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RATES: AEROGRAMMES - Have duplicates to FOUR CENTS PER WORD per insertion. exchange or sell. These include the scarce •\IIinimum charge one dollar. Remittance South African and Korean military sheets . must accompany order and copy. The Richard P. Heffner, 2012 Spring Street, AIRPOST JOURNAL. 350 No. Deere Park West Lawn, Penna. *372 Drive, Highland Park, Ill. EXCHANGE WANTED - Postally us2d 6 3/4 , Barber Pole UN. M.L Position Blocks. 1st design, 24 lb. Parchment Stock, 100% Rag day. Dr. Keller., Sr., Hilton, N. Y. *371 Content. Prices and Samples Ten Cents. Milton Ehrlich, 34-15A 31st Ave., Long Is­ OFFERING St. Lawrence Seaway land City 6, N. Y. Member A.A.M.S. 372 Souvenir Wooden Money (2). Want Plate Block Be Champion, or three 4c Commem. YOU OWE it to yourself to join Plates. John Kitchen, Route 6, 'Voodstock, Exclusively. No cash fees for next sixty Ontario, Canada. *371 days. Join now. Airmails Exclusively, ---· ·------1757 Henderson St., 13, 11. *371 50-4c U.S. Mint Comm. will bring you regular 200 kit of Phila-Tex cellulose ace­ FOREIGN Used , Single3 tate for making your own mounts. Ar­ and Complete sets on and off covers, better, 5319 N. Bernard, Chicago 25, Ill. Want list filled, Price list free. H/R Stamp Co., Box 89-N Long Beach, N. Y. *3'/2 ANTARCTIC Covers: Exchange ship for ship, base for base, flown for flown SCOTT #369 - 2c Lincoln 1909, bluish oa­ cover. Bill S9hneider, Metuchen, New per, very fine to superb. Used $11 00, Mint Jersey. $13.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. Wm. Rice, 87 Ave., Kingston 57, N. Y. JET 1st Flights to swap. Need airm'1il FDC, Pioneer and Historical flights. 1st and last day rate changes. Pesin, 1580 AAMS EXCHANGE ADS Lemoine Ave., Ft. Lee, N. J.

WANTED TO BUY: Foreign first day cov­ HA VE a lot of fine foreign mint air­ ers. Write before sending. Walter Brooke, sets to trade for mint sets need or Boyertown, Pa. *371 used airs. Arnold V. Larson, Twisp, Wash. Route No. 1. WANTED - Covers flown on NB-36H which carried atomic reactor on on flights AUTOGIRO Covers, photos, clippings. In­ flown between June 1955 and January terested in purchasing same for a special­ 1956. Edmond C. Brown, 120 Kenilworth ized collection. Bill Schneider, Metuchen, Place, Brooklyn 10, New York. New Jersey. WANTED FOR TRADE ~ Covers carried on nucle3.r sub "Seawolf" on first record NEEDED: 1960. Deds: L. A., Winnsboro, submerged trip of sixty days. Contact l'Tew Iberia, Corona, Ida Grove, Edgemer-2, Fort Madison, Carrolton, Des Moines, "'· Edmond C. Browne, 120 Kenilworth Place, Milford, Marshalltown, Flora, Montreal. Brooklyn 10, New York. S. Reinhard, 333 N. Columbus, Freep:>rt, EXCHANGE Airmail crash covers for N. Y. "Central Pacific Cocoanut Plantations, Ltd., Mail Boat Service Christmas Island" Interested FLOWN Airmail Covers, Neth­ covers and stamps. H. E. Gerrish, 21 Gray erlands, Curacao, Suriname Dutch Indies? Street, Hartford 5, Conn. *372 Buy or exchange used airs Europe, . S. A. Keizer, 84 Lawrence Ave­ AVIATION Photos. Interested in exchang­ nue, Brooklyn 30, N. Y. ing avi'1tion photos. Pilots,. planes, auto­ ------•'iros, helicopters and dirigibles. Bill SCADTA Consular . Contact Schneider, Metuchen, New Jersey. wanted with collectors interested in these items. Exchange, sell, buy. Write to Or­ PRIVATE Collector wants jan Luning, Odengatan 11, Stockholm 0, material. What have you? Harl2y, 1102 Sweden. Trum'1nsburg Road, Ithaca, N. Y. FAMOUS Planes, Famous Pilots, willing WANTED - Airport dedication covers. to exchange photographs. Bill Schneider, Send for want list of such covers. Wm. Metuchen, New Jersey. T. Wynn, Jr., 13537 Rockdale, Detroit 23, Mich. WANTED - Japanese Occupation in mint & used stamps or Postal Stationery or any KLM FLIGHTS to Las Palmas, Casablan­ related matter. Will exchange USA, UN, ca, Conakry or Accra for two 4c Pl. # Canada FDC or stamps. Yand L. Chung, blocks. Also Austria, France, S.A.S., etc. 611 Shipley St., Wilmington 1, Delaware, V. R. Wailly, Box 26, Roxbury 19, Mass. USA.

WANT - Scott's International Air Pest FDCs Belgium & Sabena flights available. Albums, new and used, Part II & III. Send want list. Exchange FAM and U.S. What do you need? Samuel Feinberg, 79 jets. Want crash covers. Walter Raes, East Alvord St., Springfield 8, M'1SS. 12109 T2hoe Ave., Hawthorne, Calif. THE AIRPOST JOURNAL AIRPORT Pictures. Interested in ex­ WANTED - First and special flight covers changing C.A.M. airport photos, 1926 to and stamps from the world, to the Olym­ 1938, for m y collection. Bill Schneider, pic Games. What do you want? Werner Metuchen, New Jersey. Raab, Meiningen/ Thur. DDR P.O. Box 181, West . WILL EXCHANGE other materials for "Europa" items of 1956 and 1957. Dmyt­ ro Bykovetz, Jr., P .O. Box 2913, Philadel­ STARTLED STORK! phia 26, Pa., U.S.A. In the little Dutch town of Best re­ "SEADRAGON"-First submerged North­ west Passage covers to exchange for Arc­ cently a solitary stork sat on the church tic and Antarctic covers. Bill Schneider, tower; apparently it had missed the an­ Metuchen, New Jersey. nual stork migration to the sunny south. TRADE - Socked-on-the-Nose U.S. Air . Brown C. Tucker, Box 675, Mur­ Compassionate citizens of Best took ray, Ky. pity on their feathered friend and took it ----- to Schipol Airport, Amsterdam. From ANTARCTIC Covers, Photos, and Clip­ pings. Interested in purchasing these there a KLM airliner conveyed the stork items for a specialized collection. Bill to Kano in Nigeria, where, no doubt, it Schneider, Metuchen, New Jersey. waited for the arrival of the 'main VIGNETTES Wanted 1909 - 1914 mint and stream' which it overtook somewhere en on card or cover of Italy, France, Ger­ many, U.S.A., etc. Cash or exchange. route. Dalwick, Dixholme, Churt, Surrey, Eng­ land. The handout does not reveal how the good citizens of Best found out where WANT Boy Scout covers. Exchange CAMs, FAMs, Miscellaneous Covers Air Events. the stork wanted to go, or whether it Orian E. Green, 555 W. Drayton Ave., wanted to go at all. Ferndale 20, Mich.

WANTED - By private collector of an­ tiquities, letters prior to 1700. HARLEY, 1102 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, N . Y.

WANTED - Germany and China Special­ ized material; Old State, Occup., Local, Postal Card. Will exchange USA, UN, HARRIS Canada First Day Covers or purchase out­ right. Yand L . Chung, 611 Shipley St., Wilmington 1, Delaware. U.S. A. CRASH COVERS. Have a few duplicates to exchange; please send your list. Bill Schneider, Metuchen ,New Jersey. CATALOG ...... WOULD LIKE to trade for Airport Dedi­ cations. Have lots of F. Flites, D eds, Aus­ HUNDREDS OF tralian F.D.C. covers to trade for w hat I need. Answer all mail. Joh n Slavin, 23 PRICE CHANG~S! · Orford, Lowell, Mass. 160 PAGES • NEARLY 2000 ILLUSTRATIONS PHILATELIC Exhibition and . Convention Seals and Cachets. Will purchase. C. F. Brand new edition of America's most widely used Sponholz, R. 2, H artland, Wis. AAMS 4244. U. S. & B.N.A. catalog - containing hundreds of important price changes - published . by · WANTED -W ashington, Jefferson , Frank­ world's largest stamp firm. Complete illustrated. lin and Lincoln CREDO FDC with corres­ ponding stamps of Liberty series on same listing of all major U. S. issues, U. S. Posses­ covers. Purchase or trade. Ferris D . sions and British . Also specialties, White, 10340 S. E . Harrison St., Portland 16, Oregon. Confederate States, United Nations, "Ameri­ cana" PLUS U. S. Stamp Identifier - compre­ WANT Boy Scout Jamboree & Camporee hensive illustrated booklet. Tells you how Covers from Israel. (FLOWN). Have oth­ to distinguish between rare and common er Scout Covers for exchange. Chester Ernest Lee, 6933 L a Jolla Blvd., La Jolla, "look-alike " stamps. All . this and more . in our BIG interesting catalog. "'ANTED - Zeppelin Catapult and covers in exchange for Chilean air mail stamps and souvenir proof sheet. Al­ fredo Saavedra M - (4767), Gay # 2145, Santiago, Chile. *372 APRIL, 1961 PAGE 169 The American Air Mail Society A Non-Profit Corporation Incorporated 1944 Organized 1923 Under the Laws of Ohio PRESIDENT Official Publication of the Robert W. Murch 9560 Litzinger Road AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY St. Louis 24, Mo. SECRETARY VOL. 32 No. 7 ISSUE NO. 371 Ruth T. Smith 102 Arbor Road Riverton, New Jersey TREASURER Contents ...... for April, 1961 John J. Smith 102 Arbor Road James K. Allen, Lincoln's First Riverton, New Jersey Aeronaut ... 171 VICE-PRESIDENTS How Does a Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr. Louise S. Hoffman Come About? .... 174 Florence L. Kleinert Paginas de la Historia Aero Postal Dr. Southgate Leigh, Jr. de Cuba...... 177 EDITOR - Other Publications Foreign Pioneer Airpost Flights L. B. Gatchell 1909-1914 181 ATTORNEY Official Section ..... 184 George D. Kingdom Latin American Pioneers in Aviation .. 185 DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN RELATIONS Balloon Post of the Siege of Paris, Dr. Max Kronstein 1870-71 ...... ··········· 187 AUCTION MANAGER Legal Footnotes to History ... 190 Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. The Philatelic Story of Flight ...... 192 DIRECTORS Alton J. Blank Air Mail Stamps of Brazil: Their Herbert Brandner History 196 Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. Lester S. Manning Donald E. Dickason Auction' ..... 198 Emmett Peter, Jr. Dr. Tomas Terry Earl H. Wellman Horace D. Westbrooks EDITOR ADVANCE BULLETIN SERVICE Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr. Herbert Brandner 350 No. Deere Park Drive, Highland Park, lli. 4038 Forest Ave., Brookfield, Ill. ASSISTANT EDITORS SALES MANAGER Robert w. Murch Herman Kleinert Ernest A. Kehr L. B. Gatchell 213 Virginia Ave., Fullerton, Pa. DEPARTMENT AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS MEMBERSHIP DUES R. Lee Black, N. Pelletier, Florence L. Kleinert, Dr. Max Kronstein, Richard L. Singley, William $4.00 PER YEAR R. Ware, Julius Weiss, James Wotherspoon, John Dues include subscription to Watson, William T. Wynn, Frank Blumenthal, THE AIRPOST JOURNAL. Ap­ Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr., J. S. Langabeer. plicants must furnish two ref­ Published monthly at Albion, Erie Co., Pa., U.S.A. erences, philatelic preferred. At Entered as second-class matter at the least one must reside in Appli­ at Albion, Pa., Februarv 10, 1932, under cants home town. Applicants rn.e Act of March 3, 1879. under 21 years must be guar­ anteed by Parent or Guardian. The AIRPOST JOURNAL is not conducted for Membership may be terminated profit. The Editor, and all others, serve without by the Society in accordance compensation. Receipts from advertising, sub­ scriptions and contributions are applied to the with its By-Laws. betterment of the magazine and the promotion Correspondence concerning sub­ of aero-. scriptions, back numbers and The Editor and Officers of The American Air bound volumes, address changes Mail Society assume no responsibility for the and other matters and all re­ accuracy of statements made by contributors. mittances should be sent to the Every effort is made to insure correctness of Treasurer. All general commun­ all articles. ications and advertising should Subscription Rates: $4.00 per year, 35c per copy. be sent to the Editor. Advertising Rate Card available from the Editor PAGE 170 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL James K. Allen: Lincoln's First Aeronaut In the Civil War By Robert: Schoendorf When the guns started roaring from the ramparts of Fort Sumter on that fate­ ful day of April 12, 1861 the specter of civil war looming behind the horizon be­ came a reality. The echo of the guns reverberated to the far corners of the land engendering a frenzied wave of pat­ riotism which reached its highest pitch when Lincoln called for troops. Twenty­ four of the state governors rushed to dis­ patch the first contingent into the field. Rhode Island had its Fir t Regiment ready for com bat on April 17. This group included New England's aeron­ aut, Professor James K. Allen, with his balloon equipment, a fact that gained for him the distinction of being the first mil­ itary balloonist in the Union Army. Reports show that his first aerial ob­ servation was made in June near Glen­ wood, north of the Capital in Washing­ ton v11ithin the framework of the city's Island Regiment with orders to proceed defense plan. · By this time aerial recon­ to the battlefields near Falls Church, naissance had found many enthusiasts; Va. During the battle Allen was to make so much so that T. S. C. Lowe made his an aerial observation but while the bal­ famous ascent from the Columbian Ar­ loon was being inflated a heavy gale tore mory and while aloft dispatched the first it from the moorings, rendering it unus­ telegraph message ever sent from the air able. Originally, Allen refused to go aloft to President Lincoln, his financial back­ under such weather conditions but .,was er. This telegram is in the collection of forced to do so by orders from Col. Am­ the Robert T. Lincoln papers, in the Lib­ brose Burnside. (Later general) rary of Congress. After the first battle of Manassas, end­ Allen left Washington with the Rhode ing in defeat to the Union forces. Allen

APRIL, 1961 PAGE 171 was discharged from the Army. How­ Allen's front line dispatches, as borne ever, those responsible for this measure out by the , were either chan­ recognized their blunder and restored nelled through the Old Point Comfort, him to his position before the onset of Va., or the Washington, D . C. Post Of­ the subsequent Peninsular Campaign. fices. With his brother Ezra, he joined the Bal­ Of historical significance are two en­ loon Corps as Lowe's senior assistant. velopes postmarked Old Point Comfort When the latter became disabled after and Washington, D. C., addressed to the battle of Malvern Hill Allen directed ' Prof. T. S. C. Lowe, Chief Aeronaut the· operations as Chief Aeronaut. U. S. Am1y" with the original letters By this time the first "Air Arm" had headed "Balloon Camp, Harrison's Land­ proved beyond doubt its value in the ing on James River, Va." signed "James field of battle, not only by observing the Allen, Assistant Aeronauf', reporting on encampments and troop movements a~d the enemy positions as observed from the reporting them accurately in virtually air. The important fact is that the ascen­ hundreds of ascensions but also by di­ cions were made from aboard a vessel, recting the artillery fire from the air dur­ the Civil War version of our present day ing actual combats. In addition, the aircraft carrier. psychological factor cannot be ignored. The Balloon Corps-due to its semi­ The sight of a balloon made the Confed­ military character-had no special sta­ -erates uneasy and at times even jittery. tionery, at least not during the first war It is puzzling that this intriguing sub­ period while Prof. Lowe was Chief. ject should have remained unexplored by Whether these front line dispatches were .aerophilatelists. There were only nine carried in the air cannot be definitely military aeronauts with some active for established but it is a reasonable assump­ only a short period-( a ground crew of tion that they may be flown as the bal­ 200 cannot be considered for our pur­ loonists kept their writing material in the pose). In this search the writer ·had the balloon baskets to make on-the-spot re­ ithrill of his lifetime when a well-known ports. Thus the e envelopes could pos­ collector sold ·h~m some envelopes which, sibly be considered as our first military a study proved, were penned in the airmail. fields of battle by our first military bal­ As the war took its toll the Balloon loonists. All are addressed to Prof. T. S. Corps kept dwindling down. From the Lowe, the chief aeronaut of the U. S. original team were left only Ezra and Army who organized the Balloon Corps. James Allen under whose command it Identification of the various pilots i was placed. Various privileges were at­ easily established by the handwriting. tached to this appointment, one of which PAGE 172 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL was the use of the official crest on his children; two sons, James K. and Mal­ stationery for the duration of the war, as ' em Hill, were outstanding profession­ may be seen from the cover illustrated. als. Their work took them to the West It shows a purple vignette of an Army Coast where they assisted Montgomery, balloon, adorned with the eagle holding the first man to conduct experiments a sheaf of arrows and the olive branch, '~ ith heavier-than-air gliders. perched on the shield with the name "Al­ len" underneath. The address is in Al­ The Allens became the nation's most len's own hand, the distinctly air-minded family and it was primarily 1864, probably the latest use of this due to ther efforts and enthusiasm that form as go' ernment sanction ceased af­ the American public was made aware of ter the Balloon Corps was disbanded. In the far reaching possibilities of aerial ex­ spite of an intensive search only two ploration, laying the ground for the new specimens were located b) the writer. era of heavier-than-air machines . Important as these cover are as a tan­ Many stamps have been released by gible memento of our Civil War "Air­ our Post Office Department during the force" they are of greater interest to the ? as t few years, and one wonders why an student of as the fir t of­ issue commemorating the activities of ficial air stationery. our first Civil · War pilots is not forth­ coming. The "Allen" story would be incomplete if the post-war activities were not men­ The writer '~ 'ould appreciate hearing tioned . In 1867 Professor Lowe received from collectors with Civil War Balloon an urgent request for the introduction of items to supplement this study. His ad- aerial reconnaissance from the Emperor dress is: 7832 - Blst Street, Glendale 27, of Brazil in the war against Paraguay. L. I., N. Y. Lowe, at that time occupied with other projects, had the Allen brothers carrv out this mission. It was their interve;­ tion that brought about a quicker end MI NT Al RMAI L SETS of this conflict. WANT LISTS welcomed for Mint only ~or South and Central America, Mex­ Returning from Brazil, the Allens pur­ ico, Canada-AIR MAILS, POSTAGE, etc. Complete sets our Specialty· sued ballooning for the next 50 years singles also furnished. • with unrelenting vigor, making hund­ reds of flights. The team included the Woodmere Stamp Company P. o. Box 145 Woodmere, N. Y. entire Allen clan down to the grand­ APRIL, 1961 PAGE 173 ';it°"' 1'oe4 4 ?"14t ?~ ~ ~ //~?

any collectors have indicated an• interest in the arrangements to be made before, during, and after a first air mail flight philatelic service. There M are a million and one details and countless frustrations. The gratification from the many, many kind letters received from collectors when they send in their covers, however, more than makes up for the trials and tribulations in providing first flight cover service. A typical first flight cover assignment occured when I was asked by Mr. Thomas Kennedy, Public Relations Director of Irish International , to arrange for the first Shamrock Jet Mail Flight between the and Ireland. This hap­ pened the first week in November and the first scheduled flight from Dublin and Shannon to Boston and New York. and return, was not scheduled until December 14, 1960. Six weeks to prepare-this seemed ideal. First we must write the U. S. Post Office Department to obtain approval for first flight cover service from both New York and Boston to Shannon and Dublin. At the same time a similar letter must go to the Irish Postal Administration to obtain approval for philatelic service in the -reverse direction. Arrangements must be made for artwork. rubber stamp cachets, announcements in postal bulletins and backstamping of covers and return to senders. All these points are covered in the letters to the postal administrations. The International Division of the U. S. Post Office Department is most co­ operative and a reply was received immediately that philatelic service would be authorized. Word came from Ireland that there was insufficient time to arrange the service. It looked like a one way first flight cover service. We mustered all possible reasons to convince the postal officials of Ireland that this philatelic service should be provided. Thanks to them and their close­ ness to the U. S. Post Office Department they did agree to reciprocate the service. And a request was made for artwork, immediately, for the cachet. ' The artist, George Cyrus Adams, prepared three sketches for approval by Irish International Airlines, and one was selected for use in both directions, by reversing the plane. The final drawing was flown to Ireland and we waited for approval of the work from there. In the meantime we started to issue the press releases to the press; send an­ nouncements to the collectors on my philatelic mailing list; and otherwise bring at­ tention to this new philatelic service. The artwork for the New York and Boston covers was sent to the Post Offce Department and accepted and we looked forward to approval of the artwork from Ireland so we could have the rubber stamps manufactured and returned to Dublin and Shannon. Time was beginning to be a factor. A week went by and covers were being sent in by the hundreds for mailing from Shannon and Dublin back to the United States - and still no word from Ire­ land about the artwork. Finally, word came: they had prepared their own cachet and rubber stamps for use at both Dublin and Shannon. We had to work hard and long now to get all the covers ready for mailing from Ireland. So many things can go wrong. I damaged a few covers trying to extract them from the outer envelopes; my assistant actually spent three minutes trying to extract one dollar in coins from a single . They had taped the coins so securely in cardboard it was a major operation to remove the money. PAGE 174 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Robert Christenberry, , New York, New York, (third from left) displays framed •artwork and first Shamrock Jet Air Mail Cover :l:'o Mr. James Lat, Vice President, Irish International Airlines. Mr. Andrew Shiland, President, Shlland Corporation (extreme right) and Howard Brooks, Postal Consultant, Irish International Airlines and associated with Mr. Shiland on extreme left. Collectors misinterpret instructions and fail to affix stamp o ,,-e do it: Some send in money and ask that we buy the United Nations stamps for them; some covers have no fillers and are damaged even before we get them; others haYe the address all over the front of the envelope and there is no room for the cachet. Some cover arrive with addre ses written lightly in penci,1 - so lightly that the addresses are illegible. And we always have to be careful that the covers are correctly sorted to be mailed from the right post office. There i a lot of work and so many collectors wait until the deadline date to send in their co\·er . It is very interesting work, though, and so many people send in pleasant notes thanking the for servicing the covers. The more I worked on the assignment and saw th e tremendous volume of covers the more I worried about the mailing from Dublin and Shannon. I therefore asked Mr. Leet, Vice President of Irish International Airlines, for apprornl to personally supervise the mailing of the covers from Ireland and he approved my request. So on Saturday I cleaned up the few straggling co\·ers, packed up all 3,000 first flight covers and on Sunday, December 11, 1960, set off for Dublin. I arrived in Dublin at 3 P.M. on December 12, and the first jet flight was to leave at 3 P.M. on December 14. Fortunately the public relations officials of Irish International Airlines met me at the airport and within 30 minutes I had checked into the Hotel and was talking to my old friend Patty Duigneain, Deputy Director APRIL, 1961 PAGE 175 of Posts of Ireland. He arranged for me to purchase an initial 2,000 special air mail stamps - and with my personal check for One Hundred and Twenty Five Pounds. I wondered how that was going to set with.my bank in New York. Although I had arrived in Dublin at 3 P.M., by 4:30 P.M. Mr. Conroy, my new found friend of Irish International Airlines, and I were busy affixing the stamps to the first flight covers that I had brought from the United States. We learned that arrangements had been made for the Shannon covers to be mailed from Limerick, where the cachet was being used, instead of at Shannon. That meant our covers had to be in the Dublin post office by 12:30 PM on December 13, and on a train for Limerick by 2:30 PM. The cachet would have to be affixed, the covers postmarked and sent to the Shannon Airport for dispatch on December 14 at about 4 PM. Mr. Conroy and I worked into the night and beginning at 7 :30 AM the next morning to meet the 12:30 PM deadline on December 13. We made it-with five minutes to spare. Then lunch with Patty Duigneain-the most affable Irish Postal official. Without his cooperation I could never have handled the assignment prop­ erly. After lunch there was a conference with the officials of Irish International Air­ lines, since they had decided that week to appoint me Postal Consultant for the air­ line beginning in January. What a couple of days they had been! I fell asleep that night reading that absorbing novel "Advise and Consent". Next day was the first jet flight from Dublin and Shafjnon to Boston and New York, and I was on board full of relief that the job was finished and nothing had gone wrong. The flight back was lovely and it was easy to relax. And relax I did until the Captain announced that due to weather we would next land at Halifax and continue on to New York after refueling. Jloston was really snowbound-and there were all those covers intended for backstamping by the Bos­ ton post office. It was a real feeling of futility. Then the Captain came back on the loudspeaker and announced that we were going straight on into New York. I knew then that there was no longer any hope for a Boston backstamp on the covers, nor was there time to prepare any covers for the next flight from Ireland to Boston. I had a drink. So my work wasn't over. There were many inquiries about the Boston back­ stamp and some inquiries about missing covers. I have never figured out where these missing covers disappear to. I do know that some covers get through with no address on them, and I write my name and address on them in pencil, hoping I can match up the cover with some inquiry. I was able to do this wifu only eight covers on the Irish flight. It is lots of fun-and it wouldn't require mud1 doing if all collectors used high grade envelopes that wouldn't blot the rubber stamp cachet; if they kept their name and address very legfble and .on the right hand side of the envelope; and if they used f!llers; and if they would not put U.S. postage on covers to be mailed from foreign countries; and-I better say no more, or I won't have a job to do for collectors. HOWARD A. BROOKS, Postal Consultant, Irisih International Airlines PAGE 176 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Paginas de la Historia Aero Postal de Cuba (Reprinted from the magazine of the Club Filatelico de la Republica de Cuba)

DOMINGO ROSILLO • ban James Ward, Bradt, Charles Walsh UN PR·ECURSOR DE LA A VIACION celebridades de aquellos dias y el muy EN CUBA popular que efectuaba By Dr. Tomas Terry evoluciones en su pequeno dirigible Nada mas natural y molesto en estos "The Hudson River". anos inquietos y tormentosos de la post Sin duda alguna las demostraciones guerra que el ver y oir cruzar sobre nues­ efectuadas por el grupo "Curtiss aviva­ tras cabezas en todas direcciones, a todas ron el entusiasmo de algunos cubanos horas y en medio de infernal estrepito, pues pronto surgen nuestros primeros gigantescos cuatrimotores y rapidos apar­ pilotos aviadores que efectuan, igual­ atos a reaccion, que han reducido a un mente los domingos por la manana sus minimo las distancias que antes se re­ excelentes exhibiciones unas veces desde corrian en factor de dias. los terrenos del Campamento de Colu­ mbia y otras en la finca la Bien Apare­ Pero muchos ignoran y otros ya han cida en Luyano. olvidado los dias lejanos y por tanto Estando en uno de aquellos improvi­ mejores sin ningun genero de dudas en sados aerodromos con mi padre gran que todo era actividad y espectacion en aficionado a estas competencias y Presi­ calles, ventanas y azoteas donde todas dente por muchos anos del Automovil y las miradas convergian hacia lo alto para Aero Club de Cuba pudo ver cuando le contemplar en medio de la mayor emo­ era presentado por el senor Generoso cion uno de a,quellos artefactos que por Cabal el piloto que mas se habia dis­ puro milagro vencian las !eyes de la tinguida aquella manana, Domingo Ro­ gravedad en sencillas aunque arriesgadas sillo, el cual tras redbir las felicitaciones maniobras. de mi padre le expone brevemente su Nunca olvidaremos aquellos domingos proyecto de vuelo Key West - Habana en horas de la manana en Paris en que "que efectuare si Dios y el tiempo me lo toda la poblacion vivia pendiente de un permiten" segun dijo como despedida. insignificante punto en el espacio cuan­ En efecto pocos dias despues y de do solia acompanar a mi abuelo don acuerdo con estas palabras se efectuo Andres Terry y Dorticos al campo de aquella proeza de la incipiente aviacion aviacion de Issy-les-Moulineaux donde de aquellos dias que habia de dar gloria despues de cortos vuelos que raramente a Cuba y fama a un hornbre todo volun­ excedian los limites del campo, pero pro­ tad y valor. ducian las mayores ovaciones entre el Domingo Rosillo y del Toro nacio en publico: veiamos a Bleriot o Wilbur Oran Argelia, en 1878 y muy joven Wright y otras veces a Santos Dumont llego a Cuba donde su padre man­ o Farm recibir de sus manos, artisticos tenia un tren de coches; poco sabemos y valiosos trofeos, que pudimos ver de sus actividades por aquellos anos, qmchos anos mas tarde cuidadosamente pero consta que su carta de ciudadania conservados en las vitrinas del Aero Club fue firmada bajo la lntervencion provi­ de Francia. sional por el Gobernador Charles E. Ma­ La Habana no se mostraba indiferente goon, el 12 de abril de 1907. en este movimiento aeronautico y desde Su aficion por la aviacion comenzo a 1910 pudo presenciar un primer conato manifestarse desde nino y cuando le fue de vuelo en la breve y muy pobre dem­ posible ingreso en la escuela Morane­ ostracion que ofrecieron los franceses Beaurel - mas tarde Morane-Saulnier­ Bellot y Weiss en la pista del antiquo en Vidames, cerca de Paris, donde ob­ Hipodromo de Marianao, utilizando un teniendo uno de los mejores expedientes primitivo biblano Voisin de 60 HP. se gradua con todos los honores de pil­ En enero de 1911 visito la ciudad el oto aviador el 22 de octubre de 1912, grupo de pilotos que componian el grupo siendole concedido por la "Comision "Curtiss Exhibitions Co" donde figura- Sportiv Aeronautique" el Carnet No. 974. APRIL, 1961 PAGE 177 Poco despues de su graduacion ad­

