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

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
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
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Price Realized
$210.00

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