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Auction: 15046 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring the John Sussex Collection of South West Africa,1880-1928
Lot: 1342

South Africa
Air Mails
1939 (1 May) Imperial Airways "Challenger", hit a small boat on landing at Lumbo: envelope from Shepherds Bush to Port Elizabeth, franked 1½d., violet "damaged by seawater/airplane challenger" cachet, also envelope from Glasgow to Cape Town, stamps floated off, with violet bilingual "flying boat correspondence damaged by seawater" cachet, taxed by 1d. and 2d. Postage Dues and with found open and officially sealed label

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