Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
July 11-12, 2023
Cherrystone's Summer Auction will be take place July 10-11, 2023. There are numerous highlights, including United States, with an intact "Roosevelt Album", a collection of Crash & Disaster mail formed be the late Zvi Aloni (contributor to the American Air Mail Catalogue) and portions of Carl A. Kilgas' collections of China, Taiwan, PRC and Korea. There are substantial showings of Italy and Italian Colonies, Central and South America, Great Britain & British Commonwealth, plus hundreds of Large Lots and Collections offered intact and more. This is a public auction, with live internet bidding via CherrystoneLIVE
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1581 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA Flight Covers 1927 (18 Dec) England to Australia "Red Rose" flight by Capt. W.N Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, cover flown to Rangoon, with rose flight vignette, 1a George V adhesive, canceled at Calcutta, with Botataung and Rangoon (31 Dec) arrival pmks on back, fine cover, only 52 covers carried, ex-Zvi Aloni  | Unsold |
 | Lot #1582 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA Flight Covers 1928 (4 Oct) Calcutta to Rangoon, intended for 3rd Dutch Air Mail, cacheted cover franked with 1a George V, with bi-plane "Calcutta-Rangoon" and "By Dutch Airplane" below, plus "3rd Official Mail" and boxed violet "3rd Plane Crashed at Cawnpore Carried by 4th Official Mail Plane H.N.A.O.F.", repeated on back where it is also signed by Stephen H Smith. The cover was intended for the 3rd flight but due to the Cawnpore crash was carried on the 4th flight arriving on 11 October 1928, two hinge remnants on back, v.f., only 87 covers (and 56 cards) carried, ex-Zvi Aloni | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1583 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA Flight Covers 1928 (14 May) Doisy & Carol Paris to Hanoi Flight, Calcutta-Rangoon leg, special card franked with 1/2a George V, tied by Calcutta May 14, 1928 cds, with "By Air" cachet overprinted in red "Plane Crashed at Akyab,16th May 1928", French consulate handstamp alongside, "A Postal Memento of Notable Flights Through India / Doisy and Carol" printed and overprinted at left, repeated and signed by Stephen Smith on reverse "Greetings from Calcutta", with French consulate handstamp alongside, v.f. Only 44 cards (and 77 covers) were carried on this flight which was intended to go to Hanoi but the plane crashed and was severely damaged in Akyab, ex-Zvi Aloni | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1584 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA Flight Covers 1929 (10 June) flight from Croydon to Tokyo, cover addressed to Stephen Smith in Calcutta, millionaire Van Lear Black's flight in his Fokker "Maryland Free State" from Croydon to Tokyo ended on 10 June 1929 when the plane was damaged landing at Calcutta. The reverse of cover has "J.B. Scholke pilot P-AADZ 'Maryland Free State' Carried from Croydon to Calcutta June 10, 1929", filing fold away from the stamps, fine and rare cover, ex-Zvi Aloni | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #1585 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA Flight Covers 1930 (21 Dec) cover franked with 1a George V, violet "Dum Dum Allahabad Pilot Abul M. Murad" hs and corresponding "Calcutta-Cape Town Flight First Flight" cachet alongside, repeated on back, signed by the pilot, also U.S. Christmas seal at left, with Calcutta arrival pmk on back, penciled "Only 6 exist" initialed by Stephen Smith, ex-Zvi Aloni | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1586 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA Flight Covers 1936 (26 Oct) Air Race Paris-Saigon by French pilots Arnoux, Jappy and Micheletti, cover with French and Indian franking, appropriate cachets, with "Voyage Interrompu Le 26-10-1936 a Karachi" handstamp, signed by two pilots who participated in the French Aero Club race from Paris to Saigon (and back), a distance of 14,700 miles (23,700 km), until an undercarriage failure at Karachi forced them to retire with a damaged wing | Price Realized $210.00 |
