Airmails 2013 (#414) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 301-353 of 353. Previous|1234|Next Lot 601 10 Mar.1939 (AAMC.P138a) Port Moresby - Bundaberg airmail cover, sent by F.E.Secor, Chief Pilot for the K.N.I.L.M. - Fairchild Aerial Survey joint venture. The exploration and survey flights began in October 1938 and ceased in mid-1940. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 602 2 July 1939 (AAMC.P138a) Port Moresby - Townsville airmail cover, addressed to USA, for the K.N.I.L.M. - Fairchild Aerial Survey joint venture. The exploration and survey flights began in October 1938 and ceased in mid-1940. Sent by Jack Ringers, Port Moresby; with Pasadena arrival backstamp. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 603 3 July 1939 (AAMC.P138a) Salamaua - Townsville airmail cover, addressed to Holland, for the K.N.I.L.M. - Fairchild Aerial Survey joint venture. The exploration and survey flights began in October 1938 and ceased in mid-1940. Sent by F.C.Polderman, radio operator, then stationed at TADJI, between Aitape and Wewak. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot 604 17 Nov.1939 (AAMC.P138a) Port Moresby - Sydney - USA airmail cover, for the K.N.I.L.M. - Fairchild Aerial Survey joint venture. The exploration and survey flights began in October 1938 and ceased in mid-1940. With red printed "OPENED BY CENSOR" label affixed at left. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 605 3 Oct.1938 (AAMC.P139) Buna Bay - Port Moresby cover, flown by Ken Garden for Guinea Airways in a Stinson Reliant Seaplane. On a routine flight from Salamaua to Port Moresby, bad weather forced Garden to make an unscheduled landing at Buna Bay. O.J.Atkinson, the Resident Magistrate at Buna, took the opportunity to send a few covers which were cancelled on arrival. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 606 14 Oct.1938 (AAMC.P140) Port Moresby - Cairns cover, flown by Richard Archbold & Russell Rogers in the "Guba II" Consolidated 28 Flying Boat. [Probably only 6 flown]. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot 607 21 Nov.1938 (AAMC.P140a) Port Moresby - Melbourne cover, flown by Russell Rogers in the "Guba II" Consolidated 28 Flying Boat. The flight became necessary because of the requirements of repairs to the automatic pilot. [6 flown]. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot 608 14-17 Dec.1938 (AAMC.P141) Melbourne - Port Moresby return flight cover, flown by Russell Rogers in the "Guba II" Consolidated 28 Flying Boat and signed by the navigator, Lewis A. Yancey. The flight had become necessary because of the requirements of repairs to the automatic pilot. [6 flown]. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot 609 12 Jan.1939 (AAMC.P141a) Hollandia - Port Moresby cover, flown in the "Guba II" and addressed to Richard Archbold's wife, in San Diego, California. [NB: This cover illustrates the AAMC entry at p246 in the Eighth Edition]. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$1,250 - $1,750StatusUnsold Lot 610 25 Feb.1939 (AAMC.P142) Port Moresby - Thursday Island - Darwin cover, flown by Eddy & Kelly in a Grumman Amphibian. Signed by W.Eddy, pilot. (Signed covers are very rare). View details Estimate$300 - $350StatusUnsold Lot 611 25 Feb.1939 (AAMC.P142) Port Moresby - Thursday Island - Darwin cover, flown by Eddy & Kelly in a Grumman Amphibian. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 612 9 Mar.1939 (AAMC.P142a) Wewak - Salamaua cover, flown by M.Blackburn for Wewak Air Transport in a Fox Moth. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 613 29 Mar.1939 (AAMC.P144) Archbold Expedition flight cover, Hollandia - Port Moresby per "Guba II" with 'BIOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS/.../1938 NEW GUINEA EXPEDITION' imprint at upper-left, minor soiling at right. