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1942 Australia Parachute Mail to Mornington Island Signed by Pilot Qantas Empire
$165.00
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AztecCollectables (3048)
Current Bid: $165.00
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* Up for auction is a beautiful airmail Qantas Parachute mail cover from Sydney, Australia to Mornington Island. Beautiful stamps and cancels. In excellent condition. Priced to sell. Postmarked December 23, 1942. Sent via flying boat and signed by the p ... Read More
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- Country
- Australia
- Stamp Format
- Single
Item Description
* Up for auction is a beautiful airmail Qantas Parachute mail cover from Sydney, Australia to Mornington Island. Beautiful stamps and cancels. In excellent condition. Priced to sell. Postmarked December 23, 1942. Sent via flying boat and signed by the pilot and Missionary. Second mail drop of the war. At the outbreak of WW 2 shipping to Mornington Island was reduced and the missionary station ran short of supplies. as a goodwill Christmas gesture Qantas agreed to drop supplies and mail by parachute. The flying boat Coriolanus from the Singapore flight was used to make the parachute drop and this cover is signed by the pilot and Reverend Braunholz, the mission chief. This was the third parachute mail drop to the island. The regular mail service from Australia to Singapore was gone with the fall of Singapore to Japan and Qantas had lost all but two of its flying boat sea planes. This mail was dropped by a charter flight to the Darwin area by Captain W H Crowther.Shipping
will be a flat $2.00 within the continental U.S. for USPS mail. Overseas airmail shipping is $3.00. Questions? Please contact me at: azteccollectables at hotmail.com. Check out my
other online auctions of rare and vintage stamps. My e bay store, Aztec Collectables, has a fine and growing selection of unique covers, stamps and postcards. Please make pay arrangements within 72 hours of winning
the auction. I will combine shipping on multiple wins, if you want combined shipping wait until I invoice you.
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- AztecCollectables (3048)
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- 11/23/2011
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- Aztec Collectables
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- Florida, United States
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