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Auction: 15022 - Northern Rhodesia, The Award-Winning Collection formed by Neville Polakow, FRPSL, RDPSA
Lot: 147

(x) Northern Rhodesia
Airmails
1935 (28 Aug.) envelope registered from Broken Hill to Pernambuco, bearing Silver Jubilee 3d. (2) and 6d. (3) cancelled by double-ring datestamps and "by german air mail" perforated label, carried by Imperial Airways to London and thence by German airmail service and finally via the "Wesfalen" catapult flight over the South Atlantic, showing "europa-sudamerika" illustrated cachet in red and sealed at foot with yellow on green "Correspondencia Postal" label tied by Pernambuco c.d.s. (16.11). An elusive item of catapult mail originating in Northern Rhodesia. Photo

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£2,400