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot 614 10 May - 1 July 1939 (AAMC.P144a) Archbold Expedition flight cover, carried by the "Guba II" at the conclusion of the exploraton programme. Signed by Archbold, Taylor, Percival, Rogers, Yancey and other crew members, the flight departed from Hollandia and flew via Port Moresby, Sydney, Port Hedland, Batavia, Cocos, Diego Garcia, Seychelles, Mombassa, Kisimu and Coquilhatville (Belgian Congo) to New York. With adhesives and postmarks wherever these were available, the massive cover is self-addres View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot 615 29 Mar.1939 (AAMC.P144c) Archbold Expedition flight cover, a variant from Port Moresby to New York, per "Guba II" with adhesives and postmarks from Sydney, Sychelles, Kisimu (Kenya), Coquilhatville (Belgian Congo) & New York. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot 616 21 Apr.1939 (AAMC.P145a) Adelaide - Wau cover, per Fokker VII [VH-UJT], signed by pilots Ray Parer & Willy Schaufhausen, placed into the mail at Wau only on 5AUG39 & registered at Salamaua. Cat.$1250+ [The plane had been bought by the Catholic Mission at Madang. On 6th August 1939 the plane crashed on take-off due to overloading, killing pilot Schaufhausen & 4 passengers, including priests]. This unique cover ex Premier Auction 103 at $1400 + premium. View details Estimate$1,250 - $1,500Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot 617 31 July 1939 (AAMC.P147) Melbourne - Wau cover, flown and signed by Ray Parer in a Boeing 40B [VH-ADX] which he was delivering to New Guinea for use by the newly established Parer Glason Syndicate. The plane was a large single engine bi-plane, ideal for the transport business which was their main focus. It crashed and was written off on 21 Sept.1939. View details Estimate$300 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 618 31 July 1939 (AAMC.P148) Melbourne - Port Moresby cover (some spotting), flown and signed by Ray Parer in a Boeing 40B [VH-ADX] which he was delivering for use by the newly established Parer Glason Syndicate. The plane was a large single engine bi-plane, ideal for the transport business which was their main focus. It crashed and was written off on 21 Sept.1939. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 619 Aug.-Sept.1939 (AAMC.P148a) Ogelbeng - Kaiaput (- Melbourne) flown cover: At the end of August 1939, when war seemed inevitable in Europe, the Lutheran Mission pilot, Werner Garms and engineer Paul Raube, both German nationals, loaded the Mission aircraft, a Junkers F/13, with supplies and fuel. They flew to Ogelbeng Mission Station in the highlands near Mt Hagen. While they were there, war was declared. They stole the aircraft and flew to Kaiapit to refuel. From there they flew to Merauke, in D View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$2,000StatusSold Lot 620 2 Oct.1939 Port Moresby - Sydney OHMS cover [No.11 Squadron, Port Moresby] flown and signed by the crew including Eris Sims, Bob Gurney, Geogh Hemsworth, Bill Purton and others. At the outbreak of World War II, the RAAF established a squadron in Port Moresby and mails (and supplies) were flown using former Qantas flying boats with RAAF personnel in command, mostly former Qantas pilots pressed into war service. This cover is addressed to the Rose Bay Qantas Base; with CAIRNS b/stamp. [NB: Eric Si View details Estimate$1,250 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot 621 4 Jan.1940 (AAMC.P150) Goilala Police Camp - Port Moresby cover, flown and signed by Tommy O'Dea for Guinea Airways. This was the first airmail flight from the camp. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$350 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 622 4 Jan.1940 (new AAMC.P150a) Bulolo (Police Camp) - Mamba cover, delivered partially by air and illustrating the rather complex route and varied forms of transport often needed for delivery of mails within the Territories. R.S.M.Gill, the addressee, has made mss notations on the back of the envelope indicating that it was "From Bulolo Police Camp", flown "per favour" to Port Moresby thence by airmail to Kokoda. It had then been carried "by track" via Popondetta to Ioma by vehicle and finally down View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 623 2 Mar.1940 (AAMC.P151) Bwagaoia (Misima Island) - Port Moresby registered cover, carried on the first airmail flight from the island. The 8d Air Mail tied by double-circle "POST OFFICE/2/MAR/1940/BWAGAOIA, PAPUA" cds in violet [Lee #87, rated E]. