Sale 45: The Winter Sale

Lot 2730    

Airmail Cover Group. 5 covers and cards; includes two #C3 first flight covers, #C13 Zepp flight post card, flown Earle Ovington Special Aerial Despatch card (AAMC 3e) and a 1928 "sister ship of the Spirit of St. Louis" souvenir flight card; condition varies.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $375

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Lot 2731    

Airmail Cover Group. Interesting group of over 40 covers; includes 7 #C18 flight covers, Lindbergh flights, Wilkins - Ellsworth Expedition covers including Wilkins signed, First American Rocket - Airplane flight covers including official ribbons, etc.
Estimate    $250 - 350.

Realized: $575

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Lot 2732    

Airmail Flight Cover Accumulation. Selection of several hundred covers; includes many Lindbergh flights with better, three signed 1935-36 Laura Ingalls flights and other pilot signed including I. Sikorsky and E. Rickenbacker, air meets and Zeppelin flights, selection of #C1 & C3 issues on early flights, etc.; some duplication to be expected.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $800

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Lot 2733    

American Airways Covers, 1931-80's. Approximately 150 flight related covers, mostly commemorative cacheted cachet, some foreign flights, group of early airline labels; inspect.
Estimate    $75 - 100.

Realized: $40

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Lot 2734    

Female Aviators Collection, 1928-1964. 60 or so flight & event & commemorative covers celebrating women aviators, most with autographs including Bettie Lund, Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes, Elinor "Flying Flapper" Smith, Louise Thader, Blanche Noyes, Gladys O'Donnell, Mildred Kauffman, Margaret Perry, Jean La Rene, and others, all pioneer women aviators nationally known in the 1930's; note also Jerrie Mock, first woman to fly solo around the world, in 1964; some duplication, still very unusual and scarce collection, please inspect.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $850

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Lot 2735    

First Flights & Airport Dedications, 1920-1950. 100's in a box, mostly 1929-1937, wide range of cachets, a few foreign and Caribbean destinations, the usual autographs, please inspect.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $160

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Lot 2736    

Flight Covers, 1925-1950. Carton with several 100's, in album and loose, much routine examples from the 1930's, but also including Macon covers, some with nice cachets, and other Zepp usages, closer examination recommended with surprises here and there, please inspect.
Estimate    $250 - 350.

Realized: $400

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Lot 2737    

Lindbergh Addressed Covers. About 100 1927 covers mostly sent shortly after the the release of the 10¢ Lindbergh Plane stamp (most franked with stamp), includes earlier Springfield, Ill. Lindbergh Day invitation cards with Lindbergh in cockpit illustration; inspect.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

Realized: $100

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Lot 2738    

Lindbergh Covers, 1927-1930. Nice group of over 40 covers, including 6 FDC's with printed cachets and postmarked St. Louis, Little Falls, Washington, D.C., on June 18, 1927, several other FDC's with r/s cachets; the balance being various flight covers with Lindbergh piloting or other C.A.M. 2 & F.A.M. 5 usages; several foreign usages Canada, Cuba, Panama, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Canal Zone; needs examination by a cachet & Lindbergh specialist.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $900

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Lot 2739    

Selection of Airmail Covers, 1924-1932. Attractive group of 37 airmail covers, including C13 (stamp VF) on Zepp South America Flight, a number of covers franked with C1-6 with some interesting corner cards; NY-Paris with Ile de France Catapult Service; several 1929 first flights Carribean destinations, several foreign frankings.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $525

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