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Auction: 12013 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 575

Newfoundland Airmails 1936-47 envelopes (29) carried on various special and first flights, including 1937 (5 July) Imperial Airways experimental flight from Foynes Co Limerick to Botwood, 1939 (27-28 June) first regular transatlantic Pan-Am flight New York-Botwood-Foynes-Southampton (7, one with violet Irish cachet on reverse), 1939 (Aug.) first regular transatlantic by Imperial Airways from west to east (6, one pilot signed), 1940 (3 Aug.) first wartime flight to Botwood by BOAC flying boat "Clare" (pilot signed), 1942 (May) first regular flight Gander to Moncton by Air Canada (4), 1946 (15 June) Gander to Brussels, 1947 (1 Jan.) Gander to New York (2), 1947 (31 Jan.) gander to Turkey (2) and 1947 (15 Mar.) Gander to Karachi (2). A fine lot Estimate £ 300-400

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