Sale 313


Lot 1552



Pan-American Airways Pacific Survey flights, balance of mounted collection including photos (one a 3x5 signed photo of Capt. Sullivan), two 1935 covers (San Francisco-Honolulu and Honolulu-San Francisco) and eleven 1937 South Pacific covers including Wellington-S.F. cancelled 27 Dec. (scarce date), a registered cover to Canada flown Auck.-S.F. (28 Dec) bearing an N.Z. 4sh postal fiscal, an Auck.-Pago-Pago cover cancelled 31 Dec. (another scarce date), a postcard Auck.-Honolulu, 28 Dec., and two size 10 covers, Auck.-Pago-Pago and Auck.-S.F., with a scarce handstamped double-lined boxed cachet reading "First Air Mail Flights, Pan American Airways, New Zealand to United States of America," the latter signed by Capt. Musick, no doubt one of the last covers he signed, as he and his crew were killed on the return flight to New Zealand. A fascinating group.
Estimate 500 - 750

 
Realized $675



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