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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2177

(x) South Africa
1934 (20 Dec.) Waller and Franchomme Flight to Belgium Congo
1934 (8 Sept.) Transvaal 1d. stationery card, uprated with four other values to a total of 7d., carried from top of Table Mountain by cable-car to Cape Town, flown by Imperial Airways to France (20.9 Paris datestamp on reverse) and on to Brussels by Air France, the writer requesting that the card be flown by the first flight by Belgian Air Service to Leopoldville and with addition of 1f. and 5f. values though flown instead by 20 December Raid Rubin "Queen Astrid" survey flight and then back to Cape Town by rail, a round trip of 15,000 miles, showing "T" handstamp and Raid Rubin bi-lingual flight cachet in red

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Estimate
£300 to £350