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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| The Collectors Series Stamp Sale (Day 3 of 3) | |||
| Auctioneer: | Spink | Location: | 69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4ET |
| Contact: | Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 Fax: +44 (0)20 7563 4066 | ||
| Date: | 17th April 2013 | Time: | 10:30AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Friday 5th April 10am to 5pm Monday 8th April 10am to 5pm Tuesday 9th April 10am to 5pm |
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| Auction Lots - Page 5 | |||
| 1850 | |||
| x 1865 5pa., cut down Die Proof in black with rejected Arabic inscription "Shehr Postassi" at right, endorsed Approved and Blue, fine and rare. Photo £700-800 Provenance: Yardley, Passer |
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| 1851 | |||
| x -- 40pa. cut down Die Proof in black with rejected Arabic "Shehr Postassi" inscription at right, endorsed Approved and Pink, fine and unique. Photo £700-800 Provenance: Yardley, Passer United States |
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| 1852 | |||
| 1885 (27 April) long envelope to Utah franked Great Britain 1881 1d., 1883 or 1884 1/2d. (2) and 2d. with London hooded cancellations, New York arrival (9.5) on reverse, "u.s. charge/to/collect" and "14 Cents", U.S. 1879 Postage Due 2c. (vertical pair) and 10c. pencancelled, manuscript and "refused" handstamps, some minor peripheral faults but scarce. Photo £60-80 |
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| 1853 | |||
1940-46 thirty-one covers, many censored, mostly from Lend-Lease bases in the Caribbean, including Bermuda, British Guiana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, etc., good to fine £150-200Venezuela |
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| 1854 | |||
x 1880 Third "Escuelas" issue 25b. rose, very lightly hinged, fresh colour, fine and extremely rare, especially in this fine condition. Scheller Certificate (2008). S.G. 101, £3,000, Scott 67, $5,000. Photo £400-5001902 Cuidad Bolivar Provisionals |
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| 1855 | |||
| x Handstamped "vale 25cs" on 1899 5c. blue-green, tied by the large double circle "fiscalia de instruccion publica estuado guayana", tied to envelope by red "cuidad bolivar" duplex of 7 April 1903, addressed to Trinidad, the envelope reduced and with portions missing at left, otherwise fine and a rare provisional issue. Holcombe opinion (1989). Photo £150-200 Provenance: Gebauer Air Mail Crash CoversThe Pat Cassels Collection |
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| 1856 | |||
1912 (22 Sept.) Sweden, Childrens Day flight card; 1920 (14 Sept.) New York to Chicago flight, cover from Paris with "Damaged Air-Mail Wreck/Near Toledo 09 14 20" cachet; 1924 (Aug.) Stockholm-Berlin night service, three special red covers with cachets; 1924 (1 Oct.) Estevan-Winnipeg flight, souvenir cover; 1927 (17 Oct.) Kisumu-Khartoum flight, cover from England with manuscript label; good to fine £200-250United States |
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| 1857 | |||
| 1918-86 collection of 187 covers or part covers, housed in eleven albums contained in a carton, including 1918 (3 June) franked 24c., 1918 (5 June) franked 16c., 1921 (5 May) Rock Springs AAMC 21.4 (2), 1921 (16 July) San Francisco AAMC 21.5, 1922 (15 Dec.) Porcupine Ridge AAMC 22.1, 1948 (20 Dec.) Huron envelope with ambulance cover AAMC 28.10, 1932 (13 Dec.) Mc Clelland AAMC 32.13, 1936 Goodwin AAMC 36.1, 1937 (17 Oct.) Knight AAMC 37.6, 1938 (10 Jan.) Bozeman AAMC 38.1, 1939 (26 March) Oklahoma City AAMC 39.2, 1944 (10. Feb.) Memphis AAMC 44.1 (the cover illustrated in AAMC), 1964 (25 Feb.) New Orleans AAMC 64.1, etc., many multiple examples from the same crash, some unrecorded, condition mixed £3,500-4,000 |
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| 1858 | |||
| 1919 (Sept. 15) New York-Chicago flight, crashed at Cleveland, slightly envelope from France franked Sower 25c., with explanatory slip "Accompanying mail was unavoidably damaged by/fine on areoplane (sic) due to leave Cleveland, Ohio, at/9:30 A.M. , Sept. 15, 1919"; Very rare, only three covers recorded. Photo £200-250 |
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| 1859 | |||
| 1921 (1 March) Botwood (Newfoundland)-St. Anthony flight, cover franked 3c. (Ex Nierinck); 1921 (22 Nov.) St. John's-Nova Scotia flight, cover franked Halifax 35c. (no stop after "1921"), fine £100-150 |
