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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2169

(x) South Africa
1934 (26 May) Basutoland First Airmail
1934 (26 May) envelope to Natal bearing 2d. purple with Maseru datestamp after delivery there by Dr. Vollet who had been flown from Moyeni on an emergency chartered flight, endorsed at top "Quthing to Maseru by Air 26.5.34" and accompanied by a note written by the sender of the letter L. Franklin in July 1940 confirming the details of the flight and that he had handed the original letter to Dr. Vollet personally; minor edge faults and a vertical fold though very rare with only two covers carried by the pilot D.H. How who was killed in a flying accident not long after this particular flight. Photo

provenance:
Jeidel, June 1988

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Sold for
£180