Canada / USA. 1941 Cover (with letter) and a severely burnt ...

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Canada / USA. 1941 Cover (with letter) and a severely burnt letter sent within the USA, both forwarded from Detroit in ambulance envelopes, with violet cachet or printed explanatory slip "RECOVERED FROM PLANE / DAMAGED OCT 30 1941 AT / SHEDDON ONT. CANADA" (the American Airlines New York to Chicago flight crashing on Canadian territory); and a cover from Ottawa to Edmonton with the stamp washed off, backstamped "District Superintendent of Postal Services / OCT 1 1941 / NORTH BAY, ONT.", from a mail bag lost from a mail compartment of a Trans Canada Air Lines aircraft (not recorded by Nierinck). N.411030. (3).

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Auction Date:
18th Mar 21 at 10:30am GMT

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