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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2232

(x) South Africa
Later Crashes
1941 (12 Nov.) S.A.A.F. Crash at Malakal, Sudan
1941 (5 Nov.) charred Active Service green honesty envelope, complete with contents, bearing 3d. (2) and 4d.with Egypt Prepaid datestamps, recovered from the wreck and forwarded by the Nairobi Post Office in an improvised OHMS ambulance envelope with explanatory leaflet from the Army Postal Service headquarters, E.A. Command. Very rare with only six items of mail recovered, only three of which have the Army Postal Service notice. Nierinck 411112. Photo

Note: A S.A.A.F. Lockheed Lodestar piloted by Capt. Eric Carrol crashed at Malakal. Eighteen bags of mail were partially destroyed by fire. It is reported that Maj.-General F.H. Theson pulled the mailbags from the burning wreck

provenance:
Jeidel, June 1988

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£210