Number of results: 17
4075
| Sale number: 92 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: USS ''North Star'' visit to Chile, envelope to Massachussetts with ''Byrd-U-S-Antarctic Expedition I/This stamp was applied/on the/Antarctic Continent/West Base 194'' in violet, with return endorsement of British & American Hospital in Valparaiso, believed to be from hospitalised member of USS ''North Star'' crew, sent Feb. 1940 (date indistinct) franked Chile 30c. (2), a rare item from this visit. Photo. Price Realised £110 |
4076
| Sale number: 92 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: Amended 'Snow Cruiser' envelope carried on Feb. 27 1940 flight whilst on exploration trip, signed by Snow (pilot), Merce and Collier, franked 3c. cancelled by USS ''Bear'' Mar. 5 1940 ship duplex Price Realised £170 |
4077
| Sale number: 92 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: USS ''North Star'', rare circular dated cachet ''U.S.S. NORTH STAR/U.S./DEPARTMENT/MAR 5 1940/OF INTERIOR/ANTARCTICA'' on envelope to New Zealand (twice redirected) with East Base penguin cachet, signed and sent by Roger Hawthorn, bearing 2c. and 3c. tied by USS ''Bear'' duplexes, minor peripheral staining. Photo. Price Realised £110 |
4078
| Sale number: 92 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: USS ''North Star'', rare circular dated cachet ''U.S.S. NORTH STAR/LITTLE AMERICA/JAN 24 1941/U.S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR'' on envelope to Dunedin with typed endorsement ''Byrd Antarctic ExpeditionIII/posted on the U.S. Bear on/leaving Antarctica Feby. 1941'' franked 1c. (2), 3c. cancelled by USS Bear Jan. 26 duplex. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
4079
| Sale number: 92 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: West Base and East Base, matching pair of envelopes with printed cachets for West Base-Little America and East Base-Neny Fjord to the same addressee in Washington D.C., franked 3c. cancelled USS ''Bear''/Little America Jan. 26 1941 and USS ''Bear/Evacuation East Base Mar. 22 1941 respectively. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
4080
| Sale number: 92 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: Evacuation of East Base, Envelope with printed cachet for East Base-Neny Fjord (only 300 printed and used solely by expedition members) signed and sent (with enclosed personal message dated Mar. 31) by Base leader Richard Black to his son in California, franked 3c. cancelled by U.S.S. ''Bear'' Evacuation East Base Mar. 22 1941 duplex, with Mar. 26 Rounded Cape Horn duplex below, extremely rare. Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
4081
| Sale number: 92 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: Evacuation of East Base, cover with typed endorsement of having been carried on every flight from East Base, signed by flight crew, franked 3c. cancelled by U.S.S. ''Bear'' Evacuation East Base Mar. 22 1941 duplex, very scarce. Photo. Price Realised £650 |
4082
| Sale number: 92 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: USS ''Bear'', selection of seventeen covers showing variations of ship cancellation, dated between Dec. 1 1939 and May 27 1941, incl. 'Rounded Cape Horn', scarce 'Evacuation East Base' (amended 'Snow Cruiser' envelope signed Zadik Collier), Antarctic Continent dated 'bear' cachet in purple and black, two line ''U.S, ANTARCTIC SERVICE/EXPEDITION'' (2, one Feb. 1 1941 date of West Base Evacuation), Parcel Post 1940 double circle, Feb. 1 1940 with scarce circular dated ''North Star'' and East Base penguin cachets, etc. Price Realised £350 |
4083
| Sale number: 92 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: Selection of mainly scarcer items incl. Jan. 14 1940 day of arrival at West Base covers (2, signed by J. Glenn Dyer and Zadik Collier respectively) and card, Feb. 1 1940 exploratory flight cover signed by Collier and pilots Snow and Perce), Mar. 5 1940 with ''HORSESHOE BAY'' straight line and USS ''BEAR'' registered double circle c.d.s., envelopes from Lt. Cmdr. G.J. Dufek showing Dec. 1 1939 First Day, Jan. 14 1940, Mar. 5 1940 Palmer Land and circular ''North Star'' Mar. 21 1940 dated cachet, and from Murray Wiener cancelled Jan. 21 1941 Little America and Mar. 22 1941 Evacuation East Base USS ''Bear'' duplexes, specially printed envelope with printed cachet for West Base-Little America sent Jan. 26 1941 from C.C. Shirley to Elsie Holtgreve (designer), Snow Cruiser envelope signed by Byrd, also articles, photographs, etc. Price Realised £350 |
