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Auction: 20112 - Stamps and Covers of the World e-Auction
Lot: 2600

(x) South Africa
1925-26 Sir Alan Cobham London-Cape Town Survey Flight
The Outward Journey
1926 (19 Jan.) card from Abercorn to his wife in Hampstead, bearing 2d. with datestamp and with traces of a vignette having been removed at left, the reverse with a perforated vignette in vermilion (surface abrasions) most unusually cancelled with Ndola datestamp (6.2) en route back to the U.K., message includes "Had a good flight to Abercorn over rather bad country, all going well and after Ndola worst of flight over"

provenance:
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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£550