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Lot	Symbol	CatNo.	Lot Description	CV or Estimate
1101		C13-15	#C13-15, 65c-$2.60 Graf Zeppelins cplt., each is very well centered and fresh, o.g., lightly hinged, extremely fine; a well matched set; #C13 accompanied by a 2005 PF certificate. (imagea) (imageb) (Image)	$1,390.00 SOLD for $1,100.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:12 PM
1102		C13-15	#C13-15, 65c-$2.60 Graf Zeppelins cplt., well centered and margined (especially the first two), rich colors, o.g., n.h., $2.60 with small natural gum crease, $1.30 with tiny natural inclusion, very fine-extremely fine set. (imagea) (imageb) (Image)	$2,100.00 SOLD for $1,400.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:12 PM
1103		C13-15	#C13-15, 65c-$2.60 Graf Zeppelins cplt., well centered and fresh, o.g., lightly hinged, very fine-extremely fine. (imagea) (imageb) (Image)	$1,390.00 SOLD for $1,000.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:12 PM
1104	/	C13-15	#C13-15, 65c-$2.60 Graf Zeppelins cplt., 65c regummed, other two o.g., n.h., $2.60 with natural gum skips and a small natural paper wrinkle at bottom, fine-very fine. (imagea) (imageb) (Image)	$2,140.00 SOLD for $1,150.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:13 PM
1105		C13	#C13, 65c Graf Zeppelin, right sheet-margin single, well centered, strong color, pristine o.g., n.h., very fine; 1990 PF certificate. (Image)	$350.00 SOLD for $230.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:13 PM
1106		C14	#C14, $1.30 Graf Zeppelin, well centered, fresh color, o.g., n.h., choice very fine; 2005 PF certificate. (Image)	$800.00 SOLD for $550.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:14 PM
1107		C14	#C14, $1.30 Graf Zeppelin, plate no. 20088 bottom sheet-margin single, strong rich color, o.g., n.h., very fine. (Image)	$800.00 SOLD for $425.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:14 PM
1108	FDC	C14	#C14, $1.30 Graf Zeppelin, well centered stamp tied to flown first day cover on the return leg of the flight, both Zeppelin cachets as well as a German air post forwarding cachet, backstamped Friedrichshafen on June 6, 1930, very fine; a most unusual and rare first day cover, not only because it was flown on the last return portion of the flight (very unusual), but when the post office processed this cover they cacheted it with the usual outbound cachet, when they realized their mistake (because being addressed to Germany with only $1.30 postage the only leg it could go on was the return flight), they tried to cover up their mistake by scraping away the wrong features of the cachet and touching it up with the same ink from the pad making this most unusual. (Image)	$1,100.00 SOLD for $1,200.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:14 PM
1109		C14	#C14, $1.30 Graf Zeppelin, especially well centered and large margined single, tied to flown cover on the return leg of the Pan-American flight by May 31, 1930 New York Hall Street station duplex, to Germany with Friedrichshafen backstamp, both flight cachets, very fine and choice; also a well centered #C18 on flown cover to Brazil with New York October 2, 1933 first day machine cancel, very fine. (Image)	$600.00 SOLD for $400.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:14 PM
1110	FDC	C15	#C15, $2.60 Graf Zeppelin, attractive single tied to flown first day cover by "Washington, D.C./ Apr 19/ 1930" machine cancel, neatly positioned and well struck flight cachets, backstamped Lakehurst, very fine and pretty cover. (Image)	$1,250.00 SOLD for $475.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:15 PM
1111		C15	#C15, $2.60 Graf Zeppelin, bright and fresh, o.g., l.h., very fine; 2005 PF certificate. (Image)	$700.00 SOLD for $450.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:15 PM
1112	PB	C18	#C18, 50c Graf Zeppelin, full top margin plate no. 21171 block of six, each stamp within the plate being exceptionally well centered with large margins, bright color, o.g., faintly hinged in the ungummed portion of the selvage only, extremely fine; 2005 PF certificate. (Image)	$500.00 SOLD for $500.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:15 PM
1113		C18	#C18, 50c Graf Zeppelin, full top right plate no. 21178 pane of 50, quite fresh, centering ranges from fine to extremely fine, with many well centered and margined stamps present, minor natural gum skips and bend as is the norm for these sheets, overall a very fine pane. (imagea) (Image)	$4,880.00+ SOLD for $3,500.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:16 PM
1114	FDC	C19	#C19, 6c Orange, right sheet-margin single, tied to first day air mail cover by the "Baltimore/MD/Jun 30/1934" duplex, additional 2c tied by Baltimore oval at left to make the 8c rate, this is the true first day of issue, very fine; this is far rarer than its modest catalog value implies as this is often confused with the common July 1st date, which was the first day of the 6c air mail rate; a Fleetwood facsimile tells the story of this FDC noting that only 43 covers were known. (Image)	$200.00 SOLD for $150.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:16 PM
1115		C19	AAMC Lindbergh #103, August 1, 1934 Record Setting Test Flight of Sikorsky S-42, with #C19 tied by Bridgeport, Conn. duplex, proper cachet, cover with light stains in the corners from mounting, fine; one of the scarcest Lindbergh flights. (Image)	AAMC $750.00 SOLD for $150.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:17 PM
1116	FDC	C23	#C23, 6c Dark blue and carmine, four different Crosby cacheted first day covers, includes the Wilbur and Orville Wright from Dayton, Ohio, and two with thermal photographs from St. Petersburg, Fla., the latter two with slight band toning from the gummed portion of the envelope, otherwise very fine. (Image)	Est. 150-200 SOLD for $90.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:17 PM

