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 PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 261. Previous|123|Next Lot 1 [INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES] Kees van der Laan (Dutch, 1903-1983). Graf Zeppelin Landing 1932 colour lithograph, signed and dated in image upper right, 111 x 81cm. Linen-backed. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 2 [AUSTRALIAN AIRLINES] Ronald Clayton Skate (Australian, 1913-1991) MELBOURNE, VICTORIA. Wing Your Way With ANA c1950s colour process lithograph, signed upper right, 95.6 x 60cm. Linen-backed. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$1,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 3 [AUSTRALIAN AIRLINES] Fly ANA Then Drive Yourself From The Airport In A New Car From Avis 1957 colour and process lithograph, 100.5 x 63.7cm. Linen-backed. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 4 VARIG AIRLINE (Brazil): c.1950s group of seven real-photo promotion posters of Brazil (45x36cm), each one linen backed. (7) View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold Lot 5 [INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES] Angelo Cesselon (Italian 1922-1992) All Over The World, BOAC Takes Good Care Of You, 1959 colour process lithograph with screenprint, signed in image centre left, 101.7 x 64cm. Linen-backed. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusCLOSED! Lot 6 [INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES] Sun Tan In The Snow This Winter. Victoria, Australia. The Holiday State c1960s colour process lithograph, 101.4 x 64.5cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusCLOSED! Lot 7 [AUSTRALIAN AIRLINES] Harry Rogers (Australian, 1929 - 2012) LONDON, Fly There By QANTAS, c1960s colour process lithograph, initialled "H.R." in image lower left, 99 x 74cm. Linen-backed. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 8 [PAN AM] c.1960s group of six travel posters (each 40.5x49cm), printed in the U.S.A. (series 12). View details Quantity6Estimate$200 - $400StatusUnsold Lot 9 [PAN AM] c.1960s Mexico travel poster (91x68cm), printed in Mexico. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 10 [INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES] TAI, ASIA c1960s colour process lithograph poster, photographer P. Genest lower left, 98 x 62cm. Linen-backed. “Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux, Paris. Imp. Braun Mulhouse. Printed in France.” View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 11 [AVIATION] Late 20th century group of eight assorted travel posters, TAA, BRITISH AIRWAYS, QANTAS, etc. View details Quantity8Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 12 [PHOTOGRAPH] A Gas Bag That Bored The Huns, [HMA "23", Vickers Airship], 1917. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, titled in pencil with various annotations in pencil and crayon verso, 50.5 x 60cm. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,250StatusCLOSED! Lot 13 Qantas co-founder P.J. McGINNESS' WWI military service memorabilia comprising Anzac Medal inscribed 'P.J. McGINNESS' with presentation box, plus Anzac lapel badge, dog tags, hatband, buttons, patches, and Saoirse Creidim 1829-1929 Liberty Bell pin. View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 14 1919-20 London to Adelaide framed Air Race Flag (300x235mm) in brown and gold on beige, fringed on three sides, illustrated with Vickers Vimy 'G-EAOU' Biplane, signed by Ross Smith, Keith Smith, J.M.Bennett, & W.H.Shiers, together with a photo-postcard of the flag being displayed at the 1938 Air Mail Exhibition at Christchurch, and a letter of thanks to the owner. View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold Lot 15 Mar. 23 1920 Adelaide 'Welcome Home' invitation and programme dedicated to 'To Captain Sir Ross Smith and Crew', 'Tendered by Members and Friends of the 3rd Light Horse Regiment', held at the Tivoli Theatre, Grote Street, Adelaide. View details Estimate$250 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolD Lot 16 1920 John Martin & Co (Department Store, Adelaide) advertising fan produced to commemorate Ross & Keith Smith's "AERIAL FLIGHT/ENGLAND to AUSTRALIA/1919" showing map of route and flight schedule with inset images of Ross & Keith Smith, some minor edge blemishes and very light spotting. Rare survivor. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 17 1920 official souvenir programme for the "The Sir Ross Smith Flight" printed in sepia with the original pictorial cover (small blemishes & spotting, edges reinforced with tape), 8pp staplebound, illustrated with two full page photographic portraits of Ross & Keith Smith plus vignette photographs of Shiers & Bennett, the Vickers Vimy aircraft and scenes from the flight taken from the air, on the inside back cover is a timetable of the flight; View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolL Lot 18 "The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia" by Sir Ross Smith published by Angus & Robertson (Sydney, 1920) with 27 Aeroviews of Sydney and NSW towns by Capt. Frank Hurley, signed by Ross Smith, Keith Smith and Frank Hurley at a farewell lunch held at Sydney's Metropole Hotel, some staining & blemishes to cover and page edges. Signed examples are extremely rare. