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Auction: 23013 - Stamps and Covers of the World: Featuring Superb Mauritius, the "Claremont" Collection of South West Africa and the Charles Freeland Collection of Virgin Islands
Lot: 1285

(x) India
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1929 German World Flight in Kamerad
1929 (10 June) unstamped envelope to Calcutta, marked "From: Calcutta/To: Singapore/and/From: Osaka/To: Tokyo", showing "park street calcutta/due/..as" horseshoe handstamp with blue crayon "2" inserted, bearing "Carried by Baron Von/Koenig. "The Boy Pilot"/On his historic flight/to the far east multicoloured label with manuscript D1433" at foot and "Aeroplane/kamerad" intaglio h.s. in violet. One of seven known carried on this rare and important leg of this flight. Photo

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Sold for
£4,200

Starting price
£1600