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Auction: 13027 - The Collector's series sale
Lot: 751

India
Airmails
1918 (Dec.) stampless envelope On field Service to Sangar, redirected on arrival, on reverse superb violet "carried by first aerial mail/cairo-delhi/decr. 1918" cachet; small stain at foot though very fine and an extremely rare pioneer airmail cover. Only 30 carried. Photo

Note: Carried in a Handley Page 0/400 piloted by Borton and Salmond. Included in the all Australian crew were Ross Smith, J.M. Bennett and W.H. Shiers who gained valuable experience for their entry in the England-Australia Air race one year later

Sold for
£3,000