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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2217

(x) South Africa
1937 (Nov.) Clouston and Mrs. Betty Kirby Green London-Cape Town-London Record Flights
1937 (14 Nov.) Southbound trip envelope from the pilots brief touchdown at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia, addressed locally to G.L. Scott, the local wireless operator, bearing Coronation 1½d. to prepay the postage for the return from Cape Town, the pair circled in pencil as being unacceptable for the return postage and charged 3d. Postage Due with Broken Hill datestamp (10.11) and circular-framed "t/3d" alongside, showing ink notation regarding the onward portion of the flight, signed "A E Clouston" and "A Bargain" referring to fact that Scott offered to pay for their breakfast if they agreed to carry the two covers addressed to him, the reverse with Broken Hill machine datestamp and datestamp (both 20.11). A very rare stage cover with only four such items recorded, the other three being illustrated in an article by Otto Peetoom that accompanies this cover. Photo

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Estimate
£800 to £1,000