Lot 31
1925-6 Alan Cobham flights card and cover ‡

The Moody Tidwell Collection of South Africa, with Important Pioneer Airmails | S26032
Auction: 17 December 2026, 10:00 GMT
Description
1925 (Nov. 16th) souvenir card carried by Alan Cobham on a flight from London to Cape Town, intended to survey the route between Cairo and the Cape. Bears orange ‘Flight’ label tied by violet oval BY SPECIAL AIR MAIL. 16-11-25/ LONDON-/ CAPE TOWN and boldly signed by Cobham. The reverse with 1913 2d, Cape Town cds of 22 FEB and another violet cachet. Offered with an envelope from the return flight with Cape Town cds of 19 FEB, also signed by Cobham; the flight was billed as a race between Cobham and the Windsor Castle mailship, won by Cobham by two days. Fewer than twenty covers were signed. A rare pair

