Worldwide Stamps and Covers.

1930 Five Years in Four, 40k and 80k imperforate singles, l.h., v.f.,
Cat. Val. $ 3,300
Estimate: $1500

1933 Stratosphere Balloon, 5k indigo blue, ultramarine, dark brown, three different imperforate and gummed trial color proofs on watermarked stamp paper, h.r. or l.h., v.f., last one signed Mikulski. A rare group (Zverev $18,000)
Estimate: $10000

1935 Moscow-San Francisco 1r surcharge on 10k Levanevsky, used on registered and flown cover from Moscow (22.9.35) to Berlin, v.f., with arrival pmk on back
Estimate: $500

1922 1,200m on 2.25r surcharge type III, position 9, n.h., v.f., signed Lissiuk, Roig, Galvez, etc.,
Cat. Val. $ 1,775
Estimate: $1000

1917 (13 July) picture postcard bearing double circle and eagle emblem of the State of Moscow free-frank with text "Organizing Committee of the All-Russian Aviation Congress" (because of the Bolshevik Revolution, the planned conference never took place), sent by G.Kalinin (a member of the Aviation Congress Committee) to his father, G.V. Kalinin, Murmansk Railway Administration warehouse in Petrograd. This Kalinin family were related to...

1918 Military mail/flight document from Aspern flight station with an official 2-line "K.u.K. Fliegerkourierlinie Wien-Kiew" handstamp. The Austrian military-civil air mail service connection, Vienna-Lemberg line, began in the summer of 1918. This line was extended to its most eastern outpost in Kiev in July, 1918. The Kiev connection via Proskurov (Ukraine) to Lemberg was operational for only three months and was closed before the end of...

1927 10k postal card (Ural Air Squadron) with 5k dark blue (Air Defense League), tied by Zlatoust cds, with additional pmk alongside, fine
Estimate: $150

1931 (27 Sep) registered and flown cover from Batum to Athens, franked on both sides with three different adhesives, Batum departure and registry markings, triangular Zemun bilingual transit, also Berlin and Athens arrival pmks, fine and unusual cover
Estimate: $250

1937 two leaflets (dropped from airplanes over Moscow) to greet the three Trans-Arctic fliers who flew from Moscow on 18th of June to Vancouver in 63 hours in their ANT-25 airplane, the leaflets red "Glory to Soviet heroes Chkalov, Baidukov and Belyakov", "Forward to New Victories under Lenin, Stalin", some stains, seldom offered
Estimate: $100

1944 (18 Jan) First Flight Moscow to Damascus, Syria, with "France Libre" cachets and censor markings, v.f.
Estimate: $500

1930 Moscow-Friedrichshafen, 40k and 80k cover and card, eight sets, some different perforations, all correctly franked, with different types of official handstamps, arrival pmks, also four additional cards (three picture postcards), one addressed to USA, another to Switzerland, mixed condition, mostly fine
Estimate: $500

1931 North Pole cover and card franked with the imperforate set of four, addressed to the North Pole, with appropriate cachets and cancels, v.f.
Estimate: $150