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Auction: 13031 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1897

Air Mail Crash Covers
The Pat Cassels Collection
1951 selection of fourteen covers, including (15 Oct.) Cape Town-Durban flight, crashed near Kokstad, envelope (stamp floated off) and ambulance cover with manuscript "Salvaged from Plane Crash 15.10/51" (rare), another with the more usual "salvaged crashed plane 15/10/51" cachet; (23 Dec.) New York-Milan flight, crashed on landing, charred cover with ambulance envelope, another with three line German cachet on reverse, etc., good to fine

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£520