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1931, Pattist flight Amsterdam - Batavia - Australia: Mail from Ireland: registered cover with special diamond shaped cachet "ABEL TASMAN 11. MEI 1931 BATAVIA-CENTRUM", dispatched from Dublin via Amsterdam and Batavia to Melbourne, with transit and arrival marks on the reverse, very rare, only 2 covers (both registered) from Ireland are known, very fine

1920, The 'Nationen' Airmail cachet on red on cover to Kristiania, fine, Moldenhauer certificate

Trial Airmail Flights Bergen -  Haugesund - Stavanger, cover from "BERGEN 20.VIII29" to Stavanger with adjacent "Luftpost", vertical and horizontal fold, otherwise fine, scarce (Muller.-Nr. 7a)

1927, Fredreksen - Wichmann Polar Flight, two picture postcards, both franked with two 1Ø stamps with red handstamp and 10Ø green, tied by cds. "STALHEIM 23 VIII 27" resp. "SPITZBERGEN 16 VIII 27", fine

First flight Horten - Norderney, card to Cuxhafen with special machine cancellation "HORTEN 28.II.27  LUFTPOST HORTEN-HARWICH" and special red arrival cachet "Mit Luftpost befördert. Flug-.P.A. Norderney", one of the few items, addressed to Cuxhafen, flown on the first flight, March 2nd, from Horten to Norderney, very rare, fine

1928, Flight Portugal - United States, cover addressed to Miss Olive Courtney (presumably the sister of the captain) in Montreal Canada, with six-line cachet "PRIMEIRO CORREIO AEREO TRANSATLANTICO LISBOA-AMERICAN JUNHO 1928" and Frank Courtney's 11-line affidavit describing the flight, fire at sea and the rescue. In New York the affidavid was duly notarised by Ada Harrison, Notary Public, very fine, and to our knowledge the only cover in existence (Muller.-Nr. 6)

FAR EASTERN REPUBLIC: 1922, definitives overprinted "Vladivostok 1923", 20 k. on 1 k. orange imperforated, unused, very fine, signed Jem an Buchsbayew AIEP certificate

OFFICIAL STAMPS: 1922, 12 and 24 m., unused very fine, scarce, signed Buchsbayew and others

20 on 50 k. brown-lilac/green, unused, very fine, scarce, signed Jem and Buchsbayew AIEP certificate

1930, Graf Zeppelin 40 and 80 k. imperforated with right resp. left sheet margin, mint never hinged, 80 k. with thinning on front of sheet margin, otherwise fine, signed Soviet Philatelic Association

1931, Zeppelin 50 k.  violet brown, imperforated horizontal pair, pos. 7-8, cancelled to order as always Tula 28.4.43, handstamped "D" with Mikulski certificate. A major color variety from the Soviet Union, only 24 issued (used to be Mi.400 Fb)

1933, Lewanewskij flight 1 r. on registered Rosenberg cover from "MOSKWA 27.8.35" to Berlin with arrival mark, scarce, signed Mikulski certificate

1937, Moscow - North America Flight via Pole, three large photographs (approx. 160x225mm) of M.M. Gromow, A.B. Yumashev and S.A. Danilin, all personally signed, fine

1914, Flight Öland - Kalmar, franked picture postcard from the return flight addressed to Stockholm, with adjacent red cachet "LUFTPOST öfverfördt or aeroplan ad D:r THULIN fran Kalmar till Öland den 7. eller 8. Feb. 1914", few minor creases, otherwise very fine and scarce with only about 30 pieces flown, Nielsen certificate (Muller-Nr. 4a; Lüning 14B)

1920, Luftpost 20 Ø with watermark 1, unused, very fine, Obermüller Wilen certificate

1923, First attempted mail-carrying Glider Flight Hälsingborg - Helsingor, franked picture postcard from "HALSINGBORG 25.8.23" to Haderslev with adjacent special postmark and special three line cachet "MED MOTORLÖST AEROPLAN". Originally 50 cards and covers were taken on board before the first attempt, it is not known how many items were salvaged after the repaeted failures, only a handful still exists today, very fine

