Bidspirit auction | Lot of 4 Pan American

Lot of 4 Pan American first flight and airmail test covers, 1935 and 1946. (1) Hawaii to California first flight cover of the Clipper, with a large label inscribed FIRST FLIGHT PAN AMERICAN CLIPPER HAWAII CALIFORNIA, Honolulu, Hawaii postmark dated 22 April 1935, sent in a Pan American Airways Inc. corner card envelope from Honolulu to England, the reverse with the sender R. H. Oakeley of the ship Empress of Asia at Honolulu; (2) to (4) three airmail test covers of 1946 of the Pan American World Airways System to Asuncion, Paraguay, each inscribed AIR MAIL TEST and with the instruction Return to Sender and Devuelvase al Remitente in red ink, franked with United States 5 cent airmail stamps and Paraguayan stamps of 2, 15 and 20 centimos, with P.A.A. ASU handstamps dated 4, 5 and 20 November 1946 and Paraguayan airmail postmarks on the reverse. One of them also carries a printed illustrated aircraft cachet inscribed Change of Airmail Rate in red, and the others carry senders from New York and Washington, among them Edward S. Conger of the Export-Import Bank of Washington and Edwin H. Levy of New York. Both sides of each cover photographed. Good condition, creases and age marks, exactly as photographed.