1925 (Jan) Pioneer flight from Tela to USA, with 6c franking and oval "Landing Field Tela Honduras" alongside, "Via Airplane" label, fine Roessler cover. Airmail service was of great significance to Honduras, its capital Tegucigalpa isolated from the outside world, with no rail transport and with roads so poor that mule trains took up to a week to carry mail to a port on the north coast for onward transmission to other countries. The small...
James R. Simon Collection of Worldwide Stamps and Covers
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Cherrystone Auctions James R. Simon Collection of Worldwide Stamps and Covers
The James R. Simon collection is comprised of over 600 volumes, well researched by a historian and student of philately of very diverse areas, starting with Afghanistan and Albania, continuing with extensive Austro-Hungarian Empire, impressive Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro and Yugoslavia, as well as Croatia, Fiume and Trieste. There are specialized collections of Honduras, Liberia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia and many others. Most of the collections are offered intact and include United States & Possessions, Independent Asia, Benelux and British Commonwealth, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Germany, Greece, Italy and Italian Colonies, as well as South and Central America, Japan, Korea, Portugal and Colonies, Turkey, Uruguay and many others.
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Lot #4158 - HONDURAS Flight Covers
1925 (14 May) Pioneer flight from Tela to USA, with 6c franking and oval "Landing Field Tela Honduras" alongside, also Tela Atlandida May 14 1925 and "Paz, Base de Progreso" handstamp, fine and scarce, only a few carried
Estimate: $250
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