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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2080

(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
1925 (20 Nov.) card from Taranto to Stanley Spooner, Editor of "Flight" in London, bearing 60c. with datestamp and with "by special air mail/16-11-25/london-/cape town" oval datestamp in violet at lower left, the reverse with perforated vignette in green with similar datestamp and "Quick Progress Retarded owing to head wind gales & rain along the Mediterranean". E. Diena Certificate (1982). Photo

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Estimate
£1,200 to £1,500