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Lot 2266 |
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France, 1870 Ballon Monté Les Etats-Unis (BM3), 20c Napoleon Laureate on folded wrapper without contents, Paris postmark 26 Sept, clear Vannes backstamp 18 Oct, Very Fine.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2267 |
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France, 1870 Ballon Monté La Ville-de-Châteaudun (BM25), 20c Napoleon Laureate on Gazette des Absents No. 5 to Coutances, Paris postmark 5 Nov, backstamped 9 Nov, Very Fine.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2268 |
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France, 1870 Ballon Monté Le Franklin (BM38), 20c Napoleon Laureate on folded letter to Coutances (same addressee as preceding lot), Paris postmark 1 Dec, backstamped 7 Dec, Very Fine.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2269 |
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France, 1870 Ballon Monté La Ville-de-Paris (BM42), 20c Ceres on envelope to Réalville, Paris postmark 12 Dec, no arrival marking as usual for this balloon, opening tears at top, otherwise Very Fine, envelopes carried on the balloons are very scarce.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2270 |
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France, 1870 Ballon Monté La Ville-de-Paris (BM42), 20c Napoleon Laureate on formular letter sheet to Dampierre par Boury, Paris postmark 12 Dec, no arrival marking as usual for this balloon, Fine.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 2271 |
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France, 1870 Ballon Monté La Ville-de-Paris (BM42), folded letter to Oran, Algeria, Paris postmark 13 Dec alongside bold star "20", no arrival marking, as usual for this balloon, the stamp, which had been applied to seal the flap on reverse, is missing, otherwise Extremely Fine, a very scarce destination.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2272 |
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France, 1870 Ballon Monté Le Davy (BM45), 20c Ceres on Gazette des Absents No. 16 to Rouen, Paris postmark 17 Dec, no backstamp, Very Fine.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2273 |
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France, 1870 Ballon Monté La Délivrance (BM48), 20c Napoleon Laureate on reverse of folded letter to Dinan, Paris postmark 22 Dec, arrival postmark 25 Dec, Very Fine.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 2274 |
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France, 1871 Ballon Monté Le Général-Faidherbe (BM59), 20c Napoleon Laureate on Gazette des Absents No. 25 to Dinan, Paris postmark 11 Jan, backstamped 16 Jan, Very Fine.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2275 |
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France, 1871 Ballon Monté Le Général-Bourbaki (BM63), 20c Napoleon Laureate on Gazette des Absents No. 28 to Dinan, Paris postmark 18 Jan, backstamped 29 Jan, Very Fine.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2276 |
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Germany, 1912 June 10 Pioneer flights (Mi I/IV), 1912 June 10 Pioneer flights, six different cards: 10pf (Darmstadt, Mainz, Worms); 20pf (Frankfurt); 3x30pf (Darmstadt); 1M Gelber Hund (Darmstadt); F-VF.
Michel €1,150 ($1,240)
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Lot 2277 |
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Germany, Semi-Official Airmail, 1912, 10pf Gotha-Erfurt, tied by handstamped "G. Schlegel" (facsimile pilot's signature) on special picture postcard showing plane and pilot prior to take-off, 5pf Germania tied by 25 July Erfurt roller cancel, card refused by addressee and returned to Gotha; F-VF and very scarce, only 500 flown.
Michel €1,000 ($1,080)
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Lot 2278 |
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Germany, Semi-Official Airmail, 1912, 1m on 10pf "Gelber Hund", two singles tied, along with 5pf Germania, on orange card by Darmstadt 18 June flight cancels, Very Fine. Sieger 13b €560 ($600).
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Lot 2279 |
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Germany, Semi-Official Airmail, 1912, 20pf "Gelber Hund", tied, along with 5pf Germania, on brown card by Frankfurt 22 June flight cancels, Very Fine. Michel VI.
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Lot 2280 |
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Germany, 1925 Regensburg Easter flights, set of two tied by flight datestamps on flown official picture postcard, 10pf pigeon (C21) tied by Donaustauf c.d.s. 13 April, with 2-line handstamp flight cachet, Very Fine and rare. Michel 15-16.
Michel €1,600 ($1,730)
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Lot 2281 |
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Germany, Airmail, 1930, 2m So. America Flight Zeppelin (C38), vertical pair tied by Friedrichshafen c.d.s., 13 Nov 1930, on "Do.-X" Europe-America card, on-board cancel, 30 Jan 1931, two flight cachets, and Rio de Janeiro receiver, 22 June; minor corner bend not affecting stamps, Very Fine.
