Aviation | The Centenary of the Ross & Keith Smith flight and the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing (#450) 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)Relevance 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 184. Previous|12345678...19|Next Lot #55 6 August (AAMC.20) Adelaide - Minlaton, special postcard [#35] carried by Captain Harry Butler in his Bristol monoplane, the "Red Devil"; reverse with photo of Butler, printed message and printed signature. Provenance: The Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, Leski Auctions, March 2008. SymbolPC View details Estimate$450 - $550StatusCLOSED! Lot #56 6 Aug.1919 (AAMC.21b) Adelaide - Minlaton Harry SymbolPC View details Estimate$500 - $600StatusCLOSED! Lot #57 6 Aug.1919 (AAMC.21e) Adelaide - Minlaton Flights Harry Butler souvenir postcard with printed message re. Unley Aviation Day at the Unley Oval; unused. Cat.$650. SymbolPC View details Estimate$350 - $400StatusCLOSED! Lot #58 Aug.1919 (AAMC.22aa.) Adelaide - Minlaton flights by Harry Butler: Aug.1919 (AAMC.22aa) souvenir postcard prepared for the flights. Unused. SymbolC View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot #59 4 Sept. 1919 (AAMC.23) Hobart - Launceston cover with Peace Loan advertising and KGV 1½d brown carried by ED Cummings in a Sopwith Pup on the first aerial mail flight in Tasmania, violet two-line 'FIRST TAS. AERO MAIL/DPMG' handstamp and 'LAUNCESTON/-5SE19/TASMANIA' arrival backstamp, very fine with only 6 examples believed to have survived, Cat $4000. Accompanied by photo of the Sopwith Pup circling Hobart GPO. SymbolC View details Estimate$2,800 - $3,200Price Realized$2,300StatusSold Lot #60 Oct. - Nov.1919 (AAMC.25a) Bandar Abbas - Karachi cover carried by Poulet and Benoist in their Caudron G4 "La Mouche" on their flight which originated in Paris, bound for Australia. The journey was abandoned at Moulmein in Burma. The cover bears a 3-line cachet in French and a 2-line cachet in English "BY AERIAL POST THRO M. POULET" and with a "KARACHI 13NOV19" arrival backstamp. The cover is accompanied by a RP postcard of the aviators and their aircraft prior to departure. [8 covers known]. P SymbolC PC View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$21,000StatusSold Lot #61 14 Oct.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. SymbolPC View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$20,000StatusSold Lot #62 CAPTAIN ROSS SMITH'S PRESENTATION VIGNETTE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT 20th May 1920 dated letter on Prime Minister's Department, Canberra letterhead, address to Captain Ross Smith and with a "First Aerial Post" vignette attractively affixed at upper left. The letter, written by Prime Minister Billy Hughes Personal Secretary, Percival Deane, refers to the "Ross-Smith stamp which I promised you..." Unique and highly important. Provenance: Lucien Toutounji, Leski Auctions, March 2003. SymbolD View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSold Lot #63 Nov.19 - Feb.20 (AAMC.27) England - Australia flown cover bearing a fine example of the Ross Smith vignette, tied by one of 2 bold strikes of the oval datestamp. Addressed to Mrs J. Jones, Ejanding, Via Dowerin, Western Australia and listed by Frommer as #171. On an annotated page. Provenance: Lucien Toutounji SymbolC View details Estimate$5,000 - $6,000Price Realized$4,000StatusSold Lot #64 Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) Batavia - Sydney flown cover carried by Ross & Keith Smith on their flight from England in the Vickers Vimy. The cover shows a fine example of the vignette accompanied by Netherlands Indies adhesives, all tied by multiple strong strikes of the oval "FIRST AERIAL MAIL" cachet. The cover, #73 in the Frommer listing is one of the more spectacular examples, bearing advertising for the "Oranje Hotel" in Soerabaia and is one of only 15 originating in the DEI. SymbolC View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...19|Next12345678910111213141516171819 Previous 12345678910111213141516171819 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516171819 Next