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot 624 15 Mar.1940 (AAMC.P152) Australia - New Guinea Crash cover: 15 Mar.1940 OHMS cover from Adelaide to Rabaul, carried aboard the W.R.Carpenter airline "Carinthia" VH-UYW, piloted by K.G.Jackson on a regular flight from Sydney. After departing Salamaua for Rabaul he encountered very bad weather just proir to landing and was forced to an alternate airstrip, the nearest being Kavieng on New Ireland. He had insufficient fuel to complete the flight and crash landed close to the shore. All passengers an View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot 625 19-27 Mar.1940 (AAMC.P153) Sydney - Wau cover, flown and signed by Ray Parer in a Boeing 40, cancelled on arrival at WAU 27MAR40. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 626 4 Dec.1941 (AAMC.P154) Rabaul - Sydney cover, flown and signed by Sqd.Ldr.J.Davies of General Reconnaissance Squadron on a non-stop flight by RAAF Catalina, with 5d Bird mss cancelled by the pilot. This was a flight to Rose Bay Air Base for maintenance and a small quantity of "per-favour" mail was carried. AAMC records "possibly 5 covers." Ex Ray Kelly. [NB: A similar cover sold for $900+commission at Prestige Auction 176 in Oct.2012]. View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$675StatusSold Lot 627 14 Feb.1942 airmail cover from Port Moresby to Sydney, bearing 2 x 1d Pictorials; with "TAX (6d)" at right and "OPENED BY CENSOR" label affixed. The cover was posted on the day Civil Administration came to an end, following the occupation of Rabaul and the Japanese bombing of Port Moresby. This may explain why the short payment was not collected on delivery. Ex Ray Kelly. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$170StatusSold Lot 628 WORLD WAR II aerial drop leaflets: Two examples of the Allied printed leaflets dropped to inform Japanese soldiers how to surrender (in Japanese) and to inform the natives (in Pidgin) how to treat and direct the Japanese prisoners to appropriate areas at Lae, Salamaua and Finschhafen. Both in very good condition. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 629 ASIA & PACIFIC; useful group with 15 Apr. 1931 Peiping - Shanghai flown cover. 3 Apr.1929 Egypt - India, 7 Apr.1929 Karachi - England, 11 Apr.1931 (AAMC.187za) Rangoon - Aust. and 2 Nov.1933 Rangoon - London. 28 Apr.1937 Macau - Hong Kong. 30 Apr.1931 Singapore - London, 4 Aug.1931 Singapore - Medan and 28 Jun.1937 Singapore - Penang. 13 Nov.1941 New Caledonia - Fiji. 14 Jul.1930 Lautoka - Suva Fiji, pilot signed and 14 Nov.1941 Suva - Honolulu - USA. Plus 3 other. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot 630 1926-37 collection of first flight covers incl. 28 Feb.1927 long envelope (toned) endorsed "ZAMBOANGA-CEBU-MANILA VIA ARMY SEA PLANES" (6 flown), 25 Jan.1932 First Regular Air Mail Bagjio to Manila, 13 May 1926 Madrid to Manila, 2 Dec.1935 Manila - Guam via China Clipper and 28 Apr.1937 Manila to Hong Kong. Other Trans Pacific flights also noted. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 631 Mixed group 1927-1940's incl. first & commemorative flights, registered etc. with Brasil (1), Canal Zone (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (3), Dominica (6), Haiti (6), Mexico (2), Nicaragua (1), Panama (2), Salvador (1), Suriname (2) and Venezuela (1). Noted 6 Feb.1928 Dominica - Havanna, Lindbergh flight cover and 8 Jan.1931 French Guiana - New York Pan American 1st flight cover. Slight duplication, generally fine. View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot 632 1925-35 group 30 May 1925 Cape Town - Durban flown cover franked with a full set of 1925 airmail stamps; Imperial Airways 1st flight covers (8 incl. intermediates). Plus 28 Jan.1932 Bulawayo - N'Dola Southern Rhodesia 1st flight cover, 6 Jun.1937 Dar es Salaam - Sth Africa intermediate cover for Imperial Airways 1st Flying Boat service and 1 other. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 633 Collector's remainders with 1923-41 group of airmail covers (35) with 1st flights, airport dedications etc., noted 1923 night flight signed by Jack Knight and 1926 initialed Cobham cover. Range of commercial covers etc. (90+) to 1960's, starting with 1784 entire London - Philadelphia, incl. a diverse range of frankings with earlier issues, censored, coils, postage dues, postmarks etc. Mixed condition, majority fine, inspection will reward. