£170
Boadicea - Kenya. 1936 Cover from London to Mombasa, the stamp washed off, the front and reverse both with the red cachet "SERVICE POSTAL FRANCAIS / Correspondance retardee par suite / du naufrage d'un Avion / Reconstitue par la Service Francais / NE PAS TAXER" applied in Paris, reverse with a "Found Open and Officially Secured" label tied by Mombasa c.d.s (Nov 9). The front inscribed by the recipient H.P Webster "This envelope was sunk in 1936 in the English Channel when the Imperial Airways Liner Boadicea disappeared. It was later washed up on the French coast & was salvaged and delivered at Mombasa 10/11/36, HPW". The Boadicea disappeared over the Channel on September 25th; a mailbag was found a month later on the beach at Cucq, further bags being found at Dymchurch on November 10th, and trawled up in 1938. A fine cover from the first mailbag recovered. Photo on Page 20.
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