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 11-20 of 353. Previous|12345678...36|Next Image Lot # Item Title Time Left Your Bids 311 Oct.1919 - Mar.1920 (AAMC.26a) Baghdad - Bombay cover, carried by Campbell Matthews & Thomas Kay on their ill-fated attempt to fly from England to Australia. The Sopwith Wallaby crashed at Bandar Abbas on 3 Feb.1920, departing after repairs on 24 Feb. They arrived in Karachi on 3 Mar. and the cover was sent by surface to Bombay, with 7 Mar. arrival backstamp. The aviators continued their flight from India but crashed again in Bali on 17 April, where the flight was abandoned. Very few covers have Estimate$3,000 - $3,500Price Realized$3,250StatusSold View details 312 THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL AIRMAIL FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA: Nov.-Dec.1919 (AAMC.27) England - Australia cover flown by Ross Smith, Keith Smith, Jim Bennett & Wally Shiers on their winning flight, the special vignette in superb condition and tied by one of two strikes of the oval cachet 'FIRST AERIAL MAIL / RECEIVED 26FEB1920 / GREAT BRITAIN TO AUSTRALIA' in black, also tieing the Australian KGV adhesive. Addressed to Mrs Taulon, Darlinghurst, New South Wales (AAMC. cover #325). One of only 13 Estimate$3,500 - $4,500Price Realized$3,250StatusSold View details 313 30 July 1920 (AAMC.47) Melbourne - Traralgon flown cover with superb example of the 'HERALD AERIAL DELIVERY' vignette tied to front, with Tasmanian 1½d tied by arrival cds. The purpose of the flight by Captain E.W.Leggatt was the experimental delivery of Herald & Weekly Times newspapers to regional towns. [266 flown, but very few appear to have survived]. Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,125StatusSold View details 314 Aug.1920 (AAMC.47c) "Velvet Soap" advertising postcard dropped over Melbourne by R. Graham Carey in his Maurice Farman Shorthorn biplane, as depicted on the card. The reverse of the card shows Carey in the cockpit and an aerial view of the soapworks fo J. Kitchen & Sons, the manufacturers of Velvet soap and is signed by the pilot. Excellent condition. [Eustis says "Only four cards known". His example, unsigned by Carey, sold for $4000 + commission in our auction of March 2008.] Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$2,250StatusSold View details 315 10 Aug.1920 (AAMC.48) Melbourne - Hamilton flown postcard (minor bends; but scarce) with "Herald Air Mail" vignette in brown (Frommer 3d) alongside the 1½d KGV adhesive. Although approximately 700 items were reported to have been flown, very few appear to have survived. Another example of the experimental newspaper delivery flights by Captain E.W.Leggatt. [NB: We are not aware of another postcard carried on this flight.] Estimate$1,250 - $1,500Price Realized$940StatusSold View details 316 4 Dec.1921 (AAMC.56a) Nungarin [280kms east of Perth] - Mandathuna Station [100kms east of Carnarvon] cover showing a fine strike of the "PERTH DERBY AERIAL MAIL" cds prepared by Western Australian Airways for their inaugural contract air mail flights. This cover was carried by air part of the way north, flown back to Perth (after the disasterous loss of 2 of the aircraft involved) then carried by the steam ship "Bambra" for eventual delivery, departing Fremantle on Dec.10th. Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 317 FORGERY: Dec.1921 (AAMC.56c) An example of a forged "AERIAL MAIL" cachet on a cover purporting to be from Fremantle to Derby but also with forged circular date stamps. Estimate$300 - $350Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 318 19 Dec.1921 (AAMC.57b) Broome - Perth cover carried by Brearley & Kingsford Smith by air only as far as Cape Latouche, approximately 100kms south of Broome, where engine trouble forced them to land on the beach. A boat was despatched from Broome to collect the crew and the mails, which were, once again, carried by the steam ship "Bambra" which was passing through Broome, en route from Derby, on the 22nd. She arrived in Fremantle on the 30th. A very scarce cover; minor opening faults at upper lef Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold View details 319 17 April 1922 (AAMC.63,64a) Melbourne - Geelong cover, flown by Captain Roy King or Captain A.W. Vigars for The Herald & Weekly Times; with special blue vignette "Herald Air Mail" affixed and postmarked on arrival together with the 1d postage stamps. Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$750StatusSold View details 320 5 Nov.1922 (AAMC.66) Cloncurry - Charleville cover flown by QANTAS on the first return airmail delivery flight over this route and bearing the extremely rare "FOR AERIAL TRANSMISSION" red on white vignette. Flown by Hudson Fysh (Cloncurry - Longreach) and P.J. McGinness (Longreach - Charleville) and addressed to C.G.Grey, editor of "The Aeroplane" in London. Of the approximately 15 covers known from these inaugural Qantas flights, 2 are recorded to New Zealand addresses and this is the only othe Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...36|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Next