1913, Airmail Laufen-Solothurn 50 c. green with additional franking tied by special cancellation "SCHWEIZ. FLUGPOST LAUFEN SOLOTHURN 28.9.13" and cds. to specially printed postcard (Borrer with his Ponnier-Hanriot monoplane), some very minor abrasion on the card, otherwise very fine, Marchand certificate

Airmail Lugano-Mendrisio, mint never hinged, very fine, Rellstab SBPV/BPP certificate

Lugano-Mendrisio 25 c., type I, with additional franking tied by special cancellation "POSTA AEREA SVIZZERA LUGANO" to specially printed postcard (flying allegory with ticino coat of arms and torch), address rewritten, otherwise very fine, signed Bühler and Marchand certificate

Sitten-Sienders  50 c. carmine on chalky paper with additional franking tied by special cancellation "POSTE AERIENNE SUISSE 18.V.13" to picture postcard to Brienz, very fine, Marchand certificate

Solothurn-Weissenstein 50 c. dark carmine with additional franking tied by special cancellation "Schweizer Flug-Post Solothurn-Weissenstein" and cds. to specially printed postcard (Borrer with passenger Labarre before departure), somewhat rough perforation, otherwise very fine

Olten-Oensingen 50 c. dark green, imperforated special print on gummed paper, good margins all round, very fine and scarce, Rellstab certificate

1913, Aviation Day Vevey, Flight Vevey - Villenueve,  special picture postcard "Pour la Patrie" with special red cachet an "POSTE AÉRIENNE VEVEY 22.VI.13" and franking, 5 rp. stamp cancelled upon arrival "VILLENEUVE 22.VI.12", stamp affixed around the edge, otherwise fine, very scarce (Muller.-Nr. 76)

1926, First Flight Madrid-Manila, pre-printed cover with special 2-line cachet "PRIMER CORREO AEREO MADRID-MANILA", reverse with two large arrival cachets, only 16 covers were carried with this flight, slight vertical fold, otherwise very fine and rare (Muller.-Nr. 21)

1919, William Knox Martin-First Experimental Flight from Barranquilla to Puerto Colombia, 2 c. carmine-rose, unused, very fine, a scarce stamp

2 c. in excellent condition, tied by "BARRANQUILLA JUN 18 1919" to cover (opened on 2 sides) to Puerto Colombia with arrival mark on front, partly on stamp, Sociedad Filatélica Argentina certificate

ISSUES OF CCNA: 1920, multicolores 'Clouds and small Biplane' 10 c., good margins all round and of excellent colour, unused as issued, very fine, Rendon and Diena certificates

'Tilted Plane' 10 c., good margins all round and of excellent colour, unused, thinned and small corner crease, otherwise fine, Bloch certificate

'Flier in Plane watching Biplane' 10 c., good margins all round and of excellent colour, unused as issued, very fine, signed Kessler and PF certificate

'Lighthouse' 10 c., good margins all round and of excellent colour, unused as issued, very fine, signed Bloch with certificate

'Fuselage & Tail of Biplane' 10 c., good margins all round and of excellent colour, with clear "CCNA / Cartagena" oval cachet in violet, very fine and scarce, certificate Holcombe

'Condor on Cliff' 10 c., close to good margins all round and of excellent colour, with clear "CCNA / Cartagena" oval cachet in violet, very fine, PF certificate

'Plane at rest, pilot foreground' 10 c., good margins all round and of excellent colour, unused, small crease at bottom, otherwise fine, Diena certificate

'Condor on Cliff' 10 c. with additional surcharge " - 30 CVS. -", tied by fancy oval cachet "Cia de Navegacion Aerea Agencia Barranquila" to cover front from Cartagena to Barranquilla. Only very few coversof these commemorative covers are known to exist, they do not bear the 3 c. goverment stamp for the pre-payment of the regular postage. All these covers are signed by J. Soto with the hand-written inscription "Recuerdo del primer correo aereo de Cartagena Febrero 21 de 1920", stamp with good margins and just touched at lower left, otherwise very fine, extremely rare, Holcombe certificate

ESSAY: 1928 (?), Air mail 10 c. blue-green, prepared by Military Geographic Dept., mint never hinged, very fine, certificate Rendon AIEP (Sanabria #EA)

1919, First postal Flight between Tokyo and Osaka 3 s. rose tied by special red cachet "TOKYO 8.10.4" to cover with arrival mark, fine and scarce