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Auction: 16010 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 873

(x) South Africa
Air Mails
1936 (26 Sept.) Schlesinger Air Race, London to Johannesburg, T. Rose and J. Bagshaw envelope bearing Great Britain 1936 ½d., 1d. with Leicester Square cancellation, Egypt Air 8m., 10m. (2) with Cairo cancellations of 30 Sept. and returned to England, special green "england-south africa/air race/september 1936" cachet and signed by both pilots; fine. Photo

note:
Rose and Bagshaw retired from the race after damaging their undercarriage on landing at Cairo

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Sold for
£210