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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2009

(x) South Africa
1911 London-Windsor and Return Coronation Flight
1911 (16 Sept.) Windsor-London return flight bright violet privilege card to Pretoria, bearing ½d. only cancelled by superb "first united kingdom/aerial post/windsor" code 2 datestamp, upon arrival struck with circular-framed tax handstamp covered by Transvaal Postage Due 1d. (one corner defective) cancelled by arrival datestamp (17.10); fine and very rare used to an overseas destination. Only two items of underpaid mail from this flight recorded to South Africa with this violet envelope to South Africa believed unique. Photo

provenance:
Jeidel, June 1988

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Estimate
£800 to £1,000