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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2053

(x) South Africa
1920 (Feb.-Mar.) Col. Van Ryneveld and Fl. Lt. Brand First Flight into South Africa
1920 (3 Feb.) typed letter from Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War to General, The Right Hon. J.C. Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, the letter stating his hope that the two South African airmen that he had entrusted with his letter will deliver it safely, signed "Yours truly Winston S. Churchill"; one of just four letter from British dignitaries. A remarkable item with this and one from Lloyd George being the only two surviving

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