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Auction: 20112 - Stamps and Covers of the World e-Auction
Lot: 2591

(x) South Africa
1925-26 Sir Alan Cobham London-Cape Town Survey Flight
1926 (13 Jan.) card from Jinja to Stanley Spooner, Editor of "Flight" in London, bearing 20c. with datestamp and perforated vignette in green cancelled by "by special air mail/16-11-25/london-/cape town" oval datestamp in violet, the reverse with imperforate vignette in green, message includes" Flying Kisumu tomorrow. Found Khartoum to Malakal easy flight & Malakal to Mongalla over Sud not so bad as expected". One of only two cards bearing both imperforate and perforated vignettes

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£950