Lot 202
Newfoundland SG 143 on Alcock & Brown flown cover
Stamps and Covers of the World Including the Hambledon Collection Part III | S26027
Auction: 17 & 18 November 2026, 10:30 GMT
Description
1919 cover (with original contents) addressed to London, flown on the first successful Trans-Atlantic flight by Alcock & Brown, bearing 1919 $1 on 15c bright scarlet, tied by very fine St John's machine cancel, endorsed at foot ‘’To be kept till called for''. Backstamped by correct London 17 JU 19 arrival cds. The message reads (on headed ‘ST. JOHN’S N.F.' notepaper) reads ‘Posted at St Johns Newfoundland June the tenth nineteen hundred and nineteen- for transmission by Vickers Vimy Aeroplane. Capt J Alcock DSC Pilot. Lieut A. W. Brown Navigator’, signed by the addressee with subsequent endorsement ‘Landed in Ireland/1890 miles in 15hrs 57min’. Trivial imperfections (part of opening flap cut away), still a particularly attractive and neat example. One of only 196 covers flown on this historic flight. SG 143 (priced £3000 on flown cover).
