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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2091

(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 (19 Jan.) card from Abercorn to his wife in Hampstead, bearing 2d. with datestamp and with traces of a vignette having been removed at left, the reverse with a perforated vignette in vermilion (surface abrasions) most unusually cancelled with Ndola datestamp (6.2) en route back to the U.K., message includes "Had a good flight to Abercorn over rather bad country, all going well and after Ndola worst of flight over". Photo

provenance:
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200