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COMMONWEALTH AUSTRALIA Flight Covers 1928 Bert Hinkler Flight, picture postcard to Stephen Smith in Calcutta, franked India 1/2a canceled by pen, yellow Air Mail label endorsed in red "By Bert Hinkler", Park Street Calcutta cds (8 Aug), apparently
posted back to Calcutta, without Australian franking and showing "Foreign Postage Due '2' Annas / Pies" handstamp, with Bundaberg, Queensland 10 August arrival, "20 CTMS T" due mark, signed by Stephen Smith on reverse "Carried by Mistake from Karachi
to Bundaberg, Queensland by Bert Hinkler", also signed and dated (Aug 2) on front, card creases, otherwise fine, one of only six flown to Bundaberg in Queensland in August, 1928 (one of Australia's most astonishing sons, Bert Hinkler, a small,
unprepossessing man from Bundaberg was feted as one of the most daring aviators in the world. Mussolini's favorite pilot, Hinkler was an adventurer who along with early pioneers flew single handed across countries, continents and oceans, often with
nothing more than a lunchbox and pages of an atlas to guide him. Whether as an aerial showman or as a World War I fighter pilot, Hinkler's exploits thrilled the world, drawing massive crowds, and in his time he enjoyed the fame and adulation of his
peers like Charles Kingsford Smith and Amelia Earhart) (Image)
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Current Opening Price...$2,300.00
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