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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 2238

(x) South Africa
Later Crashes
1953-54 De Havilland Comet Crashes
1953 (2 May) airletter from Perak to Bloemfontein showing "salvaged mail/"Comet" Crash, Near Calcutta/2nd. may 1953" cachet on face, arrival datestamp (21.5) on reverse, and 1954 G.B. 6d. aerogramme (a little charred) from Devon to Cape Town which crashed in the sea off the Italian coast and showing, on reverse, "salvaged mail/comet crash" handstamp. Nierinck 530502a, 540408c

Note: The 1954 crash was the third Comet disaster in a year. All Comets were ground and metal fatigue was blamed

provenance:
Jeidel, June 1988

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£100