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lot # 523 - brit. colonies Brit. Post Morocco

Wednesday Jun 05, 2024 09:00 Europe/Zurich

Casablanca to Toulouse Aircraft Crash at Barcelona 9th May 1933: Air mail printed Alliance Assurance envelope sent from British Post Office in Casablanca to London, franked with Morocco Agencies overprints including Seahorse 2 s 6d with 3 f. overprint, sent 8th May, mail carried upon Aeropostale flight to Toulouse F-AGIT, left Casablanca stopping at Barcelona, shortly after take-off from Barcelona hit a house in the village Villadrau near Villa Grande, killing the crew and three passengers, some mail was recovered although badly burned, surviving pieces were processed in Toulouse where the violet cachet "CORRESPONDANCE AVION / 9th May 1933" was applied, mail is scarce from this incident Nierinck 330509a.

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