THE CARDS ARE OUT THERE
EVENTS
Events announced between Newsletters will be posted in the News section of www.aviapc.com as will the corrections that usually seem necessary for this section.
| June 20/22 | Houston, TX USA WAHS Convention AI2002 |
| June 29 | Zurich At the Airport (www.aviationtrade.com) |
| Aug 18 | Redhill. Fly-in and collectors fair (Corrected date) |
| Sept 7 | Birmingham Motor Cycle Museum by Carl McQuaide. |
| Sept 7 | Newark,NJ, USA Sheraton Hotel (panam314@aol.com) |
| Sept 28 | Prague At the airport 9 a.m |
| Sept 28 | Hamburg. At the airport 10 a.m |
| Oct 5 | Luton, Vauxhall Recreation Club 11 a.m |
| Oct 5 | Brussels, Zaventem villageBrussels, Zaventem village |
| Nov 2/3 | Frankfurt, Schwanheim Village 10 a.m |
| Nov 9 | Feltham, Community School 11 a.m |
| Nov 30 | Zurich At the Airport |
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Local USA Shows |
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| July 20 |
Los
Angeles. Hacienda Hotel, LAX (Wingman@earthlink.net) |
| August 16/17 |
Teterboro
NJ (info@airplaneshop.com) |
| Sept 14 | Chicago Holiday Inn Elk Grove Village |
| Oct 5 | San Francisco. Grosvenor Airport Inn (baahs@mindspring.com) |
| Oct 12 | Seattle, Museum of Flight, Boeing Field (mattocks@gte.net) |
Big numbers on Internet auctions continue to be predictably high on Real Photo South American airports. Recent auctions have yielded around $50 for this card of Kingsford Smith’s Fokker Southern Cross on arrival in Newfoundland and a rare airline issue from 1930’s Italian carrier Avio Linee Italiane of the DC-2 lookalike Fiat G.18. The Southern Cross went, appropriately, to an Irish collector.
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But
if we are amazed at $50-$100 cards then these are insignificant compared to what
can happen in the aerophilately world. Herbert
Lealman found references to sales of
Postcards, probably themselves not aviation items, which carried the
unofficial stamp issued to promote the “Vin Fiz” U.S transcontinental
attempt of 1911. Originally offered in an
Internet auction and purchased for several hundred dollars, this was then
re-offered by a New York Auction House and realized $44,000- which just proves
you need money to make money.
Apparently
the unofficial stamps were one of the many spin-offs promoted by Calbraith
Rodgers, in this case aided by his brother Robert from Kansas City where the
stamps were printed. Apparently of the
twelve known to exist, seven are on
postcards. Even this price seems
insignificant in comparison with another card with the Vin Fiz stamp mailed to
Germany from Pasadena, the termination point for the Vin Fiz flight. This one
raised $88,000 in 1999.
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