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80 - AEROPHILATELY - FRANCE / MADAGASCAR / REUNION ISLAND - GOULE…
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AEROPHILATELY - FRANCE / MADAGASCAR / REUNION ISLAND - GOULETTE RAID, HIGH-SPEED ROUTE TRIAL, 14,500 kilometres – Crew: Captain Goulette (Pilot) + Chief Warrant Officer MARCHAISSEAU + Staff Sergeant BOURGEOIS. Registered letter with illustrated letterhead ‘First Brazzaville/Léopoldville–Paris–Brussels Airmail Service’, dispatched from BRAZZAVILLE on 20 MARCH 1930 to BEAUGENCY (Loiret) – Postage on front and back: 8 stamps from the French colony of Middle Congo / French Equatorial Africa – On the reverse, a hand-stamped (photo) commemorative mark for the flight, in black: “Poste de l’A.E.F. / BY PLANE CAP GOULETTE / BRAZZAVILLE PARIS” – also on the reverse, Beaugency arrival postmark 5 May 1930 (the aeroplane having crashed in the desert, the mail was recovered and the remainder of the journey was completed by normal means). IMPORTANT: PRESENT WITH THE LETTER from his CORRESPONDENCE. Handwritten postcard sent to Auguste Delaporte Sabotier in Beaugency by Staff Sergeant Dorangeon of the Brazzaville medical services. Private correspondence dated Brazza, 20 March 1930: “I am making use of the Goulette crew, who are due to leave our premises at 3 o’clock tomorrow morning and hope to be able to carry out the first A.E.F.–France postal service. I hope …”
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About the sale STAMP SALE: lots 1 to 299 – French and foreign stamps, sold individually and in lots. Beautiful, genuine collections. Philatelic reference material
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Auction time 10/20/2026 at 10:00 AM
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