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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2108

(x) South Africa
1927-28 Sir Alan Cobham "Round Africa" Flight
1928 (4 Apr.) card to Woodstock, Cape Province carried by Cobham, accompanied by his wife Lady Gladys, on the early stage of his return flight to the U.K. from Cape Town to Luderitz, the reverse with a newspaper photograph of Lady Cobham endorsed "Sincerely yours Gladys Cobham 3.4.29" and "Signed while flying between Cape Town and Luderitz", upon arrival incorrectly bearing South Africa Ship 1d. with lop-sided datestamp which seems to have been ignored by postal officials; recorded by Burrell in "Par Avion Southern Africa" and extremely rare. Photo

Note: Sir Charles Wakefield largely financed the 23,000 mile flight around Africa by Alan Cobham in the Short "Singapore" flying boat, which was then the largest in the world. He commenced his homeward flight from Cape Town via the West Coast, accompanied by his wife, assistant pilot Capt. Worrall, engineers Messers. Conway and Green, and cinematographer Mr. Bennett. On 4 June the flight ended at Rochester supplying much data about flying conditions along the waterways through and round Africa

provenance:
Jeidel, June 1988

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£700