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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2077

(x) South Africa
1925-26 Sir Alan Cobham London-Cape Town Survey Flight
The Outward Journey
The following nineteen lots are all examples of the souvenir cards and offer one of the comprehensive sets ever formed
Card to Cambridge and carried on the round trip with perforated vignette in vermilion on reverse, bearing Ship 1d. tied by Cape Town 24 February 1926 machine and circular datestamps, showing hexagonal-framed "t/10c." and "1d//i.s./d" tax handstamps, having arrived on Saturday 13 March accounting for a lack of a correct franking for onward delivery and bearing G.B. 1d. Postage Due cancelled on 15 March. A very rare round trip card accompanied by an unused example and 1925 (27 Oct.) typed letter from Cobham advising A.B.C. Motors of Walton-on-Thames of his impending trip and advising them that particulars regarding the arrangements for the flight will be forwarded to them in a few days, signed "Alan J Cobham" as Chief Pilot for the De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.. A wonderful pair. Photo

Note: Many of the cards in this section emanate from the collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His album of these cards surfaced in the United States in 1997 having originally been offered intact in the Roosevelt April 1946 sale. The album cover, signed by Roosevelt, and first four pages of the album are included in this lot, together with an article of the Roosevelt cards

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200