NEWFOUNDLAND 1919 SG142 Cover

Stock Code: P13411484

1919 (APR 12) cover from St. John's to "Commander A. MacDermott / Royal Navy, 42 Pall Mall, London", endorsed "To be kept till called for or instructions received as to disposal" and franked by 1919 3c brown "Hawker" with type 69 "FIRST TRANS- ATLANTIC AIR POST, April 1919" opt, tied by machine cancel, flown on the first attempt at the Daily Mail prize by Harry Hawker and Lt-Com MacKenzie Grieve in their Sopwith "Atlantic". [They took off on 18 May but had to ditch in the sea west of the Azores the next morning. The pilots were swiftly rescued by the Danish ship "Mary", but the plane (with the mail) remained floating in the sea until May 23, when it was salvaged by the American ship S.S. "Lake Charlotteville", and subsequently landed at Falmouth on May 29, with the mail bag reaching the GPO in London the following day.] A really fine example of this classic Airmail rarity, with the usual evidence of immersion. Of the 200 stamps originally overprinted, 95 were recorded as used on flown covers, but apparently only 80 were retrieved. Unitrade C1 (cat $35,000 on cover). Diena cert (1981).

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