crash covers - Stamp Auctions
 Lot 346 - crash covers - Corbitts Sale #1521948-49 United Airlines crash at Wilburton, PA, cover & P.O slip affixed label 'REC'D IN BAD CONDITION AT POTTSVILLE, PA' another with 3 line 'DAMAGED IN AIR CRASH/NOV 29 1949/DALLAS TX' also P.O cover, another different cachet 'DAMAGE DUE TO AIR MAIL INTERRUPTION NEAR DALLAS TX' same crash, Ref AAMS 8.4. (3) Corbitts Sale #152crash covers |
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 Lot 347 - crash covers - Corbitts Sale #1521955 (17th Dec) HOLLYWOOD SC cacheted crash cover from New York to Miami Beach with marginal enclosure, also Miami P.O. ambulance cover, 1959 (23rd Nov) Route 2 New York to L.A crash at Midway Airport, Chicago, salvaged mail bears DAMAGED BY FIRE IN/THE POSTAL SERVICE cachet, another salvaged burnt FDC from same crash. (3) Corbitts Sale #152crash covers |
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 Lot 343 - crash covers - Corbitts Sale #1521938 Cheyenne Flying Service crash landed at Newcastle, Wyo 19.5.38 cover from Keeline bears flight cachet incl. AJP (April 1968) article about crash, another but from Manville, another but from Jireh, another but from Lance Creek, all bear appropriate cachets. (4) Corbitts Sale #152crash covers |
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 Lot 344 - crash covers - Corbitts Sale #1521940 Pan Air Brazil S43 crash on landing at Bahia 25.12.40 Ceara/Rio De Janeiro with crash cachet (N401225a), United Al Crash on landing at New York 11.4.42 St. Joseph Mo/New York cover with violet five line delay crash cachet. (AAMS 42.2) (2) Corbitts Sale #152crash covers |
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 Lot 374 - crash covers - Corbitts Sale #151AUSTRALIA 1939 reverse sealed G.R Returned Letter Section London label, obverse cachet SALVAGED MAIL/EX CENTURION 2 line in red, addressed to I.O.M, stamp floated off cover. (1) Corbitts Sale #151crash covers |
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 Lot 3517 - other asia crash covers - Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #49 - Asian Stamps & Postal HistoryCrash Covers, Korea/Japan/Philippines - 1954 Philippine Air Lines Crash : 1954 (12 Jan.) airmail envelope (opened out for display) from the Chief Commander of the Swiss Team Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (for the Korean War Armistice) to Switzerland, bearing Japan Maejima 1y. and Airmail 20y. (other adhesives floated off) cancelled by "…otel/Japan" c.d.s., showing Italian "Correspondenza recuperata in sequito/incidente aero del 14 Gen. 1954" crash h.s. and on reverse Swiss "Lettre sauvée de la catastrophe/aérienne de la ligne Manille-Londres,/avion tombé près de Rome le 14.1.54./Lausanne 2 exp. letters." crash label, inconsequential light soiling, a very interesting origin for this accident from the Commander of the Swiss Korean War Armistice monitoring team in Korea. Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #49 - Asian Stamps & Postal Historyother asia crash covers |
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 Lot 3518 - other asia crash covers - Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #49 - Asian Stamps & Postal HistoryCrash Covers, Thailand/Philippines - 1954 Philippine Air Lines Crash : 1954 (12 Jan.) large registered airmail envelope (opened out for display) from Bangkok to Dortmund, West Germany, bearing Thailand Airmail 1.50b., showing West German "Die Sendung wurde beim/Flugzeugunglück der/Philippine Air Lines PR 501/Manila-Rom-London am/14.1.54 in Rom geborgen" label from the Frankfurt Post Office with framed Dortmund h.s. (29.1), crumpled and damaged, but a good origin and destination for this crash. A contemporary news account of the crash in German accompanies the lot. Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #49 - Asian Stamps & Postal Historyother asia crash covers |
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 Lot 3513 - other asia crash covers - Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #49 - Asian Stamps & Postal HistoryCrash Covers, India - Crash of Air India "Kanchenjunga" : 1966 (20 Jan.) airletter from New Delhi to Switzerland bearing India Map of India 5n.p., 10n.p. (2) and 15n.p., showing "Correspondances/recuperees accident/avion Air India/Chamonix 24-1-1966" crash h.s. at left with "SwissAir Anlagen und Werkdienst/7 Mrz. 1966" violet h.s. adjacent and "Chamonix - Mont Blanc/Hte. Savoie" c.d.s. (4.30) on reverse, few light glaze spots, fine. Two contemporary newspaper accounts of the crash in German accompany the lot. Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #49 - Asian Stamps & Postal Historyother asia crash covers |
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 Lot 3514 - other asia crash covers - Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #49 - Asian Stamps & Postal HistoryCrash Covers, Indochina - 1929 Paris-Saigon Interrupted Flight : 1929 (1 Dec.) registered Paris-Saigon experimental flight envelope from Verdun to Saigon, bearing Merson 5fr. pair and Pasteur 1fr.50c., showing "Courrier Accidentè" crash h.s., with Marseille transit (3.1.30, after its recovery from the crash) and Saigon arrival (29.1.30) c.d.s. on reverse, along with "Ligue Aéronautique de France" bicolour label, very fine. Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #49 - Asian Stamps & Postal Historyother asia crash covers |
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 Lot 3515 - other asia crash covers - Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #49 - Asian Stamps & Postal HistoryCrash Covers, Indochina - 1931 Saigon-Marseille Interrupted Flight : 1931 (2 June) experimental Saigon-Marseille flight envelope to Paris, bearing Indochina 6c., 10c. and 50c. tied by "Saigon Central/Cochinchine" c.d.s., showing "Courrier Accidentè/le 7 Juin 1931" crash h.s., with French officially sealed labels (2) on reverse tied by Marseille transit (1.7 after its recovery from the crash) and Paris arrival c.d.s. (2.7), airmail etiquette floated off and some water staining as customary for this accident, fine. Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #49 - Asian Stamps & Postal Historyother asia crash covers |
