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Tom Frommer’s Grand Prix Pioneer Australian Air Mails (#116MG) Closed

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Lot 1381931 (Dec 4) Germany-Australia #230 intermediate cover carried by German aviatrix Elly Beinhorn in her Klemm Swallow monoplane after arriving in Darwin on 22 March 1932 endorsed and signed "Brisbane to Sydney/By Courtesy of Elly Beinhorn" on face franked with Sydney Harbour Bridge 3d blue and 2d red tied Sydney '3APR/1932' arrival cancel (10 flown), also small contemporary photograph showing her loading mail into plane endorsed "ELLY BEINHORN 1932/(MARCH) DARWIN" on back, Cat $1,750 (2).

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Lot closed - Price Realized:$1,000
Estimate: $1,300

Tom Frommer’s Grand Prix Pioneer Australian Air Mails (#116MG) Closed

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  • 1931 (Dec 4) Germany-Australia #230 intermediate cover carried by German aviatrix Elly Beinhorn in her Klemm Swallow monoplane after arriving in Darwin on 22 March 1932 endorsed and signed "Brisbane to Sydney/By Courtesy of Elly Beinhorn" on face franked
  • 1931 (Dec 4) Germany-Australia #230 intermediate cover carried by German aviatrix Elly Beinhorn in her Klemm Swallow monoplane after arriving in Darwin on 22 March 1932 endorsed and signed "Brisbane to Sydney/By Courtesy of Elly Beinhorn" on face franked - 2
  • 1931 (Dec 4) Germany-Australia #230 intermediate cover carried by German aviatrix Elly Beinhorn in her Klemm Swallow monoplane after arriving in Darwin on 22 March 1932 endorsed and signed "Brisbane to Sydney/By Courtesy of Elly Beinhorn" on face franked - 3