Auction: 13031 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1894
Air Mail Crash Covers
The Pat Cassels Collection
1947 selection of thirteen covers, including (26 Jan.) charred envelope from Antwerp to Stockholm with four line explanatory slip; (23 Aug.) Hong-Kong-Great Britain flight, crashed on landing at Bahrain, cover and card with violet "damaged by/sea water" cachets and another from China to Germany with one line cachet; (29 Dec.) Paris-Copenhagen flight, crashed on landing, cover from Egypt with four line explanatory slip, etc., good to fine
Sold for
£650