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Auction: 20112 - Stamps and Covers of the World e-Auction
Lot: 2607

(x) South Africa
1931 (1 May) Tommy Rose Cape Town-London Flight
1931 (1 May) specially printed envelope from Cape Town to England, bearing 2d. with machine cancellation (29.4), no other markings; vertical repair at centre and a little soiled though the sole reported sighting of mail from this attempted flight which was terminated at Esna, Egypt when sand in the engine caused it to seize; accompanied by a Kenyan contemporary newspaper cutting giving details of the flight as at Kisumu

Note: Following his failed February attempt to break the southbound record Tommy Rose set out again with a daring plan to fly during the night to break all existing records, again failing in Egypt

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£280