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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2096

(x) South Africa
1925-26 Sir Alan Cobham London-Cape Town Survey Flight
The Return Journey
Undated envelope with Philatelic Society of Johannesburg imprint on flap, handed to Alan Cobham in Johannesburg on the outward journey to Cape Town for transmission on the return journey and with typed details of the remaining portion of the outward flight at top, signed at foot by J. Robertson, editor of The South African Philatelist at the time, signed by Cobham and registered to Thanet with G.B. 1½d. and 5d. cancelled on arrival (15.2), framed "posted out/of course./1s" alongside "3d/to pay/i s" handstamp in red and 3d. Postage Due cancelled in Margate on 15 February. Photo

Note: Cobham's return flight became an impromptu race against the mail ship "Windsor Castle", both leaving Cape Town on 26 February. Cobham was the victor reaching Croydon fifteen days later on 13 March. Few covers were carried on the return flight

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£400