Air Mail cover 1914 (22 Jan.) picture postcard carried on the Khartoum to Cairo return flight by Marc Pourpe, bearing Egypt 4m. (defective corner) and cancelled at Heliopolis, showing a good strike of the flight cachet in violet; the message reads "Greetings by first aerial Post from the Sudan 22.1.14". Very rare. Photo | Christie's

Lot 2343

2343

Air Mail cover 1914 (22 Jan.) picture postcard carried on the Khartoum to Cairo return flight by Marc Pourpe, bearing Egypt 4m. (defective corner) and cancelled at Heliopolis, showing a good strike of the flight cachet in violet; the message reads "Greetings by first aerial Post from the Sudan 22.1.14". Very rare. Photo

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Air Mail cover 1914 (22 Jan.) picture postcard carried on the Khartoum to Cairo return flight by Marc Pourpe, bearing Egypt 4m. (defective corner) and cancelled at Heliopolis, showing a good strike of the flight cachet in violet; the message reads "Greetings by first aerial Post from the Sudan 22.1.14". Very rare. Photo

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Note: The above card is similar to lot 819 in the Colonel Danson Sale, held by Christie's Robson Lowe in Geneva on April 28-29 1977

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