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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2093

(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 (30 Jan.) card from Livingstone to his wife in Hampstead, bearing 2d. with neat datestamp, the reverse with perforated vignette in vermilion (faults) and with message including "Reached Livingstone & Victoria Falls. Had material & opportunity for a big story at last!!" and "As you know there has been big delays owing wash out on Railways down here. Photo

provenance:
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Sold for
£800