ロット487 アメリカ合衆国

United States, 1920s/2000s, first flight, airmail and FDC collection comprising over 230 items, housed in two albums and with the great majority of material dated before 1950, the first volume containing 137 first flight covers from the 1920s including numerous CAM and FAM routes, international services, airport dedications, commemorative and meeting-related flights, several Lindbergh-themed items and a small group of early helicopter and space-related covers, while the second volume holds 96 cacheted airmail-stamp First Day Covers beginning with the 30c Winged Globe and continuing through later airmail issues into the 2000s, including an 80c Hawaii single on FDC and a block of four on FDC, with minimal duplication largely confined to differing cachets, generally superior condition throughout, all items clean, sound and fault-free, an impressive and wide-ranging assembly of U.S. first flight and airmail material.