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| 1860 | |||
| 1927 (12 March) Kisumu to Khartoum flight, crashed on take off from Lake Victoria, envelope franked Kenya 20c. and 50c., violet "Owing temporary failure/Air Service Mail/forwarded by normal route" cachet, red "kenya-sudan" datestamp; fine. Nierinck 270312. Photo £200-250 |
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| 1861 | |||
| 1928 selection of twelve covers, including (1 March) Mermoz flight from Buenos-Aires to Rio de Janeiro; (23 April) Hannover-Magdeburg flight, forced down at Braunschweig; (16 Aug.) Havana-Florida flight forced down in the Gulf of Mexico; (4 Oct.) Casablanca-Toulouse flight, crashed near Gerona, charred envelope with "envelope dererioree/accident d'avion" cachet; (28 Dec.) San Jose (Costa Rica)-Port Limon, crashed on take off, etc.; good to fine £300-350 |
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| 1862 | |||
| 1928 (12 June) Kuching (Sarawak)-Simanggang flight, crashed on landing, envelope franked 4c., 8c., fine and scarce. Photo £300-350 |
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| 1863 | |||
| 1929 selection of seven covers, including (19 Feb.) Le Bourget (France)-Indochina flight, franked 1f.50, 10f. with "raid interrompu/par accident" cachet; (12 Sept.) Casablanca-Toulouse flight, stamps floated off, with "accident d'avion/en mer" cachet; (7 Dec.) Tananarive (Madagascar)- Mozambique flight, forced down at Juan de Nova Island; (23 Dec.) Paris-Hanoi flight, crashed at Syrte, franked 45c., 50c., 1f. 10, 10f.; good to fine £400-450 |
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| 1864 | |||
| 1930 (23 March) Brazzaville (Belgian Congo)-Brussels flight, delayed at Niamey undergoing repairs, envelope registered Belgium franked 15f. 35; another cover from the same flight, registered to Paris franked 13f. 50; fine. Nierinck 300324. Photo £150-200 |
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| 1865 | |||
| 1930 selection of twelve covers, including (10 Jan.) Tananarive-France, crashed at Kasai; (4 Feb.) Pondicherry (French India)- France, forced down at Rome; (10 Oct.), Newfoundland-England, "Columbia" flight by Boyd and Connor, forced down at Tresco Island, etc., good to fine £500-600 |
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| 1866 | |||
| 1931 (9 Oct.) Newfoundland-England flight by Boyd and Connor in the "Columbia", forced down at Tresco Island, envelope franked 14c., 36c. with St. John's machine cancellation and Harbour Grace d.s. (9.10) on reverse; fine. Photo £200-250 |
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| 1867 | |||
| 1931 selection of thirteen covers, including (7 June) Siagon (Vietnam) -France flight, crashed into River Sandoway; (23 July) Francis Chichester flight from Manila to Katsuura in the "Madam Elijah", crashed on landing at Katsuura, covers to Russia and Alaska, each with special cachet and pilot signed, etc., good to fine £350-400 |
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| 1868 | |||
| 1932 selection of nine covers, including (15 Jan.) Kingsford Smith Croydon-Australia flight, delayed at Timor; (26 Jan.) South Africa- London flight, damaged on take off, cover franked South West Africa Official 2d. and Air Mail 10d.; (28 March) Saigon-Marseilles flight, delayed between Corfu and Naples with "courrier accidente" cachet, two covers, one with stamps floated off; (13 Aug.) Marseille-Siagon flight, capsized in Beyrouth Harbour, cover with stamps floated off with "Lettre Parvenue Deterioree/Suite Accident Courrier Avion" cachet, etc., chiefly fine £350-400 |
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| 1869 | |||
| 1933 and 1934 selection of twenty-one covers or cards, including 1933 (9 May) Casablanca-Toulouse flight, crashed at Viladrau, charred card franked 5c., 75c. with special four line cachet, also a charred cover from the same flight with ambulance envelope; 1934 (4 Jan.) Saigon-Paris flight, damaged at Gwalior and crashed at Corbigny; (28 Jan.) Rome-Buenos Aires flight, crashed near Fortaleza; (10 March) Bogota-Cartagena flight by Von Krohn, cover franked 5c., Air Mail 20c. with special four line cachet; (1 April) Rio de Janeiro-Recife flight, stamps floated off and with violet "accidente/de avion" cachet; (3 May) Natal (Brazil) to Rio de Janeiro flight, capsized at Guanabara bay, cover, stamps floated off with violet three line cachet; (6 July) Stockholm-Malmo flight, crashed due to engine trouble, three charred envelopes and an ambulance envelope; (26 Nov.) Chicago-Jacksonville flight, crashed at Scottsboro, charred envelope from Winnipeg to Florida; etc., good to fine £500-600 |
