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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Stamps, Coins & Postal History
• Sale Date:
  10 Dec 2013 ~ 2.30pm
• Lot #:
  1476
• Lot Description:
  C - PACIFIC ISLANDS SURVEY FLIGHT: Sept. - Dec.1926 (AAMC.102)
  Tulagi, Solomon Islands - Rabaul: A cover flown by Group Captain Richard Williams on his survey flight from Melbourne to various Pacific Islands in a DH50A seaplane and endorsed "Aerial Mail" at left. The intention was to follow the East Coast as far as Thursday Island and then via Papua, New Britain and the Solomon Islands to the New Hebrides and New Caledonia before turning east again for Fiji and Samoa. Engine trouble and sickness caused the crew of Williams, McIntyre and Trist to fly no further than Tulagi in the Solomons and they returned to Melbourne, via Papua. This cover was handed to the crew on Nov.26th, the day the return flight began; landing in Papua on Dec.2nd. The addressee, F.Beaumont Phillips, a WW1 Australian fighter pilot, was serving as a Judge in Rabaul at the time of the flight. With Sismondo certificate [2006]. The only known cover from this sector of the return flight. [NB: The Nelson Eustis examples from this flight were offered in our March 2008 auction of his gold medal collection. They sold for $19,000 and $23,000 hammer prices.]
• GST:
  Please note GST will be charged on the hammer price
• Estimate:
  A$12,500 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Numismatics

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