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Auction: 18009 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series
Lot: 1480

(x) Northern Rhodesia
1929 (18 Feb.) Duly & Co. envelope from Abercorn to Bulawayo and carried by the R.A.F. during the Railway Strike on the copper belt, bearing 1925 2d. yellow-brown neatly cancelled by datestamp, the reverse with manuscript "r.a.f." and Broken Hill transit datestamp (25.2); number 6 from the Ward collection. Rare with less than one dozen of these flight covers believed to exist. See articles in The Rhodesia Philatelist, January 2005 and RSCJ 217, December 2005, copies of which accompany the lot. Photo

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