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Lot 274 |
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Canal Zone 1925 U.S.S. Los Angeles proposed flight, unused 1¢ postal cards (UX7-8) with printed brown-red cachet featuring the airship and the inscription "Air Mail Canal Zone-New York/ by U.S. Airship ‘Los Angeles’/ To Lakehurst, N.J.", identical pre-printed addresses, Very Fine and very scarce. Prepared by R.S. Carter in anticipation of the Los Angeles coming to the Canal Zone following round trips from New York to Bermuda in April and to Puerto Rico in May of 1925. Official authorization for a mail flight to the Canal Zone was never received.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 275 |
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Canal Zone 1928 U.S.S. Los Angeles cover, carried outside the mails aboard the Los Angeles to Lakehurst where the 2¢ sharp "A" (84) was cancelled Mar 3 and the cover was sent on to its destination of Westborough, Mass. The cover is a penalty envelope for the Public Works Dept., U.S. Submarine Base, Coco Solo, C.Z., it is endorsed by Lt. P.A.E. Flux (CEC) [Civil Engineering Corps] USN "Mailed at France Field, Canal Zone, 10:30 AM On Board Dirigible USS Los Angeles"; reduced slightly at right, edge tears and stamp damaged but a unique cover, the only known "mail" carried on this flight.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 276 |
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Japan 1929 round-the-world Zeppelin cover, Tokyo to Lakehurst (Sieger 31B), ¥3.10 Japanese postage tied by Tokyo c.d.s.s on cover addressed to Balboa, Canal Zone, red flight cachet, backstamped Lakehurst, Aug 29, and Balboa, Sep 7; small nick at top, Fine. Enclosure headed Kareisawa, Aug 21, mentions "We haven't been able to see anything of the Graf Zeppelin up here and they've said right along no mail out on her fron Tokyo - but the last minute they changed their minds - so I'll take a chance and hope you'll have the thrill of a letter on the first ‘round-the-world’ mail!".
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 277 |
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Withdrawn
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Lot 278 |
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Canal Zone 1936 Hindenburg cover, Lakehurst to Frankfurt (Sieger 409W), franked with a 20¢ airmail (C11) tied by Cristobal machine cancel, May 22, and a U.S. 15¢ 1922 and 25¢ Clipper (566, C20) tied by New York machine cancel, May 11, U.S. flight cachet, Frankfurt backstamp, Very Fine Only 50 covers and cards were despatched from Panama or the Canal Zone. Sieger €1,150 ($1,240).
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 279 |
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Canal Zone 1926-27 Army Air Corps Pan American goodwill flight, cover flown from San Antonio, Tex., Dec 21, 1926, and landing at every country in Cental and South America and the West Indies before finishing at Bolling Field in Washington, D.C., May 2, 1927, bearing stamps and cancellations of 30 of 31 countries including Canal Zone (France Field, Jan 20), Puerto Rico is represented by a cancel only, San Juan, Apr 13; the cover is opened out for display and on the inside is a type affidavit signed by Maj. H.A. Dargue and the eight surviving members of the squadron, Very Fine and rare.
Estimate 500 - 750
The squadron took off with five planes and ten aviators. One plane and its two crewmen were lost in a mid-air collision while approaching Buenos Aires. Three of the eight survivors would retire after World War II as three- or four-star generals: Muir Fairchild (to whom the cover is addressed), Ira Eaker, and Ennis Whitehead.
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Lot 280 |
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Canal Zone 1929 SCADTA airmail cover from Colombia to New York, large commercial cover with pre-printed Royal Bank of Canada address franked with 1.40p Colombian postage tied by Girardot, Colombia c.d.s.s, Oct 14, and by six 25¢ Canal Zone airs (C3) tied by Cristobal duplexes, Oct 17, manuscript "via Colon [Panama] a New York" and violet handstamp "Hidroavion"; wrinkles from thick contents affecting a few stamps but a Fine and very scarce usage. $1.50 in C.Z. postage was six times the 25¢ airmail rate.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 281 |
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Canal Zone 1930 SCADTA airmail cover from C.Z. to Colombia, 20¢ sharp "A" (92) tied with 1¢ Gorgas (105) on 1930 legal size airmail cover from Balboa Heights to Cali, Colombia "via Barranquilla", Colombian stamps added for internal airmail postage to Cali and tied by Cartagena c.d.s.s, Feb 3, marked for 70¢ postage due, postmarked Balboa Heights c.d.s., Jan 24, with Cristobal transit c.d.s. the same day and Cali receiver, 7 Feb; vertical file fold between Canal Zone stamps, Fine and unusual.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 282 |
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Canal Zone 1930 first flight cover autographed by Charles Lindbergh, flown Miami to Cristobal (AAMC F5-44) with U.S. 20¢ map (C9) tied by Miami duplex, May 26, on front, then flown on return flight (F5-48) with C.Z. 20¢ on 2¢ (C5) tied by Cristobal machine cancel, May 1, on reverse, signed "C.A. Lindbergh 11/26/31" (Lindbergh had been the pilot on the Miami-Cristobal leg), Very Fine.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 283 |
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Brazil 1931 Do.-X cover, Rio de Janeiro-New York, 4,000r Brazilian postage tied on illustrated hotel cover addressed to Cristobal, C.Z. by Belem, Para, Brazil c.d.s.s, Aug 8, backstamped at Port of Spain, Trinidad, Aug 19, and at Cristobal, Aug 28, signed by C.Z. postmaster Gerald D. Bliss; minor perf toning on stamps, F-VF.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 284 |
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Canal Zone 1946 crash cover (June 9), U.S. 3¢ Presidential tied by San Francisco machine cancel, June 2, on cover addressed to Lieut. Louis Guglielmino at A.P.O. 836 (Ft. Sherman, Canal Zone), redirected by army base locator to A.P.O. 826 (Ft. Amador), handstamped P.O. cachet reads "Received in Canal Zone/ Damaged in Aeroplane Accident/ June 9, 1946", backstamped A.P.O. 836 duplex, Jun 21, Fine. Inludes contents - an engraved wedding invitation.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED COVERS FROM THIS FLIGHT, THE FIRST DISCOVERED.
