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Auction: 3025 - Stamps & Covers of the World & Stamp Boxes
Lot: 642

NEWFOUNDLAND Airmails 1919 Transatlantic Air Race 1919 (12 July) "Martinsyde" attempt supplementary mail, G.P.O. envelope to England, bearing $1 on 15c. (faults) with St. John's machine d.s. for 12 July, part London c.d.s. on reverse; envelope soiled, creased and with other faults though rare with only some one dozen survivors of this supplementary mail recorded. Also a photograph of the crash. Photo Estimate £ 800-1,000

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