INTRODUCTION TO SERIES B. • This second group of reports is concerned with pioneer flights of the period in which there were no special airstamps, but where special stationery was issued either with imprinted airstamps and air vignettes or with imprinted postage stamps. Also a few instances are included, where other special stationery was ob­ ligatory as payment for the air fee. There were many events to which special commemorative cards were issued, but only such will be considered for this group where purchase of these issues was re­ quired for air transportation and where the purchase of such stationery represented another form of payment for the air transportation. The first two articles of this group concern events which also covered the first airpost transportation in ·their particular continent. 1. The First Official Airpos:t Transportation On i'he African Continent: The Offic~al Pos:t Flights In The Union of South Africa, 1911. The interest in aviation as a prospective means of transportation over the wide distances of Africa was naturally an early one. The first airplane (a 55 HP Voisin Biplane) was imported into South Africa by Mr. Kimmer ling, an automobile sportsman. An attempted flight was reported in December, 1909 at East London and also one at Johannesburg. They were without special success. More successful was a start in Durban in April, 1910. In the following month Kimmerl~g turned his plane over to the Flying Sport Club in Durban. The interest of the public was im­ mense and wherever flight attempts were made, as many as 6000 spectators appeared on the field. At Johannesburg, one man paid $500 for the honor of being the first airplane passenger in South Africa. John Weston was reported to have had four airplanes; he made some flights at Kimberley, Johannesburg, Delagoa and Bloemfontain, but outside of the title of being a "first aviator" he was not successful. The first historical aerial event, concerning airmail transportation, took place near Capetown late in December, 1911. Organized by an African Aviation S)1ndi;­ cate, a preliminary announcement appeared on December 15, 1911 in the newspaper "Cape Argus" of Capetown. It pointed out that Weston, the first aviator to "take the air" in the peninsula around Capetown had not met with the best of luck in the matter of weather during his stay here and that 'his misfortune cuhninated the previous Saturday in a smash-up which fortunately resulted in no personal injury. Under the auspices of the Cape Peninsula Publicity Association new exhibition flights would take place in the Christmas season with Campton Patterson and E. F. Driver as aviators. The machines to be used by them were "of a different stamp" (than that of VVeston), particularly Mr. Driver's, which was a Bleriot monoplane, and "we are all anxious to see how they get on - or up. May they have better luck than t!he p:ioneer of flying in our midst". On December 23 appeared the following announcement: FLYING TODAY - UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE CAPE PENINSULA PUBLICITY ASSOCI­ ATION - PATERSON AND DRIVER AT KENILWORTH - SPECIAL CHEAP RAILWAY FARES - DEC. 23 TO 24 AND 27 TO 30 - JAN. 2 AND 3 - FLYING APRIL, 1961 PAGE 181 5 TO 7 - GATE OPEN 4 P. M. - PRICES: 5/ - 216 11- NO ADVANCE BOOKING. In this advertisement the four :holidays, Christmas, Dec. 26, Dec. 31 and New Years Day were not listed as flying days. Before describing the philatelic a pects the best description of the events might be given in the following eye-witness report, which appared in the Cape Argus newspaper on December 30, 1911: "A feature of the Christmas holiday attraction has •been the exhibitions of fly­ ing by Messrs. Paterson and Driver, two very expert and experienced aviators. The exhibit was naturally a great attraction, for although flying ~1achines are be­ coming common on the other side of the ocean, they are still great curiosities on this. To add greater interest to the exhibitions the postal authorities arranged to have an aerial post between Kenilworth and Muizenberg. The plan was to get the flying machines to carry postal bags between the two stations and to that end a special card was printed and readily sold at one shilling each. These cards can be posted to any address in the world, provided that they bear sufficient stampage and they are carried over the short circuit through the air and afterwards despatched to t!heir proper destination. The novelty of the thing has caught on and aerial post cards are all the rage. Several exceedingly interesting and sensational exhibition flights were made by both Mr. Paterson and Mr. Driver, but alas, ·the aviation week has not passed with out a regrettable accident having to be recorded. Mr. Paterson, who on Christ­ mas morning had set up a South African flying record by soaring 2000 feet up and covering a distance of about 30 miles in 35 minutes, essayed to give a demonstra­ tion on the Green Point Track on Tuesday morning (the 26th Dec.). There was a large crowd present, but the consternation of all around the enclosure may be imagined when, after ascending a height of about 50 feet, his biplane was seen to turn turtle and came down to the ground with a great crash. The brave aviator retained his presence of mind under these most trying conditions and shook him­ self free from the machine so as to allow himself to fall free. but he fell heavily, nevertheless, and at first it was feared that he had sustained very serious, if not fatal, injuries. Willing hands at once rushed to his assistance and he was carried PAGE 182 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL to the Hospital, where it was happily found that although very greatly shaken, he was not permanently hurt. The sympathies of all section of the people went out to the unfortunate aviator, who had proved his pluck and skill, and the announcement that he was making progress towards recovery and might even be able to give another exhibition before leaving the Peninsula, was received with expression of the greatest satisfaction. Sir Frederick Smith, the Mayor, who was pre ent on the ground when the accident occured, decided to stop all flying for that day. Subsequently, however, Mr. Driver has made very successful flights and carried aerial post bags between Kenilworth and M uizenberg". This last sentence must refer to the airmail flight of December 27 which is listed in British catalogues, as mail was flown in either of two directions, from Kenilworth to 1uizenberg, or from Muizenberg to Kenil'A orth. As already mentioned in the eyewitness report, the required air postcards were sold for one shilling each. The additional required for delivery in South Africa was 1/2d stamp and for delivery abroad it was one penny. The postage stamp received a circular "FIRST SOUTH AFRICAN AERIAL POST - KENILWORTH - (date)". And at the end of the flight a similar circular postal cachet was applied "FIRST SOUTH AFRICAN AERIAL POST - MUIZENBERG - ( date)". This reviewer has never seen a card flown on the return trip, but it might be .assumed that the Muizenberg cancellation appeared on the postage stamp with the Kenilworth cachet as a second cachet. The cards illustrated has another postal cachet of Muizenberg on Jan. 3, 1912, APRIL, 1961 PAGE 183 and the cachet of the place of its ultimate delivery. The fact that a cancellation of December 30, 1911 and a cachet of Jan 3, 1912 appear side by side, required further investigation. Here is the reason: The local newspaper on December 30 reported: "We are requested to state that there will be no flying at Kenilworth today, the weather conditions being unfavorable". This means that the mail had already been prepared before the flight was cancelled. Since no flights were scheduled for December 31 and for January 1, the mail was held over. Evidently no postflight took place on Jan. 2, which meant the Muizenberg postoffice undertook the redespatch ofter the air delivery on Jan 3 and stamped the card accordingly. If there were postflights on otl1er dates than Dec. 27 and Jan. 3, it is not known. However, cancellations of other days of the air events are possible. The D. Field Air Mail Catalogue of 1934 reports that l'here were 2,579 flown cards. Today, 50 years later, these cards are rare items. The Kenilworth flights stimulated interest in aviation in South Africa. Early in 1912 a South African Society for Aerial Navigation in Pretoria had about 100 members and soon afterwards the founding of a South African Air Transport Company was effected. A check list of later airposts in South Africa, including very little known flights between 1913 and 1920 was published in the British Journal "THE AERO FIELD" in May, 1957. OFFICIAL SECTION AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY MONTHLY REPORT . From the Secretary Ruth T. Smith, 102 Arbor Road, Riverton, New Jersey April 1, 1961 NEW MEMBERS 4810 Marion, Cecil P., Jr., PO Box 8071, Coral Gables 46, Fla. 4811 Mesiatowsky, Otto, 1718 43rd St., SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 4812 Martas, ,John W., 4529 Fredra St., Detroit 12, Mich. 4813 Neu, Arthur M., 120 Vermilyea Ave., New York 34, N. Y. 4814 Okal, Michel G., PO Box 1551, Beirut, Lebanon NEW APPLICATIONS Tierney, Herman, 3553 N. Oxford St., Indianapolis, Ind. Reporter. Age: 38. SC & PB FF CAM FAM RP CC OF DC Z CF lD By: H. A. Gordon Lim, K. D., 35 Gondangdialama, Djakarta 111/14, Indonesia. Dealer. Age: 33. PC HC PB FF RP CC OF Z lD APS X By: R. T. Smith Casebeer, David F., Jr., 1226 E. lOOth St., Seattle 55, Wash. Title Insur. Age; 28. AM X By: R. T. Smith Gelman, Stuart I., 600 E. 27th St., Paterson 4, N. J. Student. Age: 19. AM AU U20 UC GF lD APS By: R. T. Smith Hoydar, Albert L., Box 36, Selah, Wash. Dealer. Age: 65. AM AU U20 UC By: R. T. Smith CORRECTION IN SPELLING OF NAME #3782 KROEGER, Karl (Formerly Kroger) CHANGES OF ADDRESS 1404 Porter, George H., Ill, 5015 Douglas Dr., North Olmstead, Ohio 4363 Cole, Howard F., 1333 E. Oklahoma, Milwaukee 7, Wisc. 3727 Converse, Paul L., 9100 W. loth St., Wichita, Kansas 3816 Dahmann, Kurt, Fuggerstr. 38, w. 30, Germany 208 Fabian, Dominick, 7020 N. E. 13th Ave., Portland 11, Oregon 2874 Feinerman, Albert H., (Dr.), PO Box 31, Macomb, Ill. 3875 Gatlin, Edwin F., (Lt.), USS Cadmus (AR-14), Care FPO, New York, N. Y. 4545 Paine, Frank R., 12 Regent St., Cambridge, Mass. PAGE 184 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Latin American Pioneers in Aviation By Matthew J. Bruccoli On the morning of Oetober 23, 1906, • Paulo, who was killed on December 26, a dapper brasileiro in an elegant suit 1910, when he jumped from his monq-, with high collar, bow tie, and bouton­ plane on landing in order to hold the niere, and wearing a Panama hat, climb­ landing-roll short on a tiny field. ed agilely aboard a strange-looking craft, T·here were many like Picollo, lost in waved to a small group of onlookers and the anonymity of history, each of whom began one of aviation's historic voyages added to the general fund of experience of discovery. His journey lasted just 21 which has brought us finally to the Jet seconds. In that brief time the frail kite­ Age. like machine bore Albert Santos-Dumont Chile, challenged traditionally by the aloft and carried him safely a distance indescribable Cordillera, offered her first of more than 150 feet across the fields of sacrifice to Air Conquest when Luis Al­ France. This was Europe's first heavier­ berto Acevedo, a 28-year-old sportsman than-air flight and the first time a pow­ who had done much to popularize the ered machine had flown more than 150 new science in his country, crashed. feet. Three years earlier Orville Wright while on a flight in his Bleriot over the had flown successfully a powered 'heav­ rugged environs of the Bio-Bio River on ier-than-air machine across the wind­ April 13, 1913. Chile has had her share swept sands at Kitty Hawk-a journey of of heroic pioneers, none greater perhaps 120 feet lasting 12 seconds. than Luis Omar Page, whose monoplane, The tremendous scope of achievements Punta Arenas, was a familiar sight over of pioneers in· aviation were accomplish­ that city, and whose acrobatics prior to ed in less than 60 years, a relatively World War I gave Chilenos a sense brief time when compared to the millen­ of participation in the development of niums that have passed since the inven­ the art. David Fuentes and Emilio Cas­ tion of the wheel. But in that short in­ tro were two other Chilean counterparts terval the airplane has developed from a of North America's Lincoln Beachey fragile thing of wood, cloth, and wire and Galbraith P'. Rodgers during that into the sleek supersonic machine of to­ fabulous period of stick-and-wire avia­ day. The contributions of Latin Ameri­ tion. It was left to the Chilean flight can pioneers to aviation helped the air lieutenant Dagberto Godoy finally to age speed ahead. "Impossible" was an conquer the Andes on December 12, obsolete word to them. 1918. The crossing of the Cordillera had By the year 1909 men were able to been an almost unsolvable problem to manipulate the capricious "aerostats" aeronautical circles not only in South with considerable skill, and the Argen­ America but the whole world of avia­ tine Jorge Newberry, in his Huracan on tion. Lt. Godoy made the crossing at Christmas day of that year ascended from an elevation above sea-level of 23,000 Belgrano, scudded before a strong pam­ feet, a considerable accomplishment in pero wind, crossed the river La Plata a frail Bristol monoplane of 110 hp. A into Uruguay, traversed the entire length year later another Chileno, Captain Cor­ of that country and descended in Bagi, tinez, made a round-trip, and the great Brazil, 13 hours and 550 kilometers lat­ continent began perceptibly to shrink. er. It is evident that 'much of the signifi­ By now the airplane had begun to cant pioneering in South America was emerge as the most promising vehicle for done by the South Americans them­ navigation of such vast regions as char­ selves. Uruguay had her Cesario L. acterized this Hemisphere. This devel­ Berisso; Mexico her Captain Guillermo opment called for its full share of hero­ Ponce de Leon, Lieutenants Alberto Sali­ ism, for the airplane of the period was nas and Francisco Espejel, to name only an intractable creature indeed. One of a few; Chile had her Figueroa. who flew the earliest South American martyrs was a Bleriot monoplane from Batuco to Val­ Giglio Picollo, a notable aviator of Sao paraiso on March 25, 1913, 180 miles APRIL, 1961 PAGE 185 in 2lh hours, a remarkable speed record began gingerly to thread his flimsy 50 of the time; Peru her J. Ramon Montera hp Bleriot among the icy crags of the who in June, 1913 made the first non­ Simplon Pass. The goal was Milan, stop flight of 190 miles from Callao to Italy, 75 miles away, and the $20,000 Canete. prize of the Italian Aviation Society. It Nor did Central America and the Cari­ seems miraculous to us who peer from bbean remain unstirred by the aviation the windows of multi-engined super­ ferment during the pioneer days. As airliners,, that this gallant youth could early as September, 1910, Dr. J. J. successfully soar over such mountains de Praslin appeared in the U.S. to learn in his open-cockpit contrivance of fabric to fly Curwn machines for the pur­ and bamboo. This he did, but the winds pose of teaching aviation in his native had taken a toll of his gasoline supply, Nicaragua. Domingo Rosillo of Cuba won He cut his throttle for a refueling stop a prize of $10,000 and 1000 Key West at Domo d'Ossola on the Italian side of cigars when, on May 24, 1913, he flew the Alps. Thirty feet from a safe landing from Key West to Havana, a 90 mile a gust caught the h'ttle plane and over-water flight of 21/2 hours as re­ crashed it. He 'had 50 miles to go to markable in its time as the record-• reach Milan but, "because of the high breaking Air Force Jet Bomber flight skill in covering the dangerous part of from the U. S. to Argentina 45 years the undertaking" he was awarded half later. the prize. Four days later Jorge Chavez died from his injuries, aged 23. Peru has the distinction not only of having done her share in the advance­ It seemed at the time that this feat ment of aviation upon her own great was more than the world should ex­ continent but of having created, as pect at that stage of aviation's progress. Brazil had done in Santos-Dumont's Jean Bielovicic, compatriot and friend time, an aeronautical sensation abroad of Chavez, did not think so, and in such as to excite the imagination of the January 25, 1911, he took off from whole civilized world. During the four Brieg to duplicate his friend's flight. month period between September, 1910, Following the same route, with identical and January, 1911, the two heroes maxi­ equipment, he negotiated the Simplon mos of the aviation world, the figures Pass, brought his Bleri9t smoothly down who had earned the right to be de­ to the same field on which Chavez had scribed the most daring fliers of the fatally crashed a few month before, in epoch, were both Peruvians away from so doing cutting the elapsed time of his home. friend's flight in half, and so confirmed definitely the conquest of the Alps by On September 23, 1910 - remem­ the aviators of Peru. ber that at that time it was quite an ac­ complishment just to take off, flutter These gifted pioneers could not have once or twice around the fair ground's visualized how greatly their distances and race track, and make an unfatal landing speeds could be excelled, how many - Jorge Chavez startled the world by people would travel by air, how air­ flying an airplane over the Alps! craft would be put to a multiplicity of use. Chavez, a Peruvian whose name was once a world-wide word, was born in So fast is aviation progressing from the 1887 and learned to fly at the Farman early days of crude flying machines that school in Paris in 1909. Within a few today you can fly jet from New York to months he was internationally known, Buenos Aires a distance of 5,600 miles a regular competitor at the great meets in only 15 hours. Yet the sweeping of Biarritz, Vienna, Tours, Blackpool, stream of aeronautical progress has only and Lyon. At Issy, France on September begun. The creative efforts of invent­ 8, 1910, he had made the world's alti­ ors and aviators are stimulated by their tude record of 8,400 feet. This was a re­ dream for greater accomplishments, this hearsal for the 23rd of September when time travel into outer space. he took off from Brieg, Switzerland, and -( From the Grace Log) PAGE 186 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Balloon Post Of The Siege Of Paris, 1870-71 By LOUIS A. CHAINTRIER Translated by DR. EVERETT E. THOMPSON and GEORGE W. ANGERS Chapter 28 - General Uhrich (continued)

Among the people who had come to­ • fasten their horses in the stable directly gether at Grimbert to help in the rescue underneath the loft where the pigeons was Mr. Duponnois, owner of the Hotel were; but they entered the large room Saint Damien, located in the principal of the inn to smoke and to drink the street of the town, who was also mana­ beer served to them with an alacrity easy ger of the coaches. to imagine. It was in this hotel that the officers The General Uhrich had left Paris of the Bavavian garrison gathered sever­ on Friday evening; these events took al times a day to take their meals. The place during the daytime of Saturday. duty of providing for the needs of this Since the official dispatches were ur­ mess whe:re they lived well gave Du­ gent and discovery feared, Duponnois ponnois the advantage of crossing the decided to advance the usual day of enemy lines once every eight days in his trips and to leave on Sunday, the order to go to Gournay en Bray or even 20th with Thomas and Lemoine who to the environs of Roven, one could were disguised in the most miserable purchase poultry and other food, the clothes that could be obtained. Dupon­ excellent quality of which the Bavarians nois intended to place the pigeon cages appreciated. These gastronomic expe­ under the baskets destined to hold the ditions had generally taken place on supplies. and escorted by his two pre­ Mondays. tended helpers, he set out at 5 a.m. to­ Together with Mr. Meu, mayor of Lu­ wards Gou11nay en Bray where they ar­ zarches, Duponnois decided to take ad­ rived in the evening to spend the night. vantage of these practices in a fashion En route in order to show that they did traditional since the invasion; to for­ not fear any investigation Duponnois had ward the dispatches, the pigeons and the happy idea of purchasing a lot of the aerial travelers that the people were fish from a fisherman who happened to hiding to Tours. It was decided to be­ be in front of a Prussian post in charge gin by carrying all the objects to the of a bridge guard. The commandant Hotel St. Damien; naturally a time was came up during the bargaining that chosen when it was presumed that the was taking a long time and as the Bavarian officers would not appear. But officer displayed a desire to have a carp, since the habits of the garrison could not Duponnois sold him one at a ridiculously have the same regularity as in times of low price which put the petty officer peace. the door of the inn was closed in a good humor, and they parted the while they stowed away in the back very best of friends. What was left of the part of the loft the four baskets of pig­ fish served as dinner for the travelers eons which contained indiscreet and when they reached Gournay, where therefore dangerous guests. For these they passed the night. birds, in good spirits after having abund­ It still remained for them to complete ant grain and water, were cooing in eag­ the last part of their undertaking, per­ er rivalry without suspecting the conse­ haps the most difficult, and that was to quences that this liveliness could have penetrate into the French lines, ap­ Jor them. proaches to which were extremely dan­ If this precaution had not been taken, gerous and which had been fatal to all would have been lost, for the Ba­ more than one brave messenger. DupOill­ varians arrived ahead of their usual hour. nois accompanied the two fugitives as The fact that the door was closed and far as Rouen where they arrived at 4 even the long time that it took to unlock p. m. the next day, Monday; five days it, did not arouse their suspicion. When later he had returned to Luzarches where they were in the courtyard they went to he resumed his occupation. APRIL, 1961 PAGE 187 As for the letters, they were at first weeks later Gilbert Boucher, mayor of bidden in the stove of

Airport Dedications 521 Fifth Ave., New York 17, N. Y. By WILLIAM T. WYNN 13537 Rockdale, Detroit 23, Mich. Very little airport dedication news at this time of year, but when the weather improves many new dedications are due this spring and summer. A large number • Jets of letters has been written and we hope Sputniks to have some of them with dates in the • near future .... Granite Falls, Wash., "I. G. Y." will dedicate this spring, Mr. K. H. Pad­ • gett, manager of the Green Valley air­ port, will hold your covers .... On Jan. 15, Asheville, N. C. held an official • opening of their new airport and 125 Antarctic covers were mailed by the Chamber of • Commerce without cachet. The dedica­ Expeditions tion of this port will be held this spring • and the Chamber of Commerce promises Rockets to keep us informed .... Weed Airport • at Mt. Shasta, Calif. was dedicated last U. N. - N. Y. fall from reports, but we don't know • the date and no covers have been re­ Ghana ported. . . . Metropolitan Airport at San­ • ta Rosa, Calif. was dedicated last Labor - BEAUTIFUL COVERS - Day, but again we know of no covers ASK FOR A SELECTION TODAY mailed .... It's too bad such ports dedi­ cate without advance notice, so that cov­ - WALTER R. GUTHRIE ers can be mailed. Do you have an answer P. 0. BOX 390 to this problem? If so, please let us TUCSON, ARIZONA £ know. Your sell-addressed cards will be held. There is no charge for this service. APRIL, 1961 PAGE 189 Legal Footnotes to Aviation History By Nicholas Shymko

In April 1913, Ruth Bancroft Law • Concluding that the contingency upon contracted with Randall A. Harrington which the $300 was to be returned had to make exhibition flights on May 30, not heen clearly shown to have arisen by 31, and June 1, 1913 at an amusement the plaintiff the Court allowed Miss park at Rocky Point, town of Warwick, Law's appeal. Rhode Island. She was to receive $1200 in four payments of $300 each, the first Labor of Love Produces Lisi of upon the arrival of the machine at Rocky Point and the others upon the conel usion Canadian Airmail Pilots of each day's exhibition flying. The Flight Lieutenant R. K. Malott of the contract further stipulated that the daily Royal Canadian Air Force has sent us flights, at least two in number, were to a list of over 300 Canadian airmail total 30 minutes each day and if "no pilots which he has compiled. This job flights are made" the initial advance of must have taken many years to ac­ $300 was to be returned. complish, and it certainly is a labor of On the 30th Mis Law made a flight, love! being. airborne for three minutes, and His listing includes name, companies while landing a strong gust of wind employing each pilot, present address. if threw the plane against an automobile known, or date of death, and address of and damaged it so that no further flights next of kin if deceased. were made. He has a few copies of this fine list left Harrington successfully sued for the and will be glad to present them to col­ refund of the $300 upon which Miss Law lectors of Canadian flights. We suggest appealed, maintaining her right to retain that if interested, readers send him some that sum under the terms of the contracf. Canadian flight covers to help him de­ The appeal court, with one dissension, fray the costs of production and mailing. held that the intention of ·the parties as Address him: 130226 FIL R. K. ascertained from the wording of the con­ Malott, 30 A.M.B., R,C.A.F, C.A.P.O. tract was to draw a distinction between 5051, London, England. the flights that constituted a day's work and those that rendered the initial ad­ This is an extremely welcome and vance not returnable. The court was of valua:ble contribution to our hobby, Truly the opinion that if the number or dura­ a tremendous project! tion of flights required to make this term of the contract operative had been in the Thanks To- minds of the contracting parties, it would have been natural to state it specifically. Dr. Max Kronstein, for cover recogniz­ "There was doubtless some expense in­ ing 30th anniversary of Austria's first volved in the transportation of the aero­ rocket flight;; Francis J. Field, Ltd., .for plane, hence the provision for the pay­ Tibet air mail card; John H. Shoumaker, ment of $300 upon its arrival. The pres­ for first flight cover Fort Lauderdale; ence of the machine and its flight, Franklin E. Bruns, Jr. for a beautiful do­ though for only three minutes, would mestic air mail system map; Brooks Post­ naturally furnish some attraction for the al Service for Northeast jet first flight patrons of the resort. It is, we think, covers, first African jet covers, and Tam­ common knowledge that such machines pa-New York first flights; Joachim Dill, cannot be operated with the strictness of Frankfurt-Tokyo first jet flight; J. M. schedule of which some instruments of Weinstein, first day cover of aerogrammes transportation are capable. We cannot revalued from Pretoria, Union of South say that such uncertainty was not taken Africa; Ojan Luning, first day cover into account by the parties or that it did Swedish S.A.S. stamp; Philatelic service, not find expression in l;he somewhat in­ United Arab Republic, new 3rd anni­ definite provision under consideration." versary Egyptian stamps. PAGE 190 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL BOOK REVIEW is illustrated by such examples as the used 1918 24c bi-colored ( (#CS) which THE NEW HARRIS SECOND 1961 has climbed from $4.50 to $5.50, the U.S. AND B.N.A. CATALOG· United unused 1930 Zeppelin set ( #ClS-15), States Stamps, U.S. Possessions, and showing an advance from $145.00 to British North America. $163.75, and this same set used, formerly The New Second 1961 Edition; 160 listed at $99.50, but now $133.50. pages, nearly 2000 illustrations. Also There is no plainly traceable pattern features a special "Americana" section, among the various miscellaneous issues United Nations issues complete, and the which within the past twelve months U. S. Stamp Identifier. Price 3.5c post­ have shown increased activity ranging free. Published by H. E. Harris & Co., all the way from moderate to extensive. Catalog Department, Boston 17, Mass. While there are relatively few price re­ The second 1961 edition follows a visions, for example, among revenues, precedent-shattering demand for the postage dues, special delivery stamps first 1961 catalog that established an all­ and envelope cut squares, the Officials time new record. This newest edition show many changes, demonstrating an contains hundreds of up-to-the-minute unusual interest and demand for these prices changes. A much sought-after stamps (perhaps temporary, who knows?) guide and reference, it continues to serve among collectors. as one of the most reliable and accurate barometers of the current market avail­ DILL REPORTS THE NEWS able to collectors. By Joachim Dill The catalog features virtually all U. S. FLIGHTS: DEUTSCHE LUFTHANSA issues - postage, airmail, special delivery, will inaugurate the following routes: revenue, envelope, telegraph, postal card, April 1, to Ankara from Hamburg-Dues­ etc. (United' Nations issues, and U. S. seldorf - Frankfurt-Muenchen-Athenes-Is­ revenue stamp designs are illustrated in tanbul ( LH 298) - April 30: Munich­ their entirety) . Also included is a special Cologne-New York by Boeing 707 Jet c "Americana" section - a fascinating as­ May 20: Boeing 707 Jet on the route sortment of foreign sets, from all over Frankfurt - Paris-Dakar-Rio de Janeiro­ the world, honoring the United States. Sao P"aolo-Buenos Aires-Santiago de Chile In addition, there are listings for all - July 1: Boeing 707 Jet on the route U. S. Possessions, Confederate States, Frankfurt - Munich - Beyrouth - Bagh­ Canada, Newfoundland and the Provin­ dad - Theheran. - Probably for all these ces of British Columbia, New Brunswick, inaugural flights Lufthansa cachets will Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. be used. U. S. ISSUES AUSTRIAN SPECIAL FLIGHTS: May Compared to listings of a year ago, 14 - will be held at Vienna, Austria the earlier regular issues continue to for the Air Mail Exhibition "L UPOSTA show the most activity, with the largest VIENNA 1961". Special Flights, Bal­ portion of price changes evident in 19th loon Flights will be made. Ask details and 20th century issues up to 1920. It from LUPOSTA/BOeBV, Josefstaedter is interesting to note that every reprint, Str. 3, Vienna III, Austria. Only special re-issue and special printing has moved covers will be flown. Will be available upward in price, and that these stamps from Adolf Kosel, Vienna IX/71, Aus­ also seem to show the most significant tria. - A commem will be issued for this percentage increases. Price changes are event. less numerous between 1920 and 1932. After 1932 they become more infrequent. The market for airmails and com­ memoratives continues to hold fairly strong. This is especially true for air­ mail issues up to 1930. However, most of these price changes are relatively moderate. The continuing demand for airmails APRIL, 1961 PAGE 191 THE PHILATELIC STORY OF FLIGHT by Frank R. Gracey

Left: Blanchard, famous Frenchman experimented with parachutes. While this brave man made the first human parachute descent jumping from a balloon, he fell gradually until he was near the earth. Then the chute gave way and he crashed to the earth with a broken leg. But he was still firm in his beH,ef in the parachute as a "life 'belt". Right: Andre Garerin, another Frenchman, a little later made a descent from a balloon at a great height without injury. But ten years later the parachute for the first time proved a life saver over Warsaw, when a balloonist named Kuparanto threw himself from his balloon which had caught fire in mid-air, and by means of !his parachute, fell safely to the earth far ·below. In its early days the balloon was used on the battlefield. In 1794, when the French and Austrians were at war, the French Captain Coutelle, under fire from the Austrians, who tried to prevent him from going up,. rose to a height of 1,000 feet, where he was safe from t:he Austrians .