See The Canal Zone Philatelist, volume 35, no. 4 for an in-depth article co-authored by Mr. Leeds and Louis Guglielmino, the addressee of the cover. Enlisted personnel under the young Lt. Guglielmino actually assisted in the recovery of bodies and the retrieval of mail from the crash site. And a younger Mr. Leeds, then living in the Canal Zone, lost a friend in the crash.
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Lot 285 |
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Canal Zone 1946 crash cover (June 9), U.S. 3¢ Presidential tied by Philadelphia slogan cancel, June 4, on cover addressed to Pfc. William W.K. Hill at A.P.O. 836 (Ft. Sherman, Canal Zone), handstamped P.O. cachet as previous, Fine.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
A SECOND, PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED COVER FROM THIS FLIGHT.
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Lot 286 |
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Canal Zone Postage Due, 1914, 1¢ and 2¢ rose carmine (J1, J2), 1¢ lower right corner margin block of eight with plate #5534 and plate finisher's initials "J.S.S." and 2¢ plate #6702 single tied on small cover sent unfranked from Barbados to Cristobal, Barbados c.d.s. Feb 22, 1915, Cristobal backstamp Mar 2, no other markings but apparently held for postage as the postage due stamps were not issued until March 11 or 12; rough opening at bottom with flap missing, Fine.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 287 |
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Canal Zone Postage Due, 1915-19, 1c olive brown and two 4¢ on 4c (J4, J11 [2]), tied by 9-section cork cancels on cover from Honduras to Ancon, Honduras 6c purple tied by purple bars, Puerto Castilla, Honduras c.d.s., Apr 24, 1923, blue handstamp receiving date May 16, 1923; opened roughly at right, vertical file fold, still a Fine and very scarce mixed issue postage due cover.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 288 |
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Canal Zone Postage Due, 1915, 2c olive brown (J5), strip of three tied by Cristobal c.d.s.s, Oct 16 (1919) on small cover from Jamaica, pair of Jamaica ½d green tied on reverse by Oct 6 Spanish Town, Jamaica c.d.s., violet "T/JAMAICA/CENTIMES 30" duplex handstamp and black "T" in circle, Fine-Very Fine.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 289 |
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Canal Zone Postage Due, 1915, 10c on 10c olive brown (J9), tied by Culebra, Rec'd. c.d.s., June 14, 1917 on cover sent unpaid from Jamaica to Culebra, postmarked Clarks Town, Jamaica, May 26, and "T" in circle, Kingston transit, May 28, on reverse; irregular opening at right, Fine-Very Fine. CZSG J9.B.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 290 |
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Canal Zone Postage Dues, two covers, matched pair of large brown covers sent by N.L. Levy from Cristobal to Balboa Heights on Apr 20, 1925 and from Balboa Heights to Cristobal on Apr 21, each franked only with a ½¢ Hale (70) (the stamp has been lost from the first cover), each with a block of 28 of the 10¢ yellow (J17) on front or back, first cover also with a 1¢ and two 2¢ (J15, 16) tied by light Balboa Heights Rec'd. c.d.s.s, second with strip of three 2¢ flat "A" (J13) tied by Cristobal targets; slight faults but a Fine and unusual pair (used stamps catalog $659).
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 291 |
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Canal Zone "ADVERTISED/SEP 16 1924/ANCON, C.Z.", magenta boxed handstamp on unpaid cover postmarked St. Peter, Barbados, 14 Jul 24, "T" in circle due marking 10¢ flat top "A" (J14) tied by grid, Very Fine. An unrecorded advertising marking.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 292 |
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Canal Zone "ADVERTISED/ MAR 16 (1927)/ ANCON, C.Z.", magenta boxed handstamped on unpaid cover postmarked St. Andrew, Barbados, 31 Jan 27, "T" in circle due marking, 10¢ sharp "A" (J20) tied by grid, five strikes magenta boxed "REBUT" and partial Ancon Feb 14 c.d.s., Very Fine.
Estimate 400 - 600
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Lot 293 |
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Canal Zone "ADVERTISED/UNCLAIMED/OCT 1 1924/Cristobal, C.Z.", purple boxed handstamp on unpaid cover postmarked St. Peter, Barbados, 6 Aug 24, "T" in circle due marking, 10¢ flat top "A" (J14) target precancel; light stain at top, Fine. An unrecorded advertised marking.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 294 |
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Canal Zone "GATUN, C.Z. / ADVERTISED/ MAR 31 1927/ UNCLAIMED", magenta boxed handstamped on imprint cover postmarked St. James, Barbados, 7 Feb 27, "T" in circle due marking, 10¢ sharp "A" (J20) tied by cork cancel, backstamped Gatun Rec'd. c.d.s., Feb 24, Fine. An unrecorded advertised marking.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 295 |
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Canal Zone "Unclaimed/Advertised/April 1, 1909/Gorgona, C.Z.", purple straightline handstamp on cover from Panama to Gorgona, ½c and two 1c Panama stamps tied by Mar 15 c.d.s., backstamped Colon and Gorgonas, Mar 17; one 1c stamp moved slightly, light stain, Fine. An unrecorded Advertised marking.
Estimate 300 - 400
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