Auction # 2519 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: Special May auction

Rare cinderella of 5P. prepared by aviator Clodomiro Figueroa to be affixed to the mail carried on the first airmail service between Santiago and Valparaiso, with original gum and his signature on back, VF quality, rare!

Yvert 5, (Sc.C5), 1927 "Testart" 2P., beautiful strip of 3 + other airmail values on a fragment of a cover with postmark of Valparaoso FE/1929, excellent quality!

RARE MIXED POSTAGE USA - CHILE (with stamp of 40c. Testart): Registered cover carried on the return first flight between Valparaiso and Santiago, on 5/MASY/1927, of the Compañía de Aeronavegación Comercial. It arrived in Santiago on the same day and from there it was forwarded, via Pacífico, to Boston (USA), and in New York it received the corresponding additional postage of 10c., excellent quality, very rare!

12/JUN/1929 Santiago to Buenos Aires, flight of Cie Generale Aeropostale, cover sent to Germany. On 15/JUN/1929 it was transfered in Buenos Aires to another airplane of the company to be carried on its weekly service to Europe by the Atlantic route (see special handstamp on back), very fine quality, rare!

17/JUL/1929 Valparaiso - Buenos Aires, first flight of the Cie. Generale Aeropostal, pilot Jean Mermoz, registered cover with the special violet handstamp of the flight and on back arrival for 18/JUL, very fine quality!