Lot 51341 – 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed

Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
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Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed

Lot 51341 – 1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed

Ireland » Airmails
Price realised
7’000 GBP
Estimate
3’000 – 4’000 GBP
Auction date
jeu. 16 déc. 2021 at 14:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description

1933 (July) Italian Air Squadron Mass Flight Headed by General Italo Balbo: Specialised collection magnificently mounted and written up on 21 album pages and housed in one black Lighthouse album, showing a wonderful array of items pertaining to the Orbetello-Londonderry-Chicago-New York-Valentia-Rome flights, including the special vignettes with complete booklets and booklet panes, single used on fragment and cover, array of original photos of Balbo two being portraits signed and dedicated including one to the famous pilot Carlo Cattaneo, also two signed Menus together with other significant signatures, plus seven flights from different legs of the journey, also Iceland Hopflug Italia set of three, Newfoundland Balbo issue mint single and two singles on cover etc., an attractive and scarce group (39 items).

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