Lot
752
$1,000.00
Lot Type: C
Australia 1933 (11 Jan) second Trans-Tasman flight cover, "Southern Cross" piloted & signed by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. 3d & 2d Australia stamps tied by "Gerringcong 10 JA 33 cds". New Plymouth 14 JA 33 receiving pmk, addressed locally, then readdressed Wellington & Melbourne. Typed details of flight on back flap. Trivial creases & opening tears. Unofficial cover 1 of only 20 flown. A rare item of early Trans-Tasman aerophilately. AAMC 296. Cat A$1750.
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Lot
753
$1,500.00
Lot Type: C
NZ 1919 Dargaville-Auckland Walsh Bros & Dexter FFC (NZAMC 4b); 1920 Auckland - Kaitaia airmail (NZAMC 15e) & 1892 ½d Austin Walsh postal stationery cigarette card mint. Also 1911 (11 Sept) First UK Aerial Post, folded, taxed 1d to pay, p/c to NZ (NZAMC 1b).
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Lot
754
$1,250.00
Lot Type: C
NZ 1921 Christchurch-Timaru (-Dunedin) Aerial Mail cacheted first flight (31 Jan) cover & 1921 (22 Feb) Ashburton-Christchurch (-Leithfield) Aerial Mail endorsed front (NZAMC cat $2750).
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Lot
755
$750.00
Lot Type: C
NZ 1921 pioneer experimental airmail service by Canterbury Aviation Co, cover Timaru-Christchurch with ½d Victory & 7½d GV (2d + 6d air fee), canc Timaru cds 6 AP 21. 1.45PM. H/s "AERIAL POST.". To Verne & Co, Chch. B/s "BCA/AIRFIELD" guarantee h/s. Vert central fold, otherwise fine cond. NZAMC 27e. Cat $1250.
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Lot
756
$1,000.00
Southern Cross crew signatures (C Kingsford Smith, C T Ulm, H A Litchfield & T H McWilliams) on framed ephemera, annotated "AUTOGRAPHS …. WHO FLEW PACIFIC OCEAN 1928", but believed to have been signed upon arrival at Wigram.
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Lot
757
$2,300.00
Lot Type: C
NZ 1930-50 1st & special flight covers colln of 107 diff (internal & external), mostly 1930-39 period, all identified by NZ Airmail Catalogue No's (pencilled on back). Noted many better items cat to $200 each (NZAMC 80c); approx 70, cat $40 or above. Pilot-signed x 13. Mostly fine cond. Total cat $5200. Ex Horrell.
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Lot
758
$200.00
Lot Type: C
NZ-Baghdad & NZ 1932 Cairo first acceptance covers (NZAMC78a, 78c) 48 & 50 covers flown, respectively. (NZAMC cat $400).
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Lot
759
$575.00
Lot Type: C
NZ 1935 Duke of Gloucester Royal Tour special flight Wellington-Longbeach Station (16 Jan 1935) signed by pilot Flt Lt M W Buckley. One of 4 known. Good condition. NZAMC 115c. Cat $1000.
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