Lot 10060 – ONE OF ELEVEN COVERS FLOWN 1927 (Dec. 12-13) « N

ONE OF ELEVEN COVERS FLOWN 1927 (Dec. 12-13) « Nungesser & Coli » flight cover from Rio to Santiago, Chile, with 1’000R franking tied by Succursal cds (Dec. 10), sharp Dec. 13 Santiago / Recepcion bs, typed flight endorsement, with ms « No. 10 » at top left, the pilots were Costes and Le Brix, who had named their plane after the recently disappeared pilots of the « White Bird » (in Oct. 1927) over the South Atlantic, rare and fine though with horiz. fold near bottom affecting nothing (Müller 28, 10’000pts.)