U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
May 7-8, 2019
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #2050 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1921 (6 May) Post Office Department San Francisco to Chicago, Rock Springs, Wyoming crash cover franked with 2c red, with crash cachet, the pilot A.M. Buntin was killed when his aircraft nose-dived and was destroyed by fire at Rock Springs, Wy, fine  | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #2051 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1925 (15 Apr) USS "Los Angeles", two flight covers from Philadelphia to Bermuda, franked with the set of three, fine-v.f. Catalog #C4-6 | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #2052 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1929 "Yellow Bird" first flight from Old Orchard to France, cover with 2c Rogers & Clark adhesive and French Postage Due, overall toning, signed by both pilots, fine (the French plane "Yellow Bird" (L'Oiseau Canari) set records for the longest flight over the ocean and the first French flight over the North Atlantic, 2,410 miles in 22 hours. The pilots were Jean Assolant, Rene Lefevre, and Armeno Lotti) | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #2053 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1929 (11 Mar) Salt Lake City to Rock Springs, WY, badly damaged cover addressed to Egypt with accompanying "Penalt" cover with "Air Mail, Damaged by Fire in Plane at Park City Utah, March 11, 1929" cachet, the plane encountered a blinding snowstorm while over Parley's Canyon and headed for Park City for an emergency landing but crashed a few blocks from Main Street | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #2054 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1929 (13 Sep) Pitcairn Aviation Company crash cover, New York to Atlanta, cover franked with 2c Kansas and two additional 2c, endorsed on reverse "Friday Sept. 13, 1929, In aeroplane wreck at Fort Macpherson, GA Pilot Killed and ship burned - pilot hit radio tower in fog - presented to my friend J.W. Hooks - Boyce E. Miller", fine | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #2055 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1930 (28 June) First New York-Bermuda and Return cacheted 1c post card, carried on the "Miss Columbia" and addressed to the pilot Roger Williams, numbered "24" on reverse with signatures of the pilot and crew and handwritten "Mr. Clifford, Pay to get these postmarked with arrival time", v.f., only four cards known with signatures of the whole crew | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #2056 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1930 (18 Nov) Pacific Air Transport crash cover, San Diego to Seattle, large cover from the Bank of Italy Offices in Los Angeles addressed to the U.S. National Bank of Portland, franked with 10c and 3x25c, with printed "This letter in plane crash on Northbound Flite of P.A.T. Plane on Cam #8 - Pilot F.A. Donaldson and two passengers being killed", with "Received in bad condition at Portland, Oregon" handstamp, fine | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #2057 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 (5 May) Pacific Air Transport crash cover, San Diego to Seattle, large cover franked with 15c and 50c, with manuscript "Damaged in airplane wreck May 5, 1931, near Burbank, Calif., A.O. Willoughby, Asst. Supt. A.M.S.", both the pilot and the co-pilot were killed in the crash, fine | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #2058 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 (July) New York to Istanbul Flight cover, with oval "Special Agent in Charge Dept of State" date stamp, Istanbul arrival cds and signed by the pilots John Polando and Russell Boardman, v.f., addressed to Russell Boardman, rare Catalog #AAMC 1145 | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #2059 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1934 cover with U.S. and Polish franking, special cachet and signed by both Adamowicz brothers, faint toning, otherwise v.f. On June 28, Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz took off from Floyd Bennett Field in NYC and landed in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. The next day, they took off from there for a Trans-Atlantic trip. Through mechanical problems, leaking engine and heavy rainstorm, they managed to reach Europe (near Caen in France). The next day, after repairing a landing gear, they took off to Paris, then to Germany, where they were forced to land due to fuel leaks. On July 2, the brothers arrived in Warsaw, Poland, treated as heroes. The Adamowicz brothers were possibly the first amateur pilots in the world to fly a plane across the Atlantic | Unsold |
 | Lot #2060 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1934 (30 Jan) American Airways crash cover, Albany, NY to Montreal, cover franked with 3c Washington, with bi-lingual "Damaged and Delayed by Fire" cachet, the plate was destroyed by fire just before take off and half the mail was lost, fine | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #2061 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1938 (July 10) Howard Hughes Around the World flight, postal stationery 6c legal size envelope with additional 6c franking, also French and Russian adhesives added at the prospective stops at Le Bourget and Moscow, appropriate cachets, tiny cover tear at top away from the stamps, still v.f., with the original letter from John Bergen to Harvey Evans, dated December 11, 1939 ("I am sending you herewith a cover of the Howard Hughes flight around the world. This cover was never offered for sale and was distributed to his friends only, so I am sure it will make a nice addition to your stamp collection") | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #2062 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1939 (26 Mar) Braniff Airways, Chicago to Brownsville crash cover addressed to Dallas, Tx., with "Damaged due to Air Mail Interruption near Oklahoma City, March 26, 1939", shortly after takeoff in Oklahoma City the plane caught fire and the pilot was killed, fine | Price Realized $130.00 |
