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Auction: 17022 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The Ronnie Winchester Collection and fine sections of Belgium, Cape of Good Hope Rectangular Issues and Griqualand West
Lot: 1373

India
1911 (Feb.) envelope (complete with letter) to England, bearing 1a. carmine cancelled with a fine strike of the double-ring "first aerial post/1911/u.p. exhibition allahabad" illustrated cachet in black, despatch and arrival (10.3) datestamps on reverse; the letter with mention of sending other items on the same flight an "also the autograph of Mr. H Piquet"; traces of light foxing though very rare. Photo

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Sold for
£4,800