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Lot No. 715

Auction No. 26
Category World Airmails
    Airmails
Est. $180
Status Archived

 

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India 1930 (30th Oct) Karachi to Calcutta "New Air Venture by The Hon'ble Mrs Victor Bruce. well known Racing Motorist. She learnt to fly in only 6 days" printed commem env with India 1a KGV cancelled on arrival & signed "Mildred Bruce". New Delhi b/s dated 1 NOV 30. Mildred Mary Bruce was a glass-ceiling-breaking British adventuress who won the Women's Class of the 1927 Monte Carlo Rally & later drove 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, a record she held for more than 70 years! VG cond. Ex Joffe & Frommer.

 

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