Egypt: Air Crash Covers: 1936 (Aug. 22) Scipio crash at Mirabella Bay, attractive printed commercial envelope with one stamp washed away but 3m. remaining, to France and with fine and bold strike on face of "Accident d'Avion" in violet, resealed on reverse with French Postes et Telegraph printed paper tape, good condition and a scarce cachet type. Nierinck 360822L. Photo. (Image1)

Egypt: Air Crash Covers: 1936 (Aug. 22) Scipio crash at Mirabella Bay, printed commercial envelope to Italy, on reverse affixed Italian P.O. label "Lettre endommagÌ©e de l'eau de la/mer ÌÊ la suit du dÌ©sastre aÌ©rien", typically affected by sea water but good condition, good enough to be readdressed and posted to London. A scarce label. Nierinck 260822s. Ex Hardiman Smith. Photo. (Image1)

Egypt: Air Crash Covers: 1937 (Oct. 1) Courtier crash at Phaleron Bay, attractively franked cover to Athens with nine stamps, another washed away, with 1d. Greek postage due neatly tied to face, good strike of Greek/French bilingual framed cachet struck in turquoise-blue alongside on front, good condition. A very scarce cachet applied only to the one bag of mail to Athens. Nierinck 371001a. Photo. (Image1)

Egypt: Air Crash Covers: 1937 (Oct. 1) Courtier crash at Phaleron Bay, three covers to U.K., showing framed "DAMAGED BY SEA-WATER"; framed two line "DAMAGED BY SEA/WATER" and framed "DAMAGED BY/SEA WATER/IN AEROPLANE/ACCIDENT", all struck in violet, first has franking washed away but clearly dated by postmarked, other two with 20m. remaining but all three have the fugitive ink offset from where 8m. stamps once were. A fine trio from this crash. Respectively Nierinck 371001d, e and f. Last is Ex Jeidal.

Egypt: Air Crash Covers: 1937 (Oct. 1) Courtier crash at Phaleron Bay, neat commercial cover to Switzerland with 3m. remaining, another washed away, fine strike of Swiss P.O. "Durch Meerwasser beschadigt" in violet below address panel, good condition and a scarce cachet. Photo. (Image1)

Egypt: Air Crash Covers: 1937 (Dec. 5) Cygnus crash at Brindisi, large part envelope from Simon Arzt, which is now partly papier mach̩ with a bit of a 9m. stamp but with fine strike "DAMAGED BY SEA-WATER" in violet, with contents and importantly with mimeographed letter from Inland Section that can only accompany damaged items with partly indecipherable addresses, on this occasion Bexhill-on-Sea. Nierinck cachet 371205a; letter 371205w, the latter very scarce. Also another to U.K. attractively franked 6m. block of four and 4m. from Shepheards Hotel with framed "DAMAGED BY SEA WATER" with remains of "S.S." Nierinck 371205L, slightly faint but readable and with contemporary newspaper cutting. Photo. (Image1)

Egypt: Air Crash Covers: Delayed By War: 1940 commercial cover with 'corner card' franked 30m. per K.L.M. to Winterswyk, Holland, censored with resealing strip, affixed cyclostyled Dutch P.O. label "Amsterdam Maart 1948" and Dutch to say delay in receipt due to circumstances of war, good condition. Scarce and attractive item. With article explaining that due to the German invasion and chaos some mails in transit were stored in a remote French castle for the duration - and forgotten about until February 1948 when rediscovered. Then finally delivered in March of that year, eight years after posting. Photo. (Image1)