• ScottC1a

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1919 3c red bown, with manuscript overprint "Aerial Atlantic Mail, J.A.R." handwritten overprint applied by Postmaster General J. Alex Robinson on a 3c Caribou (117), tied by St. John's machine cancel, April 19, 1919 on cover with "Per Aeroplane Raymor NF to Britain, by Major Morgan and F.P.Raynham" corner address in manuscript, "received in London" with "8 January 1920" datestamp and initialed signature in green ink, also "London 7 Ja 20 F.S. 66" backstamp, filing fold well away from the stamp, v.f., signed Diena, Bolaffi, etc., with 1966 certificate (Shortly after the Hawker-Grieve flight left Newfoundland, another attempt was made by Frederick Raynham and C.F.W. Morgan. They took off from Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland, traveled a few hundred yards, and then crashed into the ocean. Another attempt was made in July, with the same results. The mail from these flights was recovered and transported to England by ship. Letters with manuscript overprints (which were made by W.C. Campbell, the Secretary of the Postal Department) arrived safely, but the contents of the mail bags had been damaged by water. As a result, many of the Newfoundland stamps had floated off the envelopes. Less than 20 covers are known) (Unitrade CAN $50,000) (Catalog value $35,000)

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