Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
December 13-14, 2022
Welcome to our December 13-14, 2022, Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World, which will take place at our Teaneck, N.J. Galleries and over the internet via CherrystoneLIVE. This 917 lot sale begins with a session of United States and Possessions, with 19th & 20th Century single rarities, graded items including a nice section of Columbians, Plate Blocks and better back of the book items. In the Worldwide section, there are solid selections of Eastern and Western European classics and semi-modern issues, including Austria, German States, Italian Area, with many rarities. Great Britain and British Commonwealth feature high values from various areas, notably stamps and Postal History of Jordan (1414-1959), with collections offered virtually intact, many offered at auction for the first time. There are further selections of a specialized Kuwait holding, including a mostly complete "Koweit" issue. The auction concludes with over one hundred and thirty Large Lots & Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized collections and worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #169 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1912 (Jan 28) Aeroplane Station 1c stationery card, also Aug 12 picture postcard "Plantation, N.J." Via Aeroplane, minor toning, fine-v.f.  | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #170 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1918 (15 May) Washington, D.C. to New York, small cover franked with 24c Jenny, "First Trip" pmks, with arrival on back, fine, Catalog #C3 Catalog Value $750 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #171 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1918 24c carmine & blue, May 15, 1918 Air Mail Service First Trip cancel on cover to New York, with arrival pmk May 16, fine cover, Catalog #C3 Catalog Value $750 | Unsold |
 | Lot #172 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1927 U.S. Army's Pan-American Good Will Flight cover addressed to Capt. C.F. Woolsey, franking includes 2c U.S. (defective), Bolivia, Chile, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica and Colombia, canceled on each stop, also four original photographs of the airplane and crew, creases, otherwise fine-v.f. (The Pan-American Goodwill Flight of 1926 and 1927 was proposed by Major General Mason Patrick, Chief of the US Army Air Corps. He suggested a flight through Mexico and Central and South America to improve relations with Latin American countries, to encourage commercial aviation, and to provide valuable training for Air Corps personnel. Supporters of the flight hoped also that the mission would interest the Latin American nations in US aircraft and engines, emphasize the advantages of aviation for transportation and communications in regions that were without rail or road transport, and help stimulate the struggling US aircraft industry. The 22,000 mile flight, made by ten pilots in five Loening OA-1A amphibians, began on December 21, 1926, from San Antonio, Texas. The course extended through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; across the Panama Canal to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia; down the west coast of South America to Valdivia, Chile; across the Andes Mountains to Bahia Blanca, Argentina; north to Montevideo, Uruguay; up to Paraguay; back down the Parana River, along the coasts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, the Guianas, and Venezuela; thence through the West Indies and up the coast of the United States to Washington, DC.) | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #173 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 Wilkins-Ellsworth Trans-Arctic Submarine Expedition, seven covers, franked with U.S. in combination with GB (New York to London), Norway (on to Bergen, Spitzbergen), London and Home, also 1928 cover with U.S., GB and Falkland Islands adhesives, v.f. | Unsold |
 | Lot #174 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 (21 June) Wiley Post & Harold Gatty Record Circumnavigation, cover with 2c canceled at Mineola, N.Y, Berlin cds (June 24) and Russian cachets, one dated June 29, signed by Post and Gatty, v.f., with small photograph of the "Winnie Mae" (Their journey began on 23 June 1931 at Roosevelt Field in New York and followed a 15,000-mile course across Europe, Russia, and Siberia, due to the lack of suitable airfields nearer the equator. Post and Gatty crossed the Atlantic in a record time of 16 hours and 17 minutes and continued to Berlin, Moscow, and Khabarovsk, then crossed the Bering Sea, landing on the beach near Solomon, Alaska, then to Edmonton, Alberta, arriving finally back at Roosevelt Field after 8 days, 15 hours, and 51 minutes. The pair received a Ticker tape parade in New York City) Catalog #AAMC TO1141 | Price Realized $400.00 |
 | Lot #175 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 Darius-Girenas Transatlantic flight cover franked with 3c Newburgh, tied by Brooklyn July 15 cds, also "Lituanica" and corresponding violet cachets, signed by both fliers, Kaunas July 18 arrival pmk on back, v.f. | Unsold |
 | Lot #176 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 (11 July) illustrated Century of Progress cover from Chicago to the American Embassy in Rome, franked with a combination of regular issues and commemoratives paying $3.65 ($3.70 required), with large "Italian Air Cruise Chicago-Roma" and arrival pmks on back, blue Crociera logo handstamp on front, most attractive Balbo cover from Chicago to Rome | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #177 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 (18 July) "Italian Air Cruise Chicago-New York" cover paying the required $1.70, addressed to Cleveland, with New York arrival pmks on back, v.f., signed Diena | Price Realized $525.00 |
 | Lot #178 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 50c Century of Progress, five flown covers, various dates including Miami, Fla (Oct 6), Akron, Oh (Oct 4), New York (Oct 2), Washington, D.C. (Oct.5) and Chicago (Oct 7), various cachets, hand stamped or printed, fine-v.f. Catalog #C18 | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #179 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1934 (27 June) cover with U.S. and Polish franking, special cachet, 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) Catalog #AAMC TO1211 | Price Realized $140.00 |