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolL Lot 19 "The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia" by Sir Ross Smith published by Angus & Robertson (Sydney, 1920) with 27 Aeroviews of Sydney and NSW towns by Capt. Frank Hurley, minor cover blemishes. View details Estimate$150 - $200Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolL Lot 20 24 April 1921 Ross Smith signed letter headed "76 Jermyn Street/S.W.1" to a Mrs Tweedie asking for advice on expanding the article he wrote for The National Geographic Magazine about his England to Australia flight into book format and requesting suggestions as to how to source a publisher. Ex Frommer. View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolD Lot 21 "The Mechanical Principles of the Aeroplane" published by Macmillan (New York, 1921), a scarce technical manual on the physics of aviation with plenty of mathematical detail and diagrams, an aviation-related bookplate pasted to the inside front page, 277pp octavo-sized hardbound with gilt-lettered cloth cover. View details Estimate$200 - $250StatusCLOSED! SymbolL Lot 22 27 May 1924 Goble & McIntyre circumnavigate Australia commemorative menu for a dinner at Menzies Hotel, Melbourne "To Honour Wing Commander S.J.Goble and Flight-Lieutenant I.R. McIntyre and to commemorate their Circumnavigation of Australia by Seaplane April 6th to May 19th, 1924." With a tipped-in itinerary of the flight which covered 8446 miles in 92 hours, 50 minutes flying time. [See AAMC.70 - no known covers]. View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolD Lot 23 CELEBRATING BERT HINKLER'S FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA, 1928 A Columbia 78 rpm recording, both sides devoted to Hinkler speaking about 'Incidents of my Flight' & 'Hinkler's Message to Australia,' recorded 13th March, 1928, two weeks after his triumphant arrival. Signed by Hinkler in the dead wax on both sides; accompanied by sheet music for a fox-trot titled 'Hustling Hinkler,' Lyric by L. Wolfe Gilbert; Music by Abel Baer. (2 items). "Hustling Hinkler up in the sky Fair or windy he's flyi View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 24 SHEET MUSIC CELEBRATING THE TRANS-PACIFIC FLIGHT OF 1928 'The Southern Cross Descriptive March,' by Harry J. Lincoln. Dedicated to Capt. Kingsford Smith & Mr C T P Ulm; & "Kingsford Smith Aussie's Proud of You" words & music by Jack O'Hagan. "It's a long long way from Frisco Bay, To Aussie's distant shore, And yet one day there flew away A plane with a crew of four..." View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolD Lot 25 An original albumen photograph of The Southern Cross about to depart from California (22x29cm) mounted, framed & glazed together with a card with the hand-written dedication "To: Billy Beausang, With Best wishes, From "Chas" C.T.P. Ulm, 1928". Overall 48 x 54cm. William (Bill or Liam) Beausang was born in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland on 22 May 1900. He travelled to Australia in 1924 after distinguished military service and began working with Kingsford-Smith as an engineer in the late 1920s. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! SymbolD Lot 26 1928 sheet music for a fox-trot titled "Hustling Hinkler" celebrating Bert Hinkler's 1928 flight from England to Australia, lyric by L.Wolfe Gilbert, music by Abel Baer, one internal page torn, some spotting & cover blemishes. View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolL Lot 27 P.H. "Skip" Moody pioneer aviator typed biography with signed photograph endorsed "Personal regards/to Ernie Crome,/P.H. "Skip" Moody", photo of Moody's Puss Moth seaplane and two others photos showing Qantas DH 61 Apollo VH=UJB airplane from the inaugural flight of the 1929 extension of Qantas service from Brisbane to Charleville service with first passenger Alexander Kennedy, plus flight cover (AAMC.132) carried on the flight signed by Moody on front and on reverse. Ex Frommer. View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolD C Lot 28 AMY JOHNSON'S FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA A Columbia 78rpm recording of Amy Johnson talking about her flight 'The Story of My Flight,' recorded in Sydney in 1930. and signed A. Johnson on the label; a press photo, with citation describing Johnson as first the woman to obtain the Air Ministy's ground engineer licence; 2 photographs of Johnson at Kyancutta, SA, 2 July 1930; & a pin back badge for Amy Johnson's visit to Kyancutta, 1930. (5 items). View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 29 Amy Johnson - 1930 oval plaque (130x95mm), depicting "Amy Johnson - Heroine Of the Air" and her De Havilland DH.6 Gipsy Moth G-AAAH in flight over a coastal scene; minor blemishes in no way detract. Lovely memento. Ex Frommer. