Lot 11048 – 1929 (July 13) Trans-Atlantic Flight by French pil

1929 (July 13) Trans-Atlantic Flight by French pilots Assollant, Lefèbvre and Lotti, 5c airmail entire with add’l 5c Beacon airmail, both tied by Old Orchard, Maine duplex of June 13, with Comillas (Spain) bs on arrival (14 June) and Paris Bourget Aviation final bs (16.6.29). Boxed cachet at BL with autographs of the pilots, one of only 113 items carried, a very fine showpiece of the continued attempts to make progress across “the pond.” (Mü. 278, 17’500pts)