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 31-40 of 353. Previous|12345678...36|Next Lot #331 5 Aug.1927 (AAMC.108a) Melbourne - Alice Springs - Melbourne cover (front) with "Angel" vignette, carried by Australian Aerial Services in association with the "Reso" tour of Central Australia. The front is addressed to Charles Barrett, (1879-1959) who wrote more than 50 books about the fauna and flora of Australia and Papua New Guinea. He wrote for the Melbourne Herald for 33 years, and edited the nature and travel books published by the Herald and Weekly Times. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot #332 Dec.1927 (AAMC.112) Darwin - Charleville intermediate, registered cover flown by Lancaster & Miller on their flight from England to Australia and return and signed by Captain Lancaster. Mrs Miller was the first woman to travel by air from England to Australia. With special map vignette affixed. [12 covers carried on this leg]. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$375StatusSold Lot #333 Dec.1927 (AAMC.113b) Calcutta - Rangoon intermediate cover flown by Lancaster & Miller on their flight from England to AUstralia and return. Mrs Miller was the first woman to travel by air from England to Australia. With special map vignette affixed. [52 covers carried on this leg]. Accompanied by an original photo (faults) of their plane "Red Rose" coming in to land, signed by Lancaster & Miller. View details Estimate$350 - $400StatusUnsold Lot #334 Feb.1928 (AAMC.115b) Calcutta - Rangoon cover with "BRITISH FLIGHT" vignette, carried on this intermediate stage of the flight from England to Australia by Captain H.M. Cave-Brown-Cave, in command of a flight of 4 RAF Supermarine flying boats. There a no recorded covers known, carried outside the Asian stops of Bombay, Colombo, Calcutta, Rangoon and Akyab. [92 carried on this leg, of which this is #90]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot #335 7-22 February 1928 (AAMC.117) A real-photo postcard (the lighthouse on Manora Island, near Karachi) carried by Bert Hinkler from Calcutta to Bundaberg, Qld., where it was mislaid until 4 July, when it received a belated "arrival" cds prior to being returned to Calcutta by surface mail (7 Aug. arrival cds). Ex Nelson Eustis. [NB: This card, accompanied by a photograph of Hinkler being greeted on arrival by his mother, was acquired by Cress during our auction of the Eustis collection in March 2008 View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Price Realized$4,750StatusSold Lot #336 22 Feb.1928 (AAMC.119) Registered cover, flown by Bert Hinkler and endorsed by him "Carried by Aeroplane Avian G-EBOV Darwin - Bundaberg" followed by his signature. He arrived at Bundaberg, his home-town on the 27th. [12 flown on this final leg.]. Ex Nelson Eustis. {NB: The next registered cover, almost identical except the addressee, is illustrated at p.39, AAMC. 8th Edition, 2008]. View details Estimate$1,800 - $2,200StatusUnsold Lot #337 8 June 1928 (AAMC.122b) Naselai Sands, Fiji - Eagle Farm, Brisbane cover flown by Kingsford Smith with Ulm, Lyon & Warner on their epic trans - Pacific flight via Hawaii and Fiji in the 'Southern Cross', posted and cancelled in Sydney during the week after their arrival. The cover is signed by Kingsford Smith & the relief pilot Charles Ulm & is endorsed on reverse "From Mrs H.Marks" (wife of the Mayor of Suva) and is one of only six carried this leg. An important piece of Australian aviation his View details Estimate$12,500 - $15,000Price Realized$9,375StatusSold Lot #338 1928 (Aug.25) Charles Kingsford and Charles Ulm in the "Southern Cross" G-AUSU, flew from Perth to Sydney. This cover was cancelled 5 PM 2-? August 1928. It contained a letter written by a friend of Kingsford Smith, Miss Phyllis Gillett (later Mrs Phyllis Downer) addressed to Mrs Elsie Pike. Annotated at top left "Per 'Southern Cross'" and signed by Kingsford Smith. With the original letter and a b/w photograph of Kingsford Smith. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #339 10 Sept.1928 (AAMC.124) Following their successful flight across the Pacific Ocean, Charles Kingsford Smith & Charles Ulm flew across the Tasman Sea for the first time in the "Southern Cross" on this date. This cover is one of the 15 carried and is signed by both pilots. Although the Australian P.M.G. Department did not agree to send an official air mail, the mail became "official" once Ulm was sworn in under New Zealand's postal regulations as a carrier. (The previously affixed Australian adhes View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSold Lot #340 13 Oct.1928 (AAMC.126) New Zealand - Australia, cover carried in the "Southern Cross" on the first flight across the Tasman in an East-West direction. This was Kingsford Smith's return flight, with the same crew as the 10th Sept. flight. The cover is signed by him and crew members Litchfield and Williams. [16 flown]. 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