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 #1345 FRANCE Flight Covers 1929 (10 Dec) Paris to Indochina flight cover addressed to Saigon, Bourget Aviation registry label, handstamped "Courrier Accidente", with 29 Jan 1930 arrival pmk. The plane crashed into a sandhill in a storm on the Tunis-Benghazi leg, killing all on board. The wreckage was found on 23rd December and part of the salvaged mail was returned to Marseilles and forwarded after application of a corresponding cachet, ex-Aloni  | Price Realized $160.00 |
 | Lot #1346 FRANCE Flight Covers 1931 (12 July) Doret and Brix non-stop flight from Paris to Tokyo, specially prepared envelope "France-Japon Sans Escale", pre-printed "Le Trait D'Union" on back flap, with Nizhniy Udinsk 14.7.31 pmk, fine (French Pilots Le Brix, Doret, and Mesmin used "Trait d'Union" to attempt the first non-stop flight between Paris and Tokyo. Taking off from Paris–Le Bourget on 12 July 1931, they had made it to the vicinity of Lake Baikal in Siberia when the aircraft's engine iced up. Le Brix and Mesmin parachuted to safety, and Doret crash-landed the plane into the treetops of a Siberian forest in Nizhniy Udinsk. All three men survived unharmed), ex-Aloni | Price Realized $240.00 |