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 30 8th Feb. 1935 Aero Club of NSW 1st Prize Award: Silver Propellor with Blue Enamel Aero Club of New South Wales Logo mounted on a plinth. Engraved on a silver plaque on the plinth: "Royal Aero Club of NSW General Flying Competition - February 8th 1935: Advance Grade 1st - J.C. Pollock. Pollock went on to join QANTAS after WW2 and was captain of the Constellation VH-EAC "Harry Hawker" that inaugurated the route to London via Bangkok in November 1953. [See AAMC.1331] View details Estimate$200 - $250Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 31 ANA related memorabilia from the estate of former air hostess Nancy Grant (nee Danne) with album of 1930s-50s photographs incl. pilots, hostesses and aircraft of the era, scrapbook of 1937-40s newspaper cuttings related to record breaking flights, incidents & the hostess lifestyle, plus correspondence between ANA & Nancy incl. letters of appointment; also books "Up here and Down there" by Nan Whitcomb a former ANA colleague of Grant, signed by Whitcomb & Grant View details Estimate$100 - $150Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolL Lot 32 Feb. 1945 Qantas Empire Airways, Long Range Operations illustrated certificate for "Elevated Order of the Longest Hop" awarded to Mr R. Ronaldson for flying the Indian Ocean by the "Kangaroo" air service in a time of 17hrs 20mins, trivial blemishes/soiling, fine condition overall. View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC Lot 33 WW2 period P-38 LIGHTNING BC 608A "PIPSQUEAK" contactor unit with rare clock dial railway time keeper, 8.5cm high View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 34 c.1960s three vintage airline carry-on bags, PAN AM, NAC and AIR INDIA. View details Quantity3Estimate$100 - $200StatusUnsold Lot 35 LAUDA AIR (1:45 scale) Boeing 767-300ER, on chrome swivel stand, 136cm long, 122cm wingspan View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot 36 BRITISH AIRWAYS (1:24 scale) BAC 1-11 in Landor colours by Space Models on chrome stand with original box, 137cm long, 123cm wingspan View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot 37 ALITALIA (1:50) DC8-42 display model B on stand by Belplast-Milano, 94cm long, 84cm wingspan View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 38 ROYAL JET (1:25) Gulfstream G300 display model by Curuature UK on timber base, 56cm long, 47cm wingspan View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 39 CONCORDE: Promotional display colour photograph poster, block mounted, circa 1970s, 104 x 113cm View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 40 QANTAS: c.1960 group of 17 in-flight menus in two sizes (20.50 x 18cm or 25.50 x 20cm), each with a tipped-in facsimile view of Sydney from the mid 19th century, the insides showing a contemporary photographic image of the same view. View details Quantity17Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 41 Late 20th century aviation safety instruction cards, QANTAS, EMIRATES, AMERICAN AIRLINES and others. View details Quantity28Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 42 Eleven assorted aviation T-shirts including ANSETT, RYAN AIR, US AIR, CONTINENTAL AIRLINES and BOAC. View details Quantity12Estimate$80 - $100Price Realized$60StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 43 "Sir Hubert Wilkins M.C. 1888-1958" by aviation historian E.A. Crome (1983) an original manuscript/typescript being copy No 2 of only three compiled, hardbound with 51 single-sided typed and illustrated pages. A fascinating biography on the life of Wilkins as a war correspondent, photographer, polar explorer, naturalist, geographer and aviator. The only example we have seen. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolL Lot 44 A small library of aviation books, (23 items) View details Quantity23Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$40StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 45 THE FIRST AIRMAIL IN AUSTRALIA - June 1914 16 June 1914 (AAMC.1) Melbourne - Bendigo - Ballarat, real photo postcard flown by French aviator, Maurice Guillaux, signed and endorsed by him (in French) with a greeting to the mayor of Ballarat. Superb condition. View details Estimate$25,000 - $30,000Price Realized$20,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolPC Lot 46 9 June 1914 (AAMC.1a) Bendigo - Ballarat letter from D.Andrew (Mayor) on 'City of Bendigo' letterhead to "His Worship the Mayor of Ballaarat" flown by Maurice Guillaux in his Bleriot monoplane with added message in French including "...j'avoir transporte le premier en Australie un lettre" ("I have carried the first letter in Australia"), signed "M. Guillaux" at upper left, undercatalogued at $15000.Ex Frommer, sold for $33600 in the September 2016 sale of his Grand Prix Pioneer Australian ... View details Estimate$25,000 - $30,000Price Realized$20,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolL Lot 47 June 1914 (AAMC.2) Melbourne - Sydney Official Souvenir postcards for proposed first official airmail flight by 'Wizard' Stone which was cancelled following a crash on 1 June which extensively damaged the plane and badly injured Stone, the cards subsequently carried by rail with the Kangaroo 1d tied by 'SYDNEY/AU24/NSW/1914' roller cancels on arrival, the former with 'WIZARD STONE' crossed out and replaced by manuscript 'Guillaux Pilot', the latter with Frommer 'TF' marking. View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500StatusCLOSED! SymbolC Lot 48 16 July 1914 (AAMC.3) Melbourne - Sydney Maurice Guillaux Official Souvenir PPC flown on first Australian official airmail with 1d Roo tied 'AUSTRALIAN/MELBOURNE/16-JUL-1914/VIC/AERIAL MAIL' d/s and 'SYDNEY/18JL14/64' arrival alongside. Cat $750. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolPC Lot 49 16 July 1914 (AAMC.3) Melbourne - Sydney souvenir postcard (#55) flown by Maurice Guillaux. View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolPC Lot 50 20-27 February 1917 (AAMC.12) Hamilton to Melbourne flown souvenir card, carried by Basil Watson in his home-built bi-plane. With a delightful hand-written message referring to the much anticipated flight. Unusually fine condition. Cat.$600. View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusCLOSED! SymbolPC Lot 51 20-27 February 1917 (AAMC.13) Casterton to Melbourne flown souvenir card, carried by Basil Watson in his home-built bi-plane. With a delightful hand-wrirren message referring to Watson's flying exhibition and the fact that the writer has taken a "snap" of him. Unusually fine condition. Cat.$600. View details Estimate$350 - $400StatusCLOSED! SymbolPC Lot 52 Feb.1917 (AAMC.14) Camperdown - Melbourne special postcard flown by Basil Watson. [66 flown]. The rarest despatch of the series.Provenance: The Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, Leski Auctions, March 2008. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,250StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolPC Lot 53 October 1917 (AAMC.14e) Money is a Good Soldier Liberty Loan leaflet with imprint of Albert J. Mullett, Govt. Printer, Melb., dropped over Melbourne by aircraft of the Australian Flying Corps based at Point Cook. War Loan leaflets were also dropped. Fine & scarce. Provenance: John Crowe View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$550StatusSold SymbolD Lot 54 4 Aug.1919 (AAMC.19) Major Norman Brearley in an Avro biplane dropped a batch of advertising postcards for Charles Moore & Co over Perth and suburbs. [This example is one of 6 known.] Provenance: Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, March 2008, Lot 23 : $3260 incl. BP. View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolPC 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. View details Estimate$450 - $550StatusCLOSED! SymbolPC Lot 56 6 Aug.1919 (AAMC.21b) Adelaide - Minlaton Harry View details Estimate$500 - $600StatusCLOSED! SymbolPC 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. View details Estimate$350 - $400StatusCLOSED! SymbolPC Lot 58 Aug.1919 (AAMC.22aa.) Adelaide - Minlaton flights by Harry Butler: Aug.1919 (AAMC.22aa) souvenir postcard prepared for the flights. Unused. View details Estimate$150 - $200StatusCLOSED! SymbolC 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. View details Estimate$2,800 - $3,200Price Realized$2,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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 View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$21,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC PC 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. View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$20,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolPC 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. View details Estimate$10,000 - $15,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSold SymbolD 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 View details Estimate$5,000 - $6,000Price Realized$4,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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. View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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 View details Estimate$10,000 - $12,500Price Realized$9,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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. View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$7,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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." View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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 View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolPC 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..." View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$6,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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. View details Estimate$15,000 - $20,000Price Realized$14,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Symbol** 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. View details Estimate$9,000 - $12,000Price Realized$8,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Symbol** 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. View details Estimate$7,000 - $9,000StatusCLOSED! Symbol* 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. View details Estimate$8,000 - $10,000Price Realized$22,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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. View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Price Realized$20,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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. View details Estimate$3,200 - $3,600Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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. View details Estimate$1,800 - $2,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC 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. View details Estimate$1,500 - $1,750Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolPS 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. View details Estimate$900 - $1,200StatusCLOSED! Symbol* 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. View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,000StatusCLOSED! SymbolPC Lot 81 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 and is signed by the pilot. Excellent condition. [Eustis says "Only four cards known". His example, unsigned by Carey, sold for $4000 + commission in our auction of March 2008.] Provenance: John View details Estimate$3,500 - $4,000StatusCLOSED! SymbolPC Lot 82 10 Aug.1920 (AAMC.48) Melbourne - Hamilton cover, flown by Captain E.W. Leggatt for The Herald & Weekly Times. A special "Herald Air Mail" vignette in brown was issued; unusually (and apparently uniquely) this cover bears 2 examples of the vignette; one tied by the Post Office re-sealing tape used in conjunction with a boxed "UNCLAIMED AT HAMILTON' h/stamp. [700 flown, but it is believed only about 50 now exist.]. Provenance: The Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, Leski Auctions, March 2008. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC Lot 83 10 Aug.1920 (AAMC.48c, Frommer 3b) The Herald & Weekly Times experimental flight Melbourne - Hamilton, 'Herald Air Mail' vignette in brown, complete block 2*/2** with selvedge (rare, only 3 blocks known to exist). View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000StatusCLOSED! Symbol** * Lot 84 27 Aug.1920 (AAMC.50) Serpentine to Melbourne aerial derby to advertise the Second Peace Loan, cover to Rochester endorsed for Peace Loan Aerial Mail bearing KGV 1½d cancelled upon arrival at Melbourne, handstamped with the violet boxed cachet CARRIED BY SECOND PEACE / LOAN AERIAL MAIL, fine and scarce. Cat.$1,000. View details Estimate$750 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! SymbolC Lot 85 THE UNIQUE "PALS" FLIGHT COVER: 27 Sept.1920 (AAMC.51) Melbourne - Longreach - Melbourne self-addressed cover, flown by R. Graham Carey for The Herald & Weekly Times, to publicise their "Pals" boys magazine. With special red "Pals Air Mail" vignette tied by MELBOURNE roller datestamp. Provenance: Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, March 2008, Lot 61 : $9,320 incl. BP. View details Estimate$6,000 - $8,000Price Realized$6,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC Lot 86 27 Sept. 1920 (AAMC.51ba) Melbourne-Longreach-Melbourne Pals "A Message From The Clouds" advertising leaflet showing the Aeroplane dropped from the Maurice Farman Shorthorn biplane flown by RG Carey on the Herald and Weekly Times promotional flight to the Gulf of Carpentaria, endorsed 'Dropped from Pals aeroplane Port Melbourne 27/9/20' on back, Cat $650. Ex Frommer, sold for $960 in the September 2016 sale of his Grand Prix Pioneer Australian Air Mails Collection. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolD Lot 87 Sept. 1920 (AAMC.51c) "Pals" Air Mail vignettes; a horizontal pair with selvedge at sides and base and full gum. Multiples are scarce. (2) Cat.$400+ View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusCLOSED! Symbol* Lot 88 23 Sept.1920 original typed letter on The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd. letterhead, from the News Editor, S. Kingsbury, to Graham Carey, the pilot; "...In connection with the flight of the "Pals" aeroplane.....if there is anything really good send up to 200 words, but do not use urgent wires unless news is sensational..." Provenance: Nelson Eustis View details Estimate$500 - $600Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolD Lot 89 27 Sept.1920 (AAMC.51e; Frommer 4b) "Pals Air Mail" labels, mint sheetlet comprising 4 units surrounded by selvedge on all sides; as issued. Some perf. re-inforcement. Fewer than 4 sheetlets believed to survive.Provenance: The Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, Leski Auctions, March 2008. View details Estimate$4,000 - $5,000Price Realized$3,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Symbol* Lot 90 27 Sept.1920 (AAMC.51e, Frommer 4b) For the "Herald & Weekly Times" promotional flight from Melbourne to Longreach for "Pals" boy's magazine, 'Pals Air Mail' vignettes in red were prepared; a complete block of 4 with selvedge; extremely rare, with only 4 such blocks believed to exist. Provenence: F.W. Hill, Tom Frommer View details Estimate$5,000 - $6,000StatusCLOSED! Symbol* Lot 91 May 1921 (AAMC.52a) A "Palm Car" advertising leaflet dropped by Graham Carey, "Special Aerial Representative of Palm Cars", printed by Riall Bros, Port Melbourne. 