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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2015

(x) South Africa
1911 First South African Aerial Post
30 December Second "New Year's Day" Flight, Kenilworth-Muizenberg
Souvenir card to Germany, bearing Cape ½d. (2) cancelled with "first south african/aerial post/kenilworth" datestamp, superb arrival flight datestamps, and Muizenberg P.O. datestamp (3 1) alongside. Photo

Note: The Aerial Post was re-opened for a second mail to be carried on New Year's Day. Adverse weather however delayed this flight until the evening of 2 January. Driver once again took off from Kenilworth with 1479 items of mail for Muizenberg

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Sold for
£280