£70
AIR CRASH MAIL - GREAT BRITAIN TO AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND: 1938 env. (missing stamps) to New Zealand carried by Short Empire flying boat which crashed on Lake Ramadi, Iraq with purple "RECEIVED IN DAMAGED CONDITION/EX FLYING BOAT CALPURNIA" hs; and 1939 env. (missing stamps) to Australia carried by a Super Lockheed which crashed into the Katherine River with label on back "The accompanying postal/article was salvaged from the/Mail Plane which crashed in/Katherine River on 18/1/39,/when en route with mails for/Australia, from England./F.W. Arnold,/Deputy Director, Perth.".Cross Reference: CRASH/WRECK MAIL, AIR MAIL COVERS
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