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Auction: 18029 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 897

(x) Newfoundland
Air Mails
The "Hawker" attempt
1919 (12 Apr.) envelope "by aeroplane" to "the editor, the daily mail/london" bearing "first trans-atlantic air post" 3c. brown tied by St. John's machine cancellation and showing, on reverse "found open (or torn) and officially sealed" label with London c.d.s. of 30 May; the envelope with a vertical filing fold but otherwise very fine and a great air mail rarity which has not been offered at auction for over forty years. S.G. 142. Photo

Note: Lord Northcliffe, British press tycoon and then owner of the "Daily Mail", offered a prize of £10,000 for the first non-stop Altantic crossing by a heavier than air machine .

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Sold for
£6,500