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Lot 4046 |
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Great Britain 1840, 1d black (1), ample margins to barely clear at lower left corner, tied by red Maltese Cross cancel on letter postmarked matching "St. Neots, No 9, 1840. The letter, which has internal splitting along folds, is a printed health questionnaire used by the Protector of Life Association to screen an applicant for life insurance and bears the printed address of the association. Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 4047 |
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Great Britain 1911 (Sept. 9-16) Official Coronation Aerial Post, Windsor — London (AAMC 8e), special flight postcard in violet bearing ½¢ green tied by Windsor flight cancel, Sept. 16, Extremely Fine. Message reads "I am sending you a Aerial Post Card as a souvenir of the first dispatched from Windsor to London (this afternoon)".
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 4048 |
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Great Britain 1912 (June-Aug.)"Daily Mail" Circuit of Britain (AAMC 12b), Penny Postage Jubilee postcard with violet flight cachet signed and dated (July 25) by Pilot G. Hamel, apparently carried but not mailed (no address), Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 4049 |
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Great Britain 1912 (July-Aug.) "Daily Mail" Waterplane Tour (AAMC 13), picture postcard (shows Farnam waterplane with inset of pilot Grahame White) bearing ½d green tied by Portsmouth machine cancel, Aug. 6, light strike violet flight cachet, Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 4050 |
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Papal/Roman States 1854, folded letter sheet from Ferrentino to Rome, with 1b green-grey and 3b bister orange, oily impression, marginal strips of five (2) and strip of three, cancelled by straight-line "Ferrentino", backstamped "Roma 13 Nov" in red, stamps with large to cut into margins and a few creases from filing folds which are to be expected on a franking of this magnitude. An extremely rare, remarkable, and possibly unique franking. Sassone 2, 4e.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
Expertization: 1997 E. Diena Certificate.
According to Dr. Enzo Diena, these are the largest known multiples of the 3b stamp from grey oily printing.
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Lot 4051 |
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Papal/Roman States 1853-54 Papal States, two folded letters, first 1853, from Ancona to Brindisi, with 7b blue and 8b white, mostly large to just touched margins, cancelled "Jmpe" (Jmpostatione), Ancona c.d.s (14 Dec 53) and oval "Agenzia dei Lloyd Austriaco/Ancona", Fine and rare; second 1854, from Ancona to Corfu, with 3b bister and 6b grey (4, 7 two), large to ample margins except corner of one 6b fractionally touched, cancelled with straight-line same "Jmpe" and with same Ancona oval handstamp, faint Ancona c.d.s. and small "Corfu 14 Gen 54" arrival c.d.s., minor soiling but still fine and rare destination.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 4052 |
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Italy 1926 Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile multicolor vignette, tied by "Ciampino/(Roma)" c.d.s. (8.4.26) on printed corner card trans-Polar flight envelope addressed to Leningrad, with violet "Volo Transpolare 1926/Equipaggio Italiano/Dirigibile ‘Norge’/Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile" oval cachet, Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 4053 |
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Italy 1934 (28 Jan.) Attempted Rome-Buenos Aires flight, two covers and two picture postcards with magenta Italian flight cachet and violet Pan-American Airways cachet, all with special airmail stamps plus additional regular stamps, one card franked with 2L C52, other 3L C53; one cover franked with 5L C54, other with 2L, 5L & 10L, C52 & C54-55; first card with damaged corners affecting stamps, otherwise F-VF. Sassone 354 €1,480 ($1,600).
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Lot 4054 |
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Liechtenstein 1931 Do.-X Pan-America flight, postcard from Triesenberg to Illinois bearing Liechtenstein 1fr and 2fr pair cancelled on November 7, 1930 and additionally tied by special flight cachet, Friedrichshafen November 13, 1930 transit c.d.s. and "Dornier/Flugschiff/D129/30 Jan 31" c.d.s., Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 250
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Lot 4055 |
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Lithuania 1935 40c New York-Kaunas flight overprint (C80 footnote), with 1934 20c and 40c Lithuanian airmails on reverse and U.S. 6¢ winged globe on 1935 (Oct. 2) special New York-Kaunas flight envelope from Kaunas to Chicago with U.S. Airmail 6c added at Brooklyn, appropriate flight cachet of "Lithuanica II", signed by "Lt. F. Vaitkus", Very Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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