Australia, 1935 (Aug 11), Wreck Rocket Mail. Cover sent from the S.S. Maheno to Fraser Island, with green vignette tied by pinkish-red dated cachet cancellers. Signed by Y. Tanaka, the master of S.S. Maheno. 750 covers carried. (Eustis R3), Very Fine.
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Lot #7143 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1935 (Aug 11), Wreck Rocket Mail. Cover sent from the S.S. Maheno to Fraser Island, with green vignette tied by pinkish-red dated cachet cancellers. 750 covers carried. Signed by Y. Tanaka, Master of the Maheno. His signature adds a substantial premium. (Eustis R3), Very Fine.
Lot #7144 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1935 (Aug 11), Wreck Rocket Mail. Cover sent from Fraser Island to the S.S. Maheno with red triangle vignette tied by purple dated cachet. Cover additionally signed by Y. Tanaka, the Master of the Maheno. Tanaka's signature adds a substantial premium. Total of 750 covers were carried. (Eustis R2), Very Fine.
Lot #7145 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1935 (Aug 11), Wreck Rocket Mail. Cover sent from Fraser Island to the S.S. Maheno with red triangle vignettes tied by purple dated cachets. Total of 750 covers were carried. (Eustis R2), Very Fine.
Lot #7146 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1936 (Feb 24), Postponed Jubilee Firing of the Rocket "Orion". "Brisbane 25.FE.36" registration cancel ties two stamps, registration etiquette, addressed Brisbane. Red vignette tied by purple dated cachet. Additional boxed "Experiment Postponed/Rocket fired 24-2-36" in purple and red boxed "Mail Damaged/by Water", all on front. Scarce, only 400 envelopes were carried. Signed by the rocketeer A.H. Young. (Eustis R5b), Very...
Lot #7147 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1936 (Feb 24), Postponed Jubilee Firing of the Rocket "Orion". Red vignette tied by purple dated cachet. Additional boxed "Experiment Postponed/Rocket fired 24-2-36" in purple and red boxed "Mail Damaged/By Water", all on front. Scarce, #98 of 400 envelopes carried. Signed by rocketeer A.H. Young which adds a substantial premium., Very Fine.
Lot #7148 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1936 (Feb 24), Postponed Jubilee Firing of the Rocket "Orion". Red vignette tied by purple dated cachet. Additional boxed "Experiment Postponed/Rocket fired 24-2-36" in purple and red boxed "Mail Damaged/by Water", all on front. Scarce, only 400 envelopes were carried. (Eustis R5a), Very Fine.
Lot #7149 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1936 (July 13), Australian Rocket Society Firing of the RT6. Blue flimsy sent on the RT6, the first successful rocket experiment. Brown triangular vignette tied by dated cachet. Numbered 231 of 299 flown. (Eustis R6), Very Fine.
Lot #7150 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1936 (July 13), Australian Rocket Society Firing of the RT6. Blue flimsy sent on the RT6, the first successful rocket experiment. Brown triangular vignette tied by dated cachet. Numbered 232 of 299 flown (Eustis R6), Very Fine.
Lot #7151 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1937 (March 14), Australian Rocket Society Firing of the Rocket RO3. Appropriately cacheted picture postcard with blue triangular vignette, numbered 53 of 100 cards flown. Picture shows the rocketeer holding his rocket (Eustis R9a), Very Fine.
Lot #7152 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1937 (March 14), Australian Rocket Society Firing of the Rocket RO3. Appropriately cacheted pink flimsy with blue triangular vignette, numbered 341 of 400 flown. (Eustis R9a), Very Fine.
Lot #7153 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1937 (March 14), Australian Rocket Society Firing with Rocket RO3. Violet flight cachet ties blue triangular vignette to reverse of picture postcard depicting the rocketeer holding his rocket. This card numbered 55 of 100 flown (Eustis R9), Very Fine.
Lot #7154 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1937 (March 14), Australian Rocket Society Firing with Rocket RO3. Violet flight cachet ties blue triangular vignette to reverse of picture postcard depicting the rocketeer holding his rocket. This card numbered 54 of 100 flown (Eustis R9), Very Fine.
