Lot 56
1935 (Dec. 6th) 'Diverted to Ordinary Mail' cover ‡

The Moody Tidwell Collection of South Africa, with Important Pioneer Airmails | S26032
Auction: 17 December 2026, 10:00 GMT
Description
1935 (Dec. 6th) envelope to a Lieutenant on HMS Carlisle at Simonstown, bearing GB 6d with London FS Air Mail machine cancel. Violet boxed “Diverted to Ordinary Mail./ Air Mail Fee will be refunded by/ British Post Office on application.” The reverse (backflap damaged) with pencil note ‘Not to be flown over Abyssinia’. Flight delayed at Athens and Pietersburg

