear and tear, signed Jimmy Mattern Catalog #AAMC TO1177 | Unsold |
 | Lot #287 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1937 (14 July) World Record Non-stop Transatlantic flight, Moscow-San Jacinto, by Soviet aviators Gromov, Danilin and Yumashev on their long-distance record flight via the North Pole. The airplane was a single-engine ANT-25-1 which flew 6262 miles in 62 hours and 17 minutes, signed by the three crew-members, v.f. (no official mail was carried on the flight) | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #288 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1937 (28 July) World Record Non-stop Transatlantic flight, Moscow-San Jacinto, by Soviet aviators Mikhail Gromov, Danilin and Andre Yumashev on their long-distance record flight via the North Pole. The airplane was a single-engine ANT-25-1 which flew 6262 miles in 62 hours and 17 minutes, beautifully illustrated cover signed by two crew-members, also by Sir Hubert Wilkins, v.f. (no official mail was carried on the flight) | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #289 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1938 Howard Hughes Record Flight Around the World, airmail cover addressed to Florida, triple franking with French and Russian adhesives, all appropriate markings and actually signed by Howard Hughes and Harry Conner, one stamp defective, otherwise fine and scarce item, one of only a few covers actually signed by Hughes | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #290 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1938 (10 July) record Round the World flight by Howard Hughes, cover from New York, with U.S., French and Russian adhesives, with appropriate cancels and cachet. Howard Hughes made stops at Paris, Omsk, Yakutsk, Fairbanks, Minneapolis and returned to New York. Covers were not sold to the public and only given to persons connected with the flight, v.f. Catalog #AAMC TO 1307 | Price Realized $600.00 |
