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Air Mail cover 1925-59, the valuable collection of first or commemorative flight covers, including 1925 (14.10) Baghdad - Cairo R.A.F. flight, 1925 (Nov.) Kano - Cairo return flight by Sdn. Ldr. Coningham, 1926 "Afrikaflug" Zurich - Alexandria covers (2) and card, 1929 (24 March) Graf Zeppelin "Orientfahrt" Friedrichshafen - Cairo card, 1929 (3 April) Cairo - India flight (3), 1929 (5 Dec.) Port Said - Canea (2), 1929 (16 Dec.) Catania - Cairo flight by Mittelholzer, 1930 (5 Oct.) England - Cape Town via Cairo flight by Capt. Caspareuthus, 1931 (28 Feb.) England - Tanganyika, 1931 (March) Imperial Airways flight cover stages (25), various other later Imperial Airways flights, 1938 (5 Nov.) Egypt - Darwin endurance flight by Sdn. Ldr. Kellett, numerous flight covers from the 1940's as well as a little miscellanea - 1942 facsimile of a British pound note dropped over Cairo by the Germans for propaganda purposes. A fine collection, well annotated throughout. (112)