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INDIAN GOLDEN JUBILE·E COVER Journal by S. Singh Chowdery. This cover was flown on a special We illustrate a first dav cover of the flight over the original route between attractive set of 3 stamps 'issued at New and Nafoi, on the anniversary. Delhi, India on February 18, 1961. These . were designed to celebrate the l ote the i eproduction on two of the Golden Jubilee of the first flight in India stamps featuring the original cachet used in 1911. It was sent to the Airpost in 1911. PAGE 192 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL ?'/~- FROM AAMS CONVENTIONS

U.S. 4c Airmail Stamp - (set of 3 cards - different cachets) cancelled 3 days of Convention at Philadelphia showing regular F.D. - machine cancel 9/3/54 and hand cancel 9/4 and 9/5 Conv. Stat...... 50c U.S. 4c Airmail Stamp - (cacheted card) scarce cancellation of American Air Mail Society Station on First Day - 9/3/54 ...... 25c U.S. 7c Airmail Stamp with F.D. cancel - 7 /31/58 on Ceremony Program (sup- ply limited) ...... 50c U.N. Brochure (7 x 9'h) containing information relative to U.N. Airmail stamps and including MINT IMPRINT BLOCK of 6 of 4c Airmail stamp and 4c Airmail Postal Card with F.D. cancel - Issued during AAMS Convention May 27, 1957 ...... 1.00 U.N. 4c Airmail stamp - F.D. cancel - 5/27/57 - w. spec. AAMS cachet } 50c and set 4c Airmail Postal Card - F.D. cancel 5/27/57 - w. spec. AAMs cachet of 2 U.N. Brochure (7 x 9'h) containing MINT IMPRINT BLOCKS of 6 each of 5c and 7c Airmail stamps of Feb. 9, 1959 ...... 1.50 U.N. lOc Aerogramme F.D. 1/18/60 with special cachet ...... 50c Same in Ceremony Program (limited) ...... 1.00 U.S. 7c Red Airmail - set of 3 cacheted covers - F.D. 8/12/60 hand cancel, 2nd and 3rd days AAMS Conv. Station cancel ...... 75c U.S. 7c Red on Ceremony Program - cancelled F.D. AAMS Conv. Stat., cancel 1.00 Write to: MRS. RUTH T. Smith, Secretary 102 Arbor Road, Riverton, N. J.

More Airs Give-Away Prices AIR MAIL ENTIRES Remittance with order Short Supply 25% OF SCOTT Net envelopes CHILE *258-61, C127-30, sing. & bl. $ 1.55 postal cards COLOMB. *C134-44 Plus pr. *Cl36a 12.50 SALVADOR *C189-103 blocks ...... 6.50 le:t:tersheeis U.S.A. 649-50 blocks ...... 1.35 U.S.A. C-1 Blk. 6 - Pl. No. & Arrow 9.25 Finest Stock In the World 30% OF SCOTT BRAZIL C61, 71 *70, *75, *77, THE NEW ISSUE SERVICE PLUS sing. & bl...... 2.20 CUBA C31, 36-8, 51 fine blocks ...... 1.75 the outstanding specials that SALVADOR *89-101, *108-10 ...... 2.80 characterize this service U.S.A. *Cl2, F. corner bl.-2 S.E...... 1.65 VENEZUELA *199-205 cpl ...... 2.25 ATTRACTIVE PAGES 35% OF SCOTT COLOMBIA *C121-9, 134-42 ...... 2.80 FOR MOUNTING GUATEM. *C143-6 Fine blocks ...... 1.65 HONDUR. *C13C, CBl-4 Garay ...... 1.80 THE AIRMAIL ENTIRE TRUTH PHILIP. *C29-35 ...... 3.75 U.S.A. *C2 ...... 4.50 newsletter. Send as many Be VENEZ. *C62, C63 ...... 4.50 stamped & addressed No. 10 en­ 40% OF SCOTT ALBANIA *C47-53 Very Fine ...... 3.00 velopes for as many copies as you U.S.A. *C7-12 cpl...... 1.85 wish to receive. U.S.A. *C20 - Pl. Bl. 6 ...... 2.40 U.S.A. *C25-31 cpl...... 1.90 AUTHORIZED AGENT FOR THE U.S.A. *C28 Pl. Bl. V. F...... 1.60 50% OF SCOTT GODINAS CATALOGUE CANADA *C2 Fine ...... 2.35 U.S.A. *C19 Pl. Bl. 4 ...... 1.25 U.S.A. *C23 Pl. Bl. 4 & C. L. Bl. 4 .. 2.00 LAVA U.S.A. *C38 Pl. Bl. 4 ...... 1.50 The Distributor of the Barbados Error STEWART CLARK Box 186 New York 59 15 Phillip Court Elyria, Ohio

APRIL, 1961 PAGE 193 AUCTION OF KEARNS-PR.ESTON COLLECTION Beginning on page 198 readers will find the list of lots of aeroph.ilatelic ma­ Again ·Available terial to be auctioned off on ~lay l.'.3 by Donald E. Dickason, old-time aerophil­ ¥ ¥ atelic dealer. This is the largest collec­ tion of this type of material to be put up at auction in recent ears, as is evidenced Lapel Buttons with AAMS by the ariety in the 1,463 lots listed in this sale. winged insignia The picture of General Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife, illustrated above, comes from this collection and is indicative of the type of material that is in this collecti on . This picture was taken by Re'. B. A. Kearns-Preston shortly af­ ter Lindbergh completed his early trans­ Atlantic flight. $2.00 Postpa id ABOUT OUR COVER ¥- ¥ The unusual cover of thi issue of The Orders to: Airpost Journal depicts a balloon wed­ ding at Manchester, New Hampshire some time ·hortly after The Civil War. Mrs. Ruth T. Smith The gentleman standing in the upper 102 Arbor Road basket is J. K. Allen whose Civil War Riverton, New Jersey career is described in the article begin­ ning on page 171. PAGE 194 THE A·IRPOST J OURNAL DUMPING. CLEAN-OUT PRICES! CONVERSATION PIECES! u. s. Ams - FIRST DAYS HALF CATALOG - AND LESS! ClO Washington ...... $1.75 C40-43 inc...... $1.00 ClO St. Louis ...... 2.00 C44, 45, UC-18 & UC-25 ...... 1.00 C32, 33, 37, 39 & UC-6 ...... 1.00 ALL 14 COVERS, ONLY ...... $6.00 U. s. ON FLIGHT COVERS - Below value of stamps. Flight values ignored. C-1 FINE - Cat $7. First mail Cleveland to San Fran. 8/22/23 ...... • $5.00 C-4 Cat. $3. 6/27/26 AAMS #S49C ...... 2.00 628 1st day, 627 & C4 other cover. Stamps cat. $7.75 6/27 /26 ...... 4.50 614, 627, 628, & 628 pr. cat. $6.15. Nat. Air Races 9/14/26. Wash-Phila 7/6 ...... 3.50 C7, CB, ClO, 600 & Q2 Cat. $2.60. First CAM & Catapult Bremen ...... 2.00 COMMEMS - 10 diff. on flights, cat. $6, incl. 649-50, pr. 62B ...... 3.00 CANAL ZONE - Cl & C3 (2) Cat. $3...... 2.00 CANADA ON FffiST FLIGHT COVERS 109, 111, 134, 144, 145, 147 (2), 154 - Cat. $2.35 off. On 3 FF ...... 2.00 C-1 Block 4. Very fine. Cat. $2 as singles off cover...... •...... 2.50 160 and Commercial Airways 25c black semi-off. Cat. $6.65 off cover ...... 3.50 U. S. ENTIRES· UC-14 and UC-21 mint ...... $4.20 UC-1 and UC-9, mint & used .... $6.50 ALL 6 ...... $10.25 SCARCE EARLY FLIGHTS & CONVERSATION PIECES 3/ 9/21 St . .John's to Fogo, Nfld., via Botwood, AAMS #6 ...... 5.50 B/22/23 Cleveland to Chicago - first mail flight ...... 2.00 7/ 1/25 Cleve. - N. Y. & Cleve. - Chi. First night mail. Pair ...... 4.00 11/ 2/25 Victoria, B. C. to Seattle. First seaplane mail ...... 2.00 5/12/26 First CAM Dallas-Chi., Dallas-Ft. Worth, Chi.-Dallas ...... • 3.00 1926-27 B diff. covers connected LINDBERGH, incl 4 covers flown by C.A.L., 2 first days C-10, both CAM flights of "Lindbergh Route". Cat. $16 plus 11.00 10 Autographed Flights, tours, dedications, incl. autographs Kit Carson III, and Lt. Walter Hinton, pilot NC-4, first plane to fly the Atlantic ...... 6.50 GRAF ZEP., LZ 127, 3 1st flights 1927 & 1929, incl Friedrichs. to Lakehurst, Friedrichs. to Holland, and first round-world Lakehurst to Friedrichs. .. 6.00 AIRMAILS BELOW V. G. TO V. F. - LESS THAN COST - LESS THAN HALF CURRENT RETAIL - MANY BELOW FACE - CHEAPEST WAY TO FILL A GOOD MANY SPACES - MOSTLY OLDER MATERAL 10 TO 30 YEARS 25 Diff. mint sets in blocks, 56 blocks, Scott (A-C) Vol. I, cat. $102 plus. San. cat. $150 plus. If cat. as blks, Scott cat. $125 ...... 33.00 15· Diff. mint sets in blocks, 39 blocks, Scott (D-V) Vol. I, $91 plus ...... 29.5.0 7 Diff. mint sets in blocks, 26 blocks, Scott Vol. II, $26 plus ...... 9.00 53 Diff. mint sets, 17B stamps, Scott (A-G) Vol. I, $76 ...... 24.00 2B Diff. mint sets, 79 stamps, Scott (H-V) Vol. I, $61...... 19.00 76 Diff. used sets, 162 stamos, Scott Vol. I, $28...... 9.00 38 Diff. mint sets, 100 stamps, Scott Vol. II, $45. Retail $30...... 14.50 3B Diff. used sets, 95 stamps, Scott Vol. II, $21...... 7.00 386 Different Scott Vol. I airs, catalog $BB ...... 2LOO 164 Different Scott Vol. II airs, catalog $30...... 7.00 SCARCE ITEMS - AT GIVE-AWAY PRICES COSTA RICA #CBJ-A to 91A, plus BBB, 10 val. cpl. as issued. Cat. $6.B5 .... 2.00 #C94-100 V. F. Cat. $8.50 ...... 2.50 #C12B-140 V. F. Cat. $B.15 ...... 2.25 PORTUGAL Scarce Costa Flight - mint - Sanabria #501 ...... 2.00 Scarce Costa Flight - used • Sanabria #501 ...... 2.50 U.S.A. #C20-22 Fine mint blocks. Scott $12.60 ...... 5.50 #C24 Fine mint block. Scott $11.25 .. ,...... 4.50 FRE·E - with each $7 - $·12 order, fine used block & single Brazil C61. With each $13 - $20 order, first transcontinental airmail, Indian­ apolis-Chicago-N. Y., 1/11/26, worth over $2. With each order $21 or over, both of above items, plus scarce variety Brazil C50 with vertical wavy-line watermark. REMIT WITH ORDER. 25c POSTAGE UNDER $5. NO APP!ROVALS Immediate refund if sold out or dissatisfied STEWART CLARK 15 PHILLIP COURT ELYRIA, OHIO

APRIL, 1961 PAGE 195 Air lVIail Stamps of Brazil: Their Postal History By Prof. Carlos Dos Santos Pinheire

The first regular air mail flight in • colors, as follows: The first mail transported by air in 500 reis - Dark olive, 700 reis - .Brazil was from Sao Luiz, Maranhao, to Orange Recife, Pemambuco, on December 18, 1,000 reis - Rose, 1,800 reis - Green 1922, followed the next day by another 2,000 reis - Blue, 8,000 reis - Violet from Camocim, Ceara, to Recife. No ad­ 10,000 reis - Red. ditional charge was collected. The Brazilian company "Sindicato Con­ The aircraft used was one that was dor Limitada", of Rio de Janeiro, used making a flight from New York to Rio its own stamps, from its first flight on de Janeiro, and the mail was dispatched November 9, 1927. These are perforated by a regular Post Office Agency. It was 11, and watermarked "Crosses and Cir­ being flown by civilian pilots Euclides cles" (T). Pinto Martins and Walter Hinton; Euc­ January 9, 1930, was the first day of lides Pinto Martins was later honored;- in the stamps commemorating the begin­ 1951, with a commemorative stamp from ning of the services of the commercial Brazil. (Cat. Yvert No. 499). aviation in Brazil. This portrayed Dr. The first mail officially dispatched by Victor Kander, the Minister of Transpor­ air was at the beginning of 1925, carried tation of Brazil, and was issued in only by a private company ( Laticoere). one value of 2$000 (two mil reis), color Mail was sent from Rio to: Monte­ ardosia, without watermark. There were video and Buenos Aires (January); Ba­ only 20,000 copies. hia (February); Recife, both ways The stamps commemorating the first (March). flight of the "Graf Zeppelin" appeared Brazil took place March 28, 1927, in on May 16, 1930, with watermark Pato's Lagoon, State of Rio Grande do "Quadrifolios" ( U), perforated 14, and Sul; it was made by the "Condor Syn­ were issued in the following values and dicat", a commercial air transport con­ colors: cern from Berlin, Germany, making test 5,000 reis - Green, 10,000 reis - flights for "Varig", a Brazilian air trans­ Red port company which was then being or­ 20,000 reis - Ultramarine ganized. The additional air mail tax was These 3 values were surcharged with charged by means of special triangular the letters "U.S.A." and new values, as cancellations, used for the first time in follows: that day; similar cancellations were again 5$000 and 10$000 over 20$000 used by V ARIG, in the middle of June, 5$000 over 1$300 ( VARIG stamp) 1927. 10$000 over 1$800 ( VARIG stamp) Those were the first steps of our Post­ NOTE: On letters sent from Recife to al Aviation. The VARIG ( Companhia Rio de Janeiro we can find cancellations Aerea Riograndense), founded May 7, dated 22 and 23 May, which prove what 1927, first used its own airmail stamps we said above. On April 17, 1931, were on its 81st flight, dispatching 18 letters issued the first exclusive and definitive from Porto Alegre, on November 9, 1927. "VARIG" stamps (First series of the This company was, then, the first to !CARO type), all watermarked "Y", in have a regular airmail service in Brazil. 10 different values. The Varig semi-official stamps above Also in 1929, the E.T.A. ( Empresa de mentioned were put on sale on Novem­ Transportes Aereos) company put in cir­ ber 8, 1927, and were used on the No­ culation a series of 5 unwatermarked vember 9 flights of both companies (VA­ stamps, perforated 11, in the following RIG and Condor Syndicat) leaving, re­ values and colors: spectively, Rio de Janeiro and Porto 200 reis - Red Brown, 300 reis - Vi­ Alegre. Those stamps were manufactur­ olet and red ed in Germany, in 7 different values and 1,000 reis - Red blue, 2,000 reis - PAGE 196 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Red green fel Tower in Paris, on October 19, 1901- 5,000 reis - Red yellow 300 reis: The aircraft "14 - Bis"', used bv Santos Dumont on October 23, 1906, The first regular Post Office stamps to t~ make the first flight in a heavier-than­ be used for the air mail service, in 1927, air aircraft. 1,000 reis: The Ribeiro de were the "official" stamps of 1913, with Barros "aircraft, Jan", flying over Guan­ the portrait of Marshal Hermes, which abara Bay. Other stamps of the same received a black "Service Aereo" sur­ series, with different watermarks and charge. Those stamps were originally perforations, appeared later on, enlarg­ used for the "Official" mail, and were ing the varieties of air mail stamps of printed by the "American Bank Note Brazil; (Watermark "Casa da Moeda e Co., of New York; the complete original Estrelas" (F) - perforation 11 - Values series was composed of 16 different of 2,000 and 10,000 reis). values, and, for the air mail service, some of the highest values ( 500$000 and In 1930 there was issued one stamp of 1: 000$000) received surcharges as low 3$000 (three mil reis), representing a as 10$000, in the period between 1929 white pigeon carrying a letter in its beak and 1932. These stamps were demonet­ with the inscription "Via Aerea". Water­ ized for postal use on October 28, 1932. mark "Estrelas com CM ao centro" ( G). We should mention that the VARIG ex­ Perforation 11, color violet. In 1931, clusive stamps which first circulated on this stamp was surcharged with a new November 9, 1927, were printed on tint­ value of 2$500 reis. ed paper of several watermarks, perfor­ ated 13.5, and in the following values German Diamir Expedition Covers and colors: To Be Sold lb Collectors .50 reis - Sepia over cream On May 1st, a German group of 350 reis • Rose over white Alpinists will travel to Pakistan, to cliinb 500 reis - Blue over light blue the Nanga Parbat ( 8125m) over its 700 reis - Orange over light yellow Diamir flank for the first time. 1,000 reis - Wine over pink There will ·be 1000 numbered air-mail letters to be addressed from M~nich to 1,050 reis - Green over cream the "German DIAMIR-Expedition" in 1,400 reis - Red brown over light Gilgit, which will be received by the yellow KLM in Munich to be postmarked. The 1,500 reis - Dark green over light letters will have: gray I ( 1 ) A German stamp and the postmark 2,000 reis - Violet over white (Wa­ of the KLM as well as the stamp termarked "AA" - Labyrinth) of the expedition. ( 2) They will be sent from Karachi to On October 28, 1929, began the use Gilgit by the Pakistan airmail, and of definitive airmail stamps of the Post in Karachi they will receive a Office Department. They were issued Pakistan air-mail stamp and the in a series of 5 stamps, with aircrafts as respective post-mark. In Gilgit they motifs, watermarked "Stars and CM in the middle" ( G). Perforations llxl3, 5- will get the post-mark of the post­ office and the receipt will be ac­ llxll-11, 5xl3, 5-13, 5Xl2,5. The val­ knowledged by the leader of the ues were 50, 200, 500, and 1,000 reis, expedition by means of a signature. and the colors dark green, red, turquoise blue, violet and brown, respectively. ( 3) The pilots of the 3 aeroplanes There are thick and mixed perforations. ( KLM - Pakistan Airway from Karachi to Rawalpindi - Sky Liner The subjects of this series are: 50 reis: from Rawalpindi to Gilgit) will be Monument to Father Bartholomeu de asked to sign the air-mail letters. Guamao, with the inscription "O Precus­ Each letter will cost $5.00. Send your sor da Aviacao" ( The Predecessor of order to the Postal check office Munich: Aviation). 200 reis: The balloon "San­ No. 885, payable to the "German Hima­ tos Dumont VI", marking the tour of Eif- layan-Expedition". APRIL, 1961 PAGE 197 77Tti AUCTI()~ ~AL~ Air Mail Stamps and Covers and General Postage

Sold in behalf of the estate of .the REVEREND D. A. KEARNS-'PRESTON by DONALD E. DICKASON 106 West Iowa Street Urbana, (formerly The Berkshire Exchange, Wooster, Ohio) To Be Held At THE LA SALLE HOTEL Chicago, Illinois MAY 1 3, 1 9 6 1 Lots 1 - 390- 10 a.m. Lots 391 - 1463 - 2 p.m.

This sale results from a promise made almost thirty years ago that I would take final responsibility for the disposition of this fine collection when the time came that this should be done. The renewal of interest created by the preparations for this sale may just possibly bring about a reactivation of the general philatelic auction service, specializing in Air Mails, which I discontinued in 1940 because of the press of other activities. Anyone interested in considering the sale of fine material - airmails or otherwise - may find it worthwhile to open discussion concerning it.

Serious bidders should take into account the fact that much of the material in this sale is listed by catalogs prepared many years ago, the earliest being 1931, the latest 1950. This is true of practically all of the cover material, though stamp prices are, of course, based on current catalogs. Prices listed may not be, and probably are not in any way current as to present demand. I would suggest therefore that bids for lots which are really wanted should take into account this situation. It is self evident that the normal loss and deterioration over the years, coupled with the in­ creased number of collectors must have a generally upward influence on current prices. This does not mean that there are not items now which were over-priced in the first place and which may still be priced beyond the actual market. The actual purpose of this comment is to draw attention to the basic fact that the catalog structure, as such, is so far out of date as to be unreliable and that in most cases listed rates are well below current market. I urge that bidders consider this in making their. offers. CONDITIONS OF SALE

1. Every lot guaranteed genuine and as described. Condition to be considered fine unless otherwise noted. 2. All lots will be sold without reserve and to the highest bidder, at a slight advance over the second high bid. 3. All lots MUST be taken up and paid for within 7 days of notification of the re­ sults of the sale. Except in the case of bidders favorably known to us by reason of prompt payment of previous purchases, all mail bidders will be notified of the lots bought for them, and will be expected to remit before lots are sent. Lots sold to floor bidders may be cleared immediately after the sale.

4. If you have a total limit beyond which you do not wish to spend on this sale, please state it and we will keep your purchases within that figure. Excepting only this condition, all bids shall be considered bona fide, and bidders will be ex­ pected to accept and pay for all lots bought at their bids. 5. Because of the quantity of valuable material in this· sale, arrangements may be made by responsible buyers who have established credit for payment of at least one-third of the amount of the purchases at the time of this sale, the balance to be paid in up to two monthly installments thereafter. 6. List of prices realized may be had after the sale for $1.00, and will be sent free to all successful bidders. 7. Lots may be sent for inspection to serious bidders who will make prompt returns, and who agree to pay postage and registration both ways. 8. The right.is reserved to withdraw any lot prior to the sale. 9. If upon receipt of lots you bid on you feel that in any way any lot does not meas­ ure up to expectations aroused by the description in the catalog, it may be returned for full credit or refund as long as this is done within three days of the receipt thereof. I have tried to make my descriptions accurate and conservative, but mis• takes can occur and differences of opinion arise, and I want you to mail bids with full confidence in getting your money's worth. 10. Lots may be examined at our office in Urbana, Illinois, until May 12; and on the day of sale at the LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.

CONTENTS OF THIS SALE U. s. Used on Cover ...... 1 - 83 U. S. Air Mail Stamps on Cover ...... 84 ~ 133 Foreign Postage Used on Cover ...... 134 - 146 Air Mail Stamps of the World Used on cover ...... 14'7 - 203 Air Mail Stamps ...... 204 - 390 U. S. Pioneer & Gov't Flight:; ...... 391 - 441 u. S. Contract Air Mails ...... 442 - 597 Interrupted Flight Covers ...... 599 - 611 Souvenir Historical Flights ...... 612 - 684 Autographs ...... 685 - 740 Lindberghiana ...... 741 - 846 Airport Dedications ...... 847 - 885 F. A. M.'s ...... 886 - 1,038 Transocean Record Flights ...... 1,039 - 1,128 Lighter than Air Flights ...... 1,130 - 1,290 Canada ...... 1,291 - 1,334 Foreign Air Mail Flights ...... 1,335 - 1,413 Catapults, Gliders anid Rockets ...... 1,414 - 1,445 Ship Cancels ...... 1,446 - 1,455 Albums - New or Slightly Used ...... 1,456 - 1,463 THE DEPARTMENT STORE OF PHILATELY May We Delp Yon? Action in Auctions

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PAGE 200 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL, 1961 PAGE 201 DONALD E. DICKASON 77TH SALE 106 W. Iowa Street Urbana, Illinois Please purchase for me at your Auction Sale to be held on May 13, 1961 the lots below, the prices annexed being my limit on each lot. It is agreed that you will buy for me as much below these limits as possible. I have read the terms of your sale and agree to same.

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NOTE, Mail all late bids to arrive after May 10 to Donald E. Dickason, c/o LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Illinois; all others to 106 W. Iowa Street, Urbana, Illinois. All Mailing or express charges must be borne by the purchaser.

