£320
1919 England to Australia Air Race. Cover carried on the record breaking flight from Hounslow to Darwin, addressed to "Mrs C.W Hobson, Smithfield Grange, Brook Street, Coogee, Sydney, N.S.W" with fine oval "FIRST AERIAL MAIL / RECEIVED / 26 FEB 1920 / GREAT BRITAIN TO AUSTRALIA", the flight vignette sadly removed (an impression visible to the right of the cachet, showing where the vignette had been applied), minor creasing and the flap removed, cover 156 in the Frommer listing. E27. Photo on Page 24.
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