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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2155

(x) South Africa
1932 (3 Nov.) First Direct Flight from Hong Kong
1932 (12 Nov.) envelope additionally carried on the earlier stage of the flight from Sydney, showing "round the world flight in the lockhead orion monoplane. captain J.P. dixon, pilot. arthur m. loew, esq., j rostal esq." and bearing Australia 2d. and 3d. and South Africa 2d., all cancelled by Johannesburg datestamps, apparently accepted as payment of return postage to Australia, signed James B. Dixon" at left. One of five items apparently carried. Nierinck 321117. Photo

Note: When taking off for Europe from Victoria Falls on 17 November the plane crashed and Dixon was killed

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