Catalogue Click for Auction info

Tom Frommer’s Grand Prix Pioneer Australian Air Mails (#116MG) Closed

Auction Info

Lot 401920 (Aug 10) Melbourne-Hamilton #48 cover carried by Capt EW Leggatt of Aviation Ltd for "Herald & Weekly Times" with KGV 1½d brown and fine example of brown "Herald/Air Mail" label (Frommer #3a) affixed alongside both tied by 'HAMILTON/2/11AU20/VIC' arrival datestamp, a storm having forced the plane down at Willaura with flight completed the next day, Cat $1800.[Eustis states approx 700 items flown but that "...only about 50 covers now exist"; it appears the number surviving is significa...

Click image to enlarge
Lot closed - Price Realized:$1,700
Estimate: $2,000

Tom Frommer’s Grand Prix Pioneer Australian Air Mails (#116MG) Closed

Auction Info

  • 1920 (Aug 10) Melbourne-Hamilton #48 cover carried by Capt EW Leggatt of Aviation Ltd for "Herald & Weekly Times" with KGV 1½d brown and fine example of brown "Herald/Air Mail" label (Frommer #3a) affixed alongside both tied by 'HAMILTON/2/11AU20/VIC' arr
  • 1920 (Aug 10) Melbourne-Hamilton #48 cover carried by Capt EW Leggatt of Aviation Ltd for "Herald & Weekly Times" with KGV 1½d brown and fine example of brown "Herald/Air Mail" label (Frommer #3a) affixed alongside both tied by 'HAMILTON/2/11AU20/VIC' arr - 2
  • 1920 (Aug 10) Melbourne-Hamilton #48 cover carried by Capt EW Leggatt of Aviation Ltd for "Herald & Weekly Times" with KGV 1½d brown and fine example of brown "Herald/Air Mail" label (Frommer #3a) affixed alongside both tied by 'HAMILTON/2/11AU20/VIC' arr - 3