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Auction: 5021 - France, Featuring the Château Ramezay Collection, Europe & O/seas & B. Empire
Lot: 3455

x BAHAMAS Covers and Cancellations — 1929 (Jan.) first Nassau to Miami flight, envelopes (5), three with "by first air mail/to miami, fla." cachet in red, one with U.S. 5c. and showing the same cachet and C.A.M. 20 cachet in violet, the other to Nassau bearing U.S. 2c. and 5c. and with F.A.M. 7 cachet in violet; (9 Jan.) envelopes (2), one also bearing U.S. 5c. and sent with F.A.M. 6 cachet to Santo Domingo City, the other registered from San Juan and signed by the pilot B.L. Rowe; also (1 May) envelope from Kansas City to Nassau with first flight cachet and manuscript "Air Mail delayed by crash at Berry Islands May 4" and believed to have been fabricated Estimate £ 100-120

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