Lot 123
Airmail. 1950 small, damaged O.I.G.S. cover...
Auction: 11 July 2021 at 01:00 BST
£240
Description
Airmail. 1950 small, damaged O.I.G.S. cover to New York with Calcutta meter mark frankings with two sealing tapes, and mimeographed label reading 'BUREAU DE POSTES AEROPORT FAROUK le retard et l'etat de l'objet sont due a l'accident survenu a l'avion le 31-8-50'. Scorched and watersoaked
XXX Italics please - TWA Flight 903 was en route from Bombay to New York. On the Cairo to Rome leg it crashed and burned out with the loss of all 55 passengers and crew, near the village of Ityai el Barud, north of Cairo XXX
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