Lot
284 
Newfoundland, Airmail, 1919, $1 on 15¢ "Trans-Atlantic", without comma after "Post", well centered with rich color, tied by partial "St. John's Nfld., Jun 11, 1919" machine cancel on blue cover to London, England, Jun. 17th arrival backstamp, Very Fine; with 1997 Greene Foundation certificate. Scott Nos. C2a $1,500.
On June 14, 1919, four days after Lt. Brown's letter to his mother, Captain Alcock and Brown took off from St. John's in the Vickers-Vimy. Sixteen hours later they arrived in Clifden, Ireland. They had completed the first non-stop Atlantic crossing by a "heavier-than-air machine", thus winning £10,000 Daily New prize. The $1 stamp franked 196 letters carried.
Realized: $1,150