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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2220

(x) South Africa
1938 (Oct.) Voortrekker Pigeon Post
1938 (29 Oct.) pigeongram flown from Bloemfontein to the Strand, marked "A Souvenir of the Centenary of the Vootrekkers and Oxwagon Trek", complete with the relevant numbered slip which wrapped the message and the envelope in which the pigeongram was posted to destination with details of the birds release and signed by J.N. Jennings, Secretary of the Hottentots Holland Homing Union, addressed to Francis J. Field and bearing Vootrekker 1d. with Cape Town datestamp (2.11). Very rare, being one of only two surviving known to the exhibitor. Also 1938 (7 Dec.) pigeongram released after the church service at Danskraal, few of which have survived. Photo

provenance:
Jeidel, June 1988

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Sold for
£850