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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2036

(x) South Africa
1918 (Oct.-Dec.) "Make Your Sixpence Fly" Red Cross Flights
Large Wing Cards
16 December, Dingaan's Day Fourth Transvaal Flight
Card to 2nd. Lieut. R.D. Schoenegeoel of the Royal Air Force in Scotland and sent and sent care of the South African Hospital and Comforts Fund in London, bearing 1d. and signed by A.H. Gearing; minor creases though a rare irregular usage. Photo

Note: 16 December was commemorated as the Day of the Vow, also known as Day of the Covenant or Dingaan's Dag (Dingaan's Day). The Day of the Vow was a religious holiday commemorating the Voortrekker victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838, and is still celebrated by some Afrikaners

provenance:
Robson Lowe/Christie's, April 1977


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Sold for
£550