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Auction: 4012 - Stamps & Covers of the World featuring the E.W. Ingram Collection of E. Africa
Lot: 1001

Chile 1930 (6 June) airmail envelope to Stoke-on-Trent, flown from Santiago to Toulouse, bearing two adhesives (others washed off) cancelled by faint Antofagasta c.d.s. and, on reverse, two Santiago datestamps; the front with a good strike of the boxed "damaged by immersion/in sea water i.s." and small "i.s." in triangle inspector´s handstamp, scarce; 1937 (30 July) envelope addressed to New York bearing Chile Air 50c. (second adhesive washed off) tied by part Santiago c.d.s. and bears a fine strike of "Recovered from/Plane N.C. 15065/Aug.3,1937/Cristobal, C.Z." in black Estimate £ 120-150Note: Although the plane crashed whilst crossing the Andes, it was several months before the mail was recovered, getting wet from melting snow. Not much of the mail was addressed to Great Britain so a special cachet was not made

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