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CRASH WWI
Ref: f255
Price: : £10.00
WWI Photocard showing crashed plane `J/7147` in field - note at top left S.SISKIN/ P.O.TAYLOR KILLED` - unused
CRASH WWI
Ref: f256
Price: : £10.00
WWI "Avro crash".Photocard showing crashed biplane `E340` - unused
CRASH WWI
Ref: f257
Price: : £7.00
WWI Photocard showing crashed biplane with group of bystanders in uniform - French - unused
CRASH 1923
Ref: 249236
Price: : £45.00
1923 China 6c grey on damaged card pmk Shanghai-23.9.23 - to Geneva [arr 15/X cds] with Cachet 'Recu dans cet etat' - probably from Train wreck!
CRASH 1929
Ref: 255654
Price: : £25.00
1929 USA: Pitcarn Aviation F/F cover Daytona to Tampa Spur - 1.3.29 - Engine failed on Take-off from Daytona Beach & plane plunged into River. Cover - stamp washed-off pmk Macon, Ga.-1.3.29
CRASH 1930
Ref: 237162
Price: : £30.00
1930 AAMC.#30.12 NAT-CAM.17 Flight - Chicago-New York crashed Warren Ohio - PO Dept Cover pmk Warren-Ohio 23.9.30 - violet 2-line 'DAMAGED IN PLANE FIRE - AT WARREN, OHIO. 9.21.30' - long cover: 226x98mm - a little rough top left
CRASH 1932.02.04
Ref: 229100
Price: : £30.00
1932 Nk. 32.02.04 S. Rhodesia: Imperial Airways 'Springbok' 1st Flight Cover fr: 10d pmk Salisbury 28.1.32 - per 'City of Delhi' force-landed near Broken Hill - mail then recovered & flown to UK per 'City of Baghdad' - with Anglesy 17.2.32 arr cds.
CRASH 1932
Ref: 255382B
Price: : £25.00
1932 S. Africa: Fld.#21 Capetown-London 1st Return Flight pmk Capetown - 27.1.32 - plane forced down Broken Hill, NR & delayed 7 days.
CRASH 1934
Ref: 245193
Price: : £15.00
1934 Official German 'Presse-Photo AG' photo of U.S.Navy plane crash en route to Honolulu - Pilots: Lt George Covell & Lt S.S. Weggener. US Sailors searching wreckage for their bodies.
CRASH 1935
Ref: J445A
Price: : £45.00
1935 USA - Attempted Transatlantic Flight by de Monteverde Bros. on board 'CS-AAK Francesco de Pinedo' at Floyd Bennet Field - 14.6.35 - only 500 covers carried - Cachet & embossed Notary Seal.
CRASH 1938
Ref: 26033
Price: : £70.00
1938 Nk.#38.03.23a Air France - A-AQBB Crash at Cinq Croix - 23.3.38 - URUGUAY Cover fr 40c Air & 5c,50c pmkd Montevideo - 16.3.38 - addr to Berlin. Cover charred at Top & sealed by French PTT tape - with blue 4-line 'CORRESPONDANCE AVION/ retardee......' cachet applied at Toulouse
CRASH 1945
Ref: d494
Price: : £140.00
1945 Netherlands: Official Central Statistical Bureau Housing Form in Stampless cover to Head Bureau, The Hague. - pmk 2.1.45 - Water-damaged - with printed 4-line label attached: 'Staatsbedrijf der PTT - Stuk, afkomstig uit het ss "Groningen IV", dat einde 1944 op het Ijsselmeer is gezonken en thans is gelicht' - salvaged from Ship in collision at sea
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CRASH 1947
Ref: 249201
Price: : £50.00
1947 Neth Indies Damaged Air Cover fr 5c,2x10c,30c pmk Soerabaja (date unclear) to The Hague. - brown tape repairs from PTT tied by boxed violet 'Arrived Damaged'
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CRASH 1965
Ref: h382
Price: : £30.00
1965 Book. `Rampstukken` by W Baron Six van Oterleek` in Dutch. 31 photoplates of 98 COVERS.
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