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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2089

(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 imperforate vignette in green cancelled by "by special air mail/16-11-25/london-/cape town" oval datestamp in violet, the reverse unusually without a vignette and with message including "Flew from Mongalla to Jinja in 3½ hours, takes 14 days by other means of transport". Photo

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200