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Auction: 13031 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1893

Air Mail Crash Covers
The Pat Cassels Collection
1946 selection of seven covers, including (5 Feb.) Marseilles-Algiers flight, forced down at St. Louis de Mahon, envelope with framed "retarde/par suite d´accident/d´aviation" cachet; (3 Sept.) Copenhagen-Paris flight, crashed near Haltug-Steyens, charred envelope with three line explanatory slip; (4 Sept.) Paris-London flight, crashed on take off, charred envelope from Tunisia with ambulance cover; (14 Nov.) Croydon-Amsterdam flight, crashed on landing, envelope with three line explanatory slip, etc., chiefly fine

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£230