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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2051

(x) South Africa
1919 (2 Aug.) Peace Celebrations Pigeon Post
Flimsy No. 186 from Herbert Cecil Leigh to his son with "Many happy returns. May your first birthday bring everlasting peace", clipped onto specially printed souvenir card and complete with envelope to Worcester showing "governor general's fund/cape town" oval framed handstamp in violet, circular-framed "pigeon post/aug. 2,/capetown" datestamp in blue alongside Cape Town P.O. datestamp (1.8); this example most unusually replete with the rubber band used to attach the flimsy in its rubber tube fitted to the birds' legs. Fine and very rare. Photo

Note: The 2 August festivities in Cape Town included the release of carrier pigeons with messages of goodwill. This "Pigeon Post" was in aid of the Governor General's Fund and senders of the "Pigeongrams" were required to post their messages for a payment of 2/6d. each to the Celebrations Committee. Approximately 410 "Pigeongrams" were carried, few of which have survived

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Estimate
£2,000 to £2,500