Auction: 13031 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1870
Air Mail Crash Covers
The Pat Cassels Collection
1934 selection of fifteen covers, including (10 Feb.) Marseilles-Argentina flight, three special cards each franked 1f. 75, 5f., Air 2f. 25 with seven line "raid interrompu" cachets; (17 July) Bushire-Netherlands flight, crashed on take off, two charred covers and their ambulance covers; (2 Oct.) Melbourne flight, crashed into the sea off Flinders Island; (13 Nov.) Brazil-Paris flight, crashed on take off, cover, stamps floated off, to London and with its ambulance cover, another ambulance cover to Paris, etc., good to fine
Sold for
£280