Lot 1315 (Withdrawn) | [ C ] | AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH - POSTAL HISTORY [ View this Category ]
1937 (24 Nov) airmail cover to Netherlands franked with 1/- Lyrebird and 9d N.S.W. Sesquicentenary tied by Sydney cds, almost complete '[SERV]ICE POSTAL FRANCAIS/Correspondance retardee/par accident d'Avion./Priere de ne pas taxer.' (= 'Delayed in aircraft accident. Pray do not tax') handstamp (Nierinck Type e, cat CHF220 in 1995) in violet, superb 'ENKHUIZEN/15.XII/1937' arrival backstamp. Carried per 'Cygnus' which sank at Brindisi 5 December 1937. The rate was 1/9d for airmail to France, thence by rail. Fine condition
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