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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2041

(x) South Africa
1918 (Oct.-Dec.) "Make Your Sixpence Fly" Red Cross Flights
Small Wing Transvaal Cards

20 November, First Flight
Deep blue second printing card from Hillbrow to Cape Town, unstamped and upon arrival with circular-framed "t" and "t/1d" tax handstamps alongside Postage Due 1d. cancelled and tied by Tulbagh Road datestamp (28.11); minor tone patch though very rare and believed to be the sole example of this type of card attracting postage due. Photo

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Sold for
£450