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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2087

(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

1926 (9 Jan.) card from Mongalla to his wife in Hampstead, bearing 10m. with neat datestamp, the reverse with perforated vignette in vermilion, the message including "Had a perfect flight here, & have found quite a reasonable route over Sud area for return flight"

provenance:
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Sold for
£800