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| 1870 | |||
| 1934 selection of fifteen covers, including (10 Feb.) Marseilles-Argentina flight, three special cards each franked 1f. 75, 5f., Air 2f. 25 with seven line "raid interrompu" cachets; (17 July) Bushire-Netherlands flight, crashed on take off, two charred covers and their ambulance covers; (2 Oct.) Melbourne flight, crashed into the sea off Flinders Island; (13 Nov.) Brazil-Paris flight, crashed on take off, cover, stamps floated off, to London and with its ambulance cover, another ambulance cover to Paris, etc., good to fine £400-450 |
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| 1871 | |||
| 1935 (31 Dec.) "City of Khartoum", crashed into the sea on Landing at Alexandria, eight covers or cards, mostly with stamps floated off, origins with Australia, Great Britain, Sweden, etc., a variety of special cachets and two Australian explanatory slips, etc.; mixed condition. Nierinck 351231. Photo £600-800 |
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| 1872 | |||
| 1936 (22 Aug.) "Scipio" crash at Mirabella Bay, collection of thirty covers and with much collateral material, origins include Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, India, Iran, New Guinea, Sarawak, etc., a wide variety of cachets and labels; a most interesting lot. Nierinck 360822 £1,000-1,500 |
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| 1873 | |||
| 1936 (29 Sept.) London to India flight by the "Athena", crashed on take off from Delhi, comprising envelope to New Zealand franked Seahorse 2/6d. with red "Received in damaged/ condition at Auckland; envelope to Adelaide franked 3d., 1/-, with violet "Salvaged from/ATHENA"; charred envelope to Kuala Lumpur franked 6d. with seven line explanatory slip; envelope to Melbourne franked 1 1/2d. (2), 1/-, without cachets; envelope to Calcutta, stamps floated off, without cachet; good to fine. Nierinck 360929. Photo £350-400 |
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| 1874 | |||
| 1936 (26 Sept.) Croydon-Paris flight by the "Boadicea", crashed into the Channel, comprising addressed to Kenya, stamps floated off with violet "delayed salved/from boadicia"; addressed to Australia, franked 1 1/2d. (5) with eleven line explanatory slip and its ambulance cover, addressed to Northern Rhodesia, stamps floated off and with French 5 line cachet, fine. Nierinck 360925. Photo £600-800 |
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| 1875 | |||
| 1936, selection of six envelopes, including (23 March) envelope from Uruguay to England, delayed by mechanical problems, franked 5c., 20c., 50c., four line explanatory cachet; (27 Sept.) Italian Troop plane crashed at Benghazi, envelope, stamp floated off; (3 Oct.) Schlesinger Air Race cover carried by A.E. Cloustan, crashed at Felixburgh, with manuscript "Crashed, Engine failure...." endorsement; (28 Nov.) London-Vienna flight, destroyed at Hannover, charred envelope franked 1d., 1 1/2d. (2) with nine line explanatory slip, good to fine £250-300 |
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| 1876 | |||
| 1937 (16 Nov.) Frankfurt-Brussels flight, crashed in fog attempting to land at Ostende, slightly charred envelope to Manchester franked 5pf. (3) and another missing, without markings, fine and rare. Only a small part of the mail was saved. Nierinck 371116. Photo £250-300 |
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| 1877 | |||
| 1937 (5 Dec.) "Cygnus" crashed at Brindisi, Collection of twenty-two covers, well written up and with collateral material, in red album, origins with Australia, Burma, Ceylon, Egypt, India, Pahang, Palestine, Singapore, etc., a variety of cachets, chiefly good to fine for these. Nierinck 371205 £600-800 |
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| 1878 | |||
| 1937 (1 Oct.) "Courtier", crashed into Phaleron Bay, Greece, eight covers, mostly with stamps floated off, a variety of cachets, origins with Burma, Egypt (3), France, Hong Kong, Palestine (2), good to fine. Nierinck 371001. Photo £400-500 |
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| 1879 | |||
