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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2175

(x) South Africa
1934 (29 Nov.) South West Africa Mail to Papua
1934 (29 Nov.) envelope from Windhoek to Port Moresby carried on the new through route with Imperial Airways and Qantas to Australia, bearing Air 4d. block of four and 1/- with despatch datestamps and showing signatures of the pilots on the Cape Town-Kisumu, Kisumu-Cairo, Karachi-Bangkok and Darwin Brisbane stages, the reverse with Sydney (21.12) and Port Moresby )17.1) datestamps, very minor traces of foxing though a very scarce destination on what, at that time, was the longest airmail route in the world

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