AIR CRASH MAIL - TUNISIA/IVORY COAST/ITALY/FRANCE/USA MIX: 1...

Hammer

£140

AIR CRASH MAIL - TUNISIA/IVORY COAST/ITALY/FRANCE/USA MIX: 1938 water damaged env. ex France to Tunisia carried on Air France flying boat "Ville de Bone" which crashed Marseille with "ACCIDENT D'AVION/Correspondances recueilles en mer/NE PAS TAXER" cachet on back; 1938 heavily repaired env. ex Ivory Coast to France carried on Air France Dewoitine 338 which crashed in the Pyrenees Mountains with "CORRESPONDANCE AVION/retardee et deterioree/par suite de l'accident aerien/survenu le" cachet; 1938 letter recovered in 1953 from wreckage of Lufthansa Junkers 52 which crashed on a glacier in Switzerland; and 1938 env. ex USA carried by United Air Lines which landed and broke up in the sea off the California coast with "DAMAGE DUE TO AIR MAIL/INTERRUPTION NEAR/PT. REYES. CALIF./NOV 29 1938" cachet. (4 items)Cross Reference: CRASH/WRECK MAIL, AIR MAIL COVERS, FRENCH COLONIES, FRANCE