1199
| Sale number: 119 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: USS ''North Star'' visit to Pitcairn Island, 1939 (Dec. 14) stampless envelope to Baltimore, showing Richard Black special cachet and Pitcairn Island Postal Agency c.d.s., the supply of stamps having been exhausted, minor creasing at right. Photo. Price Realised £300 |
1200
| Sale number: 119 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: USS ''North Star'' visit to Rapa Island, 1939 (Dec. 17) envelope to Massachusetts with endorsement ''Roger Hawthorne/Aboard the USS North Star/The United States Antarctic Service/Visiting Rapa Island, Dec. 18, 1939'' with two strikes of ''AHUREI-ILE RAPA'' straight line, French Oceania 10c. cancelled at Ahurei and New Zealand 3d. at Wellington. Photo. Price Realised £140 |
1201
| Sale number: 119 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: Amended 'Snow Cruiser'/Expedition envelopes carried on Jan. 14 and Feb. 27 1940 reconnaissance flights respectively, signed by Snow (pilot), Perce (co-pilot) and Collier (mechanic), franked 3c. cancelled by USS ''Bear'' Little America Feb. 1 or Palmer Land Mar. 5 1940 ship duplex. Photo. Price Realised £190 |
1202
| Sale number: 119 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: USS ''North Star'', rare circular dated cachet ''U.S.S. NORTH STAR/U.S./DEPARTMENT/MAR 20 1940/OF INTERIOR/ANTARCTICA'' on Department of the Interior envelope to the Spery Gyroscope Co. in New York (redirected to Boston) and also on enclosed letter, signed and sent by Capt. Isak Lystad, bearing 3c. tied by USS ''Bear'' Palmer Land duplex, minor creasing. Photo. Price Realised £350 |
1203
| Sale number: 119 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: Combination cover, self-addressed and carried by pilot James McCoy, U.S.N., endorsed and signed at left, this believed to be the only cover carried on the Little America III Condor flight forced into emergency landing on the Beardmore Glacier in Jan. 1941 whilst resupplying a trail party, and showing a range of other adhesives and cancellations incl. Cristobál, C.Z. Nov. 29 1939, Pitcairn Island Dec. 14, Ahurei, Île Rapa Dec. 17, Wellington, N.Z. Dec. 27, Little America Feb. 1 1940 and East Base Mar. 22, the date of the dramatic flown evacuation. James Charles McCoy (1905-1981), Chief Pilot for the United States Antarctic Service at West Base was commemorated by the naming of Mount McCoy in Marie Byrd Land. Photo. Price Realised £160 |
1204
| Sale number: 119 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: 1941 (Feb. 1) West Base-Little America and (Mar. 22) East Base-Neny Fjord printed envelopes cancelled USS ''Bear'' Little America and Evacuation East Base cancellations respectively, postal stationery card with scarce circular dated cachet ''U.S.S. NORTH STAR/LITTLE AMERICA/JAN 24 1941/U.S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR'', and two illustrated Snow Cruiser covers, one cover driven Chicago to Philadelphia and signed by its designer Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, second in command on the mission, the other cover carried on the ''North Star'' with cachet. (5 items) Photo. Price Realised UNSOLD |
1205
| Sale number: 119 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: Evacuation of East Base, cover with typed endorsement of having been carried on every flight from East Base, signed by flight crew, franked 3c. cancelled by USS ''Bear'' Evacuation East Base Mar. 22 1941 duplex, very scarce. Photo. Price Realised £250 |
1206
| Sale number: 119 Antarctica: USA Antarctic Service Expedition 1939-41: Collection of covers and cards incl. scarcer cachets and cancellations, some signed or with typed endorsement, with Snow Cruiser covers, QSL card, USS ''Bear'' duplex variations - First Day P.O. Serv., At Sea, Philadelphia PA, Balboa C.Z., Dunedin N.Z., Little America, Palmer Land, East Base Antarctica, Evacuation East Base, Rounded Cape Horn, Boston Mass., U.S.S. ''North Star'' with 1939 (Nov. 29) cover from Canal Zone, Roger Hawthorne covers 1940 (Jan. 2) from Dunedin, another cancelled at seven locations, circular dated cachets ''U.S.S. NORTH STAR/U.S./DEPARTMENT/MAR 16 1940/OF INTERIOR/ANTARCTICA'' U.S.S. NORTH STAR/LITTLE AMERICA/JAN 24 1941/U.S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR'' on covers to New Zealand, etc. (approx. 40 items) Price Realised £580 |
