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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2088

(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 (13 Jan.) card from Jinja to Stanley Spooner, Editor of "Flight" in London, bearing 20c. with datestamp and perforated vignette in green cancelled by "by special air mail/16-11-25/london-/cape town" oval datestamp in violet, the reverse with imperforate vignette in green, message includes" Flying Kisumu tomorrow. Found Khartoum to Malakal easy flight & Malakal to Mongalla over Sud not so bad as expected". One of only two cards bearing both imperforate and perforated vignettes. Photo

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Estimate
£2,500 to £3,000