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Auction: 3025 - Stamps & Covers of the World & Stamp Boxes
Lot: 696

NEWFOUNDLAND Airmails 1935 (13 July) Thor Salburg transatlantic flight, illustrated envelope to U.S.A. bearing, on reverse, U.S. 2c. with Brooklyn machine d.s. and, on face, 5c. cancelled with bars and showing Cartwright, Labrador c.d.s. for 22 July alongside, signed by the pilot Estimate £ 100-120 Note: Having left New York for St. John's the aircraft was forced down on the waters of Paradise Sound. The aircraft was wrecked, salvaged and shipped to New York

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