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Auction: 14USA - Spink Shreves September 2008 Collector's Series
Lot: 2626

#C1, 1919 3c Brown, with ""First/Trans-/Atlantic/Air Post/April, 1919."" overprint, the so-called ""Hawker"" air post, attractive single with rich color on cover that was actually flown, the stamp came off the cover when the plane crashed at sea and the mailbag floated in the ocean for five days before being salvaged by a passing ship, the stamp was re-affixed to this original envelope (though not quite in the same position as is usually the case) and delivered to Captain M.H. Fenn of London, on the reverse it bears the official seal of Great Britain which has a 30 May c.d.s. handstamp, fine; one of the few surviving examples of this stamp still on the original flown cover; signed Calves and accompanied by his 1973 certificate, as well as a 1980 Friedl certificate (Unitrade C$35, Estimate US$ 7,000-8,000

Estimate
$7,000 to $8,000