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Auction: 15023 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2504

Crash and Wreck Mail
Crash Covers
1935-46 group of French covers and cards with 1935 (16 Feb.) special card on the attempted non-stop flight to Argentina with "raid interrompu ..." cachet; 1946 (2 Feb.) Air France envelope to Senegal which was forced to land at Minorca where the mail was considerably delayed and with boxed "retardé/par suite d'accident/d'aviation" in black; another cover from the same flight to Madagascar with the same boxed cachet, redirected and with additional boxed handstamps "parti sans/laisservd'adresse" and "retour/a l'envoyeur". (3 covers)

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Estimate
£150 to £200