| 1937 selection of fifteen covers or cards, including (26 Jan.) Belgian Congo-Brussels flight, crashed on landing at Oran, envelope franked 5f. with framed "parvenu souille/besmeurd toekgekomen" cachet; (20 April) Brisbane-South Africa flight by Mrs Bonney, forced landing at Muntuk, Netherlands East Indies, endorsed "Emergency Landing" and signed by the pilot; (28 July) flight from Brussels to Paris, caught fire and crashed near Bruges, envelope franked Netherlands 12 1/2c. with "avion accidente" cachet; (3 Aug.) Buenos Aires to New York flight, disappeared on approach to Cristobal, two envelopes (one registered), stamps floated off with four line "Recovered from/ Plane N.C. 15065/Aug. 3, 1937/Cristobal, C.Z." cachet; (16 Nov.) Lichtenfels to Manchester flight, crashed at Ostende, ambulance cover to Germany, etc., good to fine £500-600 |
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| 1880 | |||
| 1938 (23 March) "Ville de Toulouse" Morocco-France flight, crashed in the Pyrenees, selection of eleven covers, origins with Argentina, Brazil, Chile, French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Uruguay, many charred or with stamps floated off. Nierinck 380323 £400-500 |
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| 1881 | |||
| 1938 (27 Nov.) "Calpurnia", wrecked attempting to land during a severe storm, at Lake Ramadi, collection of fourteen covers housed in a red album, many with stamps floated off, all addressed to Australia or New Zealand, a variety of cachets and explanatory slips, good to fine. Nierinck 381127 £600-800 |
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| 1882 | |||
| 1938 selection of fourteen covers and cards, including (22 May) Natal (Brazil) -Rio de Janeiro flight, forced down in bad weather, censored cover with "accidente/de aviao" cachet; (18 June) "Santa Lucia", crashed shortly after take off from Santiago; (1 Oct.) Frankfurt-Milan flight crashed on a glacier, cover (stamp floated off) with its ambulance cover and explanatory slip, etc. £500-600 |
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| 1883 | |||
| 1939 (1 May) "Challenger", Great Britain-South Africa flight, crashed when alighting at Mozambique, four covers from Great Britain, Germany or the United States, one with "damaged by seawater/seaplane 'challenger'" cachet, the other with framed bilingual cachet; fine. Nierinck 390501 £200-250 |
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| 1884 | |||
| 1939 (12 June) "Centurion" Australia-Great Britain flight, crashed on the Hoogly river, eight covers, mostly with stamps floated off, a variety of cachets, good to fine. Nierinck 390612 £350-400 |
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| 1885 | |||
| 1939 selection of twenty-two covers, including (18 Jan.) Australia-Great Britain flight, struck a tree during take off, two covers from England with different cachets; (2 May) "Ville de Dakar" crashed shortly after take off, charred cover from Argentina to Germany; (11 Aug.) London-Zurich flight, caught fire after a forced landing, cover with six line explanatory slip; (15 Aug.) London-Denmark flight, crashed near Storstroem Bridge, six covers and two ambulance covers, etc., good to fine £800-1,000 |
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| 1886 | |||
| 1940 selection of five covers, including (22 Jan.) Batavia-Sydney flight, crashed near Bali Airport, envelope from Messina to Sydney with large "recovered from/lost flying boat" cachet on reverse, etc., good to fine £150-200 |
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| 1887 | |||
| 1941 selection of thirteen covers, including 1941 (7 Nov.) Helsingfors-Stockholm flight, crashed near Abo, cover with violet three line cachet, etc., chiefly good to fine £300-350 |
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| 1888 | |||
| 1942 selection of six covers, including (27 Sept.) Algeria-Dakar flight, crashed near Ameur El Ain, charred envelope from Grenoble to Casablanca, etc., chiefly fine £200-250 |
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| 1889 | |||
| 1943 (22 Feb.) "Yankee Clipper" flight from the US-Lisbon, crashed on landing on the Tagus river, nine covers, mostly with stamps floated off, a variety of cachets, one with Swedish explanatory slip, good to fine. Nierinck 430222 £250-300 |
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| 1890 | |||
| 1943 selection of twelve covers, including 1943 (6 Sept.) New Guinea-Australia flight, crashed on landing at Townsville, two covers, stamps floated off , one with red "damaged by water/through accident/to flying boat" cachet; (22 Oct.) Germany-Buenos Aires flight, on reverse "avion/atrasado" cachet, etc., good to fine. £300-350 |
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| 1891 | |||
