Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
September 13-14, 2022
We are pleased to present our September 13-14 auction of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World. An important sale, with a number of highlights, starting with United States graded stamps, 1847 Issue on cover, 1869 Pictorials Proofs and Essays, including a complete set of Atlanta Trial Colors, two different sets of Columbian Large Die Proofs, a collection of rare Plate Blocks, a newly discovered holding of sheets, blocks of four of the CIA and Stock Exchange Inverts, Flight covers and U.S. Possessions. There are rarities from Bolivia, China including an Inverted Hall of Classics, France and French Colonies, with better Zanzibar, Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Dr. Leslie Rose's collection of Germany and Colonies, Hungary with First Issues on cover and pre-WWII Imperforate souvenir sheets. From Latvia, there is a world-renown collection formed by Imants Timma, with stamps and covers, Occupation Issues, Kurland and a splendid collection of Wenden. The sale also includes a sensational, long-forgotten collection of Imperial Russia. Brought to the United States just after WWII, this collection, only recently unearthed, includes the remarkable unused pair of Russia Number One with original gum, a splendid holding of proofs and essays, (including a collection of 140 different Romanov Proofs) and much more. Many of these items were exhibited in New York in 1927 and until now, had been presumed lost during the War. Finally, the sale includes close to 300 large lots and collections.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #619 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AUSTRALIA Flight Covers 1920 (26 Feb) First Aerial Post England-Australia "Ross-Smith" Air Mail adhesive, tied by oval "First Aerial Mail Great Britain-Australia / Received 26 Feb 1920" datestamp, addressed to Hon. G.F. Pearce, Minister for Defense in Melbourne, handstamped "Per Vickers "Vimy" Aeroplane to Australia", cover refolded at top, unusually nice and v.f., with 1973 Royal certificate  | Price Realized $3,500.00 |
 | Lot #620 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AUSTRALIA Flight Covers 1928 Bert Hinkler Flight, picture postcard to Stephen Smith in Calcutta, franked India 1/2a canceled by pen, yellow Air Mail label endorsed in red "By Bert Hinkler", Park Street Calcutta cds (8 Aug), apparently posted back to Calcutta, without Australian franking and showing "Foreign Postage Due '2' Annas / Pies" handstamp, with Bundaberg, Queensland 10 August arrival, "20 CTMS T" due mark, signed by Stephen Smith on reverse "Carried by Mistake from Karachi to Bundaberg, Queensland by Bert Hinkler", also signed and dated (Aug 2) on front, card creases, otherwise fine, one of only six flown to Bundaberg in Queensland in August, 1928 (one of Australia's most astonishing sons, Bert Hinkler, a small, unprepossessing man from Bundaberg was feted as one of the most daring aviators in the world. Mussolini's favorite pilot, Hinkler was an adventurer who along with early pioneers flew single handed across countries, continents and oceans, often with nothing more than a lunchbox and pages of an atlas to guide him. Whether as an aerial showman or as a World War I fighter pilot, Hinkler's exploits thrilled the world, drawing massive crowds, and in his time he enjoyed the fame and adulation of his peers like Charles Kingsford Smith and Amelia Earhart) | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