Michel €950 ($1,030)
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Lot 2282 |
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Great Britain, 1911 London-Windsor Coronation flight cover (AAMC 8), 2½d KEVII and 1d KGV tied 9 Sept, red cachet, addressed to Belgium, backstamped, F-VF, unusual mixed reign franking and destination.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 2283 |
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India, 1930 Attempted Flight, Calcutta-Cape Town (Mu #88), S.G. #203 tied on pretty cover by lightly struck Delhi 22 DEC 30 c.d.s., two different flight cachet with one tying a 1930 U.S. Christmas seal, signed by pilot A.M. Murad and is self addressed to Stephen H. Smith, backstamped Calcutta and with additional strike of flight cachet, choice Very Fine, the Aga Khan had offered a £500 prize for the first Indian to make the solo flight from Calcutta to Cape Town, Murad had mechanical trouble with his plane and only reach Karachi, only 32 covers of 81 total dispatched from Delhi.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 2284 |
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Italy, 1928, 80c brown violet & brown (C5), along with 50c+10c #240, on first flight cover Rome to Innsbruck, 3 May 1930, backstamped, Very Fine. Sassone 3A.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 2285 |
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Italy, 25c on 40c Special Delivery (E9), along with pair 15c+5c B2, on first flight cover Cittavecchia to Terranova, 11 May 1918, backstamped, Very Fine. Sassone 8 €850 ($920).
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Lot 2286 |
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Reunion-France (C1), tied on registered first flight cover by Vincendo, Reunion hexagon, 22 Jan 1937, with four additional stamps totaling 1.25fr on reverse, addressed to Tananarive, Madagascar and returned to sender, five different backstamps, small cover tear at bottom, Fine and most unusual.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 2287 |
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Italy, Airmail, 1927, 1.20L brown (C7), along with three additional stamps totaling L2.05, on first flight cover Naples to Paris, 24 Jan 1930, with French Compagnie Air-Orient Colonial Exposition cachet, backstamped, Very Fine and very scarce, only 17 flown.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2288 |
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Newfoundland, Airmail, 1932, $1.50 on $1 Dornier DO-X Flight (C12), tied on airmail cover to London, England by St. JOHNS, N'FLD MAY 19, 1932 c.d.s. Very Fine.
Scott $375
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Lot 2289 |
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Switzerland, 1919, 50c First Airmail (C2), tied, along with 15c Tell, by Bern c.d.s., 28 June 1919, on small airmail cover to Basel, backstamped "Schweitzer Flugpost" c.d.s. on the same day, Very Fine.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2290 |
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Switzerland, 1920, 30c First Airmail (C1), tied, along with five other stamps totalling 25c, by "Basel 5/ St. Klara" c.d.s.s, 18 Dec 1920, on cover to Leipzig, Germany, manuscript "Per Flugpost", no other markings but postage and date indicate airmail usage [there was a flight from Basel to Frankfurt on 19 Dec], Very Fine and rare. Zumstein 5,500 SFr ($6,040).
Expertization: with 1964 Huniker Certificate.
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Lot 2291 |
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Switzerland, 1933 Tourism & Transportation Congress Flights, 29-30 March, complete set of seven picture postcards, each from a different town to Zurich, all different real photo aerial views including two showing a biplane in flight, all are franked with a 1924 75c Icarus (C11) and bear a violet handstamped Congress cachet; one stamp with pulled perf, otherwise Very Fine. Zumstein 43.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 2292 |
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Switzerland, 1934 Swissair Balkan Flight, 26-28 June, cover from Zurich to Istanbul, franked with C5, C7, C11, C13, and C14 tied by special flight cancels, 26 June, with Istanbul receiver and return flight postmark, 28 June; small opening tears at top with light contents crease affecting the 25c, otherwise Very Fine and very scarce. Zumstein 45c 480 SFr as normal cover ($530).
Estimate 100 - 150
Expertization: with 1989 Rellstab cert.
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Lot 2293 |
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Switzerland, 1940 Red Cross Flight, 9 May, B100-B103 plus extra 20c and 30c on matched set of covers postmarked Basel, Bellinzona, Geneva, and Samaden, each with red flight cachet in a different language; Very Fine. Zumstein 45 980 SFr as stamps on cover ($1,080).
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 2294 |
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United States, 1925 MacMillian Arctic Expedition, phase II, unaddressed U.S. UX27 with the blue oval expedition cachet plus three-line handstamp for date and location details on adress side, message side with typed statement indicating card was flown from Etah, Greenland to a location 11° from the North Pole, signed by explorers Donald B. MacMillian and R.E. Byrd. Very Fine and rare. AAMC $750.
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Lot 2295 |
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United States, 1930 Pan American Flight, legal size cover with multicolor hand drawn cachet, the Earliest Known Staehle Cachet, eight stamp franking includes #C13, NY City 1930 duplex cancels, usual flight cachets and Friedrichshafen backstamp. Cover faults affect stamps to varying degrees, still a Fine and unique 1st cachet from one of the most popular of all cachet makers. Sieger 64F.
Estimate 1,500 - 1,500
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