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For additional bids, please attach supplementary sheet. A.P.J. Page 203 UNITED STAT.ES USED ON COVER The following lots are used on various flown covers - first flights, C.A.M.'s, Dedications, cachets and the like. No s. e. - centered as they run, fair to superb. Listed as Scott. 1 371 Yukon imperf. superb wide margin imprint on Wilkins polar sub 1931- over ...... $ 7.50 2 383 1911 le imperf. plate block #5630, b-left, close at right, fine otherwise .... 4.50 3 383 1911 3 blocks 6 same (no plate #) vf except close at r. plus ...... 7 .50 4 532, 576 ( 4), 641 6 nice imperf. early flights ...... 7 .00 5 576-7 blocks l'h and 2c imperfs. fine reg ...... 5.10 6 550 pr. 5c Pilgrim on 8s4a close at left but clean ...... 12.00 7 619 pr. 5c Lex s.e. at b of 1 very good on 176d U.S.G...... 8.00 8 620-1 Norse single 2c pr. 5c on 176-fine ...... 13.35 9 621 5c Norse with pr. C 7 vf...... 6.00 10 628 Ericsson vf. pr. plus block 2c Pilgrim vf...... 5.50 11 543, 628 (3), 543 (2) on 2 covers vf...... 6.25 12 643 10 Vermont on 3 covers ...... 5.00 13 643 same 20 copies ...... 10.00 14 645 Valley Forge 20 copies ...... 5.00 15 645 same-45 ...... 12.50 16 647 Hawaii 2c - 6 on 2 Hilo first flights £...... 4.25 17 647 same fine block centered r...... 3.00 18 WITHDRAWN 19 WITHDRAWN 20 WITHDRAWN 21 651 Clark 10 copies ...... 4.00 22 651 same 25 more ...... 10.00 23 651 anothe~ lot of 50 ...... 20.00 24 654, 5 2c Edison, 50 mixed perfs. at least ...... 10.00 25 654, 5 100 Edison mixed, good for ...... 20.00 26 657 Sullivan 20 copies ...... 5.00 27 657 Sullivan 100 more ...... 25.00 28 680 Wayne 10 copies ...... 5.00 29 680 Wayne 50 more ...... 25.00 30 681 Ohio 20 copies ...... 5.00 31 681 Ohio 50 more ...... 12.50 32 682 Mass. Bay 54 copies ...... , ...... 10.80 33 683 Charleston 10 copies ...... 5.00 34 683 same 16 more ...... 8.00 35 685 first day Taft signed by Mrs. Helen H. Taft wife of President, with photo - superb ...... 36 688 Braddock 15 copies ...... 6.00 37 688 same 25 more ...... 10.00 38 688 same 50 more ...... 20.00 39 689 Von Steuben 20 copies ...... 5.00 40 689 same 40 more ...... 10.00 41 702 Red Cross 100 copies ...... 15.00 42 703 Yorktown 14 copies ...... 2.80 43 704-10, 12, 13 40 various bi-centennial about ...... 7.00 44 733 Byrd 8 copies ...... 4.80 45 735a Byrd imperf sheet 6 N. Y. Exhibition pmk 1st day superb ...... 5.00 46 738 Mothers Day uncancelled uncover signed Margaret McClure, stamp origi- nator ...... 47 34 covers various commems. listing ...... 8.05 48 6 blocks 644-703 ...... 7.45 49 8 blocks 1929, 45 ...... 3.00 50 U436h 3c red error envelope 1926 Minn. - Chicago flight ...... 5.00 51 U458 revalued 2 on 3c albino on 1st Pasco-Elko ...... 52 11 dif. air mail fields '29-'32 nice ...... 53 20 dif. A.M.F. 20's and 30's ...... 54 55 A.M.F. covers 8 dif. vf to sup ...... 55 11 various 1st days, Phil. Ex. valuable lot plus ...... 5.40 56 15 mixed-sea post, pilot signed, fancy cancels-nice picking ...... Scarce Plate Numbers-singles, pairs, blocks, all used on cover. Listing and pricing Page 204 United States used On Cover A.P.J. as for mint blocks listed by Durland 1961. Draw your own conclusions as to value. 57 Imperf. 1 Cent pr #7865 2 Cents block #8038 both sup on 1 cover 1928 ...... 58 548 block 4 12419 centered t plus #3643 on cover ...... ( 5.00} 59 629 White Plains block 4 from souvenir sheet #18771 1...... ( 4.75) 60 same bottom strip 5 worth # 18771 ...... ? 61 551 'h Hale blocks 4 #17043, 5, 7, 53; pr 18737; 635 single #18446; 651 single # 19727 3 nice covers ...... Singles 62 632 #19266 u.l. plus pr 634 19341 u.l ...... ( 7.00} 63 632 le #19301 u.r...... •...... (10.00} 64 632 #19301 u.r. 3 copies this rarity ...... (30.00} 65 633 l'hc #19073 u.r. pr ...... (12.00} 66 633 1V2c pr #19072 ...... (12.00) 67 633, 4 l'hc #18729 I.r; 2c #19011 and #19028 3 rarities ...... {25.00) 68 633 l'hc block 4 u.I. #19182 ...... ( 4.75) 69 634 2c #19017 I.I.; #19029 l.r...... (22.50} 70 634 2c #19017 1.1...... ( 7.50} 71 634, 5 2c #19340 u.I. 3c #18457 u.r ...... (11.50) 72 636 4c # 18088 I.I...... ( 5.50) 73 637 5c #18460 u.r...... ( 7.50} 74 637 5c #18855 u.l...... ( 7.50) 75 644 Saratoga bottom #19064 ...... ( 5.50} 76 650 5c Wright #19659 I...... ( 7.50} 77 708 3c Bicent #20848 I.I...... ( 9.00) 78 720, 718, 708 6 dif (5 plate numbers) Armistice Day 32-unusual cancels ...... 79 715 lOc bicent. #20686 u.l. by San Juan Amer. Clipper sup ...... (18.00} 80 734 Kosciuszko sup block 4 #21175 1st day ...... 81 768a Byrd imperfs. s, pr, strip 3, block 4. on 4 1st day exhib. covers odd size ...... • 82 768a same 4 covers 3 s, 2 blocks, machine cancel ...... 83 60 .plate numbers singles, pair, strips; plus other nice stamps 20's and 30's on 50 covers some listing quite high. A buy for somebody ...... U, S. AIRMAIL STAMPS USED. ON FLOWN COVERS AS ABOVE 84 C3 24c red and· blue centered b., on long USG #l04b ($7.00) ...... $ 11.00 85 C4 1923 Sc green, on K.C. rt. 3-sup...... 3.00 86 C4 Strip 4 Be green sup. (FAM 5) ...... v···· .. ·················· 12.00 87 C4, 5 Sc and 16c 2 Elko; first one signed pilot F. Rose, f ...... 12.00 88 C7 lOc map, first day Chicago, Detroit, 1-se., 1 vf...... 9.00 89 C7 11 stamps 9 CAM'c, etc...... • 2.20 90 ClO Lindbergh first day Little Falls, vf...... 4.00 91 ClO Same St. Louis vf...... 4.00 92 Clo 5 on first flights ...... 5.00 93 CIO Same 13 more ...... 13.00 See Note After Lot 56 94 ClO Plate #19002 left vf., single. Durland cat for mint block ...... (8.00) 95 ClOa Booklet Pane, first day green Cleveland Midwest exhib. vf ...... • 75.00 96 ClOa Same another Cleveland exhib. magenta, flown around the world, 15 rt. bkstmps., unique ...... over 75.00 97 Cll 5c Beacon plate pair first day signed Calvin Coolidge, sup...... 98 Cll 2 plate blocks 4, 1 double plate, 1 plate and top, vf ...... • 99 Cll Single pmk. rpo Exhibit car Springfield, Mass. vf...... 100 Cll 5c Beacon 50 on cover ...... 12.50 101 Cll 100 copies same ...... 25.00 102 C12 Plate no. 19943 (T) AMF St. Louis, single Durland ...... 10.00 103 Cl2 No. 19943 (left) No. 1944 (right) 2 vf singles Durland ...... 18.00 1114 Cl2 No. 19947 (bottom and left) 2 vf on Cleve. AMF Durland ...... • 9.00 105 Cl2 No 19943 (top) c 16 No. 20606, 425 Durland ...... 14.40 106 Cl2, 16 5c Globe mixed perfs. 50 on cover ...... 10.00 107 Cl2; 16 Same 100 mixed ...... 20.00 108 Cl3 65c Zepp plate block 4 No. 20080 (bottom} vf flown N.Y.-Lakehurst round trip - considerably over ...... •...... 125.00 109 C14 $1.30 Zepp 3 on flown NY round trip - Germany, centered f ...... 150.00 110 Cl5 $2.60 Zepp plate no. 20091, Lakehurst to Lakehurst, round trip, centered right but not cutting - well over ...... 90.00 A.P.J. U. S. Airmail Stamps Used on Flown Covers Page 205 Note: Other Zepps listed with Zeppelin flights 111 Cl7 8c olive 25 on cover ...... 5.00 112 ClB 50c Zepp vf Akron to Chicago cover ...... 13.00 113 Cl8 Same Akron to Akron rt. vf ...... 13.00 114 Cl8 Same 2 vf Chicago to Spain and Germany (long covers) ...... 26.00 115 C23 6c Eagle 9 sup. singles-plates and other positions ...... 116 C23 6 sup. blocks double top 3 arrows, center line and plates ...... 117 C23c 6c ultramarine sup. plate # 21846 ...... SAN 175.00 118 C23c another, double top #21856 ...... SAN. 175.00 119 C23c Same, with sheet margins vf ...... 175.00 120 C40 6c carmine 2 copies on Chicago AAMS exhib. sta. 10/8/49. C25 3 ditto vf 121 UC 1,2 5c blue entire with border 10 vf ...... '...... 4.00 122 UCl, 2 Same 25 entire vf ...... 10.00 123 UCl, 2 Same 50 entires ...... 20.00 124 649 50 Wright, set. 2c plate #19655 sup. Durland ...... 3.30 125 649, 50 2 fine sets (no plates) ...... ·3.10 126 650 20 on cover plus other commems...... 28.35 127 649 2c Wright 20 on cover ...... 7.00 128 649 Same 2c Wright 40 copies ...... 14.00 129 650 Plate strip 3 #19658, (r) Durland ...... 7.50 130 650 Plate block 4 #19661, (r) ...... over 7.50 131 650 5 on cover ...... 6.25 132 650 same, IO copies ...... 12.50 133 650 same, 25 copies ...... 31.25 FOREIGN POSTAGE USED ON COVER 134 192, 4, 202 Canada Ottawa, Conf. set 4 first days vf ...... 135 388-93 Ecuador, New York's World Fair set on 1 vf first day cover ...... 136 1-4 Epirus, 1914 hand stamped set 4 sup. on cover ...... plus 4.50 137 243-4 France American Legion set f first day ...... 138 Italy, 2 fine covers Inaugural voyage SS Rex, special cancel ...... · 139 707-10, 13, 14, 16-20, E4 Mexico on 9 sup. first days ...... :...... 140 397-401 Philippines first day set Commonwealth on cover, a bit discolored 141 Poland 1919 Philatelic exhib. cancel. worn but rare ...... , ...... 142 Siam Air Gram 1933 flown ...... 143 20 or 33 Trinidad - Tobago 3-1 sh emerald, on FAM ...... 5.25 144 New Zealand 1 1916 prisoner of war cover, plus '42 Canada U.S. Censor...... 145 79, 80 South Africa vf first day plus mint block 10 ...... 146 17 foreign covers, interesting lot ...... AIRMAIL STAMPS OF THE WORLD, USED ON COVER Listed by Scott, priced by Scott or Sanabria (San.) 147 Cl, 4, 11 Argentina 4 f ...... 4.40 148 C13-32 Sup. on F6-108 ...... 4.25 149 C4, 6-9 Austria vf cover 1922 ...... 150 Zl SAN Brazil Zepp special 5,000 r green flown Pernambuco r.t. SAN...... 15.00 151 Z3 SAN 20,000 r flown Riq-Seville sup...... SAN 25.00 152 Zl-3 SAN Set 3 on 2 covers Rio to Fried, Pemam-Seville f...... SAN 50.00 153 Z4 SAN 5,000 r on 20,000 r sup. pair Rio~Havana ...... SAN 100.00 For other stamps see Zeppelin section 154 C12-14 Bulgaria 1932 scarce set, 3 flown to and postmarked Strasburg AEROPHILATELIC Expo. 41 thus ...... SAN 50.00 155 C-1 Canada 5c brown, 5 fine covers ...... SAN 10.00 156 C-1 Same, 20 on cover ...... SAN 40.00 157 C-3 6 on 5c, 7 flown ...... SAN 7.00 158 C-4 Ottawa, first day vf ...... 159 Same plus 3 regular ottawas, one fine cover ...... 160 C-5 6c red-brown 6 on first flight ...... SAN 3.00 161 537 1928 Patricia on cover signed Eddie Stinson plus ...... SAN. 5.00 162 542 lOc black Air Fee Commercial perf. 4 sides sup...... 2.50 163 542 Same 2 fine covers, first flights ...... SAN. 5.00 164 535 Western Canada Jubilee block 4 beautifully cancelled by Cachet 7/1/27 flight, 2 known ...... SAN. 50.00 165 546 Commercial lOc dull orani:e first print 500 sup ...... SAN. 7.50 Page 206 Airmail Stamps Of the World, Used On Cover A.P.J. 166 Same 3 fine copies first flights as are all above ...... 22.50 167 548 Cherry Red December 25th flight ...... SAN. 2.00 168 C-1 Canal Zone 15c on le, 3 on first flights f ...... SAN. 9.00 169 Cl6 Cuba Air train, sup. special flight ...... SAN. 4.00 170 BlO Denmark, also 2 C6 first day 12-11-39 ...... 171 C80-86 (San. 98-104) Ecuador, sup. on 1 cover ...... 2.00 172 C3, 4 Egypt, Zeppelin set fine flown cover 50 M is 1951 error vf Jerusalem flight ...... SAN. 40.00 173 C5 French Morocco, good cover ...... 174 C3-11 Germany flown Leipsig - Berlin 8/31/22, fine set, 1 cover ...... 175 C38 2 M South American sup. flown Z-121-3, ship cancel ...... SAN. 20.00 176 C39 4 M. same flown Z-125 vf ...... SAN. 35.00 177 C41, 2 Polar Flight 2 and 4 M. sup. flown card and cover ...... SAN. 70.00 178 C42 4 M. Polar Fried. sup ...... SAN. 50.00 179 C42 5 vf to sup. 4 M. Polars, all flown ...... SAN. 250.00 For more German Zepps see Zeppelin section. 180 C2 Greece - single good cover ...... 181 C17-19 Guatemala -Barrios -Miami, set 1st day, 1st flight, sup ...... SAN. 15.00 182 C24-25 Hungary - 1931 Zepps flown card and cover f ...... SAN. 15.00 183 Cl India - Sup. stamp, margin signed by designer G. Grant ...... 184 Cll Italy 2 copies on cover, 1 fair, 1 poor ...... SAN. 4.00 18a Venice Philatelic exhib. 6/5/32 sup. special card pmk. and label ...... 186 51 San. (Scott C48) Balbo triplet - BALB flown to Iceland vf•...... SAN. 175.00 187 CEI-2 Italian Colonies 2 sup. first days plus ...... SAN. 10.00 188 C7 Liechtenstein sup. pair Zeppelin flight ...... SAN. 25.00 189 C7-10 Mexico - 4 different Carranza ...... about 8.00 190 Cl2, 21 Pairs, latter plate, plus special census stamp 1930 ...... 191 C34 Carranza 20c, 1930 sup. pair ...... SAN. 6.00 192 C65-69, 71-2 1934 first days on six sup. covers ...... 193 211 Newfoundland L. & S. POST first day 2 f covers ...... 194 Cl4,16 lOc and 60c rarities on 1st flight Wabush,-Katsao, sup. plus ...... 17.00 ~195 Cl8 Balbo on cover flown Rome, sup ...... SAN. 80.00 196 Cl-3 New Zealand sup. first day cover plus ...... SAN. 12.50 197 C4 5 pence on 3 p green, 3 different on first flights ...... SAN. 9.00 198 C04-8 Nicaragua - 1932 official air, sup. cover, 15c showing error "Corroe" vf...... ,...... SAN. 25.00 199 Cl2 Earthquake issues 1931 on cover with 7 bisects of Nos. 488 and 536. Unique 200 C18, 30-31 Philippines - LOF, Von Gronau, vf on 1st flight 1933 ...... 2.25 201 C29-35 Von Gronau set complete on first day cover 32c, having plate num,- ber, vf ...... plus 20.00 202 C15-18 Salvador - first day set, Bolivar set, signed by pilot, PMG of Salvador and president Colombia to whom cover is addressed, cover worn but unique, rare; ordinary cover lists ...... • SAN. 35.00 203 C27 Venezuela - 1.80 BOL. blue ...... MINT AIR MAIL STAMPS OF THE WORLD Listed and priced by Scott, unless otherwise indicated by Sanabria. 204 C20-24 Argentina Zepps sup., blue ovpt...... 71.00 205 111, 12, C2 Australia Kingsford-Smith set vf ...... 3.15 206 Cll, 12, C2, 3, COl same plus others listed sup...... a.65 207 Cl6-21, 32-35 Austria 1925-35 vf ...... 4.30 208 C1-4 Belgium 1st issue sup...... 2.70 209 CBl-2 Bastogne 1946 pr. sup...... 3.00 210 Cl-11 Bulgaria 1st two sets vf ...... • 8.12 211 533, 6, 546, 538 San. Canada 4 dif. semi-official f ...... 2.90 212 542 San. Com. Airways lOc black Air Fee complete sheet 10 sup...... 7.50 213 PE541 San. Proof of original commercial design black on yellow rare sup. 100.00 214 C7, 9-11, 13, 14 Canal Zone 1931 set 6 vf ...... 5.91 215 C6-10 China 1929 set vf ...... 5.25 216 Cll 1932 15c half sheet 2a sup ...... {l.75) 217 C1-10, 28-30 1926-30 Costa Rica vf to sup...... • 7.75 218 C121-23 1946 Football set sheet corner margins sup...... • 3.50 219 C121-23 same sup. corner blocks ...... 14.00 220 C128-40 Hospital set complete sup...... 8.15 221 C2 Cuba single and plate block vf plus ...... 3.00 A.P.J. Mint Airmail Stamps Of the World Page 207 222 ClB-21, CEl vf Matanzas set, perf...... 6.60 223 ClB-21 CEl same but imper. sup ...... SAN. 7.25 224 C22 3, E9 Gomez set 3 singles and blocks sup...... 10.50 225 ClB-32 Curacao complete 1943 set sup...... 33.84 226 CB1320 Red Cross Airs sup...... 8.20 227 CB21-36 Relief Fund set sup...... 14.05 228 C24-9 Cyrenaica, 1934 beauties ...... 4.20 230 Cl-9 (Slovakia) Pictorials sup...... 1.60 231 24A SAN Danzig 1923 100,000 M without ovpt. (200 exist), sup. block 4 no gum ...... SAN. 60.00 232 Cl-3 Denmark 1st issue f ...... 10.00 233 21A San Dominican Republic 1931 20c dark blue sup. corner block 4 show- ing 2 each numerals up and down ...... 39.00 234 C20 1936 lOc single and block sup...... 5.00 235 C22 1936 Pigeon trio vf single and block ...... 5.00 236 C35-39 Columbus set 5 sup...... 4.25 237 C43-45 1943 set 3 sup...... 4.35 238 C53-56,64-67 1945, 7 2 fine sets ...... 5.50 239 C49-56, C62, 3 sup. lot ...... 4.15 240 C51-56 Anthem set 1946 sup...... 9.40 241 C6-10 Dutch Indies 1928 complete sup...... •...... • 10.15 242 C39-50 Ecuador 1936 series vf ...... 9.60 243 C53, 64, 153-5, 161-4 plus block RAC 3 sup...... ~.45 244 C114-18 U.S. Good Will Tour sup...... 7.40 245 Cl36-8 V. J. Day set of 3 vf ...... 3.75 246 C147-51 Pan-Am Highway set vf ...... 4.45 247 C156-60 Adult Education set vf ...... 4.25 248 C5-ll Egypt vf 1933 low vals ...... 2.75 249 Cl-2 1926-9 1st 2 issues sup...... 9.50 250 C30, 36, 38 sup. singles and blocks 1941-6 ...... 4.25 251 Cl-6 Eritrea 1934 Arts sup...... 4.20 252 C 14-18 Estonia 1925 set vf ...... 2 .00 253 Cll France 1936 50 fr. ultra, sup...... 30.00 254 C308 1936 balloon commem single and block sup...... 4.50 255 C-1-3, 5-11 French Morocco 1922-7 vf ...... 2.95 256 C20-26 1939-40 complete blocks 4 sup...... 4.00 257 C20-32 1939-44 2 vf sets ...... 4.06 258 C35-37 Germany 1928-31 1st 3 Zepps vf ...... 15.00 259 C36-7 2 and 4 m same vf ...... 11.50 260 C38 2 m South .America sup...... 19.00 261 C40-2 Polar flight complete vf ...... 76.00 262 Cl-4 Greece set 4 corner margins sup. plus ...... 2.30 263 C20-21, 23, 24 Guatemala 1932 ovpts sup...... 16.90 264 C29-31 1935 Barrios set sup...... 6.00 265 C33-41 San. 1935 Interior issues quetzel (Scott confuses by listing in this and following sets) ...... 50.00 266 C42-52 San. 1935 Exterior as above ...... 55.00 267 53-4 San (C44,6 Scott) 2 1936 interior sup...... 10.00 268 55-59 .San. Exterior 4 1936 values sup...... 37.50 269 60-63 San. 1937 Interiors set 4 sup...... 3.50· 270 64-70 San. 1937 Exteriors vf ...... 5.00 271 C128-31 1945 Revolution singles and blocks complete sup...... 7.50 272 318, Cl40-41 1946 Rowland Hill singles and blocks sup...... 7.25 273 C14, 17, 23, 26, 27, 29 Honduras 1929-39 7 dif vf ...... 9.15 274 C20, 27, 29 1930 4 dif blocks sup...... 4.20 275 C60-61-63 1931 series, 3 vf ...... 10.00 276 C155-62 1946 FDR sup...... 4.67 277 COl-4 1930 officials, 4 vf ...... 4.00 278 Cl-3 Iceland vf singles plus strip 3 C3 ...... 6.71> 279 Cl-3, 5 Italy 1917-28 4 vf ...... 3.40 280 C20-26 Ferrucci and Virgil sets vf ...... ,...... 7.35 281 C28-33, 35-9, CEl-2 1932 series sup ...... 6.15 282 C34 1932 100 1 de Vinci f ...... 5.0C> Page 208 Mint Airmail Stamps Of the. World A.P.J. 283 C42-7 1933 Zepps vf ...... 15.00 284 C48-9 Balbo set unbroken trios (NAPL) vf ...... 17.00 285 C52-5 Rome-B.A. vf set ...... 4.15 286 C62-5 1934 Soccer sup...... 6.70 287 C73-8 King's Birthday set vf ...... 5.50 288 C89-94 Child Welfare set sup...... 8.45 289 C95-99 Caesar vf set ...... 5.20 290 C40-l, 57-61, 66-72, 79-83, 100~5. 111-12, 116-21 7 vf sets ...... ;...... 15.35 291 CBl-3, CE3-9 2 dif sets Semi-p and s.d. vf ...... 6.20 292 C503i San. 1926 'Amundsen-Nobile-Ellsworth corner strip 3, 1 pr. imperf be- tween, 3rd stamp se-tenant, superb ...... 125.00 293 1933 Rome, N.Y. s[o. labels blue and green, red and green sup ...... 294 same booklet 14 panes of 6 (for Balbo flight) ...... 295 C8-14 Aegean Islands 1932 series vf ...... 4.40 296 C28-31 1934 Soccer set sup ...... 3.05 297 Cl-13 Ivory Coast sup. ,...... 2.69 298 Cl-5, 7-14, fi-22 Jugoslavia 3 vf sets ...... 4.55 299 C15-16 1940 2 high values sup...... 4.50 300 CS Japan 1934 souvenir sheet sup...... 65.00 301 Cl-5 Latvia 1921-8 triangles sup...... 3.80 302 CB6-8 1931 set per£ and imperf sup...... 15.00 303 C9-12, 17-20, CBl-4 Lebanon 1925-7 3 vf sets ...... 7.05 304 C25-28 1928 red ovpt. sup...... 5.00 305 C49-56 1936 Tourist set complete sup...... 17.05 31)6 C57-64 1937 Paris Expo. sup...... 4.50 307 C66-81, 88-90 1937-43 fine lot ...... 10.61 308 C82-87 1943 Independence sup. set ...... 11.00 309 ClOl-6 1946 Victory sup...... 4.65 310 C14-16, 37-49, 52-53, 54-6 CBl, CEl Liberia vf collection ...... 10.50 311 C28-38, 44 Libia 1937-41 issues sup...... 5.29 312 C9-13 Leichtenstein 1934-5 set complete sup...... 4.90 313 C15-16 Zepp set sup...... 9.00 314 Cl-7, 15-20, 37-39 Lithuania 1921-26 4 sets vf ...... 9.30 312 C9-13 Liechtenstein 1934-5 set complete sup...... 4.90 316 82-6 San. The rare Darius-Girenas Trans-ocean set sup...... 100.00 317 C7-15 Luxemburg 1946 set vf ...... '...... 4.46 318 Cl-15 Macao 1938 1st two sets sup...... 6.40 319 Cl, 2, 4, 5, 37-50 Madagascar coll. vf...... 5.78 320 Cl Malta country complete sup...... 4.00 321 Cl-9 Martinique plus 1942 charity set 3 ...... 4.05 322 Cl-13 Mauritania vf ...... 3.31 .323 C2-4, C02 Mexico 4 vf ...... 2.30 324 C5-10 1924 Carranza set vf ...... 4.95 325 C012-15 1930 officials vf ...... 3.60 i. 326 C26 Single and strip 4 plus C0-11 vf ...... 2.70 11. 327 C37, 39, 45, C016 5 dif sup...... 2.00 328 C81-4, 94-102 1932-9 sup. series ...... 6.96 329 C94-6 Tulsa Exhib. set 3 sup. blocks ...... 4.00 330 Cl08-l16 3 sup sets ...... :...... SAN. 9.50 331 C117-19 1942 Merida set 3 vf ...... SAN. 4.00 332 C120-22 1942 Guadalajara set 3 sup ...... SAN. 5.00 333 C123-25 1942 Galaxy sup. set ...... SAN. 6.00 334 Cl26-28 Agriculture set 3 sup. plus 129-31 ...... SAN. 8.00 335 Cl63-66 1946 Zacatecas sup. set 4 ...... SAN. 12.00 .336 C025-29 4 early officials sup...... 2.85 337 Cl-13 Monaco plus CBl-5, 1932-44 sets sup...... 12.50 338 Cl-9 Mozambique 1938 set 9 sup...... 4.55 339 Cl-15 Mozambique Co. 1935 complete sup...... 3.15 340 CBl New Caledonia 1939 150th anniv. sup...... 4.50 341 Cl-4 New Zealand 1931 complete sup...... 12.50 342 1 SAN Pigeon post 1898 f used ...... 30.00 343 C02-3, C4-6, 150-151, 164-72, 236-40 Nicaragua CO-il vf ...... 6.36 344 C77 -87 1932 Flag of the Race vf ...... 28.25 :345 Cl06-10 1933 ovpts. sup...... 2.25 A.P.J. Mint Airmail Stam:vs Of the World Page 209 346 C121-34 1936 ovpts. set sup...... 5.80 347 Cl52-3, 155-62, 193-202, 222-8, 257-60, vf coll ...... 7.08 348 C236-71 1944-45 2 sup. sets ...... 6.65 349 C277-82 1947 Managua Cent. singles and blocks sup ...... 10.75 350 COl 1920 25c orange typewritten ovpt. vf except 1 perf missing; guar- anted Scott $30 ...... SAN. 40.00 351 267 Norway 1944 North Sea single and block sup ...... SAN. 1.75 ::::...,.352 256-7 Panama-Lindbergh set in complete sheets 100 bearing special Lind- bergh pmk. Sc includes 10 copies with tail on flag right "5" sup. SAN. 145.00 353 Cl5, 20 (single and block) vf ...... 7.25 354 C21-26 1936 scarce pictorials sup...... 18.25 355 C74-79 1942 set sup...... 4.55 356 Cl9-21, CB, 10, 12, 36-8 Parai:uay sup...... 3.40 357 C74-8 1932 Zepps vf ...... 3.15 358 C87, 103A 2 high values vf ...... 4.00 359 C22-8, 35, 40-46 Persia f used ...... 3.79 360 C13 Peru 1936 "La Callao" single and block sup...... 6.25 361 Cl7-29 San. 1936-7 pictorial set 13 sup...... 52.25 362 C29-35 Philippines Von Gronau set vf ...... 10.80 363 C52-3, C36-45 Rein and PI-US series vf ...... 10.40 364 Cl-9 Poland 1st issue sup...... 4.85 365 C306-7 1936 Gordon-Bennett set sup. blocks ...... 12.00 366 ClB-24 Reunion Free French set 7 sup ...... SAN. 5.00 367 Cl-6, 13-16, RA16-18 Roumania (blocks) sup...... 6.80 368 Cl Russia sup. corner block ...... 6.00 369 C6-9, 20-34, 76 Russian lot vf ...... 6.35 370 Cl-2 Saar 1st 2 issues sup...... 2.40 371 lb SAN Salvador 1st printing 1930 dropped "c" and large "0" sup...... 10.00 372 C7-9 1930 2nd printing sup...... 2.10 373 C51-55 San Marino 2 dif 100 lire sup...... 1.45 374 Cl-11 Senegal 1935 complete set sup...... 1.84 375 Cl-6 Somalia sup. art set ...... 3.60 376 B14-18 Spain Gallarza set complete vf ...... ,...... 10.00 377 C62-7, COl-6 Pan Am sets vf ...... 3.48 378 C90 1936 Manila ovpt single and block f ...... 2.50 379 Cl-2 Sudan sup. blocks ...... 8.00 380 C27-34 Switzerland 1941 complete vf ...... 9.80 381 C42 1947 U. S. Exhib. single and plate block sup...... 10.00 382 Cl-18 Tannou-Touva 2 f sets used ...... SAN. 10.00 383 C7-12 Trieste 1947 radio ovpts sup...... 2.80 384 C43-48 Tripolitania 1934 arts series sup...... 3.60 385 C131-32 Uruguay 1947 2 values singles, blocks, sup...... 2.55 386 Cl81-8 Venezuela Red Cross series sup. plus C216 single and block ...... 2.87 387 Cl89-97 1944 Baseball champs sup...... 14.70 388 Collection over 200 dif, mostly mint, average vf ...... 48.18 389 1947 N. Y. International Philatelic Exhib. 2 souvenir sheets of 15 A.S.E. official labels ...... 390 same set 4 dif sheets, dif colors each with 12 labels showing types of transportation ...... U.S. FIRST FLIGHT COVERS Listed by American Air Mail Catalog 1947 in order of grouping in that catalog. It is obvious that the prices listed therein are long since out of date and bidders should take into account the changes in market in the intervening years. U. S. PIONEER FLIGHTS 391 29 1912 Evansville Aviation Circus badly worn card showing plane photo 20.00 392 79 August 15, 1915 Rock Island. Ill. vf card showing error 1914 in pmk.125.00 U.S. GOVERNMENT FLIGHTS 393 194b 1918 June 3 N. Y. to Boston long cover using C3 (double crash) vf .... 11.00 394 llOd 1918, December 18, Bryan to N. Y. Thin cancel ...... 4.50 395 155 1922 September 23 Springfield plus photo of 1912 Korn flight vf ...... 4.00 396 1921-2 September flights from Detroit cancel Aero Congress and Chi- cago 2c rate vf ...... 397 162i 1923 August 21 night to N. Y. sup. with block 575 le Pai:e 210 U. S. Government Flights A.P.J. imperf...... 7.50 398 167 1924 September 6 Boston World Fliers sup. card ...... 15.00 399 1925 June 27 New Orleans Hydroplane to Pilottown, 2 covers, not 1st' but scarce ...... 400 175 1925 July 1 Sacramento-Des Moines, only 4 known thus (?) vf ...... 5.00 401 1927 November 5 Chicago franked supt contract air mail service...... 402 January 31, 1937, February 21. 1927, August 1, 1928 last day zone, 1st day lOc, and 1st 5c rates 8 vf covers f stamps ...... 403 185 1929 July 15 Detroit-Toronto 9 vf ...... 1.75 404 186 1929 August 30 Adams Air mail pick up Youngstown, signed Pilot vf plus ...... 5.00 405 186 same 3 more, signed £ ...... 15.00 406 186a same McKeesport signed f ...... 5.00 407 186b same Cleveland AMF signed vf plus ...... 5.00 408 190 1931 September 23, 20th anniv. air mail L.A. signed Earle Ovington and PM-Gen Frank Hitchcock in charge of 1911 service vf ...... 409 same 3 identical covers plus later Ovington signature and historic photos ...... 410 190 same but from Mineola 3 covers signed Pilot Dean Smith ...... 411 September 29, 1931 U. S. - South Hampton via Europa ship - shore ... . 412 191 October 4 St. Louis 2oth Anniv. sup...... 413 same 3 more ...... 414 1932 July 5-6 Last day 5c 1st Sc rate 9 vf ...... 1934 U. S. Army Emergency Air Service 415 February 19 Miami AMF - Bait. signed Gen Foulois, Chief Army Air Corp & Gen ·Mosley 4th Corps vf ...... 416 February 20 Balt.-Miami signed Gen Mosley vf ...... :...... 417 February 20 Washington West sup ...... 418 February 19 Cleveland-Pittsburgh sup...... 419 February 19 Washington-Pittsburgh £ ...... 420 Washington - Akron sup...... 421 February 20 Wichita - Dallas sup ...... 422 February 19 Kansas City AMF Chicago £ ...... 423 same signed by Pilot (this reportedly 1st Army plane to take the air) ...... 424 February 20 Salt Lake City AMF east vf ...... :...... 425 February 19 Salt Lake City-San Diego sup...... 426 April 8 special service St. Paul-Lacrosse vf ...... 427 February 20 Ponca City - Dallas vf ...... 428 February 20 Pueblo - Denver vf ...... 429 February 20 Seattle - Tacoma vf ...... 430 February 20 Seattle - Pasco vf ......

