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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2211

(x) South Africa
1937 (14 June) "Earl of Caledon" Crash
1937 (14 June) charred envelope front and contents including large part of a £1 note, complete with ambulance envelope and G.P.O. Johannesburg bi-lingual explanatory slip; also a contemporary photograph of the crashed plane and recovery personnel. Rare with less than six covers and slips believed known. Nierinck 370614. Photo

Note: On 14 June a newly commissioned Junkers JU52 took off from Germiston Airport under the command of Capt. F.C.J. Fry. The flight was bound for Durban and crashed soon after take-off. Two of the thirteen passengers lost their lives

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Sold for
£210