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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2194

(x) South Africa
1936 (26 Sept.) London-Johannesburg Schlesinger Air Race
Capt. S.S. Halse
Envelope to Cape Town marked "Salvaged from the wreck of Capt. Halse's plane crashed at Domboshawa near Salisbury S. Rhodesia" with De Havilland Aircraft Co. imprint below and bearing Southern Rhodesia ½d. pair and 1d. cancelled at Salisbury on 3 October, signed "S.S. Halse" and offered with contemporary photograph of the crashed aircraft. Scarce with only four covers receiving the manuscript notation and De Havilland handstamp. Nierinck 360930B. Photo

Note: Capt. Halse appeared to be the certain winner until his luck ran out when, hampered near nightfall by poor visibility caused by smoke from bush fires, he chose to land in what turned out to be a ploughed field. The aircraft overturned and was damaged beyond repair

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Estimate
£300 to £350