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot 634 Zeppelin covers, some on annotated pages, with 1925 Lakehurst - Bermuda & return, 3 flown USS Los Angeles covers; May 1930 Rio de Janeiro - Recife flown cover with Condor vignette & franked with 10.000reis o'ptd Zeppelin; 1936 group of 7 incl. Oct.1936 cover endorsed "Via Airship Hindenburg and / air service London to Hong / Kong, China" with additional postage of Hong Kong $3, $1 and 20c added (minor fault); plus 1930 SS Bremen catapult cover. Mixed condition. View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot 635 25 Nov.1926 Ship to shore catapult flight cover from the S.S. Homeric, piloted & initialled by Alan Cobham. With printed "First Air Mail to arrive in New York from the East" and numbered '155'. Fine. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 636 Combination franking pair with 16 Aug.1927 registered cover Manyoni, Tanganyika - Ontario Canada, endorsed "Via New York - Detroit Airpost" with USA 10c airmail stamp added in Tanganyika. The English, Canadian & lack of USA cancels suggest the cover went direct from London to Canada. Plus 18 Jun.1930 cover Didsbury UK - California with English franking and added USA 5c airmail stamp (minor tear). Scarce frankings. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 637 1929-60 group, majority FAM flights incl. 22 Sept. 1929 San Juan - Paramaribo, 10 Feb. 1929 Cristobal, Canal Zone - Miami, signed by LINDBURGH, FAM.8 10 Mar.1929 Brownsville, Texas - Mexico, FAM.14 21 Apr.1937 San Francisco - Hong Kong, FAM.18 group of 25, majority 1939 flights, incl. 20 May 1939 New York - England dual franked cover and 1941 & 1960 flights, FAM.22 6 Dec.1941 San Juan - Leopoldville & Lagos and FAM.27 3 May 1946 Chicago - Egypt. Plus 8 other first flights incl. 30 June 1939 Irel View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot 638 1930-34 wide ranging group of commemorative, First Flight & commercial covers all franked with 5c Winged Globe airmail issue singly or in combinations. Destinations for commercial covers incl. Paraguay, Mexico, Sweden, Cuba & Dominican Republic. Noted various signed covers and 1933 (Sept.20) charred cover with violet handstamp "DAMAGED IN PLANE FIRE/AT WARREN OHIO 9-21-30". Also incl. some emphemera, generally fine, various covers priced at $25+. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 639 21 Jun.-1 Jul.1931 (AmAMC.1141) Mineola - Mineola, New York 'Round the World' flown cover, Wiley Post pilot and Harold Gatty navigator. Signed by both with German & Russian transit markings and Mineola arrival machine cancel. Very fine. View details Estimate$500 - $650Price Realized$375StatusSold Lot 640 1932-34 group of commemorative, first flight & commercial covers franked with 8c Winged Globe as single franking or in combination with other values. Incl. may useful cachets and usages to G.B. & New Zealand. Noted 25 Feb.1933 charred cover bearing cachet "DAMAGE DUE TO AIR MAIL INTERUPTION AT TOLEDO OHIO FEB.25 1933" in purple and 28 Jul.1933 New York - Los Angeles crash cover with "DAMAGED AT KANS CITY / JUL 28.33 WHEN PLANE / FELL IN THE RIVER" cachet in green.. View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot 641 1934-40 extensive group of commemorative & first flight covers all franked with 6c Winged Globe as a single franking or in combination with other values. Incl. FDC's and some mounted on exhibition pages. Noted 1 Sept.1934 Memphis - Jackson, Mississippi signed 1st flight, 14 June 1935 New York - Rome Monteverde brothers signed crash cover and 22 Sept.1935 New York - Lithuania Felix Waitkus signed cover. Many varied and interesting cachets, postmarks etc. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 642 1934-39 group of commercial covers to US destinations bearing the 6d Winged Globe airmail issue singly or in combinations incl. registered and Special Delivery articles, redirected from Phillipines and a cover from the Seattle-Chicago flight which crashed at Bozeman, Montana. Some mounted on exhibit pages, an interesting range of usages ready for further study. