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Auction: 24115 - The Philatelic Collector's Series including Rhodesia Double Head and Admiral Issues from the Paul Peggie and Andrew Wilson Collections - e-Auction
Lot: 5217

(x) India
Air Mails
1932 (7 Jan.) envelope transported by 'The Flying Carpet' by Halliburton and Stephens on the Mount Everest trip, bearing KGV ½a. tied by 'park street/ calcutta' c.d.s., signed 'Richard Halliburton' at top, yellow 'Flying Carpet' and 'Mount Everest Trip' labels in yellow and with 'american fliers/ in "stearland" biplane" cachet in purple to face and reverse, the reverse also signed 'Major L. G. Murray' and 'Stephen Smith'; fine and scarce with just fifty covers flown

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£750