Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
September 12-13, 2023
Our September 12-13, 2023 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World will take place at our Teaneck, N.J. Galleries and over the internet via CherrystoneLIVE. There are 1,500 lots in the sale, which begins with United States and U.S. Possessions. In the Worldwide section we are pleased to offer Great Britain and British Commonwealth, European Countries and the rest of the world, with exceptional China, including Postal History and additional lots from the Carl A. Kilgas collection. There are further selections from the estate of Dr.Martin Stempien, a specialized collection of Greece and Samos, formed by Dr.Frederick Rogers, and a selection of reference material from Sergio Sismondo's estate, with many fascinating offerings. The auction concludes with nearly 250 Large Lots and Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #71 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 | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #72 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1928 (27 Apr) Bremen flyers arrival in New York, cacheted cover marking the first non-stop Europe–America flight (Capt. Kohl, Baron von Huenefeld and Maj. Fitzmaurice in Junkers W33 Bremen, forced landing at Greenly Island, Quebec). Signed by the flight navigator James Fitzmaurice of Ireland, by Herta Junkers, Hugo Junkers' eldest daughter and representative in US who personally spearheaded the efforts to rescue the aviators and then to fix and extract the plane, and by the New York City Mayor James Walker. A unique combination (Once the news of Bremen surviving the flight and crash-landing on a remote island near Labrador had reached New York, Herta Junkers flew to Quebec and took charge of the rescue and recovery operations. The accompanying magazine photo shows her first meeting with Fitzmaurice at Murray Bay (April 19, 1928) | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #73 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1928 (14 May) Bremen flyers arrival in New York, commemorative postcard from Milwaukee to Berlin, marking the first non-stop Europe–America flight (Capt. Kohl, Baron von Huenefeld and Maj. Fitzmaurice), message confirms "a rousing reception", fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #74 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1928 (15 May) legal size cacheted "Bremen Day" cover signed by the Bremen pilot Hermann Koehl, by the flight navigator James Fitzmaurice, also by the Byrd's pilot on the 1927 Trans-Atlantic flight Bert Acosta, and by William Brock and Edward Schlee (who in 1927 had attempted and nearly completed an around-the-world flight), a unique combination of pilot signatures from three Transoceanic flights of the heroic era | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #75 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1929 (First non-stop flight Europe-North America), signed 4x6 portrait photograph of Herrmann Koehl, plus his 1929 ALS (in German, on a top half of a lettersheet with National Air Mail Society of Chicago indicia). Koehl was the pilot on first non-stop Europe-North America flight | Unsold |
 | Lot #76 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1929 (16 July) FAM 9 first flight cover to Chile, franked with 10c Lindbergh booklet pane, cachet on reverse, with Cristobal transit and Santiago arrival pmks, fine usage of the complete booklet pane of three with selvage Catalog #C10a | Price Realized $210.00 |
 | Lot #77 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 (30 May) cacheted mourning cover signed by all three survivors during the Memorial Day service held at Lakehurst NAS, accompanying cacheted typed note on USS Akron stationery from Richard Deal states "hope you will be pleased, as I know of only a few that were thus autographed" (Lakehurst-based US Navy dirigible ZRS-4 USS Akron built by Goodyear - Zeppelin was lost on April 4th, 1933 in a storm near Barnegat NJ. Out of 76 men on board, only three survived the crash - Lt. Comdr. Henry V. Wiley, Boatswain's Mate 2d Class Richard E. Deal, and Aviation Metalsmith 2d Class Moody E. Ervin) | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #78 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1935 (22 Apr) First Pan American Survey flight to Hawaii, cacheted flown cover prepared by Albert Brown, autographed by the entire crew (six signatures including those of Capt. Edwin Musick and of the navigator P.J. Noonan that later disappeared with Amelia Earhart), v.f. | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #79 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1939 Hutchinson Family round-the-world flight (in 1931, Col. George R. Hutchinson, with his wife Blanche and their two daughters made headlines when they flew to every one of the 48 state capitals in the United States. In 1939 they embarked upon a round-the-world goodwill flight planning to visit 84 countries). A large pre-printed foldover sheet signed by the members of the Hutchinson family and carried on the flight, postmarked in every country they had visited before the outbreak of WWII, which forced them to cancel their remaining travel plans Catalog #AAMC 1319 | Unsold |
