1919 Alcock and Brown Issue, $1 Trans-Atlantic surcharge on 15c Cabot, sheet of 25, well centered, overprint shifted to left, showing no comma variety (pos.22), no comma, no stop (pos.14), small comma (pos.20), no comma (pos.4,8,10,18,19,24), eight stamps l.h., balance n.h., fine-v.f., scarce (after Hawker and Raynham failed to cross the Atlantic, the Postmaster General J.Alex Robinson instituted new air mail rate for mail across the Atlantic, one dollar, which included special tax of 50c for the "Permanent Disaster Fund of Newfoundland". One hundred sheets of the 15c Cabot were overprinted, broken into blocks of 25, margins removed) (Cat No. C2,var) (Image)

Est.US$2,500