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Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions LLC
America's Oldest Philatelic Auction House
- Established 1885 -
and the only one with offices on three continents
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STOCKHOLMIA 2019 Private Treaty Sale
Lot 44
Greenland, 1931 (Jul 29), von Gronau Transatlantic Flight Following a Northerly Extended Polar Route, A lovely four-country franking (Germany, Iceland, Canada, US) on cover addressed to Abendpost, a German-language newspaper in Chicago. Postmarked Berlin (29 July), Reykjavik (11 August), Longlac (1 September) and Chicago (3 September), and bearing red oval "Gronland-Wal" flight cachet, "Scoresbysund" straightline at upper left, and oval "Kolonien Godthaab" shield-and-crown administrative strike in black, along with blue oval Port Harrison Hudson's Bay Company marking in blue. Signed by Von Gronau who, along with three crew members, departed Sylt (List), Germany, on August 9 to examine an alternative trans-Atlantic route from Europe that used a more northerly Arctic route. A Trans-Atlantic, Polar and Experimental cover all in one, Very Fine, Sold!
AAMC PP 116a var; $1,300.
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