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Auction: 171 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 298

France "Airplane Over Marseille" – the first French airmail exhibit collection, a single frame exhibit showing the genesis of the Airplane Over Marseille issue, being the first French stamp conceived and produced specifically for general airmail usage, replete with scarce material including pre-production items, the exhibit includes a 1f50 die proof of the unadopted design, sunk on yellowish paper with punch holes at bottom, 1f50 bi-colored die essay in red and brown, omitting the carrier pigeon shown in the adopted design, on glazed paper, 1f50 color proof in carmine of the adopted design, die sunk on yellowish paper, 1f50 carmine on First Day Cover from the first flight between Vincennes to Casablanca, as well as usages to foreign destinations including Indo-China, Costa Rica, and Austria, 1f50 carmine and 1f50 ultramarine First Day Cover with Paris Exposition c.d.s., 1f50 ultramarine "EIPA30" perfin on Aero Club of France First Flight card to the Aero-Club of Belgium, as well as on a lovely exhibition souvenir postcard, accompanied by Drouot certificate, a scarce 1f50 ultramarine coin date block with "EIPA30" perfin, from the lower left corner of the sheet, cancelled on the last day of the exhibition, n.h. with expert signatures, 1f50 ultramarine with inverted perfin, the rare "EIPA30" perfin (reversed) on 1f50 carmine, never hinged, with Calves certificate; a rare 1f50 carmine "EIPA30" perfin on cover cancelled at the Paris Exposition on the First Day of Issue, with Drouot certificate, 1931 1f50 blue reprinting sunken die proof from the Atelier, and nine further covers showing the stamp’s usage on advertising, postage due and interesting destination covers including to Argentina and Cuba; a lovely and desirable collection.

Sold for
$5,250