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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2156

(x) South Africa
1932 (Nov.-Dec.) Amy Mollison Record Flights
1932 (4 Nov.) envelope carried on both her southbound and northbound flights, addressed on reverse to Cornwall and bearing 1½d. with London machine datestamp over-cancelled by Cape Town arrival datestamp (10.12), below are strikes of the "capetown municipal air-port/wingfield" datestamps in violet for 18 November with manuscript "15.31 hrs." and 11 December when departed north, signed "Amy Mollison" and with South Audley St. arrival datestamp (15.12) on reverse. One of very few covers carried on both flights. Photo

Note: Amy Mollison established new records for both Southbound and Northbound London-Cape Town routes. The Southbound record had previously been held by her husband flying the same BH Puss Moth now renamed "Desert Cloud"

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Estimate
£600 to £800