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The William C. Mack Collection of Worldwide Air Post continued...

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Pioneer Air Mails (AAMC95-end)
Lot Sym. Lot Description Est/Cat Realized
3576 c image1916, Oct. 5, West Branch Mich. Driving Park Aviation Meet (AAMC 95a). 1c Green Imperforate, vertical pair, tied by well-struck flight cancel with year date inverted on cover to Detroit Mich., fresh and Extremely Fine, only 150 pieces carried, "very few" of which have the year date inverted (Image) 500.00 325.00
3577 c image1916, Oct. 14, Ithaca N.Y. Experimental Aeroplane Mail Flight (AAMC 96). 1c Green tied by Ithaca Oct. 16 machine cancel on locally addressed picture postcard of the Ithaca City Hospital, blue boxed flight handstamp cachet

VERY FINE AND CHOICE. OF THE APPROXIMATELY 1,000 PIECES OF MAIL FLOWN, ONLY TEN ARE RECORDED.

The mail was delayed as the flight was rescheduled from Oct. 13 to Oct. 14 due to inclement weather. The pilot then erred by dropping the mail in the woods from which it was not recovered and deposited into the general mail stream until Oct. 16. (Image)

3,000.00 2,100.00
3578 c image1916, Nov. 2, Chicago Ill.-New York, N.Y. "New York Times" Aerial Post (AAMC 97). 2c Carmine, small faults, and 10c Special Delivery tied by Chicago duplex cancels on legal-size Chicago P.O.D. official cover to Otto Praeger, Second Asst. P.M.G., Washington D.C., black boxed four-line handstamp cachet, New York and Washington Nov. 3 and Washington Nov. 9 receiving circular datestamps, Extremely Fine example of one of the 95 flown covers (Image) 500.00 600.00
3579 c Pioneer Flight Balance. Seventeen covers or post cards incl. AAMC Nos. 7, 9 (three), 12, 25 (two), 29a (two), 32, 40a (two), 42 (two), 59 (two) and 72, few with small faults, generally Very Fine group 2,600.00 2,000.00

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