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Auction: 177 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 119

United States: Postal History Collections & Balances
United States, 1918/1939, Aviation postal history group,
with many better, noting 1918 real photo postcard depicting soldiers surrounding a biplane, postmarked in West Lafayette, Indiana; Boston First Landing in the United States of World Flyers machine cancellation on uprated postal stationery card; unusual 1927 10c Lindbergh (C10) first day cancellation on 2c Canadian postal stationery cover; 1927 10c on 1c postal stationery card carried on the first flight from San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii, addressed to Governor Farrington, endorsed "no air mail sent on Dole Flight"; 1927 First Flight Under Contract Chicago to San Francisco; 1929 First Flight from Miami to Buenos Aires, Argentina, with striking block of eight 5c Air Post (C11); two 1930s registered airmail covers from California and New York to Paraguay; and 1946 "Carried on Atom Bombing Plane "A" Day Bikini, Marshall Islands" 58th Wing cachet with U.S. Navy (1 July) cancellation, a few minor faults but an overall select group, chiefly fine.

Sold for
$450

Starting price
$180