Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World
May 7-8, 2024
The May 7-8, 2024 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World will take place at our Teaneck, N.J. Galleries, via CherrystoneLIVE. There are 1,562 lots, offered in four sessions, beginning with United States, followed by a diverse worldwide holding formed by Dikran Taner. There are solid sections of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Italian States, Switzerland, Turkey, as well as British Commonwealth, featuring John Pedneault's postal history of Ireland, extensive Bermuda, British Africa and various individual rarities. In addition, there are selections of China, with Red Revenues, numerous Flight and Zeppelin covers, rare booklets and more. Finally, the last session is highlighted by Large Lots and Collections, with 184 lots ranging from single country albums, specialized holdings, multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #169 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1903 "First Man-Flight, December 17, 1903 Kitty Hawk, N.C." picture postcard, signed Orville Wright, minor card tear at top, otherwise fine  | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #170 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1911 (25 Sep) Garden City Estates, first flight postcard ("Glen Curtis" airplane) franked with 1c green, handstamped "Aerial Special Despatch", addressed to Norwich, Conn., fine Catalog #AAMC 3a | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #171 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1911 (28 Nov) Aerial Substation Athletic Park Savannah, Ga., 2c stationery entire addressed to New York, v.f. Catalog #AAMC 10 | Price Realized $400.00 |
 | Lot #172 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1926 (7 Dec) flight cover franked with 29 stamps, United States and 27 other countries, each canceled on their prospective stops, signed by the various pilots. (The administration of Calvin Coolidge sought ideas for ways to build relationships with countries of Central and South America. Chief of the Army Air Forces, Major General Mason proposed a goodwill visit by Army Air Force pilots to 23 countries in the Caribbean and Central and South America. The selected route covered over 23,000 miles, visiting the capitals of every country in Latin and Central America, except Lima, which was at too high an altitude for the aircraft to reach. It also visited the Caribbean islands of Trinidad, Jamaica, and Martinique) | Price Realized $650.00 |
 | Lot #173 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1927 (16 June) FDC franked with 10c Lindbergh, sent from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, signed "Chas A. Lindbergh", with arrival pmk on back | Price Realized $650.00 |
 | Lot #174 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1927 (29 June) Byrd Trans-Atlantic Flight, cacheted cover franked with 5c blue, canceled New York, June 21,1927, with "Ver-sur-Mer" 2.7.27 arrival cds, v.f., signed by Byrd and three crew members (Comdr. R.E.Byrd took off on his monoplane "America" from New York to Paris and was forced to land on the beach at Ver-sur-Mer (after a flight of 42 hours). As the mail pouch was soaked, many of the covers are without stamps or defective). This one is in excellent condition, handstamped Schoendorf on back Catalog #AAMC TO1060 | Price Realized $800.00 |
 | Lot #175 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1928 (9 July) Boston, cover franked with 10c Lindbergh, bearing "Official Welcome to America Earhart, Wilmer Sultz, Lou Gordon "Friendship" fliers" cachet, actually autographed by all three fliers, v.f., addressed to Mr. George W. Angers (Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928, but only as a passenger. Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon did the actual piloting. The trio made their crossing in a Fokker F.VII Tri-Motor named "Friendship". Their successful flight took them from Trepassey Harbour, Newfoundland, to Burry Port, South Wales in 20 hours and 40 minutes) | Price Realized $525.00 |
 | Lot #176 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1929 (9 July) cacheted "Amelia Earhart Embarks on First Official T.A.T. Flight" cover from Columbus, Ohio to Cleveland, signed in red crayon by Amelia Earhart, v.f. | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #177 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 (4 Feb) cacheted "The Aero Club of Washington, D.C. - Welcoming American Fliers Who Made Aviation Records in 1930" cover from Washington, D.C. to Leo August in Newark, N.J., signed by Amelia Earhart and one other | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #178 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 (28 Oct) cacheted "Lansing Michigan Welcomes Amelia Earhart our Topnotch woman flyer" cover from Lansing, Mich. to Cleveland, Ohio, signed by Amelia Earhart, v.f., Irwin Heiman pencil guarantee on back | Unsold |
 | Lot #179 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 Darius-Girenas Transatlantic flight cover franked with 3c Newburgh, tied by Brooklyn July 15 cds, also "Lituanica" and corresponding violet cachets, signed by both fliers, Kaunas July 18 arrival pmk on back, v.f. | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #180 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1937 Amelia Earhart, non-serviced cacheted envelope printed by Gimbels, with Round The World Flight inscriptions, franked with three uncancelled adhesives, v.f. | Price Realized $350.00 |
