Auction: 13031 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1857
Air Mail Crash Covers
The Pat Cassels Collection
United States
1918-86 collection of 187 covers or part covers, housed in eleven albums contained in a carton, including 1918 (3 June) franked 24c., 1918 (5 June) franked 16c., 1921 (5 May) Rock Springs AAMC 21.4 (2), 1921 (16 July) San Francisco AAMC 21.5, 1922 (15 Dec.) Porcupine Ridge AAMC 22.1, 1948 (20 Dec.) Huron envelope with ambulance cover AAMC 28.10, 1932 (13 Dec.) Mc Clelland AAMC 32.13, 1936 Goodwin AAMC 36.1, 1937 (17 Oct.) Knight AAMC 37.6, 1938 (10 Jan.) Bozeman AAMC 38.1, 1939 (26 March) Oklahoma City AAMC 39.2, 1944 (10. Feb.) Memphis AAMC 44.1 (the cover illustrated in AAMC), 1964 (25 Feb.) New Orleans AAMC 64.1, etc., many multiple examples from the same crash, some unrecorded, condition mixed
Sold for
£2,500