32 x 23cm. Provenance: Nelson Eustis Gold Medal Collection, March 2003, Lot 67 : $1,515 incl. BP. View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolD Lot 92 30 Sept.1921 (AAMC.55) Adelaide - Alice Springs cover to Unley, SA carried by Francis Birtles and pilot Lt FS Briggs in a DH4 on their Railway Commission survey flight, franked with KGV 2d orange tied Adelaide '27OCT21' roller cancel on arrival also tieing Northern Territory 'Stamp Duty' 1d violet with manuscript date '20/10/21' affixed alongside on face, plus 1939 letter from Birtles authenticating cover as 'most likely sent from Alice Springs or Charlotte Waters'; one of only three items known View details Estimate$2,600 - $3,000Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC Lot 93 4 Dec.1921 Perth - Derby (AAMC.56a) Jas A Dimmett Motor Accessories Castrol Oil advertising cover carried by Western Australian Airways on the inaugural flight of Australia's first regular airmail service with 3d Kangaroo (surface fault) and KGV 2d orange tied PERTH cancels, paying domestic letter rate plus 3d airmail surcharge, black 'PERTH DERBY/4DE21/AERIAL MAIL' skeleton cachet on face, 'DERBY/20DEC21/WESTN AUSTRALIA' arrival datestamp on reverse, Cat. $1100. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC Lot 94 4 Dec.1921 (AAMC.56a & 57a) Perth - Derby flight, Hamilton, Macrae, Ltd long merchant cover to Broome flown by Western Australian Airways on inaugural flight of Australia's first regular airmail service only as far as Geraldton where suspended due to fatal crash, flown back to Perth and most items forwarded by the steamer SS Bambra, however this item carried on subsequent non-contract "special aerial mails" flight by Major Brearley and Lt Charles Kingsford-Smith leaving Perth 14 Dec (AAMC.57a) View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC Lot 95 17 April 1922 (AAMC.64) Geelong - Melbourne flown cover carried on the return flight of the Herald & Weekly Times experimental service with KGV 2d red and blue 'Herald/Air Mail' label (Frommer #5a) affixed alongside; tied by Geelong machine cancel. Cat $1500. View details Estimate$900 - $1,200Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC Lot 96 April 1922 (AAMC.64a) "Herald" Air Mail vignettes; a horizontal pair with selvedge at left & top, mint with full gum. Multiples are scarce. (2). Cat.$400++ View details Estimate$400 - $500StatusCLOSED! Symbol** Lot 97 17 Apr.1922 (AAMC.64c, Frommer 5b) For the "Herald & Weekly Times" experimental air mail flight from Melbourne - Geelong & return, a 'Herald Air Mail' vignette in blue was prepared; a very rare complete block of 4 with selvedge, MUH. It is believed that fewer than 5 blocks survive.Provenance: Tom Frommer View details Estimate$5,000 - $6,000Price Realized$4,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Symbol** Lot 98 THE FIRST AIRMAIL DELIVERY FLIGHTS BY QANTAS: 2 Nov.1922 (AAMC.65) Charleville - Cloncurry cover, flown by P.J. McGinness and Hudson Fysh on the first Qantas regular air mail service on this route. The first vignette for an air service in Australia, produced by QANTAS, is affixed at upper left and is tied by the KGV 1d adhesive and postmark, with 2d (x2) additional adhesives alongside. Extremely scarce and a "foundation" piece in any serious collection of Australian pioneer aerophilately. Prov View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Price Realized$7,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC Lot 99 5 Nov.1922 (AAMC.66) Cloncurry - Charleville cover flown by QANTAS on the first return airmail delivery flight over this route and bearing the extremely rare "FOR AERIAL TRANSMISSION" red on white vignette. Flown by Hudson Fysh (Cloncurry - Longreach) and P.J. McGinness (Longreach - Charleville) and addressed to C.G.Grey, editor of "The Aeroplane" in London. Of the approximately 15 covers known from these inaugural Qantas flights, 2 are recorded to N.Z. addresses and this one to G.B. View details Estimate$8,000 - $12,000Price Realized$7,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolC Lot 100 circa Jan.1923 (Frommer 7b) Qantas black/pale blue green 'BY AIR MAIL' vignette: exploded booklet comprising three vertical panes of 6 (each with top selvedge) illustrating the two types of font used. Two "intact" booklets are recorded, but neither of them has all four strips of vignettes. Provenance: Tom Frommer, May 2005, Leski Auctions Lot 34 : $3,030. View details Estimate$2,000 - $2,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history SymbolB Items per page 102550100 Previous|123|Next Previous 123 Next Previous 123 Next
