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Auction: 5011 - Stamps & Covers of the World
Lot: 1792

India Airmails 1934-35 "Personal Notes of Rocket Firings", being a meticulous record of the sixty-nine Rocket Experiments conducted by Stephen Smith at various places in Bengal and Sikkim, sixty-nine pages (each 206x333mm.) with typed details of the rocket number, date, time, place, etc. and with details completed in manuscript, a few additionally showing illustrative diagrams of the firings. The collection is accompanied by a copy of "From the Diary of Stephen Smith", 1980, compiled by D.N. Jatia. A unique and remarkable aerophilatelic collection. Photo Estimate £ 7,000-8,000

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