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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2004

(x) South Africa
1911 (18 Feb.) Allahabad World's First Official Airmail
1911 (18 Feb.) envelope addressed in the hand of Capt. W. Windham and complete with his signed compliments flight card, to Claude Windham, Johannesburg, bearing 3p. (2) and ½a. each cancelled with fine "first aerial post/1911/u.p. exhibition allahabad" illustrated flight cachet in magenta, showing a variety of Undeliverable cachets, Indian datestamps and Johannesburg datestamps for 17 March (two different) and 17 May (one a Returned Letter Office type). Full of character and one of only two items from this important flight known addressed to South Africa. Photo

Note: The flight took place as part of the United Provinces Exhibition. The mail was carried by French pilot Henri Pequet to Naini Junction, a distance of some 10km.

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