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
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 | Lot #1527 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH CANADIAN PROVINCES - Newfoundland Flight Covers 1919 (June 14) cover franked with $1 on 15c vermilion, cancelled St. John's (June 9), addressed to England, with June 14 Harbour Grace cds alongside, back cover tears, otherwise fine (British aviators, Captain John Alcock of the Royal Air Force and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown of the Royal Flying Service made the first non-stop transatlantic flight using a modified World War I Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The Secretary of State for Air, Winston Churchill, presented them with the Daily Mail prize for the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in "less than 72 consecutive hours." Since there was a small amount of mail carried, this was in effect the first transatlantic airmail flight. The two aviators were awarded the honor of Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) a week later by King George V at Windsor Castle) (AAMC FF3, $1,850)  | Price Realized $525.00 |
