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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2085

(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 (21 Dec.) card (minor tone patch) from Wadi Halfa to his wife in Hampstead, bearing 10m. with datestamp, the reverse with perforated vignette in vermilion and message including "Arrived Wadi Halfa today, all going very well. I suppose you are keeping all press cuttings for tons of paper will be sent back" and "You will need more press cutting albums". Photo

provenance:
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200