431 272,a plus Canada 345 9 dif plus 3 duplicates 1947 flights Boston New- found and Canada ...... 432 S-4 1931 March 12 St. James to Charlevoix, not 1st ...... 433 S-4 same March 22, 1930 vf ...... 434 E-6 1927 November 7 Boston - stamped "air mail for Vermont Flood re- lief ...... 435 E-9 1928 March 15 Pickford, Detour Michigan snow flights pr g ...... 5.00 436 E-12 1929 March 25 Pensacola - Mobile Hurricane Navy Flight vf ...... 5.00 437 E-12 Pensacola same 2 very fine March 23 ...... 10.00 438 Sept. 12, 1930. USS Gilmer, flown Port au Prince, special Santo Domingo relief, signed earthquake cover ...... 439 1931 Minneapolis to Bergen, Norway via Viking ship R. Amundsen signed Capt. with news clip...... 440 Air Express inaugural 1-15-29 Columbus - Akron sup ...... 441 3-1-30 first air express Pasco - Boise, vg ...... U. S. CONTRACT AIR MAILS Listed by 1947 catalog, many with fine stamps marked "ss", Condition to be considered very good unless otherwise indicated 442 1N1-2, S2-3 CAM 1 Directional set 4, 2 signed pilot Wells vg plus ...... 5.25 443 March 15, 1928 motorcycle-plane carrier service Westfield N & S plus last trip 6/15/28, Hartford-Holyoke vg, very scarce ...... 444 12/23/28 special Sunday flgiht 5 vf directional including 2 New York A.P.J. U. s. Contract Air Mails Page 211 AMF; all signed Capt. R. W. Mackie, pilot ...... 445 12 assorted 1926-34 g to f ...... :...... ;...... 7 .75 446 6/26/34, Augusta to Bangor & Boston, Boston to Augusta ...... 3.60 447 1Nl6(2), 14, 18, 1820. Same flight 6, vf ss ...... 4.75 448 2Sl CAM 2 Chicago-St. Louis-Chicago, fine R.T. plus ...... 2.00 449 2Sl, & 4 Chicago and St. Louis covers; both signed pilot P. R. Love, vg ... . 450 2Sl0 St. Louis AMF to Memphis 2 f covers ss ...... 5.00 451 2S13, & 14 St. Louis AMF, New Orleans AMF to Greenwood, 1 pilot signed, sup. ss ...... 452 6-3, 1934, first contract post Army; Chicago AMF-Jackson, Jackson- Springfield, New Orleans AMF-Memphis, 3 sup., rare ...... 453 20 various route 2, 1926-34, vg to vf ...... 13.15 454 CAM 3-2 R.T. Dallas-Ft. Worth-Dallas, Chicago-Moline-Chicago, as singles ...... 8.00 455 10 different point to point 5/12/26 flights vg to vf ss ...... 10.00 456 1926, 18 various from f to vf ...... 15.00 457 SWll 7/5/28. Tulsa-KC signed pilot Rockwood ...... ;...... 458 8/27/28. Special motor bus connection to Oklahoma City, plane to KC, Ardmore; plus first night flight Tulsa-Chicago 3/15/29 ...... 459 3S12 7/1/29. Extension day service to KC east, f ...... 6.00 460 3815 2/1/31. KC airport (via Tulsa) to Oklahoma City, rare, f ...... 12.00 461 3Sl5, 16 Same, both directions, fine, rare ...... 22.00 462 2/1/31 KC-Fort Worth, 1st to land at Coffeyville, signed Earl Rockwood, pilot ...... 463 4E3 CAM 4 Reno AMF- via Salt Lake vf ...... 464 4Wl, lA, E3 4/17/26. including Salt Lake-LA, signed pilot C. N. James, vf... . 465 CAM 5 5/8/34, first post-army Salt Lake AMF-Spokane, Terre Haute; Spo- kane-Salt Lake AMF, Pasco-Portland, Seattle. ss 5 sup. rare ...... 466 6/2/34. Contract renewal Salt Lake AMF-Pendleton signed pilot Eielson, sup. rare ...... 467 Same, Pendleton-Seattle, Salt Lake, Pasco; Pasco and Boise-Pen- dleton, 5 sup. ss rare ...... 2.75 468 6E2 CAM 6. Dearborn-Detroit (No B.S.) ...... 6.00 469 6W3, 3A Cleveland to Detroit, magenta; to Chicago, black ...... 5.00 470 CAM 8 12 various 1927-33ss plus 1 s.pilot C. c. Young plus ...... , 4.25 471 CAM 9, 8/1/28 first night, 6 different pt-pt ss .•...... 472 1930 6 different first, 1 pilot sig. 9 covers ...... 6.35 473 9N25 Chicago-Grand Forks sig. pilot Freeburg 2/1/31 ...... 474 9N9 5/30/31. St. Paul-Duluth, 2 vf SS ...... 4.00 475 9N29 (4) covers, 9830 (5),9 vf ss ...... 9.25 476 9W34 6/2/31. Bismark-Mandan, 2 f ...... 5.00 477- 9W31-E35 Mandan extension 9 directionals sup. ss ...... 7.25 478 Same 14 mixed, sup...... 10.50 479 9W40 Detroit-Milwaukee, 3/2/33. vf (block #615) ...... 480 9W43-9E46 Lansing-Muskegon addition complete set 8, sup. ss, including AMFs ...... '...... 15.75 481 9E48-R9E49 Dickinson set 4 complete £ ...... 3.15 482 9W50 5/26/34. Billings-Spokane, vf ...... 5.00 483 9W50 Same Billings-Butte, sup. rarity ...... 5.00 484 R9E59 Detroit AMF and Milwaukee to Pontiac, 2 vf ...... 6.00 485 R9W58 Pontiac to Lansing-Grand Rapids-Milwaukee, 3 sup. ss ...... 9.00 486 42 assorted route 9 g to f ss ...... 24.00 487 10S2, 3 CAM 10 4/1/26, Tampa and Fort Myers ...... 9.00 488 10S5 Atlanta to Tampa, sup. signed pilot Carl B. Eielson, killed soon thereafter in Alaskan flight, and bearing pair 5c Pilgrim centeFed b. Wonderful cover ...... 489 1055 Same flight same signature, beautifully centered pair 5c Walloon ... . 490 1086 Macon-Ft. Myers again bearing rare sig of Eielson, pilot for Wilkins in both Arctic and Antarctic, f ...... 491 10$5, 10 Sept. 15, 3 Vf ...... 3.75 492 1155, E7 CAM 11, 6/8/31. Akron through to Washington, on one cover ...... 493 11N2, E7 3 covers endorsed on back "rec'd in damaged pouch'', sig. PM ...... 494 Same endorsement, 11 Akron-Washington flight, ss ...... 495 4/28/32. Last dispatch Bettis AMF; 4/29, first city--county airport; Page 212 u. S. Contract Air Mails A.P.J. 6/6/32. Washington first night, 4 vf ss ...... 496 5/17/34. First post-army Detroit AMF-Washington-Pittsburgh AMF- Detroit, 2 sup. rare ss ...... 497 CAM 12, August-September, 31 first, 13 various, ss, vf ...... • 8.85 498 12Nl4, S17 Cheyenne-Billings, 6 different pt. to pt. sup. includes Cheyenne AMF SS...... 5.60 499 13Na CAM 13. Philadelphia-New York red-purple signed pilot J. D. Hill (lost in attempted ocean flight), 9 very rare, f ...... • 8.00 500 13Sl, N2 Philadelphia-Washington-Philadelphia RT. f plus ...... 4.00 501 13S4 New York-Philadelphia with stamp C4, f ...... 3.00 502 3Ml6 11 Various 1928-29 firsts, f ...... • 5.95 503 CAM 17, 17W4D, E4D, W5D, ESD, M4, S6D. Toledo-Detroit, June 28, 6 sup...... 7.00 504 12/1-2/30 Cleveland-AMF-New York, Newark AMF, Chicago first NAT passenger, 1 sig. pilot Samson ...... 505 Nov. 11, 1927 various east-west routes between New York-Sacramen- to. 14 fine covers of which 8 are scarce air fields (Scott #610) ...... 506 CAM 18 1/16/32. Omaha-Watertown, 9 different pt. to pt. fine ...... 5.75 507 Rl8E26 7/9/33, Oakland-San Francisco sup ...... 3.00 508 Rl8E28, W27, E27 3 different Moline additions sup ...... • 8.50 509 Rl8, E26 Reno-San Francisco sup...... 3.00 510 RlBW, E30 Grand Island from Chicago AMF and San Francisco, sup ...... 511 18SE32 Huron-Sioux Falls sig. pilot Gene Shank, ss f ...... 512 18NW31, E33 5 different 7 /3/34, 2 sig. pilot Shank over ...... 4.90 513 18SE34 Bismarck-Huron sup...... 4.00 514 18SE35 Mandan-Huron, sup...... 6.00 515 18NE31 Sioux Falls to St. Paul and Minneapolis, 2 sup...... 3.00 516 19S, 26b CAM 19, Philadelphia-Richmond, Cachet minus city name ...... • 3.50 517 19Sll Baltimore south 9 f. plus 4 different first Sunday 5/5/29 ss, at least 10.00 518 19Nl5 (4) plus Rl9Sl6 from Atlanta AMF sig. pilot Potts, plus ...... 3.00 519 19S20, etc. 13 different pt. to pt. vf ss ...... 5.85 520 19S26, N28 Atlantic City, each, f ss ...... 5.50 521 1/27/30. CAM 20 first all night, 5 different including Cleveland AMF, f ...... 522 20E27, W28, E30, W30. Knoxville-Roanoke sup. ss ...... 2.60 523 20W10, etc Nashville extension 1931, 10 different pt. to pt. f ...... • 5.00 524 20El6, W17 Albany-New York extension, 2 ea. f...... 4.30 525 20W23, 25 2 ea. Elmira-Scranton, f ...... '...... 3.50 526 21N5, a CAM 21, 4 different Waco g. (ClO) ...... • 4.50 527 CAM 22, 7/1/34, 6/10/ 34, Washington to Charleston, Ft. Worth, etc. 4 vf ...... 528 22N3, NS Brownsville, magenta (1), black (5) to various pts. ss ...... • 5.00 529 22S7 Ft. Worth AMF, San Antonio, Austin-Waco and Dallas via Browns- ville to Tampico, 6 f Lindbergh flown ...... 14.50 530 24Sl, N3 CAM 24 3 various 12/17 /27 ss ...... 4.50 531 23N4 CAM 23 New Orleans-Atlanta AMF, sig. Governor, Mayor and both p.m., sup ...... 532 25Sl, N2, N3 CAM 25, 2 ea. f...... 3.00 533 25E9A (3) plus 6 other pt. to pt. ss ...... 6.50 534 25Ell St. Petersburg 14 covers, fair to vg ...... 4.20 535 25Elld St. Petersburg small "Fla" sig. pilot Cross sup ...... 536 26Sl CAM 26 Great Falls 5 different pt. to pt. various colors plus ...... 2.20 537 26S7 Idaho Falls 5 fine ...... 2.35 538 CAM 27. 7 /17 /28. 5 different SS ...... 4.85 539 27NW22 4/1/29. Cleveland, to 16 different pts, on route, many Scott #650, vf 12.00 540 27W23, E23 16 complete coverage from Toledo, all with Scott #650 ...... 20.00 541 27W28 Cleveland-Detroit amphibian, sig. pilot Cy Caldwell f...... 3.50 542 27W28 Same Detroit-Cleveland, sup. #648 sig. pilot Devore, over ...... 3.50 543 10/12/29. Last Detroit-Cleveland service directional plus Cleveland AMF, sig. pilots and other officials ss ...... 544 5/5/30. Resumption amphibian service 3 ea. Cleveland-Detroit 1 ea. sig. pilot Apitz. 6 sup ...... 545 27E35 South Bend-Ft. Wayne 12/6/30 sig. famous stunt pilot Charles W. Holman, killed in 1930 crash, sup ...... • A.P.J, U. S. Contract Air Mails Page 213 -046 29E35, 36 2 ea. including Chicago AMF, fine ...... 5.75 547 May 13, 1934, contract resumption post-army Buffalo to Jackson, only 110 to all pts., sup...... 548 Same Buffalo-Ann Arbor and Battle Creek, 2 rarities sup. .. .. :...... 549 Same Newark AMF to Detroit and Ann Arbor, 2 sup. RR ...... 550 Same South Bend and Kalamazoo to Buffalo, 2 sup. RR ...... 551 Detroit AMF to Newark, Buffalo, 2 sup. RR ...... 552 28E3 CAM 28. Kansas City 5/1/29, sig. pilot w. Hunter on double plate block C11 ...... :...... 553 28W1-E3 Complete directional set 6 all sig. by pilots Hunter or Rousch (3 #650) sup ...... 554 28W4b, E4D St. Joseph add, directionals, sig. pilots Hunter and Swanson, sup. 555 28W4 Same 7 vf, 5 sig. by Hunter, 2 by pilot Rust ...... 556 29W1 CAM 29 New Orleans-Beaumont sig. B. A. Carpenter ss vf ...... 557 29W6-E7 Lake Charles set 4 complete sup. ss ...... 3.10 558 30N2, 4 CAM 30 11/19/28, Champaign, Evansville sig. Pilot George Myers vf 559 1/23/29 8 different pt. to pt. long covers many of stps. inc. plates ...... 560 16 various 1930 flights, vg ...... 8.00 561 30N5 Nashville to 3 pts. ea. sig. pilot \Fricks, vg ...... ····~· .. ·· 562 5 12/1/28 covers all signed Fricks; fair ...... 563 3 (St. Louis) 1 (Atlanta) sig pilots Harris and Fricks, fair ...... 564 3/31/30 last day flight, 4 route pts. sig. by pilots Hamar, Pricer, or Rousch .. .. 565 5/1/30 - first night flight 7 different cities, all pilot sig. vg ...... 566 30 various last day and first night, all pilot sig., many ss ...... 567 May-June '30 pilot appreciation flights, 7 different, all sig ...... 568 Same, 9 assorted, not signed ...... 569 30E10, WlO, Ell Salina, Denver, 3 vf ...... 1.80 570 30Sl2 6/1/34 Indianapolis-Atlanta sup ...... 4.00 571 R30N12 Atlanta AMF - Indianapolis 6/2 sup ...... 6.00 572 30N12 Louisville-Indianapolis vf ...... 6.00 573 Louisville (Clk 103) to Atlanta sup...... 574 Atlanta AMF and Nashville to Louisville, 2 sup. RR ...... 12.00 575 Same flight Atlanta AMF-Macon; Jacksonville-Chattanooga; Spring- field, Mo.-St Louis, 3 vf ...... 576 CAM 32 Vancouver-Portland; Portland-Vancouver, 2 vf 1, sig. pilot Geo. Buck, plus ...... 3.00 577 32E3, 32E2PM Vancouver and Portland covers, sig. pilots Buck and Taff, plus 2.35 578 8 dif this route vf ...... 5.70 579 CAM 33 Inaugural complete directional set £-vf; ss ...... 12.25 580 33S17, N19 4 and 2 respectively f ...... 3.60 581 33N19 New Orleans add., b. s. cachets routes 20 and 33, vf ...... 582 6/15/32 1st night flight, 11 dif sup ...... 583 R33W23, W32, E32 6 asstd included Atlanta AMF sig. pilot Bruns sup. plus .. .. 2.60 584 34EW28, R34 29 CAM 34 Terre Haute add. to Columbus, Los Angeles; Colum- bus AMF-Terre Haute 3 sup. RR ...... 14.00 585 6/1/34 post-Army service Brownsville AMF Houston, Austin, Fort Worth AMF, Wichita Falls, Waco, Amarillo, 8 diff pt-pt sup.ss RR 586 34WH 10/25/30 Newark AMF; Newark 2 f ...... 587 33 diff directional route 34 Inaugural vf ...... 18.85 588 4/20/31 1st 24 hr service 9 diff. w. cachets sup ...... 589 7/20/31 1st night 5 dif (2 AMF) sup ...... 590 11/11/33 Elk City set 4 comp. including St. Louis AMF ...... 2.65 591 33E35f, W38 CAM 33 7 /7 /34 5 dif pt-pt sup ...... 4.50 592 33E38, R33E, W40 Tyler add. 5 £ inc. Atlanta AMF ...... 2.20 593 AM33 (new) Hilo, Hawaii, etc. 14 var. inc. scarce east bounds f ...... 5.50 594 AM 42 Houston-Brownsville 6 comp. dir. £ ...... 3.25 595 55S13, 14; R55N16 (2) 6 vf N.Y.-Newark ...... 7.50 596 AM1001 5/39 exper. pickups 9 dif. sup ...... 3.55 597 AM1002 Pittsburg circuit, 11 dif. sup. 5.90 ALASKA 598 85 Graham-Christofferson rescue flight, f cover signed by both with news clippings Page 214 A.P.J. INTERRUPTED FLIGHT COVERS And related material 599 4/26/27 part of cover of "American Legion" plane which crashed Langley Field, killing Lts. Davis and Wooster; certif. plus 5 X 7 crash photo ...... 600 30.2 Cedar City, Utah, Maurice Graham crash plus LA-Salt Lake 1st flight signed by pilot Graham plus 6 X 8 photo crash plus $5,000 reward poster and clippings; unique ...... 601 Letter carried and sig. pilot w. J. Hunter, 1930 Nat. Air Races; plane crashed and burned letter in brief case, thus salvaged 3 photos plus clippings, no pmk ...... 602 11/19/30 Gerald Nettleton, Jr. record attempt, crash, flown and sig. plus clip ...... 603 Part of wing covering Shell Mystery Ship cracked up St. Louis by J. Hazlip, with clip ...... 604 12/15/30, piece of wing cover certf. and sig. by John S. Pricer from crash Grayville, St. Louis-Evansville route ...... 605 Crash pilot Charles Rousch (Geneva, Ill.) 7 X 9 photo autographed, and clipping of fatality ...... 606 F5-91 Lindbergh circle flight Maracaibo-Port of Spain (rare), sig pilot c. R. Parmelee; plus letter sig. by him shortly before his death in Burbank crash; 2 clips ...... 607 7/1/33 cover carried by Russell Boardman, N. Y.-Indianapolis where he crashed and was killed in Bendix race; inscribed and sig. by Mrs. Boardman ...... 608 34.2 Greenville, South Carolina 1st Army crash 2/19/34 sig. by pilot (At- lanta AMF pmk) f, over ...... 4.50 609 34.3 Deshler, Ohio 1st Army from Pueblo sig. pilot Richmond, (Cheyenne Pueblo run), over ...... 4.50 610 9/2/34 cover carried and sig. Dou~ Davis, winner Bendix race 2 days before fatal crash; plus clippings ...... 611 Cover by air Cawnpore, India 8/18/36 to England marked "dam- aged by sea water" vf ...... 612 Large packet crash clippings and photos 1930s ...... SOUVENIR-HISTORICAL FLIGHTS Listed and priced by American Air Mail Catalog, 1947 613 Large box clippings, many important flights 20s and 30s ...... 614 572 1927 Chamberlin; Leviathan ship to shore vf cover; autographed photo autographed letter; way over ...... 20.00 615 573 8/20 Leviathan attempt ...... 1.00 616 580 (b) 1928 May 8 Santiago-B.A. Doolittle test flight sup ...... 5.00 617 581 March 9 Army inspection flight Washington-Canal Zone with photo- stat of letter concerning same by Lt. Fairchild f ...... 40.00 618 5/28 Crookston, Minn-Winnipeg by Speed Holman vg ...... 619 Same sig. by pilot Holman 5/28/29 Gardner Trophy races prelim. sig. Holman winner; 7 X 9 photo sig. Holman plus clippings telling fatal crash 5 /19/31 ...... 620 1929 May 26 Fort Worth Endurance Record sig. pilots Robbins arid Kelly plus piece of plane fabric (Kelly killed 1930) ...... 621 602,652 1929, 31 Adams and .Cabot pick up covers; from Leviathan and Nor- folk 2 vg ...... 5.50 622 603 6/18 Trans cont Air-Rail hook up sig. pilots Kane and Holbrook L.A. 6/18 vf ...... 10.00 623 605 7 /6 Newcomb-Mitchell record breaking refueling flight Cleveland AMF; sig.; sup ...... 3.00 624 1930;3/11 Grand Forks Army expt. Polar flight 2 sup ...... 625 622 4/15 Nashville glider sig. pilot Duede, vf ...... 3.00 626 622 Same 6 more of which 4 are sig. vg ...... 18.00 627 May-June Penna. State Good Will Air Show, 18 dif cachets, stickers, etc...... 628 627 6/26 Pontiac 1st diesel flight, 2 vf ...... 10.00 629 628 7 /2 Hunter Brothers endurance record flight pmk. Evanston sig both brothers; also 9 X 12 photo showing 5 Hunter brothers and A.P.J. Souvenir - Historical Flights Page 215 sisters with autographs, over ...... 25.00 630 629a 7/4 National Balloon race flown Talco, sig. pilot C.H. Roth sup. 631 631 7/21, 8/17 Jackson-O'Brine endurance record pmk., both dates St. Louis AMF carried full flight sig. both pilots plus small photos, also sig. RR ...... 1i32 631 Same normal cover pmk 8/22 both sig. plus 7 related cachets 9 X 12 photo sig. Jackson and numerous clippings his later fatal crash ...... 633 8/20/30 Women's Air Derby, Douglas, Arizona-Mexico, 5 vf, many Sig, SS ...... 634 11/21 Cleveland from St. Louis, flown sig. pilot Geo. Haldeman plus 7 X 9 photo, vf ...... 635 565 10/7/26 Floyd Bennett tour vg ...... 10.00 636 572 7 /31/27 Chamberlin ship to shore, f ...... 20.00 637 642 1930, November 9 N. Y.-Panama flown and sig by Roy w. Ammel pmk, Chicago 1/5/31 "Blue Flash" ...... 638 1931 Walter Hinton Goodwill Tour, 28 dif including 6 auto. plus 3 original photos N-C, l, 3, 4 planes 1919 take off; clippings vf ss...... 639 16 Hinton covers f to sup., 2 sig ...... 640 6/11/30 Champaign, Illinois, 10 Hinton Tours all sig. vf ss ...... 641 650 1931 Cooper-Trout Women's Endurance Record not carried but 3 re- lated covers plus clipping, 2 sig...... 642 1/18/31 Glendale, California sail plane glider from Mount Verdugo, sig pilot Maurice W. Collins, vf ...... 643 3/27 /31 Woµien's Altitude Record carried, plus sig. Elinor Smith crashed pmk N.Y. 4/30 ...... 644 651 1/30 Pl\cific shore to ship 2 f ...... 4.00 645 651 Same 6 g, ss ...... 12.0o 646 654 6/12 1st Dirigible ship to shore by Goodyear Air Ship San Pedro, 2 f 647 7/1 cover flown Santa Barbara-Santa Cruz Island sig. pilot Earle Ovington, Air '.!V!ail pioneer ...... 648 Cover N. Y.-London by Wilkins submarine with clipping f ...... 649 7/12 Montreal-Jamaica 1st through flight sig. pilot R. C. Holland endorsed "plane forced down" at West Palm Beach, Fla., U.S.A., listed in 1933 Berk. cat ...... 25.00 650 9/21 cover flown St. Louis-Los Angeles by Col. , plus 2 earlier cachets, all sig. Turner ...... :;...... 651 Sept. cover flown and sig. by Dale Jackson, 3rd in Thompson Tro­ phy race with clip; also cover carried and sig. in Fla. air tour Jan. (Jackson later killed.) ...... 652 9/29 St. Louis-Indianapolis flown sig. by pilot J. H. Doolittle; 7/25/32 3,000 mi. flight cachet, sig. Doolittle, both vf plus 10 X 12 photo, also sig...... :...... 653 10 X 12 photo of and sig. by Eddie Stinson, Blanche Noyes, Elinor Smith and J. H. Doolittle, plus Doolittle auto. N.A.R. 1929, plus num- erous Doolittle clippings ...... 654 (65809) Dec. 1 Mexico to Canada speed attempt flown and sig. pilot J. R. Wedell, plus clippings sig. letter sig. 10 X 12 photo and clippings of fatal crash ...... 655 1932 ; original souvenir menu for her Italian recep­ tion given by Balbo; cover 6/10 especially inscribed carried on plane returning Earhart Rome-Milan (17 exist); several welcome covers; numerous clippings ...... 656 667 1932 August Women's refueling flight, sig. pilots Thaden and Mar- salas, vf ...... 15.00 657 668 August 29 Bendix Los Angeles-N. Y. flown and sig. by Winner James Haizlip plus sig. 10 X 12 photo and clips, over ...... ;...... 15.00 658 668 Same flown and sig. Roscoe Turner, 3rd place sup...... 15.00 659 Sept. 25 flown and sig. Turner non-stop L. A.-S. F. round trip pmk. L. A. Oct. 26 ...... 660 1933 July 2 flown and sig. J. R. Wedell Bendix N. Y.-L. A ...... 661 677 Sept. 25 Roscoe Turner speed record L. A.-N. Y. sup...... 7.50 662 680 1934 April 26 Sikorsky sea plane altitude record sig. pilot Sergievsky vf ...... 5.00 663 1935 June 20, 1st towed glider flight Akron-Columbus, sup ...... Page 216 Souvenir - Historical Flights A.P.J; 664 #1 1934 July 25, 1 of 2 covers dispatched by Major I. F. Peake C. O. Philippine Air Forces, worn but unique, pmk Fairbanks, July 26 .... 665 684 #2 Same Washington-Alaska flight pmk Osborn, Ohio, endorsed and sig. by Capt. Larson, pilot ...... 666 687 August 2, Lustig Sky Train towed gliders N. Y.-Philadelphia sig. pilot Franklin, plus photo vf ...... 15.00 667 687a Same N. Y.-Baltimore sig. pilots O'Meara, Smith and Franklin, vf plus photo and unflown cover sig. pilot R. E. Franklin, glider builder 15.00 668 687b Same N. Y.-Washington sig. pilot O'Meara vf ...... 15.00 669 687b Same but carried in towing plane, sig. by pilot (18 thus) f plus ...... 15.00 670 Aug. 31 Bendix race plus 2nd, 1st flown, both sig. Roscoe Turner, plus sig. photo 8 X 10 and clips ...... 671 1935 Feb. 15 flown and sig. Helen Ritchey, 1st authorized woman Air Mail pilot ...... 672 693 non-stop Stratosphere, vf ...... 7.50 673 1936 Oct. 17 cover, sig. by winners of numerous races, Selfredge Field, Michigan ...... 674 Monts, France June 3, 1937 Windsor Wedding Day vf cover plus numerous clippings abdication and romance ...... 675 1937 Aug. 30, 1st Detroit-Cleveland Sky Train flight flown sig. pilots Chas. Abel and Harold Johnson ...... 676 1938 May 15, Auto Giro Chicago AMF to P.O. roof Nat. Air Week flight vf ...... 677 4 dif. flown from local events 1938 ...... 678 727 1943 November 20, TACA Air Ways flights Honduras-Nicaragua, Cos- ta Rica, Salvador and Miami, 4 vf directional ss, over ...... 4.00 679 727 Same set 4 from Salvador vf plus ...... 4.00 680 727 Same Nicaragua set plus ...... 4.00 681 727 Same Costa Rica set vf as are all, plus ...... 4.00 682 727 Same 16 dif. pt-pt comp. set sup ...... 16.00 683 727a The special presentation cover, beautiful ...... 10.00 684 1948 July 25 150th anniv. U.S.F. Constitution, 3 sup. 1st flight Lock- heed Constitution Burbank-Washington ...... SP.ECIAL AUTOGRAPHS FAMOUS NAMES, PILOTS, ETC. 685 649,690 U. S. Mint blocks sig. respectively by Walter F. Brown and Harry S. New, pm generals, plus cover sig. Brown and clips ...... '...... 686 Grover Cleveland auto. photo "to Mrs. Shepherd" March 9, 1888, vf 687 Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge on separate covers, plus clips f 688 Admiral Richmond P. Hobson on 1st CAM 8, vf ...... 689 Mayor LaGuardia on small photo French fliers 'plane, Bennett Field 690 Rosa Ponselle on N. Y. Cam 17, vg ...... 691 John G. Whittier, holograph letter, vf ...... 692 Lowell R. Bayles Cleveland AMF cover plus 3 large photos including fatal crash ...... j, 693 John D. Brock St. Louis AMF l,OOOth daily flight, also J. H. Doolittle ,. photo and clip, vf ...... 694 Ruth Elder Camp N. Y. Aviation show, vf ...... 695 Malcolm Campbell Daytona Speed trials and record Feb. 1933 ...... 696 Capt. Clair Chennault, Lts. McDonald and Howell, "The Three Mus- keteers''',unflown, worn ...... 697 Doug Corrigan Cleveland AMF 1938, vf ...... 698 Viola Gentry sig. photo and clip ...... 699 May Haizlip Cleveland AMF 1932 sig, cover and 8 X 10 photo ...... 700 Stanley Hausner sig. cover just before take off on fatal trans-Atlan- tic attempt ...... 701 Frank Hawks Cleveland AMF 1929, plus clip g ...... 702 Frank Hawks flown cover plus clips and photo ...... 703 Lady Mary Heath Dunkirk 7/6/29 f ...... 704 Lady Heath Cleveland AMF cover 1929 plus sig. photo and clip vf ... . 705 Walter Hinton and other signatures on 2 "visit" covers plus clip .. .. 1919 trans-Atlantic flight ...... 706 Casey Jones 1924 photo plus 1 sig...... 707 Edith Foltz, Abbie Dill, Florence KliDJgensmith, plus sig photo latter and of fatal crash ...... A.P.J. Special Autographs, Famous Names, Pilots, Etc. Pai:e 217 708 Jack Knight, "Patron" Jack Knight Air Mail Society, Chicago AMF 1932 ...... 709 Eddie Korn, pilot 117 1st Air Mail, Springfield, Illinois and A. L. Loud, veteran Wellman Polar pioneer on Springfield, 1932 ...... 710 C. Kini;sford Smith on 5 X 7 photo ...... 711 Eddie Korn sig. cover; Walter Brookens sig. photo 2 pioneers ...... 712 Frank P. Lahm, 1st passenger of Orville Wright, Glendale Air Show ...... 713 Ruth Law, pilot #188 woman pioneer sig. photo 7 X 9 ...... • 714 Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, Perry Arctic expedition N. Y. cover 1934 .... 715 James and Amy Mollison, several f covers plus clippings and photo 716 G. Monteverde sig. 3 X 5 photo ...... 717 Blanche Wilcox Noyes Cleveland AMF 1929 7/18 Gladys O'Donell Cleveland AMF 1931 ...... 718 Earle Ovington and Frank M. Hitchcock P.M.G. 1909-13, 2 covers plus clip ...... • 719 on cover with clip, Congressional Medal com- mem, vg ...... 720 Same signature plus Dean c. Smith (Byrd pilot) first flight return to CAM duty, 2 sup. AMF ...... 721 Ernst Udet, German ace;Maurio de Bernardi; R. R. Atchlerley, Inter- national stars, 3 Cleveland AMF, NAR vf ...... 722 Capt. H. B. Wilde, 1905 Dirigible pioneer, Detroit 1931 cover ... ;., ...... 723 Roger Q. Williams and others, Newark AMF 1934 ...... , ...... • 724 Lewis A. Yancey, New York 1930 plus clips, New York-Rome flight 725 J. Mollison, Bert Acosta, J. Erroll Boyd, Bob Lyon, Sam Levy on one unflown cover, sup...... 726 Guy Gilbert, w. Nobel, William Thaw, Henri Moulinais, 4 WWI Aces, unflown covers ...... 727 Augustus Post, Einar Lundborg, Barney Zimmerley, 3 greats 1931 covers, sup...... 728 Rene Fonck, Alan Winslow, Douglas Campbell, J.O.M. Sopwith, Richard Cross, Howard Burdick, Murray Guthrie, c. T. P. Ulm, sup. lot 8 famous pioneers ...... 729 H. c. Rodd, Victor H. Strohm, and others, 4 fine covers, trans-At- lantic 'VWI, etc...... 730 5 different WWI aces on separate unflown covers ...... 731 5 autographed covers from the '30s plus some photos, much back- ground correspondence ...... 732 8 different unflown signed WWI famous names ...... 733 20 different flown covers each with "early bird" signatures, fabulous lot, including such names as Glenn Martin, Edward Korn, and the like ...... 734 10 covers, each signed by well known names 1930-31 ...... 735 11 1930 or 32 Cleveland Air Ace covers signed by many famous pilots in attendance, valuable lot ...... 736 1930-31 six special flights effectively signed ...... 737 1931 Cleveland Air Races, 19 vf covers, covered with signatures ...... 738 1932 Cleveland Air Races, 4 sup. signed covers, each with double plate block 4 Red Cross ...... 739 1934 National Air Races, Cleveland, 6 sup. signed Turner, Atcherley, O'Donnel, Noyes, Thaw and Caldwell ...... 740 Lot of 30 autographed covers, photos and miscellany, f little coll ..... LINDBERGHIANA Listed by American Airmail Catalog, 1940, insofar as listing is appropriate. An unusual opportunity to secure seldom-offered items of historical event which had as much to do with the development of aviation as did A Sputnik for space exploration. Lindbergh's signatures are among the hardest to come by, and those which follow are, in most cases, truly unique. 741 Large packet of Lindbergh clippings including early, middle and later years Wonderful for writing up purposes ...... 742 9 different large and small Lindbergh photos covering period from first CAM 2 to Greenland flight ...... 743 Cover and photo celebrating 5th anniversary St. Louis-Chicago line, signed Page 218 Lindberghiana A.P.J. by pilots Love, Hallgren, Holbrook, and Jewel, plus clippings ...... --::::::- 744 Paris May 21, 1927, commercial cover posted on date of Lindbergh's arrival, previous owner paid $15.00 for this ...... 745 Holograph letter addressed "Dear Charles" includes statement, "Be careful, Charles, you are in a very dangerous business." Signed "Aunt Linda" ...... 746 Postcard mailed January 26, 1924 to Major William Robertson signed "Slim." The rarest Lindbergh signature ...... ,,, 747 CAM 2 inaugural Springfield-Chicago signed "C. A. Lindbergh, pilot", plus P. M. Conkling, rarest autograph long before days of fame, plus photo of take-off of this flight. sup...... 748 Endorsed pay checks showing rate $175.00 for two weeks signed by pilots Philip R. Love, Thomas P. Nelson and c. A. Lindbergh respectively, January 15, 1927 ...... 749 Letter from Thomas P. Nelson, fellow pilot, handwritten, April 5, 1927 ad­ dressed "Dear Slim," "I've heard very little of your ventures so far but hope you make it with colors flying" ...... • *" 750 Packing sheet Wright Aeronautical Corp. addressed "Captain Charles Lind­ bergh, Roosevelt Field" for one J-5 carburator air heater. "Above fur nished free of charge for installation in Capt. Lindbergh's transatlantic Ryan Monoplane"; also log sheet prepared by Lindbergh for this flight, though not used. Unique mementos...... 751 9 X 12 Sepia photo of Lindbergh and his plane signed "Charles A. Lind­ bergh" plus 8 financial backers of the flight. Historical. Unique ...... • 752 Small piece of actual fabric Spirit of St. Louis, signed and endorsed Sgt. James Tate who repaired holes torn by French souvenir hunters ...... 753 Letter June 3, 1930 to Ralph R. Rugh, letterhead signed "C. A. Lindbergh" 754 Autograph letter May 29, 1930 to Ralph Rugh signed by Evangeline L. L. Lindbergh (Mother) ...... ;?""" 755 Original agreement between Lindbergh and Carlisle MacDonald, assisting as "ghost", covering royalties for the famous Lindbergh book "We". Signed "Charles A. Lindbergh" and MacDonald ...... 756 Banquet menu Cartagena, Columbia, January 26, 1828 signed C. A. Lind- bergh and many other visiting notables ...... 757 Banquet program and menu San Diego, September 21, 1933 signed C. A. Lindbergh ...... 758 Copy of cablegram received by Lindbergh at Bogota with his penpiled reply across face, signed "Lindbergh". Again unique ...... : .....• 759 _First FAM 5 Canal Zone to Washington signed Charles A. Lindbergh, Harry s. New, P. M., W. Irving Glover, 2nd Asst. PMG, cover worn but unique, 760 9 x 12 Sepia photo signed May 29, 1930 Evangeline L. L. Lindbergh ...... •...... • 761 Photo (8 X 10) at start of clipper flight, signed c. A. Lindbergh, only one so autographed ...... 762 Cover carried Clipper flight Miami-Cristobal, signed c. A. Lindbergh, f ... . 763 Passenger list for immigration authorities Miami-Barranquilla, aittested and 7 signed by c. A. Lindbergh, Captain. Another one of a kind. Nov. 20, 1931 .... 764 7 X 9 photo Lindbergh's parents-in-law, signed Dwight Morrow, then Am- bassador to Italy ...... 7 765 10 X 12 Sepia photo with plane signed Charles A. Lindbergh, and Anne Lind­ bergh, only known philatelic photograph of its kind ...... • Every one of the above autographs absolutely guaranteed without limit of time as genuine. The following items are listed by 1940 catalogues (worth today-? ?) 766 5 1927 June 11 U S Memphis, rare though worn ...... 3.00 767 6 (USG 180) June 11 Washington 3 vg ...... 4.50 768 6-30 June 11 Washington; August 15, Springfield, 2 f ...... 1.50 769 8 Goodwill tour, July 20 Hartford, g. long ...... • 5.00 770 10 July 22, Boston, f ...... 3.50 771 20 August 1, Cleveland, magenta pmk, f ...... 5.00 772 27 August 10, Detroit, f ...... 2.50 773 28 August 12, Grand Rapids, sup...... 4.00 774 10,27 2 covers Boston and Detroit, vg ...... 6.00 ·775 2S6, 9 Springfield, Chicago rd. trip, signed pilots P. R. Love, H. A. Gurney, with stamps ClO, 619, 625, beauty ...... 6.75 A. P. J. Lindberghiana Page 219 776 42 August 25, Little Falls, Cachet as in catalogue, f. rare ...... 12.50 777 42 Same but on specially imprinted Grant letter sheet, RR ...... 12.50 778 52 Sept. 4, Boise, Idaho, vf ...... , 5.00 779 57 Sept. 14, Portland, Oregon, vf ...... 3.00 780 62 Sept. 20, Los Angeles, 2 vg ...... 4.00 781 65 Sept. 23, Tucson, Arizona, f ...... 5.00 782 101 Southern tour 1928, January 7 San Jose, Costa Rica (Lindbergh stamp SAN #2) ...... 7.50 783 175 January 9, Panama City, 2c black cancel 4 line pmk, sup ...... 1.00 784 176 Panama, 4 line purple, on 5c, with tail on right 5, sup...... 5.00 785 177 & 8 Panama, 3 line, 2c and 5c covers, red, f ...... 3.00 786 Same on one cover, sup ...... 3.00 787 106 January 26 Cartagena, f ...... 10.00 788 107 January 27, Bogota, vf, flown Caracas, showing arrival date Jan. 30, Lindbergh day there ($25.00) ...... • 789 112 Feb. 4, Sto Domingo, vf ...... 5.00 790 114 Flown cover Sta Domingo-Havana, sup...... 17.00 791 115 Feb. 6, Port au Prince, f ...... 2.50 792 116 Flown cover Port au Prince-Havana, Lindbergh carried, (plane ca- chet), f ...... 17.00 793 Same, but with additional 4 line cachet on reverse, vf ...... 17.00 794 117 Feb. 8, Havana, vf (C-2) ...... 2.00 795 117 Same, 2 covers signed pilot Edwin Musick, g ...... 4.00 796 117 Same, 6 covers, 2, Cl, 4, C2, vg ...... 12.00 797 118 Feb. 13, St. Louis, return, good ...... 2.50 798 Feb. 21, "Again flies" set 3 special cards, one signed pilot Love ...... 799 Same, Chicago and Airmail field motor truck, vg ...... 800 Iindberg (h) Kentucky, 4 various, plus 2 Mrs. Lindbergh ...... 801 124 May'21, 1928 first anniversary, 4 CAM, 2 vf ...... 8.00 802 134 July 8, 1929 L.A.-N.Y. - T.A.T. first 48-hour passenger ...... 6.00 803 34 various anniversary cachets each stamped with booklet pane single ClOa over which is autograph of local PM. Beginning San Diego May 10 thru St. Louis, Garden City, Halifax ,etc. thru Good- will tours, unique ...... 804 July 28, 1931 Washington begins Orient tour, 2 sup ...... 805 161 August 17, 1933, Reykjavik welcome sup ...... 6.00 806 143 American Clipper flown C.A.L.-Miami-Barranquilla, sup...... 5.00 807 147 Kingston-Barranquilla, sup...... 15.00 808 150 Cristobal-Barranquilla ...... 3.00 809 Colon-Baranquilla, sup...... 810 153 Cristobal-Miami, sup...... 2.00 811 Colon-Miami, sup ...... 812 158 Kingston-Miami, sup...... •...... 15.00 813 Cienfuegos-Miami, 2 vf ss ...... 3.00 814 4/21/33 St. Louis AMF, official inspection T.W.A., cover and card, f 815 32 Lindbergh visits anniversaries, and the like, ss ...... 816 18 W2 Iowa City-Cheyenne signed by pilot I. 0. Biffle who gave Lindbergh first flying lessons, vf ...... AIRPORT DEDICATION COVERS Listed and priced 1947 American Airmail Catalogue 817 2 1928 March 15. Houston, Texas, worn ...... 3.50 818 May 12 opening Fort Worth airmail field, first day cancel signed PM and pilot R. L. Dobie, unlisted rarity, f ...... 819 November 11 Salinas, Kan., Legion dedication cachet ...... ? 820 A-154 Sept. 30 Freeport, N.Y. signed famous flyer Elinor Smith, plus clip- ping, fine ...... 4.00 821 B56 1929 April 6 Mineral Wells, Tex., fine (#650) ...... 4.00 822 B56,57 Same, April 6-7, fine pair ...... 8.50 823 B57 April 7, Mineral Wells, 2 fine ...... 9.00 824 Bl20,l,2 May 31-June 2, Anderson, Ind., 2 ea. ss, fine ...... 4.50 825 B124 June 1, St. Marys, Kan., (5c Kansas) 2 f ...... 2.50 826 B165,6 June 22, 23 Wilkes-Barre, fine pair (#650) ...... ,...... 4.85 827 Bl66 June 23, Wilkes-Barre, fine ...... 4.50 828 B210 July 8, Columbus, Ohio (#628), signed Governor Cooper, vf ...... Page 220 Airport Dedication Covers A. P. J. 829 B215 July 13, Sedan, Kan., vg ...... 2.00 830 B259 August 3, Kansas City, Kan, 4 good ...... 8.00· 831 B336A September 13, York, Neb., rr pmk, f ...... 2.00 832 B340B, 341B, 342 September 13-l!Y Athol, Mass., 3 vf ...... :...... 2.35 833 Same, 3 each, f ...... 7 .05 834 B392 September 28, Muncie, Ind., 2 f ...... 4.00 835 B418 October 12, Durango, Col., vf ...... 3.00· 836 B418 Same, 3 vf ...... 9.00 837 B445 October 20, Gettysburg, vf ...... 2.00 838 B472 November 10, Moscow, Idaho, f ...... 4.50 839 B473 November 11, Moscow, Idaho, vf ...... 4.00 840 C84A 1930, April 20, Pasadena, Cal., vf ...... 4.50 841 Cl14 May 4, Carrollton, Ohio, vf, ss ...... 5".00 842 C209,10 June 14, 15, Kewanee, Ill., fine pair ...... 3.35' 843 C252 June 26, Brooklyn, N. Y., signed by Byrd pilot, Bernt Belchen, f ... . 844 C255 June 27, Kearney, Neb., signed by W. c. Ocker, Early Bird ...... 845 C260, 1 June 28, 29, Delton, Wis., vf pair ...... 7.50 846 C269 June 28, Stroudsburg, Pa. signed Jacqueline Cochrane, £ ...... 847 C296 July 4, Fort Garland, Colo., sig. Kit Carson, III, H. T. Miller, pilot, sup...... 848 C311-13 July 4-6, Charleston, W. V., vf set ...... 2.85 849 C338A July 12, St. Louis, #10 cover signed by 36 pilots and notables attend- ing dedication, including Robertson, Lambert, Jackson and O'Brine, Love, etc. AMF cancel plus numerous special backstamps, unique ... . 850 C381 August 2, Knoxville, Tenn, sig. Leland F. Schoenhair ...... 851 C408-10 August 15-17, Johnsonburg, Pa., fine set 3 ...... 4.35 852 C456 September 1, Yuba City, Cal., sup...... 4.50 853 C461 September 1, Greenville, Ill., 2 vf ...... 4.00 854 C572 November 11, Salisbury, N. C., plus signatures ...... : ...... 855 C594 November 29, Lafayette, La., signed Beckwith Havens, Early Bird sup ...... 856 D48A 1931 April 23, Santa Cruze, Cal., signed Walter Hinton, sup ...... 857 D69 May 19, Mexico City, sup...... 2.00 858 D73 May 23, Brooklyn, N.Y., signed Arthur C. Goebel, Dole Race win- ner ...... 859 D73 Same, signed Mrs. Floyd Bennett for opening Bennett ;Field ...... 860 D152 July 14, Claremore, Oklahoma, signed together with small card autOgraphed Wiley Post, sup...... ) 861 D258 November 15, Chicago AMF, vf ...... 4.50 862 E59-61 May 28-30 Angola, Ind., set 3, g to vf ...... 6.00 863 E96 July 10 Chagrin Falls, Ohio, sup. 6 autographs, plate block #690... . 864 E96 Same, 5 other signatures (no block), sup ...... 865 E113 August 25, Decatur, Ill. carried to Springfield signed pilot, sup. plus photo ...... 866 E133, F211, September 23, Riverside, July 30 Fort Dodge, 2 vg ...... 2.00 867 G20 1934, March 25 Nevada, Mo., sup. ss ...... 2.00 868 G69, 95 2 different f ss ...... 3.00 869 G83 June 30, Dallas, Texas, ss, vf ...... 4.00 870 G85A, 86A July 1, November 30, Ozark, Ark, vf ...... 4.00 871 Gl12 July 19, Koshkonong, Mo, f ...... 5.00 872 G114 July 20, Camp Perry, Ohio, signed Capt. H. B. Wright, pilot, vf plus 3.00 873 G130 July 28, Waynesboro, Pa., sup...... 4.50 874 G140-41 August 11-12, Zanesville, Ohio, vg ...... 2.35 875 Ll January 1, 1939, La Jolla, Cal., vf ...... UNITED STATES FOREIGN AIRMAIL ROUTES CF.A.M.'sl Listed 1950 American Air Mail Catalogue, many in very small quantity and generally now much underpriced 876 F.A.M.'s 1 & 2, 6 interesting but worn ...... 877 F4-1 F.A.M. 4 Key West-Havana, 11/1/20 with Cl, f...... 20.00 878 F4-4 9/15/29 Miami-Havana, sig PMG Harry s. New and Asst. w. 1. Glover, vf ...... F. A. M. 5 879 1929 February 4, Miami-Ecuador via Cartagena, cachet and "EU" lOc green, 15c grey, San #SEU 53, 55, f plus ...... 4.00 A. P. J. United States Foreign Airmail Routes (F.A.M.'s) Page 221

