1921 (6 May) Post Office Department San Francisco to Chicago, Rock Springs, Wyoming crash cover franked with 2c red, with crash cachet, the pilot A.M. Buntin was killed when his aircraft nose-dived and was destroyed by fire at Rock Springs, Wy, fine
Estimate: $250
U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
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Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
Welcome to our May 7-8 Auction Sale, to be held at Cherrystone's New York City galleries. There are 1,642 lots of rare stamps and postal history of the World, featuring further selections from the David Mace collection and properties of numerous vendors and estates sold by their order. A solid selection of United States is followed by Austria, Belgium, France and Colonies, Germany and Colonies, Italy and Colonies, Liechtenstein, Spain and Scandinavian countries. There are strong sections of Czechoslovakia, Poland and Russia. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented with strength in Queen Victoria, KEVII and George V singles and sets, as well as Japanese Occupation material. There are numerous flight covers of the world, with selections of Zeppelin dispatches. Sections of better South America, Asia and the rest of the world are noteworthy, with an award-winning collection of Corrientes offered intact. The sale concludes with the usual selection of large lots, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers. Live Internet bidding is available through our website www.cherrystoneauctions.com (via CherrystoneLIVE).
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Lot #2050 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
Lot #2051 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1925 (15 Apr) USS "Los Angeles", two flight covers from Philadelphia to Bermuda, franked with the set of three, fine-v.f.
Estimate: $200
Lot #2052 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1929 "Yellow Bird" first flight from Old Orchard to France, cover with 2c Rogers & Clark adhesive and French Postage Due, overall toning, signed by both pilots, fine (the French plane "Yellow Bird" (L'Oiseau Canari) set records for the longest flight over the ocean and the first French flight over the North Atlantic, 2,410 miles in 22 hours. The pilots were Jean Assolant, Rene Lefevre, and Armeno Lotti)
Estimate: $300
Lot #2053 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1929 (11 Mar) Salt Lake City to Rock Springs, WY, badly damaged cover addressed to Egypt with accompanying "Penalt" cover with "Air Mail, Damaged by Fire in Plane at Park City Utah, March 11, 1929" cachet, the plane encountered a blinding snowstorm while over Parley's Canyon and headed for Park City for an emergency landing but crashed a few blocks from Main Street
Estimate: $150
Lot #2054 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1929 (13 Sep) Pitcairn Aviation Company crash cover, New York to Atlanta, cover franked with 2c Kansas and two additional 2c, endorsed on reverse "Friday Sept. 13, 1929, In aeroplane wreck at Fort Macpherson, GA Pilot Killed and ship burned - pilot hit radio tower in fog - presented to my friend J.W. Hooks - Boyce E. Miller", fine
Estimate: $150
Lot #2055 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1930 (28 June) First New York-Bermuda and Return cacheted 1c post card, carried on the "Miss Columbia" and addressed to the pilot Roger Williams, numbered "24" on reverse with signatures of the pilot and crew and handwritten "Mr. Clifford, Pay to get these postmarked with arrival time", v.f., only four cards known with signatures of the whole crew
Estimate: $250
Lot #2056 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1930 (18 Nov) Pacific Air Transport crash cover, San Diego to Seattle, large cover from the Bank of Italy Offices in Los Angeles addressed to the U.S. National Bank of Portland, franked with 10c and 3x25c, with printed "This letter in plane crash on Northbound Flite of P.A.T. Plane on Cam #8 - Pilot F.A. Donaldson and two passengers being killed", with "Received in bad condition at Portland, Oregon" handstamp, fine
Estimate: $150
Lot #2057 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1931 (5 May) Pacific Air Transport crash cover, San Diego to Seattle, large cover franked with 15c and 50c, with manuscript "Damaged in airplane wreck May 5, 1931, near Burbank, Calif., A.O. Willoughby, Asst. Supt. A.M.S.", both the pilot and the co-pilot were killed in the crash, fine
Estimate: $150
Lot #2058 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1931 (July) New York to Istanbul Flight cover, with oval "Special Agent in Charge Dept of State" date stamp, Istanbul arrival cds and signed by the pilots John Polando and Russell Boardman, v.f., addressed to Russell Boardman, rare
Estimate: $300
Lot #2059 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1934 cover with U.S. and Polish franking, special cachet and signed by both Adamowicz brothers, faint toning, otherwise v.f. On June 28, Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz took off from Floyd Bennett Field in NYC and landed in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. The next day, they took off from there for a Trans-Atlantic trip. Through mechanical problems, leaking engine and heavy rainstorm, they managed to reach Europe (near Caen in France). The next day...
Lot #2060 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1934 (30 Jan) American Airways crash cover, Albany, NY to Montreal, cover franked with 3c Washington, with bi-lingual "Damaged and Delayed by Fire" cachet, the plate was destroyed by fire just before take off and half the mail was lost, fine
Estimate: $150
Lot #2061 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1938 (July 10) Howard Hughes Around the World flight, postal stationery 6c legal size envelope with additional 6c franking, also French and Russian adhesives added at the prospective stops at Le Bourget and Moscow, appropriate cachets, tiny cover tear at top away from the stamps, still v.f., with the original letter from John Bergen to Harvey Evans, dated December 11, 1939 ("I am sending you herewith a cover of the Howard Hughes flight around...
Lot #2062 - United States - Air Post Flight Covers
1939 (26 Mar) Braniff Airways, Chicago to Brownsville crash cover addressed to Dallas, Tx., with "Damaged due to Air Mail Interruption near Oklahoma City, March 26, 1939", shortly after takeoff in Oklahoma City the plane caught fire and the pilot was killed, fine
Estimate: $150
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