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Auction: 13031 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1875

Air Mail Crash Covers
The Pat Cassels Collection
1936, selection of six envelopes, including (23 March) envelope from Uruguay to England, delayed by mechanical problems, franked 5c., 20c., 50c., four line explanatory cachet; (27 Sept.) Italian Troop plane crashed at Benghazi, envelope, stamp floated off; (3 Oct.) Schlesinger Air Race cover carried by A.E. Cloustan, crashed at Felixburgh, with manuscript "Crashed, Engine failure...." endorsement; (28 Nov.) London-Vienna flight, destroyed at Hannover, charred envelope franked 1d., 1½d. (2) with nine line explanatory slip, good to fine

Sold for
£180