£130
AIR CRASH MAIL - 1938 'CALPURNIA' CRASH COVER GROUP: Five covers ex UK carried on the Imperial Airways flying boat which crashed near Baghdad. All with stamps washed off and with variations of the cachets used in Australia or New Zealand inc. purple "Received [?]/SYDNEY, N.S.W./DAMAGED", purple "RECEIVED IN DAMAGED CONDITION/EX FLYING BOAT CALPURNIA" (3), red boxed "DAMAGED BY WATER/TH[ROUGH ACCID]ENT/TO [FLYING] BOAT". (5 covers) Cross Reference: CRASH/WRECK MAIL, AIR MAIL COVERS, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND
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