Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 45

Manuscript, Collectibles and Aerospace Auction

Rocket Mail-Holland-Italy

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 191		1938 April 25, Garia Flown Rocket Card. Used with a purple "Miss Fortune" rocket label on the face and signed by rocketeer Stephen Smith in purple ink on the face. Only 56 cards flown. E-Z No. 34C1, 1996 cat. = $250. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $127
Lot 192		1938 April 25, Garia Flown Rocket Card. Used with a green "T. Kimball" rocket label on the face and signed by rocketeer Stephen Smith in purple ink on the face. Only 56 cards flown. E-Z No. 35C1, 1996 cat. = $250. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 193		1938 June 26, Alipore Flown Rocket Card. Used with a green "Marianne Kronstein" rocket label on the face and addressed to rocketeer Stephen Smith in his own hand. Only 102 cards flown. E-Z No. 36C1, 1996 cat. = $200. Estimated Value $150 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $90
Lot 194		1938 June 26, Alipore Flown Rocket Card. Used with a reddish violet "Gertrude Collins" rocket label on the face and signed by rocketeer Stephen Smith on the reverse. A diagonal crease at the left should not detract. Only 102 cards flown. E-Z No. 37C1, 1996 cat. = $200. Estimated Value $150 - 250. Ex. the Ritter collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $90
Lot 195		1938 June-July, Alipore Flown Rocket Cards. Lot of two different including a card flown on the "Dick Turpin" with a blue handstamped flight cachet (only 166 flown) and a similar card used with a yellow "Joanna Pratt-Johnson Monsoon Flood Relief" rocket label (only 202 flown). Both cards are signed by rocketeers Stephen Smith (on the front and back) and M. D. Muitrie on the face. The latter card is also signed by rocketeer J. Pratt-Johnson on the face. E-Z No. 38C1, 39C1, 1996 cat. = $235. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 196		1938 July 24, Alipore Flown Rocket Cards. Lot of two different including one used with a blue/yellow "Roland Hill" rocket label and signed by rocketeer Stephen Smith on the front and back. Only 194 flown. The other was used with a yellow "James H. E. Cook" rocket label and signed by rocketeers Stephen Smith (on front and back) and by one other on the face. Ex. the Ritter collection. Only 102 cards flown. E-Z No. 40C1, 41C1, 1996 cat. = $350. Estimated Value $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $219
Lot 197		1938 December 25, Alipore Flown Rocket Card. Used with a small yellow "Martha Paganini" rocket label and with a red "Peace on Earth / Goodwill to all Men" handstamp in the center. The card is signed and dated by rocketeer Stephen Smith on the reverse. Only 150 cards were flown. E-Z No. 42C1, 1996 cat. = $200. Estimated Value $150 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $90
Lot 198		1939 September 19, Calcutta Flown Rocket Card. Used with a reddish violet "The Liar" rocket stamp on the face. The card is initialed by rocketeer Stephen Smith on the face and has his signature plus a handwritten "We live in little world's, each with a creation according to ones intellectual imagination, only to be disillusioned at the end" on the reverse. Only 91 cards flown. E-Z No. 43C1, 1996 cat. = $275. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $150
Lot 199		1939 September 19, Calcutta Flown Rocket Card. Used with a reddish violet "Grog-Nee-Gin" rocket label on the face. The card is initialed by rocketeer Stephen Smith on the face and signed by him with the comment "Life is a mirror, the good and the bad seen in others, are hazy reflections of our own" on the reverse. Only 81 cards flown. E-Z No. 44C1, 1996 cat. = $275. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $156
Lot 200		1940 June 25, Calcutta Flown Rocket Card. Used with a printed "The Soul of France Weeps" cachet and signed by rocketeer Stephen Smith in red in the upper left. Only 53 cards flown. E-Z No. 45C1, 1996 cat. = $250. Estimated Value $225 - 325. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $368
Lot 201		1941 September 26, Behala Unflown & Flown Rocket Cards. Lot of two similar including an unflown, unsigned card and a similar card with violet flight handstamps on the face. Rocketeer Stephen Smith has signed the face as well as the reverse below an inscription: "For victory, always remember, great minds think alike while small ones seldom differ". Only 30 cards flown. E-Z No. 55D1, 56C1, 1996 cat. = $450. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,170
Lot 202		1944 October 31, Calcutta Flown Rocket Card. Used with a blue/salmon ration stamp tied to the front with a violet "Sub Silentio" flight cachet. The card is signed and dated by rocketeer Stephen Smith on the front. He has signed, dated and inscribed the reverse: "This projectile went off with a "Pop". It was just a case of popping the question to the Jap - Hands up or die". Only 28 cards flown. E-Z No. 59C1, 1996 cat. = $350. Estimated Value $300 - 400. Ex. the Jesse T. Ellington collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,050
Lot 203		1944 November 21, Calcutta Flown Rocket Card. Used with a red/pink ration coupon tied to the face by the signature of rocketeer Stephen Smith. The reverse is signed by Smith plus six other persons. Only 11 cards were flown. E-Z No. 61C1, 1996 cat. = $500. Estimated Value $400 - 550. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,265
Lot 204		1944 December 4, Naga Village Flown Rocket Card. Used with two different purple flight cachets and signed by rocketeer Stephen Smith in green ink on the face. He has also signed and dated the reverse below an inscription: "A dreamer's humble effort to immortalize in the realm of Aerophilately, those who laid down their lives to save us from inhuman Jap atrocities". Only 78 cards flown. E-Z No. 62C1, 1996 cat. = $225. Estimated Value $200 - 300. Ex. the Ritter collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 205		1944 December 4, Naga Village Flown Rocket Card. Used with purple and blue flight cachets on the face and signed by rocketeer Stephen Smith in green ink at the lower left. Smith has also signed and dated the reverse below an inscription: "A dreamer's humble effort to immortalize in the realm of Aerophilately, those who gave their lives to save us from inhuman Jap atrocities". Only 68 cards flown. E-Z No. 63C1, 1996 cat. = $225. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $265
Lot 206		1934-1962, Mint Rocket Stamps. Lot of six different including tete-beche pairs and proofs of the first issue as well as a sheet of six (slight wrinkles) of the red triangular rocket stamp and a sheet of one of the 1962 issue. E-Z No. 1A1a, A2a, B1, B2, 2A1a, 10A1, 1996 cat. = $193. Estimated Value $150 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $138
Lot 207		1934 October 30, Trieste Flown Rocket Covers. Lot of three similar covers, including two used with individual 5Lira and 7.70Lira rocket stamps and one used with both. An attractive lot. E-Z No. 1C1, C1a, C1b, 1996 cat. = $125. Estimated Value $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $345
Lot 208		1962-1967, Flown Rocket Covers. Lot of 10 different covers, almost complete for the period. E-Z No. 10C1, 11C1, 12C1 (only 81 covers flown), 13C1, 14C1, C3, 15C1, 16C1, 17C1, 18C1, 1996 cat. = $165. Estimated Value $150 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $138
Lot 209		1967-1972 Flown Rocket Covers. Lot of 16 different flown rocket covers from 15 different flights. ALSO included are two mint singles and two souvenir sheets. Included are E-Z No. 19C1, 20C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 21C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 22C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 23C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 24C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 25A1a, C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 26 C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 27C1 (x2), 28C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 29C1 (Ex. Zwisler), C2 (Ex. Zwisler), 30C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 31C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 32C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 33A1, C1 (Ex. Zwisler), 1996 cat. = $275. Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $196

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