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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2206

(x) South Africa
1937 (Mar.-May) Round the World Cover
1937 (12 Mar.) 4d. H2 size registered envelope, uprated with 4d. (2) and 1/-, carried by Imperial Airways from Johannesburg via Cairo and Penang to Hong Kong for first Pan-American trans-Pacific service to San Francisco with first flight cachet, then on to New York, refranked and forwarded via Miami by Pan-American Airways, again refranked and forwarded by Air France to Europe and Imperial Airways back to Johannesburg, showing an array of cachets, datestamps and registration labels/handstamps and carried over 42,000 miles; full of character and rare with only six such covers prepared of which two were subsequently stolen. Also 1937 (Aug.) commercial envelope from Buenos Aires with framed "par avion jusu'en europe" cachet. Photo

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Sold for
£350