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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2152

(x) South Africa
1932 (19 Apr.) Oscar Garden Cape Town-London Record Attempt
1932 (19 Apr.) envelope from Cape Town to London, bearing Ship 1d. with despatch datestamp alongside Abercorn transit datestamp (22.4) and showing bi-lingual "found without contents" and "accident at abercorn/22 april 1932./Flight Abandoned." cachets. Scarce with only twenty-five letters carried. Nierinck 320421. Photo

Note: British pilot Oscar Gorden attempted a record flight from Cape Town to London in a Spartan Hermes biplane. Garden crashed at Abercorn and he completed the journey to England by ship from Mombasa

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Estimate
£500 to £600