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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2050

(x) South Africa
1918 Dropped Aerial Messages
1918 (16 Dec.) copy of "The Aerial News", Vol. 1, No. 1 printed by the Cape Times and sold at 1/-, dropped from the air during the Naval and Military Tournament in aid of the "Our Day" funds which was held at the Rosebank Showground on 16 December, Dingaan's Day and offered with a handbill flyer in red on brown paper dropped from the air by Lt. Gearing on the same flight. Very rare with few examples of either having survived. Photo

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Sold for
£800