Lot
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Newfoundland, Airmail, 1919 (May 29) letter from Lt. Brown to family mentioning "Putting our machine together", one page letter with faulty "The Cochrane, St. John's Newfoundland" envelope bearing 3¢ red brown (117) tied by "St. Johns, Nfld. May 30, 1919" machine cancel to Brooklyn N.Y., letter reads "We are flying for a private concern - no government help at all, save in obtaining instruments for navigation. It won't be possible to come to New York before the flight…I'll write more as soon as we have finished putting our machine together - about another week now, with any luck, Love, Ted", Fine and interesting pre-flight letter from Lt. Brown. Estimate $300 - 400.
On May 11, a Handley Page plane was unloaded in Newfoundland from aboard the S.S. Digby that had sailed from Great Britain. A second plane, a Vickers-Vimy was unload from the S.S. Glendenon on May 24. Both planes had to be reassembled, the Hanley Page at Harbour Grace and the Vickers-Vimy at St. John's. "Ted" Brown, the navigator of the Vickers-Vimy, was writing to a friend in Brooklyn N.Y. On June 9, both planes had test flights.
Realized: $500