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Auction: 17038 - Newfoundland, the Professor Albert Hamilton Collection
Lot: 128

Newfoundland
1919 (June) Air $1 on 15c. bright scarlet neatly tied by St. John's machine d.s. on 1919 (10 June) Alcock and Brown flown envelope to London showing arrival c.d.s. (17.6) on reverse; the envelope with central vertical fold. A rare and very attractive cover from the first successful "Alcock" flight. Only 197 covers were flown on the first successful flight west to east across the Atlantic Ocean. Photo

provenance:
John F Langhoff, December 2003


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Sold for
£1,700