880 F5-1, 2(3) 4 f SS plus ...... ···················································································• 3.65 881 F5-1,2 Miami-Cristobal (3); Ancon-Miami, 4 f. ························································'· 4.35 882 F5-l Miami-Managua, Ancon, San Jose, Nicaragua, David, Belize, 6 vf, ss plus ...... 6.00 883 F5-3,A,B Miami-Managua, Belize, 'l'ela, 3 vf ss ...... •...... 4.50 a84 F5-3B Miami-Belize, 2 f ...... 3.00 .335 F5-7 Managua-Miami, May 13, first day, Nicaragua C3, g plus ...... 5.00 886 F5-8B Ancon-Tela, f, long ...... 3.00 887 F5-10 Colon-Miami (C4), vf ...... 3.00 388 F5-10A Colon-Managua, vf (C4) ...... 3.50 889 F5-106 Colon-Tela, cachet showing error "Ranama" vf plus ...... 4.00 890 F5-17,B June 21 Miami-Curacao and Cristobal, (2) ss plate numbers plus ...... 6.00 891 F5-48 1930 May 1, Lindbergh flight Cristobal-Miami (C5) vf ...... 3.00 892 F5-53,60 Miami-Maracaibo and return, f r.t. single, plus ...... 4.00 983 F5-59,A Maracaibo- Curacao, Pto. Cabello, 2 sup ...... 5.50 894 F5-53,60 Miami-Maracaibo and Pto. Cabello, 2 f ss ...... 3.00 895 F5-58,59 Curacao-Maracaibo and ret. 2 f special PAA covers ...... 3.75 395A F5-61-A,D,E,F Fto. Cabello-Cristobal, Maracaibo, Curacao and Barranquilla, 4 sup...... 11.50 896 F5-72 October 2, Cristobal-La Guaira, f ...... 3.00 897 F5-65A Dec. 2, Miami-Cienfuegos, 5 g. ea. with U.S. #650 ...... 6.25 898 Port au Prince-Kingston connecting flight, special cachets, rare ...... fil' 899 Port au Prince USMC cancel - Kingston special Navy mail cachet, 30 only, f, rare ...... ,...... 900 Same flight Castries-Kingston, sup. rare ...... 901 Similar Port of Spain-Kingston, rare ...... 902 F5-65,7 Miami-Kingston-Miami, r.t. single, vf ...... 903 Same, 1 r. t. plus 3 Miami-Kingston, 4 vf (ClO) ...... 904 F5-75 Dec.' 2, Miami-LaGuaira 2 f ss plus ...... 2.00 905 Jan. 25, 1931, first Managua-Sto. Domingo, sup. v. rare (SAN#lO) ... . 906 Same Managua-San Juan, very rare, sup ...... 907 Same, Managua-Kingston, sup., very rare ...... 908 F5-86A,90 Cristobal to Maturin; LaGuaira-Trinidad, 2 vf ...... 4.75 909 F5-100 Mar. 2 - LaGuaira, Santos, 2 sup ...... 9.00 910 Apr. 2, 1931, Managua-Cristobal, earthquake emergency stampless, signed pilot, very rare, sup ...... 911 F5-105 June 19, Bogota-Miami (San #85), sup ...... 3.50 912 F5-108 June 29, San Salvador-Kingston, sup. signed pilot RR ...... 2.50 913 F5-l15A Dec. 4, Miami-Merida (2); Pto. Barrios (3), 5 vf ss ...... 3.00 914 F5-117B Merida-San Salvador, sup, RR (San #25, 60) over ...... 3.50 915 F5-120 Fto. Barrios-San Salvador, complete set C17-19 (San 18-20), sup. San 15.00 916 F5-123A Cristobal-Pto. Barrios, 2 sup ...... 2.00 917 F5-124 Colon-Merida sup ...... 2.00 918 F5-124A Panama-Pto. Barrios, sup ...... 2.50 919 F5-125. Managua-Fto. Barrios, sup ...... 3.50 920 F5-125 Salvador-Pto. Barrios, sup...... 3.50 921 F5-125B Managua-Cozumel, sup...... 3.50 F.A.M. 6-10 922 F6-l,A,B 1929 Jan. 9, Miami-Havana-San Juan and Santo Domingo, 2 ea. 6 f 7.00 923 F6-3 Port au Prince-San Juan, fine large cover, block #320 plus ...... 5.00 924 F6-3A Port au Prince-Santo Domingo plus 4-20-26 Cap Haitien-Port au Prince, pre FAM, 2 vf plus ...... 3.50 925 F6-6A Santo Domingo-Port au Prince, sup ...... 5.00 926 F6-6B Santo Domingo-Havana, signed pilot B. L. Rowe, sup. plus (San. #2) 5.00 927 F6-7 San Juan-Miami (3 magenta, 1 purple) f (1 signed pilot Rowe) plus 3.00 928 F6-12 Miami-Paramaribo; and St. Thomas, ss ...... 2.00 929 F6-12-12E Miami complete terminal set, 6 different, ss, vf plus ...... 7.25 930 F6-12E,26 Miami-Georgetown and return. 2 nice vg, ss ...... 6.00 931 11 various F6-12, etc, many plate numbers, vf ...... 14.25 .,,.. 932 F6-14E Santo Domingo-Georgetown, sup, only 5 exist ...... 20.00 933 F6-15-15D San Juan to 5 different points, vf, ss ...... 7.00 934 F6-16A, 17 (2) St. Thomas-St. Johns, Miami, 3 f ...... 5.00 935, F6-19B St. Johns-San Juan signed pilot J. H. Tilton, sup ...... 936 F6-20A St. Kitts to St. Johns, sup. cover 28 exist ($5.00) ...... Page 222 United States Foreign Airmail Routes (F.A.M.'s) A. P. J, 937 F6-24 Port of Spain-Miami, signed pilot J. H. Tilton, ss listing ...... 3.85 938 F6-24, F Port of Spain-Port au Prince, ss sup ...... 7.00 939 F6-38 November, Miami-Para, Cayenne, 2£ ss ...... 4.00 940 F6-39 Port au Prince-Para, 18 flown, vf...... 10.00 941 F6-50, B,C.D Miami-Santos, Fortalez, Natal, Bahia, 4 f ...... 13.00 942 F6-53 Port au Prince-Rio, sup. RR ...... 10.00 943 F6-75, 78, 79 1931 February 9, Miami-St. Thomas and San Juan to Maturin 944 F6-90, A,B,C October 26, Miami-Buenos Aires, Florianopolis, Porto Alegre and Rio Grande, 4 sup ...... 11.50· 945 F6-94, A,B,D, San Juan to 4 different terminal points, sup ...... 11.00· 946 F6-95, A,B,D St. Thomas-Florianopolis, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande, 3 vf ...... 10..00 947 F6-96, C Paramaraibo-Rio Grande, sup...... • 7.50 948 F6-100, A Rio-B.A., Florianopolis, 2 sup...... ; ...... 7.50 949 F6-100, C,D Rio to three different points, sup. ss ...... 11.00 950 F6-107 Montevideo-Miami, sup, ss including San#29, 49 pairs, etc., plus ...... 4.50 951 F6-107A Montevideo-Rio Grande, sup ...... 5.00 952 F6-107, B Montevideo-Porto Alegre vf ...... 5.00 953 F6-107, D Montevideo-Santos, sup ...... 3.5{} 954 F6-107, F Montevideo-Victoria, sup ...... 5.00 955 F6-107, U Montevideo-Port au Prince, sup ...... 6.00 956 F6-108, B Buenos Aires-Rio Grande, 14 exist ($5.00) ...... • 957 F6-1-08, C Buenos Aires-Porto Alegre, 16 exist, sup ...... 4.00 958 F6-108, E Buenos Aires-Santos, 17 exist ...... 4.00 959 F6-108, G Buenos Aires-Victoria, 11 exist, sup...... 6.00 960 F6-108, B Buenos Aires-Santo Domingo, 12 exist, stamps include San. #13 and very rare #33 ($6.00) ...... 961 F6-115,A December 4, Miami-San Pedro, Neuvitas, 3 & 2 respectively, f ...... 3.25 962 F6-ll6 Neuvitas - to 4 different, St. Thomas ,Miami, Port au Prince, San Pedro, vf .... ;...... 4.50 963 F6-118, 120, B, 120C Port au Prince, St. Thomas and San Pedro, St. Thomas and San Juan to Neuvitas, 4 vf ...... 4.75 964 F6-121, A San Pedro-Miami, and Port au Prince, 2 sup ...... 4.50 965 F6-122, A, 123, A San Juan and St. Thomas, 6 various, f ...... 8.00 966 F6-124, A Georgetown-Neuvitas, San Pedro, 2 sup ...... 7.00 967 F6-124, A Paramaribo-San Pedro and Neuvitas, 2 sup ...... 7.00 968 F6-143 1932, August 8, Kingston-San Juan, sup ...... : ...... 3.00 969 F6-143A Kingston-Port au Prince, sup ...... 2.00 970 F6-143B Kingston-San Pedro, sup ...... 5.00 971 F6-143, B Kingston-Sto. Domingo, sup ...... 5.0(} 972 F6-147 San Juan-Kingston, sup ...... 7.50 973 F6-145 Port au Prince-Kingston, sup ...... 3.50 974 F6-147 Sto. Domingo-Kingston, sup ...... 7.50 975 F6-147 San Pedro-Kingston, sup ...... 7.50 F.A.M. 7 976 F7-2 January 2, 1929, Nassau-Miami, vf ...... 1.00 977 F7-1 Miami-Nassau, 5 f ...... ,...... 3.75 978 1/21/30, first daily flight Nassau-Miami plus F7-2, 2 f ss ...... F.A.M. 8 979 F8-1, 4 Brownsville-Mexico City, 2 ea. vf ...... 4.00 980 F8-3, 4 Tampico, Mexico City, north, no b.s., f ...... 3.50 981 F8-3,4 Same, 4 various ...... 6.50 982 F8-l, 4 9 each Brownsville, Mexico City, ss, sup ...... 18.00 983 F8-15, A 1930, January 15, Brownsville-San Lorenzo, San Salvador, 3 ea. vf, ss plate numbers ...... F.A.M. 9 984 F9-2, B,C, 3A, 4A 1929, May 17, Miami-Buenaventura; Cristobal-Buenaven- tura, Guyaquil, and Lima, 4 f ...... 6.00 985 F9-25 July 16, Miami-Santiago, (vf). Lima (poor) ss ...... 7.00 986 F9-25, A,B Miami-Santiago-Arica, Chanaral and Lima, 4 f ss ...... 14.00 987 July 10-19, Miami, Cristobal to Buenaventura and Guayaquil, ss ...... 988 F9-26 Cristobal-Santiago, signed pilot F. E. Ormsbee and others f. (3 San #3, type Il, 15c) San ...... 15.00 989 F9-26 Same, 2 covers, 1 with, 1 without pilot, good, only ...... 30.00 A. P. J. United States Foreign Airmail Routes (F.A.M.'s) Page 223 990 F9-34 Santiago-Miami, f. (San #8 (3), 9, etc.) plus ...... 2.00 991 F9-41 Cristobal-Buenos Aires, 2 vf pair and plate pair, San #l ...... 5.00 992 F9-40 Miami-B. A., f. ss ...... • 3.50 993 F9-40, 41 Miami and Cristobal-B. A., vf, plate #S, plus ...... 6.00 994 1930, January 11, Miami-Montevideo, 3 f. ss...... 7.50 995 F9-61 1932 May 20, Cristobal-LaPaz, sup...... • 3.50 996 F9-63 Colon-LaPaz, sup. (includes scarce San #14, 15) ...... 4.00 997 F9-65 LaPaz-Cristobal, f. large ...... 6.50 F.A.M. 12 998 Fl2-l Bangor-Halifax, 8/1/31, f ...... • 5.00 F.A.M.14 Trans-Pacific 999 F14-1 San Francisco-Manila, worn cover but 1st day S.F. using 3 #C20 and signed pilot Edwin T. Musick ...... 1000 F14-2, A-3 Honolulu directional set, sup...... 9.00 1001 F14-5 Guam-S. F .. f ...... 4.00 1002 F14-4,5,5A Guam directional sets, f...... 14.00 1003 F14-6 Manila-$. F., 2 sup. ss ...... 5.00 1004 F14-6A Manila-Guam, vf ss ...... 5.00 1005 F14-6 Manila-Guam, P. I. 393, vg ...... :...... 5.00 1006 F14-10,A 1937 April 21 SF-Hong Kong and Macao, 2 vf (ss) ...... 7.50 1007 F14-13 Manila-Hong Kong, 4 f. ss ...... • 5.00 1008 F14-14, 15, A,B,C Macao, set 5 different points, vf ...... • 12.50 1009 Fl4-14 Macao-Hong Kong, vf with clipping ...... 1.50 1010 F14-16, A,B,C Hong Kong to 5 different terminals, vf ...... • 11.50 F.A.M.17 1011 F7-1, 2 Baltimore-Hamilton, plus Caracas-Baltimore-Hamilton via 1st flight, unique, vf. ss ...... F.A.M. 18 1012 F18 1-8-6 'complete set 12 pt. to pt. South Atlantic route, vf-sup., normal cachets, ss ...... 28.50 1013 Fl8-l, A,B. NY to Marseilles-Horta, Lisbon, 3 f...... •...... 4.50 1014 Fl8-2, A, -3 Horta, set 3 pts...... 8.50 1015 Fl8-4, 5, A Lisbon, set 3 f...... 7.50 1016 Fl8-6, A,B Marseilles, set 3, f ...... • 8.00 1017 June 24, 1939, Northern route complete set 18 pt. to pt. f ...... 20.25 1018 Same West Bound set only, 9, f ...... 10.75 1019 Fl8-10, A,B,C NY set 4, f ...... 3.75 1020 F18-ll, A,B, 13A Shediac and Botwood, 5 dif., f ...... 6.50 1021 Fl8-20, -23 February 5, 1941 alternate route 9 complete pt. to pt, f ...... 12.75 F.A.M. 19 1022 F19-2, B 1940 July 12 L. A.-Canton Island (plate number C24) vf ...... 4.00 1023 Fl9-l,-9 s. F. Auckland route complete 26 pt. to pt., f to sup. ························.···· 72.00 1024 Fl9-15'-23 Suva addition, 14 complete pt. to pt. f. to sup ...... 40.50 1025 F-19-14-12, A, 2, 20 February 1946, NY-Copenhagen-Stockholm-Amsterdam 3 sup...... 3.50 1026 F28-5, 7 Minneapolis-Anchorage, 3 various plus 2 no pmk. but with Anchor- age cachet ...... NYRBA FLIGHTS 1027 NY-4, 2/7/30 Rio-B.A., sup. RR, less than 50 in all ...... 3.50 1028 NY6-2/19/30 B.A.-Miami (C5) ...... 1.00 1029 Same, 2 sup .ea. signed pilot w. s. Grooch, ss ...... • 1030 NY6, D B.A.-San Juan, 3 pieces only exist, ridiculously priced ss ...... :...... 5.00 1031 NY6, G B.A.-Havana, 11 only ...... (5.00) 1032 NY17 Port of Spain-Miami, (ss-$3.50) rare ...... • •...... • 1033 NY17 Port of Spain-Castries vf, RR ...... (5.00) 1034 NYlSB Castries-St. Johns, RR ...... (7.50) 1035 San Juan-Port au Prince, not listed RR ...... 1036 NY25A Port of Spain-Georgetown, vf ...... 5.00 1037 NY22, F March 7, Port au Prince-Port of Spain, sup. (C4) ...... 3.50 F.A.M. 24 1038 F24-l, 8 NY-Boston-London flight, complete set 24, f to sup ...... 21.25 TRANS-OCEANIC RECORD FLIGHTS Listed and priced by American Air Mail Catalogue 1950 1039 Sir Alan Cobham autographed photo plus signed letter, clipping con- Page 224 Trans-Oceanic Record Flights A. P. J. cerning fatal crash and 2 covers S.H. #567A.B ...... 1040 (1013)" Reception menu, Australian Aero Club, Sydney, 6/16/20 honoring Captain G. c. Matthews, England-Australian pilot, signed by him, by Sir Ross Smith and 5 other pioneers ...... 1041 Marquis F. dePinedo, 11/6/25 Menzies, Australia reception menu, signed on arrival at Melbourne, unique ...... ~ 1042 P.I.-7 Manila-Aparri flown by dePinedo on Rome-Philippines flight, 9/16/25, vf ...... 15.00 1043 Nanking-Hong Kong, 10/17/25 bearing cachet first aerial mail Shang- hai-Hong Kong sig. de Pinedo endorsed "received too late" ...... 1044 1033 1925 May 21 Amundsen-Ellsworth, North Pole flight, fine miniature card plus clip and photo ...... (3.00) 1045 1031 MacMillan Arctic expedition with special cachet arrival Etah, Green­ land, 1 of 12 carried, sii:ned by MacMillan; plus 19'26 letter from MacMillan; plus 1926 letter from MacMillan returning this cover and testifying to its flight plus contemporary photo of 4 crew members including Byrd ...... 125.00 1046 1037 1926 April 2 Wilkins-Eielson Arctic flight endorsed and signed by Eielson, 20 carried, f plus clip ...... 50.00 1047 1039 May 9 Byrd North Pole flight special card signed by Byrd, also bear- ing cachet 1925 MacMillan expedition. sup ...... 100.00 1048 1052 1927 April 30 Wilkins North Polar flight vf autographed ...... 40.00 1049 1055 June 2 Nungesser-Coli search expedition, fine cover plus signed by "LaMaman du Capitaine, Charles Nungesser" plus ...... 10.00 1050 1071 1928 April 14 Wilkins-America to Europe Trans-Arctic, vf signed cover, plus copy original transmittal letter ...... 35.00 1051 (1076) Cover (not flown) signed "Lou Gordon" copilot Amelia Earhart trans-Atlantic ...... 1052 1077 July - Mears and Collyer round-the-world, f sign card, plus clip .... 25.00 1053 Letter signed by Admiral Byrd July 16, 1930 on spec. stat...... 1054 Byrd Antarctic cachet ss City of New York 9/15/28 at Cristobal f 1055 Unmai!ed covers (2) signed by P. J. Hart, member of 1st Antarctic expedition ...... 1056 1930-32, 25 various Byrd welcome and other cachet covers, ss ...... 1057 First Richmond CAM 19 signed on reverse Governor (now Senator) Harry Byrd (brother) ...... '...... 1058 1/16/31 Portland welcome signed by Byrd crew members Balchen, McKinley and June, f ...... 1059 5 Byrd covers signed respectively by Gould, (on 2), Hart, Parker and Siple ...... 1060 10 various Paul Siple tours, 3 signed ...... 1061 7 /12/30 St. Louis dedication by Byrd Lambert Airport cover signed by 27 famous Aviation visitors f ...... 1062 29 different Byrd tour covers, ss ...... 1063 8 duplicates of the above, vf, ss ...... 1064 Large packet of clippings, photos and related material, Byrd acti- vities ...... 1065 1115A 1930 August 20 Von Gronau, Halifax-Montreal, f ...... 7.50 1066 1115A Same, another but signed by Von Gronau New York arrival, bs ...... 1067 1120 Jodhpur-Calcutta, India carried and sig. "Mildred Bruce" on round- the-world tour ...... 15.00 1068 1120 Same but flown Karachi-Rangoon sig., vf ...... 15.00 1069 1931, Jan. 30, St. Louis to Washington, same flight sig...... 15.00 1070 January 22 flown and sig., Tulsa to St. Louis ...... 15.00 1071 1 of only 2 covers carried on entire round-the-world flight endorsed and signed with accompanying holograph letter signed, 8 X 10 photo and news clippings, unique ...... 1072 (1125) Balbo not flown on Brazil flight but bearing special label signed by Balbo, May 1, 1930 ...... : ...... 1073 (1130) 1931 January 7, "Trade Wind" New York-Bermuda en route Paris, cover flown, signed pilot MacLaren ...... 35.00 1074 1133 March 21 Ecuador to Spain sup. bearing San. #lfl, 47, 40 ...... 5.00 .1075 1140 June 19 Hillig-Hoiriis trans-Atlantic to Denmark, sup., signed both r

