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Auction: SW1009B - The Collector's Series - Latin America
Lot: 1098

1921, "30c - 30c" surcharge on 50c. green, featuring inverted "30c" surcharge at right, together with 3c. postage on 2 May 1921 commercial cover from Bogotá to New York, both tied by c.d.s. on departure, and three-lines "Sociedad Colombo-Alemana/De/Transportes Aéreos" handstamp on back. Couple of vertical creases clear away of the franking. Illustrated on page 3 of the Colomphil catalogue by Santiago Cruz and Dieter Bortfeldt. The first scheduled regular flight of SCADTA occurred on 19 September 1921, but experimental flights have been documented from 2 March 1921 onwards to 15 September. The "30c - 30c" provisional surcharge, featured in this and the following lot, is the first provisional surcharge applied and it was used at Bogotá on 2 May 1921 only, with all examples recorded being cancelled by the "Colombia Bogotá - Despacho Correspondencia Interior" datestamp, instead of a SCADTA handstamp. It is believed that no more than one sheet of 48 stamps were surcharged for the mail on 2 May 1921. Only five covers are recorded with this stamp, also representing the earliest usage of the provisional surcharges, of which two, both offered in this sale, are sent to an external destination. Colomphil 1; Scott C23.

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