South Africa 1938 SAA Increased Coastal Frequency, Pilot-Signed

  • SA: 1938 SAA Flight Cover Cape Town to Durban,
  • INCREASED FREQUENCY, FIRST FLIGHT, PILOT-SIGNED:
  • Envelope franked pair ½d Springbuck & 1d Christmas label tied Cape Town machine cancel 5.1.38.
  • SIGNED BY PILOT, CAPT L INGGS.
  • Backstamped Durban arrival 6 JAN 38.
  • The letter was carried on the first of the FOUR times weekly SAA service, increased from three times weekly.
  • VF, uncommon.
  • The cover/flight was written up in the SA Philatelist of July 1938 by IHC Godfrey in his inaugural "Air Mail Notes" which column he took over from LA Wyndham. Also by Peter Wingent in Aeroletter 102:22 of July 2011.

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