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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2170

(x) South Africa
1934 (26 July) Victor Smith Cape Town-London Attempted Flight
1934 (27 July) OHMS envelope from Windhoek to the Director General of the General Post Office in London, bearing South West Africa Air 10d. with neat datestamp after the flight was abandoned; the sole cover from the flight not autographed by Smith. Nierinck 340726. Photo

Note: Smith had to abort the flight and forced to land due to engine failure some 50 miles from Port Etienne. He walked this distance carrying only water and the mail. In his autobiography he wrote that he initially left the mail behind and went back for it after remembering the Union Airways motto where "the mail must get through". He completed his journey by flying with Aeropostale to Dakar and thence by boat to England

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Estimate
£500 to £600