Stamps

Window envelope franked with a pair of 5 aur and a single 15 aur Christian X official stamps cancelled in Hafnarfjördur.

• Lot: 61120

Scarce official cover sent unfranked from the post office at HÚSAVÍK to Danish postal authorities in Copenhagen in 1912, arrival cancelled on back.

• Lot: 61051

Cover sent from SEYÐISFJÖRÐUR to Switzerland in 1919, Swizz censor tape and handstamp on back.

• Lot: 61054

• Lot: 61055

Incoming parcel card for a parcel sent to Iceland by AIRMAIL in 1960. All documentation still attached.

• Lot: 61056

Incoming parcel card from Denmark for an AIRMAIL parcel weighing 6 kilograms in 1979.

• Lot: 61057

The far scarcer Reykjavik cancel used at BÖGGLAPÓSTSTOFA on a correctly franked registered postcard sent to Germany with the Iceland Flight of the Graf Zeppelin in 1931. All appropriate handstamps and cancellations present on the card. This particular Reykjavik cancel was brought in to relieve the pressure on staff due to the large volume of mail for the flight.

• Lot: 61065

Postcard mailed onboard the Graf Zeppelin during the Iceland flight in 1931, franked with a German 1 RM stamp.

• Lot: 61066

Correctly franked registered cover sent with the Iceland flight of the Graf Zeppelin to Germany in 1931, the franking consisting of a 30 aur stamp as well as a 2 kr stamp with Zeppelin overprints. All appropriate hand stamps and cancellations present.

• Lot: 61067

Special commemorative card honoring Charles Lindbergh and his wife during their visit to Iceland in 1933. The card franked with Icelandic stamps and cancelled in Reykjavik on August 17th, while they were still staying there. The card addressed to the United States.

• Lot: 61068

First flight Stockholm-Reykjavík 1945.

• Lot: 61069

A.O.A. First North-Atlantic Flight cover sent with a US franking from the United States to be returned to a US addressee after the flight to Stockholm via Iceland in 1947.

• Lot: 61070

A.O.A. First North-Atlantic Flight cover sent from Finland in 1947.

• Lot: 61071

Scarce first flight cover for ICELANDIC AIRLINES flight Luxembourg-Stavanger-Bergen in 1955.

• Lot: 61072

Flight cover LUXEMBOURG-REYKJAVÍK-NEW YORK in 1955.

• Lot: 61073

Nicely franked registered cover sent by balloon mail in 1957.

• Lot: 61074

First Flight of DC-8 of LOFTLEIÐIR-ICELANDIC from Oslo to Reykjavik in 1971.

• Lot: 61075

Rare first postal flight cover from KAP DAN in GREENLAND to REYKJAVÍK by Vængir airlines from 18.6.1975, signed by the Pilot. VERY FEW COVERS FLOWN.

• Lot: 61076

Rare first postal flight cover GRÍMSEY - AKUREYRI by Flugfélag Norðurlands from 27.2.1976, one of only 20 covers flown.

• Lot: 61077

Commemorative cover for the Sauðárkrókur Flight Day in 1977.

• Lot: 61078

First Lufthansa Flight Boeing 737 from Munchen Airport to Dusseldorf and then onwards to KEFLAVÍK AIRPORT in 1987.

• Lot: 61079