Bidspirit auction | 1937

1937 - ASM-4516 29 November 1937 – Sea-Damaged Airmail, Lahore to Devon, England. Airmail cover from Lahore to Tiverton, Devon, bearing the boxed “DAMAGED BY SEA-WATER” cachet. The cover shows extensive water damage and has a Lahore slogan cancellation “USE THE AIR MAIL AND SAVE TIME.” Reverse annotated “Cygnus Dec. 5th 1937,” associating it with the Imperial Airways flying boat Cygnus accident at Brindisi on 5 December 1937.