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Auction: 176 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Auction
Lot: 658

Worldwide airmail postal history collection, with hundreds of covers filling eight albums and loose, covering a wide range of pioneer, first flight, and airmail postal history, many albums sorted by theme including WWI Aviators with dozens of British WWI commemorative covers, pioneer aviators, commemorative pieces noting Earhart, Coste-Bellonte, Kingsford-Smith, Wright Brothers, Silver Dart, and much more, with interesting collateral material including vintage photographs, advertising, news clippings, etc, hundreds of first flight and commercial airmail covers from countries as diverse as Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Norway, Hungary, the United States, Canada, South Africa, and Fiji, with airlines including Swissair, Qantas, Australian Airlines, Pan-Am, BOAC, Concorde flights, some earlier items with small faults but a chiefly very fine collection, close inspection warranted with much of value here for the aviation enthusiast

Sold for
$2,100