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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2172

(x) South Africa
1934 (3 Sept.) Incoming Cover from Mauritius
1934 (3 Sept.) envelope from Mauritius despatched by the new Messageries Maritimes mail packet to Madagascar for airmail link with the feeder flight from Tananarive to Broken Hill and connecting there with Imperial Airways through to Cape Town, bearing four values for a total of 1r.42c. cancelled by Port Louis datestamps and showing, on reverse, Tananarive (15.9), Broken Hill (18.9) and Cape Town (21.9) datestamps; offered with a 2 October letter from the Mauritius Postmaster-General to L.A. Wyndham confirming that only six covers to be carried on this service

provenance:
Jeidel, June 1988

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Sold for
£50