| 1944 selection of nine covers, including (27 July) charred envelope from Zurich with four line explanatory slip; (29 Aug.) Sweden-Great Britain flight, cover, stamps floated off, with six line "Åter till avsandaren" explanatory label, etc., good to fine £300-350 |
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| 1892 | |||
| 1945 selection of fourteen envelopes, including (18 Nov.) Geneva-Germany flight, shot down by the Germans, window envelope with eight line explanatory slip; (30 Sept.) envelope and ambulance cover from Lebanon to New York, another cover from this flight with "accident d'avion/en tripolitaine" label, etc., good to fine £200-250 |
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| 1893 | |||
| 1946 selection of seven covers, including (5 Feb.) Marseilles-Algiers flight, forced down at St. Louis de Mahon, envelope with framed "retarde/par suite d'accident/ d'aviation" cachet; (3 Sept.) Copenhagen-Paris flight, crashed near Haltug-Steyens, charred envelope with three line explanatory slip; (4 Sept.) Paris-London flight, crashed on take off, charred envelope from Tunisia with ambulance cover; (14 Nov.) Croydon-Amsterdam flight, crashed on landing, envelope with three line explanatory slip, etc., chiefly fine £150-200 |
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| 1894 | |||
| 1947 selection of thirteen covers, including (26 Jan.) charred envelope from Antwerp to Stockholm with four line explanatory slip; (23 Aug.) Hong-Kong-Great Britain flight, crashed on landing at Bahrain, cover and card with violet "damaged by/sea water" cachets and another from China to Germany with one line cachet; (29 Dec.) Paris-Copenhagen flight, crashed on landing, cover from Egypt with four line explanatory slip, etc., good to fine £250-300 |
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| 1895 | |||
| 1948 and 1949 selection of six covers, including 1948 (21 Jan.) Miami-Boston flight, crash on landing at Logan, cover from Brazil and Cuba with cachet or explanatory slip; 1949 (29 Nov.) Paris-Tunis flight, crashed at Bron, ambulance envelope to Tunis, etc., good to fine £200-250 |
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| 1896 | |||
| 1950 (3 Nov.) "Malabar Princess" Cairo-Geneva flight, crashed near the summit of Mont Blanc, cover from Egypt to London, another cover, registered from Bombay (to J.A.L. Franks) to London with three line explanatory slip on the reverse, fine. Nierinck 501103 £100-150 |
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| 1897 | |||
| 1951 selection of fourteen covers, including (15 Oct.) Cape Town-Durban flight, crashed near Kokstad, envelope (stamp floated off) and ambulance cover with manuscript "Salvaged from Plane Crash 15.10/51" (rare), another with the more usual "salvaged crashed plane 15/10/51" cachet; (23 Dec.) New York-Milan flight, crashed on landing, charred cover with ambulance envelope, another with three line German cachet on reverse, etc., good to fine £500-600 |
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| 1898 | |||
| 1952 selection of eleven covers or cards, including (14 Feb.) Madras-Nagpur flight, crashed on landing at Sonnegar, charred cover without markings; (22 March) Johannesburg-Amsterdam flight, crashed on landing at Rome, charred cover and card with five line explanatory slips; (23 March) Karachi-Bangkok flight, forced landing due to mechanical trouble, two covers, one with "this letter was burnt in a plane crash at bangkok" slip; (10 July) Salvador-Natal flight, crashed into the sea, envelope to Belgium with large framed "retarda" three line cachet, etc., good to fine £300-350 |
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| 1899 | |||
| 1953 selection of nine covers, including (2 May) Comet flight from Dum Dum-New Dehi, charred cover from North Borneo to Scotland with "salvaged mail/"comet" crash, near calcutta, 2nd. may 1953" cachet, others from Burma, Hong Kong and Singapore (2); etc., chiefly good to fine £350-400 |
| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| The Collectors Series Stamp Sale (Day 3 of 3) | |||
| Auctioneer: | Spink | Location: | 69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4ET |
| Contact: | Tel: +44 (0)20 7563 4000 Fax: +44 (0)20 7563 4066 | ||
| Date: | 17th April 2013 | Time: | 10:30AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Friday 5th April 10am to 5pm Monday 8th April 10am to 5pm Tuesday 9th April 10am to 5pm |
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