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Auction: 13031 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1869

Air Mail Crash Covers
The Pat Cassels Collection
1933 and 1934 selection of twenty-one covers or cards, including 1933 (9 May) Casablanca-Toulouse flight, crashed at Viladrau, charred card franked 5c., 75c. with special four line cachet, also a charred cover from the same flight with ambulance envelope; 1934 (4 Jan.) Saigon-Paris flight, damaged at Gwalior and crashed at Corbigny; (28 Jan.) Rome-Buenos Aires flight, crashed near Fortaleza; (10 March) Bogota-Cartagena flight by Von Krohn, cover franked 5c., Air Mail 20c. with special four line cachet; (1 April) Rio de Janeiro-Recife flight, stamps floated off and with violet "accidente/de avion" cachet; (3 May) Natal (Brazil) to Rio de Janeiro flight, capsized at Guanabara bay, cover, stamps floated off with violet three line cachet; (6 July) Stockholm-Malmo flight, crashed due to engine trouble, three charred envelopes and an ambulance envelope; (26 Nov.) Chicago-Jacksonville flight, crashed at Scottsboro, charred envelope from Winnipeg to Florida; etc., good to fine

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£350