b'83797 798797C November - December 1919 (AAMC.27) A cover carried on the first flight from England to Australia, crewed by Ross & Keith Smith, Jim Bennett and Wally Shiers. With the rare Ross Smith vignette attractively tied by the special FIRST AERIAL MAIL/RECEIVED handstamp. with another alongside. Address to S.H. Long at Lake Macquarie. .$6,0007,500798C Nov.1919 - Feb.1920 (AAMC.27a) A Ross Smith flight cover with the vignette affixed at left, together with an Iraqanna on 10para in combination with an Australian KGV 1d red; all tied by the 26 Feb.1920 oval FIRST AERIAL MAIL cachet (with an additional strike below), posted from the ANZAC Wireless Squadron stationed in Mesopotamia (Iraq) en route for Australia.Addressed to Mrs A. Laxton in Lewisham and endorsed at lower left by Lieut. R.L. Laxton, this is cover #193 in the Frommer listing [illustrated at page 59]. The cover is signed and dated 12.12.19 on reverse by crew member Sgt. J.M. Bennett and is accompanied by a [1981] E. Diena Certificate.One of the most noteworthy of the flown covers being the only example with stamps of Iraq and Australia, signed by a crew member and being an intermediate. .$8,00012,000799799** 1919 (AAMC.27b, Frommer 1a) Ross Smith Flight vignette with full margins and superb unmounted mint full gum. Probably the finest example in private hands. This is #C16 in the Frommer listing, illustrated at page 126. Cat. $18,000 for mounted mint.The AAMC entry states about 25 mint copies are held in museums . about 50 specimens with complete selvedge exist in private collections; of the 576 issued, 364 were attached to letters carried and cancelled on arrival in Melbourne on 26 Feb 1920, 125 were destroyed and of the 87 remaining about 20 had the selvedge removed in anticipation of being affixed to envelopes. .$12,50015,000'