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusUnsold Lot 643 1934-39 fascinating collection of commercial usages of the 6c Winged Globe in a range of intersting combinations on mail to foreign destinations, destinations incl. Bermuda, Mexico, Argentina, Virgin Islands, Java, Jamaica, Eritrea, China, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Peru & Morocco. Some mounted on exhibit pages. Noted registered, redirected and 5 May 1938 cover with cachet "R.M.S. 'Lady Rodney' / Received too late for delivery". Difficult to replicate. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$225StatusSold Lot 644 AMELIA EARHART SOLO TRANS-PACIFIC FLIGHT: Honolulu, Hawaii Jan.11, 1935 cancels tie adhesives to envelope carried by Amelia Earhart on the first solo flight by a woman crossing the Pacific from Hawaii to California. No.34 of only 49 covers carried. Endorsed and autographed "Amelia Earhart" at left. Very scarce, (1990 AAMS $1500). View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Lot 645 April 1935 Round Trip Survey Flight to Honolulu: San Francisco Apr.16 machine cancel tieing 6c Wings, Honolulu Apr.22 tieing 6c Wings for arrival and San Francisco Apr.23 duplex tieing 6c on return, a nice round trip cover, signed by the pilot, Edwin Musick. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$190StatusSold Lot 646 1936 (Sept. 2) postmark tieing C19 (6c Air) to airmail envelope carried by pilot Henry T (Dick) Merrill with Broadway entertainer Harry Richman as companion in his "Lady Peace" plane; forced down in Wales due to lack of fuel but still setting a record time for the Trans-Atlantic crossing, carried privately to London, additional Great Britain and Newfoundland stamps tied at left by Southport and Musgrave Newf'd cancels. Incl. a b/w photo of the pair. Envelope with wrinkling, but a scarce flight. View details Estimate$500 - $750StatusUnsold Lot 647 HOWARD HUGHES AROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT: 1938 (July 10) postmark tieing C23 (6c Air) to legal sized envelope specially printed for this flight, carried by Hughes & crew Around the World in less than 92 hours, with stops in Paris (French stamp added), Moscow (Russian stamp added), Omsk, Yakutsk, Minneapolis and New York (C19 tied by July 14 1938 strike). A very scarce and famous flight, these covers were only provided to to persons connected with the flight, few were autographed as this one was "To View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusUnsold Lot 648 1939-41 group of commememorative, 1st flight and commercial usages of the 30c Winged Globe as single and mixed frankings with usages to Denmark, Holland, Germany, England, Malta, Hungary, Argentina & Brazil. Incl. reg. and instructional markings with some to European countries bearing censor markings and "SERVICE SUSPENDED/RETURN TO SENDER" handstamps. Interesting group. View details Estimate$500 - $600StatusUnsold Lot 649 1930 (Sc.C12) 5c violet Winged Globe Plate No. blks of 4 (3, diff. plate numbers)), Plate No. blks of 6 (2) and 2 singles with Plate Nos. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 650 1931-32 (Sc.C17) 8c olive bistre Winged Globe plate No. blks of 4 (2) & single; also 1939 (Sc.C24) 30c dull blue plate No. blk of 6 and another blk of 4. View details Estimate$120 - $140StatusUnsold Lot 651 1934 (Sc.C19) 6c orange Winged Globe collection of Plate No. blks of 4 with all numbers represented. Slight duplication of some blocks. View details Estimate$250 - $300StatusUnsold Lot 652 1913 (Sc.JQ1-JQ5) 1c to 25c Parcel Post Postage Due set of 5. Cat. Sc. $332. Plus 1928 5c airmail Plate No. blk of 6*/** and 1931 2c Red Cross Plate No. blk of 8**. View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Lot 653 Mixed group of collector's remainders with Aust. airmail covers (7), world airmail covers (9), misc. covers (15), Aust. Antarctic covers & p/cards (11), KGV Silver Jubilee covers (4) and a folder of extras incl. cinderellas. Mixed condition. View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$115StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1234|Next Previous 1234 Next Previous 1234 Next
