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lot # 165 - miscellaneous and mixed lots postal history and covers: crash and wreck mail
Postal History and Covers: Crash and Wreck Mail: 1946 cover to Madagascar, plane crashed en route to Algiers in Minorca, with boxed “RETARDE/par suite d’Accident/d’Aviation” cachet (Nierinck 460205a); 1943 cover to England, plane crashed in the sea en route between Ceylon and Great Britain, little information being known about the crash, with “DAMAGED BY SEA WATER” cachet in violet (430600c); 1945 military cover from Canada to the USA, plane crashed en route, with “SALVAGED FROM/AIR CRASH.” cachet in violet (450125). (3 items) Photo.
[Proposed price: £100-120]
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