Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World
November 12-13, 2024
Our November 12-14, 2024 auction features solid selections of United States stamps and proofs (including further material from the Larry Brasler stock), Canada (with a fine example of 12p black), Great Britain & British Commonwealth, Israel, European Countries, with collection of Wayne Demarest's Germany and Colonies, an old-time holding of Zbigniew Cianciara's Poland, Western Ukraine, solid Russia and rest of the world. There is an additional section of Mixed Frankings and Redirected Mail, formed by a European gentleman, with many interesting combination usages. As always, the sale contains 220+ large lots and collections, with individual country albums, worldwide accumulations in cartons, cover lots and much more
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #608 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1924 (10 Dec) registered cover from Lutoshkino to Tambov, franked on back with 4k and 10k definitives, used in combination with 1k violet (semi-official air post), with arrival pmk  | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #609 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1932 General Umberto Nobile, selection of six picture postcards from Moscow to Rome, all addressed to his daughter Maria, one registered, generally with greetings from "Papa" message (in 1931, Nobile left Italy to work for the next four years in the Soviet Union, where he helped with the Soviet semi-rigid airship program. Details of the Soviet Airship Program are sparse, but there is an obvious Nobile influence in the design of the airships USSR-V5, and SSSR-V6 OSOAVIAKhIM. He was allowed to return to Italy to teach in December 1936) | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #610 RUSSIA Flight Covers 1935 1r on 10k (Levanevsky) Moscow-San Francisco overprint, used on registered and flown picture postcard (Sigismund Levanevsky) from Moscow, via San Francisco, addressed to Mr. Arens, Consul General of the U.S.S.R. in New York, with bilingual "Special Air Flight Moscow-San Francisco through the North Pole" cachets, with New York (Sep 17) arrival pmks, minor card creases and little toning at right, otherwise v.f. (three Soviet fliers, Sigismund Levanevsky, George Baidukov and Victor Levchenko, took off from Schlovsky Military Airport near Moscow in the red-winged Soviet monoplane "O 25" at 6:30 A.M. on a 6,000 mile non-stop flight to San Francisco, via the North Pole. Flying over Siberia and 700 miles across the Arctic Ocean, the plane developed problems, and on radio instructions, the fliers returned to their base. Mail was later forwarded by Air Mail) Catalog #C68 | Price Realized $7,500.00 |
