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 71-80 of 261. Previous|1...67891011...27|Next 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 Lot #75 26 Feb.1920 (AAMC.27f) forgery of Ross Smith flown cover addressed to Mrs R.P. Ford, 16th A.G. Hospital, Mcleod, Melbourne, with genuine vignette tied by "FIRST AERIAL MAIL/RECEIVED/26FEB1920/GREAT BRITAIN TO AUSTRALIA" oval flight cachet (cachet possibly forged - 'GR' of 'GREAT BRITAIN' at left resembles a '62') , with typed endorsement "Per kind favor of Captain Ross Smith/on his competition flight.", Cat $3000. Ex Frommer. SymbolC View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Lot #76 30 June 1920 (AAMC.46) Melbourne - Traralgon intermediate cover to Morwell carried by Capt EW Leggatt of Aviation Ltd in an Armstrong Whitworth on the 'Herald and Weekly Times' experimental airmail franked with KGV 1½d brown tied 'MORWELL/JU30/20/VICTORIA-M8' duplex cancel on arrival and yellow & purple 'By Herald Aerial Delivery' vignette affixed on back tied 'Herald' office time-clock receiving datestamp, fine condition with just a couple of trivial marks, Cat $4,500. SymbolC View details Estimate$3,200 - $3,600Price Realized$2,600StatusSold Lot #77 30 July 1920 (AAMC.47) Melbourne - Traralogon cover, flown by Captain E.W. Leggett for "The Herald & Weekly Times"; with special purple of yellow "By HERALD AERIAL DELIVERY" vignette attractively tied on the front of the envelope which also bears a Victorian 1½d adhesive tied on arrival at Traralgon. [Of 266 items reported to have been flown, very few appear to have survived]. Provenance: Frank E. Adams, Charles Leski Auctions, March 2012, Lot 1338 : $2,040 incl. BP. SymbolC View details Estimate$1,800 - $2,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Lot #78 30 July 1920 (AAMC.47) Melbourne - Traralgon KGV 1½d brown 'Star' Envelope cancelled on arrival with 'TRARALGON/30JL20/VIC' cds, purple/yellow 'By Herald Aerial Delivery' vignette tied to the reverse by 'HERALD & WEEKLY TIMES/RECEIVED/30JUL1920' office time-clock d/s, Cat $2000. SymbolPS View details Estimate$1,500 - $1,750Price Realized$1,300StatusSold Lot #79 July 1920 (AAMC.47a) "By HERALD AERIAL DELIVERY" vignette, Unused with full gum. Small gum thin from previous hinge removal. Extremely scarce. Provenance: The Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, Leski Auctions, March 2008. Symbol* View details Estimate$900 - $1,200StatusCLOSED! Lot #80 Aug.1920 (AAMC.47c) "Velvet Soap" advertising postcard dropped over Melbourne by R. Graham Carey in his Maurice Farman Shorthorn biplane, as depicted on the card. The reverse of the card shows Carey in the cockpit and an aerial view of the soapworks of J. Kitchen & Sons, the manufacturers of Velvet soap. [Eustis says "Only four cards known on his exhibit page.]. Provenance: Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, March 2008, Lot 56 : $4,600 incl. BP. SymbolPC View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,000StatusCLOSED! 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