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  • Lot# : 7099 Italy

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    1930: Italo Balbo Transatlantic Flight, cover franked with 1.25l and 7.70l commemorative, tied to first flight cover by "Posta Aerea /Crociera Italia-Brasile / Roma / 15 DEC 1930.IX" c.d.s., to General Italo Balbo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with machine receiver on front, signed by  eighteen pilots, not Balbo, light vertical crease at left, else a fresh and desirable cover from this famed Brazil flight, signed Colla.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 340 CHF

    Lot# : 7100 Italy

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    1926: "Norge" Flight, franked with Italian 25c. and 1l definitives, tied by Teller, Alaska datestamp (13 May), affixed with airship flight vignette, tied by corresponding oval "VOLO TRANSPOLARE 1926 / AMUNDSEN - ELLSWORTH - NOBILE / EQUIPAGGIO ITALIANO / DIGIRIBLE "NORGE"" handstamp, boxed violet flight cachet at upper left, signed overtop by flight crew member Alfredo Precerutti, a few light stains, else fine and scarce.rnNote: In 1926, Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth and Umberto Nobile flew with 13 others in the airship “Norge” from Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Norway to Teller, Alaska, thus completing the first verified trip to the North Pole, and becoming the first to fly over the polar ice cap between Europe and North America.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 700 CHF

    Lot# : 7101 Italy

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    1934: Rome to Buenos Aires first flight, franked with 2l on 5l to 10l on 15l overprinted "Primo Volo Diretto" set of four, with two additional Libyan adhesives, tied by "Posta Aerea / Tripoli D´Africa / 22.1.34" c.d.s., registered to Boston, Massachusetts, with violet flight cachets on front and back, multiple transit and arrival backstamps, a visually-striking and scarce cover.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 420 CHF
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