1917 (13 July) picture postcard bearing double circle and eagle emblem of the State of Moscow free-frank with text "Organizing Committee of the All-Russian Aviation Congress" (because of the Bolshevik Revolution, the planned conference never took place), sent by G.Kalinin (a member of the Aviation Congress Committee) to his father, G.V. Kalinin, Murmansk Railway Administration warehouse in Petrograd. This Kalinin family were related to...
U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Covers
By: Cherrystone Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Covers
We are pleased to present our February 28-March 1 2017 sale, with 1,528 lots, including Part III of the Heinz Gappe (H.G.I Company) inventory of Flight and Zeppelin covers of the world, as well as properties of numerous vendors and estates sold by their order. There are selections of attractive United States, Western European countries with Austria, Benelux, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Danzig, Saar, Italy and Colonies, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented, with many interesting flight covers from the Gappe holdings. In addition, we are featuring an important collection of Russia, especially Air Post, with many rarities, errors and varieties. As always, our sale includes selections of better South America, Asia and rest of the world. We conclude with 130+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers, including group lots from the ex-Gappe stock. This entire sale is online at www.cherrystoneauctions.com. Please check with us often, as additional scans are continuously uploaded. A limited number of printed catalogues are available on request.
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Lot #1257 - RUSSIA Flight Covers
1918 (24 Oct) Military mail/flight document from Kiev flight station, pre-printed official "K.u.K. Luftfahrtruppen Mil. Fluglinienstation Kiew" also "Mit dem nachsten Postflugzeug an Flugstation Kiew senden", fine and rare document detailing the military transport activities, stops in Proskurow and Baroviszcze
Estimate: $1000
Lot #1258 - RUSSIA Flight Covers
1918 Military mail/flight document from Aspern flight station with an official 2-line "K.u.K. Fliegerkourierlinie Wien-Kiew" handstamp. The Austrian military-civil air mail service connection, Vienna-Lemberg line, began in the summer of 1918. This line was extended to its most eastern outpost in Kiev in July, 1918. The Kiev connection via Proskurov (Ukraine) to Lemberg was operational for only three months and was closed before the end of...
Lot #1259 - RUSSIA Flight Covers
1925 (13 July) registered and flown cover from Tashkent to Germany, franked with three diff. labels, used in combination with regular franking, fine-v.f., with 19.7 arrival postmark
Estimate: $500
Lot #1260 - RUSSIA Flight Covers
1930 Airships, perforated set of five, used in 1931 (8 June) on flown cover from Moscow, addressed to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in Albany, 20k defective, otherwise fine
Estimate: $150
Lot #1261 - RUSSIA Flight Covers
1930 Airships, perforated set of five (various perforation varieties), used in 1931 on flown cover from Moscow to Berlin, filing fold away from the stamps, fine
Estimate: $150
Lot #1262 - RUSSIA Flight Covers
1931 (7 Oct) cover franked with 3x5k Aviakhim (society for the development of Aviation and chemical defense) adhesives, used from Perm to Sverdlovsk, with arrival pmk. Since the Aviakhim stamps were not valid for postage, the cover was initially charged "30k" penalty postage due (boxed handstamp), later voided, since the sender was probably a Red Army officer, rare item
Estimate: $1000
Lot #1263 - RUSSIA Flight Covers
1936 5k postal card additionally franked with 5k Levanevsky, sent from Moscow to Lautoka, Fiji, with transit and arrival pmks, returned back to Russia, with Souva 21 March departure and received back in Moscow (25.5), creases, well travelled card to an unusual destination
Estimate: $250
Lot #1264 - RUSSIA Flight Covers
1944 (18 Jan) First Flight Moscow to Damascus, Syria, with "France Libre" cachets and censor markings, v.f.
Estimate: $500
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