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Lot 3453 Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday) Stamps
Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $260
AUSTRALIA, Aeroplane crash cover and contents, letter addressed to George Fitzpatrick, Hobart, Tasmania, with cover letter from Superintendent of Mails, 6 Oct 1935 GPO Hobart, noting that the letter and contents were recovered from the Air-Liner "Loina" in saturated condition on 4th October 1935. The 'airship' was lost with pilot and passengers when approaching Flinders Island on the Melbourne to Launceston trip at 9.50 a.m. on Wednesday 2nd October 1935. Lot includes original cover, contents (several letters and copy within) and note from the Superintendent of Mails, Hobart together with photocopy of Eustis (4th edn) with pages 79-80 describing the incident with five people being killed and three mailbags of salvaged mail recovered, (Eustis 535 $100). Fair used after being waterloged, scarce.
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