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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2164

(x) South Africa
1933 (9 Mar.) Victor Smith London-Cape Town Flight
1933 (9 Mar.) envelopes (2) from Lympne Aerodrome to members of the Pidsby family at Pietersburg or White River, written from hotels at Perpignan and Oran and both bearing uncancelled ½d. and showing cachets of intermediate stops at Perpignan Aerodrome, Oran Aerodrome, Reggan (on reverse), Douala, Cameroun, upon arrival with "capetown municipal air-port/wingfield" datestamp (14.3) in violet on reverse and autographed twice by Smith on arrival, the cover from Perpignan endorsed "Landed 20 miles N of Van Rhynsdorp at 5.30 am Monday 13th"; one with sellotape stain at right and one with a vertical crease though a rare and recently discovered pair from this epic flight

Note: The pilots attempted a non-stop flight to Cape Town in a Fairey monoplane. They flew over 5,000 miles before headwinds caused them to run short of fuel and land at Walvis Bay on 8 February

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Estimate
£800 to £1,000