Airmails 2013 (#414) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-10 of 353. Previous|12345678...36|Next Lot #301 June 1914 (AAMC.2) a "Wizard Stone" postcard, prepared for the first planned official airmail flight in Australia, from Melbourne to Sydney. The flight was cancelled as a result of a crash 5 days before the scheduled flight. This card was later carried by train to Sydney and subsequently forwarded by sea to New Zealand. Foreign destinations are rare. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #302 16-18 July 1914 (AAMC.3) Melbourne - Sydney special postcard carried by Maurice Guillaux on the first official airmail flight in Australia. Flight time was 9 hours, 33 minutes. "The most important flight in pre-World War 1 Australian aviation history" (Nelson Eustis). The card with minor faults but with a fine strike of the oval date stamp tieing a 1d Roo; clear Sydney arrival cds of 18 July. View details Estimate$350 - $400Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #303 15-27 Feb.1917 (AAMC.10) Mt.Gambier - Melbourne special postcard carried by Basil Watson on an official air mail flight. He made 5 stops en route and carried cards postmarked at each town. This card is a fine example of the 371 carried all the way from Mt.Gambier and has a particularly interesting written message: ".....May Aviation succeed in Peace as it has in helping to down our enemies..." View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #304 Feb.1917 (AAMC.14a) Basil Watson special postcard, Unused. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot #305 23 Nov.1917 (AAMC.16) South Australia's First Official Air Mail: souvenir postcard flown Adelaide - Gawler by R. Graham Carey(the first Australian civilian pilot) in his 60hp Bleriot XI, acquired from Maurice Guillaux. (minor surface thins & abrasions on image panel). With official typed message from the organizing committee refering to the airmail delivery flight as an "educational novelty". View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #306 26 Nov.1917 (AAMC.18) Gawler - Adelaide special postcard carried by R. Graham Carey in his Bleriot 60 monoplane on the return flight. With KGV 1d Red tied by 24NO17 cds of GAWLER. Signed at a later date by the pilot.[67 cards carried on the return flight]. A few minor creases, etc. Ex. Nelson Eustis. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSold Lot #307 Nov. - Dec.1918 (AAMC.18ab) Bandar Abbas - Mussoree (Delhi) cover carried by General Borton & Major General Salmond on their RAF Survey flight from Cairo to Calcutta. With a fine strike of the circular "CARRIED BY FIRST AERIAL MAIL CAIRO - DELHI / DECR. 1918" and arrival cds on reverse. Signed by Salmond. The all Australian crew comprised of Ross Smith, J.M. Bennett and Wally Shiers. Before they had left Cairo, Smith had written to his mother that they intended to fly to Australia in a Handley P View details Estimate$5,000 - $7,500Price Realized$5,500StatusSold Lot #308 6-11 Aug.1919 (AAMC.20a & 22) special postcards carried by Captain Harry Butler in his "Red Devil" Bristol Tourer: Adelaide - Minlaton, with a privately written message and Minlaton - Adelaide, #114 with printed message & signature of the pilot. A most attractive pair in very good condition. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$450StatusSold Lot #309 4 Sept.1919 (AAMC.23) Hobart - Launceston cover, flown by E.D. Cummings in a War Loans advertising plane, a Sopwith Pup. With two-line cachet "FIRST TAS. AERO MAIL / D.P.M.G." and "LAUNCESTON 5SE19" arrival backstamp. This was the first aerial mail in Tasmania. [6 covers are believed to survive]. The Nelson Eustis example, almost identical to this cover sold for $3500 + commission. View details Estimate$3,000 - $3,500Price Realized$2,250StatusSold Lot #310 10 Nov.1919 (AAMC.25b) postcard from Chahbar on the Persian Gulf to Karachi, flown by Poulet & Benoist in their Caudron G4 "La Mouche" with cachet 'FIRST THROUGH AERIAL MAIL / GREAT BRITAIN TO INDIA / KARACHI 14.10.1919' in violet, with amendment in red ink "Paris to Melbourne 11.11". Only three items with this amended cachet recorded, and thus rarer than the Bandar Abbas - Karachi cover [AAMC.25a, 8 reported] which sold for $11,000 plus commission in our December 2003 sale. View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...36|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Next