A. P. J. Trans-Oceanic Record Flights Page 225 pilots ...... 25.00 1076 1141. June 21 Post and Gatty around-the-world, vf cover plus packet of clippings, photos, etc...... 50.00 1077 9 various "visit" Post and Gatty covers ...... 1078 1144 July 15 - New York - Budapest, vf special card, Justice for Hun- gary flight, plus 9 x 12 photos, plane and pilot Magyar auto-...... graphed, vf, plus ...... 35.00 1079 1145A July 28 New York-Turkey; Boardman-Polando Legion card plus clippings, f ...... 25.00 1080 (1145) 2 covers ;unflown signed by Polando; Greetings from Istanbul signed by Boardman, vf ...... 1081 August 2 - Frank Hawks Record non-stop Rome-London, sup cover plus 7 x 10 photo of departure, unlisted, rare ...... 1082 1149 Sept, 8 Tokyo - Seattle, Moyle and Allen signed both pilots plus clippings and two "arrival" covers Glendale plus ...... 15.00 1083 May-October. 'Wilkins-Ellsworth trans-Arctic submarine expedition New York-North Pole, and Bergen two f. covers signed Wilkins plus holograph card, signed ...... 1984 Same, 3 different; New York-North Pole, London, Spitzbergen, 3 f. registered, signed ...... 1085 11640 1932 00-X America to Europe, vf "on board" card ...... ,...... 15.00 1086 June 3 NY covers Hausner Atlantic take-off, plus clippings (not flown) ...... 1087 1168A Von Gronau round-the-world flight Montreal all the way and back to Germany, signed Von Gronau; plus clips and copy of log of flight signed by Von Gronau, pilot and mechanic, much over ...... 50.00 1088 1168A Montreal-Chicago, 25 thus ...... 1089 1168E Manj!a-Java, f (C30,31) ...... 10.00 1090 11680 (?) Cover showing Montreal cachet pmk Tokyo, flown Montreal -Tokyo ...... 40-50.00 1091 Cover mis-sent from NY not flown but bearing signature of the four crew members, f ...... 1092 (1167, 1177) 2 cachet covers, signed Jimmie Mattern plus 7 x 9 photo of_ plane and many clippings (not flown) ...... 1.093 11790 1933 Balbo, Century of Progress, f registered Shediac - Chicago vg (176 - 7) ...... 15.00 1094 l179E Montreal - Chicago, vf ...... 15.00 1095 1179E Same, but bearing only 8c postage, unofficial maple leaf cachet, proper b.s...... 15.00 1096 1184 July 23, return flight Chicago - New York, f but dusty ...... 10.00 1-097 1184A New York-Shediac, 44 flown, vf but a bit dusty ...... 50.00 1098 1184E New York - Shoal Harbor, f ss, 99 flown ...... 30.00 1099 1184F New York - Rome, f. ss...... 20.00 1100 1184G Shediac - Rome, f...... 30.00 1101 4 Balbo welcome, etc. 1 signed Balbo, vg (for other Balbo flights see used Airs on cover) ...... 1102 Large packet clippings, photos Balbo flight, includes 2 copies of official U.S. cachet on stationary wmkd, grand seal US presented by P.M.G...... 1103 1182 July 15, New York-Lithuania; Oarius-Girenas, fatal wreck after ocean crossing, fine cover plus "hop-off" cover signed by both pilots, with clips ...... 1104 (1187) Small photo wreck Pinedo plane, attempting take-off Turkey; plus autograph just before taking off on fatal flight, plus clippings. plus similar photos, 7 other trans-Atlantic pilots or planes ...... 1105 First flt Rome-Sardinia carried in plane by Pinedo, 4/21/28, guarantee ...... 1106 1200 1934 January 10, Navy squadron flight San Francisco-Hawaii Air­ craft base force U. S. Fleet, S.F. - fleet air base Pearl Harbor, flown and signed Cmdr. McGinnis ...... 20.00 1107 1200 Similar cover, signed by crew 10/P/5 plus clippings, vg over ...... 20.00 1108 1200 Same but posted on arrival Pearl Harbor, flown signed pilot F. A. Df.Vis, lOcP-3, Vf ...... 20.00 1109 Fine card PMK San Diego, January 9 Aircraft base Jan. 10 Hano- Page 226 Trans-Oceanic Record Flights A. P. J. lulu, Janua.ry 11, 25 thus, vf ...... ,...... 20.00 1110 1207 May 15, New York - Rome Pond and Sabelli, all postal markings 25 thus, vf ...... 35.00 1111 (1207) Unflown cover signed both pilots, Plus number of clippings ...... 1112 (1208) Rossi and Codos, f autographed cover, arrival New York plus 6 x 9 photo plane in flights ...... 1113 1211 New York-Warsaw; Adamowiscz brothers, vf signed w. clip ...... 20.00 1114 1217B Oct. 30 Mac Robertson air race, England-Australia, cover carried Turner-Pangborn, vf ...... 15.00 1115 Same another different cachet signed Roscoe Turner, f plus clip...... 15.00 1116 1217C Calcutta-Rangoon this flight flown McGregor and Walker ...... 10.00 1117 1243D 1935 RT San Francisco-Guam fine, signed on back by entire crew .... 15'.00 1118 1230 SF-Honolulu Clipper survey flight, f ...... 7.50 1119 1230A Same Hawaii-SF f ...... 7.50 1120 1230B Same rt plus clips, vf ...... 15.00 1121 1234C May 9 Mass flight Navy, Hc.waii-Midway, Patrol Sqdn. 10 and re- turn, f ...... 15.00 1122 1256A 1936 February 6 Coco Solo-Galapagos and return, 2 f...... 18.00 1123 1276 1937 January 28, Navy mass flight San Diego-Pearl Harbor, f ...... 5.00 1124 1328,B,D Imperial Airways, Montreal-Southampton (no b.s.) Foynes, Bot- wood, f ...... 6.00 1125 1385 1947 February 1 USS Mt. Olympus operation Highjump antarctic plus clips ...... 1126 1389 May 2, CIPEX flight Geneva-New York, vf ...... 2.50 1127 1405 1948 Atlas Sky Merchant round-the-world all markings, sup...... 10.00 1128 1951 May 29 Damon Runyon "First Polar Air Mail Oslo-Fairbanks" ... . LIGHTER THAN AIR FLIGHTS - DIRIGIBLES, BALLOONS, ETC. When value of stamps exceeds listing of covers from 1950 catalogue stamp value will be shown using Sanabria listing. ·GRAF ZEPPELIN 1129 Z-55 1928 Oct. 11 Friedrichshafen-New York, card and cover f (3 #41 1130 Z-55 Same, fine cover ( #42,4 MK) ...... :...... 5.00 21\IIK) ...... 15.00 1131 Z-55A Same, single card (#41), fine ...... 5.00 1132 Z-56A October 29 New York and Lakehurst-Germany, 2 good catds ...... 10.00 .1133 Z-56A Same good Lakehurst cover ...... 6.00 .1134 Z-63B 1929, March 25, Orient flight, drop Jaffa (#41) ...... 6.00 1135 Z-63B Same, good card (#38) ...... 6.00 1136 Z-63 Same, but pmk Fried...... 3.50 .1137 Z-63 Same, but sup. card, mailed Vienna, ss ...... 1138 Z-65 April 23, Fried-Seville, thence to Managua, first flight F.A.M. 5 to Miami, oddity ( #41) plus ss ...... 1139 Z-65 Vf card Vienna pmk Fried., ss, Mediterranean ...... 1140 Z-65 Vienna-Seville, by this flight (17, 23, 24, 25), f ...... 1141 Z-67 May 16 - first American flight interrupted cachet, vf cover (#42), Fried.-New York ...... 5.00 1142 Z-67 Same, vf card ( #41) ...... 5.00 1143 Z-67 Same, vf photo card signed Dr. H. Eckener (#41) plus ...... 5.00 1144 Z-71 August 1, regular American flight sup. card Swiss dispatch ...... 1145 Z-72 8/10/29, World flight pmk on board on $3.55 U.S. Stamps, round flight to Lakehurst, August 29, signed Dr. Eckener, good ...... 1146 Z-72 NY-Fried. f card ...... ,...... 4.00 1147 Same NY-Fried, good cover ...... 4.00 1148 Z-72 Same but Lakehurst-Fried. plus, fine ...... 4.00 1149 Z-72C "On board" German cachet on stamps to Fried. vg card (#41) ...... 5.00 1150 Z-72D Lakehurst-Tokyo, g...... 12.50 1151 Z-72E NY-Los Angeles, rarest pt. to pt. signed Eckener, Lehmann, Rosen- dahl, Schoenherr, Richardson, f cover, much over ...... 20.00 1152 Z-72F Lakehurst-Lakehurst, f. cover ...... 7.50 1153 Z-73 August 15 - Fried.-Tokyo, vf cover (#42) ...... 5.00 1154 Z-73G Same Fried.-Los Angeles, (#42) fine ...... 7.50 1155· Z-73H Fried.-Lakehurst (#41, 2 #42) vf cover ...... 15.00 1156 Z-74 August 23, Tokyo-Los Angeles, f. card ...... 15.00 A.P.J. Lighter-Than-Air Flights - Dirigibles, Balloons, Etc. Page 227 1157 Z-74A Same Tokyo-Lakehurst, vg cover ...... 10.00 1158 Z-73A "on board" cancel - Tokyo on German #42 signed Eckener, f cover 1159 Z-75 August 28 - Los Angeles-Lakehurst, return dispatch, vf cover ...... 2.00 1160 Z-75 Same, card and cover vg to fine ...... • 4.00 1161 Z-75 Same, cover addressed Fried. off of Lakehurst by error, pm letter 1162 Z-75B Los Angeles missed Zepp, sent U.S. airmail Lakehurst, thence Fried. oddity ...... 1163 Z-76 NY-Fried. Sept. 1 fine card and cover ...... 6.00 1164 Z-76 Same, fine cover, plate number stamped, plus ...... 3.00 1165 Z-73E, 74, 5, 6 2 double postcards showing cancelled August 15, Tokyo Au- gust 19, on board August 24, Los Angeles August 25, an board Lake­ hurst August 31, signed Helmsman Schoenherr of Hindenberg, plus letter from him, unique, if singles ...... 30.00 1166 Cleveland AMF August 28, National Air Races "Arrival" Graf and Los Angeles, signed women pilots Smith, Trout, Noyes ...... 1167 Z-82G October 15 Balkan flight drop Breslau, fine cover ...... 3.00 1168 Z-84A November 2, Dubendorf dropped St. Gallien, good Swiss card ...... 6.00 1169 Z-84A Same, Sup. card, pair Switz. #18 ...... 6.00 1170 Z-84B Same, 2 vf cards with 2 #18. 1930 May 18 ...... 12.00 1171 Z-105CD Fine card, 65c Zepp stamp, not quite centered but margins all around, New York-Seville, June 5, round flight rarity, of the flight, 63 pieces ...... 100.00 1172 Z-105 New York to Seville, direct flight, nice copy $1.30 Zepp. centered b but not cutting ...... 50.00 1173 Z-105D Round flight NY-Seville, vg cover, regular stamp very rare ...... 100.00 rare ...... 100.00 1174 Z-105D Same one more this rare flight without small cachet but proper b.s. June 5 $1.30 Zepp, slightly left but nice ...... 100.00 1175 Z-105E U.S.-Germany round flight with $1.30 Zepp, one corner perf., tiny nick, otherwise nice ...... 75.00 1176 Z-106 May 18, Fried.-Seville, fine cover, with #43, fine ...... 20.00 1177 Z-106A Same Fried.-Pernambuco, with (#44) SA, fine ...... 35.00 1178 Z-106B Same, Fried-Rio, fine copy #44 ...... • 35.00 1179 Z-106C. Fried.-Lakehurst, with 2 #44 plus 43, nicely centered, cover f ...... • 90.00 1180 Z-106D Fried. round flight Seville, single and pair, #44, f ...... 105.00 1181 Z-106E Fried, round flight, Fried. pair and single #44, vf ...... 105.00 1182 Z-107 May 19 Seville-Pernambuco (7 #4. 2 #5) stamps list ...... 10.45 1183 Z-107B Seville-Rio (8 #4, 5) plus ...... 7.50 1184 Z-107C Seville-Seville, round flight, vf ...... 10.00 1185 Z-107D Seville-via round flight, Fried. f ...... 12.50 1186 Z-108 May 24, Pernambuco-Rio, (Z-1) 5,000 r green, Condor Zepp, plus...... 7.50 1187 Z-109 May 26, Rio-Pernambuco, vf cover (Z-1) ...... 7.50 1188 Z-109A Rio-Lakehurst (Z-7) ...... :...... 10.00 1189 Z-110 May 28, Pernambuco-Lakehurst, vf (Z-7) ...... 6.00 1190 (Z-110) Same, but posted "on the high seas" ss Voltaire, by Zepp to Lake- hurst, signed Capt. S. H. Shoemaker, U.S.N. and Capt. Ernst Leh- mann, Zepp Cmdr. (Z-7) ...... 1191 Similar cover, Naval Air Station b.s. signed by Shoemaker, plus 9 members of Zeppelin crew, vf, one of a kind ...... 1192 Z-llOB Pernambuco to Fried. (Z-2), vf ...... 15.00 1193 Z-lOL Uruguay dispatch to Lakehurst, f ...... 1194 Z-lllA June 1, New York-Fried, second dispatch, fine card, 65c Zepp, ample margins, almost centered ...... 30.00 1195 Z-lllA Same, Lakehurst pmk all cachets and cancels went through on 5c postage, vf ...... 30.00 1196 (Z-111) Return flight Seville-Fried. final leg., not listed, but ok, 2 f. covers 1197 Z-124 August 4, Darmstadt, fine card from Fried...... 2.50 1198 Z-125 August 10, Fried.-Darmstadt, sup. photo card ...... 2.50 1199 Z-131 September 9, Luftschiff - cancel to Moscow, vf card ...... 2.00 1200 Z-132 September 14, Swiss flight mailed Danzig-Geneva, vf (#27, 28 (2 each) #30), fine card ...... 3.00 1201 Z-133A Luftschiff dropped Berlin September 23 (#43) sup...... 20.00 1202 Z-133D September 23, Luftschiff on #43 drop Helsinki, sup. cover ...... 20.00 1203 Z-133E Same, dropped Stockholm, sup. #43 ...... 20.00 Page 228 Lighter-Than-Air Flights - Dirigibles, Balloons, Etc. A.P.J. 1204 Z-135 October 5, Luftschiff cancel to Leipsig, vf card (#38) ...... 2.50 1205 Z-135 Same, poor cover, vg copy #43 ...... 20.00 1206 Z-139 November 11, Luftschiff to Venlo, Holland flight, sup. card ...... 3.00 1207 Z-139 Same, vf cover (#43) ...... 20.00 1208 Z-166A 1931 July 24 Polar flight Berlin-Malyguin, drop (#4 mk North Pole stamp #48), sup...... 50.00 1209 Z-166A Same but from Fried. vf (#48) ...... 50.00 1210 Z-166AA Same Luftschiff-Malyguin, vf #48 ...... 50.00 1211 Z-167 August 16, Fried.-Munster, sup. (#41) ...... 5.00 1212 Z-172 September 13, Fried.-Frankfurt, vf (#41) ...... 5.00 1213 Z-173 September 18, second S.A. flight Fried.-Pernambuco, sup. (#42) ...... 5.00 1214 Z-173C September 18, return, sup. Brazil card - Fried. (#47) ...... 7.00 1215 Z-173C Same, fine cover (#47) ...... 7.00 1216 Z-174 Oct. 31, Fried.-Meiningen, vf cover (#41) ...... 5.00 1217 Z-181 1932 Second S.A. flight, April 4, sup. card, dispatch San Marino to Santos (#5, 7, plus Scott #136 1932 rarity). Stamps alone catalogue 22.00 1218 Z-194 July 30 Luposta exposition flight Danzig-Fried. sup. card signed Capts. Lehmann, Schiller, Witteman and Danzig PM (#34, 27, 28, 29, etc.) ...... 1219 Z184 August 29, 5th S.A. Flight, sup. cover, Rhodes first, Bahia (#10, pair, #9, etc.) RR, 10 exist ...... 1220 Z-185 September 21, 6th flight, sup. card Luftschiff-Pernambuco ( #45) .... 3.50 1221 Z-184 5th flight Luftschiff-Pernambuco, vf cover (#41) ...... 5.00 1222 Z-185 6th flight Luftschiff-Pernambuco ( #34, 35, 37, 41) sup ...... 1223 Z-187 8th flight Luftschiff-Pernambuco, sup. card (#45) ...... 3.50 1224 Z-188 9th flight vf card, Luftshiff-Pernambuci (#45) ...... 3.50 1225 Z-188 Same Luftschiff, sup. cover Pernambuco (#41) ...... 5.00 1226 Z-217 1933, Century of Progress, Fried-Pernambuco, f., 1 mk (#46) ...... 20.00 1227 Z-217A Same, Fried.-Rio, vf (#46) ...... 20.00 1228 Z217B Fried-Miami, sup. cover with 2 mk (#47) ...... 20.60 1229 Z217D Fried-Chicago, sup. cover ( #47) ...... 20.00 1230 Z-217F Fried-Fried, vf r.t. 4 mk (#48), sup. centering ...... 5(}.00 1231 Z-218 Rio-Recife, vf cover ss ...... 2.50 1232 Z-218B Same, Rio-Akron, vf cover (#51) ...... 3.50 1233 Z-218C Same, Rio-Chicago, sup. cover, ss ...... 3.50 1234 Z-219C Same, Recife-Chicago, vf cover ...... :...... 3.50 1235 Z-220A Miami-Chicago cover, vf 50c Zepp ( #20) ...... 12.50 1236 Z-221A Akron to Seville, fine cover (#20) ...... 12.50 1237 Z221A Akron-Fried. fine, sup. (#20) ...... 12.50 1238 Z222 October 26, Chicago-Akron, long cover with poor #20 ...... (12.50) 1239 Z-222 Same, but fine cover and stamp ...... 12.50 1240 Z-222A Chicago-Seville, Vf #20 ...... 12.50 1241 Z-222B Chicago-Fried. vf #20 ...... 12.50 1242 October 26, Century of Progress postal card exhibit, 3 sup. cachet covers, ss ...... 1243 Z-217G Luftschiff, October 30 to Fried. (Germany #46) f ...... 20.00 HINDENBURG 1244 Z-404 1936 May 6 Philatelic exhibition Stuttgart-NY f cover ...... 2.50 1245 Z-404 Same 6 covers g to vf, various German pmks ...... 15.00 1246 Z-404 Same, but Liechtenstein dispatch, sup. cover (#12,16) ...... 5.75 1247 Z-404B First U.S.-Germany, vf plate number 14 and pair #24 ...... 3.50 1248 Z-404B Five vf covers same or better stamps ...... 17.50 1249 Fine 7 X 9 photo auto. Dr. Hugo Eckener ...... 1250 1 Graf visitors' pass, 1 press pass, 3 baggage labels and piece Graf fabric from torn fin repaired at sea, signed Harry O'Claire in charge of repairs ...... 1251 2 large photos Graf Zepp, approx. 10 X 14 from original plate, vf .. .. 1252 Large packet Zepp clippings, Graf and Hindenburg ...... 1253 Sizeable package clippings Hindenburg crash ...... INTERNATIONAL DIRIGIBLE MAILS 1254 Great Britain small autographs, Capts. Robinson and Brandon, who brought down first Zeppelin WWI, 1915, olllly one known, RR ...... 1255 Z-452 R-1-00 facsimile of cachet for this 1930 flight on cover ......

