U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
May 7-8, 2019
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #2677 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH CANADA Flight Covers 1932 (Aug) flown 1c United States postal stationery card to Wyazata, Miinn, final leg of the Wolfgang von Gronau Trans-Atlantic flight Germany-Iceland-Canada-USA, franked with 2c brown, canceled Winnipeg, with appropriate cachet and arrival pmk, fine  | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #2678 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH CANADA Flight Covers 1933 (27 July) Jimmy Mattern round the world flight, Edmonton to New York sector, mixed franking with 1c USA, pilot signed "Jimmie Mattern", with arrival pmk, very rare, signed I. Heiman (On June 3, 1933, Jimmy Mattern, with permission to fly over Europe and Russia, attempted to circle the globe. He landed in Jomfruland, Norway 48 hours later. Next stop was Moscow and then to Khabarovsk. On June 14th, he took off for Nome, Alaska, and after crashing in Siberia, was rescued by the Russian pilot Levanevsky. He finally returned to Floyd Bennett Field completing his around-the-world flight on July 30, 1933) Catalog #AAMC 3337 Catalog Value $1,200 | Price Realized $950.00 |
