Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World
September 24-25
Our September 24-25, 2024 auction features solid selections of United States (including further material from the Larry Brasler stock), Canada, Great Britain & British Commonwealth, Latin and South America, European Countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Italy, as well as Poland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland. There is an old-world collection of Mixed Frankings and Redirected Mail, formed by a European gentleman, with an extraordinary selection of combination usages. Other areas areas are well represented, with China, Japan and Korea. As always, the sale contains 160+ large lots and collections, with individual country albums, worldwide accumulations in cartons, cover lots and much more. The sale will take place live via CherrystoneLIVE.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #185 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1930 (1 Aug) Mears and Brown attempted Round-the-World flight, 1c stationery card with additional 10c Special delivery franking, East Orange, United States to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, where the plane crashed upon take-off, v.f., scarce - only 25 cards carried  | Unsold |
 | Lot #186 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 (14 May) "Justice for Hungary" flown "1 dollar Detroit Budapest" specially prepared card from Flint, Michigan, with pre-printed bilingual cachet, 1c Coil franking, fine (in July, 1931, newspapers all over the world reported on the front page that two Hungarian pilots, Alexander Magyar and George Endresz crossed the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to Hungary in a Lockheed-Sirius airplane named "Justice for Hungary." The flight was intended to call attention to the dismemberment of Hungary after World War I. It was a spectacular success. On July 15, 1931, the Trans-Oceanic flight left Harbor-Grace for Budapest on a non-stop flight of 26 hours and 20 minutes (Charles Lindbergh's flight in 1927 took six hours longer) and marked the first time that an airplane crossing the ocean had radio contact both with the starting and landing aerodromes. It was also the first time such a flight was used for political purposes. The pilots were received as heroes in Budapest) | Unsold |
 | Lot #187 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 Wiley Post & Harold Gatty Record Circumnavigation, June 21 cover with 2c canceled at Mineola, N.Y, Berlin cds (June 24) and Russian cachets, one dated June 29, signed by Post and Gatty. This circumnavigation via Newfoundland, Greenland, Russia and Alaska was completed in 8 days 16 hours in the "Winnie Mae" airplane | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #188 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 (21 June) Post & Gatty Around the World flight cover (franking prepaid), Minneola, NY and Berlin postmarks, also special Russian cachets, signed by both pilots, v.f. Catalog #AAMC TO 1141 | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #189 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1931 (22 June) attempted Solo Transatlantic Flight by Ruth Nichols. (Miss Ruth Nichols set out from New York for Paris in an attempt to be the first woman to make a solo Trans-Atlantic flight. Unfortunately, her Lockheed Vega Monoplane "Akita" was forced down and crashed at St. John's, Newfoundland), cover with appropriate cachets and signed by Miss Nichols Catalog #AAMC TO1142 | Unsold |
 | Lot #190 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1932 (18 Aug) specially prepared postcard to New York, franking missing, signed Thor Solberg (after managing to convince the Enna Jettick Shoe Company to fund his flight, Solberg made his first attempt to fly from the United States to Norway with Carl Petersen in a Bellanca K, named Enna Jettick. The pilots encountered fog and snow near Newfoundland and were forced to make a crash landing) | Unsold |
 | Lot #191 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1932 Jimmie Mattern & Bennett Griffin Circumnavigation Attempt, July 5 cover with USA Air 5c canceled at New York, Germany 4m canceled at Berlin and Russia 15k canceled at Minsk (July 7), signed and dedicated "this envelope was carried by myself and Bennett Griffin from Floyd Bennett Field New York to Russia where we crashed our plane on our attempted flight around the world" by Jimmie Mattern. The two pilots flew non-stop from Harbour Grace to Berlin in a record time of 8 hours 41 minutes, only a handful of covers carried | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #192 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1932 (5 July) Mattern & Griffin Round the World Flight, cover franked with U.S., German and Russian adhesives, bearing appropriate postmarks and autographed by both fliers, usual adhesive toning partly showing through, otherwise v.f. The U.S. pilot Jimmy Mattern, with Lt. Griffin attempted to beat the "round-the-world" record, held at the time by Post and Gatty. After flying from New York via Harbour Grace, they landed in Berlin and later reached Moscow. Their plane crashed on the way to Siberia. Only 10 covers reportedly carried on this flight Catalog #AAMC TO1167 | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #193 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 Darius-Girenas Trans-Atlantic flight cover franked with 3c Newburgh, tied by Brooklyn July 15 cds, with "Lituanica" and corresponding Lithuanian cachets, signed by Stephen Darius and Stanley Girenas, Kaunas July 18 arrival pmk on back, v.f. (After taking off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York, Darius and Girenas successfully crossed the Atlantic, only to perish on July 17th in the village of Kuhdamm, near Soldin, Germany (now Pszczelnik in Poland). The planned route was: New York- Newfoundland-Ireland-London-Amsterdam-Swinemunde-Konigsberg- Kaunas (a total of 7,186 km). Due to weather conditions over Ireland, they veered to the north and reached Germany via Scotland and the North Sea. In 37 hours and 11 minutes, until the moment of the crash, they had flown 6,411 km, just 636 km short of Kaunas) | Unsold |
 | Lot #194 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 Jimmie Mattern Solo Circumnavigation Attempt/Levanevsky Flight cover from New York with five various Russian datestamps (5 June-5 July) and datestamps of Nome (July 21), Fairbanks (July 23), Juneau (July 25) and Edmonton (July 27), a USA 3c applied at Nome, signed by Mattern in pencil, some staining and two vertical folds, tape repair at lower edge. Mattern flew from New York on June 3rd but made a forced landing in Siberia where his plane was abandoned; he was rescued by Eskimos and flown on July 20th from Anadyr to Nome by the Russian pilot Levanevsky. He then flew from Nome to New York via Edmonton. One of the very few covers carried by Mattern and Levanevsky, the cover faults are probably a result of the forced landing in Siberia and the conditions endured prior to his rescue. A rare cover | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #195 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1933 Charles and Anne Lindbergh Survey Flight, July 5 typed letter to the Paris Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association of USA in France, signed Anne Lindbergh. The Lindbergh's flew from New York to Europe via Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland and Iceland, to survey a possible air route to Europe for various commercial US airlines; they then flew to Africa and South America and back to New York, fine collateral item | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #196 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1934 (27 June) cover with U.S. and Polish franking, special cachet, v.f. (On June 28, Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz took off from Floyd Bennett Field in NYC and landed in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. The next day, they took off from there for a Trans-Atlantic trip. Through mechanical problems, a leaking engine and heavy rainstorm, they managed to reach Europe (near Caen in France). The next day, after repairing a landing gear, they took off to Paris, then to Germany, where they were forced to land due to fuel leaks. On July 2, the brothers arrived in Warsaw, Poland, treated as heroes. The Adamowicz brothers were possibly the first amateur pilots in the world to fly a plane across the Atlantic) Catalog #AAMC TO1211 | Unsold |
 | Lot #197 United States - Air Post Flight Covers 1935 (22 June) Attempted Flight, New York to Rome, Italy, by George and Alfred de Monteverde in the airplane "Francesco de Pinedo." The attempt was unsuccessful. Cover with 2x6c franking, canceled New York on June 14, 1935, and again in Brooklyn on June 22, 1935. Printed inscription bears impression of a Notary's seal, reads "This is one of 500 letters placed aboard the "Francesco de Pinedo", fine Catalog #AAMC TO1237 | Unsold |
