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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2005

(x) South Africa
1911 (18 Feb.) Allahabad World's First Official Airmail
1911 (18 Feb.) special illustrated postcard with "allahabad" inserted and dated "1911" to the Oxford & Cambridge Hostel in Allahabad, bearing ½a. cancelled with a largely fine strike of the "first aerial post/1911/u.p. exhibition allahabad" illustrated flight cachet in magenta and with Allahabad despatch and Delivery datestamps, the illustrated side signed "H Pequet! and "Founder of "Aerial Post" W Windham"; small tears at top and foot, and other minor imperfections though a rare card commemorating this First Official Airmail. Photo

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£800