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A.P.J. International Dirigible Mail Page 229 1256 Z-478I Italy 1926 April 10 Dirigible Norge trans-Polar flight, sup. semi­ official Vignette "Svalbard"-Nord Polen-Alaska signed Hubert Wil- kins ...... 35.00 1257 McKeesport, Pa., flown cover, signed Nobile for above flight, plus clipping ...... 1258 Z-41 1924 ZR3 delivery flight Fried.-NY vf cover ( #30) ...... 3.00 1259 Z-505 NY-Bermuda by rechristened USS Los Angeles, good cover signed Ida M. Tarbell ...... 1260 Z-506 April 23, 1925 return flight Bermuda-NY, 2 fair ...... 4.00 1261 Z-506A Same, both 2 and 3 line cachet on one cover, fine, plus ...... 3.00 1262 Z-508 May 10, Mayaguez, P. R., to Lakehurst, USS Patoka cancel, fine, pls 3.00 1263 May 31, 1930, flown 1st flight under Capt. Clark from Lakehurst, signed by Clark and former Cmdr. Wiley, plus several fine photos of ship ...... U.S.S.AKRON 1264 Z-510, 11 USS Akron 1932 May and August flights, 9 various, vf ...... 6.75 1265 5 Akron cards or covers including Ring laying signed Richard Deal 1266 Ring laying signed Cmdr.Z. W. Wicks, formerly Shenandoah, f ...... 1267 Lakehurst plus one other cover, both signed Admiral Moffett ...... 1268 Welcome New York signed by Cmdr. Bellinger, originally commanding Navy Plane NCl, 1919 ...... 1269 Ring laying signed by 6 Naval officers of ship, sup ...... 1270 Card mailed USS Patoka signed Cmdr. Frank C. McCord, who died in Ak- ron crash, vf ...... 1271 2 Akron items signed Cmdr. C. E. Rosendahl in charge on 1st tour, plus photo ...... 1272 Same, single plus 2 signed by Lt. G. Campbell, crew member ...... 1273 Cover signed by C. M. Cowart rescued from rigging and by Cmdr. Wiley saved from crash, plus aluminum medal Akron Ring laying ...... 1274 15 various Akron covers, fine ss ...... 1275 Same, 10 others 1930-32, fine ss ...... 1276 Set 17 small photos Shenendoah and Akron, various stages of construction and operation ...... 1277 Piece of Akron fabric recovered from Barnegat disaster, 1933, certified, plus photo of crash and letter USS Akron stationery ...... 1278 Clipping and photo of Akron wind damage at Lakehurst, together with piece of rubberized fabric salvaged from final crash, posted U.S. mail, signed by three survivors, Deal, Irwin, Wiley, unique ...... USS MACON 1279 1931-34 13 different Macon covers, vf - sup. ss ...... 1280 5 different Macon, fine ...... 1281 Another lot 12 Akron, 1 Macon, plus one pigeon feather from dedication; also packet Macon clippings ...... BALLOON FLIGHTS 1282 Unmailed cover signed Walter Wellman, pioneer balloonist, plus 2 photos air ship America in hangar, North Pole flight ...... 1283 1929 Gordon Bennett balloon races, 2 covers, landed Louisville and Dan- ville (long) ...... 1284 1930 September Gordon-Bennett races, 6 different flown, diff. balloons, each signed by pilot, pmk landing point, fine ...... 1285 Same, 8 more, vg ...... 1286 Cleveland AMF cancels, Gordon-Bennett race, September 1-2 (5 signed Wes- ley L. Smith, plus 3 more), f ...... 1287 J"uly 1931 Nat. Balloon Races, 5 fine flown, 3 different pts, signed pilots ... . 1288 May 14, 1932, Akron-Wooster, special Centennial Goodyear Blimp, 3 vg ...... 1289 Bookmark from fabric Army balloon Explorer II stratosphere record No- vember, 1935 ...... 1290 Piccard-Compton, stratosphere flight August, 1932, unflown covers signed by both, plus numerous clippings and related material ...... CANADA Where current Sanabria listing of stamps on cover exceeds price for flight as such in 1950 cover catalog, Sanabria price is used. Page 230 Canada A.P.J. 1291 24 October 15, 1920, Victoria-Seattle, vg, small cover (50 fl.) ...... 20.00 1292 92B Western Canada Jubilee flight 7/1/27 Gold Pines-Rolling Portage with pair San #535, RR, fine ...... 20.00 1293 133 Complete 1931 Feb. 23-24 Commercial Fort McMurray-Athabaska- Edmonton, 4 fine (#542 (3), #546) Commercial stamps, fine ...... 15.00 1294 132A Edmonton-Peace River and ret. 2 vf (#542) ...... 5.0() 1295 144 Cherry Red December 25, 1929 Prince Albert-Ile a la Crosse, 5 fine (#548) ...... 10.00 1296 211A, 210 1928 Montreal-ottawa, Rimouski, Halifax, Montreal, to Rimouski- ottawa, (96 & 527), 5 fine ...... 12.00 1297 215, 16 1928 August 24-29 Exhibition flights, 14 various average good ...... 7 .00 1298 218 1928 October 1 Toronto-Montreal, Albany, N.Y., 11 various FAM t, vg (10 #l, San) ...... 20.00 1299 219-219 December 19, Prairie flight 16 complete, vg, all with #l ...... 32.00 1300 226 January 28, 1929 ottawa-St. John route, 2 sets ea. 2 vg (#1) ...... 24.00 1301 227-227C,228A June 4-6 Kingston-Hamilton Airport flights, 2 sets, 6 comp. f (#1) ...... SAN. 24.0<> 1302 June 14, Hamilton 10th anniversary Alcock-Brown Atlantic, 6 com- mem. pmk, good (#1) ...... 12.00 1303 279-279,I,K July 1-2 Maritime flights, 11 different, f (#1) ...... 22.00 1304 229 Same, 13 various, 11 dif., fine (#1) ...... 26.00 1305 230-231, etc. July 15, Toronto-Detroit and Buffalo, 24 various, all with #l aver. f...... 48.00 1306 231-231N July 15, Toronto-Detroit comp., plus dup. 21 f. covers, all with #l 42.00 1307 232 December 9, Montreal-St. Johns Exper. Service, comp. 12 dif. pt. to pt., fine (#1) ...... 24.00 1308 235S,V 1930 March 3 Calgary-Medicine Hat and Winnipeg, 2 f. sig. pilot H. Hollick - Kenyon (#1) ...... 1309 235 March 3, Prairie service, 38 set comp., f. including 4 signed pilot Hollick - Kenyon, all with #l, listed San...... 76.00 1310 235 Same, 43 complete sets plus 7 duplicates, vf (#1) ...... 86.00 1311 246 1931 February 2, Winnipeg, Pembina, 8 various pt. to pt. U.S. and Canada, plus ...... 5.00 1312 February 15, Edmonton-Winnipeg, 1st direct, Saskatoon-Moose- jaw, 1st night, 2 f (#1) ...... 1313 250 August 17, Edmonton-Calgary, fine scarce ...... 5.00 1314 265 1933 February 11, London-Buffalo, 3 vf (#3) ...... :...... 3.00 1315 280 1935, July 29 - August 3, spec. flights Halifax-Sidney, 12 comp. (#5) fine ...... • 6.00 1316 519 1929 Dec. 10-30, NW Territory flight Ft. McMurray-Aklavik comp. set 26 dif. pt. to pt. f. (#1) ...... ;...... 52.00 1317 519 Same, 25 dif. pt. to pt. fine (#1) ...... 50.00 1318 520A December 24, Oskelaneo-Chibougamau, 2 sets 3, 6 fine (#1) ...... 12.00 1319 525A 1930 January 13-14 Ft. Resolution-Rae and return, f. scarce pair, signed pilot Glyn Roberts ...... 14.00 1320 526A June 17-18, McLennan-Mirror Landing and return, 2 vf, signed pilot Becker, 100 flown ...... 12.00 1321 May 2, August 3, Aklavik and Herschel Island flights, not listed ...... 1322 Same, Ft. McMurray-Herschel Island and Aklavik-Herschel-Ft. Mc- Murray as above, 3 vg (#1) ...... 1323 528A October 28 Amos-Sisco and return, 3 each, 6 fine (#ll ...... 12.00 1324 529 1931 January 31 Peace River-N. Vermilion, 2 sets, 6, more common flights, 12 f. (#1) ...... 12.00 1325 530 December 17 Embarras-Ft. McMurray, 2 each, 5 different, 10 fine (#1) ...... 20.00 1326 535 1932 June 7-8 Prince Albert-Lac laRonge, 2 sets 6, 12 fine (#3) ...... 12.00 1327 537 December 6-10 Ft. Resolution-Great Bear, 6 comp., f. (#3) ...... 6.00 1328 542 1933 February 16 Great Falls-Wadhope, 6 comp., fair to fine ((4 #l.#3) ...... 11.00 1329 543 March 16-17 ·Big River-Ile a la Crosse, 8 dif., f. (#3) ...... 8.00 1330 546 December 5 Rae-Cameron Bay, set 4 comp. f. (#3) ...... 4.00 1331 555-563 24 dif. 1935 flights all w. Cl or 3, av. f...... 28.00 1332 570-580 20 dif. 1935 flights w. #S 3 or 5, vg to f...... 16.00 1333 24 dif. 585-591 1936 flights, mostly f., all #5 ...... 12.00 A. P. J. Canada Page 231 1334 595,7,8 1937 3 sets comp. 20 dif. (#5) ...... 10.00 FOREIGN AIRMAIL FLIGHTS Covers listed by American Air Mall Catalogue 1950 or Berkshire Standard Air Post Catalogue 1931 or 1934. Stamps whern listed, by Sanabria 1960 ~ 1335 1 Canal Zone Oct. 18, 1918 Cristobal-Balboa, Liberty Loan flight, good. spec. envelope a bit faded ...... 25.00 ,,..- 1336 Companion cover submarine through the Canal ocean to ocean May 2, 1919, Victory Loan, vg, should be worth ...... 25.00 1337 13 Berk Argentina March 22, 1929 B.A.-Ascuncion, g, odd size ...... 3.50 1338 7B Austria, Przemysl Siege card violet cachet "Janner" 1915, fair ...... 10.00 1339 Jan. 1933, Glider post Vienna-Semmering, special cancel vf (#21, 24) 1340 Belgium, November 18, 1925, cover inscribed "first flight Brussels"- Paris, good ...... • 1341 China, Shanghai, early cover using #6, fine ...... 1342 9A,B,C,E,AE,AL,AO Cuba, 7 dif. Internal Route #1. Oct. 30, 1930 plus 1 dup. all with #3, fine ...... 7.00 1343 Czechoslovakia, 11/17/46 first Prague-New York 1st day #22, sup ..... 1344 3 Berk Dutch Indies, Aug. 2, 1930 Singapore, vf (450 flown) (#'I) ...... 4.00 1345 1 Ecuador 1920 November 4,, Guayaquil-Cuenca, f. spec. photo card ...... 50.00 1346 3 Berk 1930 June 18 Guyaquil-Vera Cruz, vf cover, 129 flown (Block #17) ... . 3.00 1347 33Berk Aug. 5, Guyaquil-Sao Paulo, f. cover, RR (#19) ...... 12.00 1348 36 Berk Dec. 1, Guyaquil-Cienfuegos, 62 flown, vf (3 #40) ...... 8.50 1349 #41B Berk Jan. 1, 1932, Latacunga-Ibarra, 35 flown, vf ...... 5.00 1350 48F Berk July 30, Loja-Guayaquil, fine, 487 flown ...... 1.50 1351 #45 Berk Egypt, March 4, 1931 Cairo-Kisumu 1st Imperial Airways England- Africa, vf (#2) plus 2 Scott #164, stamps alone list ...... 4.70 1352 #19 Berk France, 1925 Feb. 3 Paris-Dakar flown and signed by pilots Le-...... metrie and Arrachard (s.o. labels for this flight, one with center in- verted, 10 only thus) RRR ...... 1353 #21 Berk May 15, 1925 Paris-Malmo, f. card, spec. cachet, 8 thus f ...... (3.00) 1354 #14 Germany 1912 June 8 Darmstadt-Rhine-Main service, vf red card bearing 2 #4 Gelber Hund stamps ...... 10.00 1355 Same, but June 19, 1 stamp, sup...... 10.00 1356 14 Same, olive card June 22 bearing #2 stamp ...... 10.00 1357 #42 Berk Aug. 11, 1924 Gorlitz-Dresden sup. card ...... 1.00 1358 Aug. 31, 1924 Gersfeld-Berlin, f special card ...... 1359 May 3, 1925 Wurzburg from Heilbronn, special 40 mk Ovpt plus card cancelled Neu-Uum, Kohl's Heimat, June 20, 1929, 2 f ...... 1360 Aug. 30, 1935 Frankfurt 1st fl. by Manpower plane, vf ...... 1361 (#12) Great Britain - Unflown picture card Daily Mail plane 1913 signed H. Salmit, pilot, early pioneer ...... 1362 3 - 1938 Commercial covers England-Chile, showing 3 dif. air routes, French via Senegal, German via Catapult, ship. to NY, then by FAM SS ...... 1363 1932 Jan. London-Capetown and return, fine Imperial Airways in- augural (#6 US AF) about ...... 6.00 1364 #3 Greece - April 2, 1929 Imperial, Athens-Alexandria, f ss ...... 8.00 1365 Flown cover 1919 with #S 1 & 2, good ...... 1366 Hong Kong July 11, 1932 to Manila via Madrid-Manila, fl. F. Rein (listed P. I. #82) fine ...... 8.00 1367 #l,E Iceland June 10, 1st ret. fl. Vestmannaeyjar-Reykjavik, vf (3 #1) .... 7.50 1368 3A India Feb. 15, 1920 Karachi-Bombay, exper. service vf ...... 2.00 1369 1929 June 25 Dum Dum and ret. fl. Joan Page first Indian woman pilot, good ...... 1370 11/1/30, Delhi-Allahabad RAF dem flight, 32 flown, vf, signed pilot 1371 Calcutta-Rangoon November 24, 1930 en route Paris-Siagon flight Mayrise Hiltz, 39 flown, vf ...... 1372 November 2, 1931 Karachi-Delhi Indian State Service signed pilot ss, fine ...... 1373 Dec. 9, 1931, Karachi-Calcutta speci.al flight, private flying club, volunteering service when postal funds ran out ...... :...... 1374 1932, Oct. 5 Calcutta to Bangkok, first to Siam vf ( #3) ...... 1375 1933 Mar 22 Exper flight Dacca-Dum Dum, vg ...... 1376 1933 July 11 first Calcutta-Karachi pmk "Rangoon University" to Page 232 Foreign Airmail Flights A.P.J. US, sup. via connecting flight, RR ...... 1377 April 10, 1933, cover flown Houston-Mt. Everest expedition, rare but torn (35 flown) ...... •...... 1378 1927-36, 3 various Indian flights, not listed but interesting ...... 1379 #2 . Ireland - September 24, 1928 Belfast-Liverpool exper., 2 covers, fancy but worn ...... 6.00 1380 #3 August 26, 1929 Galway-London special "Karlsruhe" flight, f...... 2.50 1381 19 Italy,May 20 Turin-Rome (#1) fine card ...... 2.50 1382 19A May 27 Rome-Turin (#1) signed , racing pilot ...• 1383 1929 November 10 Milan aviation day, f special card (#11) ...... 1384 Rome-Berlin "Day of the Race" signed W. w. White (#27) ...... 1385 June 2, 1932, Trans-Atlantic aviators' conference Rome, f photo card (#32) ...... 1386 Same fine cover flown Venice-Budapest, ss, 20 thus ...... ~1387 1932 June 3 Rome-Budapest Memorial flights Endresz killed in "Jus­ tice for Hungary" with bit of burned plane attached, vg, flown by Herman Koehl ...... 1388 June 5, Caprera-Rome 50th anniv. Garibaldi death, 1 of 10 addr. Vatican City, sign. both pilots, spec. cachet ...... 1389 June 6, 2nd flight Caprera pilgrimage, vf ...... 1390 Kenya-Nairobi-London Imperial Airways, 1st vf ...... 1391 Mexico - Dec. 8, Oct. 1, 1928, 2 f c, 1 showing pmk error, 1 Oct. 27, Mexico to Laredo (#s 2, 3), vg ...... • 3.00 1392 12B Mexico and Tampico-Brownsville Mar. 9,1929, 2 f. (#3) ...... •...... 3.50 1393 14E Apr 9, 1929, Mazatlan-Matamoros, sup. 35c entire ...... 3.00 1394 14D, E Same, plus Matamoros-Mazatlan, 2 vf 35c entires ...... • 6.00 1395 17B July 1, Merida-Miami, Exper. Service sig pilot B. L. Rowe, 50 flown, fine ...... 5.00 1396 Netherlands January 17, 1930, Hague Conference cancel to Dan- zig fine ...... 1397 18 Newfoundland, January 29, 1931 St. Johns-St. Anthony, vf (#16) 2.50 1398 18D, F Conche to St. Johns, no cancel but b.s.; Hampden-St. Johns, good 8.50 1399 Berk #16 New Zealand, Mar. 16, 1932 Masterton, Dannivirke and Woodville to Wellington, 3 fine, rare 1st ea. w. #12, sup ...... 9.00 1400 Same, but Whangarai-Auckland, Russell to Whangarai, 2 sup. (#12) 12.00 1401 September 20, 1st Waiho-Hokitika, vf with #10 ...... , ...... 4.00 1402 Northern Rhodesia, Jan 28, 1932 Broken Hill and Mpika to London, 2 fine Imperial 1st, ss ...... 1403 :tf:1 Paraguay, Jan 2, 1929 Ascension - B.A. fine 1st flight, 1st day (#1 and 2) signed by pilot, much over ...... 5.00 1404 7 Peru, October 2, 1928, Paita-Barranquilla, stpd. with 30c, blue Scadta handstamped Pe, vf, Berk ...... 15.00 1405 92 Philippines-Iloilo-Manila, sup. with #18, 30, 31 ...... 1406 Siam 1919 Feb 17 Bangkok-Chandhaburi, f cover, ss ...... 35.00 1407 2 June 30, 1920 Karat-Bangkok, the rarest, 14 exist, vg large cover, Berk...... 100.00 1408 So. Rhodesia Jan. 28, 1932 Salisbury and Bulawayo to London first Imperial, 2 fine ...... • 1409 Berk #31 Sweden, Stockholm-London June 18, 1928, 2 fine ...... 1410 17B Switzerland - Apr 30, 1919 Lausanne-Berne, vf small cover (#13) 10.00 1411 T Tanganyika-Myeba and Dodoma-London, Imperial, 1 fine, 1 good, rr 1412 5 Union South Africa - March 2, 1925 Capetown-Durban f card ...... 5.00 1413 7 1932 January 27 Kimberly-Germiston-Victoria-Capetown and Pieters- burg to London, 5 fine Imperial firsts rare points (all with #6) .... 25.00 CATAPULTS, GLIDERS AND ROCKETS Catapults 1414 200 Berk 1929 July 2, Bremen first Catapult to U.S. all markings, f ...... 3.00 1415 201 August 2 first east Bremen to Germany, U.S. postage, fine ...... 1416 First eastward, German Stamps signed Bremen, Capt, f ...... 1417 May 5, 1930, Bremen - Germany posted New York ...... 1418 Same but posted on board signed pilot von Studnitz, vf ...... 1419 July 21 Bremen-Southampton, vf U.S. stamps NY pmk ...... 1420 July 31 Bremen - New York, German dispatch, vf ...... 1421 Auugst 25 - Bremen-Southampton, posted N.Y., vf ...... A.P.J. Catapults, Gliders and Rockets page 233 1422 Sept. 4 - Bremen-N Y, posted on board, sup ...... 1423 August 2, 1929, first east; May 8, 1930, New York-Germany, 4 vf cov- ers, ss ...... 1424 Eurcpa ship cancel U.S. postage, May 30, 1930 for cancelled flight, so marked ...... 1425 Sept. 15, 1930, Europa first, ship cancel - New York, vf ...... 1426 Same, 5 vf ...... 1427 September 21 first east N.Y.-Berlin, fine ...... 1428 Same, but posted on board ship to Germany, vf ...... ROCKETS, Billig Listing 1429 la Cuba 1939 Oct. 1 with spec. gray stamp, 50 flown rr, sup ...... 1430 IVA Same, but the reg. cover ovptd. green stamp, sup ...... 1430 IVA Same, but the reg. cover ovptd. green stamp, sup .. ,...... 5.00 1431 !Va Same special card, sup...... 5.00 1432 IV, 20, 21, 22 Germany .January 28, 1934 Winter Relief flight, set 3 values perf on single cover, fine ...... 15.00 India - First pricing by Smith 1955, second pricing by Cooper, 1960. (Cooper prices are all given in rupees, U.S. equivalent shown on exchange 5r equals $1) ...... 1433 1935 Sikkim, first issue green stamp (#3, S4A), 2 vf ...... $10.00-16.00 1434 Same single stamp, sup...... $5.00-8.00 1435 (f) S5 Sup. flown cover, Serumsa-R:iy, April 10 (red stamp) ...... $18.00-70.03 1436 (g), S6 Same date and flight but parcel rocket with overwritten green stamp, sup...... $40.00-110.00 1437 i SB April 13 over River Singtam flight, blue and yellow stamp, sup. $20.00-80.00 1438 II-(b), SIO Sept. 28, Gangtok Livestock flight from telegraph office, blue stamp ...... $12.00-70.00 1439 (d), Sl3 Sept. 29, Maharajah dispatch, purple stamp, vf...... $8.00-50.00 1440 !Va U. S. Greenwood Lake February 23, 1936, good cover ...... 5.00 1441 Small slip of paper autographed "Willy Ley, Inventor rockets!" ... . 1442 Airmail cover signed Fritz Von Opel, early rocket plane inventor ... . 1443 Glider .July 10, 1933 Elmira, N.Y., signed pilot Warren Eton ...... 1444 Pigeon Post India December 31, 1931 Hazaribagh-Calcutta, fine, tiny cover ...... 1445 .January 19, 1933 Viceroy's flight Calcutta, vf ...... SHIP CANCELLATIONS 1446 SS America inaugural Puerto Rico; USS Constitut;on Cristobal - Christmas 1932 on reverse Balboa New Year's Day; SS Santa Barbara inaugural 4/22/29; Detroit River floating post office, .July 1931, vg ss ...... 1447 SS Santa Paula, Grace Lines, 22 different cities, where ship touched on maiden volage, f ...... 1448 Sept. 15, 1931 last day fleet flag USS Texas, first day USS Pennsylvania, plus 8 photos of occasion, fine Crosby lot ...... 1449 March 10, 1933 USS Constitution, Long Beach, earthquake date, 4 sup. plus clips ...... 1450 1929-40, 17 different Navy cancels, select lot pre-Pearl Harbor SS ...... 1451 1931 - 4 different covers on sensitized paper with ship photo and ship-cancel plus photos of these big battleships, ss ...... 1452 vf collection 30 1931 Navals impossible to duplicate now ...... 1453 1932 collection of 21 vf Navy cancels special events, colors and stamps as are preceding ...... 1454 1933 lot of 29 similarly top quality, many rarities ...... 1455 Large packet Navy clippings plus considerable correspondence from Crosby, specialist in field ...... ALBUMS-NEW OR SLIGHTLY USED 1456 9 X 14 - 2 ring binder, w. approx 35-40 light board pages, boards ...... 1457 Two 14 X 81;2 visible binders, with punched glassine envelopes, overlap ar- rangement - fabrihide ...... 1458 post binder, IO X 16, new, with heavy green sheets for mounting ...... 1459 Rapkin "Grand" album #430, red clo. 14 X 12, quadrille sheets - new ...... 1460 Same, but green, not quite as fresh, but pages never used ...... 1461 Scott springback, 11 X 111/2. w/100 quad. pages ...... 1452 2-vol. set Lissiuk Airpost album, sheets to 1932, used ...... 1463 Springback, 12 X 10, w. 23 sheet3, pockets for covers - used ...... ~•llllllll lllll Clll llll llllllCllll llllllll lCll l ll llllllll r.l lllllll l llllt lll l lll llllll Cl llll lllll lut l llllllllllll C lllllltll ll ll Cl lllllll lllllClll l lllllll ll r.l llllll llllllCl llllll l ll ' ; i j =May IO, II, 12, Publie Auetion = § ~ ~ ~ I The Barry l T~uby Uolleution !

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