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Lot# 1225 - Auction 309-320

  • Lot# : 1225 Brit. Colonies lots/accumulations

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    1918/54: Group of seven Crash covers, incl. 1918 (June 4): 'S.S. Kenilworth Castle' wreck cover franked with KGV 1d. from "Pretoria 24 Apr. 18" to a B.E.F. Royal Flying Corps member in France, 1929 Imperial Airways double crash 'City of Alexandria' and 'City of Athens' (Oct. 26) in Mersa Mathrut, Egypt, 1938 envelope from Wadi Medani, Sudan (Feb. 11) to Dublin of interrupted IA Flight Short S.23 'CORSAIR' at Athens, Greece (Feb 12/13), 1935 reg. cover from Dublin of SABENA First Flight Brussels - Elisabethville Belgian Congo (Nov. 12) franked with Seahorse 2/6 d., 1944 censored envelope from "Göteborg-1 24.8.44 of B.O.A.C. Lockheed Lodestar G-AGIH Crash at Kinnekulle, Sweden (Aug.29) with boxed special cachet "Damaged through an air- / plane accident in course / of conveyance" in violet as well as two fragments of 1946 Air France Crash DC-3 'DAKOTA' at Le Bourget Airport, Paris (Sept. 4).
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 500 CHF