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 61-70 of 261. Previous|1...5678910...27|Next Image Lot # Item Title Time Left Your Bids 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 Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$20,000StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$5,000 - $6,000Price Realized$4,000StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$10,000 - $12,500Price Realized$9,000StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$7,000StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,500StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,500StatusSold View details 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** Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Price Realized$14,000StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...5678910...27|Next123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627 Previous 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627 Next
