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lot # 516 - the lawrence hoard worldwide cover collections

Friday Jun 27, 2014 09:00 America/New_York

Worldwide, Airmail Postal History Assortment, 1920s-50s.Group of 63 interesting covers, and therefore saleable such as Canada 1928 experimental flight Edmonton to Winnipeg, 1930 first flight Charlottetown-Moncton, 1931 Winnipeg -Pembina cover with a black cachet showing the crossed flags of Canada & U.S., 1935 first official flight Berems River to Winnipeg; Great Britain two covers transported by Imperial Airways in the 1930s; Hong Kong 1937 first flight FAM14 to San Francisco; Macao 1937 first flight to Hawaii; India first airmail Calcutta-Karachi; Liechtenstein 1930 cover with C1-6 & 1935 cover with C11 & C14; Mexico three first flight covers (1928 Mexico-Nuevo Laredo, 1929 Mexico-Tijuana & 1933 Guadalajara-Puerto Vallarta); New Zealand 1934 first official air mail from New Zealand to Australia & 1940 air mail service to Hawaii; United States 1931 Wilkins-Ellsworth Trans-Arctic Submarine Expedition cover with U.S. & Norway franking. We also noted Austria, Iraq & Switzerland representations, plus German 1935 catapult cover to Los Angeles and several other that deserve your attention. An ideal holding for internet lots, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate $750 - 1,000.