AIR TRANSPORT POSTAL HISTORY

Lot	Symbol	CatNo.	Lot Description	CV or Estimate
1117		C25-31	#C25-31, 6c-50c Air Transport award winning exhibit collection of about 450 covers, this includes the exhibit collection formed by the late Stephen Enkstrom, as well as another exhibit collection that Mr. Enkstrom purchased just before his death, but never integrated into his own exhibit, the collection shows the wide range of usages and rates that this air post issue saw, with domestic usages including mixed issue frankings (especially with the Presidential issues), advertising, registered, special delivery, crash covers, usages to and from Alaska and Hawaii, as well as other territorial and possessions, plus numerous foreign destination usages to far-flung places throughout the world, diplomatic mail, and usages from foreign destinations, but perhaps the most impressive part of the collection is the myriad usages during World War II, with mail to and from soldiers, showing auxiliary markings galore, plus prisoner-of-war, Japanese internment camp mail, various censored, four scarce "R.F." overprints correctly used, and more, also there are several historically important covers such as a letter diverted from Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, covers relating to the development of the atomic bomb, and a cover sent by a member of the Enola Gray crew on the day of the Hiroshima bombing, plus there are many more interesting items to be found throughout, when these two exhibits are properly integrated and mounted, it would certainly form the basis of a gold medal collection of this increasing popular issue. (imagea) (imageb) (imagec) (imaged) (imagee) (imagef) (imageg) (imageh) (Image)	Est. 10,000-15,000 SOLD for $19,000.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:19 PM
1118		C25-31	#C25-31, 6c-50c Air Transport postal history accumulation of nearly 500 covers, this is the portion of the Stephen Enkstrom estate that was not put into his exhibit, many still have the original description where it was purchased at auction or retail, includes several better 30c and 50c usages, especially to foreign destinations, we note a few items priced at over $100.00 each, although these were not part of Mr. Enkstrom's exhibit, there are a number of seldom-seen items which could be included in an important exhibit of this area.	Est. 2,000-3,000 SOLD for $5,250.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:20 PM

SPECIAL DELIVERIES

Lot	Symbol	CatNo.	Lot Description	CV or Estimate
1119		E1	#E1, 10c Blue, exceptionally well centered within uncharacteristically large margins, rich color and a crisp impression, o.g., lightly hinged, extremely fine and quite handsome; 1997 PF certificate. (Image)	$450.00 SOLD for $300.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:21 PM
1120		E2	#E2, 10c Blue, incredibly well centered amid uncharacteristically large margins, bright color on immaculate paper, full clean o.g., lightly hinged, extremely fine; seldom encountered in this gem condition; 2004 PF certificate. (Image)	$400.00 SOLD for $900.00 Closing..Sep-30, 06:21 PM