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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: e328

Price: : £80.00


France 1929.2.15 Attempted Paris-Hanoi flight - Reg cover fr: 10f, Sinking Fund 1f50+50c lilac pmk POSTE AERIENNE/FRNCE-INDO CHINE cds - h/s large violet `RAID INTERROMPU`/ PAR ACCIDENT/ Retour a l'envoy..` - b/s `PARIS/ 28-2/29` cds 

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 1932 Ref: 257979

Price: : £70.00


1932 Nk.#320328 Air Orient Crash at Cotrone, Calabria - Cover from Indochona fr 25c & one stamp washed-off pmkd Saigon 17.3.32 to Paris, - Water-Damaged - with Cachet 'COURR ACCIDENTE' with 2 transparent PTT Seals - #509 - on back - Paris - - .IV.32 arr cds, 

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CRASH 1934.7.6 Ref: J444

Price: : £80.00


1934.7.6 Sweden Cover to London fr: 25o pmk STOCKHOLM machine - charred edges all round - in glassine ambulance envelope with roneoed memo affixed `Malmo, le 7 Juillet 1934/ Cet envois a ete endommage/ par suite de l'incendie de l'avion/ de Stockholm a Malmo le 6 courrant/ etc - Nk.340706a Northrop "Smaaland" 

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 1935.02.17 Ref: R1437

Price: : £35.00


1935 Nk.#35.02.17 FRANCE: Spec Air France card 'Non-Stop France-S. America Flight' fr 1F75,2F25 Bleriot & 5F pmk Marseille - 16.2.35. Plane crashed at Porto Praia - 17/II [arr cds] - Cachet. 

CRASH 1938 Ref: f266

Price: : £90.00


Senegal 1938 Nk.#38.03.23 Air France Crash at Cinq Crois (France) on flight Morocco to France. Reg Cover fr. Senegal 15c - other stamp missing - pmk Dakar - 28.3.38 - to Marseille (arr 3/IV) - French PTT Labels repairing damage & 4-line '...accident aerien..' Cachet. 

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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 1939-45 Ref: R876

Price: : £125.00


Brazil 1939-45 Cover from Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires/ Argentina - fr: 30r [other stamps washed off] - red South African bilingual Censor tape all round tied on back by magenta `[Springbok arms]/A` - h/s on front in same magenta `DAMAGED BY SEAWATER/ BESKADI DEUR SEEWATER` - interesting 

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. 

CRASH 1968 Ref: 262351

Price: : £75.00


1968 Nk.#68.04.08 BOAC Crash at Heathrow: Cover fr 2x 4d pmkd Great Havering, Essex - 5 AP 68 to Vaucluse, Sydney - enclosing original Easter Greetings card - both badly burnt all round! - Sydney. - Gruesome & Rare! 

CRASH 1988.01.20 Ref: d497B

Price: : £85.00


1988 FRANCE: 2F20 on burnt cover pmk Leyme - 28.1.88 - to Paris. - Carried by Vickers Vanguard - crashed at Toulouse Airport - red 3-line Cachet: "COURRIER RETARDE - SUITE ACCIDENT AEROPOSTALE DU 29-01-88' - Very Scarce! 
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