| COVERS — United States |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 1562 |  | 1845 stampless folded letter via ship Hoffingner to Italy with lots of interesting markings on front and back, vertical crease. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $55.00 |
| 1563 | | (85) 3˘ “D” grill franked on corner ad cover. Tied with a FEB 18 NEW-YORK fancy cancel. The cover has been reduced at left, with some pencil notations at lower left. The stamp has a couple short perfs and is centered Fine. | Cat. Value: Catalog 1150.00
Price Realized: $95.00 |
| 1564 | | (85B) Three "Z grill" Blackjacks and one three cent 1861 pay the heavy letter rate to Topeka, Kansas from St. Louis, Missouri. Contained a letter documenting the results of a Bankruptcy case. Filed November 12, 1868. Stamps roughed up a bit and now flat on the bottom, but still a good example of a triple rate cover, let alone that the stamps alone catalog $3,300.00. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $180.00 |
| 1565 | | (C2) 16˘ 1918 airmail issue franked on a New York to Chicago first flight cover. Tied with magenta circular cancel. Few wrinkles, reverse flap fault, F-VF. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $55.00 |
| 1566 | | (C15) $2.60 1930 Zeppelin franked on a round trip flight cover. Tied with a Varick St Sta. April 30, 1930 machine cancel. Couple handstamps on the front, green Lakehurst receiving cancel on the reverse. Cover has a few minor wrinkles, and a little dull. The stamp is centered Fine. | Cat. Value: Catalog 575.00
Price Realized: $190.00 |
| 1567 | | (C18 x3) Three 50˘ 1930 airmail issues franked on a Zeppelin flight cover. “By Steamer to Germany” handstamp at upper left couple other Graf Zeppelin handstamps on the front. Two Chicago receiving cancels on the reverse. Few trivial wrinkles, F-VF. | Cat. Value: Catalog 175.00
Price Realized: $60.00 |
| 1568 | | (C18) tied on flown cover to Akron with receiving cds. on back F-VF. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $44.00 |
| 1569 | | Pioneer flight cover from 1912. Rare example ("only four known"), ("less than ten pieces known to exist today") of the Marietta Daily Journal Aviation Meet cancel on flown card. May 16, 1912. On that day Lincoln Beachey, the postmaster and pilot of a Curtiss biplane, transported a sack of mail from the Marietta County Fairgrounds to the town's post office, depicted on the front side of the card, a trip of about 4 miles. This postmark listed in the American Air Mail Catalog as "number 23 pioneer flight cancel" is rare and desirable. Lightly soiled, but clean, readable strike of this scarce souvenir. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1200.00
Price Realized: $550.00 |
| 1570 | | Graf Zeppelin complete trip Round the World Flight cachet postal card and cover both cancelled in New York on August 5 and 6, 1929 respectively. Both were cancelled in Lakehurst on August 29. The card is further back stamped Washington. D. C. on August 29. The cover was posted with a Scott #547. From an original collection just coming onto the market. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $200.00 |
| 1571 | | Graf Zeppelin Flight official cachet cover autographed by Commanders J. Richardson and C. E. Rosendahl official observers for the American government on the Graf Zeppelin. This cover was intended to make the complete trip around the world. It was cancelled in New York on August 6, 1929, Los Angeles on August 26, and Lakewood N. J. on August 29. It does not bear the usual Lakehurst cancel which indicates that it was dropped at Los Angeles. An exhibit or collection worthy postal history cover. From an original collection just coming onto the market. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $110.00 |
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