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Auction: 6016 - Stamps & Covers of the World/The D J Norris Collection of Ceylon
Lot: 2062

Italy 1954 (Jan.) commercial envelopes from Hong Kong and Kobe to London, badly damaged and with both the Italian "Corrispondenza recuperata In seguito/incidente aereo del ...14 gen 1954" and English "damaged in/p.a.l. aircraft crash" in violet, both with ambulance envelope; 1954 (15 Dec.) envelope carried by Italian Air Lines from Capoliviri to Flushing bearing 75l. franking and showing a very fine strike of the cachet "damage due to airmail interruption/near n.y. int´l airport dec. 18, 1954" in black Estimate £ 140-180

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