Lot #7155 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1937 (March 23), Australian Rocket Society Firing of Rocket RZ-2 at Enoggera Rifle Range. Picture postcard with brown triangular vignette tied by appropriate violet cachet, card number 80 out of 100 flown. Picture shows two rocketeers. One holding the rocket and the other holding the parachute (Eustis R10), Very Fine.
Lot #7156 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1937 (March 23) Australian Rocket Society firing of the RZ2, the first Australian parachute rocket. Very clean picture postcard of the rocket and parachute being held by A.H. Young and another engineer with appropriate brown triangular vignette and cachet. Only 100 cards were carried, this one number 79 (Eustis R10), Very Fine.
Lot #7157 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1936 (Sept 24), Firing of the Rocket RT7. Registered cover cacheted flimsy with green triangular vignette tied by red dated cachet canceller. Registration etiquette. Only 50 registered covers flown. Signed by the rocketeer A H Young. (Eustis R7a), Very Fine.
Lot #7158 - world airmail postal history Australia
Australia, 1936 (Sept 24), Firing of the Rocket RT7. Cacheted flimsy with green triangular vignette tied by red dated cachet canceller. #293 of 350 regular covers flown. (Eustis R7), Very Fine.
Lot #7159 - world airmail postal history China
China, 1936 (Feb. 14), cacheted first flight registered cover re-directed to Spain, with three boxed handstamps and a propeller cancel from Canton. Sun Yat Sen and Martyr stamps tied by 12-2-36 Shanghai cancels. Backstamps include Shanghai, Canton, Pyrenees and Barcelona. A well traveled cover.; slight tear at left, Fine to Very Fine.
Lot #7160 - world airmail postal history China
China, 1946, registered airmail cover from Shanghai to New York, with a strip of four of Scott 688 tied by an indistinct Shanghai cancel. Backstamped from California and new York dated Dec. 18 and 20 respectively; slit open at top with piece missing on reverse, Fine to Very Fine.
Lot #7161 - world airmail postal history danzig
Danzig, 1932, Danzig to Friedrichshafen Return Flight, complete set of five surcharged airmail stamps (Scott C31-35, C27) tied to card by "Internationale Luftpost Ausstellung 29.7.32" c.d.s., registration etiquette, green flight confirmation handstamp, addressed Rothenberg Germany, receiving postmark, Very Fine.
Sieger 170B.
Lot #7162 - world airmail postal history germany
Germany, ca. 1910, Embossed Metal Zeppelin postcard, picturing an early airship in Flight over the German countryside with an inset portrait of Count von Zeppelin; said to be made from salvaged aluminum from the remains of the LZ-4, which crashed and burned in August 1908; card features a perforated tab on the message side for standing the card up for display; bit of corrosion (also affecting back), otherwise Fine, very scarce.
Lot #7163 - world airmail postal history macao
Macao, 1937, First Flight to San Francisco, "Macao 28.IV.37" hexagonal cancel ties complete set (Scott C1-6) to front of special airmail envelope with printed map of the route, airmail and registration handstamps, same cancel ties block of 12 (C6) plus strips of six C4-5 plus four other stamps to reverse, San Francisco transit on reverse, New York transit on front, addressed Cedarhurst NY, receiving, Fine to Very Fine.
Lot #7164 - world airmail postal history New Zealand
New Zealand, 1931, Christmas Airmail, Palmerston to Invercargill, "Palmerston 22.DE.31" c.d.s. ties 5d on 3d yellow green airmail to manila envelope, airmail etiquette, red flight cachet, Invercargill transit on reverse, addressed Gore, receiving (Scott C4 / Muller 95), Very Fine.
Lot #7165 - world airmail postal history New Zealand
New Zealand, 1931, Christmas Airmail, Gisborne to Timaru, "Gisborne 24.DE.31" c.d.s. ties 5d on 3d yellow green airmail to blue envelope, airmail etiquette, blue flight cachet, addressed Timaru, receiving on reverse (Scott C4 / Muller 97), Very Fine.
Lot #7166 - world airmail postal history New Zealand
New Zealand, 1931, Christmas Airmail, Palmerston to Timaru, "Palmerston 24.DE.31" c.d.s. ties 5d on 3d yellow green airmail to blue envelope, airmail etiquette, red flight cachet, addressed Timaru, receiving on reverse (Scott C4 / Muller 95), Very Fine.