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Auction: 19045 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1102

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1917-68 collection of forty-six covers airmail crash and ambulance covers, informatively written-up with notes, photographs and press cuttings, housed in three ring binders, contained in a carton, including 1924 (1 Oct.) Estevan-Winnipeg flight souvenir envelope, 1931 (26 Nov.) Australia-Great Britain flight, 1932 (29 Jan.) Cape Town-London ("City of Basra" and "City of Delphi" crashes), 1936 (22 Aug.) "Scipio", 1937 (5 Dec.) "Cygnus", 1939 (1 May) "Challenger", 1939 (11 Aug.) Luxeuil-Bains, 1939 (15 Aug.) Great Britain-Sweden, 1948 (13 May) Belgian Congo-Belgium, 1954 (13 March) Australia-Great Britain, 1954 (3 Aug.) Paris-New York, 1954 (25 Dec.) London-New York, 1955 (13 Feb.) Brussels-Leopoldville, 1955 (27 July) London-Istanbul, 1961 (15 Feb.) New York-Brussels, etc., mixed condition as would be expected but a fascinating lot

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