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 21-30 of 184. Previous|12345678...19|Next Lot #65 Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) Ross Smith flight cover with the vignette affixed at left, together with an Iraq ½ anna on 10para in combination with an Australian KGV 1d red; all tied by the 26 Feb.1920 oval "FIRST AERIAL MAIL" cachet (with an additional strike below), posted from the ANZAC Wireless Squadron stationed in Mesopotamia (Iraq) en route for Australia. Addressed to Mrs A. Laxton in Lewisham and endorsed at lower left by Lieut. R.L. Laxton, this is cover #193 in the Frommer listing SymbolC View details Estimate$10,000 - $12,500Price Realized$9,000StatusSold Lot #66 Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) Mesopotamia (Iraq) - Australia flown cover endorsed "On active service" at top, flown by Ross Smith, Keith Smith, Jim Bennett & Wally Shiers on their onwards flight to Australia; the vignette tied by one of two superb strikes of the oval "FIRST AERIAL MAIL" cachet, addressed to Mrs J.Morris, Maroona, Victoria. Exceptionally, the cover is signed by Keith Smith, J.M.Bennett & W Shiers on the reverse & inscribed "Darwin 12-12-19" in Bennett's hand. SymbolC View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$7,000StatusSold Lot #67 Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) Syria - Australia intermediate flown cover bearing the Ross Smith vignette, attractively tied by one of 2 strikes of the oval "FIRST AERIAL MAIL" handstamp. With faint 3-line cachet in violet and endorsed "Per first aerial flight to Australia by favour of Capt. Ross Smith." SymbolC View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSold Lot #68 Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) A "Ross Smith FIRST AERIAL POST" vignette cancelled by the oval cachet, on the picture side of a postcard picked up at Baghdad en route and addressed to F. Sammons Esq., at Corowa, N.S.W. Signed "J.M.Bennett, Darwin, 12.12.19" on the address side and with a second oval cachet at centre. Only 31 items in all originated in Mesopotamia, of which very few were postcards & signed by Bennett. An exceptionally rare item. Now recorded by Frommer as #280 and illustrated at SymbolPC View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,500StatusSold Lot #69 Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) a "Ross Smith" vignette attractively tied by one of 2 strikes of the oval "FIRST AERIAL MAIL" cachet on a cover picked up at RAMADI, MESOPOTAMIA, one of the refuelling stops on the flight from England to Australia. With the three-line violet h/stamp on the back flap together with the sender's name and address. The lot also includes the original handwritten enclosure "...an aeroplane came hovering around the camp and landed and out came 5 Aussies..." SymbolC View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,500StatusSold Lot #70 1919 (AAMC.27b, Frommer 1a) "Ross Smith" Flight vignette with full margins and superb unmounted mint full gum. Probably the finest example in private hands. This is #C16 in the Frommer listing, illustrated at page 126. Cat. $18,000 for mounted mint. Symbol** View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Price Realized$14,000StatusSold Lot #71 Nov. 1919 England - Australia (AAMC.27b) Ross Smith vignette with full margins, very well centred and unmounted with just light traces of hingeing in margins only, an exceptional example of this iconic item, Cat. $20000 for mounted mint. [AAMC states "about 25 mint copies are held in museums ... about 50 specimens with complete selvedge exist in private collections"; of the 576 issued, 364 were attached to letters carried and cancelled on arrival in Melbourne on 26 Feb 1920. Symbol** View details Estimate$9,000 - $12,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSold Lot #72 Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27d) A Ross Smith "FIRST AERIAL POST" vignette, Mint with gum, but with margins removed. Rare and fine. This is example M3 in Frommer's listing, illustrated at page 130. Symbol* View details Estimate$7,000 - $9,000StatusCLOSED! Lot #73 Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27e) A Bandar Abbas - Karachi "intermediate" cover flown by Ross & Keith Smith; with 3-line "PER VICKERS "VIMY" AEROPLANE TO AUSTRALIA" cachet and endorsed "By Aerial Post" at left. Accompanied by the original enclosure, dated 23/11/19 from the I.E.Telegraphs office at Bandar Abbas.The cover, addressed to the Superintendent of the Persian Gulf Telegraphs, with KIMARI & KARACHI backstamps. [Only 13 covers documented flown without vignette. This is #7 in the Frommer list. SymbolC View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$22,000StatusSold Lot #74 24 Nov. 1919 (AAMC.27e) Ross Smith flight, intermediate cover from Bandar-Abas to Karachi; endorsed "Per Aerial Post" at top and with light impression of the 3-line "Vickers Vimy" handstamp at right. With Kimari and Karachi 25 Nov. arrival backstamps. SymbolC View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Price Realized$20,000StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678...19|Next12345678910111213141516171819 Previous 12345678910111213141516171819 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516171819 Next
