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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2024

(x) South Africa
1917-18 Major Miller's Recruiting Tour
1917 (7 Nov.) stampless envelope (complete with letter) on imprinted stationery from Alfred B. Godbold, the Managing Director of Whitehead Morris & Co, of Cape Town, marked "per favour of Major A Miller, D.S.O., Royal Flying Corps" and handed to Major Miller at the start of his major recruiting trip and endorsed at top "Carried by Air from Cape Town-P.E.-Grahamstown-Bloemfontein-Kimberley-Potchefstroom-Johannesburg. Allister M. Miller, Major, R.F.C."; the letter addressed to his son Kenneth, only 14 months old saying "This will be the first letter you have ever received being carried by Major Miller, D.S.O., Royal Flying Corps"; envelope a little roughly opened at top and with creasing at right though an extremely rare item from this pioneer flight. Photo

provenance:
Robson Lowe/Christie's, April 1977
Jeidel, June 1988

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Estimate
£600 to £800