£140
AIR CRASH/ABANDONED/BOGUS MAIL - NORWAY/BAHAMAS/CANAL ZONE/U.S.A./FRANCE: 1925-29 mix inc. 5 Jul. 1927 env. with "AIR FL[IGHT]/MONTREAL-VANCOUVER/JULY - 1[9th.]" machine cancel & "AIR FLIGHT ABANDONED/LETTER RETURNED" cachet; 9 Mar. 1929 badly charred env. ex USA to Canal Zone with Ambulance env. ex Salt Lake City printed "DAMAGED BY FIRE IN PLANE/PARK CITY, UTAH, MARCH 11. 1929."; 1929 charred env. ex Seattle to Washington D.C. with slip from the Postmaster in Portland "The enclosed piece of air mail was burned in wrecked air plane near Portland, Oregon, November 9, 1929.", and similar items regarding a crash near Mt. Vernon, Ohio 29 October 1929; plus a small PC ex Norway possibly carried on the Amundsen/Ellsworth expedition 1925, internal USA airmails 1927/9 (3) & to France 1929, and 1929 bogus 'crash' cover with ms "Air mail delayed by crash on Berry Island May 9". (16 items in total)Cross Reference: CRASH/WRECK MAIL, AIR MAIL COVERS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA
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